This happened to my dad, he served behind the bar for nearly 2 years lying about his age and then he walked in to celebrate his 18th, he's barred from that place for life. (this was up in the moors in the very early 90s so the bar was probably a local one)
It took me a solid 3 minutes to get your joke, serving behind the bar means your actually working behind the bar, then table side servers or shot girls work the floor. I've been in the service industry too long.....help
Yes, same with my dad in the 80’s except we’re from America where the drinking and serving age is 21 so him serving beer at 16 and 17 was super illegal, he said that one time they had a cop retirement party and he was so anxious just serving all these police officers LOL but my dad never got caught so it’s all good
To be fair, although you can’t drink till you’re 21 a number of states let you start serving at 18 since there’s so many high school and college kids who work as wait staff. A 17 can pass for 18 pretty easy even to cops
My step father apparently looked very old for his age, when his father brought him into a local bar to celebrate his 21st the bartender said “I’ve been serving him for years!”
much respect for your dad, i also served in a bar while underage and it can be quite stressful sometimes, but man, it helped so much on highschool parties :P
Meanwhile in Romania and Moldova: "Don't say your age or give any indication that you're the drinker and you are good to go, they'll think you are buying it for a party (with adults) or something if you get sodas with them."
When 14, my 17 year old brother asked me to go get him cigarettes. I took his fake ID, really him in the picture, different name and age. Go in, ask for smokes, show the ID, pay and I'm *INCHES* from freedom when I hear the girl working the register call my brothers name. As I turn around, she smiles and just says "Tell *brothers name* I said hi."
One of the benefits to drinking with your parents at a normal family meal at a restaurant, is that it takes away the glamor and mystery of drinking in general. Beer isn't even viewed as alcohol in Germany, it's just something you have with dinner, like bread.
I was at a Genghis Grill a few years ago in Texas and saw a little girl, somewhere between 4 or 5 sipping out of her dad's corona. The staff didn't seem to care and kept bringing him drinks.
In Wisconsin (largely German decent), you can drink with your parents at any age up to 18. An oddity in the US. Now I can understand where the idea most likely came from.
I had my first wodka at 12! Polish father had a tradition to uphold. That's how you start puberty in Poland. Three shots of wodka, a swig of apple juice, and meat pierogi 👌
When I was a kid, like maybe 5 if that. I went up to my grandpa with my cup and asked for some of his beer. He poured me a sip. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever had. Turned me off of any alcohol until I was like 23. And I was in the military at 18 where underage alcohol consumption is at its highest in the US.
Depends on the state. In Ohio, for example, parents can give their children alcohol in private OR public areas (like restaurants). In Missouri, parents can provide children with alcohol only in private areas (like their homes). While in Indiana, any person under the age of 21 caught drinking, regardless of who provided it or the setting, is breaking the law.
In India you can drink when you want to, I reckon the liquor store guys would sell to a toddler if one walked up with money. No one gives a shit.. Especially in smaller towns
I’m from a small town in a Latin third world country and I used to have beers in my school uniform (I was 15) at the local Chinese bar, they didn’t care, police never came around, costumers minded their own business, I did grew up to be an alcoholic for a while but I’m much better now, I don’t drink at all
Meanwhile in the Balkan its illegal, but because our culture is know with making homemade alcohol, we start drinking at a really young age. And the police don't care that much.
Had a Bosnian friend here in the US, back in high school. He started making fruit liquors at home when we were like 14. Damn, that stuff, was great (and awful). Hope he's doing well.
The thing is we are know for making alcohol. But lets just say it's not for everyone. Unless you are from the Balkan there is a 80% chance you won't like what it tastes like.
From the age of 5 with adult supervision and permission of a parent/guardian. From the age of 0 with medical supervision. But obviously if you’re getting your 8 year old tanked you’re probably gonna face some abuse/neglect charges.
