Young lads don’t actually like lager. Peer pressure is the driver.
Regular readers of my blog or Tweets will know that I hate to see litter and regularly litterpick in my own locality of Stourbridge. Over some years I’ve noticed something that I’ve only recently realised the significance of.
An exchange with the Stourbridge Twitterati discussed the fact that young men, in their mid teens and below pub age, drink because they are expected to and not because they wanted to. I wanted to record what I’ve noticed through my litterpicking exploits.
Over the years I’ve been surprised at the number of ‘empty’ beer and lager cans which are still at least half full! The same applies to bottles. Why would that be? It can only be one reason, and that’s because they don’t actually like it, but like to brag that they’ve downed 6 cans when if the truth be known they’ve barely had 2.
I can only speak of my own findings, but would welcome any further evidence which would corroborate.
So are they actually drunk when they dance on cars and walk through town shouting and screaming, or are they just pretending to be that too?
