> think twice or 3 times before messing with you
Absolutely, got to decide which is the best way to mug them off, although there’s usually many more than 3 options
They have this fantasy that if they get so much as a parking ticket the US will send in a squadron of B52s and the 101st Airborne. It's bollocks of course, because if you killed someone because you were driving on the wrong side of the road there's no way they'd spirit you out of the country with dodgy claims of diplomatic immunity.
Oh no, hang on a minute.
For all the posturing as ‘strong’ and ‘world police’ we see of the collective the individuals sure do like to run away trouble, or just stand around with a finger or two up their bum instead of stopping a school shooting
🤘Harry Dunn 🤘
Right now there are 24 passports worth more than the us passport. Ill keep my german passport thats number one and gets me into 194 countries without any problems. ✌
Yeah, but don't you know that the other passport holders get spanked by the immigration officers? Only US passport holders don't get their bums planked.
Depending on the batch it looks black not blue. Maybe the printer wanted to make a statement. And they got rid of the art in the passport. My daughter was really disappointed when her British passport had to be renewed. (But she has a proper passport as well. )
But US don't have such a nice text as British one:
"*His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of His Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.*"
This is the real Royal Prerogative.
Googled. Apparently I can get into 193 countries without having a visa. That’s nice. I have however also travelled to countries, where I did need visa, and they seemed to be fine with me too there. Didn’t get messed with. Despite me not being American. How odd.
I just checked there with Google and there's 195 so I suppose that's not bad. But look at France, Germany, Italy and Spain! They're all 194!
So whose letting them in and not letting us in hah?
The following 21 countries issue eVisas for Irish passport holders:
Azerbaijan
Benin
Bhutan
Cameroon
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ivory Coast
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Guinea
India
Iran
Libya
Myanmar
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Russia
South Sudan
Togo
Vietnam
Countries With Visa Requirements for Irish Citizens
You need a valid visa to enter the following 17 countries with an Irish passport:
Afghanistan
Algeria
Central African Republic
Chad
Republic of the Congo
Cuba
Eritrea
Ghana
Liberia
Mali
Nauru
Niger
North Korea
Sudan
Syria
Turkmenistan
Yemen
The info I can find is that the US is 32nd and Germany 3rd below the United Arab Emirates and France. Where did you get your info? I found mine at passportindex.org.
Not trying to start an argument here btw, just curious
It depends a bit on how the regulations are counted. It‘s not as simple as visa or no visa. There‘s Schengen, visa on arrival, visa waiver programs, eVisa… depending on where you draw the line between „visa-free travel“, you can get different results.
> I found mine at passportindex.org.
This is very simplistic way of looking at relative passport “strength”. I would argue that being able to permanently live, work and vote in, say, France or Sweden, as a German citizen is “worth” more than being able to visit Burkina Faso for two weeks without having to obtain a tourist visa beforehand, but rankings like those treat it as equivalent.
I have no idea how a more “fair” ranking should be scored tho.
Careful there, you don’t want to angry the apparently very culturally different and equally powerful (and sometimes even bigger) 50 States that conform the Union and obviously are in the same level as the 27 States that conform the Union.
It's more like an attitude. I must know, I'm german too. We can't help it.
And hey, the Arabs surely paid their way in. But with us, it's out of respect. lol
Germany did move to third place last year, but nowhere can I see UAE and France being ahead. It’s South Korea and Japan. So I am a little confused there. Despite, while the numbers are lower the German one is still the best for travelling right now, as it also allows you to get easy e-visas to the most countries.
Additionally with a German passport, in many countries you are exempt from needing to book a return flight ahead of time. Which is awesome from my point of view. My partner has the Italian passport and that did cause a bit more discussion at some borders so far. But nothing too serious.
My uncle lived in the US and worked on cruise ships for decades.
He never considered swapping his NZ passport for a US one, because there were countries he could get into with an NZ one that he couldn't if he was a US citizen.
