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by klr » Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:24 pm
Coito ergo sum wrote:I had a difficult time convincing "over 21" establishments that I was over 21 until I was about 25. It was so bad when I was 21 years old that I actually went out and got a second form of photo ID so that I would have additional proof beyond a drivers license that I really was over 21. I used to smoke and I would get checked for photo ID to by smokes until I was well over 30, and the smoking age was 18.
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by Coito ergo sum » Mon Sep 09, 2013 3:35 pm
klr wrote:Coito ergo sum wrote:I had a difficult time convincing "over 21" establishments that I was over 21 until I was about 25. It was so bad when I was 21 years old that I actually went out and got a second form of photo ID so that I would have additional proof beyond a drivers license that I really was over 21. I used to smoke and I would get checked for photo ID to by smokes until I was well over 30, and the smoking age was 18.
Frequenting dens of iniquity? Drinking? Smoking? Those will drive you to an early grave.
Den of iniquity? Nawww.... more of a "home office" of iniquity.
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by mistermack » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:33 pm
This is hardly surprising stuff. All it means is that humans can guage the health of old people by their faces. Not accurately, but by a statistically significant amount.
But go to any wake, and you'll find people saying things like, '' doesn't he look well '' and, '' she looks years younger ''.
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by Coito ergo sum » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:37 pm
mistermack wrote:
But go to any wake, and you'll find people saying things like, '' doesn't he look well '' and, '' she looks years younger ''.
They're being polite.
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by klr » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:38 pm
Coito ergo sum wrote:mistermack wrote:
But go to any wake, and you'll find people saying things like, '' doesn't he look well '' and, '' she looks years younger ''.
They're being polite.
In a very peculiar Irish way.
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by trdsf » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:39 am
laklak wrote:I looked very young for my age, I was routinely carded for both alcohol and ciggies till my 30s. Then I hit 50 and it was like burning Dorian Gray's picture.
I got carded for smokes up until the year I quit, and that was when I was 42. I was getting beer in the local grocery a couple weeks ago, and the slef-checkout cashier was heading my way to get my ID until I took my hat off and revealed my gray 'forelock', so I think of that as an aborted carding. I think the last time I was officially carded outside of a "card everyone regardless" policy was when I was 45.
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by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:43 am
laklak wrote:I looked very young for my age, I was routinely carded for both alcohol and ciggies till my 30s. Then I hit 50 and it was like burning Dorian Gray's picture.
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by JimC » Thu Sep 12, 2013 2:45 am
trdsf wrote:laklak wrote:I looked very young for my age, I was routinely carded for both alcohol and ciggies till my 30s. Then I hit 50 and it was like burning Dorian Gray's picture.
I got carded for smokes up until the year I quit, and that was when I was 42. I was getting beer in the local grocery a couple weeks ago, and the slef-checkout cashier was heading my way to get my ID until I took my hat off and revealed my gray 'forelock', so I think of that as an aborted carding. I think the last time I was officially carded outside of a "card everyone regardless" policy was when I was 45.
They were bloody slack about underage drinking in Oz when I was a lad. Legal drinking age of 18, I was regularly going to the pub at 17, and I looked young, too...
They have toughened up since, I gather...
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