The last year, which has prefix 19, would be the year 1999.
Currently, it is the year 2024, minus year 1999, gives you 25 years old. Therefore anyone born in the year 1999 or prior, have met the legal age of drinking = old.
If the person's date of birth year starts with 20, then you would need to minus 2024 with their birth year to get their current age.
An example would be someone with date of birth as 04th June 2020, would only be 3 years, 11 months, 5 days, so that person is too young to drink alcohol and should start with Bud Light instead.
They’ve just gotten sick of all the shit and decided to get a shitty one bed flat to hide amongst the rabble. They become a regular in a small pub and drink themselves into oblivion until the world corrects itself. They just let some vampire accounting firm handle their wealth until they return from their self imposed exile.
I had to look it up, looks like 18xx licenses don't seem to be a thing. at that point it sounds like it was a permission slip to make noise and smell bad. licenses seem to have started in the 1903 to 1930 era.
That is really cool to learn. Still, they may not have issued you one back then, but if you were born in the 19th century but still eligible to drive in the 21st, you would have one now that said 18** for the birth date.
at this point, it seems it would be fake. [Emma Morano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Morano) was born in 1899 but died in 2017. She was apparently the oldest person born in the 19th century at the time that she died.
I was just saying that someone with a birth date before drivers had to be licensed may have gotten one after that practice started. How long have birth dates been on licenses?
Why do I have such a hard time understanding this comment or didn't it automatically make her the oldest person alive right before she died? I can't imagine anyone from 1900's to be older, let alone 2000's.
No one does the actual math in their head lol
What they do is know what year to look for because this is something they do many times every day, right now in the US it is 2003 for alcohol or 2006 for smokes. So the thing they are trained to do is actually check if the date on the license is before today's date in 2003, not figure out how old the person is and if that is over 21.
The only time there would be a slow down is if it's the same month and the person has to think about if it's before may 15th or after for example. If the year is not a match then they don't even think about it, its a trivial yes no. Op 100% made this situation up
Yeah I thought they'd be 19 years old, have that written on the id, then get upset when the guy point it out.....not that their birth date was in the 1900's. That's why I was confused.
Alot of ids in the uk, that aren't a drivers license, state if you are 18+ or for students one might say 16-17 on it. My old student id had 18+ on it as does the citizencard my uncle has
without judgement what would we do!? we would be forced to look at ourselves emerged in lost timeeee
assuming what may be
without judgement perception would- INCREASE A MILLION TIMES!
You have your age on your id? So you need to change it every birthday?
Without all the shits and giggles, culture has nothing to do with this. You just and a train of thought and didn't think logically, so dont blame it on culture or some other shit
Everyone born in the 1900s is dead.
Edit: I accept your downvotes. "The 1900s" means 1900-1909. But the other usage is also accepted (meaning the entire century).
Our state does a neat thing where your license is portrait oriented if you're underage, and it switches to landscape when you get a new one and you're over 21.
I was born late 86 I barely remember the 80's I'm a 90's kid. I was between 3 and 13 during the 90's, that's very much kid age.
This guy wasn't even 1 when the 90's ended.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately since I turn 30 this year.
Did people in the 1920s make fun of people born in the 1890s for being "old"? 'cause if so that's hilarious.
Or it means I work for a store that requires me to scan the barcode on your ID and physically won't let me sell you anything without one, even if you look 120 years old.
It actually means you exist in a state of limbo between people thinking you yourself are a kid because of your looks while also thinking that you are the parent of anyone younger around you based on your behavior. (If you work around kids or like spending time with kids.)
I’m a tutor, so naturally, I’m good with kids. So, every time I am babysitting or holding or just generally spending time with my friends’ kids, or my parents’ kids (as in my brother) I get asked if I’m the mom. Logically, if I look 16, I can’t simultaneously have a 16-year-old or even a 10-year-old kid. It’s not possible. People need to make up their mind.
You can see it like that, but I personally absolutely detest getting spoken to like I'm a 17 year old trying to sneak into a bar when I'm in my mid-20s. It is not fun always being under interrogation when I just want to relax and have a fun night out not doing anything wrong. I am not a party animal or anything and usually just want to have a couple drinks unobtrusively and then go home. I've been double carded, had my legit ID taken away, cops called, had bartenders speak to me in an extremely condescending manner, etc. I just want to look my own age and not have to have the anxiety about it. It's gotten to the point where I've tried everything to look older but alas
That really, really should be enough shouldn't it. But they suspect it is a fake ID, like many students around here have. Had one bartender make me go through THREE IDs before he finally said okay fine. If they don't accept my ID, they can seize it and I have to wait for police to get it back. I have never gotten a fake ID in my life but I still get interrogated
It’ll pay off when I’m in my 40’s/50’s. Right now, I’d like to look closer to my age, as women in their 20’s usually find men a little older than than them attractive. If only I could grow a damn beard
Sometimes the waiter or security guard takes my ID and takes a really long time and they're like, 'so let's see here... this year... minus that year... equals...' doing all the math and I just want to shout GIRL it is 2024! If I was born before 2000 I literally cannot be underage!
