“Mewtwo came before Mew. I don’t know how that works. And even though there’s supposedly only one Mewtwo and Mew is a myth, the Pokémon that come afterward are numbered as though Mewtwo and Mew exist, even in regions where they’ve never heard of them.”
I was once getting a drink in the bar of the restaurant I work at when one of the owners walked through and said “You’re not old enough to drink!” “…Jane, I’m 23.”
Unusually Angry Hippie
The curse of having a young face, constantly having to remind people I’m probably older than them.
Needfuldoer
Yuuuuuuuup.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
My sister was still being asked for ID to buy herself booze into her early 30s. She took it as a matter of pride. Until one day the checkout staff stopped asking her…that made her sad.
Lieutenant Dan
I used to be sad when they stopped asking me for ID… until they started asking if I was eligible for the seniors’ discount. 😮
Deanatay
Welp, time to get a cane, so I can shake it at people who call me old.
And eyeglasses, so I can hit when I throw things at people who call me old.
And a hearing aid, so I can hear when THOSE YOUNG PUNKS call me old.
And a fence so I know when those kids are ON MY LAWN and I can yell at them to GET OFF IT.
Victor
Eh, the grocery store has actually given me the senior discount AND carded me for booze at the same time.
(I’m not actually quite old enough for the discount, but I’m not going to turn down 10% off on my groceries.)
When I was a kid, I used to get asked for ID…to prove I was entitled to the child fare on buses. xD I always looked way too old (never a thing I was happy with).
It just got worse over time though…I was 19 the first time I was mistaken for my dad’s younger brother. He was 49 at the time. 😛
Tarmaniel
In my experience, if you’re late 20s/early 30s you can get a pretty goid read on the quality of an establishment by whether they card you or not. Quality places generally won’t, even if they’re large national chains. I’ve never been carded in a Fleming’s, for example, but a place like Buffalo Wild Wings or Chili’s will not only card me every time, they sometimes demand 2 forms of I’D. I once was refused service in a Buffalo Wild Wings because the first name on the two forms of ID didn’t exactly match. (I had my nickname on one)
Dave M
28 years old, and I walked into a bottle shop to buy a bottle of Glenfiddich, and the guy behind the counter asked for proof of age. I’d had a bad day at work, and was tired of people underestimating my age because I looked young, so I vented. “Yes I know I look young, and if I WAS underage I’d be showing you 6 forms of false ID, but I’m not, you know why? Because I’m over 18 and don’t need to show you any! Also I’m not buying a bottle of some cheap flavoured ethanol to mix with brand name cola, I’m buying a bottle of single malt to be savoured over ice, with maybe a splash of water. So do you want my money, or should I go somewhere else where they employ people with basic logic skills?”
His response? “(brief pause) That’ll be x dollars sir, would you like a bag?” Made that my port of call after that. We understood each other.
Lieutenant Dan
This story would be so much better with a bottle of Lagavulin 16 y.o. 🙂
Dave M
True, but (a) My drinking budget wouldn’t have stretched that far, and (b) the place in question wouldn’t have stocked anything that top shelf. But now you have made me price a bottle of 16 year old Lagavulin from nearby retailers. Well played sir, but I will have my revenge!
Roborat
At first read, I thought you said a bottle and a 19 y.o.
thejeff
Depends where you are, but many states have laws requiring requiring them to ask for id anyway – some from everyone, others anyone appearing below a certain age. Your employee without “basic logic skills” may simply have been following the law or at least their employers policies. To avoid getting caught out selling to underage kids who look older.
I’m also pretty sure there isn’t an exemption for top shelf booze – rich kids don’t get to buy underage.
Oz
Thank-you for being the reasonable adult in this conversation. The person checking ID has no way to know who looks 23 but is actually 28, and who looks 25 but is actually 17.
N0083rp00F
I always find it fascinating with the various states age restrictions.
You can vote at this age, have carnal relations and get married at these ages depending on partners age, throw your life away for your country at this young age, drive a mechanical death machine at that other age BUT you are not mature enough to imbibe alcohol till this much much latter age.
R2
No kidding. And the price for being wrong can range from being fined to jailed to losing the right to sell alcohol. I’m 40 and still get carded most places around where I live (near IU, ha!), it’s just a matter of course.