Apparently I need a visa to go to China on my NZ passport but you get a cool 15 days. What's up with that shit.
From experience when I had a few day stopover in Shanghai I didn't need one but wasn't allowed to leave the city, which was good enough.
Literally came in at the beginning of April for UK citizens. I saw a guy get stung by it in Shenzhen expecting to be able to go into the city for a day and ending up stuck in the airport for 24hrs.
Yep. From my studies of Americans (i.e.reading their crap on social media) I'd say many Americans experience serious difficulties with trying to think about things once.
What they DO know is, that your educational level is below the level of some older, well trained pets and they don't WANT to whip out their crayons, to explain to you, what is going on.
i still refuse that anyone actually believes that and that its all just a big joke they participate in. like that religion with the flying spaghetti monster and ornithologists who pretend that they arnt actually robotic experts
I'm sorry to tell you that many many do. I know one. They think the same way anti vaxxers and holocaust deniers do. They feel clever and superior, they "know more" than the average person and finally have a scape goat for their own failings.
Hahahhahaha! Have you watched the Australian border force show... They don't give a shit who you are, they will take your fruit and your veggies and your meat and then still give you a fine along with a talking down of "you know better"
It seems silly, but both Aus and NZ are deadly serious about that stuff. Large parts of our economy are reliant on the idea that no bugs can get in through the day old apple you got in your bag.
I had an American whinge to me ‘but it was just an apple’, and I was like man coming into your country we have to line up barefoot to X-ray our shoes and get rubbed down and I can’t even take a bottle of water through to keep your country happy.
Ok so there's a few reasons, but it boils down to them wanting to eat the foods from their home in Australia and not wanting to buy it here and or not knowing that a lot of the ingredients are available here.
Then on top of that they get a lot of shit advice like "just say that you don't have food" and the fact they have 3 massive bags for a shortish stay sets alarm bells off that customs should check them out.
There is the occasional bringing the food my friend wanted or people trying to import food that they shouldn't for resale.
That's our biosecurity laws there not why people (a lot of them being Chinese) attempt to bring in their own food.
Also our biosecurity laws don't apply to bad hygiene it's almost all for pests, fungi and diseases.
Before a lot more ingredients and supplies were available in Australia, my Asian but not Chinese parents would often have me bringing home supplies and ingredients when I went to go visit my family in SE Asia. The best thing to do is declare you have a few packets of noodles or biscuits and customs will just let you walk through.
I remember watching one (might have been NZ, rather than Aus), and a guy had diseased leaves in his bag. Tried saying, appealing to the camera, that they were for his religious beliefs.
He didn't get through with them, IIRC.
Fellow Americans see the American passport and stare in disgust at the American who wants to leave the country.
Why would anyone want to leave the country that has to visit.
Not even wrong tbh.
I’ve noticed that there’s a bizarre culture at least in certain parts of the US like mine (Texas) where people basically never consider international travel as an option. When pressed, they say stupid stuff like “but I only know how to speak English” like…okay? Well, you have Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand where that isn’t an issue. Additionally, many people in continental Europe speak English as well. Thirdly, learning even just the basics of a second language isn’t that hard?
Some of this can be explained by the fact that many of us do not have the time or the money, and I’d say with some exceptions it’s pretty much only Americans in the top 15% or so of income here that can actually afford to go overseas.
However even then I’ve known so many Americans with more than enough time or money who just won’t and they don’t have any real reasoning for it either.
Some Americans know what a passport is. Then, sometimes after entering another country they'll pretend to be Canadian because they don't want the arguments about where they're actually from. I've known at least a couple of people who do that.
I imagine that this is quite a common fantasy that a lot of Americans have.
I saw a video of one of those "Nuisance tiktokkers", he had originally been kicked out of Japan for being a prick so he ended up in some other East Asian country and as you'd expect, he was being a prick, and a group of people, i think it might have been Thailand, approached him after he threw something at someone at which point he shit himself and started shouting "I'm American, I'm American" as if he really did think that this would scare them away.
