The Law - a tangent from Smoking debate via other thoughts

April 8, 2003

I thought that you can be aged 5 when you have your first alcoholic

drink - in private. Then at 14, you may be served a low %vol

alcoholic drink such as shandy in a pub. I think that 14 yr olds may

have a glass of wine in a restaurant if they are eating a meal with

their parents. I also think that licensing laws differ across the UK.

Also, I thought that you could get married at 16 in this country (or

is that just Scotland??) but you probably needed parental consent.

If the Age of Consent is raised to 18, that means those newly-weds

would have a frustrating first two years!! :-O Poor things!

Finally, wasn't there a huge uproar in this country when Jerry Lee

Lewis visited with his wife. He said she was 16 but actually she was

only 14 and his cousin. Back in the 50s/60s. All long before my

time.

<\mild tangent alert>

Siofra

(sitting back now, just waiting for someone to put me right on this

stuff!! :-) )

, " Lesley Dove " <Lesley@v...> wrote:

>

> Many of the US states have the age of consent set at 18, so it's

not like

> that is an unusual view. Alcohol is not allowed until 18 because

that is

> deemed a reasonable age to be considered adult, so why our age of

consent is

> so low is hard for me to understand.

April 8, 2003

Sure as I was borne in Ireland, I was weaned on whiskey, but raised on ginDrinkin' so long since I was born, never been so high as a kite in a stormHey ho, whataya know, when you're outta good whiskey, you're out on the roadWay to Kilkenny where liquor is plenty and people are friendly wherever you goHey, ho, whataya know, when your glass is empty, you're bound to goBack on the job just to earn a few bob for good liquor and grub at the Kilkenny Pub

wee_siofra [c.macneill] <mild tangent alert>I thought that you can be aged 5 when you have your first alcoholic drink - in private. Then at 14, you may be served a low %vol alcoholic drink such as shandy in a pub. I think that 14 yr olds may have a glass of wine in a restaurant if they are eating a meal with their parents. I also think that licensing laws differ across the UK.

April 8, 2003

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Oliver Slay

Tuesday, April 08, 2003 2:46 PM

RE: The Law - a tangent from Re: Smoking debate via other thoughts

I used to live in Kilkenny as a kid, your not the Olivier slay that use to throw stones at the cows.>.

Sure as I was borne in Ireland, I was weaned on whiskey, but raised on ginDrinkin' so long since I was born, never been so high as a kite in a stormHey ho, whataya know, when you're outta good whiskey, you're out on the roadWay to Kilkenny where liquor is plenty and people are friendly wherever you goHey, ho, whataya know, when your glass is empty, you're bound to goBack on the job just to earn a few bob for good liquor and grub at the Kilkenny Pub

wee_siofra [c.macneill] <mild tangent alert>I thought that you can be aged 5 when you have your first alcoholic drink - in private. Then at 14, you may be served a low %vol alcoholic drink such as shandy in a pub. I think that 14 yr olds may have a glass of wine in a restaurant if they are eating a meal with their parents. I also think that licensing laws differ across the UK.~~ info ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Please remember that the above is only the opinion of the author, there may be another side to the story you have not heard.---------------------------Was this message Off Topic? Did you know? Was it snipped?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guidelines: visit <site temporarily offline>Un: send a blank message to -