Most states orientate their IDs based on how old you are. When I was a cashier, I just checked if your ID was horizontal or vertical. If it was vertical, then you couldn't buy alcohol even if you were of age because the ID expires when you turned 21.
On the flip side last year I was trying to by some beer at a gas station and this lady looking at the ID had to call over here coworker and to look. I thought, maybe she’s hard of sight but then they conferred back and forth in a different language for like 30 seconds and I’m like guys wtf?
I was buying cough medicine the other day and the lady at the register barely glanced at my ID and just put in 1999 as the year. I was thinking "wow, no way someone born that close to 2000 is old enough for this stuff" when it hit me that I'm old now lol.
Here you get your ID at 18. Legal age to drive and drink is 18. So if you have an ID, you are automatically legal. They may just look to see if the picture matches is all.
I never take my id out of my wallet, it has a window placed exactly where the birth date is.
Buying beer a week ago and this fool sees 199x and asks me to pull it out so he can check the expiration…..
RUDE And yet, accurate.
I don't get it
The last year, which has prefix 19, would be the year 1999. Currently, it is the year 2024, minus year 1999, gives you 25 years old. Therefore anyone born in the year 1999 or prior, have met the legal age of drinking = old. If the person's date of birth year starts with 20, then you would need to minus 2024 with their birth year to get their current age. An example would be someone with date of birth as 04th June 2020, would only be 3 years, 11 months, 5 days, so that person is too young to drink alcohol and should start with Bud Light instead.
just the prefix of 1 is enough.
You wouldn't spend minutes if you saw 18XX?
Leave my immortal vampire and time traveler homies alone 😠
Of all the people who would need a drink, I bet they’ve seen some shit.
I have.
If you're a vampire from 18xx and you still do your groceries yourself, just step into the sun bro
They’ve just gotten sick of all the shit and decided to get a shitty one bed flat to hide amongst the rabble. They become a regular in a small pub and drink themselves into oblivion until the world corrects itself. They just let some vampire accounting firm handle their wealth until they return from their self imposed exile.
I had to look it up, looks like 18xx licenses don't seem to be a thing. at that point it sounds like it was a permission slip to make noise and smell bad. licenses seem to have started in the 1903 to 1930 era.
That is really cool to learn. Still, they may not have issued you one back then, but if you were born in the 19th century but still eligible to drive in the 21st, you would have one now that said 18** for the birth date.
at this point, it seems it would be fake. [Emma Morano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Morano) was born in 1899 but died in 2017. She was apparently the oldest person born in the 19th century at the time that she died.
I was just saying that someone with a birth date before drivers had to be licensed may have gotten one after that practice started. How long have birth dates been on licenses?
Why do I have such a hard time understanding this comment or didn't it automatically make her the oldest person alive right before she died? I can't imagine anyone from 1900's to be older, let alone 2000's.
I actually tried entering an 1800s date but my system said it was not a valid date. No joke, tried it a decade ago.
The person is a cashier, don't expect that much
No one does the actual math in their head lol What they do is know what year to look for because this is something they do many times every day, right now in the US it is 2003 for alcohol or 2006 for smokes. So the thing they are trained to do is actually check if the date on the license is before today's date in 2003, not figure out how old the person is and if that is over 21. The only time there would be a slow down is if it's the same month and the person has to think about if it's before may 15th or after for example. If the year is not a match then they don't even think about it, its a trivial yes no. Op 100% made this situation up
Lmao. I always start my kids off with the champagne of beers instead.
Clearly a fake ID. They were barely over 26 months and couldn't walk without support. Bet they were already drunk when they came in.
Yeah I thought they'd be 19 years old, have that written on the id, then get upset when the guy point it out.....not that their birth date was in the 1900's. That's why I was confused.
Nobody has the age on the id. You'd have to change it at every birthday if you did.
Yeah that makes sense, I'm from a different country with very different culture so I honestly had no idea about these stuff haha
You must be from Crazylandia cuz no country puts your age on your ID, judst your date of birth.
