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So, in Ireland, you need to go to a so called Off License to purchase alcohol or ciggies (the latter you can purchase at a newsagent as well). Went to my local grocery shop which had its own Off License to buy some tobacco. New guy working there, apparently from Poland. He asked me for my ID. I gave him my ID from another EU country which is basically the size of a credit card. He would absolutely not believe me that this was my official ID - even though as far as I know, the Polish IDs are the same format. He insisted I’d have to provide him with a drivers license (which I never had in the first place) or to show him my passport (which I didn’t own either since you don’t need one travelling from one EU country to another). This went back and forth for about ten minutes until I asked to speak to the manager for the first time ever in my life. Manager popped by and I explained what was going on. The manager checked my ID card and told the new guy: ‘Of course that’s an official ID, you gobshite…’. It made me chuckle and off I went with my tobacco.
Are you one of those 40 year olds that look like they are 15 or something?
Close, 38. :D
Stop trying to pretend you’re younger, spez
I am totally not Spez.
Sure buddy *winks*
my favorite incident like this happened in utah. with mineral water.
Error 404; does not compute. Care to share that bonkers story with us?
i was buying perrier and the cashier at a walmart in utah must’ve thought it was liquor. probably had never sold alcohol because, y’know, the register tells you to check id. kept demanding to see my identification. I was amused. told her no. went back and forth a bit (including me telling her I wasn’t buying anything that needed my ID) until we got her manager, who told her i was buying water and to stop being an idiot.
Jaysus Christ and all his carpenter friends… Would’ve loved to see the look on her face after the manager got involved. :D
kind of angry at me for embarrassing her at work even though she embarrassed herself but needed someplace other than herself to place the blame?
For those curious, the “off” means “off premises” (or something like that, they may use a different wording), so a license for a store that can sell alcohol that must be taken elsewhere to be consumed, i.e. a liquor store or package store. The inverse is an “On-License”, a license to sell alcohol that may be consumed on premises, so things like bars, pubs, and restaurants.
In Australia🦘 we call this a takeysip.
No we don’t, literally never heard of that.
I’m gonna believe the other guy because it’s funnier that way.
Can’t argue with that
Yeah the IDs should be the same across the EU except for the background motive
Edit: nvm they’re all over the place
The Cypriot looks like a police sketch.
Theme song for Kenan and Kel. Theme song for All That. Theme song for Cow and Chicken.
They used the same song for the 2017 reboot, so that wouldn’t work. (Same lyrics, new recording.)
Can confirm. My kid’s watched the series over summer break and it’s been stuck in my head.
🎶🎵Duck Tales WOO HOO 🎶🎵
Ok what about Darkwing Duck or TaleSpin?
They’d work. They both got referenced in the DuckTales reboot (along with Gummi Bears and Rescue Rangers), but they never got their own modern shows.
There was a rescue Rangers movie like 3 years ago
Counterpoint: No one remembers that.
🎵Life is like a hurricane🎶
here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes
It’s a… duck blur?
Might solve a mystery,
Or rewrite history!
WOO HOOO
I can only do it in Finnish D:
I can do the whole Fresh Prince intro, though! Back in school in the early ‘00s my geo teacher jokingly said “extra credit to anyone who can recite the Fresh Prince intro in front of class” and I stood up and recited it. Got points on my next assignment for it. Thanks, early /b/.
Did you do the extra verse with the flight, or was it the usual version where he takes a cab from Philadelphia to Bel Air?
Just the TV version!
“If youre a cop you’re a genius because no millennial bartender can resist that”
Me at 21 with a beard: No questions
Me at 34 with no beard: No questions . Damn, ouch.
I’d also accept “The Nations of the World” by Yakko Warner.
Points at UK
“England”
Singing that one from memory is quite a feat
Especially with all the countries that no longer exist!
That’s how you know they’re old.
Duck tales has had a reboot that has the same theme tune. It’s no longer a useful form of age verification.
Fine. Tale Spin it is or would you like the Super Mario Bros Super Show theme?
Dark Wing Duck!
Let’s get dangerous…
I tend to point at the grey in my beard, but they still ask.
Former Retail Worker Here: I got cussed out by a lot of senior citizens who thought I was fucking with them when I asked to see ID. I absolutely wasn’t, the machine would not let me process a sale of alcohol unless I scanned in the ID. I didn’t have a choice.
Moving to the UK I have not been carded once. I look young for nearly 40, if I say so myself. It’s much more civilised.
You do realize I’m legally not a woman in UK right?
My trans mom is visiting right now. We’re livid about it. This was a conversation about getting carded for beer - if I’m not going to just go insane in this nightmare world you’ll have to allow for a little compartmentalisation.
This doesn’t work if you have ADHD:
Life is like a hurricane,
Here in, Duck-berg!
something something rhymes with cane,
It’s a, duck-blur!
Let’s solve a mystery,
or rewrite history!
Ducktales! Ooh ooAnd that’s all I’ve got.
Oh it’s worse not only do I have ADHD, back when I was an edgy teenager a friend of mine made up a racist version that’s insanely inappropiate and overly violent.
Now we weren’t racist or anything, it was the early 2000’s we were bored, we thought shock humor was funny, and we didn’t think anyone would think we were racist. Trump hadn’t normalized Nazism, so people just thought you were being ironic at best or they just didn’t give a shit at worst.
But I think of his racist version when I think of Ducktales.
No I’m not going to recite the lyrics for you, are you insane? It’s so bad I wouldn’t post it if this were 4chan.
Racists ruined racist jokes, just like they did with national flags.
When I was a kid, no one gave a shit if you had a Confederate Flag because people associated it with barbeques more than the Civil War. If people saw it on your law, they just assumed you liked Dukes of Hazzard.
Now it’s basically the lowercase version of the Nazi flag, because the Republicans wanted to use it as a dog whistle.
So thank you GOP for taking a once-harmless symbol of the South and turning it into everything New York accused it of being.
I knew it was all over when they waved the Confederate Flag on the lawn of the White House to protest Obama, no joke, the Tea Party did that shit. How could anyone interpret that as anything outside of “President is bad because he’s black”?
That’s what pisses me off the most really about Obama and Trump being called “Dividers”, it’s not hte same thing at all. The Right hated Obama because they’re racist, the Left hates Trump because HE’S racist.
Even the stuff for alcohol can be excessive. I went to Chicago a while ago and they asked a man with greying hair for ID when he wanted to buy… like… dude, he was clearly over 21.
I think they literally have to swipe the ID every x number of purchases or something. Probably varies state by state though.
