good show Matt, way to celebrate the holiday
Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?
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#92Amazed by the turnout. What an awesome thanksgiving! http://instagr.am/p/SWvz6dOENk/
That is fantastic. I hope you guys had a blast. :)
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always thought that you can see fake IDs only on TV.. Do kids in USA really have "fake ids"? I mean cmon ..this is hilarious
Yes, absolutely, and not only in the US. In Germany the legal drinking age is 16, but you need to be 18 to get into most clubs. When you're 16, you get an ID card in Germany. It's relatively easy to change the birth date on those using small, thin stickers that exactly match the font and background on the card.
Wow, is that common where you are? It's been five years since I was a teenager in Germany, but while tons of my American friends had fake ideas, I never even heard of faking your birth date that way. Now, using someone else's ID card was very common.
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#94Very nice of you! on a related note, I'm curious. SwigMe.com seems very interesting, but I would think there are a lot of legal loopholes you need to jump through, no? What happens when teenagers try to order and present a good fake ID at the door?
I always thought that you can see fake IDs only on TV.. Do kids in USA really have "fake ids"? I mean cmon ..this is hilarious
Believe it or not: yes. Here in the UK I remember most of the people in my school using the laminator to make loads of them.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Admittedly my experience is a good more than a 13 years ago, but I've never known anyone in London who used a fake id to drink. While the age at which one can buy alcohol is 18 (there's no prohibitions against drinking it, just buying it) it's so loosely enforced that it's generally just a matter of going to an off licence down the road if the first one asks for ID, so there's almost no point at all in getting a fake…
I think things have changed a lot in the last decade or so in the UK in this respect. When I was at high-school we all went drinking in pubs from age 16 (with an 18 lower age limit); I genuinely doubt that's possible now given bar staff are supposed to challenge you if you look under 21.
That's true. I didn't EVER get away with it and I tried so much.
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#96This was an awesome event! Just wanted to give a shutout to Matt for hosting all of us. It was great to meet tons of people from around the world who were all in the same position. It really made my day to know this community supports each other so much.
Re: Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?
#97Very nice of you! on a related note, I'm curious. SwigMe.com seems very interesting, but I would think there are a lot of legal loopholes you need to jump through, no? What happens when teenagers try to order and present a good fake ID at the door?
I always thought that you can see fake IDs only on TV.. Do kids in USA really have "fake ids"? I mean cmon ..this is hilarious
Yes... sometimes it's fake but often you just get a hand-me down ID from an older friend/relative who may look like you
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#98This is amazing. Kudos to you kind sir.