is it can be drink tiem nao PLZ?!

My articles generally involve me talking about things that I don't like, or things that I think are stupid. Tonight's article will be on something else that I think is stupid, but it's certainly a much more controversial thing than Guitar Hero (you're still not becoming one by playing the game) or PeoplePC.

This article is about drinking. In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm talking about alcohol. I have so many places I can go in this article that I don't really know how to begin. The legal drinking age in the United States is 21. There are, generally, many reasons for this, but one of the most important reasons for this is because we don't want problems in public (and problems is an extremely broad category, containing tons and tons of possible scenarios, some of which I may get into).

So, what's the age that teenagers can get their driver's licenses (or are able to get them)? 16 (more recently the driving age has been changed to 18). When they finally get their driver's licenses, their egos are sure to inflate to maybe three times the size they were already, but they're still pretty much learning how to drive.

Driving is only semi-relevant to this article so I'll try to cut this portion short. You see, teenagers are arrogant enough as it is. There are quite a few of them who think that it's absolutely unnecessary for them to wait any longer before they start drinking. Time for some math!

Teenagers that are still learning how to drive + alcohol = ???

You really shouldn't have to think about this. It's just a really bad idea. Even people with years of driving experience can't drive well when they're drunk, and a teenager is most certainly not going to be any better. Plus, this is where you start putting other peoples' lives in danger. Oh shit, this might be one of those reasons why driving while intoxicated is against the law!

I absolutely can not find the appeal of being drunk. I have drank before and I have been drunk before (here's an event I'd rather not repeat, ever). Was it fun? No, it sure as hell wasn't. I was told by a few people that I was funnier when I was drunk, and I actually think that it was a bunch of bullshit, but that's not exactly relevant. I just about froze my ass off that night. Sure, I thought I was warm before I fell asleep, but when I woke up after a couple of hours? Hahaha, yeah. You know, my memory of that night is still intact, too. I remember refusing beer. I remember tasting my friend's beer (more on my friend later), and it tasted disgusting, just as I had remembered when I had tried it before. So a couple of my other friends egged me on and said that I should get drunk so that they could see me drunk. So, like an idiot, I did (but hey, this is where the whole "experience" thing comes in!). Have you ever heard of jungle juice? Hawaiian punch, orange juice, vodka (a fifth), and everclear all get mixed up for this one. Does it taste good? Nah, not really, at least I don't think it does. I drank it anyway, though; by the end of the party I had went through three 16oz. SOLO cups of it.

I didn't really feel anything after the first two cups. Maybe a little warmth in the stomach. It wasn't until later that I actually started feeling it. I threw up, too, and that was certainly not enjoyable. My friend had three beers and two cups of the jungle juice and ended up completely shitfaced. By comparison, I probably looked sober. But anyway, he passed out. Definitely not the best experience of my life. Anyway, I said I didn't find the appeal of being drunk, and then I sort of went off on a tangent, but hey: it sucked.

I do not, by any means, promote underage drinking. It's reserved as a privilege for people who are a lot more mature. Today, though, we're finding that age definitely isn't an accurate measure of maturity, but that's another article for another day. Should we allow teenagers to drink? No, lest there be all kinds of havoc. Should we lower the drinking age? No, you cocks! Here we go again.

I went to high school with a bunch of "popular kids." Popular in their own way, that is; they were all generally related in at least one way: sports. Mostly, these kids played sports, and this group included freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. It also included both boys and girls. My graduating class had about 50 people in it, rounded up. I can quite safely say that at least 20% of the people in my class were in a debate for lowering the drinking age (x/50 = .2, solve for x and you have a number of people instead of a percentage!). That is, I should say, these were people for lowering the drinking age ("I CAN GO AND DIE FOR MY COUNTRY BUT I CAN'T HAVE A BEER? THIS IS MY ONLY RELEVANT POINT OTHER THAN 'I REALLY WANT TO DRINK' BUT SINCE I'M POPULAR YOU GUYS WILL ALL VOTE FOR MY SIDE"). I didn't participate in the debate because I didn't want to waste my time. I could have written the best argument in the world and I still wouldn't have won. If anything, I would have turned the classroom into a shouting match aimed directly toward me. But anyway, a good deal of people were for lowering the drinking age in the debate and these people feel that they're mature enough to drink.

So, on to my point. Are they mature enough? Gee, I dunno. Remember an article a few years back, where the W-Man got a prank phone call? They're the same people. Are these people smart? I suppose, in their own ways, yes, sure. They were able to keep up with my grades. They drank after a lot of big sporting events, too, so do I know how they kept up with them? No, I don't. Maybe I'm retarded! Maybe there was a little more going on than the eye could see! I don't know. These aren't the kinds of people I'd allow to drink, personally. Someone would be guaranteed to get hurt (yeah, I don't think the girl who hit a telephone pole on the other side of the road was sober).

I do happen to drink that drinking is okay in a social sense. As long as you're old enough and aren't fucking retarded and aren't drinking just to get drunk (being drunk doesn't equal fun, etc.). I think this has gone on long enough for me to tell you that underage drinking is retarded, and drinking to get drunk is retarded ("hay guise, i'm so cool because i'm 16 and i drink alcohol lol") instead of cool. So I'm going to go ahead and click "PUBLISH POST" because I'm done writing.