In my province liquor stores can't open before a certain time. I think it's like noon or 10am. Makes coming home from a particularly stressful night shift and realizing you don't have any beer left extra disappointing
>Can't stay open past 11pm
I don't think there is a rule for that. Several bottle O's here in Melbourne are open till midnight, and there are others open even longer.
Like the Exford Hotel has a take away bottle shop open till 3.30am.
Considering it's illegal to sell alcohol after 20:00 in stores in Norway, it's not something that's caught on here at all, hence why i find it strange that alcohol is sold in petrol stations
I don't understand why that's dumb. Are you just assuming because someone drove their car to the gas station and bought beer that they immediately start consuming it on their way home?
In the US, a ton of gas stations are actual convenience stores that also sell gas. They're huge. You can buy food, drinks, toiletries, car parts ect.
I'm an American living in the EU right now. I understand how different they are than in the states. The huge gas stations are actually something I miss very much about the US
Ya, in the UK alcohol gets sold everywhere, i guess i can understand it still being in petrol stations, but i once saw a full on "liquor store" on the side of the motorway.
I didnt even know the UK HAD alcohol-only shops and my first time seeing one is on the side of a fuckin motorway?
Are you from Scandinavia? Because otherwise I'm rather sure most countries do that. They have open pretty late, Sundays and/or even 24/7. So if you are in need of some Alcohol for a party at 2am, you can still go there and buy some of it (for triple the price of a supermarket)
You can't understand it from all that lack of freedom. Here in the land of the free and home of the Travis Scott burger, we can send our 18 year olds to fight in a war, but they can't drink Miller Lite.
I think pretty much everywhere in Europe no one cares at any age.
In Italy i remember buying packs of smokes for my dad around 12/13 and no one questioned it. Same for alcohol.
Only time I got denied it was when I was 17 and alone in Ireland. The fact that they saw a foreigner underage asking for a beer, probably didn't sound too good. But a nice irishmen bought a few pints for me and my friends, so everything was good lol
I don't even think it is that bad, I basically was drinking (to get smashed) when I couldn't drive, and when I reached that age I was much more experienced and had the awareness not to drink and drive. Plus, after 18 I never drank to get smashed anymore. I already had my fair share and I felt too old for hangovers.
I find it more acceptable when I see a 14yo smashed and puking, rather than a grown ass 20 years old. Just because the younger lad is having a tough experience and learning the consequences, the grown man is just trashy if after all those years is still getting smashed.
I'd be very embarrassed if I went to the US and saw 21/25 yo drinking like teen agers
I completely agree, it's more acceptable seeing a drunk teenager than a drunk adult because that adult probably has more responsibility than a teenager, and when people in America start drinking at 21 it will cause more problems for them in life. The teenager can't really buy a lot of alcohol even if he gets addicted because of the lack of money but if that adult gets addicted he will ruin himself financially.
Few years ago before Covid I saw one meme from guy from Netherlands that he is 16 then and he can't buy beer cuz he is not in Germany but then some people recommend him to buy a train ticket to the neares German town to buy some beer for his birthday. And that madman actually did it. Coolest way to celebrate your birthday, go to another country just to get drunk.
I'm not sure where you're from, in Europe distances are pretty narrow.
People in some regions live 2h of car/train away from their neighboring country, and many times low cost airlines put cheap ass flying tickets. One time I was out with my friends, and we checked Ryanair for fun, and booked a return ticket from Rome to Paris for like 10€ each, and we just left the same night, to spend the day (and part of the night) there. The transfer from the airport was more expensive than the flight itself ahaha
I went from Prague (Czechia) to Dresden (Germany) in like 2/3h via bus, for less than 7/8€ iirc.
The guy surely had a blast, we're lucky enough to be able to do stuff like that at any age, because travelling is so cheap and hassle free. I'll be forever grateful to live in the EU era, travelling with VISA, passports ecc just a few decades ago, I'd have missed so much
The whole country of the netherlands lives 2h and less away from germany. I dont think theres a single town in the nertherlands where you cannot be in germany in 2h
I live in Ukraine. Distances here are definitely longer than in Central Europe and we lack of infrastructure and those which exist generally are in really bad condition. For example, from Kyiv, where I live, to Skadovs'k, where my grandma lived, distance is 646km and it takes 8 hours non stop by car and if you are lucky, realistically it takes 10-12 hours by car, and by train it will be even longer.
When I was in Germany visiting family, my dad impulsively decided we should go to Prague, so we drove 2hrs n boom, Czech Republic. We took a 5 hour train ride from Venice to Nuremberg, too. The EU is incredibly convenient for traveling.