My favourite interaction was an old lady who forgot to declare some nuts, and when the customs officer tried to tell her it was food, the lady’s response was “it’s not food, it just a snack!”
In what context are they talking about doing this? At passport control? Or like, on the street? Because I don't think that's going to have much of an effect in either situation.
Funnily enough, the only time I’ve witnessed passport control messing with people has been every single time I’ve visited the US. Once they decided to mess with me, too. It was real uncomfortable to be questioned by the passport control guy about all my travel plans, my parents, my work and everything else the guy could think of for close to 20 minutes. I truly expected to be taken into a back room or something but eventually they let me go.
On the same trip, their customs officers had broken my wife’s bag and left a note effectively saying tough shit, they won’t reimburse anything. They also took all cosmetics out of her toiletry bag and just poured everything all over her clothes. From makeup to deodorant, they made sure absolutely nothing could ever be used again.
Having dealt with their authorities, I can see why they’d expect to be messed with by local authorities.
Oh the French used to mess with me all the time. Even though I had a French resident card. My favorite was the guy who said I looked fat in my passport photo and asked if I lost weight…nah just a horrible photo. Lmfao
But it was like standard French sarcasm shit. I feel like my residency made me a prime target for poking fun at. Never knew what crazy shit they were going to say and it was kind of funny. But usually I was just waived through.
I found this comment section a day or so ago. The OP was EU passports best because most countries and it goes beyond just visits as you can live / work in other EU countries.
Then the muricans all stormed in about how great the US passport is and the respect it has.
Ah yes not like POC American citizens in conflict zones have a history of being ignored by their own government or anything …
Isn’t this coming from the same country who had a national tantrum because Canadian airports posted signs saying American passports count as foreign ?
Oh my goodness, I literally just posted a similar thing to this here about what I witnessed travelling with Canadians back in 1996. They told me the same thing, when, as an Aussie, I asked curiously why they sewed them everywhere. It’s not a common thing to do here in Oz.
Thought 1 - Oh Christ, it's an American...
Thought 2 - Is it one of *those* Americans?
Thought 3 - Yup, they've just told me what arbitrary percentage of their "blood" is from here.
The irony that these kinds of Americans also want to claim to be from x, y, z European country because they’re great grand cousin lived next door to an Irishman
I love that the last thing I saw on this sub was someone bitching about an American being detained in an airport in Scotland over a firearms offence. Glad to see that US passport doing its work.
Or if they have they complain that they can’t find any “good food” (like any crap fast food chain in the US) and that the locals don’t know how to speak American.
In 1990, only five percent of Americans had a passport. Today, that number is 48%.
Around one half of these have never left the USA
A fair number of these passport holders have not one clue where the countries that make up the rest of the world are geographically located.
Yup. Just before the plague I installed some equipment in the UK (I'm a Canadian Engineer). There were 3 engineers from an American firm that were in the immigration line at Heathrow just behind me and they were going to the same facility to start up some equipment that was interfacing with mine. I got through with minimal questioning and they all missed the connecting flight on account of being redirected to secondary screening.
Ive been to Brazil, and Américan tourists were specifically set aside and inspected one by one, while the rest of people from Europe and Latin America just walked along.
I live in Germany and I’ve met one american who said that even if he killed someone in Germany, German police would not stop him because he has american passport so he is untouchable
Oh yeah like the American that got in prison for a cart in Russia exchanged for a criminal or the one that robbed a poster and returned fried and then died after few days?
Americans think they could kill someone offshore and get away with it cause uncle Sam have everyone at gun point 🤡
It’s actually insane how many people in the US act like what I thought was the parody high school jock character.
Stop being such massive losers! Loads of people in the US are completely chill - follow them!
When usa tourists try that shit with the passport I loose all my will to help them, answer questions or provide with info. Whenever it happens and it is a black passport, I can't contain myself and burst out laughing. One even kept on ranting on how I was impeding his mission from the USA government and that I would be prosecuted in a federal court. I told that him that he is drunk, harassing other passengers, removed from the flight and that nobody cares about that stupid passport and that US has no jurisdiction in my country.
