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Parents, teach your kids how to drink

If we don't teach our kids, who will? From the UK:

Parents are to be given advice about how much alcohol their children can safely drink, under government plans aimed at curbing binge drinking.

In an effort to stamp out excessive teenage drinking, they will be advised at what age their children could be allowed to drink at home and how often, Children's Secretary Ed Balls said.

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Parents of drunk youths could also be jailed and youths who "persistently possess" alcohol could receive criminal records while licensed premises would be required to ask identification from anyone who looks 21 years or younger.

The proposals were unveiled just hours after a chaotic party involving thousands of revellers to mark the last day of drinking alcohol on the London Underground turned ugly.

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"There is a small minority of parents who ... actually give them alcohol and send them out to drink it in public places — that is wrong," he told BBC radio.

Meanwhile, here in America, if you accidentally give your kid a hard lemonade they take him away and put him in foster care. What the dilly yo?

Posted By jamesk at 2008-06-03 11:23:17 permalink | comments
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TardNarc : 2008-06-08 06:12:55
> in times past people generally were able to tell how
> much alcohol they could handle

lolol

when was this golden age?

CITATIONZ PLZ

darling, balls, in my office. : 2008-06-04 12:33:49
Ed Balls, what a great name.

Strangely enough, in times past people generally were able to tell how much alcohol they could handle, just by paying attention to how much they drank and how it made them feel and behave.

The correct way to deal with the current problem would be to make 100% alcohol paste available to anyone, and let all the bingers that can't hold their drink poison themselves to death in one night, while remaining incapacitated physically thereby being no problem to anyone else.

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