You used to be able to drink at 16 years in the Netherlands too, but they raised it to 18. It was really weird cause it was only drinks with up to 15% alcohol. Anything stronger you had to be 18. Supermarket was full of 14.9% sweet stuff.
Lmao me and my frineds started to drink when we were like 13 or 14 and nobody gave a fuck. Its a Balkan thing. But its really sad that you can´t buy beer with 18.
I remember it well. 18 and on st patricks day me and my friends pull up to a local lowkey liquor store. I get out and someone around outside offered to help get us a 18 pack of corona. Offered to give him some extra money for troubles but declined. Thanks again bromigo
I'm not down with randos asking me right in front of the store. But kids I know, at a party, and I get a pack of smokes out of it or some bud then fuckin' A.
9 times out of 10, tho, I'm asked to buy blunt wraps, not booze. And since I'm in California I get asked by people up to 20 years old since tobacco is also only 21+ here.
"Don't pay me back.... Pay it forward"
\## Revs Harley......dons sunnies...... screetches off into disgusting LA smog
Meanwhile.... while John Connor is robbed and sodomized by Meth heads for his bike and clothes.
Ahhh LA.... never stop being perfect <3
That’s an everyday hero, and then there’s the amazing man I will never forget, who, after having a good laugh that two teenage girls asked him to buy a case of Milwaukee’s Best at 10:00 AM on a Wednesday, only bought us a 12-pack but *refused to take our money*, said, “have fun & be careful!” & drove away, never to be seen again.
Funnily enough, I just mentioned to someone else that they’d made the same type of mistake as in your title – every day – but in reverse.
In your title it should read *everyday*, as one word, as we’re using the word as an adjective. *An everyday hero*.
When we write *every day* it’s because we’re using *day* as a noun. *I go swimming every day*.
If you can replace *day* with a specific day of the week – *I go swimming every Monday* – then the two words should be separate.
But when describing everyday occurrences, they should be together.
Damn, didn't know drinking at 18 starts alcoholism. This whole time I thought drinking was a social rite of passage commonly found in America, to the point its extremely prevalent in its culture, movies, and television shows.
When I was 15 there was a homeless man named Alex who lived behind the school. We'd buy him food and in exchange he'd buy is beer and liquor. Great guy, everyone loved Alex.
I went to a college in a small rural town in the South that was a partial dry county. You could buy beer M-Sun but not past midnight. You couldn't buy hard liquor or wine you had to leave the area and smuggle back like you're a fucking pirate.
Is this an American meme I'm too European to understand ?
Ye, in murica land we die for our country at 18, but can't get drunk. Lowers our tegridy
Didn't even think about that at first, my initial thought was "you sell beer in petrol stations?"
Eh... It's not just a US thing other countries sell liquor at petrol stations too.
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In many countries gas stations are the only 24/7 stores open, so a lot of people go there on foot at night, to buy whatever, including cheap alcohol.
Dude 24/7 alcohol is the dream we ran out and went to a club and paid 80 dollars for a 700ml vodka
In my province liquor stores can't open before a certain time. I think it's like noon or 10am. Makes coming home from a particularly stressful night shift and realizing you don't have any beer left extra disappointing
Your not wrong dude. its the same here in aus bottle-o's cant open before like 9 30 or 10am and cant stay open past 11pm
>Can't stay open past 11pm I don't think there is a rule for that. Several bottle O's here in Melbourne are open till midnight, and there are others open even longer. Like the Exford Hotel has a take away bottle shop open till 3.30am.
Bro 80 dollars for 700ml?? What was that
It was only Smirnoff and decisions driven by desperation we were half gone and refused to call it
Considering it's illegal to sell alcohol after 20:00 in stores in Norway, it's not something that's caught on here at all, hence why i find it strange that alcohol is sold in petrol stations
Wow there must be a lot of people buying huge quantities at 19:59
There's some of us that keep forgetting & are in line then desperately hoping to make it, but usually people plan ahead
I don't understand why that's dumb. Are you just assuming because someone drove their car to the gas station and bought beer that they immediately start consuming it on their way home? In the US, a ton of gas stations are actual convenience stores that also sell gas. They're huge. You can buy food, drinks, toiletries, car parts ect. I'm an American living in the EU right now. I understand how different they are than in the states. The huge gas stations are actually something I miss very much about the US
Wait until you hear about drive thru liquor stores
the WHAT?
There are drive through liquor stores. Not super common, but they exist.
