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[Puffin]

How old do people / teenagers have to be in your country do do stuff?

I mean stuff like:

Buy alcohol
Use alcohol
[where do they sell alcohol?]
Tobacco
Enter clubs / bars
Drive
Get married
The age where you [how do I say it???] controll your own life. Can do whatever you want to.

In Iceland (correct me if I'm wrong):
Buy and use alcohol: 21 years.
They sell it in liquir stores.
Tobacco: 18
Enter clubs / bars: 21
Drive: Start learning 16, licenses 17.
Get married: I think it's 19.
We can do everything we want to at the age of 18, which is a bit of a controversy, seeing that we can't drink, clubbin' or get married untill 19/21 :not_ok:

So. If this made ANY sense to you guys, how is it in your country?

[Havell]

Here in England:

You have to be 5 drink at home, 14 to drink in a restaurant and 18 to drink in a bar or buy alcohol from shops (messed up I know).
16 to smoke and marry,
17 to drive,
18 to vote and own property (control your own life like Puffin said).
Then there's obscure ones like driving a heavy goods vehicle (like a lorry) or pilot a civilian plane at 21.

[aaberg]

DENMARK

Buy alcohol: 15 (This rule is only a couple of years old)
Drink alcohol: When you are born!
You can buy all kind of alcohol averywhere.
Tobacco: 15 (This is a new law, a year ago there where no rules about tobacco.)
Enter clubs/bars: When you are born
Drink at clubs/bars/restaurant: 18
Drive 18, you can begin taking the license 3 month before.
Get merried: 18, I think.
Vote: 18

k:

19...ég hélt ?a? v?ri bara átján..til a? kv?nast ?.e.a.s.

en ?a? sem er fáránlegt er me? forseta..You gotta be 35 to make you available for presidential election :P

[Puffin]

OMG I can't wait for my trip to Denmark
Everything is really strickt here, I find it. But teenagers DO drink, smoke and all, but it's not always easy (hey, but I'm an angel :angel: )

Kiddi, I think i'ts 19... Mamma Rósu bei? ?anga? til hún var 19 me? a? gifta sig. Mátti ekki fyrr... En ég er samt ekki viss....
Á ég a? segja frá reglunni me? 14-18 ára kynlífsreglunni? B)

Sorry peep, nothing important I said

[aaberg]

Originally posted by Puffin@Sep 27 2004, 07:32 PM
OMG I can't wait for my trip to Denmark*
Everything is really strickt here, I find it. But teenagers DO drink, smoke and all, but it's not always easy* * (hey, but I'm an angel* :angel: )*

Kiddi, I think i'ts 19... Mamma Rósu bei? ?anga? til hún var 19 me? a? gifta sig. Mátti ekki fyrr... En ég er samt ekki viss....
Á ég a? segja frá reglunni me? 14-18 ára kynlífsreglunni?* B)

Sorry peep, nothing important I said*

I certainly didn't understand a crap of that!

Hi mom :bye:

Here it's that age:
Buy / use alcohol - 18 / 16
Same for cigarettes or tobacco.
Clubs / Bars - 18
You can drive cars and get license at 18, but you can drive mopeds at 16 and rollers at 14.
Actually you may marry here at the age of 18, but often teenagers just rent an own flat and live there together most time, because they can have own flat at 16 years if they're able to pay for it.
Control you life? Actually the age of 18 is more fitting for that and oficially allowed, but some try that at 16 and with some problems and restrictions they actually can manage it.

[Puffin]

Originally posted by Kiddiarni@Sep 27 2004, 07:31 PM
en ?a? sem er fáránlegt er me? forseta..You gotta be 35 to make you available for presidential election :P

Well, I think that makes sense... Well, I can't really imagine any younger president than 35... but hey, that's just me :P

[Red Diablo]

Buy and use alcohol: 18/20 years.
Tobacco: 18
Enter clubs / bars: from 18 upwards depending on the place
Drive: Start learning 16,5, license 18.
Get married: 18 (?)

Allowed to start fiddling around with (o)(o) at 15.

Btw Aaberg probably knows where I'm from, at least if I say we're the ones you'll see drunk on Strǿget in Kǿbenhavn... :whistle:

[aaberg]

In Randers, a town in Denmark, the mayor is only about 25. That ain't the president, but then again Denmark is a monarchy, we don't have presidents. We have a queen, who always says: "Gud bevare Danmark", which means something like: "God, let Denmark remain" That sounds a little wrong. Hmm, it's not easy to translate.