We’re going overseas next year, so the time has come to look at silly essential things like passports, visas etc.
So, with this in mind I started researching what we would need in order to obtain these fripperies necessities.
Thus the post title come to mind, as did the pic. I’ve been sitting on this pic for some time waiting for the perfect opportunity to use it.
Well I’ve fucking found it now!!
To get a passport I require:
Drivers licence {easy peasy}
Medicare card {again, easy}
Full birth certificate {extract will NOT suffice, which is what they issue ordinarily, and of course, what I have}
Now, because I don’t live in the state I was born in, the process becomes more complicated because I have to take all relevant docmentation to a police station to have it verified before I can send it away to the state where I was born.
Add that to having been married in another state again, it just keeps getting better!
Ok, birth certificate. Go to Births, Deaths and Marriages for the relevant state.
You ever tried to navigate your way around a government site? Shit, you need a compass, sextant, packed lunch and a sleeping bag just to find the section you need!!
Am I the only one has difficulty with these fricking sites?? Why, why oh why can they not just have little links that say “Go here, click this, do that, press the purple button” and Bob’s your Uncle?
Hell no!! Instead you end up with 103 pop up windows all telling you the same fucking thing, by which time you’re secretly plotting to over throw the bastards in THE bloodiest coup ever seen in the history of man.
Eventually work that out, head off to Births, Deaths and Marriages for the state where we were married.
Guess what? Same shit, different state!! Another packed lunch is required.
Bureaucratic bullshit designed to drive me, you and every other person alive, totally nuts!!
Why do they have to make them so damned difficult to find anything?
Now, I’m not a stupid person, nor am I particularly challenged when it comes to modern day methods of doing thing online. It’s how I do most things, and in fact spend 98% of my free waking moments on the laptop, connected to the net.
I can traverse a {complicated} hosting site, set up a database followed by building a blog, understand some PHP coding, manage to muddle my way through the odd bit of CSS, understand plugins and what they do, manage all my banking online, set up my computer, and many other things to boot.
In the space of 20 minutes, looking for a way to assemble the required information to obtain a full birth certificate, bureaucracy manages to make me feel like some type of dim witted female from the back woods who struggles to comprehend her own name.
The people who make the decisions on how these government sites are laid out need to pull their heads out of their arses and realise it’s every day people who need to use these sites.
Not all of them have an IQ bordering on the genius level you morons!
No wonder the frigging government can’t get anything done. Their convoluted processes, even on websites, excludes actually being able to achieve anything vaguely productive!
Sheesh!
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