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

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Barmymoo:
That's an excellent review! When you first posted about the concert I looked at the website hoping it might be in London and entertaining unrealistic ideas about going to it (I wouldn't be able to afford it even if I had time). Does he play in the UK often?

Redball:
That's a great review! And I need to hear some of that music.

LTK:
Funny story about selling tobacco to minors: When I was around eight years old - I think, I can't remember my actual age - my dad would send me to the cigar store to buy him a pack of tobacco, the lazy bum, every once in a while. From the beginning, I saw the sticker on the counter that said "Whatever your excuse is, no tobacco or alcohol under 16!" The clerk gave it to me without batting an eyelash. That went on for a few years, until one day the clerk told me I was too young to buy them. I don't know if it was a different clerk, or that he suddenly decided I looked old enough to be smoking it myself, or that he experienced a sudden moral epiphany, but my dad couldn't ask me to buy tobacco again.

I still have never smoked, by the way.

Patrick:
The dude who wants to get his ass beat said that instead of a fair fight, he's just going to jump me the next time he sees me.

Fucking coward is gonna get it.

Akima:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 24 Jan 2013, 00:05 ---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.
--- End quote ---
I don't know if it is the law, or just a booze-industry standard, but bottle-shops here have signs up saying in effect "ID required if you look under 25; take it as a compliment". I'm not sure why people get bent out of shape about this. If you don't have a driver's licence, you buy a Photo Card*, and keep it in your wallet alongside the money or credit-card you use to pay for the grog.

I am usually carded if I'm casually dressed. It's no big deal.

* Issued by the driver licensing authority and essentially an "undriver's licence". Yes, it costs A$48 for five years, but if you can't afford that, maybe you should think twice before buying non-essential items like alcohol and cigarettes? The card is free if you are on unemployment, disability, aged pension etc. anyway.

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