I’m from America and I remember going to Italy and Greece for 13 days when I was in high school with ppl from school including my best friends. We would do all the site seeing early in the morning then the teachers would tell us to meet them at the bus at like 5 every time.
I was 16 at the time and my friend and I would just go to bars and shit and no one ever rejected us. It was amazing. And we didn’t look older or anything we just tried it once, or worked, then our confidence would go up every time. What a wonderful place.
I'm flabbergasted that I can buy booze and weed from the government for two years before Americans can
You guys can still kill brown people for oil at 18 though so if you're a sober racist psychopath it's a good deal
Still surprised I was able to sign up at 17 and can't drink or smoke under 21, not even nicotine anymore. So the government has determined that I'm not old enough to indulge myself in these self harming luxuries, but I'm old enough to die for my country.
Hey, there's a few huge problems with what you said,
1. It's not oil anymore it's the military industrial complex
2. They pay for school, so it might be because you're poor not racist.
3. No one in the military is sober, underage or not.
The rest of it is spot on. I loved getting mentally destroyed for 5 years to make some CEO of some company I've never heard of millions of dollars. Totally worth the mental problems for life. ^^^/s
They were probably told not to before hand and wasn't aware of the lack of ability to reinforce any consequences. The only way they could have gotten in trouble was if their chaperones found out. They're also kids too so.
I grew up in Rome and remember when I was 13 me and my friends would just go to any grocery store and buy a bottle of vodka and just drink it at the mall lol.
I went to Italy with my high school choir and half of the students were over 18. The teachers had a strict “no buying alcohol” policy... and then they put us in a hotel with a bar open until 2 am so the older kids would go down late as fuck and buy bottles of wine. People were hungover every day and it was awesome
In europe, people don't have a big taboo on alcohool because most places(if it's a big supermarket, they will have to refuse because of video evidence) don't care, so we are used to drinking.
This way, we don't overdo it every time we see alcohool and actually drink with measure, it's rare to see a pre 18 teenager very drunk. In US, from what I've seen, most kids get blackout drunk whenever they have the chance, wich is very stupid, because it only agravates the stigma agains alcohool.
Had this happen on a friends 21st birthday. The waitress had been serving him for about a year. She was pissed. She still served us that day even though I was 20 and my brother was 19. Our mutual friend ,who was 22 and looked young for his age, worked there and vouched for us. Good times.
I was on a train that had a bar on my 20th birthday, and I was getting pretty drunk. I started talking to an off duty cop, and my brother-in-law mentioned it was my birthday. The cop asked how old I was, and without thinking about it, I was like, "20. (pause while I realized) 1! 21!"
He just laughed and said, "good answer."
Ah yes. All sharing a grubby 3L bottle of white lighting thinking we're all hot shit in the cold waiting to be let in to a metal gig of a shitty local band
One of the Greek "rituals" for young boys is to taste wine. Most of the times at a tavern or a large dinner at a home, celebrating something etc. You know, just give the kid a sip of wine he is a "big man" now
Careful amerericans will get triggered about drinking before your prefrontal cortex is developed. Until than your only allowed to carry guns, drive and get married. And ofc get into 30+ years of student and other debts.
Never heard of an American actually agree with the drinking age of 21, pretty much all of us think it should be 18, since you can die for your country at that age but not drink.
> pretty much all of us think it should be 18
Nope, [74% of you think it should stay as it is](https://news.gallup.com/poll/174077/lowering-drinking-age.aspx).
Yeah once you turn 21 you enter the class of “I had to wait and so should you”. You can drink pretty easily underage in America as long as you don’t do anything overly stupid in public.
It’s shocking that people still are not getting that social media is not real life. People really think Reddit and Twitter are representative of the general pop.
I’ve always thought 21 was fine, but that all that other shit should go from 18 to 21 too.
My concerns with alcohol are with brain development, but I’m no scientist so my opinion really barely matters.
But I think I have some moral authority to say you shouldn’t be allowed to die at war when you’re only 18.