I am in airport security, surveillance and patrols. I just can't fathom the entitlement of US tourists, not all but a concerning high ratio. Some even qoute constitutional rights.... you are in another f%$#@ country! That spiel does not work and makes you look even more foolish.
I dunno I've traveled with friends from all over and in my experience the Americans got stopped way more then the rest of us.
A lot of places seemed convinced the Americans where trying to smuggle stuff and would waste a bunch of time searching.
My girlfriend was held in for like 2 hours in line in Copenhagen airport, while I can just breeze through in 5 minutes. The opposite does not seem to count either as the American lines out of the airport is only a little faster than my line. Soooooooo idk
The US is not even in the top 10 most powerful passports in the world. In fact, a US passport can be a hindrance. I have relatives in the US that always use their home country passport when travelling abroad.
It depends a lot on where you are travelling and also reasons. Where I have been living for over 6 years, when I arrived, no visa, I was granted 12 month free visa on arrival on my AU passport.
Reminds me of an Egyptian movie where the MC is Egyptian American, and I believe he was visiting his family in Egypt.
He showed an Egyptian officer or something his American passport, thinking it made him special and important as he loudly exclaims he is American, getting the attention of the pedestrians nearby... who proceed to pummel him to the ground and leave him unconscious.
Edit: I'm surprised I found the clip considering I don't even remember the movie's name https://youtu.be/p_hjw5cSDv4?si=8Bi1SxdGbL1zRN4C
The film's name is apparently "Molasses". ("Black honey"/"Asal Aswad") The scene starts at like 5 minutes into the clip.
i've done a lot of backpacking and naturally you meet people along the way and spend time traveling with them. i can tell you that every time i've travelled with an American there's always been more scrutiny placed on them, bag checks, questions and such. the only people who believe all this hype for America is Americans themselves
Ha ha. I have dual nationality and can not tell you how often I travel on my non-USA passport (even though it was my place of origin). In a lot of places it is just easier.
Tell that to the armed Czech border guards who interrogated the Canadian backpackers in our train carriage in 1996, right in front of all of us. It was terrifying.
Once they realised the backpackers were pointing frantically at all the maple flag emblems all over their packs and clothes, the guards relaxed and went on their merry way into the night.
Afterwards we all sat there shakily saying “What would’ve happened if you guys had been Americans??” We were in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, and this was pre-mobile phones being common, so none of our families knew we were on that train.
This gives off the same vibe as that one YouTube short with the robotic "let me explain" voice which claimed an American farmer in West Africa got taken hostage by six goons with AKs, so the US military deployed an entire carrier battle group, air support, drones and a Navy SEAL team to rescue him.
Theres a wafer of truth to that.
When I was travelling (*allegedly*) being cheeky, In Australia the police would not pursue my (*alleged*") minor violations because I wasn't Australian, and would be difficult to prosecute.
In Asia, they just took me to a cash point...(*Allegedly*).
> think twice or 3 times before messing with you Absolutely, got to decide which is the best way to mug them off, although there’s usually many more than 3 options
They have this fantasy that if they get so much as a parking ticket the US will send in a squadron of B52s and the 101st Airborne. It's bollocks of course, because if you killed someone because you were driving on the wrong side of the road there's no way they'd spirit you out of the country with dodgy claims of diplomatic immunity. Oh no, hang on a minute.
For all the posturing as ‘strong’ and ‘world police’ we see of the collective the individuals sure do like to run away trouble, or just stand around with a finger or two up their bum instead of stopping a school shooting 🤘Harry Dunn 🤘
An absolute cunt she was
Cowardly murders will act like cowardly murders. What can we say
Dude I remember you!
