Britain Bans Smiles on Passports

[DudeAsInCool]

Look miserable to help the war on terrorism

By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor

(Filed: 06/08/2004)

Holidaymakers and other overseas travellers were ordered yesterday to play their part in the war on terrorism - by looking miserable on their passport photographs.

Under new security measures all mugshots must in future "show the full face, with a neutral expression and the mouth closed".

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtm.../06/npass06.xml

[Ken]

Not much to smile about anyway.

I say give them a cold look of indifference and perhaps the finger.

[method77]

what the fuck. I think this terror hysteria is getting out of hand

[Wolfie]

Don't you just love it when when ppl start pulling ideas out thier asses to come up with solutions for the terrorism problem?

[Malicious Intent]

lol - I'm going to smurk just enough to annoy them!

Next on the hit-list - turbans.

What a load of crap. This, the "What to do if a terrorist kills everyone" book, potential ID cards, its all gone crazy. I don't remember any of this with the IRA.

[cjules13]

It did a facial recognition project for school and found that we could obtain pretty decent accuracy even if half the face was covered up. Image processing is pretty powerful, but they want their results as close to 100% as possible - hence this new rule.

They just want you to look how you look most of the time...

We're just a few years short of minority report in constant retinal scans...

lol - flip them off :bigsmile:

[Malicious Intent]

In that case cjules13, we should all look seriously pissed off, as that is how we look when we get stopped by the f***ers at security - infact, at an airport in general.

[Umma]

My last passport expired in 99 but here's the 'not smiling' pics from the previous two...

[DudeAsInCool]

On the first picture, I think the finger needs inverted, Umma...

[jipper]

umma you look really different in both photos

[Umma]

On the first picture, I think the finger needs inverted, Umma...

probably... :bigsmile:

umma you look really different in both photos

10 year gap between them jip... 15 & 25

but note, the 'not smiling' thing is nothing new !

[jipper]

yeah but you look really different...

[Umma]

I had a head transplant

[DUTCH-ONLINE]

I had a head transplant

she is looking much younger at this moment than in the 2 picture,s :D :D :D

and that is for real

Edited August 7, 2004 by DUTCH-ONLINE

[Umma]

flattery will get you everywhere

[method77]

enough with all this no-smile non sense. There are more important things to be solved now....

really serious stuff

[DudeAsInCool]

enough with all this no-smile non sense. There are more important things to be solved now....

really serious stuff

:rotfl:

[Umma]

that's really serious

[moodyblue]

Oh my!! That is serious!! And sick :sick: !!!

[slum_goddess]

Dude! y'shoulda told me you were in amsterdam; we coulda hooked up. :P

[DudeAsInCool]

Dude! y'shoulda told me you were in amsterdam; we coulda hooked up. :P

..and gone toe to toe

[slum_goddess]

perhaps even foot in mouth? (my EU size 37,5 or 5 1/2 US).

tease tease tease. :P