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ellisk
Joined: 23 Jan 2004
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| I'll weigh in-I'm 37 in a month. I think it is interesting to see that everyone here is mostly my age. I don't know if I would have guessed that. |
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DreadLadyFreya
Joined: 30 Mar 2004
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Location: A fantasy world, with beach front property
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| DarkElfChilde wrote: | | Oh no! I'm surrounded by old people! |
Just remember, dearie, old age and guile will beat youth and enthusiasm every time! 
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DarkElfChilde
Joined: 23 Aug 2004
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Location: I'm located somewhere
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-shakes fist at dread-
I know, but I'm getting old too...so I shouldn't talk.
BTW, I like your avie...it reminds me of myself...I want it. HA. 
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Leilana
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
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Whoever said men are better looking as they age has my vote. I may only be 21, but I tend to like men from 10-15 years older. Most people (especially my age) find that really weird, but for the most part I find more mature looking guys a lot more attractive. There are exceptions, obviously, but that's what its like for the most part... the only problem is that they won't go near me because I look even younger than I am! *sigh* C'est la vie!  |
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Leilana
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
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OK, so I've been away for the past two weeks. I moved back home (from a summer in Scotland), then my grama died, then my sister moved to Korea, then the funeral and Sunday I move across the country to go back to uni... so between packing, un packing, helping my sister pack and then repacking my own stuff, not to mention family arriving from all over the world, I have neglected my OSA family. I have missed you all so much and have realized that without you my life can get too serious too fast! Sadly, I won't have the Internet right away when I go to uni on Sunday, so I'm not sure when I can get back to regular posts!
Anyhoo... HEY EVERYONE, I MISSED YOU!
Sorry its so 
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SilverMoonLady
Joined: 14 Jul 2003
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Location: Breaking in a Brandybuck... *wicked grin*
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Leilana, wishing you the best!
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Eyborg
Joined: 08 May 2004
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Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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| KhazarKhum wrote: | | Oh, and I still get carded when I buy beer. |
And you're over 40??? 
I'm beginning to think that either Americans are terribly strict when it comes to alcohol, or that Icelanders are terribly lenient. (Or both). I mean, if Americans still card people at 40...? Isn't the age limit 21 over there? In Iceland it's 20. I actually didn't start visiting liquor stores until in my late 20's or so (I hardly ever drank alcohol as a teenager), but I don't think I've ever been carded.
But after reading your post KK (and hearing some other Americans' testimonies regarding this), I decided to do a little experiment earlier this week. I went to the liquor store to buy a bottle of Baileys (I was planning to anyway), and I paid with cash (not a card). The cash lady just took the money and smiled at me. Since this was no rush hour, I asked her: "Do you not ask people for ID sometimes?" She said: "Oh, yes, we do that all the time!" And I said: "But you didn't ask me!" and grinned. She said: "Nah... you're obviously over 20!" I answered: "Yeah, I'm 35!" and then I told her what I had heard, that over there in the US people still get carded in their 30's and 40's. And she was like, "What???"
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Elennare
Joined: 25 Aug 2004
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Location: Edinburgh, UK
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It's really funny how these things go. I never got asked for ID when I was underage (and I went drinking quite a bit as a student before I hit eighteen), but from 19-23 I got ID'd at least half of the time. It's really funny, though, to watch someone's reaction when they look at your driving licence and then get embarrassed because you're about 5 years older than they thought.  |
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SilverMoonLady
Joined: 14 Jul 2003
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Location: Breaking in a Brandybuck... *wicked grin*
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Rule was, where I grew up (the south of France) that if you could see over the bar, you could order:) I think the official limit is 18... But then, it's a very small village where everybody knows whose kid you are and where you live...
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SpaceWeavil
Joined: 27 May 2004
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Location: Looking at shiny things
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I think the limit in the UK is 18, but I honestly don't know. I've never been a drinker, having found out when I was younger that I'm allergic to most alcoholic stuff. I do still get asked for proof of age here for weird things though - always get it in Sainsbury's when I buy paracetamol or aspirin. I got asked for proof of age once when I put on a lottery ticket, and I think the limit for that is 15, so since I was 24 at the time...
Used to be when I was in London, I always paid child fare on buses with a conductor for some reason, but never on the ones where you paid the driver. It's quite unusual for me to get that though nowadays. Most people tend to think I'm older.
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KhazarKhum
Joined: 02 Sep 2003
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Location: Quartz Hill, CA--USA
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They carded me because I have violet hair, was in a renfair costume, and had a big pile of beer.
Of course, I've been carded in other stores, when I was just getting a bottle of wine, so maybe it wasn't the costume.  |
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NancyBrooke
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Joined: 11 May 2003
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It tends to be stricter in US Bars than in US Liquor stores, in my experience. Bars can be fined if 'raided' and drinkers cannot prove they are of age (21 everywhere now, I think), so, sometimes the point is just to have your ID. I have been turned away from bars for not having ID, but rarely get carded at liquor stores even as a matter of formality.
I grew up in a 21+ state and went to school in a state where the drinking age was 18 at the time (God bless the Commonwealth of Massaschusetts). Learned a lot more than just the text book lessons that year.
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Eyborg
Joined: 08 May 2004
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Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | It tends to be stricter in US Bars than in US Liquor stores, in my experience. Bars can be fined if 'raided' and drinkers cannot prove they are of age (21 everywhere now, I think), so, sometimes the point is just to have your ID. I have been turned away from bars for not having ID, but rarely get carded at liquor stores even as a matter of formality. |
Have you been turned away from bars recently? Weird... I mean, I understand perfectly that bars have strict rules over there, but... they should be able to tell the difference between a 20 year old and a 40 year old...?  That is what puzzles me... not the strict rules per se.
Here in Iceland, it's the bar doorkeepers' job to see that no one underage gets in. And I tell you, they're not always doing their job properly... especially if there are young good looking girls with big breasts that are wanting to get in, they get in! Or so I've heard... I myself have never been asked for ID at bars... not even when I was 17! |
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Viv
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Joined: 24 Apr 2003
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Location: Texas
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Sometimes bartenders card mature ladies because it is flattering. Amazing what vile stuff you can learn from bartenders on their off days.
I, of course, told the guy that it is hardly flattering to be mistaken for a 12-year-old. I wouldn't go back to junior high for nothin. |
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ZeeDrippyVessel
Joined: 11 May 2003
Posts: 144
Location: deep south
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I am on the faculty page of Jesus' yeabook...
okay - a SLIGHT exaggeration....
I'll be 43 in December...
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