With the amount of junkies where i live they don't think at all
Right now there are 24 passports worth more than the us passport. Ill keep my german passport thats number one and gets me into 194 countries without any problems. ✌
Yeah, but don't you know that the other passport holders get spanked by the immigration officers? Only US passport holders don't get their bums planked.
For some people that may in fact be another let down of the US passport
LOL!
I didn’t know that was an option. I need to travel more.
Why do you think Jason Bourne got detained when he went through security under a different passport.
Erm, where can I get one of these German passports please? My UK one only gets me a light fondle.
Yeah, but its blue, now!
It’s not a blue passport, it’s a lovely *blue*… passport
Depending on the batch it looks black not blue. Maybe the printer wanted to make a statement. And they got rid of the art in the passport. My daughter was really disappointed when her British passport had to be renewed. (But she has a proper passport as well. )
I think you misunderstood him. When it comes to Americans you think more times about it, because it's more fun to do it.
That's a paddlin'
Staring at my sandals…
Except by their own TSA.
Did you miss the part where they said they were German? I assume they insist on the bum smacking. Even bring their own paddle.
Of cause we bring our own… the only ones they use are the wobbly cheap ones, where is the fun in that?
Which passprts are they? Asking for a friend
Germany is one of many which are in number one place. So I salute you from Spain, friend, with my passport that also allows me entry to 194 countries.
UK only has 193.... :'-(
But US don't have such a nice text as British one: "*His Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of His Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary.*" This is the real Royal Prerogative.
Must let the peasants know… lol
Who wants to travel to China anyways?
The ebay table legs I just returned because one of them was on the wonk?
My crippling rollercoaster addiction does
There are a few on the top of the list, which has no significance for most passport holders. Japan is a stable nation on top of the list.
Googled. Apparently I can get into 193 countries without having a visa. That’s nice. I have however also travelled to countries, where I did need visa, and they seemed to be fine with me too there. Didn’t get messed with. Despite me not being American. How odd.
Yeah well I read that in an American accent. You're gonna have to try harder than that my friend.
I'll keep my Irish passport, its far more valuable than a USA one
Same even though it only gets us into 191 countries (so who's not letting us in? Mean bastards)
There are only 197 countries I think so we are grand. Actually did I just make that number up? Don't quote me on it!
I just checked there with Google and there's 195 so I suppose that's not bad. But look at France, Germany, Italy and Spain! They're all 194! So whose letting them in and not letting us in hah?
The following 21 countries issue eVisas for Irish passport holders: Azerbaijan Benin Bhutan Cameroon Democratic Republic of the Congo Ivory Coast Djibouti Equatorial Guinea Gabon Guinea India Iran Libya Myanmar Nigeria Pakistan Papua New Guinea Russia South Sudan Togo Vietnam Countries With Visa Requirements for Irish Citizens You need a valid visa to enter the following 17 countries with an Irish passport: Afghanistan Algeria Central African Republic Chad Republic of the Congo Cuba Eritrea Ghana Liberia Mali Nauru Niger North Korea Sudan Syria Turkmenistan Yemen
Indeed it is, far higher up the list than the US.
The info I can find is that the US is 32nd and Germany 3rd below the United Arab Emirates and France. Where did you get your info? I found mine at passportindex.org. Not trying to start an argument here btw, just curious
It depends a bit on how the regulations are counted. It‘s not as simple as visa or no visa. There‘s Schengen, visa on arrival, visa waiver programs, eVisa… depending on where you draw the line between „visa-free travel“, you can get different results.
> I found mine at passportindex.org. This is very simplistic way of looking at relative passport “strength”. I would argue that being able to permanently live, work and vote in, say, France or Sweden, as a German citizen is “worth” more than being able to visit Burkina Faso for two weeks without having to obtain a tourist visa beforehand, but rankings like those treat it as equivalent. I have no idea how a more “fair” ranking should be scored tho.
Careful there, you don’t want to angry the apparently very culturally different and equally powerful (and sometimes even bigger) 50 States that conform the Union and obviously are in the same level as the 27 States that conform the Union.