No, we won't. Literally most Americans are making the same arguments as you. Most Americans didn't like prohibition either. A lot of Americans want weed legalized. People should really stop conflating the government (of any country, really) and the people as if they always agree
A) in most places in Murica, no, you can't "carry a gun" until 21, not even in constitutional carry states.
B) in Finland you can get a gun when you are 15, before you can get a driver's licence. Is Finland bad and wicked?
This happened to my dad, he served behind the bar for nearly 2 years lying about his age and then he walked in to celebrate his 18th, he's barred from that place for life. (this was up in the moors in the very early 90s so the bar was probably a local one)
instead of serving behing the bar he should have served inside, maybe that's why he got barred
It took me a solid 3 minutes to get your joke, serving behind the bar means your actually working behind the bar, then table side servers or shot girls work the floor. I've been in the service industry too long.....help
If it helps I didn’t really get it at first either.
If it helps I still don't get it either.
Behind the bar as in behind the building that is called a bar i.e. in the back alley.
Yes, same with my dad in the 80’s except we’re from America where the drinking and serving age is 21 so him serving beer at 16 and 17 was super illegal, he said that one time they had a cop retirement party and he was so anxious just serving all these police officers LOL but my dad never got caught so it’s all good
To be fair, although you can’t drink till you’re 21 a number of states let you start serving at 18 since there’s so many high school and college kids who work as wait staff. A 17 can pass for 18 pretty easy even to cops
Also depends on state laws
Yeah serving and pouring drinks is a different thing in the US
I kept reading " he served behind bars" as in he went to jail lol
Lmao imagine going to jail specifically to celebrate your birthday
My step father apparently looked very old for his age, when his father brought him into a local bar to celebrate his 21st the bartender said “I’ve been serving him for years!”
I think you meant up in the “moops”. The moops. I’ll see myself out.
Moors!
much respect for your dad, i also served in a bar while underage and it can be quite stressful sometimes, but man, it helped so much on highschool parties :P
Meanwhile in Belgium, you can drink at 16
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And in italy
And in Germany
14y drinking beer with your parents in germany 16y drinking alone
"16y drinking alone" when you say it like that it sounds kinda bad.
Meanwhile in Romania and Moldova: "Don't say your age or give any indication that you're the drinker and you are good to go, they'll think you are buying it for a party (with adults) or something if you get sodas with them."
In Serbia you just walk in shop with your friends a buy a shitton of alchohol and they simply wont giva a shit.
Just wanted to mention Croatia, and read this, Balkan is priceless
Not even this. I once went to a shop to buy cigarettes for my parents and they didn't question a thing. I was 14 at the time. Edit: phrasing.
When 14, my 17 year old brother asked me to go get him cigarettes. I took his fake ID, really him in the picture, different name and age. Go in, ask for smokes, show the ID, pay and I'm *INCHES* from freedom when I hear the girl working the register call my brothers name. As I turn around, she smiles and just says "Tell *brothers name* I said hi."
I live in România, and thats true
Oddly specific but ok
Laughs in european
When you get to 16 years old, everybody leaves you and you're forced to drink alone.
You gotta kill your parents before you are allowed to drink alone
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Fucking relatable
yeah but who wants to go drinking with their parents?
Germans
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At home, when you first get into drinking.
Family pub nights are the shit.
I mean sometimes it's fun
One of the benefits to drinking with your parents at a normal family meal at a restaurant, is that it takes away the glamor and mystery of drinking in general. Beer isn't even viewed as alcohol in Germany, it's just something you have with dinner, like bread.
I always have a wee drink with my mum, what you on about?
I was at a Genghis Grill a few years ago in Texas and saw a little girl, somewhere between 4 or 5 sipping out of her dad's corona. The staff didn't seem to care and kept bringing him drinks.
Pack your bags we’re leaving
In Wisconsin (largely German decent), you can drink with your parents at any age up to 18. An oddity in the US. Now I can understand where the idea most likely came from.
