Curiosity wrote:
Plissken wrote:
Always thought
this to be the best article ever on binge drinking.
I disagree with this quite strongly. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the articles is a complete nonsense.
Mm. It would have had a point ten years ago, but all the underaged drinkers I know and knew started on wine or beer, or vodka. The first time I got drunk was on wine, and after that it was neat vodka. Those alcopops were nice now and then if you fancied something sweet (although by about 19 I couldn't stand them,
too sweet) and light, but that's all. Anecdotal, perhaps, but I doubt there are many teenagers who wouldn't drink alcohol if it weren't served with sugar.
Kids don't drink alcohol because it's like lemonade. Kids drink alcohol because they want to drink alcohol. Okay, I doubt the sweet booze helps, but I wouldn't say removing it would change much.
Ecstasy doesn't taste like shit, but I've still no interest in taking it, and even if you served it with cheesecake I still wouldn't want to. Although I would eat the cheesecake.
Dudley wrote:
http://www.diageo.com
Aren't they by "drinkaware" (whoever the are)? Genuine question - I thought they were.
Mr. Chris wrote:
Our nation's youth is getting a better education than we've been led to believe then, if they'd bandy around words like "insidious".
Well, that's what will happen if you bunk off and read a book instead. In fact, thinking about it, the brightest and most ace teenagers I know never seem to do any work or pay attention to school. Hmm.
ComicalGnomes wrote:
bear in mind they're aimed at people who *are* that stupid. Anything more subtle than 'ALCOHOL GETS YOU DRUNK K' probably won't be comprehended by the majority of the slackjawed.
True, but they're also so stupid that being told in plain terms won't work either - they'll have heard it all before. Hell, they'll have
experienced it all before. No, to truly put off a significant number of young boozers, they should show a trendy twentysomething prick get shitfaced, go to the pub, drink some more, and then be taken advantage of by an extremely campy homosexual in front of all his mates and their cameras.
No offence meant to any of our gay denizens, obviously, but you know what these trendy twentysomething pricks are like. Using their own homophobia against them is merely being resourceful.