ChukG
I was the 17 year old who looked 25 (in Canada so you only have to be 19). I actually don’t drink but I only ever got carded once before I was legal age.
Roborat
Psst, ChuckG, legal age is 18 in several provinces.
IDs that have a nickname on them trigger the “McLovin Rule.”
Roborat
Cops take you out to have an awesome time?
hof1991
I got IDed the other day and I am 3X the legal age. Store policy is store policy and I don’t give clerks grief for following the rules, when not doing so can get them fired. It’s tough out there – Be kind.
BBCC
I get carded absolutely everywhere with an age restriction – casinos, booze, etc. The legal age here is 19 and I’m 21. I hand over my driver’s license and health card (and my passport if I have it) and then complain about my damn baby face to my friends later. Because, again, this is their job and possibly the law.
After a certain period of time working on the Pokedex for one region they just add the legendary Pokémon at the end whether there is a confirmed sighting or not. They added Mew because they knew if Mewtwo existed so did Mew and that started a tradition. You’re actually sort of on the tail end of the process for your region.
I thought Pokemon would be more Amber’s thing… Of course, only as a little side quest, so to speak; because the only one whose heart she truly belongs to is Donatello.
It occurs to me that she now would have been around 11-12 when the modern TMNT show aired. So I guess she likes Rob Paulsen Donny instead of Barry Gordon Donny.
Must have been confusing to go back to see what the original was like and hear Donny’s voice come out of Raph.
s’almost like social ability and visible markers of “adult behavior” are a bad indicator of overall maturity, or that “maturity” and self-sufficiency ability don’t increase uniformly with age, or both, or something.
This strip is a direct result of DYW thinking to himself “Hmmm, I recall Amber enjoying not thinking of Dina as a sexual being. It’s definitely time to stop that enjoyment. Awkwardness country, here we come!”
And King Daniel has conveniently proven me wrong after I commented
threePwny
By which I mean, I commented, then it refreshed, then I saw his comment. I’ll be quiet now. On a side note, we really need edit and delete options
Some1
If that was an option it would probably be about a week before I was banned for asking seemingly innocent questions, and then changing my question to make the respondent seem nuts.
For example
Some1: Hey, what’s the name of Becky’s dad
Some poster: Ross
Edit comment to “Who should Dina make out with?”
threePwny
Some kind of edited tag would help that. Oh god I’m at 4 comments on this thread now I need to stop
187 thoughts on “Nineteen”
Ana Chronistic
“Mewtwo came before Mew. I don’t know how that works. And even though there’s supposedly only one Mewtwo and Mew is a myth, the Pokémon that come afterward are numbered as though Mewtwo and Mew exist, even in regions where they’ve never heard of them.”
“How do you know so much, Dina?”
*looks up* “My phone has Wi-Fi.”
Ana Chronistic
also I totes got the “you’re not legal to drink!” “…I’m THIRTY”
Schpoonman
I was once getting a drink in the bar of the restaurant I work at when one of the owners walked through and said “You’re not old enough to drink!” “…Jane, I’m 23.”
Unusually Angry Hippie
The curse of having a young face, constantly having to remind people I’m probably older than them.
Needfuldoer
Yuuuuuuuup.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
My sister was still being asked for ID to buy herself booze into her early 30s. She took it as a matter of pride. Until one day the checkout staff stopped asking her…that made her sad.
Lieutenant Dan
I used to be sad when they stopped asking me for ID… until they started asking if I was eligible for the seniors’ discount. 😮
Deanatay
Welp, time to get a cane, so I can shake it at people who call me old.
And eyeglasses, so I can hit when I throw things at people who call me old.
And a hearing aid, so I can hear when THOSE YOUNG PUNKS call me old.
And a fence so I know when those kids are ON MY LAWN and I can yell at them to GET OFF IT.
Victor
Eh, the grocery store has actually given me the senior discount AND carded me for booze at the same time.
(I’m not actually quite old enough for the discount, but I’m not going to turn down 10% off on my groceries.)
Ana Chronistic
then Amazi-Girl will throw your cane into a tree
Yet_One_More_Idiot
When I was a kid, I used to get asked for ID…to prove I was entitled to the child fare on buses. xD I always looked way too old (never a thing I was happy with).
