Brits told not to smile
Aug 10th 2004, 11:03 am
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Re: Brits told not to smile
"Gregory Morrow" wrote
> Sjoerd wrote:
>>A Home Office spokesman said: "When the mouth is open it can make it
>>difficult for facial recognition technology to work effectively."
>Brits have *awfully* crummy teeth, Sjoerd...and you Hollanders aren't too
>far behind in the "rotted teeth" category, either...it's no wonder this
>advisory has gone out.
I thought it was all a sop to your heimland securitaet geezer
> Sjoerd wrote:
>>A Home Office spokesman said: "When the mouth is open it can make it
>>difficult for facial recognition technology to work effectively."
>Brits have *awfully* crummy teeth, Sjoerd...and you Hollanders aren't too
>far behind in the "rotted teeth" category, either...it's no wonder this
>advisory has gone out.
I thought it was all a sop to your heimland securitaet geezer
Aug 10th 2004, 7:30 pm
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Re: Brits told not to smile
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:39:30 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Sjoerd wrote:
>> "£¢$¥" <£¢$¥@phantom.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:[email protected]. ..
>> > Hi,
>> > Me and my Texas family will be visiting Europe real soon (thanks for
>> the
>> > heads up on the Euro travel gear!), but I don't know all of these words.
>> > What's a "wanker" and should I use this word a lot all over Europe?
>> That word is particularly popular in English pubs frequented by football
>> ("soccer") fans. When you enter just say "Hi there you wankers!" and
>you'll
>> be made very welcome. It means something like "buddy", "friend" and
>> "comrade" all in one word.
>"wank" = "masturbate"
You are kidding?
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Sjoerd wrote:
>> "£¢$¥" <£¢$¥@phantom.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:[email protected]. ..
>> > Hi,
>> > Me and my Texas family will be visiting Europe real soon (thanks for
>> the
>> > heads up on the Euro travel gear!), but I don't know all of these words.
>> > What's a "wanker" and should I use this word a lot all over Europe?
>> That word is particularly popular in English pubs frequented by football
>> ("soccer") fans. When you enter just say "Hi there you wankers!" and
>you'll
>> be made very welcome. It means something like "buddy", "friend" and
>> "comrade" all in one word.
>"wank" = "masturbate"
You are kidding?
Aug 10th 2004, 7:41 pm
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Re: Brits told not to smile
On 10 Aug 2004 16:03:14 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> I thought it was all a sop to your heimland securitaet geezer
Was that supposed to be German?
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> I thought it was all a sop to your heimland securitaet geezer
Was that supposed to be German?
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Aug 10th 2004, 7:43 pm
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Re: Brits told not to smile
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:50:48 GMT, Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Sjoerd wrote:
>
>> "Gregory Morrow" <[email protected]> schreef in
>> bericht news:[email protected] ink.net...
>>> Sjoerd wrote:
>>> > A Home Office spokesman said: "When the mouth is open it can make it
>>> > difficult for facial recognition technology to work effectively."
>>> Brits have *awfully* crummy teeth, Sjoerd...and you Hollanders aren't
> too
>>> far behind in the "rotted teeth" category, either...it's no wonder this
>>> advisory has gone out.
>> Trolls like you have the worst teeth...and smell bad too......
>
> Tut, tut Sjoerd...I'm just trying to enliven the summer doldrums of Usenet a
> bit.....
Couldn't you find anything less original to use?
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> Sjoerd wrote:
>
>> "Gregory Morrow" <[email protected]> schreef in
>> bericht news:[email protected] ink.net...
>>> Sjoerd wrote:
>>> > A Home Office spokesman said: "When the mouth is open it can make it
>>> > difficult for facial recognition technology to work effectively."
>>> Brits have *awfully* crummy teeth, Sjoerd...and you Hollanders aren't
> too
>>> far behind in the "rotted teeth" category, either...it's no wonder this
>>> advisory has gone out.
>> Trolls like you have the worst teeth...and smell bad too......
>
> Tut, tut Sjoerd...I'm just trying to enliven the summer doldrums of Usenet a
> bit.....
Couldn't you find anything less original to use?
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Tim C.
Aug 10th 2004, 8:44 pm
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Re: Brits told not to smile
Following up to [email protected]
>>"wank" = "masturbate"
>You are kidding?
he's not kidding.
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>>"wank" = "masturbate"
>You are kidding?
he's not kidding.
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Mike Reid
If god wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made animals out of meat.
Wasdale-Lake district-Thames path-London "http://www.fellwalk.co.uk" <-- you can email us@ this site
Eat-walk-Spain "http://www.fell-walker.co.uk" <-- dontuse@ all, it's a spamtrap
Aug 10th 2004, 9:07 pm
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Re: Brits told not to smile
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:44:53 +0100, The Reids
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Following up to [email protected]
>>>"wank" = "masturbate"
>>You are kidding?
>he's not kidding.
What a to$$er :-)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Following up to [email protected]
>>>"wank" = "masturbate"
>>You are kidding?
>he's not kidding.
What a to$$er :-)
Aug 11th 2004, 2:43 am
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Re: Brits told not to smile
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:34:40 +0100, in rec.travel.europe, "nightjar"
<nightjar@<insert_my_surname_here>.uk.com> arranged some electrons, so they looked like
this :
...
... "Sjoerd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
... news:[email protected]...
... > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3541444.stm
... >
... > Travellers have been ordered not to look too happy in their passport
... > photographs to avoid confusing facial recognition scanners.
... > Toothy, open mouthed grins are being outlawed from the tiny 35mm by 45mm
... > photographs because they will throw off scanners used at airports.
...
... Strictly speaking, they never were permitted. It mattered less when it was a
... human who had to do the recognition.
We are becoming obsolete. :-(
<nightjar@<insert_my_surname_here>.uk.com> arranged some electrons, so they looked like
this :
...
... "Sjoerd" <[email protected]> wrote in message
... news:[email protected]...
... > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3541444.stm
... >
... > Travellers have been ordered not to look too happy in their passport
... > photographs to avoid confusing facial recognition scanners.
... > Toothy, open mouthed grins are being outlawed from the tiny 35mm by 45mm
... > photographs because they will throw off scanners used at airports.
...
... Strictly speaking, they never were permitted. It mattered less when it was a
... human who had to do the recognition.
We are becoming obsolete. :-(
