Idiots at the till

[GroundEffect]

FiF said:

RizzoTheRat said:

They quite helpfully give you instructions on the screen...but you're not supposed to wear glasses for passport photos and the facial recognition scanners, so when the things not working properly I can't actually see what it's telling me I'm doing wrong!

Eh?

When did that rule come in? No sunglasses, tinted lenses or frames covering the eyes and no glare allowed. But specs are quite Ok afaik.

When I got my passport renewed last month I had to take my glasses off for the photo. And when you go to the biometric scanners it asks you to remove glasses. It just means I am blind walking up to them

[RizzoTheRat]

You can wear glasses on a passport photo, but only providing there's no glare/reflection on them in the photos, which can be quite hard to achieve with a cheapy photo booth.

[FiF]

GroundEffect said:

FiF said:

RizzoTheRat said:

They quite helpfully give you instructions on the screen...but you're not supposed to wear glasses for passport photos and the facial recognition scanners, so when the things not working properly I can't actually see what it's telling me I'm doing wrong!

Eh?

When did that rule come in? No sunglasses, tinted lenses or frames covering the eyes and no glare allowed. But specs are quite Ok afaik.

When I got my passport renewed last month I had to take my glasses off for the photo. And when you go to the biometric scanners it asks you to remove glasses. It just means I am blind walking up to them

Well that's daft. Just checked rules and it seems even passport office can't make its mind up. Advice to photographers suggests getting people to remove specs but their other advice is per my earlier post.

[jesta1865]

uncinqsix said:

steveo3002 said:

same with customs forms , youve sat on the plane bored for hours on end so why not wait until youre in the line at the customs to start filling it out

After one recent flight I was on, several planes had all arrived at the same time so there was a 40 minute queue at customs. This plonker in front of me didn't bother filling in his form until he was right in front of the agent, who promptly sent him right back to the end of the queue for wasting everyone's time. Very satisfying

found a few years back a good way round the q's at customs, I am sure i've mentioned it before, but it has worked for me and few people who have tried it.

we landed at brisbane international one tuesday morning in an a380 along with 2 other a380 and a 747 megatop, so masses of people.

as i'm diabetic we declared the needles and drugs etc, wandered down to the drug sniffer dog, got a clean bill of health and asked if we needed to join the back of the q, got told no you're done.

if it had been a cartoon then i think the glares from the people in the other lanes would have left 4 smoking boots on the floor next to a couple of cases

[DeuxCentCinq]

Sargeant Orange said:

Stood behind a tard in Subway earlier:

"What salad would you like?"

"Everything"

"Apart from sweetcorn, olives, jalapeño, peppers etc"

"So lettuce, cucumber & tomato then?"

"um, yeah"

My wife's order is everything. All the salad. Yes, including the jalapenos. And pickles. And olives. Everything. Yes, and carrot. And sweetcorn. Everything. This can take some explaining to the mouth breathers who seem to staff my local branch.

My order is even worse. Tandoori chicken salad bowl please. "What kind of bread?" Er, a salad bowl. "Yeah, but what bread?!" Pointing at the bread explanation board....

[dudleybloke]

8Ace said:

mightymouse said:

FiF said:

Turned out what they wanted was Anbesol, for treatment of mouth ulcers, and what they'd initially requested was Anusol a pile ointment.

I'd love to see what happened if they put pile cream in there mouth......can you imagine the question / complaint at the Pharmacy a little while later

The other way round would be hilarious too. Anbesol stings like the rage of an angry hornet when it's applied carefully to your gums. The idea of transferring that agony to your ringpiece brings tears to the eyes.

Just wait till he eats his crab paste sandwiches.