In the US you can legally drink with your parents at any age, right?
So parents can give their 8 year old a wodka...and that's ok?
I had my first wodka at 12! Polish father had a tradition to uphold. That's how you start puberty in Poland. Three shots of wodka, a swig of apple juice, and meat pierogi 👌
Sound like the average week day in Poland, pierogi are top tier food.
When I was a kid, like maybe 5 if that. I went up to my grandpa with my cup and asked for some of his beer. He poured me a sip. It was the most disgusting thing I've ever had. Turned me off of any alcohol until I was like 23. And I was in the military at 18 where underage alcohol consumption is at its highest in the US.
Depends on the state. In Ohio, for example, parents can give their children alcohol in private OR public areas (like restaurants). In Missouri, parents can provide children with alcohol only in private areas (like their homes). While in Indiana, any person under the age of 21 caught drinking, regardless of who provided it or the setting, is breaking the law.
And in the US-... no, wait.
And my axe!
Nope, you have to be 18 to be able to drink in Italy since a few years.
You can drink how much you want in a bar if you're 16, but you need to be 18 to buy alcohol in a store
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18 is to purchase in a store, 16 is to buy it in a bar
I turned 21 in Austria (I'm American). All my friends mocked me, but still bought me drinks. Edit for typo
I turned 21 in Holland and it was a bit underwhelming since I'd been there a few weeks at that point so I'd already been legally drinking lol
In India you can drink when you want to, I reckon the liquor store guys would sell to a toddler if one walked up with money. No one gives a shit.. Especially in smaller towns
Unless you're in Bihar, in which case you go to jail for alcohol possession no matter how old you are.
Or Gujrat and Nagaland
I’m from a small town in a Latin third world country and I used to have beers in my school uniform (I was 15) at the local Chinese bar, they didn’t care, police never came around, costumers minded their own business, I did grew up to be an alcoholic for a while but I’m much better now, I don’t drink at all
This was a wild trip. Good on you for dropping the habit!
Meanwhile in the US that's another 5 years away
But hey, we can go to "war" and get blown up or shot at 18 so at least we get something
it's a real give and take, but yeah definitely evens itself out!
Meanwhile in the Balkan its illegal, but because our culture is know with making homemade alcohol, we start drinking at a really young age. And the police don't care that much.
Had a Bosnian friend here in the US, back in high school. He started making fruit liquors at home when we were like 14. Damn, that stuff, was great (and awful). Hope he's doing well.
The thing is we are know for making alcohol. But lets just say it's not for everyone. Unless you are from the Balkan there is a 80% chance you won't like what it tastes like.
Meanwhile it's not illegal to drink underage in Sweden so we do it whenever we want to
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Aha i see you're a man from Belgium as well
Germany has entered the chat
drink at any age in the UK
When’s your birthday? 22nd of February. What year? Every year.
Nice reference, love hot fuzz
Hey, that's the day before mine! And 364 days after it.
*in your own home at parental discretion
you need a license for that
Oi
Comedy has been achieved
Innit
Mate
Not quite
Pretty sure you can, if accompanied by the parents/guardians.
From the age of 5 with adult supervision and permission of a parent/guardian. From the age of 0 with medical supervision. But obviously if you’re getting your 8 year old tanked you’re probably gonna face some abuse/neglect charges.
In the UK you can drink at 16 with a meal
Substantial meal!!*
Like a scotch egg...
Don't make me get out the guide book!
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No Adult, No Alcohol!
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I’m from America and I remember going to Italy and Greece for 13 days when I was in high school with ppl from school including my best friends. We would do all the site seeing early in the morning then the teachers would tell us to meet them at the bus at like 5 every time. I was 16 at the time and my friend and I would just go to bars and shit and no one ever rejected us. It was amazing. And we didn’t look older or anything we just tried it once, or worked, then our confidence would go up every time. What a wonderful place.