It just got worse over time though…I was 19 the first time I was mistaken for my dad’s younger brother. He was 49 at the time. 😛
Tarmaniel
In my experience, if you’re late 20s/early 30s you can get a pretty goid read on the quality of an establishment by whether they card you or not. Quality places generally won’t, even if they’re large national chains. I’ve never been carded in a Fleming’s, for example, but a place like Buffalo Wild Wings or Chili’s will not only card me every time, they sometimes demand 2 forms of I’D. I once was refused service in a Buffalo Wild Wings because the first name on the two forms of ID didn’t exactly match. (I had my nickname on one)
Dave M
28 years old, and I walked into a bottle shop to buy a bottle of Glenfiddich, and the guy behind the counter asked for proof of age. I’d had a bad day at work, and was tired of people underestimating my age because I looked young, so I vented. “Yes I know I look young, and if I WAS underage I’d be showing you 6 forms of false ID, but I’m not, you know why? Because I’m over 18 and don’t need to show you any! Also I’m not buying a bottle of some cheap flavoured ethanol to mix with brand name cola, I’m buying a bottle of single malt to be savoured over ice, with maybe a splash of water. So do you want my money, or should I go somewhere else where they employ people with basic logic skills?”
His response? “(brief pause) That’ll be x dollars sir, would you like a bag?” Made that my port of call after that. We understood each other.
Lieutenant Dan
This story would be so much better with a bottle of Lagavulin 16 y.o. 🙂
Dave M
True, but (a) My drinking budget wouldn’t have stretched that far, and (b) the place in question wouldn’t have stocked anything that top shelf. But now you have made me price a bottle of 16 year old Lagavulin from nearby retailers. Well played sir, but I will have my revenge!
Roborat
At first read, I thought you said a bottle and a 19 y.o.
thejeff
Depends where you are, but many states have laws requiring requiring them to ask for id anyway – some from everyone, others anyone appearing below a certain age. Your employee without “basic logic skills” may simply have been following the law or at least their employers policies. To avoid getting caught out selling to underage kids who look older.
I’m also pretty sure there isn’t an exemption for top shelf booze – rich kids don’t get to buy underage.
Oz
Thank-you for being the reasonable adult in this conversation. The person checking ID has no way to know who looks 23 but is actually 28, and who looks 25 but is actually 17.
N0083rp00F
I always find it fascinating with the various states age restrictions.
You can vote at this age, have carnal relations and get married at these ages depending on partners age, throw your life away for your country at this young age, drive a mechanical death machine at that other age BUT you are not mature enough to imbibe alcohol till this much much latter age.
R2
No kidding. And the price for being wrong can range from being fined to jailed to losing the right to sell alcohol. I’m 40 and still get carded most places around where I live (near IU, ha!), it’s just a matter of course.
ChukG
I was the 17 year old who looked 25 (in Canada so you only have to be 19). I actually don’t drink but I only ever got carded once before I was legal age.
Roborat
Psst, ChuckG, legal age is 18 in several provinces.
Shawn Levasseur
IDs that have a nickname on them trigger the “McLovin Rule.”
Roborat
Cops take you out to have an awesome time?
hof1991
I got IDed the other day and I am 3X the legal age. Store policy is store policy and I don’t give clerks grief for following the rules, when not doing so can get them fired. It’s tough out there – Be kind.
BBCC
I get carded absolutely everywhere with an age restriction – casinos, booze, etc. The legal age here is 19 and I’m 21. I hand over my driver’s license and health card (and my passport if I have it) and then complain about my damn baby face to my friends later. Because, again, this is their job and possibly the law.
autogatos
Yeah, I’m 32 and was recently asked if my daughter was my baby sister because I did not look old enough to have a child.
Also once when I was in college I went to the bank to deposit a check and someone asked if I was lost and looking for my mom…
cesium133
Thinking of birthdays, yesterday was Mewtwo’s: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Mansion_journals
TemperaryObsessor
After a certain period of time working on the Pokedex for one region they just add the legendary Pokémon at the end whether there is a confirmed sighting or not. They added Mew because they knew if Mewtwo existed so did Mew and that started a tradition. You’re actually sort of on the tail end of the process for your region.
AnvilPro
Dina probably really appreciates the designs of Pokemon like Muk, Voltorb and Seel. Especially Seel.
Some Random Name
I prefer Dewgong. Totally didn’t steal the name from actual dugongs.
shadowcell
“back in my day there were only 151 of the fuckers, and they didn’t fuck!”
