18 - ID Time

compo

I'm nearly turning 18 - I can go to groovy discoteques :P

Anyway, I need some ID, and I've heard only Passport and Driving Licence are accepted.

Well I can't drive so that only leaves me with my Passport, but I don't really want to be carrying it around the town with me when hammered.

Is it true what they say about just Driving Licence and Passport being accepted or are other forms of ID accepted too?

Cheers

Andy

Just send off for your Provisional licence and use that?

compo

Apparently they aren't accepted either

RevellRider

They are around where I live. A few of my mates only have that as their ID

Andy

Yeah they are in Birmingham as well.

Briggo

compo wrote:

Apparently they aren't accepted either

Yes they are.

chedabob

Whatever you do, don't waste your money on any of the ID cards with the PASS logo, especially Citizen Card. They look dodgy as hell, and it's at the bouncers discretion if they accept it.

I've never had an ounce of trouble with my provisional. Don't carry your passport. If you lose it, IPS will give you a right load of ballache over it. Personally, I think it's pretty irresponsible of clubs to expect a passport, owing to the fact that IPS explicitly tell you not to carry it on you unless you're going through customs.

The Northern Monkey

i bought my 1st "proof of age card" when I was 15... cost me a tenner and worked pretty well! only got denied beer once!

submityournentries

provisonal license is fine. its about 50/50 with my freinds of who has a pink and who has a green lisence, and whilst we have been refused entry to a club for many reasons (too drunk, pissing down alleyways, banned for throwing up in there previously etc) its never been because of a green licence

so in summary, provisional is fine

Anonymous

Man the fukc up. Nobody will actually ask you for ID if you don't look like a child.

RevellRider

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Man the fukc up. Nobody will actually ask you for ID if you don't look like a child.

And have a bit of balls and confidence. Walk up to the door like you're going to walk straight in, look at the bounce and give them a nice friendly 'Evening'. 9 times out of 10 that's going to work

The Northern Monkey

RevellRider wrote:

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Man the fukc up. Nobody will actually ask you for ID if you don't look like a child.

And have a bit of balls and confidence. Walk up to the door like you're going to walk straight in, look at the bounce and give them a nice friendly 'Evening'. 9 times out of 10 that's going to work

beards help too.

Anonymous

RevellRider wrote:

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Man the fukc up. Nobody will actually ask you for ID if you don't look like a child.

And have a bit of balls and confidence. Walk up to the door like you're going to walk straight in, look at the bounce and give them a nice friendly 'Evening'. 9 times out of 10 that's going to work

Definitely this. Swagger has got our 'orrible, trouble causing lot into some very exclusive hotels a few times.

whyamihere

The only times I've ever been checked since I was 16 has been when friends with no idea of how to act in pubs. Until I wandered off and left them because they were acting like 14 year olds.

Will Snow

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Man the fukc up. Nobody will actually ask you for ID if you don't look like a child.

spoken like a true old man!!

projectsome

I've only been asked for ID once! But I knew the other bouncer anyway. He told me it was because I didn't look old enough without face fuzz.

But yes, walking in with people that look a lot younger than you won't help.

Whatever you do though, don't go in drunk or with people that are drunk

In fact, pretend you're going in by yourself.

DCR00

find a fit girl to walk in with

Anonymous

DCR00 wrote:

find a fit girl to walk towards

DCR00

1. find a fit girl, then

2. stop worrying about ID

kenan

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Man the fukc up. Nobody will actually ask you for ID if you don't look like a child.

I'm 32 and have been asked for ID twice already this year :oops:

butcher of bakersfield

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Man the fukc up. Nobody will actually ask you for ID if you don't look like a child.

I'm 32. Only the other day, attempting to purchase a bottle of wine in Asda I walked away empty handed, as I 'look way younger than 25'...

Not the first time either. Was told to come back with my driver's license. Which I would maybe carry with me, if I wasn't old enough to own a paper one..

I'd go with the provisional personally. If they don't accept that, then you're screwed.

ste_t

As a rule, we only accept passport or driving licence (of either kind,) as valid ID for 3 reasons.

1) We don't see enough of the 'pass' cards to assertain whether or not they are real.
2) If the police were to visit and check the ID of anyone they consider to be underage, the only ID they would accept would be passport or driving licence
3) The financial/legal implications of getting caught serving anyone underage just don't make the risk of accepting anything else worthwhile. This can lead to me losing my personal licence, thus ruining my career, so have to be strict on it.

Funnily enough, I'm 27 and get ID'd all the time, but my personal licence for retailing alcohol doesn't count as valid ID.

bwfc4eva868

compo wrote:

Apparently they aren't accepted either

Bolton you will have no problem with a Provisional. Girlfriend on the rare chances she gets ID'd has been fine with that. Same with Manchester.

But avoid Bolton like the plague its nightclubs are Crap.

J2 3 floors - Floor 1 the sweat box, where its spot the one that isn't a Asian o Black drug dealer. Floor 2, where the stuck up sit their and do nowt. Floor 3 - Some crap form of Dance music called Funky House.

Attic- Lots of Coked up,Sted Heads bouncing about with Stella or VK's thinking Donk music is "Its banging this mate"

Ikon- Don't bother

Get on't Train and head into Manchester, it has a nightclub for every musical taste. Sankeys for me as i like real Electronic Dance music, called Trance

mak3m

havent been asked for ID for nearly 1/4 of a century :?

MountainMonster

kenan wrote:

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Man the fukc up. Nobody will actually ask you for ID if you don't look like a child.

I'm 32 and have been asked for ID twice already this year :oops:

Oh man, the horror stories of older folks getting IDd are making me crease! At 16 I wasn't getting ID'd to get into clubs or pubs and drink, but people twice my age (then) are getting ID'd at ASDA for a bottle of wine. What is happening with the world?

MorganP104

I'm 34 years old and was recently carded for a bottle of wine in Tesco.

I responded that I was very flattered, and told the middle-aged lady on the tills my age. I was a bit surprised, as I do look my age.

Anyway, she leaned forward, squinted at me and said "Oh yes, you do look old after all. I have the wrong glasses on."

Cheers love. No, really. Thanks. :roll:

Monkeypump

bwfc4eva868 wrote:

compo wrote:

Apparently they aren't accepted either

Bolton you will have no problem with a Provisional. Girlfriend on the rare chances she gets ID'd has been fine with that. Same with Manchester.

But avoid Bolton like the plague its nightclubs are Crap.

J2 3 floors - Floor 1 the sweat box, where its spot the one that isn't a Asian o Black drug dealer. Floor 2, where the stuck up sit their and do nowt. Floor 3 - Some crap form of Dance music called Funky House.

Attic- Lots of Coked up,Sted Heads bouncing about with Stella or VK's thinking Donk music is "Its banging this mate"

Ikon- Don't bother

Get on't Train and head into Manchester, it has a nightclub for every musical taste. Sankeys for me as i like real Electronic Dance music, called Trance

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