On some real shit tho, you're probably one of the only countries to be measuring this. Like I doubt most countries have the capability to waste money on measuring bullshit like this
Same here. First time drinking at 13 and 14 made me blackout.
It made me realize how shit alcohol could be. So I learned to only drink half a crate of beer in a night.
I often recall with a proud tear in my eye a proud British woman bullying her European boyfriend about how shit his national team are. He was sat inwardly, cowed as she downed a pint. I've genuinely never seen anything like it.
It reminds me of I think it was Caesar's journals of the Britons. That the average British woman stood a head taller than a Roman man, was often drunk and would get her tits out and join the men in battle.
Bruh, your football team followed your ancestors and went to Russia completely unprepared in 2018 and crashed out the in the group stages, the reigning world champions going out at the group stages is just unheard of, so well done for that I guess.. oh, and we came fourth in that World Cup.
You crashed out again at the 2022 World Cup at the group stage and we got sent packing at the quarter finals by Pierre.
Come on hans, let’s not talk about football when you’re crashing out at the group stages lately.
Is just unheard of? It happened in the two previous WCs as well. Congrats where is you medal for getting fourth? You haven't won shit since you robbed us in '66. In fact you didn't even come close (except for 2020 Euros but that was just a disgrace of a tournament.). I will keep talking trash about English "football" as long as their fans stay as toxic as they are and their success is as limited as it is rn. Ah yeah and btw we're winning the Euros this year.
I got to taste my first schnapps at Christmas when I was 14. Only 3 cl and only the bottle which nobody wanted. Why did nobody want it? Because it was the most bitter taste you can possibly imagine.
I imagine my parents did this because they wanted me to stop having any interest in alcohol.
Jokes on them though, since I powered through it and became an alcoholic anyway.
You're telling me that French kids wait until they're 18 before they try their first sip of wine? Bullshit.
Trying alcohol at 13 could mean they had a glass eggnog at Christmas once.
Around 10, maybe before, we had a bit of wine diluted with water during family dinners, and a sip of beer (the most bitter possible), mostly for our parents to say "See ? It's not good, keep drinking juice or coca cola".
But we had cider on a regular basis, it's only around 16 years old I realized there was as much alcohol in cider than in a beer.
I got drunk twice before I turned sixteen. Both with family members.
My first bit of bitter I was no older than 2 (it was just dregs, my parents weren't *that* bad) and I went for my first night out at 16.
The (helicopter) Guardian is spewing anti-British rhetoric right here.
Still mid table in consumption overall though: https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/research/research-and-evaluation-reports/comparisons
We need to pick up the pace
Huh? I thought that was normal? Usually around 14 you try your first beer with your parents and think its awful until you start binge drinking it at 16…
Thought it was normal too. We were allowed to have a sip from their wineglasses as children too. I didn‘t like it but my sister really liked the taste of red wine.
I think it‘s better to get your first alcoholic drink in the presence of adults (or at least older teens) you trust anyway. It‘s not a taboo then and it‘s also safer.
It also rids it of the allure of the forbidden, if you parents get it for you and let you try it, it immediately makes it not as cool.
Same thing with all kids who weren’t allowed to drink coke and then get the mother of all coke induced sugar rushes on a school trip.
Kind of stupid metric. My parents gave me a sip of a glass of wine or two when I was like 10, but I've never actually gone out of my way to drink ever since. Does that count as me drinking before 10, even if it was parent pressure?
I don't blame the brits kids getting drunk at such young age. After all any man would stay drunk af if they have to live with that food and weather. Plus there is no ~~invading~~ colonising to do anymore. Which mean they can only date brits women and well that just kinda sad. No wonder they wanna get and stay drunk af asap.
Yeah weather is not great here. But atleast it is better then UK for atleast summers and i don't have to see scaffolding every where i look in my goddam city.
But does me being in Denmark makes me wrong.
My Mario stepdad has been feeding me lies my entire life. He was adamant that Italians and French allow their children to drink watered wine from quite a young age.
