  "We should turn a blind eye to underage drinking in pubs"  (56
Posts) Bogeyface Mon 30-Sep-13 22:33:10  As said last night by
an old mate of ours who has been running pubs since Noah was a
boy.  He backed this up by saying that people my age (40 eek!)
snuck into pubs with either our fake ID or too much make up and
a veneer of confidence, and learned how to drink. We learned how
to behave in pubs when we were too poor to get plastered, we
learned what alcohol did to us, and by the time we were 18 it
was nothing new. He said he preferred to have a few 15/16 year
olds having a pint that lasted all night than what he has now
which is brand new legal drinkers absolutely hammering it and
getting totally off their faces every weekend. He blames the
clamp down on underage drinking for a lot of the binge drinking
that goes on now, because kids at 18 have more money and freedom
than those a couple of years younger, often they are away at
Uni, so have nothing stopping them from getting battered.  My
first reaction was