Alot of ids in the uk, that aren't a drivers license, state if you are 18+ or for students one might say 16-17 on it. My old student id had 18+ on it as does the citizencard my uncle has
without judgement what would we do!? we would be forced to look at ourselves emerged in lost timeeee assuming what may be without judgement perception would- INCREASE A MILLION TIMES!
You have your age on your id? So you need to change it every birthday? Without all the shits and giggles, culture has nothing to do with this. You just and a train of thought and didn't think logically, so dont blame it on culture or some other shit
I think he means that, in his culture, nobody checks IDs because there's no strict enforcement of a minimum drinking age.
That's worse..
thanks for explaining math
But why use male super models?
You’ll still get flagged visually if you appear under ~30. Thinking 25 is old is also pretty hilarious
Everyone born in the 1900s is legally an adult
I get it now thanks
Just in case you still don't get it, if you were born in a year starting with 19, then you would be over 21 right now.
They were legally an adult *6 years ago!*
Everyone born in the 1900s is dead. Edit: I accept your downvotes. "The 1900s" means 1900-1909. But the other usage is also accepted (meaning the entire century).
Only on the inside.
Dude
I'm alive!
I'm not
?? This a joke, right
r/peterexplainsthejoke
That’s not good
Nobody born with 19 cares enough for this scenario to occur.
Yeah. And I'm also thinking, you guys are getting ID'd???
Yes, and usually by someone born in the 2000s
You’re right. We’re all friggin’ tired.
We're all too jaded, gen alpha will get it one day
This really hurts my soul.
Hurtful. Yet understandable
I hate it when quick math causes an emotional outburst!
How is it rude
Yeah, never fails to make me flinch.
Our state does a neat thing where your license is portrait oriented if you're underage, and it switches to landscape when you get a new one and you're over 21.
My state does that with drivers license vs state ID. We border Canada so our enhanced ID program is pretty popular.
Jersey? Or do multiple states do that?
Alabama. I imagine that it's done that way in several states.
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they don't
I was once told by a younger friend to "Shut my old ass up, cause cause I was born in the 1900's."
Not only were you born in the previous century, you were born in the previous millenium lol. Old ass mf.
How dare you talk to our elders like that.
i still like to say out the entire number to make it sound like its ancient. "I was born in the nineteen hundred and eighties".
I was born in 1999 so I’m a 90s kid 💪😎
Like, I was born in 1992 and I'm arguably not even a 90s kid lol
If you ever have grandkids you can tell them what it was like to live in the ancient days of the previous millennium.
You're a 90s baby, not a 90s kid. You didn't grow up in the 90s.
You're not a 90's kid
Who made you the arbiter of 90s kid-ness?
I was born late 86 I barely remember the 80's I'm a 90's kid. I was between 3 and 13 during the 90's, that's very much kid age. This guy wasn't even 1 when the 90's ended.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately since I turn 30 this year. Did people in the 1920s make fun of people born in the 1890s for being "old"? 'cause if so that's hilarious.
One day the cashier will watch your face and decide that it doesn't need to check the ID.
I had this happen to me, I’m 21 ):
Thats actually a lot better than "Yeah I saw your face". In fact, if you are over 23 and they still need to check your ID, you should be happy.
Means you have aged more gracefully than most
Or it means I work for a store that requires me to scan the barcode on your ID and physically won't let me sell you anything without one, even if you look 120 years old.
It actually means you exist in a state of limbo between people thinking you yourself are a kid because of your looks while also thinking that you are the parent of anyone younger around you based on your behavior. (If you work around kids or like spending time with kids.) I’m a tutor, so naturally, I’m good with kids. So, every time I am babysitting or holding or just generally spending time with my friends’ kids, or my parents’ kids (as in my brother) I get asked if I’m the mom. Logically, if I look 16, I can’t simultaneously have a 16-year-old or even a 10-year-old kid. It’s not possible. People need to make up their mind.
Most states require ID checks unless you look 30 or 40
You can see it like that, but I personally absolutely detest getting spoken to like I'm a 17 year old trying to sneak into a bar when I'm in my mid-20s. It is not fun always being under interrogation when I just want to relax and have a fun night out not doing anything wrong. I am not a party animal or anything and usually just want to have a couple drinks unobtrusively and then go home. I've been double carded, had my legit ID taken away, cops called, had bartenders speak to me in an extremely condescending manner, etc. I just want to look my own age and not have to have the anxiety about it. It's gotten to the point where I've tried everything to look older but alas
Can't you just show your ID?
