Around here, some doormen/people selling alcohol/other people with some sort of inferiority compex refuse to accept anything other than BRITISH ID cards or driver's licenses, and tell everyone to walk around with their passports to clubs, pubs, and Tesco. Which is great if, apart from losing your passport, you risk losing your visa as well, which will create all sorts of bureaucratic hassle. I lack a driver's license and use my Swedish ID-card instead, which means I usually end up having to give the person looking at it a lecture on how to interpret it. Despite the fact that everything on there is in English. The usual exchange is:
"Do you have any ID on you?"
"Sure." *Hands over card*
"What's this?"
Well what the fuck did you just ask me for two seconds ago? My photo-ID library card, issued by a bank? "An ID card, it's Swedish."
"It doesn't have your date of birth on it."
Why would I have an ID card without my date of birth on it? So that I can prove that my name really is my name, should I end up having a disagreement with someone who doubts the existence of a name such as mine? "Yeah it does, right there" *points*
"Where?"
"There."
"Where?"
"There! It says date of birth right above it." In the Queen's bloody English.
"That isn't a birth date."
"It is. The year comes first. 1985"
It's not like our cards look like fakes either.