I've come up with a product idea that is geared towards helping end underage alcohol abuse. My thought, stop it before it starts.
Challenge: Figure out where it all begins? Answer: Mostly at home.
Source of abuse: Mom and Dad's liquor cabinet. A sip here and their, an occasional nip in the early afternoon, and before you know it , your hanging loose watching Sponge Bob and a few fellow 10 yr old chums and kicking back with a vodka tonic and replacing the "borrowage" with good olde tap water.
My idea: create a tamper resistant seal that allows parent the ability to RE-SEAL their liquor bottles after each use. Cost: $0.19 per use (less than a band aide).
Result: Water vs. Grey Goose ... a normal childhood vs. a elementary school version of Animal House ... vs. proper brain development vs. life long cerebral damage.
Let me know your thoughts. I'd be happy to mail you a sample of the product and have you test it out and provide feed back.
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all my freinds did it(i cant allergy)the idea is awsome ,try marketing them at your local shop(product demo)
hello, people can fight and die for our rights. But must give up their rights to do it ? A eighteen year old can kill in the name of govt's pursuits ; name of god, war's ect,however they cannot drink a beer to celebrate wining a shoot out with the enime !! This is a example of idiocracy dumb leadership ! Thanx
Greensleep:
Enough! Save your posturing for sites with unreal comic book expectations on how to right the world. This site is for real banter on real ideas, not political gamesmanship and elementary school posturing.
In the end your argument is about the rights of 18 years to drink alcohol. Why 18, why not 21, 22, heck why not 12? If I make my 12 year old operate a dangeraous life threating machinery, all with the impeding the acceration of chlorophyl laiden cellulose material (grass) then why not allow him a few slammers over the weekend? Heck, we make 3 yr olds attend socially structured educational asylums (pre-school) all in the name of society's unrealistic expectations of advancement in education and then deny them the right to buy smokes or tokee a jade. What the hell is this world coming to?
Rich, I don't agree with your chastisement of greensleep. I personally believe that it's really hypocritical for use to allow ourselves to drink, then supposedly ban it for our young adults.
I believe the illegality makes liars and cheaters out of our kids, as of course they are still drinking. And now they'll cheat more easily on other things. We need to spend more effort teaching them to drink 'responsibly' (don't I sound like Anheiser Busch?) and I think that this would be better accomplished if parents were allowed to introduce them to alcohol at home, at an age of the parent's deciding. Otherwise, they go to a party, try to get as many-in as they can before their curfew and end up crashing on the way home.
Also I realize that some people have a personality that will take them to excesses, such as alcoholism. Mostly this behaviour is predictable and largely genetic. These parents can take extra care in this, with a different set of steps.
I'm not commenting on 'cellulose' because it's illegal and will continue to be. Still, if you use it then forbid your kids, you're a hypocrit. I was allowed to drink at 18, but my German family started me long before that.
I just don't understand this continued connection to chronological age.
Now, as for Rich's idea, sure, you can sell seals. The kids will find them. The kids will buy them. My dad used to mark the bottles with a crayon. We knew were to find crayons...but I never drank from the liquor cabinet. Teens lean toward beers and lighter drinks anyway.
If you teach your kids right, you'll be able to trust them, not be a cop.
A quart of gin has 32 ounces. If you drink one ounce drinks, you would need about 30 seals to seal it after each drink. That would cost $5.70. Seems like more than I would want to spend. It would be cheaper in the long run to buy a lockable box to store your liquor in.
Enough! Save your posturing for sites with unreal comic book expectations on how to right the world. This site is for real banter on real ideas, not political gamesmanship and elementary school posturing.
RE;rich our kids in the army can kill but cant drink!pure observation nothing more!(eleatist?or ego?&i reply to neg comment's)