Why is 25 the "magic number"?

[CanadianTeke]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Nope, any bar can deny you entrance. They can deny you entrance if they think you're intoxicated, if you arent dressed properly or you don't meet their age standards, pretty much any superfical thing. These are private establishments and they can choose who they let in whether or not you're of legal age or not.

The Devil's Martini in Toronto is a 25+ bar. However I got in because they didn't card me (I can pass for 25...go me!). Anyway, their resoning behind the 25+ age requirment is that they are catering to a "mature" crowd. I can tell you the crowd is not mature in that place (the club sucked!), but that is their resoning.

Legally in Ontario the only way a bar can deny you entrance is if on it's licence says it is for a specific age. That goes for under 19, if it's liquor licence doesn't specifically state that it is 19+ anybody is legally allowed entrance. That being said there really isn't much you can do except call the AGCO which doesn't do much anyways.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by CanadianTeke
Legally in Ontario the only way a bar can deny you entrance is if on it's licence says it is for a specific age. That goes for under 19, if it's liquor licence doesn't specifically state that it is 19+ anybody is legally allowed entrance. That being said there really isn't much you can do except call the AGCO which doesn't do much anyways.

really? Well I don't know what their liquor license says. I still got in anyway, even though I was under their age limit. It was a crappy club anyway, and I won't ever go back...not even when I a "mature" enough.

I thought a bar could legally deny you entrance if you were intoxicated?

[CanadianTeke]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
really? Well I don't know what their liquor license says. I still got in anyway, even though I was under their age limit. It was a crappy club anyway, and I won't ever go back...not even when I a "mature" enough.

I thought a bar could legally deny you entrance if you were intoxicated?

Intoxicated yes, cause thats a liability issue.

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
I'm settling for the hottie young engineer.

LOL! I don't know if Engineering students do this in the US, but Canadian ones don't only dye themselves purple at homecoming games and during Frosh (Freshman Orientation) Week, but right before they graduate, they earn their "iron rings". It's apparently a secret ritual very much like GLO intiation (I don't know the details as I'm not an engineer). The ring is to be worn on your right pinky. Non Engineers can't wear it.

http://www.ironring.ca/

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by Taualumna
What's so special about turning 25?

Getting back to the original question. I don't know why, but turning 25 was much more memorable to me than 30, 40 or 50. I think it was that "quarter of a century" thing.

And the "20's" were fun.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by DeltAlum
Getting back to the original question. I don't know why, but turning 25 was much more memorable to me than 30, 40 or 50. I think it was that "quarter of a century" thing.

And the "20's" were fun.

You liked it better than turning 100?

-Rudey

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by CanadianTeke
Legally in Ontario the only way a bar can deny you entrance is if on it's licence says it is for a specific age. That goes for under 19, if it's liquor licence doesn't specifically state that it is 19+ anybody is legally allowed entrance. That being said there really isn't much you can do except call the AGCO which doesn't do much anyways.

Does that mean that restaurants that require men to wear jackets after 6 pm are technically violating the law?

Originally posted by Taualumna
LOL! I don't know if Engineering students do this in the US, but Canadian ones don't only dye themselves purple at homecoming games and during Frosh (Freshman Orientation) Week, but right before they graduate, they earn their "iron rings". It's apparently a secret ritual very much like GLO intiation (I don't know the details as I'm not an engineer). The ring is to be worn on your right pinky. Non Engineers can't wear it.

http://www.ironring.ca/

Hmm, I'll be sure to ask him that.

Though I'm sure he's had to dye himself something/roll around in something/something like that since he's in a fraternity himself.

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by Rudey
You liked it better than turning 100?

-Rudey

No. One hundred was the best. Made all of those 75-80 year old sorority babes swoon.

Right, Tom?

Looking forward to 150.

[ISUKappa]

Originally posted by Taualumna
LOL! I don't know if Engineering students do this in the US, but Canadian ones don't only dye themselves purple at homecoming games and during Frosh (Freshman Orientation) Week, but right before they graduate, they earn their "iron rings". It's apparently a secret ritual very much like GLO intiation (I don't know the details as I'm not an engineer). The ring is to be worn on your right pinky. Non Engineers can't wear it.

http://www.ironring.ca/

I don't think my engineer husband did anything like that, but he's regaled me with enough stories of his own from his fraternity days I wouldn't put it past him.

Originally posted by aurora_borealis
Maybe he has been painted maroon with little kitty kat foot prints in white? You know Wazzu is an ag college, he has probably stepped in some STANK stuff. By the looks of his brothers at football games, one can only imagine what he did while an undergrad

I KNOW.

That's why you're going to drive to Wazzu and get yo'self a man who will buy you dinner at 11:30 at night. No more furniture ppl for you toots.

[AGDee]

I would pay BIG money to be 25 again...

Dee

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by Taualumna
LOL! I don't know if Engineering students do this in the US, but Canadian ones don't only dye themselves purple at homecoming games and during Frosh (Freshman Orientation) Week, but right before they graduate, they earn their "iron rings". It's apparently a secret ritual very much like GLO intiation (I don't know the details as I'm not an engineer). The ring is to be worn on your right pinky. Non Engineers can't wear it.

http://www.ironring.ca/

They do NOT do that here.

[kappaloo]

Originally posted by bcdphie
From a marketing point of view, turning 25 moves you into the next demographic age level (at least in Canada it does) - welcome to the demographic: 25-54.

That means next year I will be in the same demographic as my MOTHER and FATHER. EWWWWWWWWW! :P

Originally posted by Taualumna
LOL! I don't know if Engineering students do this in the US, but Canadian ones don't only dye themselves purple at homecoming games and during Frosh (Freshman Orientation) Week, but right before they graduate, they earn their "iron rings". It's apparently a secret ritual very much like GLO intiation (I don't know the details as I'm not an engineer). The ring is to be worn on your right pinky. Non Engineers can't wear it.
http://www.ironring.ca/

It's not actually a secret ceremony. All engineers are given copies of the ritual before the ceremony and don't ask for it back. I would call the ceremony 'private' more than anything...

However, the jack@$$es at my university use it an excuse to run around campus drunk all day before the ceremony disturbing classes. I never cared much about it, but last year they interupted a review session a couple of my co-workers were putting on - defacing the materials and scaring the students.

If a GLO ever did that, we'd be absolutely murdered by the adminstrations. But since it's the Engineers, everyone looks the other way.

[BabyP]

i think people rather say they are 25+ than to say they are closer to 30.