Underage Madlad
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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I’m from Canada and was in London England with a friend. We were underage at the time. Walk into a bar and order a beer. The bartender asked us for our IDs, so we gave them to him thinking the unfamiliar IDs would be confusing and he’d just give us a beer. Turns out he was from the same city as us in Canada. He just saw the IDs and I don’t think he even looked at the date, but was happy to see people from back home. We just sat and drank at the bar and chatted with him for a couple hours.
When I was a teen it was known that people only looked at the year you were born so if you were turning 18 this year you could just get a drink anywhere.
The kid is going places…
The dedication here is off the charts
In UK the consequences to bar staff is minimal as long as people look feasibly old enough.
Just don’t be a twat
I went to University for one year in the US when I was 20, coming from Germany going legally to Bars / Nightclubs drinking alcohol since 4 years. I looked like 18 max at the time and had some European passport with a visa.
I was scared of missing out and thought they will have an extra Look on that passport. But no Problem, went heavily partying and drinking 4-5 days a week for a whole year in california.
Was denied entry maybe 5 times? But there was like 50 Clubs and Bars back to back in the University City. So just went to another one.
We had one Club we went like 50 times, After coming in we got best Friends with the owner, barkeeper and Security guys. They loved us German guys, always skipped the queue, got free shots (but left loads of money as well). Those guys would have been amazed to find out i was underage the whole time.
I mean, you just need to subtract the legal age from the current year and that year is all you need to memorize. You can preemptively math this problem.
My ex-friend and I went to a brewery for his 21st birthday. It was 1140pm, they made us wait the 20 minutes.
That bartender was like, ‘Oh, you’re from Canada? Say no more!’ Guess the maple leaf works as a universal pass sometimes!
Couldn’t imagine seeing 2007 and thinking yeah that sounds right here you go
Lmao can’t get in trouble for using a fake ID if you aren’t using one
Back then it was like the honor system but for bad decisions simpler times.
Crazy coincidence that you saw him again like a mile away…
Must have been a pub crawl.
I did this pretty regularly for about 4 months, then i was literally walking into the bar that the bouncer had just let me into when i heard him shout back “HANG ON LAD”. Then he took my own licence off me and made me pick it up at a police station the next day.
I once saw a list with years and the corresponding age on a supermarket for cashiers who are to dumb to calculate.
Astaghfirullah
Quick math tip: if their ID begins with a “20”, they’re underage.
What? No, it can’t have been that long…
Math*
Also, didn’t happen.
In america, if you’re under 21 your license says “turning 21 at [this date] at the top and it was vertical until you turned 21, at least in my state of Texas. Now I’m realizing it’s because most people can’t be bothered to do math.
You are supposed to keep the I.D. and kick him out. Not let him get served by some other idiot.
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In a civilised country, 17 does not Bar you from drinking
Barristers are worse.
didnt happen