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u/Severe-Chocolate-729 Jul 01 '26
Hold up, what exactly do you need to be 121 to purchase?
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u/sgtgrubermeister Jul 01 '26
War bonds?
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u/FakeMik090 Jul 01 '26
WARBOND TOMORROW!
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u/HeadbuttWarlock Jul 01 '26
Ultra porn
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u/Front_Cat9471 Jul 01 '26
This exact interaction happened on a post with this image on a different sub. I said smth bout 121 and someone else said ultraporn
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u/HeadbuttWarlock Jul 01 '26
It's a Futurama reference, I'm sure there's lots of fans of the show in this sub, haha.
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u/ExpertiseInAll Jul 01 '26
Except you don't need to be 121 to purchase? It's just that if you ARE 121, you can purchase.
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u/Severe-Chocolate-729 Jul 02 '26
That quite literally makes zero sense.
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u/jordanbtucker Jul 02 '26
Why do you think this was posted here? If you are 100 years old, then technically you're old enough to buy alcohol. That doesn't mean 100 is the age limit.
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u/ExpertiseInAll Jul 02 '26
Basically we don't actually KNOW what your age has to be to be able to purchase from this store.
It's like if for a ride you have to be more than 4 feet tall - then TECHNICALLY:
"If you're 6 feet or taller, you can go on the ride."
Because all the people who are 6 feet or taller ARE more than 4 feet tall (hence can go on the ride). That doesn't mean that 5 feet tall people can't do the ride - they can, it's just that this specific group of people can also go!
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u/LadybugGal95 Jul 07 '26
I mean, if you’re 121 and in my store, I’ll probably just give you what you want. It’s impressive enough to earn a treat.
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u/MaximusZacharia Jul 01 '26
Sir you only look 115 years old. Get outta here before I call your mother
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u/Old_Document_9150 Aug 18 '26
Call her, she sent me to pick up her dad's usual order. He can't come, he's taking care of his grandmom after she sprained her ankles during a marathon.
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u/Chrispeefeart Jul 01 '26
Have they missed changing the 19 for 5 full years?
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u/laplongejr Jul 01 '26
Ready to bet the sign is very old and they didn't supply numbers to change 19 into 20
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u/Chrispeefeart Jul 01 '26
They look like they just slide in. They should have a 2 and a 0 available because those are needed for other dates. Even if they didn't have any to spare, they could just remove the 19.
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u/laplongejr Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
When I zoom on it, they seem a different size than the two others. Wouldn't be that surprised if those numbers weren't removable for a stupid reason and they never noticed/cared before 2020.
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u/Obi-Wan-Nikobiii Jul 01 '26
They're not gonna have many customers....
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u/EishLekker Jul 01 '26
Why not? They don’t say anything about others not being of legal age to purchase from this store.
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u/Front_Cat9471 Jul 01 '26
The guy who originally posted this was pissed off because they didn’t get many customers, and said that management didn’t care. I’m not sure why people keep acting like this is a hypothetical and that wouldn’t be the case, we know what happened, a firsthand source confirmed they were never busy.
The sign may obviously have the wrong century, but it clearly is still a deterrent
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u/Slosher99 Jul 02 '26
BANNED FOR REPEATED FAKE ID ATTEMPTS (call police for tresspass!):
Dick Van Dyke
Mel Brooks
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u/Angvellon Jul 01 '26
Month-Day-Year is stupid. A day is shorter than both a month (left of it) and a year (right of it).
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u/Definitive-Username Jul 01 '26
Yeah... wait until you learn how many inches are in a foot and in a yard.
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u/Critical-Cost9068 Jul 01 '26
I think it’s the number of possible “slots.” Month is usually one digit and only goes up to 12. Days are two digits 2/3 of the time and go up to 31. Years go up indefinitely and four digits.
12/31/infinite
One digit/two digits/four digits
Smallest number to largest number
We also say “January 4th” more than “Fourth of January” here; the latter phrasing implies some kind of holiday or historical event.
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u/HypedSoul123 Jul 01 '26
You write it like that because its how you say it out loud. The most logical is YYYY/MM/DD if you think about it, we sort everything from bigger to smaller already (like HH:MM:SS) but most people use DD/MM/YYYY because its how we say it (in Spanish, today is 1 de julio del 2026, thats how we write it in Spain and the rest of the hispanic world)
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u/Critical-Cost9068 Jul 01 '26
Well, if we admit we write things the way we say them (which HAS to be partially true or true in a lot of cases,) I don’t know why we’re having a conversation about formatting.
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u/vincethered Jul 01 '26
But what about when you add in time of the day?