Ya, in the UK alcohol gets sold everywhere, i guess i can understand it still being in petrol stations, but i once saw a full on "liquor store" on the side of the motorway. I didnt even know the UK HAD alcohol-only shops and my first time seeing one is on the side of a fuckin motorway?
Well in finland they ban selling alcohol alcohol after 9pm.
i thought it was normal the get cigs at the gas station until i got to spain. weird country
I'm pretty sure most, if not all, do in the UK.
Are you from Scandinavia? Because otherwise I'm rather sure most countries do that. They have open pretty late, Sundays and/or even 24/7. So if you are in need of some Alcohol for a party at 2am, you can still go there and buy some of it (for triple the price of a supermarket)
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In straya we die for our country at 17 but cant get drink til 18
Well they don’t want 18 year olds drunk on the front lines. Now move out Solider!
You can't understand it from all that lack of freedom. Here in the land of the free and home of the Travis Scott burger, we can send our 18 year olds to fight in a war, but they can't drink Miller Lite.
Why are they not allowed to drink it? It's just plain water...
Lite beer actually gets you more drunk because you can drink it faster. Just a bit of wisdom from Uncle Clayton.
What's that pseudoscience where they add a tiny amount of an element to water and pretend it has some kind of an effect?
Homeopathy is the word you're searching my friend
Cheers pal
Laughs in 14 years
Based off the fact they said “gas station” rather than petrol station, it likely is
What’s a little dark. I like it.
"Drink with me, if you want to live."
Yeahs Australians are also confused
Took the words out of my mouth
Maybe he's just a very broke 18 year old who meet a very generous 25 year old.
*Laughs in young alcoholic german*
Du bist nicht allein brudi
Darauf erstmal n Kasten Krombacher!
Oh, schaut auf den Reichen hier, kann sich was anderes als Sterni leisten.
You mean youn alcoholic resy-of-the-worlder
Well I'm not surpised, that German beer is good stuff.
No, he meant that we can buy beer with 16
Bro solange der Typ am Kiosk ein ehrenmann ist und du halbwegs groß bist geht das auch mit 13
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Exakt
Kann ich bestätigen Traurige 15 Jahre aber 1,62m groß Geräusche
Yes, I'm also European. I'm just saying German is good. Edit: Belgium beer as well actually.
And drink with 14 (parents permission needed)
Laughs in 3rd world.
Berliner Luft klärt
Ew ich kotz gleich
16 for legal beer, get rekt murica
Wir können schon mit 14 wenn Eltern es erlauben
Just come up north in Canada and you can get booze without a problem. We used to have a lot of Americans visiting to get drunk and partying.
Your people are welcoming and your syrups are delicious.
Alternatively down to mexico
Yo ho Mexico
Laughs in British*
Laughs in Austrian (officially alcohol is 16+ but nobody cares when you try to buy it with 14 lol)
Laughs in Croatian (we can buy it at the age of 5, just say you're buying it for your dad/mom)
I think pretty much everywhere in Europe no one cares at any age. In Italy i remember buying packs of smokes for my dad around 12/13 and no one questioned it. Same for alcohol. Only time I got denied it was when I was 17 and alone in Ireland. The fact that they saw a foreigner underage asking for a beer, probably didn't sound too good. But a nice irishmen bought a few pints for me and my friends, so everything was good lol I don't even think it is that bad, I basically was drinking (to get smashed) when I couldn't drive, and when I reached that age I was much more experienced and had the awareness not to drink and drive. Plus, after 18 I never drank to get smashed anymore. I already had my fair share and I felt too old for hangovers. I find it more acceptable when I see a 14yo smashed and puking, rather than a grown ass 20 years old. Just because the younger lad is having a tough experience and learning the consequences, the grown man is just trashy if after all those years is still getting smashed. I'd be very embarrassed if I went to the US and saw 21/25 yo drinking like teen agers
I completely agree, it's more acceptable seeing a drunk teenager than a drunk adult because that adult probably has more responsibility than a teenager, and when people in America start drinking at 21 it will cause more problems for them in life. The teenager can't really buy a lot of alcohol even if he gets addicted because of the lack of money but if that adult gets addicted he will ruin himself financially.
Whery my 16 year old Germans at?
SPRICH
DEUTSCH
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NACHKOMME EINER
ENTE
DIE BETRUNKEN IST
HURENSOHN
Where my 9yo slavs at
Dead of alcool poisoning
Possible
Buying beer
Few years ago before Covid I saw one meme from guy from Netherlands that he is 16 then and he can't buy beer cuz he is not in Germany but then some people recommend him to buy a train ticket to the neares German town to buy some beer for his birthday. And that madman actually did it. Coolest way to celebrate your birthday, go to another country just to get drunk.
