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[–] chiliedogg 8 points 1 hour ago

I teach an underwater photography class at a university. One night a few years ago, we were going to do a night dive and a thunderstorm rolled in. Scuba diving and lightning don't mix, so we had to cancel the dive.

Students were all 21 or 22, and decided they wanted to go to a local pub for dinner, and asked me to join. I decided to go, and when we got to the pub the door guy was taking his job really seriously. He was examining their IDs super close, bending them and shining a flashlight through them, etc. It was taking a while because he was doing this for each of my students.

When I got to him and started handing over my ID, he just looked at me and said, "You're good, man."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

I look forward to the time when my age and the last two digits of my birth year match. It's impossible to predict or calculate, and not even world best supercomputers can comprehend it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

I got asked for my ID on a christmas market recently. Made me feel cute for the moment

[–] gmtom 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Memes from 2018

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

yeah which 26 year old still has to show their id lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I'm approaching 40 and I get carded fairly often compared to my friends.

[–] TheGrandNagus 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

If you were born in 19XX and are somehow still getting ID'd then you're one of the lucky ones.

[–] Noodle07 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm from Europe and somehow I got carded like 3 or 4 times in my life and I was 18+ at the time even though I bought stuff like alcohol before that. It feels so weird to me but now that I'm older I'm shocked of all the things I got away with

[–] TheGrandNagus 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

True, it feels like places are a lot more strict about it now than they used to be.

When I was younger, despite it technically not being legal, it was normal to let teenagers drink in pubs, because it was seen as better to have them there where adults could keep an eye on them than out on the street at night. That just isn't a thing in pubs anymore in my experience.

(My experience is based on the UK and Ireland, I'm not sure about elsewhere)

[–] Demdaru 1 points 12 minutes ago

Yeah, it is more strict. Parents are bombarded with pedophilia news 24/7, same as kidnappings, bullying, deaths...

Meanwhile buisnesses are under constant threat of checks from authority and a lot of legal threat in case shit goes down the drain.

We made world safer, but also...dry and constricting. And then people wonder what's up with generations becoming less social.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Many places in the US make it mandatory, of course even then you have places that give a shit and some that don't. Where I lived twenty years ago the cops were getting 20 year old girls made up and wigged to look like old ladies, send them in to try to buy a bottle, and if the employee didn't check ID they were guilty of a crime, with the employee and the business fined thousands of bucks.

I don't know if cops still pull that shit or they'd rather use their time to physically abuse people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Someone somehow mistuck me for a 19 year old. I'm 29 and feel 10.000

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago

2019 borns are 60 now, feel old yet?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago

It will stop entirely at one point

[–] over_clox 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 children)

I wish it was that fast for me. I literally grew a 4 inch long half gray beard for my ID, born in the early 1980s, and yet they still gotta scan the barcode on the back of my ID.

Like hell, ain't I already ugly enough to obviously be old enough to [redacted]?

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I used to think this was normal. Few years ago I moved to England and have not once been carded. I don't even have local ID outside of my UK passport. People even remark how young I look for my age and still nothing.

[–] over_clox 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Oh, cool cool 👍

It's not usually a problem for me, at least in my hometown area, unless they recently hired new employees that don't yet know me. Totally understandable.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

barcode

the fuck?

[–] over_clox 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Um, yes, it's been a thing in the USA for like 20+ years. The back side of our ID cards has a barcode.

I keep all my old ID cards, and just double checked, my ID from 2004 already had a barcode on it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Does it not have rfid?

[–] PieMePlenty 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I wouldnt be surprised if american id's were just a laminated piece of paper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

not surprised at all but was kinda expecting some place I'd never heard of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

We have them in Sweden as well, on our driver's licenser (which double as ID cards). Or rather, it's actually QR codes, but practically it works the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Cannot recall how long they've been there but EU passports have barcodes too. A 2D matrix on the back.

[–] halcyoncmdr 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes, it's just for the (digital) paperwork. Especially if it's a larger company, easier to link an ID scan to a sale for legal protection of their sales license.

[–] over_clox 5 points 7 hours ago

Pretty much yeah. It's usually to protect the new cashiers that just don't particularly know you yet.

And I totally respect that, I don't want them getting in trouble or losing their job for not following official procedures.