The Problem with IDs...

johnny_ultimate

So just started college this week, and as my student ID came out of the machine, I just realised that I have a helluva lotta IDs now. For example:
1. Library Card - the original, the best
2. Garda ID - so I can go out
3. Student ID - to wander around college grounds aimlessly without getting kicked out
4. USIT card - for cheap stuff
5. Student Travel Card - For those 77 euro monthly tickets
6. Passport - to pass port.
7. Miscellaneous discount cards (probably around 3 or 4 in my wallet at the moment) - Spend 500 euro, get 1 euro back!
8. Bank card - to live
9. European Health insurance card - in case of emergency
10. Video Shop cards - have at least two of them

I could go on, but is there really a necessity to create such bulging wallets? Is it not possible to create one uber ID card, a smart card if you will? Or do we have to live in a society where pretty much every activity we partake in requires a photo ID of some description?

aidan_walsh

Is it not possible to create one uber ID card, a smart card if you will?

Because that idea went down a bomb last time Tony Blair mentioned it...

Pigman II

Or you could just bring the particular card(s) you need for any given occasion.

Or do you regularily leave the house , withdraw cash from an ATM-'M', buy your monthly travel pass, pick up a video and some books, take a trip into town for some bargain shopping, come back out and wander around college grounds, go drinking, have an accident and then round it all off by leaving the country?

Kintarō Hattori

Pigman II wrote:

Or you could just bring the particular card(s) you need for any given occasion.

Or do you regularily leave the house , withdraw cash from an ATM-'M', buy your monthly travel pass, pick up a video and some books, take a trip into town for some bargain shopping, come back out and wander around college grounds, go drinking, have an accident and then round it all off by leaving the country?

Ahh made me laugh.

johnny_ultimate

Pigman II wrote:

Or you could just bring the particular card(s) you need for any given occasion.

Or do you regularily leave the house , withdraw cash from an ATM-'M', buy your monthly travel pass, pick up a video and some books, take a trip into town for some bargain shopping, come back out and wander around college grounds, go drinking, have an accident and then round it all off by leaving the country?

Youve just summed up my average week day right there

irlrobins

johnny_ultimate wrote:

9. European Health insurance card - in case of emergency

This is of course useless unless you actually leave the country.

Ruu_Old

Just melt or compress all your ID cards into one, problem solved. *dusts hands*:)

melekalikimaka

you dont need most of them at all in your wallet....passport??? discount cards??? video cards???when does someone ever leave the house with the intention of leaving the country AND renting a movie?

johnny_ultimate

Admittedly i dont bring around my passport all the time. My point is I just feel it is completely unneccessary to have so many different forms of identification. True, I may only have three or four cards on me at a time, but its just so many things seem to need an ID these days.

abetarrush

We shud jus have little fobs like the ones for ur Tesco clubcard
[best invention everrrr!]

All the card has is a magnetic strip that isnt used

Ive loads too

Garda ID
Library Cards
Tesco Card
Dunnes Card
Game Reward Card
HMV Gift Card
Callcard
College ID
ATM Card
Student Travel Card
Discount Cards
Paltinum Card
Credit Card
PPS Card
HSE Card

Black Swan

Some people now put a microchip implant in their dog that IDs them, with plenty of capacity to store their license information, home address, phone number, vet history, bite history, territory squirting history, and whatever else. Just think (or don't think), you could have a microchip implanted in your head and do away with all these cards... Just think want happens if it should crash or get mistakenly programmed with your dog's history? Woof, woof, pant, pant, scratch, scratch.

astrofool

It would be great if they could make the driving license credit card size for one thing. For the rest though, the big problem is people don't really have a plan when they go out, so just take a default set of cards with them. I know alot of places can add purchase points by just looking up your details, but I don't think anybody (besides people into insurance fraud) go out with the idea of getting hurt.

You should only ever bring your passport when you're travelling out of the country.

poppins9000

whats your platinum card? is it the card with discount entry to clubs in dublin if so where did you get it?? or is it just a visa type yoke?? thanks.

1huge1

are you forgetting your social security card?

Random

1huge1 wrote:

are you forgetting your social security card?

And your birth cert

abetarrush

cert

its not a card


Yeah, the platinum card is a discount card, ye get one when u open a 3rd Level students account

shane86

Why are ID photos so bad?

My Passport photo- so gangster it looks like it could be used in a Paul Williams article in the Sunday World.
Work ID- all my friends think it looks tough, but tbh I think i just look very hungover
Old student travelcard (that I still use, they seldom notice the expiry date )- Ive been told I look like a shorter haired Hugh Grant in that mugshot they took after he was caught with the prostitute
Old student ID (still use it for discounts)- Crap. Just plain crap