Okay, so last Friday I turned 18, and while I bought myself a lottery ticket that day to celebrate, I feel like I haven't fully taken advantage of being a legal advlt yet. So my questions for you guys are: what else can I do legally now to celebrate the big 18, and what did you guys do to celebrate turning 18?

Smoke a pack of cigarettes. Join the military, sign up for the draft, vote in the next election (lol), go to an advlt bookstore, have six with someone.

Celebrate the easiest part of your life is over by getting a 9-5 and bills! Hooray!

Being tried as an advlt.

Your privileges are:

Full accountability for your actions

The ability to enter into any contract, no matter how stupid and unfavorable the contract may be, with just signing a piece of paper

Enlistment in the selected service (if you're a male)

The right to vote

serving on a jury (if you have a driver's license or register to vote)

Filing as independent on your taxes

My advice for those that are young..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKTN5NHfwlQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Smoke em if you got em.
If you want to you can enlist in the service too.
You can also now legally get it on with others your age and above.


But don't you dare drink anything alcoholic.

You can be enlisted as a minor too, you just need your parent's consent and over the age of 16 (or 17)

Take a walk for the entire day and enjoy life before you get bombarded with the cluster [censored] of responsibilities that come with being an advlt (not that I'd know first-hand, thankfully).

But don't smoke. That's bad for you.

Parents can't tell you what to do.

You can buy and drink alcohol (possibly)

I celebrated being able to get booze from the pub legally. Always thought it was odd that things such as marriage, army enlistment, smoking etc were allowed at least a couple of years earlier.

Doesn't make sense does it?

Especially when you still live under their roof and don't pay the bills, hmm?

I didn't do anything in particular to celebrate turning 18, it was birthday like any other. Well, we invited some family and we don't normally do it, but that's it. I spent the evening with my friends and they gave me their crazy gifts: the sort you can expect when you turn 18 and a few incredibly weird things. We sat on the beach until sunset.

I never understood why everyone makes such a big deal of being able to legally buy alcohol.

Because it makes life that much more tolerable.

We didn't have a problem with acquiring alcohol before turning 18, so it changed absolutely nothing. People just felt better when they could openly walk into the store and buy it - did they love getting carded!

Being able to get a driver's licence is much more useful, but most of you can do it earlier.

Oh! no more [censored] highschool!

This. Welcome to the club. Haha.

The things some people say here are [censored] O.o....

porm

I feel bad for you if you had to wait until you're an advlt to look at porm.

Maybe I should've been clearer

Take part in pormography

LOL!

I remember encountering some potcheen a while ago: that stuff could really put a person off alcohol. (I know you're Polish and it's Irish, but my age-addled brain managed to make some sort of tenuous potato-related connection anyway!)

Ah, I see. I like your style

Being 18 means that you have to take responsibility for all the consequences of your actions. I never did any privileges stuff on my 18th, except for drinking and stuff, but I've already been doing that by then so it wasn't as sweet as one would think.