Achmed the terrorist
Posted by AnonymumMar 14

That’s who I look like in my passport photo!
FFS, how do they do it?
I hate having my photo taken at the best of times, and maybe that comes through, who knows, but it seems to me every time a passport pic gets done, it’s always THE worst pic you ever saw.
Unless it’s a drivers license, because they’re just as bad.
Do they trawl the community for the most inept person they can find, or maybe it’s part of the key selection criteria for the job??
I can see the ad now.
WANTED
THE most useless photographer ever born, to take passport and license photos.
Must have the eye of a blind man for focusing and be able to make people look as if they belong behind bars.
No experience required, however good timing would be an advantage, because it is essential to ensure a person is blinking as the photo is taken.
Debating skills could also be useful in order to argue with the subject when they demand another pic be taken, as we are not allowed to do this.
Determination would be advantagous in this area.
It’s a photo. I have an 8 year old granddaughter that could do better than some of these fucking morons.
How badly do I want to take that camera and shove it up this bloke’s arse, you ask??
VERY BADLY!!!
Before anyone asks, NO, I will NOT be posting the pic.
Those we’re going to see may, just MAY, see it once we’re there, but other than that, only customs will have the {dubious} pleasure.











11 comments
Comment by anja on March 14, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I look like a combination of a junkie and a serial killer in all photo ID.
Comment by Ian on March 14, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Passport and license photos are always shockers. Fortunately only a few people ever get to see them.
Comment by Gemisht on March 14, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Umm if you look like Achmed then you must need at least one really good feed – hope you don’t have the same leg/hip problem as him too…… :)
Seriously, all these ID photos are the same – designed to make us all look reeeeeaaaaallllllly bad. So, you gunna show me the picture when in Sydney on your way yonder in July????? :)
Comment by cowgalutah on March 15, 2009 at 2:26 am
I asked my husband once why his work ID had such a crappy photo, his reply “I work for the government…we have the same photographers as the drivers license department.”
Comment by Mistress B on March 15, 2009 at 12:45 pm
And then some of them ask you if you want to smile……. why bother. Smiling isn’t going to make the crappiest of crappy photo’s any better!!! lol
Comment by michaelm on March 15, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Enough Maker’s Mark and you WILL show me anything . . .
Or, I’ll go the easy way and just ask Mark.
~m
Comment by michaelm on March 15, 2009 at 2:02 pm
btw- I love, love, love the ‘roo on the Passport.
Too cool.
Glad you got it.
I’m assuming Mark got his as well?
~m
Comment by Widdle Shamrock on March 15, 2009 at 2:46 pm
We are not allowed to smile in our passport photos.
I look constipated in my photo.
Comment by Gemisht on March 15, 2009 at 8:08 pm
So now wouldn’t be the time to tell Michael that I have seen your Tat??????
Bring on the rumours……. ROFLMAO
Comment by JavaQueen on March 15, 2009 at 9:25 pm
You hit the nail on the head for this one Moe. My previous drivers license was so horrific that people at the store questioned whether or not it was really me. Talk about an embarrassing picture. Then, I lost 85 lbs. and ya really couldn’t tell it was me so I went to the DMV to get a new pic and they didn’t want to let me. I threw a huge tantrum there and they gave me a new pic. The new one isn’t 1/2 bad. Maybe it’s cuz I got my way :)
Comment by Sue (aka LupusRanting) on March 25, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Gotta love those “official” photos. My driver’s license looks like someone who is criminally insane. Maybe that’s because my son was asking me for money just when the shutter clicked. Argghhh! And even though my passport will expire next year, I’ll miss my old photo because (1) I was YOUNGER, and (2) That turtleneck I was sporting hid the beginnings of a double chin.
The ironic thing is that the stupid blind dude taking the photo seemed to think he was quite the photojournalist. Freaking schmuck