A Stranger To Me

[Ken4155]

I am not, and nor have i ever been, what one might call photogenic. I am fully aware i am no oil painting (then again, depends upon the artist) but neither do i look like a bulldog licking stale hiss off a nettle. The sides of my mouth turn slightly downward, giving me a surly fizzog.
However, when needed, i can strike a pose so that my children and grandchildren can include photo's of 'dad/grandad' on their phones without scaring anyone who they show them to. But, i have recently had 'passport style' photos taken in Boots kiosk last week for my bus pass, and looking at said photographs now, i do not recognise the guy looking back at me. He looks like Burnley's Most Wanted, as posted on the Police FB pages:-(
Don't know if i'll be able to happily flash this image of myself to the country's bus drivers:-)

[bookbinder]

Show us yer picture, then!

[ubasses]

Don't worry, in my experience they never look at them. Just expect you to put it down on the scanner an move on.

[Togo]

I look like a crimewatch photofit image on my documents.

[emmie]

mine looks like i should a number under my photo, with most wanted....

[david small]

I look surly and dour. Some thing I am. By fifty everyone has the face they deserve. Courtesy of Eric Blair.

[Buenchico]

Anyone who actually looks like their passport photograph is clearly too ill to travel anyway.

[Barmaid]

I look like some inhabitant of a Victorian asylum. It's vile.

[Ken4155]

^
:-))
The more i look at these photos, the more i'm convinced that they belong to someone else, someone with the weight of the world on his shoulders, who probably got fed up waiting while they 'developed' and left the store. Some poor lady has probably ended up with mine and is wondering what on Earth the lockdown has done to her :-)))

[Buenchico]

Yes, Barmaid, but what does your photograph look like?

;-)

[Buenchico]

>>> someone with the weight of the world on his shoulder

Are you sure that you don't mean someone with the weight of the world around his waist, Ken?

;-)

[Vagus]

I look like Id cut my hair myself..which to be fair I had, fringe is about half an inch long.
My other half and our eldest son look perfectly normal, don’t know how they manage it, it’s not their usual look ;)

[Barmaid]

Ha ha, naff off, Buen!

[Peter Pedant]

echo ubasses
you put the ticket down on the scanner it goes green or not
and off you go

I have only had my photie compared once by a monitor
who said is this you?
and I said 'cancer - Christie Hospital'
and she passed on

[Ken4155]

^
That's what worries me, PP. Anyone looking at the photo and 'passing on'. :-)

[naomi24]

I don’t know anyone who likes their passport picture. They’re all so miserable looking.

[Peter Pedant]

in the good old days
someone went around the world with a photo of his dulux dog in the pane

but - putting on my poncey hat again - no one will recollect Cecil Mulvena BUT he did time for wrongly intentionally certifying a passport photie ( four years I think) not for Johnnie Public and his doggy but 1965 George Blake as it turned out. Authorities lost their sense of humour on that one
https://www.nytimes.com/1966/11/03/archives/briton-accused-in-security-case-charges-specify-passport-offenses.html

so....dont use a photie of marilyn monroe ( not even dead) to spare blushes ! boop boop y do!

[emmie]

i got some shots done at the post office photo machine, for a passport at 5 quid i think it was and was rejected straight out of hand. I had to schlep all the way up to a Snappy Snaps in Holborn, and had them done there which were accepted straight away. I don't look that bad i guess.

[Peter Pedant]

the booklet says no smiles barmaid

[burlyshirley]

People often tell me I look young for my age, not so sure I believe them, but when I look at my bus pass pic., I definitely DON'T believe them !! It's gross ...

[Ken4155]

Paid £6 in Boots. Max Spielman wanted over a tenner!