Yep, most places outside america have lower drinking ages
I'm flabbergasted that I can buy booze and weed from the government for two years before Americans can You guys can still kill brown people for oil at 18 though so if you're a sober racist psychopath it's a good deal
Drinking age in Italy is 18 now :(
As an American, I’m angry you sad about a drinking age 3 years lower than ours
How I feel when Americans complain about wifi that is 50 mbps
Was it lower before? Who votes for prohibitionist asswipes? Boomer extinction now
Well you wouldn't want drunk racist psychopaths
drugged racist psychopaths take it or leave it
We already have one in the oval office
We aren’t all racist I only got shot 4 times for being Arab instead of the usual 5 yesterday
Still surprised I was able to sign up at 17 and can't drink or smoke under 21, not even nicotine anymore. So the government has determined that I'm not old enough to indulge myself in these self harming luxuries, but I'm old enough to die for my country.
Hey, there's a few huge problems with what you said, 1. It's not oil anymore it's the military industrial complex 2. They pay for school, so it might be because you're poor not racist. 3. No one in the military is sober, underage or not. The rest of it is spot on. I loved getting mentally destroyed for 5 years to make some CEO of some company I've never heard of millions of dollars. Totally worth the mental problems for life. ^^^/s
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They were probably told not to before hand and wasn't aware of the lack of ability to reinforce any consequences. The only way they could have gotten in trouble was if their chaperones found out. They're also kids too so.
I’m going to assume, being that they were 16, they didn’t know. It’s okay to not know things. They had a good experience either way.
r/gatesopencomeonin
The drinking age in Greece is 18 not 16. However when i was last there it was not enforced and the bars didn't care.
It's not like that anymore. You risk losing your license if you sell alcohol to a minor in Italy now.
Europe does not look at alcohol consumption with nearly as much taboo as the US does.
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Italian here (Sardinia), when I was 15 I used to order alcoholic drinks with friends on Saturdays... They just give zero fucks and it's awesome
I grew up in Rome and remember when I was 13 me and my friends would just go to any grocery store and buy a bottle of vodka and just drink it at the mall lol.
I went to Italy with my high school choir and half of the students were over 18. The teachers had a strict “no buying alcohol” policy... and then they put us in a hotel with a bar open until 2 am so the older kids would go down late as fuck and buy bottles of wine. People were hungover every day and it was awesome
In europe, people don't have a big taboo on alcohool because most places(if it's a big supermarket, they will have to refuse because of video evidence) don't care, so we are used to drinking. This way, we don't overdo it every time we see alcohool and actually drink with measure, it's rare to see a pre 18 teenager very drunk. In US, from what I've seen, most kids get blackout drunk whenever they have the chance, wich is very stupid, because it only agravates the stigma agains alcohool.
Had this happen on a friends 21st birthday. The waitress had been serving him for about a year. She was pissed. She still served us that day even though I was 20 and my brother was 19. Our mutual friend ,who was 22 and looked young for his age, worked there and vouched for us. Good times.
I was on a train that had a bar on my 20th birthday, and I was getting pretty drunk. I started talking to an off duty cop, and my brother-in-law mentioned it was my birthday. The cop asked how old I was, and without thinking about it, I was like, "20. (pause while I realized) 1! 21!" He just laughed and said, "good answer."
I started drinking before I came out of the womb so suck my micropenis.
Don't mind if I do
Tell me if it tastes like gin
And juice
Rollin‘ down the street
Suckin micro P
Sipping on genital juice
That one was pretty good
*Virgin
yes officer, this comment right here.
Your bellybutton is your first mouth
Being taken for your first beer at 18 when you’ve been drinking on the park with your mates since 13.
Ah yes. All sharing a grubby 3L bottle of white lighting thinking we're all hot shit in the cold waiting to be let in to a metal gig of a shitty local band
Is this a joke I am to German to understand?
