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    Legal Age

    Starting my first new thread on the new forum - hope I do it right!

    After picking up my 18 year old son after his boozy night out (at 3.30am! - he doesn't know how lucky he is!) I started wondering about legal ages for doing things in the UK and US, here's a few for the UK, what are the US and other countries equivalents?

    16 Girls can have sex
    16 Get married (with parental consent)
    17 Can drive a car
    18 Can drink alcohol
    16 Can gamble - lottery, low jackpot fruit machines etc
    18 Can vote
    21 Can stand for parliament
    Chook

    #2
    in Sweden:
    at:
    15: Sex for everyone!
    16: Can start to drive with supervisor.
    18: Everything, except certain bars that want another age - usually 25 male 21 female or 20 male 18 female. SystemBolaget(the only place you can buy wine, boose and beer - not counting resturants and bars/clubs)
    20: SystemBolaget.

    So after 18 you can do anything, but drink for yourself, for that you have to go out and spend a million.

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      #3
      Originally posted by aAnubiSs
      in Sweden:
      20: SystemBolaget.
      What's SystemBolaget - a type of store?
      Chook

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        #4
        Originally posted by aAnubiSs
        (the only place you can buy wine, boose and beer - not counting resturants and bars/clubs)
        i think this sums it up.
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          #5
          Picking up? My god, I make sure I don't come home for as long as possible after "boozing" I went to a pary last Friday and got home at 4pm the next day

          Anyway, I think they're all the same as the UK here, except I don't know about smoking, it was 16 here until a few years back when they changed it to 18. And clubs and pubs can choose whatever lower age limit they like (And of course the bouncers can then just say "nah, that's fake" it you have ID )

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            #6
            Far different in the US.

            18 Can have sex legally (If you're underage no charges are filed as long as your partner is no more than 2 years younger/older than you)

            18 Get married (can get married younger than that with parental consent though. Actual age limit varies by state)

            16 Can drive a car (most places. Some states go 15 some go 17)

            21 Can buy alchohol. You can legally drink it home at 18)

            21 Can gamble - lottery, low jackpot fruit machines etc

            18 Can vote

            18 Can buy cigarettes and porn.
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              #7
              not true but close

              18 Can have sex legally (If you're underage no charges are filed as long as your partner is no more than 2 years younger/older than you)
              only if parents know and they are like 16 or something


              16 Can drive a car (most places. Some states go 15 some go 17)
              this is true. but in some farm states you can drive work machines with out an ID. So you could drive a 24 ton turbine down I-35 if you wanted to

              21 Can buy alchohol. You can legally drink it home at 18)
              still illegal to drink at home if you are 18- but who is going to know
              "I've been called ugly, pug-ugly, fugly, pug-fugly, but never ugly-ugly." --- Moe Szyslak

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                #8
                Originally posted by Chookgate
                16 Girls can have
                er... I think you'll find boys are allowed to have sex at that age too... but then, I could be wrong.

                also for the UK
                18 - legal age of consent for male homosexual sex, I think

                and may I say how lovely you are for picking up your son!
                In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Teal'c
                  Picking up? My god, I make sure I don't come home for as long as possible after "boozing" I went to a pary last Friday and got home at 4pm the next day

                  Yeah, he's done that before - I think that was his original intention, but his mate's mum threw him out!
                  Chook

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Major Clanger
                    er... I think you'll find boys are allowed to have sex at that age too... but then, I could be wrong.
                    They can indeed have sex at 16 (and 15, 14, 13 - don't think there's a minimum age for boys)


                    Originally posted by Major Clanger
                    18 - legal age of consent for male homosexual sex, I think
                    I thought it was 21?
                    Originally posted by Major Clanger
                    and may I say how lovely you are for picking up your son!
                    Thank you, I am aren't I
                    Chook

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Chookgate
                      I thought it was 21?
                      Didn't they change the law recently?
                      In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Major Clanger
                        Didn't they change the law recently?
                        It used to be 18 for homosexual sex then they brought it down to 16 so it was in line with heterosexual sex laws.
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                          #13
                          Originally posted by Major Clanger
                          Didn't they change the law recently?
                          yeah, i think it was changed around 2000 or something.
                          Suffer, for it is your reward.

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                            #14
                            legal ages...
                            driving in nys is now going up to 18 unless you take your road test before sept. 2004 then it'll be 16...i should take the test soon...i've had that permit for a year and it's been a year since driver's ed...woops... that means i should learn to parallel park again darn it...*curb curb curb*
                            drinking age is still at 21...
                            is there really a legal sex age? hmm how about abstinence until marrige...>.< right...
                            voting at 18...oh man that's next year for me...i want to vote in november *shakes fist*
                            isn't marriage 18? eesh...
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                              #15
                              Originally posted by angsty_otaku
                              legal ages...
                              driving in nys is now going up to 18 unless you take your road test before sept. 2004 then it'll be 16....
                              you can still drive at 16 in nys - there are just more restrictions than before

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