Any one here A budding Comic book writer (well besides Hawanja)

Drinking is fun. Your choice, though.

I remember being pretty pissed off that I couldn't even get a bottle of beer with my meal when I was in the states, I was probably 20 at the time, and in Britain you can have low alcohol drinks (beer, cider, etc) with a meal from the age of 16. I think you're right about the limit making (adult!) folks drink more under the age limit, especially in university/college, I can only imagine it becomes a rite of passage and obsessed over due to the illicit nature of it. I really can't grasp what university would be like without alcohol, actually. It's really part and parcel of the whole affair over here.

 

Yeah, I am English and making a mockery of American attempts at the 'British accent' - a myth in itself. As Alchy says, there are multiple countries in Britain, each with their own base accent, which in turn varies wildly across the different areas of each of those countries. There is a HUGE variation. The joke is that a lot of Americans seem to think I am an Australian or Irish, despite having a pretty stereotypical BBC English accent.

For drinking age commments, the trouble is that everyone drives here and a lot of people drive after drinking due to the average distance from their homes and lack of public transport. (I am not justifying it, it's a reason for some). For this reason, Teens (18+) should not be allowed to drink in the USA. I see drunks on the road all the time and it's disgusting. Hopefully 21 year olds have a little more common sense and maturity when being granted the right to drink legally, and the chance is greater than an 18 year old I feel.

Also, no one I know eats the breakfast you describe on a regular basis Alchy. Just like a full English breakfast, it tends to be a high days and holidays type thing.

 

The Video is on it's way, I need to make my self presentable and write a monologue.

Oh and Practice. I should have it up Monday afternoon.

 

I think that anyone past the age of 18 should know much better than to drive intoxicated, and if anything, my gut instinct is that allowing 15 year olds to drive (as I believe is permitted in many places in the US) could be comparably dangerous. In fairness, I'd be interested in seeing what percentage of crashes in the US were caused by young drivers, I think that'd be an interesting statistic. I could actually believe it's quite low, so you may be right.

Yeah, I didn't mean to make a particularly poignant point there. Just that, even compared to an English breakfast, the sheer volume of food which is served in the US is kind of shocking to a Brit. The corollary to this is that small amounts of snack food seemed to cost almost as much as large amounts did, which is also weird.

 

Definitly.

 

It's an odd place for sure. :nod:

 

The drinking age was 18 until 1988...go figure. People can join the army, be tried as an adult, vote, etc....but can't drink until 21. And really, that's depending on the state...it just seems all states agreed to make the legal drinking age 21. There are actually very few Federal laws when it comes to Americans...most laws are based on the State level.

 

If I'm not mistaken and I probably am The us the only Country that has laws on the books that contradict other laws on the Books.

 

There is a bit of a misconception about drinking laws in the US. Congress passed a law that withheld a portion of federal aid for highway funding to any state that didn't raise the age to 21 for purchasing and public consumption but not necessarily private consumption. That still varies by state but since most people believe it to be 21 it has pretty much become a De facto law.

Basically state laws and federal laws can come into conflict and make things screwy.

 

That country song comes to mind "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free!"

LOL

 

with the disclaimer "your Freedom's may vary by state" but still Freeer than most of the world anyway,.

 

At least in Texas we get to carry concealed guns, legally.

And you have the RIGHT to shoot an intruder with no penalty....

 

Like you'd know anything about that.

 

Like you'd know anything about that.

 

You'll notice I didn't claim to.

 

Your freedoms subject to change by Lawsuit

 

Like I'd know anything about that.

Damn, you busted the flow Alchy and goh.

 

I know we've been down this road before, but why would you NOT want to shoot a guy breaking into your house and threatening you or your family?

I mean if theres no shadow of a doubt that he's going to hurt you or someone you love, what are you going to do?

I don't remember who, but I've heard someone say that in the UK (or maybe somewhere else in Europe) most cases of self defense where some guy kills an intruder gets "laughed out of court by the Judge who then criticizes the police for wasting time and money."

I suppose you're one of those people who thinks "But serial killers are people too and feel EMOTIONS just like the rest of us!" On the rare case that the guy was stealing to provide for his sick child, or whatever sob story you can think of, surely robbing a place would be the last on his list of stupid ass things to do?

 

It's probably the bleeding heart liberal in me, but I'd rather not kill someone.

We've done the gun control debate here quite a bit, though, and it's an intractable argument at the best of times.

 

Unlike America, where lawsuits never change the way people behave.