Drinking
Was it just me, or was it odd that everyone was okay in the town with the underage drinking? The cops just checked to see that no one would drink and drive and the mini-mart guy just gave beer to Mox.
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I drank in high school , and I am 36 now and could care less for alcohol .
shareI thought it was weird too that high schoolers were allowed to drink beer and be in a strip club. But I guess they were trying to emphasize how much this hick town worshipped their high school football team. It was pathetic watching these people and thinking that in some small towns in America it's probably exactly like this.
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I'm from a small town in Georgia and no one in town really cared that we drank as minors. Cops even showed up to some of the field parties just to check things out. The only people I know that really got in any trouble for drinking underage was because they did something really stupid: set something on fire, destroy property, DUI.
shareeh nothing wrong with this im from ireland we drink all the time.i had my first drink at 2 years of age. in work we are allowed 5 beers a day.in school we could take a class on beer drinking.it was my favorite class
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It's Texas, man. FOOTBALL COUNTRY!
shareI was thinking the same thing when I saw this movie. How did a group of high schoolers get into a strip club and get drinks being minors? And their teacher wasn't even embarrassed to see her students there. Then the two cops showing up at the party acting like the students were old enough to drink. And Tweeder stole the police car yet was at practice the next day? Shouldn't he be in jail?
Pants on the ground, pants on the ground, looking like a fool with your pants on the ground!
Its how it is in Texas with football...People that don't know anything about Texas/Football or even better TEXAS FOOTBALL don't realize that towns drown themselves in the local area high school football team. Thats all the town cares about when its the fall...Stadiums down there draw like 30,000 for a high school game...
shareIt's just like that in some small towns. Football is king. I grew up in a town like that and I got busted several times for underage drinking... yet not a SINGLE football player ever did... yet alot of them partied a more then I did, and the cops showed up more then at the parties I was at.
shareThe only thing I'm curious about is how they got in the strip club. When I was a teenager underage drinking wasn't addressed much unless somebody did something stupid. Once I was a party as a teenager I was at a party a band was playing and cops were called. Probably 100+ people mostly teenagers there and all the cops were there for was to stop the band because the neighbors complained about the noise. Nothing said about underage drinking.
share18 year olds can get into strip clubs provided they are the full nude ones as they don't serve alcohol. The topless ones that serve alcohol are for 21 and over only.
Utah! Get me two.
That depends on the state, different ones have different laws. I can't speak for Texas, but in GA full nude is allowed and the clubs can serve booze so you have to be 21 to get in. But that doesn't stop everybody from getting in.
Not a strip club but I knew girls who were 16/17 who got into regular night clubs, drank and even entered hot body & wet T-shirt contests that usually involved nudity. It was usually because they knew the owner of the club, or the bouncer, or the party promoter and that person bent the rules for them. That kind of thing happens all of the time if you know the right people. The boys probably knew the bouncer or someone who worked at the club and he let them in. Since the bouncer has to check ID the bartender figures that anyone who got in has already had their ID checked.
The idea that Ms. Davis could be a stripper in the same small town where she teaches HS and it wouldn't be well known is probably the biggest goof in the movie though. Some of the older boys who had already graduated would see her in the club and it would get back to their younger friends or their little brothers who were still in school and word would spread like wildfire.
So you're saying I can go to texas, break the law (like killing someone) and won't go to jail because I play football?
shareSo you're saying I can go to texas, break the law (like killing someone) and won't go to jail because I play football?
No, I think we are saying that you couldn't possibly survive in Texas, and you probably never played football.
..."like killing someone"????? clearly the MD and PhD were found in a box of cracker jacks.
No, my MD and PhD are real. I got them from the internet. Like where I got my nobel prize.
share Like where I got my nobel prize.
congratulations you meet the majority of the criteria, now all you need is to waste tax payer provided salary as a senator who does absolutely nothing and you can be president
I actually did that, but there was a recount and I lost. Such a shame. I could have done so much with this country.
shareThat was pretty much the attitude of the cops when I was in high school. They would come out to our party spots and make us take the keys out of the ignitions of our cars while we drank inside! Of course that was 40 years ago, before they got all militarized.
shareI went to strip clubs all the time in high school as an underage high school football player and was served alcohol. Back in the 80's no one cared unless you did something stupid
shareSorry to rez the dead thread, but I was thinking this too. I'm guessing the cops and strip club let things slide especially for the star players on the team who are all seniors by then.
Doubtful they're 21, even with parents in Texas holding them back from starting school so they'll be bigger in high school, but 18 is not a stretch.
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