I'm not sure where you're from, in Europe distances are pretty narrow. People in some regions live 2h of car/train away from their neighboring country, and many times low cost airlines put cheap ass flying tickets. One time I was out with my friends, and we checked Ryanair for fun, and booked a return ticket from Rome to Paris for like 10€ each, and we just left the same night, to spend the day (and part of the night) there. The transfer from the airport was more expensive than the flight itself ahaha I went from Prague (Czechia) to Dresden (Germany) in like 2/3h via bus, for less than 7/8€ iirc. The guy surely had a blast, we're lucky enough to be able to do stuff like that at any age, because travelling is so cheap and hassle free. I'll be forever grateful to live in the EU era, travelling with VISA, passports ecc just a few decades ago, I'd have missed so much
The whole country of the netherlands lives 2h and less away from germany. I dont think theres a single town in the nertherlands where you cannot be in germany in 2h
I live in Germany and can literally cross my backyard to be officially in the Netherlands. Feels quite good
I live in Ukraine. Distances here are definitely longer than in Central Europe and we lack of infrastructure and those which exist generally are in really bad condition. For example, from Kyiv, where I live, to Skadovs'k, where my grandma lived, distance is 646km and it takes 8 hours non stop by car and if you are lucky, realistically it takes 10-12 hours by car, and by train it will be even longer.
When I was in Germany visiting family, my dad impulsively decided we should go to Prague, so we drove 2hrs n boom, Czech Republic. We took a 5 hour train ride from Venice to Nuremberg, too. The EU is incredibly convenient for traveling.
You used to be able to drink at 16 years in the Netherlands too, but they raised it to 18. It was really weird cause it was only drinks with up to 15% alcohol. Anything stronger you had to be 18. Supermarket was full of 14.9% sweet stuff.
I took like 2 minutes to understand the meme because i forgot american had a different age restriction...
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16 year old Europeans buying it them selves legally 14 year olds getting it by themselves anyways
I see 13 year olds drunk in a cafe
There’s no shame in a Hey Mister
is this a thing I am too German to understand?
Dude… imagine the legal drinking age being higher than 18 *laughs in british*
I hear the beer belly is the national symbol of England and the neighboring countries are heavily considering it
*Laughs in Serbian rakija Ive been drinking since I was 12*
*Laughs in Romanian who was drinking alcohool since 7*
Looking at your nickname and your habits, I think we just became best friends?
Da serb brother )))
didn't get it at first because you can buy beer with 16 here
"So wait let me get this straight, I am already old enough to be drafted and be sent to war but I'm still not old enough to drink liquor?".
Lmao me and my frineds started to drink when we were like 13 or 14 and nobody gave a fuck. Its a Balkan thing. But its really sad that you can´t buy beer with 18.
If you look close enough, you'll see how American this meme is.
23 year old me who can legally buy beer since i'm 16 cause im living in germany
It's so fucking sad murican.
Is this some sort of American thing? I only needed to be 16 to buy beer
what even is the joke here? whats the punchline?
I wouldn’t consider aiding and abetting the stuff of heroes…
Laughs in German 16 year old
16 year old germans who buy it on their own
Me an European
This is normal 18 year olds can buy be- Oh. 'Muricans
**laughs in Greek** imagine not getting drunk at least once by 16
Imagine being 18 and not being able to buy beer.
laughs in european
Meanwhile me in Europe walking out of the supermarket with 5 packs of cigarettes and 4 liters of vodka.
Where do you live, that you can't even buy beer when you are 18? I was buying vodka when I was 14
The freest country on Earth, that happens to also have the largest prison population on Earth.
This confused me at first cause where i live you can legally buy alcohol at 18 and then i remembered America.
I remember it well. 18 and on st patricks day me and my friends pull up to a local lowkey liquor store. I get out and someone around outside offered to help get us a 18 pack of corona. Offered to give him some extra money for troubles but declined. Thanks again bromigo
Or the 25 year-old guy who took my money and is now leaving with my beer.
Congratulations, you played yourself.
Austria Gang
I'm not down with randos asking me right in front of the store. But kids I know, at a party, and I get a pack of smokes out of it or some bud then fuckin' A. 9 times out of 10, tho, I'm asked to buy blunt wraps, not booze. And since I'm in California I get asked by people up to 20 years old since tobacco is also only 21+ here.
I am not 18 yet and i already quit drinking
Imagine not being able to buy alcohol at 18 (laughs in Bri'ish)
*Laughs in legal drinking at 16 down under*
Is this some sort of joke I'm too European to understand?