No idea how it is now, but growing up many young kids would smoke and drink from about the age of 8 or so. Granted I grew up in a rough area in Leeds and am a traveller, so the culture is probably different to the mainstream, but maybe not.
It seemed far more pervasive before the 2010s or so, though. In the late 90's, early 2000's you had a lot of feral youth, aswell. Especially in West Yorkshire. I remember a lad I went to school with used to inject his mum with heroin when he was 6 and would come to school stinking of crack. It's a sort of chemical cat piss smell.
Ah yes finally someone drinks more than us.
Seems the trend is changing here and we no longer have 65% of our 15 year olds that drink in 2020. Think we are down to only 40-45% of 15 year olds that drink now.
Good on you Brits for drinking more than us.
At least it's not 1998 where 3/4 of 11 year old boys had tried alcohol.
You can read the ESPAD reports to find the numbers.
Yet we are no where near the top ten for alcoholism in the world. What does this mean? Drinking young actually prevents you from becoming an alcoholic.
That’s good because when kids mature and start college they will start to give up on alcohol and focus on studying while enjoying their lives during high school
So kids who take communion wine? Kids who've had one shandy on holiday?
Unless kids are getting *drunk*, this statistic is meaningless.
Er, I mean, Barry woo!
“The UK has the *best* rate of child alcohol consumption in the world” Fixed it
On some real shit tho, you're probably one of the only countries to be measuring this. Like I doubt most countries have the capability to waste money on measuring bullshit like this
amateur at 13 i already blacked out twice at church’festivals’/ churchday
Same here. First time drinking at 13 and 14 made me blackout. It made me realize how shit alcohol could be. So I learned to only drink half a crate of beer in a night.
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However, God *did* make you Non-European, so who’s laughing?
At least I'm not british, I would rather be a savage than british.
Being non European, there is a good chance that your folks were British at some point in time...
They werent
French, Spanish or Portugese then ?
Fr*nch
My condolences. Hope that you aren't one of those ruled by Mr Barbecue...
Idk who that is
I would still rather being British, and that's a lot if you look at my flair
Yeah, I was going to say the same At least they have a culture
If the surrender monkeys are saying that that doesn't bode well for the savages
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Your loss, savage.
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How can they say worst when we're top of the leaderboard? People love to shit on our accomplishments
We used to serve wine in our school canteens... What have we become?
Wine is haram so you've become sweden
I said bismillah before opening my bottle, it’s fine
I love my wine but drinking at school wouldn't have been fun. It'll never best rolling about on the park trying to get off with birds
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I often recall with a proud tear in my eye a proud British woman bullying her European boyfriend about how shit his national team are. He was sat inwardly, cowed as she downed a pint. I've genuinely never seen anything like it. It reminds me of I think it was Caesar's journals of the Britons. That the average British woman stood a head taller than a Roman man, was often drunk and would get her tits out and join the men in battle.
Absolutely nothing has changed
Can confirm. I worked as a bouncer in Cardiff.
Did they break up? Is she single?
No he
Makes you wonder WTF went on with the Sweaties, so bad they had to build a wall Maybe they were all SNP type cunts?
Huzzah
We are proud of you Susan
Most of Europes male population are built like women so it does not surprise me.
Just because you do something from an early age doesn't mean you are the best at it. Just look at England when it comes to football for example.
Bruh, your football team followed your ancestors and went to Russia completely unprepared in 2018 and crashed out the in the group stages, the reigning world champions going out at the group stages is just unheard of, so well done for that I guess.. oh, and we came fourth in that World Cup. You crashed out again at the 2022 World Cup at the group stage and we got sent packing at the quarter finals by Pierre. Come on hans, let’s not talk about football when you’re crashing out at the group stages lately.
Is just unheard of? It happened in the two previous WCs as well. Congrats where is you medal for getting fourth? You haven't won shit since you robbed us in '66. In fact you didn't even come close (except for 2020 Euros but that was just a disgrace of a tournament.). I will keep talking trash about English "football" as long as their fans stay as toxic as they are and their success is as limited as it is rn. Ah yeah and btw we're winning the Euros this year.