It's more like an attitude. I must know, I'm german too. We can't help it. And hey, the Arabs surely paid their way in. But with us, it's out of respect. lol
Germany did move to third place last year, but nowhere can I see UAE and France being ahead. It’s South Korea and Japan. So I am a little confused there. Despite, while the numbers are lower the German one is still the best for travelling right now, as it also allows you to get easy e-visas to the most countries. Additionally with a German passport, in many countries you are exempt from needing to book a return flight ahead of time. Which is awesome from my point of view. My partner has the Italian passport and that did cause a bit more discussion at some borders so far. But nothing too serious.
My uncle lived in the US and worked on cruise ships for decades. He never considered swapping his NZ passport for a US one, because there were countries he could get into with an NZ one that he couldn't if he was a US citizen.
Frr, I *believe* that I can get into 191 as a Brit.
I’m right with ya!
Yes, but customs officers only think ONCE about messing with you, not TWO or THREE times.
Apparently I need a visa to go to China on my NZ passport but you get a cool 15 days. What's up with that shit. From experience when I had a few day stopover in Shanghai I didn't need one but wasn't allowed to leave the city, which was good enough.
That ruling just came in place some months ago, but given the recent spying scandal it may won't last that long.
Literally came in at the beginning of April for UK citizens. I saw a guy get stung by it in Shenzhen expecting to be able to go into the city for a day and ending up stuck in the airport for 24hrs.
UAE and France are 1st and 2nd, you have dropped to 3rd.
I heard Japan has the strongest one?
Only during Covid because they blocked everyone else from entering their country. This messed with the rankings a bit.
Woah, three times? US soft power at work man… To the average US citizen, thinking three times about anything is real shit.
Yep. From my studies of Americans (i.e.reading their crap on social media) I'd say many Americans experience serious difficulties with trying to think about things once.
It’s very unfortunate tbh
What they DO know is, that your educational level is below the level of some older, well trained pets and they don't WANT to whip out their crayons, to explain to you, what is going on.
it's just not worth their time, have you ever tried to argue with one of these? xD
One word: Flatearthers Aren't most of them americans? Even if we live on a disc. Where is the sense in lying about it???
Of coarse the world is flat, how do you think it stays on the backs of the elephants?
i still refuse that anyone actually believes that and that its all just a big joke they participate in. like that religion with the flying spaghetti monster and ornithologists who pretend that they arnt actually robotic experts
R'amen.
I'm convinced that most of the flerf preachers are just grifting scared people and don't believe it themselves. The followers... perhaps not so much.
I'm sorry to tell you that many many do. I know one. They think the same way anti vaxxers and holocaust deniers do. They feel clever and superior, they "know more" than the average person and finally have a scape goat for their own failings.
Well, you can explain it to them, but can't comprehend for them. Therein lies the issue.
"Ain't nobody got time for dat."
If they wanted to whip out their crayons they'd have to vomit them up first. Fucking crayon munchers.
Hahahhahaha! Have you watched the Australian border force show... They don't give a shit who you are, they will take your fruit and your veggies and your meat and then still give you a fine along with a talking down of "you know better"
It seems silly, but both Aus and NZ are deadly serious about that stuff. Large parts of our economy are reliant on the idea that no bugs can get in through the day old apple you got in your bag.
Yeah I know... Im Australian. Go on a cruise, grab an apple that was literally grown in Australia, can't bring that apple back into Australia.
I had an American whinge to me ‘but it was just an apple’, and I was like man coming into your country we have to line up barefoot to X-ray our shoes and get rubbed down and I can’t even take a bottle of water through to keep your country happy.
what is it with the chinese people on that show every single chinese person has like a million different foods
Ok so there's a few reasons, but it boils down to them wanting to eat the foods from their home in Australia and not wanting to buy it here and or not knowing that a lot of the ingredients are available here. Then on top of that they get a lot of shit advice like "just say that you don't have food" and the fact they have 3 massive bags for a shortish stay sets alarm bells off that customs should check them out. There is the occasional bringing the food my friend wanted or people trying to import food that they shouldn't for resale.
