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

[skyscraper101]

Yep - I don't remember, did people start putting Union Jack covers etc. on their passports when the EU ones first came in, or did people have more important shit to worry about in those days?

More important shit to worry about like which Nokia fascia to have and feeding the Tamagotchi.

 

[Spymaster]

You'd have to be a bit of a pathetic child to put that on your passport.

And you have to take the cover off when you present it anyway.

 

[baileyb]

no it wasn't

Then prove the old passport was blue.
upload a pic of it. .

 

[baileyb]

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[baileyb]

I have seen the attachment and the passport is black

 

[Shechemite]

Yeah fuck it why not

 

[Treacle Toes]

Then prove the old passport was blue.
upload a pic of it. .

I still have my old passport. It's still Black.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I still have my old passport. It's still Black.

It's blue. In so much as rossers wear blue as do the Royal Navy. Something, something you can't make pure black...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Well it's either that or she's made a genuine mistake and misread the expiry date (or he's misheard her), which seems unlikely, but the fact that she's allowing the kid to go away with the father's family suggests to me that the father and mother have reached some level of cordiality.

You might be shocked at how low some people go when trying to get back at an ex.

 

[Yossarian]

"I believe the back of my passport will answer any questions you might have about Brexit, Mr. Immigration Officer."

 

[strung out]

Anyone ever had a yellow British passport?

 

[Raheem]

Anyone ever had a yellow British passport?

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I had one of those. They were filled in by hand by the person behind the Post Office counter, so mine said I was born in 'Pontyfract, Wales'.

Also, they were definitely cream, not yellow.

 

[Pickman's model]

Then prove the old passport was blue.
upload a pic of it. .

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.

 

[Spymaster]

Anyone ever had a yellow British passport?

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Not one of those but you used to be able to get a foldout card passport from the post office. They were temporary jobs that only worked in Europe and you had to take a photo of yourself to the post office counter where the chap would stick it on with Prit Stick and stamp it. They stopped them some time ago.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

And you have to take the cover off when you present it anyway.

And it's not as if anyone working at any border anywhere in the world is going to give a flying fuck.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Not one of those but you used to be able to get a foldout card passport from the post office. They were temporary jobs that only worked in Europe and you had to take a photo of yourself to the post office counter where the chap would stick it on with Prit Stick and stamp it. They stopped them some time ago.

Hard to believe now that you could do that! We all had those when we went on foreign exchange visits in the 80s.

 

[Serge Forward]

I'm with Bailey. My old one was definitely black.

It was black but not priest black... just a very very very very... very dark blue.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Is it a consequence of the political direction of last few decades, the atomisation and individualisation and obsession with culture, that means everybody ignores the material stuff and instead bangs on about feeling european or what colour their passport is or whatever, or was it always like this

 

[skyscraper101]

Not one of those but you used to be able to get a foldout card passport from the post office. They were temporary jobs that only worked in Europe and you had to take a photo of yourself to the post office counter where the chap would stick it on with Prit Stick and stamp it. They stopped them some time ago.

I had one of those then I went to France in 1992. Proper flimsy looking thing.

When I was even younger I think I just traveled on my Mum or Dad's passport.

 

[Spymaster]

Is it a consequence of the political direction of last few decades, the atomisation and individualisation and obsession with culture, that means everybody ignores the material stuff and instead bangs on about feeling european or what colour their passport is or whatever, or was it always like this

Nah, it's just the topic of the thread. Loads of others with the serious stuff.

 

[Raheem]

You might be shocked at how low some people go when trying to get back at an ex.

For a second, I thought Urban had started taking advertising from listicle websites. Almost clicked on it.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Anyone ever had a yellow British passport?

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I'd call that peach rather than yellow.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Nah, it's just the topic of the thread. Loads of others with the serious stuff.

I didn't really mean on here, I mean generally, at large - the things that exercise people all seem to be trivial bollocks like this

 

[krtek a houby]

Is it a consequence of the political direction of last few decades, the atomisation and individualisation and obsession with culture, that means everybody ignores the material stuff and instead bangs on about feeling european or what colour their passport is or whatever, or was it always like this

Had a mate who used to bang on to people he'd meet all the time about how he was a European, this was around 30 years ago. He'd lived abroad for a few years and came back to the city, letting everyone know. We were in a pub one night, and the barperson (who was clearly bored by his constant I'm a European mantra) turned around and said to him real deadpan "you're a pain, Sean". That shut him up, for a while.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I didn't really mean on here, I mean generally, at large - the things that exercise people all seem to be trivial bollocks like this

Isn't that what you used to do at school though? Teacher has a lesson plan which is obviously dull as fuck, so you pique their interest with some irreverent bollocks and before you know it the bell's gone and it's time to nip out for a smoke. Every lesson, every day

 

[TopCat]

Everything you say applies equally to the mother though. Just because she wasn’t booking the trip doesn’t mean she had no responsibility. The child lives with her, she’s given her permission for her to travel, she’s probably packed her bags and kissed her goodbye, maybe taken her to the airport. Why wouldn’t she check her passport’s valid?

Im suspicious that the mum wanted it to fuck up to undermine the dad in their daughters eyes and make him look like a cunt in his new family eyes.

That said I have not read the story.

 

[Pickman's model]

Isn't that what you used to do at school though? Teacher has a lesson plan which is obviously dull as fuck, so you pique their interest with some irreverent bollocks and before you know it the bell's gone and it's time to nip out for a smoke. Every lesson, every day

i used to pique their interest with some irrelevant bollocks which often worked better than irreverence.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'd call that peach rather than yellow.

yeh but you name paint shades for a living. i'd call it smoked haddock

 

[TopCat]

Weekend dads get a pass on the trivial stuff like documents or emotional welfare

My arse. Plus you are their dad all the time not just when you see them. You know, as you are an arse all the time but just display this a few times a week like in your post above yeah?

 

[Pickman's model]

Weirdly I'm kind of obsessed by keeping mine in pristine condition.

One thing that always irks me is seeing battered up old passports all scratched up with the cover logo emblem and text worn away so I use one of these plastic covers which I got for a quid.

the passport equivalent of a face mask