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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging

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Zingoleb:
If I'm presenting male I'm usually carded. If I'm presenting female I'm never carded. I'm not sure why.

Bluesummers:
Show a little leg to the bouncer at the club they'll let you cruise right in?

Or am I stuck in 50's terminology again? :psyduck:

Barmymoo:
I always IDed anyone who looked under 35, even if I knew they were over 18 - even if they were my best friend and I had been at their 18th birthday party. If someone in the queue behind them thought they didn't look old enough and complained to trading standards I'd have been in a lot of trouble. Also my town was full of schoolkids trying to buy cheap cider. In fact one girl was discovered to be using her older sister's ID and there was a big fuss.

bainidhe_dub:
I still get ID'd and I just turned 27, but our liquor stores are run by the county so they are clean and bright and organized but also strict about IDs, so it's fine with me.

The older brother of a guy I went to high school with got a fake ID and tried to use it at the beer store. The owner recognized him - his sons were in my class and the guy's class - so the kid freaked out and ran away, leaving the ID behind. Which had his real name and home address on it.  :psyduck:

Welu:
We get the secret shoppers sent in to buy cigarettes and scratchcards as well but no reward. Just a, "Keep it up." Although they send in young looking of-age people since it would be illegal for underage ones to have those things.

If I know a person is of age I don't care if they look young. I'll sell to them. I've sold to friends the week after they turned 18 and if someone says, "They look young." I just say I know how old they are. It might come across as discriminatory but it's all legal. I don't think it would be fair to get in trouble for doing as I'm told to do.
The issue is I actually do what we're meant to do, all we're told is if we're not sure, then ask. There's no official rule like, "If they look under 25." I take a personal rule of 21 but I'm a crap judge of age so I ID comparatively a lot. Even though it's maybe once a month at most.
I hate that people get so offended, regardless of being of age or not. Just be calm and say, "I don't have ID." I will apologise, say there's nothing I can do and then either get your ID or just go away. It also really annoys me that I've actually been called over to ID someone just because the other person didn't want to deal with the backlash.

I wish we just ID'd everyone, including friends and regulars, although as a person who doesn't shit bricks when carded because I almost always have some form of ID on me and if I don't I just accept them's the rules, I guess that's easy for me to say. That said, I almost never get asked for ID because of the tits.

Another mini-angry thing: The pubs are all filled with fifteen year old girls with padded bras. Get some bouncers that don't let people in based on cupsize despite the cup-holders being tiny and baby-faced.

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