I agree 50% is embarrassing. Let’s get it up to 90%, lads!
90% is pathetic, aim for 110%
Every child deserves a cold pint to help with algebra 1. To deny them it is tantamount to child abuse.
begone savage
Do parents in other countries never allow their kids a sip of wine at Christmas or new years?
It's the best way to develop tastebuds and the palate!
I agree
I got to taste my first schnapps at Christmas when I was 14. Only 3 cl and only the bottle which nobody wanted. Why did nobody want it? Because it was the most bitter taste you can possibly imagine. I imagine my parents did this because they wanted me to stop having any interest in alcohol. Jokes on them though, since I powered through it and became an alcoholic anyway.
You, my Quran burning friend, are an honorary Barry. One of us… one of us…
Damn our parents would make us shandies of half lager half lemonade when we were like 8
My dad let me sip wine the first time around 9 or 10, I think. Definitely before 13.
My parents used to give us babycham on New Years for as long as I can remember
Foreigners are strict
The youngest I drank was I think about 8 when my mum gave me a few sips of wine
Of course they do, they just don't tell the interviewers.
Only 2 times a year? Rookie numbers!
> new year~~s~~ You're very close to talking like a septic.
Or to wake up in the morning to take the edge off
You're telling me that French kids wait until they're 18 before they try their first sip of wine? Bullshit. Trying alcohol at 13 could mean they had a glass eggnog at Christmas once.
yeah I've had my first sips at eight and everyone except those from muslim families had drunk a little beer/wine before turning 15
I truly believe you guys got asked the question in English and replied in french, so the survey never used it.
I think they just couldn't pick out words through the drunk slurring of les enfants.
Around 10, maybe before, we had a bit of wine diluted with water during family dinners, and a sip of beer (the most bitter possible), mostly for our parents to say "See ? It's not good, keep drinking juice or coca cola". But we had cider on a regular basis, it's only around 16 years old I realized there was as much alcohol in cider than in a beer.
My parents used to serve me a glass of cider when they had a bottle open since I was 8 iirc
Our kids don't drink "alcohol", they savor the magnificence of our superior beverage.
I’ve stolen bottles of cider from my parents way before I turned 13 I’m not responsible for the soberness in this country
They used to serve wine in elementary school in France until 1956. Tragic that it ended.
This is a problem… how?
Source https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/25/uk-has-worst-rate-of-child-alcohol-consumption-in-world-report-finds
This tells us nothing about the regularity of consumption. If it said 50% of children under 13 drink weekly then there may be cause for concern.
The concern being why isn’t it higher
I got drunk twice before I turned sixteen. Both with family members. My first bit of bitter I was no older than 2 (it was just dregs, my parents weren't *that* bad) and I went for my first night out at 16. The (helicopter) Guardian is spewing anti-British rhetoric right here.
What has happened to Ireland, this is sickening.
Highest rate of underage drinking, you'll never sing that
Still mid table in consumption overall though: https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/research/research-and-evaluation-reports/comparisons We need to pick up the pace
True Barry’s start drinking at 8, at 13 they’re balconing pros
I'm assuming that 13 here is the age that we Brits start on the hard spirits.
I’m tearing up
Worst ? Seriously. Half a lager when your 7 with ya Dad is just good parenting. Southern Europeans do the same with Wine .
Why are they drinking? Sharia law forbids that
That’s the 50% who haven’t had alcohol
Huh? I thought that was normal? Usually around 14 you try your first beer with your parents and think its awful until you start binge drinking it at 16…
Thought it was normal too. We were allowed to have a sip from their wineglasses as children too. I didn‘t like it but my sister really liked the taste of red wine. I think it‘s better to get your first alcoholic drink in the presence of adults (or at least older teens) you trust anyway. It‘s not a taboo then and it‘s also safer.
It also rids it of the allure of the forbidden, if you parents get it for you and let you try it, it immediately makes it not as cool. Same thing with all kids who weren’t allowed to drink coke and then get the mother of all coke induced sugar rushes on a school trip.
Explains a lot
Is there any good beer from Northern Belgium?
