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Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?

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Re: Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?

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Post by streety »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #70
elemeno wrote: post #66

Earlier 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.

Apparently there were too many under-18s who looked over-21, many bars now advertise a policy of checks for anyone who looks under-25.

Re: Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?

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Post by jhuckestein »

Goranek wrote: post #31
sixQuarks wrote: post #25

Very 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, 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.

Re: Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?

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Post by shanelja »

nulluk wrote: post #51
shanelja wrote: post #50

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Blackpool is 45 minutes away on the bus - thanks for this, I was really dreading sitting alone at christmas!

Give us a follow on twitter @nullUk There is a preston Geekup to but i'm not involved with it as much as the blackpool one as I work with a few of the people who help organise & run it even though we all work in Chorley.

Thats a humongous coincidence, I work at the end of Cowling road just by the Spinners!

The world is such a small place.

Re: Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?

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Post by mladenkovacevic »

Happy thanksgiving to you Yanks from the south. What I find cool is that you say you started your entrepreneurial jaunt at 29. I'm 30 and just taking step 0.23 in my self-employment scheme but I often feel like I'm maybe too old to be trying out for this particular team. It's encouraging that it seems it's never too late to just try building something. So thanks for that :)
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