What cheeses me off

[drron]

In my day at U SYD it was us public school students who studied hard as that is what we had to do to get in.
Private school students he had been spoon fed and not used to working hard.

 

[MARTINE]

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Surely this grade A compost is not for real.

 

[dajop]

Surely this grade A compost is not for real.

Just one of these ...

 

[Cossie]

Do any other countries immigration systems require you to print a piece of paper with a photograph of your face on it, what a waste of ink and paper, not to mention time.
Of course I'm talking about first world countries.
As I said earlier, even Albania had a simple one step process.

Maybe I'm just tired and crotchety, I'm certainly over travel at the moment, this year has been an absolute shocker, partly driven by the antics of a certain egotistical clown.

I forgot to mention that Indonesian customs also took great interest in her stick of deodorant, swabbing that as well, I felt like we were in a Month Python sketch.
Of course going though domestic security in Melbourne the ipad in my carryon bag had to be swabbed for possible explosives, really, maybe I do look like the unabomber....

 

[RooFlyer]

Do any other countries immigration systems require you to print a piece of paper with a photograph of your face on it, what a waste of ink and paper, not to mention time.

The USA did exactly that only a few years ago at least. I have to enter under a Visa not an ESTA so maybe it’s just for that.

 

[serfty]

The USA did exactly that only a few years ago at least. I have to enter under a Visa not an ESTA so maybe it’s just for that.

No, that system was for most, even those with ESTA.

 

[SYD]

The USA did exactly that only a few years ago at least. I have to enter under a Visa not an ESTA so maybe it’s just for that.

No, there was a time even with an ESTA you’d go to a terminal and print the chit before fronting Mr Happy.

Canada has a two step dance but I don’t recall if there’s a bit of paper.