First 'Not me but a mate' post
he once got challenged for ID in a pub.

When he was 31
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 14:55, 8 replies)

That's nothing
I was challenged for ID at 41! But that was in teh US where they are sticklers for that sort of thing.
(Smale is stuffed, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 14:57, closed)

yeah, the US can be overly picky
they ID'ed my dad in a restaurant over there a couple of years back, and he was 56!
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 15:22, closed)

that's not picky
that's moronic
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 13:46, closed)

I was asked a few...
Years back (I was 28 at the time) in Asda of all places... Her excuse was "its difficult to tell your age when you are wearing a hat"
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 15:59, closed)

Happened to me yesterday in Tesco.
I'm 35. The beard should have been a giveaway.
( Sunburn Go on.... It's character building!, Thu 17 Sep 2009, 16:53, closed)

I got IDed in Somerfield last year...
Aged 40 :)

Thing is, the till monkey then had to ring a supervisor to sell me my beer!

*facepalm*
( snee held his breath since, Fri 18 Sep 2009, 8:48, closed)

This is because at some point in the training process in most larger licensed shops and pub chains,
the trainee is shown photos of about half a dozen people and asked to guess their age. The trainee invariably gets half of them wrong, because looks can be deceptive. Not because the quoted ages are mixed up or completely fabricated in order to instil a ridiculous level of paranoia in the trainee rather than just having them rely on their common sense, oh no.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 19 Sep 2009, 1:44, closed)