Passport control

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[–] 50 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Americans when no burger: Aw man.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

    As a vegan American traveling in Mexico there were a couple times I got frustrated and ended up just getting an Impossible burger from some hipster looking place. It did make me feel American as fuck.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You couldn't find rice and beans?

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  • [–] 66 points 2 months ago

    My first time traveling internationally, I was by myself at Gatwick airport. I saw the signs with arrows pointing one way for “UK, Channel Islands, and EU” and another way for “All Other Countries” or something like those. I misunderstood that as being for what your destination was, like people simply connecting in London on their way to some other part of the world, but not leaving the airport, needed to follow the second sign. It was only as I got into the lines that I realized the difference was not the destination but what paper you carried. I think since then in other countries I’ve seen them explicitly include “Passports” on those signs, which is clearer.

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  • [–] 112 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Why, because they can't read German or English?

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  • [–] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Because they are angry that they can't get a burger without being EU citizens

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Am confuse, it says Bürger, not Burger.

    Also it's singular, what self-respecting American would get derailed by the promise of a single burger? Had it said "king sized double double down meal with a glazed donut burger on the side", then sure.

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    In Dutch we call the mayor a burgermeester, which can be literally translated into burger master.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    There were couple of ... um, puppet animators back in the 1970's who did a bunch of holiday specials, Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass. The villain in one of their specials is named Burgermeister Meisterburger.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Some of those signs don't have the translation underneath.

    I see those and think, "Well yeah, I could eat a burger"

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Is it because it says burger?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Do I go on the burger side? Will there be fries?

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    "To help us reach our goal of releasing Star Citizen from early access within more than 50% of its backers' lifetimes, we've partnered with Burger King..."

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Customs is stressful, a burger sounds great, can I get some fries, too?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    TBF, it should read “alle anderen Passe”

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Well, the funny bit is that the "All passports" side will also accept EU passports, so if you have an EU passport and the "EU Citizens" side has a line and the other doesn't (which, granted, tends to be rare), you can go to the "All passports" side.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    However that line is much longer, as the processing of each person takes longer to process.

    I did it once while distracted and the immigration guy just looked at me with a Wtf face and said, you know you can go there, right? And waived me through.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I feel like in the US, the sign would say "all passports" but everyone would tacitly understand it excludes US passports.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I think the understanding of most people here in Europe is also similar.

    However officially you can go via the "All passports" lane when having an EU passport and at most you'll get a funny look from the person doing passport control.

    Personally I've done it a couple of times in an airport were you can see all the way to the front of both lanes, simply because both lanes were empty (sometimes I'm one of the first to arrive at passport control from my flight because it's a bit of a walk from the arrival gate to passport control and I'm a fast walker) and the "All passports" lane was the closest one hence it was a shorter walk and faster - it also helps it was in my homeland and the local mindset is to do that kind of silly lazy shortcut so the people controlling the passports totally get it. I think I also did it once elsewhere by mistake because I was distracted.

    Mind you, given the way things became in the US after the Patriot act, I can understand if Americans would already worry that using the "All passports" lane there would end up them somehow interrogated by a TSA agent or some shit like that purely because it looked suspicious, and nowadays they have even more reason to worry.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    The umlaut tells me there are metal citizens over there, so I think I want to go right.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    An auditor trap?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, what's with that map? Don't recognize that city.

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