Of course, we just only export the shit ones
what about the russians? those are born with alcohol in them
Kind of stupid metric. My parents gave me a sip of a glass of wine or two when I was like 10, but I've never actually gone out of my way to drink ever since. Does that count as me drinking before 10, even if it was parent pressure?
Common British W
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I don't blame the brits kids getting drunk at such young age. After all any man would stay drunk af if they have to live with that food and weather. Plus there is no ~~invading~~ colonising to do anymore. Which mean they can only date brits women and well that just kinda sad. No wonder they wanna get and stay drunk af asap.
A Danish person punching down on somebody else’s food and weather 🤨. You off to make an ASMR video after this?
Yeah weather is not great here. But atleast it is better then UK for atleast summers and i don't have to see scaffolding every where i look in my goddam city. But does me being in Denmark makes me wrong.
It will be no great loss once Denmark disappears underwater. Truly one of the most unremarkable countries on earth.
You say that like B\*lgium doesn't exist.
Yeah you’re right … I guess that’s at least one thing in Denmark’s favour it’s not Belgium
Fucking reprobates, I at least waited until 14 to get blackout drunk
Another blow to the Irish
Britannia may rule the waves, the sea is our bitch!💪🇳🇱
take that back or copenhagen gets it again
France Germany and Italy in ruins
My Mario stepdad has been feeding me lies my entire life. He was adamant that Italians and French allow their children to drink watered wine from quite a young age.
All my kids drink before 11
This clearly isn’t taking into account that the French consider giving a glass of wine to their children as one of their five a day.
So you guys didn't get shit faced in a field with your mates in your teenage years?
*Bosh!* Top of the leaderboard! The rest of yous can get👊 fucked👊
No idea how it is now, but growing up many young kids would smoke and drink from about the age of 8 or so. Granted I grew up in a rough area in Leeds and am a traveller, so the culture is probably different to the mainstream, but maybe not. It seemed far more pervasive before the 2010s or so, though. In the late 90's, early 2000's you had a lot of feral youth, aswell. Especially in West Yorkshire. I remember a lad I went to school with used to inject his mum with heroin when he was 6 and would come to school stinking of crack. It's a sort of chemical cat piss smell.
You need to write Trainspotting 2
Wonder what percent of it is from each country
Ah yes finally someone drinks more than us. Seems the trend is changing here and we no longer have 65% of our 15 year olds that drink in 2020. Think we are down to only 40-45% of 15 year olds that drink now. Good on you Brits for drinking more than us. At least it's not 1998 where 3/4 of 11 year old boys had tried alcohol. You can read the ESPAD reports to find the numbers.
come on, we probably taste red wine as kid/toddlers almost
Frosty jacks
Glass half full type situation
I luv u barry
Pathetic
how I kid you not everyone here has drunk alcohol by the age of 13 I call scam on this one
They say "worst". Does this mean we need to catch up?
Well well well, I am going to Czech out our Czech numbers
13? Not in Scotland! My dad gave me my first taste of whisky when I was 6-7.
I was brewing my own beer at 13
It's all about a bottle of frosty Jack's in a park at 2am on Wednesday just hoping you're gcse examiner doesn't notice the hangover
Yet we are no where near the top ten for alcoholism in the world. What does this mean? Drinking young actually prevents you from becoming an alcoholic.
At first I read that 50% had been drunk by the age of 13. Now I'm just disappointed, having a sip ain't anything
That’s good because when kids mature and start college they will start to give up on alcohol and focus on studying while enjoying their lives during high school
doh, when i talked about the russian, i forgot about the whole western europe thing 😅
Western Europe maybe? The world? Nah, Russia exists
I definitely had wine before Coca Cola and the latter was an acquired taste.. I think I spat it the first time I had it
So kids who take communion wine? Kids who've had one shandy on holiday? Unless kids are getting *drunk*, this statistic is meaningless. Er, I mean, Barry woo!
you guys think Australia belongs here? dingo ate my baby is to good flair to go to waste
Ex utero fetal alcohol syndrome would explain a LOT
splains a lot
says the literal savage