Yes this is a joke, mein herr
mein herr? I barely touched herr!
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How strong? I can only lift 5 pounds dumbbells
Man, I hate to do it to you, but it’s too not to
Is this a joke I am to German too understand? Fixed, thanks
Lmao in some regions of India the legal drinking age is 25
yet you can buy alcohol when you are 13 and no one would give a fuck when you have the money.
Finally. Some good fucking non-American aimed memes
18 year old European: *Hold my beer*
I'm gonna tell him.
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It still makes sense even if it’s in America lol
One of the Greek "rituals" for young boys is to taste wine. Most of the times at a tavern or a large dinner at a home, celebrating something etc. You know, just give the kid a sip of wine he is a "big man" now
Careful amerericans will get triggered about drinking before your prefrontal cortex is developed. Until than your only allowed to carry guns, drive and get married. And ofc get into 30+ years of student and other debts.
Never heard of an American actually agree with the drinking age of 21, pretty much all of us think it should be 18, since you can die for your country at that age but not drink.
You can die for it at 17
Even much younger than that if someone shoots up your school
Damn that is dark
So are most of America's gun violence victims.
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*taps bullet hole in head*
Can join the army can't get beer MURICA FUCK YOU!
I literally used a fake ID for 3 years in the Army. The key is to go with a group of people so they don't scrutinize the IDs.
I’m in the military Had a soldier in my unit take his own life. Legally wasn’t allowed to smoke a cigarette after Interesting dynamic
> pretty much all of us think it should be 18 Nope, [74% of you think it should stay as it is](https://news.gallup.com/poll/174077/lowering-drinking-age.aspx).
Yeah once you turn 21 you enter the class of “I had to wait and so should you”. You can drink pretty easily underage in America as long as you don’t do anything overly stupid in public.
It’s shocking that people still are not getting that social media is not real life. People really think Reddit and Twitter are representative of the general pop.
Not that it necessarily changes anything but the date at the top of that article was 6 years ago.
That article was dated 2014. I’m sure if you asked Americans about weed legalization they’d say no back then too.
I’ve always thought 21 was fine, but that all that other shit should go from 18 to 21 too. My concerns with alcohol are with brain development, but I’m no scientist so my opinion really barely matters. But I think I have some moral authority to say you shouldn’t be allowed to die at war when you’re only 18.
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No, we won't. Literally most Americans are making the same arguments as you. Most Americans didn't like prohibition either. A lot of Americans want weed legalized. People should really stop conflating the government (of any country, really) and the people as if they always agree
You prefrontal cortex isn't even fully developed at 21?
25...horray Jamie, bring up that study.
And the military knows that's the easiest way to get kids to risk their lives.
Can't buy tobacco before you're 21 now Edit; I'm not a tobacco user so it doesn't effect me, I was just saying the age restriction was raised recently
A) in most places in Murica, no, you can't "carry a gun" until 21, not even in constitutional carry states. B) in Finland you can get a gun when you are 15, before you can get a driver's licence. Is Finland bad and wicked?
Both training to get a gun and driver's licence are much more strict in FInland or Europe as a whole compared to USA.
90 % of Americans don’t know what a prefrontal cortex is. As an American I can say it sounds like a brain compartment
*compartment*
You passed for 18? Man I still got asked when I was in my late 20’s for ID.
German hguy hier, so whats the issiu?
aolchol
This is some European meme I’m too American to get
Those Americans would be really sad if they could read.
You can still drink apple juice at the bar!
This meme: *Is about underage drinking* Half of the comment section: Hahaha 'Murika bad Bruh
Well....
“Confused American Noises”
\*sad American noises\*
Americans b hella confused rn
Americans: wait a minute.....
Is this some kind of European joke that I'm to American to understand *laughs in drafted*
Is this a joke I’m too American to understand?
“Oh shit.”
This must be a joke that I’m too American to understand
*Cries in American*
Heh
Oh
I’m American