Yes…and it always ‘effects‘ them
Mumsnet #30 Six figure salary, never eats a calorie
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I look 21 in my picture, which causes much confusion at border control *tinkly laugh.
I look like I should only be allowed to complete my work with crayons in mine.I look like I have a facial disfigurement in mine, coupled with a severe learning disability
I once had one that looked so much like the famous mug shot of Myra Hindley that passport checkers would recoil slightly and make comment.
The photo/face-scanning gates don't actually recognise me from the picture, and I can't tell you how relieved that makes me.I look like I have a facial disfigurement in mine, coupled with a severe learning disability
Border control always ask me why I'm showing them a baby scan. *tinklier laugh*
Border control take one look at my passport photo and ask where my mum is because I look so young.
Well, I always get priority boarding because they assume I have special needs 
Do people really get new photos done? I've had the same photo since my first passport when I was 5, I haven't changed at all. Probably because I've never had a McDonald's.
Maybe its the EOD (Early onset Dementia) but I did actually go to a professional photography salon for my last passport photo (MN would be so proud of me). After nearly 40 years of awful photos I decided to spend £20 to treat myself to a nice photo. It's actually nicer than I look in real life but I'm yet to test it on an automatic gate to see if that causes me a problem.
Pretentious twit of the day award goes to the author of I want to be called Nonna but….
She's not Italian, the grandchild isn't Italian, she just doesn't want to be called Granny. I hope the kid grows up and calls her the very working class Nanna.
She's not Italian, the grandchild isn't Italian, she just doesn't want to be called Granny. I hope the kid grows up and calls her the very working class Nanna.
I wonder when someone will tell her to think herself lucky that she even has grandchildren
Oh yes, I saw that. Im surprised she didn’t do the usual mumsnet cliche about French being the gold standard and expect to be called Mamie.
I did
at the poster who said she shouldn’t call herself Nonna because it sounded too much like nonce.We had the other way round in our family - Grandma and Dave. Similar results though, which infuriated Grandma - god forbid anyone think she was on her second marriage.
I was SO glad to replace my last passport because of the photo. It didn't resemble me in any way, shape or form. I have a very gothicy look, dark hair and I'm naturally favoured to a 'victorian workhouse' complexion. For reasons I still cannot fathom my Mother persuaded me to blonde. This did not go well. It looked bleeping awful and it somehow warmed my complexion. Unfortunately this coincided with my new passport photo......
On arrival in Chicago I was taken to one side and studied intently. After a few minutes the border bloke shouted his mate over. They both looked at the photo and this first one says 'This is her! Thats hilarious' and laughed at me. This was repeated almost every time I needed to use it, "thats not you!!" etc and much staring until they concluded it was.
My current passport is happily a better likeness.
On arrival in Chicago I was taken to one side and studied intently. After a few minutes the border bloke shouted his mate over. They both looked at the photo and this first one says 'This is her! Thats hilarious' and laughed at me. This was repeated almost every time I needed to use it, "thats not you!!" etc and much staring until they concluded it was.
My current passport is happily a better likeness.
I thought one of the joys of grandkids was the names they came up with for you.
My kids called my parents Jonjon and Mygranny ( Always one word. Granny on its own was utterly unacceptable). The in-laws, who I have to stress were bloody lovely and two of the nicest, kindest people I’ve ever met, were Fanny and Grumpy.
Mine used to call my parents "GampaGan" as he thought gran & grampa was one word.
I thought Jennifer Saunders was funny when she said her grandchildren call her Jam Jar because they can't say Grandma.
Don't be fooled!
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