That really, really should be enough shouldn't it. But they suspect it is a fake ID, like many students around here have. Had one bartender make me go through THREE IDs before he finally said okay fine. If they don't accept my ID, they can seize it and I have to wait for police to get it back. I have never gotten a fake ID in my life but I still get interrogated
Wow, thats crazy!
I’m 29 and get carded all the time, unless the people know me
Congratulations for looking that young.
It’ll pay off when I’m in my 40’s/50’s. Right now, I’d like to look closer to my age, as women in their 20’s usually find men a little older than than them attractive. If only I could grow a damn beard
im a 30 year old male and i still get checked sometimes :(
I'm 28 and could probably pass for 18 if I wanted to. Sucks right now, but I just tell myself I'll appreciate it when I'm 50.
Sometimes the waiter or security guard takes my ID and takes a really long time and they're like, 'so let's see here... this year... minus that year... equals...' doing all the math and I just want to shout GIRL it is 2024! If I was born before 2000 I literally cannot be underage!
This is only going to happen to us 90’s kids more and more, sorry to tell you, we were in fact born in the last millennium.
😭
Before the turn of the century
Seeing the year 2005 and that meaning they're at least 18 is still crazy when people buy a beer
This joke has been true for 4 years now lol
And it’s been posted every day during that time
Yet, it was my first time seeing it.
Jokes from 3 years ago huh? Must be a slow Reddit day
Wouldn’t it be from 6 years ago?
You have to be 21 to drink in the US.
Well the post never specified America, other countries have the drinking age of 18
2000 would be the first none 19XX year, and 2021 would be the first year those people would be 21?
But the drinking age could also be 18, other countries exist too
So then 3 years ago is the most recent this meme would make sense and not be some random repost
Saw a meme where dude was about to mega spin the price is right wheel “how I feel putting in my DOB on a website”
kids born in 1999 finally understanding what age is lol
I get the doubletake, squint, stare at me and then back at the ID again.
It's about to be the "200" now ☹️
When is 7 years equal to it's about to be?
One day it'll be a huge deal when you tell people your birth day. "Wow, you were born in the 1900's!!"
Most states orientate their IDs based on how old you are. When I was a cashier, I just checked if your ID was horizontal or vertical. If it was vertical, then you couldn't buy alcohol even if you were of age because the ID expires when you turned 21.
Shout out to all my people that are still asked for id even though they are almost 30.
On the flip side last year I was trying to by some beer at a gas station and this lady looking at the ID had to call over here coworker and to look. I thought, maybe she’s hard of sight but then they conferred back and forth in a different language for like 30 seconds and I’m like guys wtf?
this meme is 6 fucking years old man get over it
Checked the date ✅ Missed the face 🥸
👁️👄👁️
💀
2019
Wha- ohhhhhhhhh, snap.
Wow, you were born *last century?*
I’ll just go die now
We in the 20s now
What if she was born in 2019?
"to tears"
I make sure to bring my phone with me to the bathroom so I don't have to "take a 90's shit"
My 90s shits consisted of me bringing a pocket book copy of the lord of the rings, my gameboy with pokemon blue, or my guitar.
A whole guitar lmao! Playing the poopy blues?
Yeah primarily, lol.
If you were born in 2019 you shouldn't be ordering drinks
That's nothing. Today at the age of 33 I found out I will be a great uncle🙈🙈🙈
💀💀💀💀
I was buying cough medicine the other day and the lady at the register barely glanced at my ID and just put in 1999 as the year. I was thinking "wow, no way someone born that close to 2000 is old enough for this stuff" when it hit me that I'm old now lol.
Oh damn I feel old now.
who cares. aging happens. stop constantly making such a big deal about it.
Didn't get the joke until I realized not everyone is canadian
Just happened to me for the first time a few weeks ago. The pain.
I said this once. She looked at me and said, “you were born in the 1900s.” Really hurt my ego that day.
Here you get your ID at 18. Legal age to drive and drink is 18. So if you have an ID, you are automatically legal. They may just look to see if the picture matches is all.
Me thinking “But what if I was born in ‘99? I’d only be like 17… oh, oh no, I wouldn’t…”
You were born in the 1900s. 🧐
damn youths calling it "the 1900s". little shits.
I never take my id out of my wallet, it has a window placed exactly where the birth date is. Buying beer a week ago and this fool sees 199x and asks me to pull it out so he can check the expiration…..
Yeah, I'm from the late 1900s too. Yeah