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Well it’s pretty easy for most to say that the Toronto Star isn’t the greatest newspaper around. But today they had a really great article on this new phenomenon the kids today are calling “Pre-Drinking”.

Wait a minute!

How is the star so out of touch? Pre-drinking has been around since the dawn of bars hasn’t it? Here’s a few choice excerpts from Susan Pigg’s article:

Young people are engaging in a “new culture of intoxication” that even has its own buzzwords – “pre-drinking” or “pre-gaming.”

If you’re a confused parent looking for a simple definition, just click on YouTube, or on urbandictionary.com, where it’s described as the “act of drinking alcohol before you go out to the club to maximize your fun at the club while spending the least amount on extremely overpriced alcoholic beverages.”

What is YouTube going to get you from this? Videos of kids drinking?

It’s an “intense, ritualized and unsupervised” drinkfest, in many cases perfectly timed so that the booze hits the bloodstream within minutes of stepping inside the bar,

This is a quote from Samantha Wells some researcher with the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario who apparently never ACTUALLY went to college OR university because if she had she’d already know all about pre-drinking and have no need for a study.

Also what kind of kids are doing the predrinking? Is it only Bio-Chem. students? How do you “perfectly time” the “booze hitting the bloodstream”? That’s some complicated stuff. “Okay Johnny it’s been 32 minutes since you drank your beers you have to leave for the bar in 3… 2… 1… NOW! Okay Bill you’re up next. But you have to wait 2 minutes and 13 seconds before you can leave.”

But worst of all. WHERE ARE THE PARENTS?!?!?…… Of this of age club bound drinking crowd? Why would anyone imply that people pre-drinking need supervision?

Later on in the article Mrs.Pigg dashes it all on the rocks however with a quote from a bar manager. This quote sends the entire article AND Samantha’s study down to the depths or stupidity by making it all obsolete.

“I don’t think there’s a bar in the city where, on a Friday and Saturday night, people aren’t drinking at home before they go out,” said Jim McCardle, manager of The Madison Avenue Pub. “If it’s excessive drinking, it’s always caught at the door because you can smell it on people when they’re coming in. There’s the occasional one that might slip by, but I wouldn’t consider it a serious problem.”

There you have it. Someone who manages a bar said that pre drinking isn’t a problem.

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