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??

Pretty much this. I know I had one - actually I think we all had the same one, a friend's older brother's doctored driving licence, which must have been doing the rounds of the city for years -- but pubs in my neck of the woods would serve anyone out of nappies in the late 80s.

And you've just given me a flashback to drinking in a dockers' pub which had an early morning licence and putting on our school uniforms in the loo.

I'm so old I was out out at 15 - no idea required in most places - happy days! The bouncers would also say things like "Nice legs, do you want a lift home?"

Immediately post covid our local night club let anybody in (and they had some very dodgy H&S practices which made the local paper) but things seem tighter now, much to my 17yo disappointment.

YY to the cinema being harder to get into. I remember being chuffed to bits getting in to see Basic Instinct when I was 16.

I was one of the sixth formers making the NUS cards. Used to just ask people what DoB they wanted on it.

Having said that they weren't often needed. Most places turned a blind eye unless you looked really young.

We could get away with a photocopy of our birth certificate no need for photo I’d. As most of our birth certificates are hand written we would scan them in, clone out the year, print it and write the new year in. Once photocopied you couldn’t tell it had been changed.

When we first started going out it was a case of find a promoter giving out leaflets for a club, they’d just look at you and say yeah you look ok and take you to the front of the queue.

I did this in the early 00s, worked in the sketchier clubs but not the decent clubs 😂

I once used someone’s provisional to go out in our local town. Young, clueless me, had no idea what a provisional was - jusy a green driving license to me 😀

walk up to first bar, huge queue behind me, I’d even memorised “my address” and star sign!

bouncer: “when did you pass your driving test?”
Me: “oh ermmm 🤔 I don’t remember the date”

hahahahha. Walk of shame home in front of everyone 🙃

Yes I had a fake NSU card to we could go into the local NSU it was basically a laminated piece of printed off card! God love the 90s!

Fake ID is absolutely still a thing. My dd is in year 13, so her friends are a mix of 17 and 18 year olds. They all have fake ID.

Looking on t'internet it looks like they really started cracking down in about 2009-2010, DS was born in 1992 so him and his friends couldn't go to pubs until 18 and it wasn't worth the bother trying, they went to friends houses a lot instead before 18.

I got into a club using my best friend's big sister's birth certificate once! 1998 I think.

We all just borrowed older friends or sisters IDs. Best trick I learned was to walk in with the oldest looking lad pretending to be in love. Bouncers just rolled their eyes at me. This would have been 2005ish?

Mid 90s - my friend changed my birth date on my Youth Hostel Association membership card with crayon! It worked

I think I had one of these!!

Along with a fake NUS card that a dodgy friend of friend made 😂

Interesting point of view, I was a 00 teenager and we got in most places. Never did anything harder as we were happy sneaking into pubs. Since the obsession with ID has kicked in we've had more kids getting over drunk in parks (it's cheaper to buy a bottle than have a few in a pub) and getting their hands on drugs as dealers don't care.

Yeah it's still a thing, my 17 year old has one.

I remember having a fake one from one of those dodgy websites, but also I remember doctoring my passport and turning a 7 to a 4 with some tipex and a biro and in the dark it always worked!

I was a teenager in the 80s so it wasn’t a thing then. They might occasionally ask what year you were born, but I’d say my older brothers DOB and got away with it. Generally though groups of girls were allowed in anywhere.
the only time I’ve been asked for ID was in America when I was 24 and the drinking age was 21.

Yes remember it well - although I wasnt usually refused entry I had friends who looked younger than me so often we as a group wouldnt be let in.

So we went to the local university to get an ISIC card where you could specify whatever date of birth you wanted as long as you had proof of student status- the person doing the cards didnt seem to realise that it was strange that we were all 18+ at the start of our final year at secondary school.

Oh to be young in the 1990s again...

What's the best fake ID to get these days?
I need to get some for my DD for a festival as there is an age limit of 16 and she is the youngest in her year group so will still be 15. She looks about 18 but doesn't want to chance it.
I hear the going rate is around £70!!! I don't want to pay that if it's not going to be accepted .
Was so much easier when I was young.

Plus we used to plead younger ages in the other way when travelling to the pub... so that we could get the half fares on the buses

Same here 🤣

I remember photocopying my birth certificate then tippexing my date of birth out and then changing my date of birth then photocopying it again. My brother gave me his NUS card once so I could peel off the sticky film and replace the photo with mine. He just had his initials and surname.

I remember my August born friend spending £30 on a ‘passport card’. I don’t think it ever worked anywhere!

Largely we just didn’t get IDed or kept trying other places if we did. We rarely had any issues in going out. I remember getting IDed far more aged 19/20.

A younger member of staff at our college was in charge of the NSU cards. Pay him a tenner and he'd put a fake DOB on it. He was a bit creepy. And later married a student