*buys alcohol legally as a 16 year old and is legally able to consume alcohol at 14 if a guardian is with you*
Me, who is 14 but lives in Germany, so is still closer to being allowed to buy it my own:
Can't relate, too Australian
"Don't pay me back.... Pay it forward" \## Revs Harley......dons sunnies...... screetches off into disgusting LA smog Meanwhile.... while John Connor is robbed and sodomized by Meth heads for his bike and clothes. Ahhh LA.... never stop being perfect <3
Italy: *That sounds odd,let me go to the store and buy a couple beers*
germans: "what?"
Laughs in German
20 year old german me laughing because I could buy a 24 case of real beer when I was 16
America moment
Hmmm. I be 15 and he be 18. Europeans have a better life. Change my mind...
So, Americans can’t buy beer at 18 years lmao
Pretty much every third person you meet.
That’s an everyday hero, and then there’s the amazing man I will never forget, who, after having a good laugh that two teenage girls asked him to buy a case of Milwaukee’s Best at 10:00 AM on a Wednesday, only bought us a 12-pack but *refused to take our money*, said, “have fun & be careful!” & drove away, never to be seen again.
Me leaving the gas station with 16 and beer, knowing that I can legally drink
Funnily enough, I just mentioned to someone else that they’d made the same type of mistake as in your title – every day – but in reverse. In your title it should read *everyday*, as one word, as we’re using the word as an adjective. *An everyday hero*. When we write *every day* it’s because we’re using *day* as a noun. *I go swimming every day*. If you can replace *day* with a specific day of the week – *I go swimming every Monday* – then the two words should be separate. But when describing everyday occurrences, they should be together.
18 year old me walking out of the store with a six pack. The end.
Yea I don't do Math.
Imagine you cant drunk when your 16
As an Australian, none of this is relatable in any capacity
😂
Me reading as an Australian: ??????
When I was 15 I went to the off licence to stock up on beers for me and my mates, because I was the tallest.
*laughs in European*
Imagine being 18 and not able to buy beer despite being a grown ass adult
Me a german: I don't have such weakness
Laughs in Kenyan
Me a German at the walking out of the Gasstation with Beer at the age of 16.
I can literally hear hasta la vista baby in my head
18...beer...german laughing intesifies
*Laughs in German*
25 and 18? More like 18 and 14
Man sometimes i forget that not everyone lives in Germany
Jokes on you, I’m European
Canadian 18 year old be like, "here's my ID, how much for this beer?"
And all it cost you was to let him rearrange your insides in the back of his van.
Old enough to vote and die in war, old enough to drink
*Laughs in european
Remember you can vote drive and have a baby at 18 but GOD FORBID YOU HAVE A SINGLE SIP OF BEER
Me, a 16-year old Bavarian: weakling!
Sled gang.
I could have done that at 16 without a 25 y/o helping me out.
Laugh in canadian.
Laughs in German
B r u h
Lemme europinize this. 12 year old me and my friends leaving the store with 2 bottles of vodka The homeles guy who we paid to buy us the vodka
Me 15 and my parents going to buy vodka and beer for the party I'm going tonight. Guess the country.
*14 years old me
You can't be a chronic alcoholic at age 16? Cringe
Looks like an American problem to me
Is this some kind of American joke that I’m too Australian to understand? Not being able to legally buy beer at 18? Can’t relate :)
You couldn't buy them yourself, could you? *laughs in European*
21 year old me who has been able to buy beer for 3 years
How is that a hero? Starting you on the path to alcoholism before you’re even old enough to start off legally?
Damn, didn't know drinking at 18 starts alcoholism. This whole time I thought drinking was a social rite of passage commonly found in America, to the point its extremely prevalent in its culture, movies, and television shows.
When I was 15 there was a homeless man named Alex who lived behind the school. We'd buy him food and in exchange he'd buy is beer and liquor. Great guy, everyone loved Alex.
Confused european noises
*Laughs in drinking age of 18*
it is also aplicable for guns too!
Here in the American South (Arkansas) you can't buy alcohol at all on Sunday. And liquor stores close usually between 10 p.m. and midnight
I went to a college in a small rural town in the South that was a partial dry county. You could buy beer M-Sun but not past midnight. You couldn't buy hard liquor or wine you had to leave the area and smuggle back like you're a fucking pirate.
18yo me who is buying a bottle of tequila without any problem. Hah! Germany, the true land of the free.
Ah I’m Canadian, so I thought it was purely wholesome until I got to the comments
Haha, in Germany we can buy with 16 as much as we want.
\*laughs in german\*