Are you excited by the new blue British passports (made in Poland)?

[Pickman's model]

I am getting the impression that Spymaster is monumentally bored today.

kris has barred him from his ps4

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It was actually a silver lining - if we hadn't had that happen in April, we would have fucked up our actual family holiday a few months later - imagine rocking up to the airport and only then discovering all three kids had expired passports.

You could have just phoned a friend to take the kids home while you and the Mrs went anyway

 

[Spymaster]

You could have just phoned a friend to take the kids home while you and the Mrs went anyway

It was a school trip. All the other kids did go anyway.

 

[baileyb]

i am contesting your 'it was completely different'. and i have uploaded a picture of the auld passport. the new passport retains the 'let the bearer pass without let or hindrance'. it retains the picture page with signature etc. it retains the pages for stamps and endorsements. it is for all intents and purposes identical to the previous incarnation save the withdrawal of the european union bits.

 

[baileyb]

i am contesting your 'it was completely different'. and i have uploaded a picture of the auld passport. the new passport retains the 'let the bearer pass without let or hindrance'. it retains the picture page with signature etc. it retains the pages for stamps and endorsements. it is for all intents and purposes identical to the previous incarnation save the withdrawal of the european union bits.

well the 2 passports are different. the old one was a hardback black passport, with a space for holders name at the top handwritten and the passport number at the bottom. The new passport is blue and is soft like the current burgundy one. So how is it not different? Wheres the pic? I cant see it. However someone uploaded a pic of the old passport and its black.

 

[Pickman's model]

well the 2 passports are different. the old one was a hardback black passport, with a space for holders name at the top handwritten and the passport number at the bottom. The new passport is blue and is soft like the current burgundy one. So how is it not different? Wheres the pic? I cant see it. However someone uploaded a pic of the old passport and its black.

i can post the picture for you but i cannot see it for you.

please correct me if i am wrong, but you seem to be saying that because one was black and hardcover with the carrier's name and passport number on the front, and the new one is blue and softcover, the two documents are "completely different".

there are as you point out differences. but the differences are of so minor an order, and so completely outweighed by the similarities, which include a) purpose; b) the quimmy coat of arms on the front; c) the name, date and place of birth, signature and photograph on the same page; d) the inclusion of pages for stamps and other marks; e) details of a person to contact in the case of emergency and f) the admonition to let the bearer pass without let or hindrance, that only a pointless pedant could declare the new passport and the auld utterly divorced from each other

 

[baileyb]

i can post the picture for you but i cannot see it for you.

please correct me if i am wrong, but you seem to be saying that because one was black and hardcover with the carrier's name and passport number on the front, and the new one is blue and softcover, the two documents are "completely different".

there are as you point out differences. but the differences are of so minor an order, and so completely outweighed by the similarities, which include a) purpose; b) the quimmy coat of arms on the front; c) the name, date and place of birth, signature and photograph on the same page; d) the inclusion of pages for stamps and other marks; e) details of a person to contact in the case of emergency and f) the admonition to let the bearer pass without let or hindrance, that only a pointless pedant could declare the new passport and the auld utterly divorced from each other

Well they are different please see the pics that I uploaded of both passports. I just dont like being told that we are going back to the original passports when its not true. Are we also going back to the original routemaster buses or anything else that was taken away and replaced? No, of course not.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It was a school trip. All the other kids did go anyway.

No I mean if he'd turned up at the airport for the family holiday only to find that the kids passports were all out of date.

 

[Sasaferrato]

No.

 

[pogofish]

. So how is it not different? Wheres the pic? I cant see it. However someone uploaded a pic of the old passport and its black.

Its not particularly different - Most current/modern passports are designed to conform to the UN/IACO specifications for air transit - in size, information contained and readability (machine or otherwise) - The IACO being of course an international body based in Montreal, Canada.

The old passport was a very deep blue, although it looked black in some light conditions.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Well they are different please see the pics that I uploaded of both passports. I just dont like being told that we are going back to the original passports when its not true. Are we also going back to the original routemaster buses or anything else that was taken away and replaced? No, of course not.

You're right of course. We are not going back to those old passports. We are getting a standard passport which is identical in every physical way to the current passports. Just a different colour.

 

[Spymaster]

The old passport was a very deep blue, although it looked black in some light conditions.

It looked black in all fucking light conditions. Because it was black.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I can't believe people are wasting their time over this, nor can I believe that I went & dug-out my old passport as a result.

And...

* drum roll *

Spoiler: it's...

FUCKING BLACK!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I can't believe people are wasting their time over this, nor can I believe that I went & dug-out my old passport as a result.

And...

* drum roll *

Spoiler: it's...

FUCKING BLACK!

What colour are copper’s uniforms?

 

[cupid_stunt]

What colour are copper’s uniforms?

Are you suggesting I have one to check?

 

[Pickman's model]

What colour are copper’s uniforms?

As black as their crimes

 

[Pickman's model]

I can't believe people are wasting their time over this, nor can I believe that I went & dug-out my old passport as a result.

And...

* drum roll *

Spoiler: it's...

FUCKING BLACK!

Pics or stfu

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Are you suggesting I have one to check?

No, police woman’s perhaps...

but old school bobby on the beat, or boys in blue, what colour were their tunics?

 

[cupid_stunt]

No, police woman’s perhaps...

but old school bobby on the beat, or boys in blue, what colour were their tunics?

I haven't seen a bobby on the beat in fucking years, and when I did I tended to walk past without any eye contact, nor attention to their uniform.

If I had a spare old one knocking about in a draw, that I could put under a bright desk light & examine with my magnifying glass, I would, but I haven't, so I can't.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I haven't seen a bobby on the beat in fucking years, and when I did I tended to walk past without any eye contact, nor attention to their uniform.

If I had a spare old one knocking about in a draw, that I could put under a bright desk light & examine with my magnifying glass, I would, but I haven't, so I can't.

OK, an easier one; what colour is the uniform of the Royal Navy?

 

[cupid_stunt]

OK, an easier one; what colour is the uniform of the Royal Navy?

I don't record ever encountering anyone from the Royal Navy, so how is that easier?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I don't record ever encountering anyone from the Royal Navy, so how is that easier?

If only there were some global database of literally everything right at your fingertips...

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't record ever encountering anyone from the Royal Navy, so how is that easier?

I don't record everyone I meet either. But I thought your memory would be less decrepit than it turns out to be

 

[Marty1]

British racing green would have been a good call, but navy blue is fine.

Really the change of colour is more symbolic of leaving a failing authoritarian anti-democratic abomination for many.

 

[Pickman's model]

British racing green would have been a good call, but navy blue is fine.

Really the change of colour is more symbolic of leaving a failing authoritarian anti-democratic abomination for many.

The UK is a failing authoritarian anti-democratic abomination

 

[Artaxerxes]

British racing green would have been a good call, but navy blue is fine.

Really the change of colour is more symbolic of leaving a failing authoritarian anti-democratic abomination for many.

And yet here we are under Boris Johnson

 

[Marty1]

And yet here we are under Boris Johnson

Its quite extraordinary.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Bit weird you still need a physical passport come to think of it. You'd reckon you could use an app these days, like with bank cards and tickets and stuff. Matter of time surely

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Bit weird you still need a physical passport come to think of it. You'd reckon you could use an app these days, like with bank cards and tickets and stuff. Matter of time surely

What colour app?

 

[Proper Tidy]

Might email that cummings pretending to be a tech maverick with a great idea to disrupt the staid old passport industry