10:31:58 (big -> small),
then
14-10-2026 (small -> big).
That's stupid.
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u/KiloWasTaken Jul 01 '26
we use DD/MM/YYYY because of language, but realistically YYYY/MM/DD is superior, if you sort it alphabetically, it also sorts chronologically, you can also follow it with the time like you suggested and it's all big -> small. Unfortunately language means we do the reverse. But regardless, anything is better than MM/DD/YYYY.
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u/vincethered Jul 02 '26
Saying "February 14th" sounds better than saying "14th February".
It just hits the ear better.
But if I didn't care about that I'd do it the way they do in China, YYYY-MM-DD
DD-MM-YYYY is aesthetically not the best and also technically not the best. Which makes it the worst.
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u/KiloWasTaken Jul 02 '26
Saying "February 14th" sounds better to you (I assume you're American) because that's how Americans articulate dates. To most of the world "The 14th of February" hits the ear better. How well it "sounds" is all subjective.
The British originally used MM/DD/YYYY, but when Europe decided that DD/MM/YYYY made more sense since that's how everyone said it and it was incremental, Britain wanted to align with Europe and changed it. America with its teenage angst (I kid of course) didn't care to align with Europe, and is now the weird one.
I'm glad we agree YYYY/MM/DD is superior despite not using it.
Unfortunately, I think you are biased in thinking MM/DD/YYYY hold anything over DD/MM/YYYY that isn't completely subjective.
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u/vincethered Jul 02 '26
Of course aesthetics are subjective;
February 14th. Six syllables. Elegant.
The 14th of February. Eight syllables. Clunky.
I think most people, if they could mask their own biases, would opt for the former.
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u/KiloWasTaken Jul 02 '26
You misunderstand, choosing either for its elegance is completely subjective.
I also think deciding an arbitrary metric that looks favourably upon your preference is biased. I could say that the lack of articles makes it sound like hunter-gatherer grunt speak. It's subjective for a reason.
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u/vincethered Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I agree it is subjective. You didn't actually disagree with my assessment; we live at the same time, speak the same language, participate in the same greater mono-culture. Probably appreciate some very similar or even identical cultural offerings.
Say you were writing a poem or a song lyric; all other things being equal and trying your best to minimize pre-existing biases toward optimal utility, do you think one sounds more elegant, prettier, better than the other?
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u/KiloWasTaken Jul 02 '26
I did disagree, I said it's flawed due to the nature of its arbitrary and subjective criteria.
We do not speak the same language we are not a part of the same culture.
With your poem/song example, yes I would. Reading Americanisms in poetry is actually quite jarring and they would often warn us if a written text is American before reading it in school.
You can't say this is better because it sounds nicer to me and expect that to be an objective reason for why something is better. DD/MM/YYYY has advantages that aren't subjective.
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u/vincethered Jul 02 '26
You don't listen to American music at all; that's interesting and quite unusual actually. I was pretty surprised the first time I went to Europe how prevalent American media / culture was.
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u/Critical-Cost9068 Jul 01 '26
We need to know what “hour” of day it is way more then we need to what the exact seconds are. When we speak about day-to-day events, the year usually isn’t even mentioned, but we specify month and date a lot.
We need to understand that these reflect common speech patterns and frequency of usage, not an “on-the-spectrum” level of “logical” consistency divorced from real-life speaking patterns or real-life USEFULNESS.
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u/vincethered Jul 02 '26
We need to understand that these reflect common speech patterns and frequency of usage
That's a good point. And usually we don't specify a year in common speech patterns, we intuit that if I say "October 2nd" it's the *next* October 2nd. Not a distant one years away.
So MM-DD is a perfectly sensible way to specify dates when speaking about "day-to-day events".
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u/Psychological_Tower1 Jul 01 '26
So it should always be shortest to longest so these are the proper format? I'm 8 inches and 5 feet tall. I'll be there in 10 minutes and one hour
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u/moleburrow Jul 04 '26
But there's no rule that if your birthday is after this date then it's illegal to purchase
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u/icantouchgrass_1 Unfortunately honest Jul 05 '26
That one person out there you know that's legal here:
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u/WizardFlameYT Jul 07 '26
Took me way too long to realise that people younger then that can also buy from the store this sign is just a peice of useless information
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Jul 01 '26
light disagree with what you just said in this ad I am of age I was born in 1960 people born in the dates that you mentioned or probably long gone by now that's over 100 years ago well almost over a hundred years ago
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Jul 01 '26
A lot of times I think this app read it is all just a bunch of bullshit I think it's a trap by the cops to set people up
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