Yep, that crack is bang on.

I was going to counterpoint you back to the Stone Age with a JaMarcus Russell reference, how I’d love to see you find a story of him being up at 5 AM which didn’t involve sizzurp, but I see that you CYA’ed with a ‘semi-competent’ qualifier, which is a bit of a wuss move, if you ask me, but I’ll stand down.

Marky Mark botched the job.

Yeah, it wasn’t a storybook ending for Andre and us, but I choose to remember the good times. When I read how happy he was to play on natural grass, how his achy knees were so much better off, and I think of how often we were told that he had to get fluid drained from his knees and had this intricate routine that…

Come again? I’m not sure I follow you.

Thanks for the info, but I’ll stand on my, uh, stance that that collar, adjusted and worn as is shown in the photo, isn’t doing nothin’ nohow.

Imagine gutting through the Jeffrey Loria years, but cutting ties when Jeter comes along.

I can’t say which one is more poignant, Bill and the story of his son pulling the college-favourite team mirror-image switcheroo on him, or Anthony and his two-year-old watching “the living autopsy of my beloved team.”.

You got nothing?  I thought so.

I don’t know anything about the case and have not read the article, but the header photo is a riot. He’s wearing a neck brace that allows him to rotate and flex his head so he can look down at the ground to his right. Since a cervical collar’s job is to limit the motion in the neck and keep one’s head in a neutral…

No dude, you don’t get away with a curt reply on this, as if I’m the one who’s off-topic, rather than you being purposely obtuse on what the following meant.

Yeah, the way she tells it, he seems out of his depth or ill-trained, but my experience on the other side of this type of incident colours my perception. He doesn’t want to not serve her a drink and reduce his sales and tips, so he must have had some valid reason, which she’s not doing a good job of articulating or is…

I think we’re on the right track. I’d say there’s no need to “side” with anyone, to judge the particular merits of the case, when we discuss the situation. And yeah, the establishment can refuse service to a patron if that patron doesn’t provide proof of age, to their satisfaction. So this rush to condemn the…

Yes, that’s why I used the words “resort to”, it was a big deal, you never know if you’re going to get your purse stolen or if it will fall out of your pocket. That’s what they felt they needed to do to get into a nightclub. I never recommended or demanded a passport, certainly. Most other clients, they’d take their…

We’re kind of meeting in the middle here, and I agree with a lot of your points. Certainly a valid out-of-state/out-of-country DL is valid proof of age, unless it doesn’t satisfy the staff member, as I’ve written here and there in this thread.

Yeah, just to make it clear, if someone was plausibly 19 and they had valid ID that looked like it was theirs, they got in, no problem. Similarly, those with dodgy doctored ID and a cock-and-bull story about having lost their ID and “This is all I got” got denied access.

Starred for the summation.  It’s a very broad brush, but I’m sure it hits a lot of Bruins fans, so that’s okay.

“Yeah, what the Oscar dude said!” — Barclay Goodrow

Look, I was with you until the last sentence. Yes the guide book was a godsend in a tourist town, we saw ID from every state, every province and every country in the world. It was surprising how often someone showed up with a DL that was completely different from the state’s actual DL design. Apparently, they…

My issue is, what’s the point of even owning a legal ID if it’s just going to be disregarded?