Who remembers having fake ID?

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When I was a teen it was a big deal. You had to know the right kid in the playground, give them a passport photo and a tenner and they would get you a fake driver's licence mocked up. It looked dodgy as hell but meant that we could get into the pub and drink WKD to our heart's content.

What fake ID did you have? Is it even still a thing??

I remember going to the pub during freshers week with our new student cards. The photos on them were very small and fuzzy. Several of us were still 17 so we all used the student cards of our 18 year old friends with the same colour hair as us. 🤣

In the 90s they had adverts in the back of magazines for them 😂 you had to hand write the info. I thought mine would look more pro if I did the text with letraset.
Nothing legit but they worked on our local pub bouncers.

I think the need for IDs must have started in the 90s from this thread

They only worked because back then no one really cared. It was just a vague pretence of caring.

I remember going to pubs and clubs at 16/17 and they’d just ask you what your date of birth was. 🤣

Ahhh yes those were the days. Never got IDd in pubs or clubs in the 80s, as long as you didn’t cause any trouble they served you. Drank locally all through sixth form, they knew you were under 18 but didn’t care. Many lock ins.

Went off to Uni at 18 and got an NUS card, then got another one with a fake DOB to take to the USA when we did Camp America so we could drink out there. On the occasions we were questioned we explained it was our university ID, they’d ask for a passport and we’d exclaim in an astoundingly British manner “as if we’d carry our passports around! They might get STOLEN!”

Worked a treat!

I'd have loved one as I needed it! I was 16 in early 00's and I looked about 12 well maybe 14 at best 🙈 even with the make up on etc. I'm just very small and petite but I still got in most places but there were times all my friends got in and I had to go home. One of these times I was actually 17 and saw girls the year below me at school getting in, was so gutted and embarrassed. It was so stupid how a group together they pick out the one that looks youngest but don't ask the rest for ID as they likely are same age!

When I think back it's so funny, if they asked me for ID. I used to so oh I don't have it on me I don't usually need it 😆 then they ask for the dob I recite one that makes me 18. On a few occasions this actually worked and they went alright in u go.

I got IDed before Christmas buying a cocktail set in John Lewis. I’m 42. Obviously by a stressed and overworked woman who hadn’t really looked at me and was only asking because the logic is not check just in case.

Back in the 90s, no one would have been IDing my mum for anything. I remember the ‘think 21’ coming in and then creeping upwards in age. It seemed unnecessary then. But society has become much less accepting of underage drinking.

Same.
Back in the 80s it was just based on how you looked.
I remember standing in night club queues at just 15, working out what year I'd have had to be born in to be 18, in case I got asked. Never got turned away from anywhere. It's so much harder for teens these days!

Rarely got ID’d from age 14/15! Pubs let us in as standard (90s).

Occasionally clubs in the West End would ID you, so I had my trusty NUS card, which was fake and said I was 19 when I was 15.

The place most likely to have been asked your age in the 70s was the cinema, I remember a friend being turned away from The Exorcist, I got in OK, we must have been 15 as it was 1973, it was an X which was 18. Pubs and clubs didn't seem so bothered about age

I was a teen in the 80s.
Thank god they properly ID kids now!

I was 16 in 1997, we all used to borrow sisters / cousins / older friends paper driving licenses.

I then moved abroad and you had to be 21 to drink - really shit photocopies of passports and tippex. I think the fact we're female meant we got away with it, none of the boys from school could get into the couple of extremely dodgy nightclubs!

I used my friends sisters provisional licence but very every rarely got asked.

Once I was 18 my cousin used mine despite weighing about 7 stone less than me and looking completely different! She lost it so I ordered another one. About 5 years later I had a phone call from the police saying they’d arrested someone for theft and found my provisional licence in her purse 😳.

Those were the days when you could get half fare on the bus to go to the pub

We never had them as they were never needed. We started going to pubs and clubs at 16 in the mid 1990s. Everyone knew which pubs would serve teens no questions asked. For clubs, we went early when they're looking to fill up rather than looking for reasons to say no, and flirted with befriended the door staff.

Attempts to make my own with a laminator failed.

I lived abroad and took a friends birth certificate to the equivalent of the DVLA and said my drivers license was missing. I filled in the form with her details, they took a photo and 6 weeks later- the replacement got delivered to her house! A real license- just the wrong persons photo.

Happy days. I never actually managed to get hold of any, despite trying, but never really needed it. I looked older than I was, plus I had 2 older brothers, which helped. plus Plymouth nightclubs wanted girls to come in, even though I never paid to get in nor bought a drink so they weren't making anything from me.

Didn't need it. I never got asked my age when I was drinking in pubs/clubs regularly at 15. This was in 1987.

When I was 18 (and my best mate 19) the pubs back home near us wouldn't accept our matric ll/nus cards. We used to send my mate's kid brother to the bar because they did accept his fake prove it card. He was 15.

I had one that was a young scot card that I made, you sprayed hair spray on the writing to remove it then used letter transfers from WH Smith (did it used to be called John Smiths? Or something else?) to make it look proper and printed!

I had a ‘European citizen card’ thingy too. Our local nightclub was quite strict even in the early 00s, so it did work until they caught on and said divers licence or passport only.

like many here, I started going ‘out, out’ at 15.

What surprises me though is, that was the norm around me age wise at the time (and my parents were very strict in other respects).

But recently on a local Facebook page, all
the mums were going mad at the thought of their own children doing the same. Like really, really bonkers over the whole thing.

all of these, the exact same people who were going out from 15! What has changed?!

The good old international driving license - a bit of cardboard that was incredibly easy to alter. I was actually old enough to drive so had it legitimately but changed my age to make me old enough to buy booze on trips to the US.
It was the early 90s, it was easy enough to get served in pubs underage in the UK.

Never even got id'd clubbing from around 15, happy days. My own kids got served without fake id from 16 at our local as we knew the landlady - she was pretty responsible though, only serving youngsters when part of mixed age groups (they were with church choir usually) and never more than 1 of 2 drinks. They learned to drink responsibly

No need for one in the 90's. Pubs/clubs in my home town as well as Glasgow and Edinburgh never asked. I used to visit older pals already at uni.

I have a 17 year old who has never been in a pub with her pals. It's all house parties these days.

I never needed it. I could get served for a carry out from age 16 and when I started wanting to go to pubs and clubs at 18 I had real ID