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Suitable ID for Pubs/Clubs
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Reply 20
Take an 18 candle birthday cake with him. Or what's left over from the party 
Reply 21
Madelyn
go with the provisional driving licence, they're always accepted by everyone AND they're pink. What more could you want?
That's odd. My provisional is green.
Reply 22
11
uhh...provisional licences are green 
Passport or drivers licence are all i'd accept though for ID. Anything else then people dont really know what they look like and thus they're kinda easy to try palming off a forgery.
Passport or drivers licence are all i'd accept though for ID. Anything else then people dont really know what they look like and thus they're kinda easy to try palming off a forgery.
Reply 23
I would never hand over my passport to some hairy-knuckled thug in a black jacket, or carry it about. I rely on my Matric card since I can't be arsed getting a provisional.
An employee in a Wetherspoons pub is, as yet, the only person to question that. I didn't get my drink, but I had quite a bloody good time shouting at him. Pathetic that was, to be honest they just don't want your custom sometimes.
An employee in a Wetherspoons pub is, as yet, the only person to question that. I didn't get my drink, but I had quite a bloody good time shouting at him. Pathetic that was, to be honest they just don't want your custom sometimes.
Reply 24
13
bugger....wrong way round...full is pink, provisional is green. This is why it always takes me ten minutes to find my licence, I'm looking for the wrong colour. Ah well, all the more reason to pass your test!
Reply 25
Madelyn
go with the provisional driving licence, they're always accepted by everyone AND they're pink. What more could you want?
Like I said, not everywhere will take a provisional if the guy looks too young. They're surprisingly easy to fake, or at least to get your photo on.
Reply 26
Michael Mourao
Take an 18 candle birthday cake with him. Or what's left over from the party
I always wondered if turning up to a club/pub with an '18 today' badge and covered in the stuff from inside party poppers would work
Reply 27
13
I think the 18 badge thing wouldn't work, as it seems a bit "I'm desperately trying to get into this club".
I've never come across anyone not being allowed in with a provisional licence, and one of my friends uses hers all the time.
However, I have been known to use my big brother's ID (ok, he did have waist-length hair at the time).
I've never come across anyone not being allowed in with a provisional licence, and one of my friends uses hers all the time.
However, I have been known to use my big brother's ID (ok, he did have waist-length hair at the time).
Reply 28
Madelyn
However, I have been known to use my big brother's ID (ok, he did have waist-length hair at the time).
However, I have been known to use my big brother's ID (ok, he did have waist-length hair at the time).
Yes, using an ID belonging to someone who looks vaguely like you quite often works. You can just say the picture is a few years old.
Reply 29
Toy Soldier
Like I said, not everywhere will take a provisional if the guy looks too young. They're surprisingly easy to fake, or at least to get your photo on.
Well then in theory, you could fake a full driving licence ... they've both got the DVLA hollogram (sp?) thing all over them and are pretty distinctive.
Personally I never had any trouble with my provisional ... but maybe bouncers are more lenient on girls?
But still it seems unfair to discriminate against people who can't drive yet and havent got a passport.
Reply 30
14
I've worked in a busy bar and took great pleasure in ID'ing people. We only took drving licences and passports. We didnt even accept prove it cards. With those id's you shouldnt have a problem.
Reply 31
Some places don't accept passports, because it's quite easy to photoshop them and change the date. Just send off for a driving licence!
Reply 32
14
Toy Soldier
Like I said, not everywhere will take a provisional if the guy looks too young. They're surprisingly easy to fake, or at least to get your photo on.
Never known that.
Known someone who got turned away at first with a Portman ProveIt, but after a chat to the head bouncer he realised his doormen were uninformed and the dude was let in.
Reply 33
14
erk
Never known that.
Known someone who got turned away at first with a Portman ProveIt, but after a chat to the head bouncer he realised his doormen were uninformed and the dude was let in.
Known someone who got turned away at first with a Portman ProveIt, but after a chat to the head bouncer he realised his doormen were uninformed and the dude was let in.
There was a huge scam on those in Liverpool at one stage and now very few bars accept the prove it, which is a bit gutting for some people.
Reply 34
14
Ellie4
Some places don't accept passports, because it's quite easy to photoshop them and change the date. Just send off for a driving licence!
How is that possible. You'd have to damage the back cover of your passport surely?
Reply 35
Ellie4
Some places don't accept passports, because it's quite easy to photoshop them and change the date. Just send off for a driving licence!
passports can't be *that* easy to change
there wouldn't be much point in all the hassle of getting on and the holograms all over them if they could just be changed in photoshop...
sometimes going out with prepared ID is one of the things more likely to mean you get asked in the first place... the trick is to perfect the oh so confident walk into a place with quick glance at the door people to make it clear you're not trying to get passed unnoticed, but not so much as if you're waiting to be asked for id.
on the actual id front, lots of places I know will take photographic id (like a student card) plus a credit card (not debit) since you have to be over 18 to have a credit card in your name.
Reply 36
Ellie4
Some places don't accept passports, because it's quite easy to photoshop them and change the date. Just send off for a driving licence!
How old is your passport?????
Reply 37
frost105
How is that possible. You'd have to damage the back cover of your passport surely?
Loads of my friends have done it. You peel back the plastic cover really slowly, scan in the bit with all the details, alter the year, print it out on a high resolution, stick it over the page, and stick the plastic back down.
Reply 38
Inverurie Jones
How old is your passport?????
I'm almost 19, I haven't done it to my passport! I just know people who have.
Reply 39
14
grey faerie
on the actual id front, lots of places I know will take photographic id (like a student card) plus a credit card (not debit) since you have to be over 18 to have a credit card in your name.
on the actual id front, lots of places I know will take photographic id (like a student card) plus a credit card (not debit) since you have to be over 18 to have a credit card in your name.
Not true. 3 girls in my year had credit cards linked to the fathers acounts for 'emergencies' (you know designer gear, booze, fags, crack....the usual)
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