New US Passport Requirements!Follow

Seems excessive.

Surely to grant a passport, all they need to know is if you're a legal citizen. Why all the crap about where your mother lived before you were born?

Joining the military will soon be the only option if you want to see the world as an American?

You mean no more people waddling around Trafalgar square and pronouncing stuff wrongly...and loudly? Sounds good to me.

No like. Want US money in my bank accounts

Then you didn't look at the mock up questionnaire.

So they can prove that presidential candidates were born in the US.

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Honestly, the whole thing sounds like a hoax to me. While I'm sure the DoS may indeed be proposing a new application form, the only source for the new form itself comes from a third party and not the government. If that form is true, it seems... excessive.


Perhaps it's only intended for people already identified as at risk or something? Or naturalized citizens from certain countries for which birth certificates aren't available? Dunno. I just find it hard to believe that this would be a standard form required for getting a passport.

It does say that the form is not for all applicants, my guess is that it only applies to current presidents.

And people with beards. Or turbans. Or if they are called something that sounds a bit foreign, I expect.

Section C is the only odd ball.

We're allowed up to 6 siblings but only 2 children?

There is also not enough spaces for all the schools I attended. I couldn't even fit my Elementary Schools in the fields provided.

"Tipping; unsuccessful with cows, instant success with money."

WTF!? There's no way I could fill one of these out. My first job was at 13, and the place is closed now, run by an old guy who retired and is probably dead now. Most of my after-school and summer time jobs are closed, or the business has moved suburbs. Even the university department I worked for during student years was shut down after my time.

Most of those above have numbers and addresses I don't know any more, and I haven't kept the old address books. Same for my old places of residence. God knows what my mother can remember or has kept address books of. The years around my birth were very chaotic, she moved a lot. I've moved around a bit myself. If I was estranged from my mother, instead of my father, I doubt I could answer any of the "mother" section. As it is she might be able to dig around for a sixth of the information.

The hospital I was born in? Closed, demolished, and a very fine shopping centre and office buildings built on the prime city block. My mother might be able to remember the name of her gynecologist when she had me, but not anyone else. He'd be dead now. All she's told me about my birth was that the nurses were nasty, and forced her to have a shower when she was in agony and couldn't cope with it. Also, she had to fight them to get them to leave me in the room with her during her stay, because it was still the bad old days of mid-20th century medicine.

Any religious ceremony for my birth likely involved some pagan rite with lots of drugs and group sex.

On the up side, you're Australian, aren't you?

I don't think Moe really cares what the outside world thinks of Americans. He's been pretty clear about that, so even raising the point was useless.

You don't filter him out as well do you? You really shouldn't just filter out the opinions that differ from yours.

Heck no, just Gbaji.

Gbaji longwinded was one thing, Gbaji longwindedly incoherently illogical was another thing. Totally infuriating.

I actually appreciate Moe and Totem for being coherent and mildly intelligent about their non-Aripyanfar paradigms.

Edited, May 3rd 2011 5:55am by Aripyanfar

Moe's an @#%^ and proud of it. You're not going to get him to consider the views of others. Ari, I expected more from.

On the lake of contrary opinions, Ari is but an oiled duck.

I can, because I know you feel guilt.

They aren't humorless, their humor is just very efficient.

Sounds like they want to be able to deny Obama a passport.

This is an assumption that people make that really should be addressed. Being dismissive is not evidence that I don't consider the views of others. Being an @#%^ is not evidence that I don't consider the views of others. In fact, I consider the views of others very carefully in every decision that I make and every position that I take. It would be foolish of me to cavalierly dismiss the world view and experience of others. To do so would severely limit my ability to make clear, well thought out, effective decisions.

I have simply come to the realization that most of you mother f'uckers are dumber than a pet rock and have nothing to offer an intelligent, coherent conversation, and, as such, the weight given your points of view is quite a bit lower than you may like.

EDIT: F'uck me. A good self aggrandizing rant is ruined when key words are omitted to make the coup de grace read like it was typed by a 6 year old with Down's Syndrome.

Edited, May 3rd 2011 11:17am by MoebiusLord

Yes, I should have added the caveat of "on this forum".