Roger
i’d like to think they still dont fuck
Doctor_Who
When a Nidoran and a Nidorina love each other very much…
Nono
But Nidorina can’t breed…
Doctor_Who
Who said anything about breeding?
cesium133
When a Skitty and a Wailord love each other very much…
King Daniel
…you get hot Skitty-on-Wailord action.
Some1
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HotSkittyOnWailordAction
EvilMidnightLurker
I wrote that page! Borrowed the name though.
Kernanator
I mean, the Daycare people say they don’t know how the eggs get there. Maybe they’re telling the truth!
Emperor Norton II
I think this is how the eggs get there?
(Link is…. not really safe for work. I mean, it’s supposed to be innocent puppet show, but…. Yeah.)
Linkara
Don’t worry, a special event in Gold and Silver explained EXACTLY how Pokémon eggs are made!
…It’s kinda weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mhsDkOiod4
Linkara
Sorry, HEARTGold and SOULSilver, just to avoid the pedantry.
vlademir1
Aren’t you supposed to be off competing for the Heart of Infinity or some such ;D
Shade
Thats only for three pokemon that we already knew were made by Arceus though so doesn’t help us with the rest.
Dark
Dark
Yeah, let’s be honest, no one understands it.
Take two.
EvilMidnightLurker
I think they just don’t want to have to give The Talk to a stream of ten-year-old trainers.
Emperor Norton II
They are professional Daycare people, they should be used to that shit.
I mean, I guess I can understand it in the sense that ten-year-olds should KNOW THIS SHIT already and therefore don’t have to ask them…
But surely they have first-grade school classes visiting every now and then, no?
Roborat
Oh sure, it is ok to let 10 year olds wander unsupervised in the forest, but heaven forbid you teach them anything about reproduction.
Emperor Norton II
I thought Pokemon would be more Amber’s thing… Of course, only as a little side quest, so to speak; because the only one whose heart she truly belongs to is Donatello.
Tacos
No one escapes Pokemon Go…
Clif
I think Pokemon is IS Amber’s thing. Becky is just good at homing in on the thing that will gently explode the head of the people she is talking to.
Doctor_Who
It occurs to me that she now would have been around 11-12 when the modern TMNT show aired. So I guess she likes Rob Paulsen Donny instead of Barry Gordon Donny.
Must have been confusing to go back to see what the original was like and hear Donny’s voice come out of Raph.
Needfuldoer
I imagine it’s a bit like hearing Lorenzo Music’s voice from any character other than Garfield.
DSL
You mean Carlton Your Doorman?
Passchendaele
there is no escape, amber. 😛
JustCheetoDust
Unless she’s Freakazoid.
Yet_One_More_Idiot
Yes there is – Amber can escape by putting the laptop over her face!
Her Face!
FAAAAAAAACE!
Dean
“Tell me about Fat Pikachu.”
Axel
s’almost like social ability and visible markers of “adult behavior” are a bad indicator of overall maturity, or that “maturity” and self-sufficiency ability don’t increase uniformly with age, or both, or something.
Emperor Norton II
This strip is a direct result of DYW thinking to himself “Hmmm, I recall Amber enjoying not thinking of Dina as a sexual being. It’s definitely time to stop that enjoyment. Awkwardness country, here we come!”
Just a Ian
I heard that the summers are nice in Awkwardness country 🙂
Clif
Awkwardness. Not just for summer anymore.
Emperor Norton II
They are, except someone’s shorts always get caught up in a branch when going to the beach.
kkiten
What is that thing Amber is holding over her face?
King Daniel
Hovertext says it’s her computer.
threePwny
Pretty sure it’s a book. Could also be a very large DS or something. But prolly a book
threePwny
And King Daniel has conveniently proven me wrong after I commented
threePwny
By which I mean, I commented, then it refreshed, then I saw his comment. I’ll be quiet now. On a side note, we really need edit and delete options
Some1
If that was an option it would probably be about a week before I was banned for asking seemingly innocent questions, and then changing my question to make the respondent seem nuts.
For example
Some1: Hey, what’s the name of Becky’s dad
Some poster: Ross
Edit comment to “Who should Dina make out with?”
threePwny
Some kind of edited tag would help that. Oh god I’m at 4 comments on this thread now I need to stop
Emperor Norton II
That is why he is king and you are not.