It's refreshing to have this kind of regular peak behind the curtains. Thanks for the post, Lodion!

Thanks :)

Donated. Appreciate the great work!

Haha thank you, appreciated it :)

I thought the same thing, but the trick mentioned on the esafety site is:

eSafety expects that all service providers with Australian end-users assess whether their services are age-restricted social media platforms and therefore required to comply with the SMMA obligation.

Now whether they can enforce (or care to enforce) is another thing. But they certainly seem to be pushing the obligation down to anyone running a service that could run afoul of the legislation.

I've upped my monthly to a tenner, cause I'm a big spender

Inappropriate, but fun! 🤣

that one was hilarious, dad had electric hot water but a gas stove, we had gas hot water but an electric stove. We worked it out.

Same, rather stop using than go through hoops. This site and everything else.

It's crude, but effective.

Oh yeah.....oh I had suppressed that memory. I remember now.

I still like it on occasion, but there is always 1 dodgy flavour in the packet that gets binned

People putting inappropriate hand prints on each other's clothes all the time

Just want to add at this point that I am loving this post and all the responses. Getting old is so bittersweet 😔

Junket! I remember the smell of junket tablets 🤤

64 year old response right there

Yeah HyperCard was a bit before my time.

I do remember hypercolour which was something completely different

This would be actually one of the better ways to verify. No faces involved, and the government gets its wish of verification. A win for everyone. Now if all other sites followed this, would make things plenty easier at the least.

What about HyperCard? I remember being really excited when HyperCard came out with colour…

Oh god. Does anyone remember FoxPro

I didn’t actually watch it, I initially thought it was a government initiative/tuckshop thing like the free milk. Then when I saw free breakfast was still happening (so not useful for age purposes) I just googled Queensland breakfast club and the time matched up.

So technically I cheated. Sorry Agro.

However I do remember when you would buy jam in tins. Sliced pickled cucumbers too. And I remember being served pink junket. And being given cod liver oil.

I wasn’t vaccinated but was simply allowed to catch chickenpox >:( This was probably outdated even at the time (making me sound older than I am) but parents did historically hold ‘pox parties’ to get it over with all at once.

I haven't looked at the dms in over a day, but to that point, exactly zero of the responses included a face, or anything identifiable.

The answer to your direct question is "yes", alcohol served to you at a restaurant would be just as fine as alcohol in a bar. The point to it is the setting. A kid can raid mum and Dad's liquor cabinet and pose a photo. Doing that in a restaurant is not so doable.

As a general guide for whatever you choose: what we are looking for is essentially 'could a kid have sent this?'

Only a 3-4 people had gone the alcohol route when I last checked.

Talk to molly about your mangina !

So, would posting at a not a bar, but a restaurant that also sells alcohol with a user name written with something like Rekorderlig (Swedish brand of Cider) also be acceptable? If so, I think that just might be doable. Better than being obliged to show a face at all.

It was!