No smiling, huh?
Another photo for the Hall of Shame - Since the Canadian Government has new laws about No Smiling on passport photos, I won’t have any problem because I’m not Canadian, but also because I already smiled all the allowed smiles you’re supposed to smile (excuse the redundant smile) for a document issued by the City of Laval.
You see, when I went to get my library card a couple of years ago, the lady put me in front of a polaroid, asked me to “smile… no, more… no, smile! no, more more more!”, so I gave her a HUGE STUPID smile for her to stop nagging me, thinking that she was going to say “not that big”. Well, I was wrong, she f* took the photo, the little witch. Now I have to carry this horrendous photo of myself and show it at the library every time I want to borrow a book. I’m seriously thinking of going to get a new one. I really have no shame showing this stuff to people here. Scary!
And for your information, here are the specs for the new photos on Canadian Passports. Check the “unacceptable” photos; I wonder if the neutral expression will really help. Anyone can just smile or frown their ass off and their expression will change too and “making it easier for security personnel to recognize travellers from their passports” will be obsolete. I really have to laugh at the way governments deal with security sometimes, but then again… what do I really know.
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