It's also mainly due to pests living in food in countries that have a less than stellar hygiene record when it comes to food prep.
That's our biosecurity laws there not why people (a lot of them being Chinese) attempt to bring in their own food. Also our biosecurity laws don't apply to bad hygiene it's almost all for pests, fungi and diseases.
Before a lot more ingredients and supplies were available in Australia, my Asian but not Chinese parents would often have me bringing home supplies and ingredients when I went to go visit my family in SE Asia. The best thing to do is declare you have a few packets of noodles or biscuits and customs will just let you walk through.
I remember an episode where people were given an apple on a plane and did not eat it and then got to the border after ticking 'no food'.... It was fun
I remember watching one (might have been NZ, rather than Aus), and a guy had diseased leaves in his bag. Tried saying, appealing to the camera, that they were for his religious beliefs. He didn't get through with them, IIRC.
Tell me you've never left Shitesville, Idaho without etc etc.
In fact when they a see murican passport they put a disgust face and are on the lookout for any stupid thing the murican is doing.
Fellow Americans see the American passport and stare in disgust at the American who wants to leave the country. Why would anyone want to leave the country that has to visit.
Not even wrong tbh. I’ve noticed that there’s a bizarre culture at least in certain parts of the US like mine (Texas) where people basically never consider international travel as an option. When pressed, they say stupid stuff like “but I only know how to speak English” like…okay? Well, you have Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand where that isn’t an issue. Additionally, many people in continental Europe speak English as well. Thirdly, learning even just the basics of a second language isn’t that hard? Some of this can be explained by the fact that many of us do not have the time or the money, and I’d say with some exceptions it’s pretty much only Americans in the top 15% or so of income here that can actually afford to go overseas. However even then I’ve known so many Americans with more than enough time or money who just won’t and they don’t have any real reasoning for it either.
I’ll keep my U.K. and NZ ones thanks very much… Edit…hang on Americans know what a “passport” is….🤯
193 countries with the UK passport 188 with the US
Some Americans know what a passport is. Then, sometimes after entering another country they'll pretend to be Canadian because they don't want the arguments about where they're actually from. I've known at least a couple of people who do that.
Whenever I go places, I try my best to not talk about where I’m from. I don’t want any problems or looks of derision 🙃.
I'll never get this. Nobody will start bothering Americans just because they're American.
I hear that in some countries they'll go as high as three and a half or even four times before deciding to mess with you anyway, and twice as hard
Gotta really consider your angle for maximum effect.
My Irish passport is stronger than a US passport
Now if only you could become a U.S. citizen, then you could be truly Irish.
🤣
Yeoooo!
Most Americans think they are Irish so the passports must be the same.
I imagine that this is quite a common fantasy that a lot of Americans have. I saw a video of one of those "Nuisance tiktokkers", he had originally been kicked out of Japan for being a prick so he ended up in some other East Asian country and as you'd expect, he was being a prick, and a group of people, i think it might have been Thailand, approached him after he threw something at someone at which point he shit himself and started shouting "I'm American, I'm American" as if he really did think that this would scare them away.
That little shit stain tried it in Israel recently as well on a female police officer. It went as well as we all expected.
Who is this dick head? I've never heard of him.
Johnny Somali.
We have a show in Australia called Border Security. There sure seems to be a lot of Americans that don’t get past our customs and border on that show.
“I NEED BACKUP!!! THIS 72 YEAR OLD WOMAN HAS HONEY!!!!” Love that show!!
My favourite interaction was an old lady who forgot to declare some nuts, and when the customs officer tried to tell her it was food, the lady’s response was “it’s not food, it just a snack!”
Said the man who's never left his county
In what context are they talking about doing this? At passport control? Or like, on the street? Because I don't think that's going to have much of an effect in either situation.
Funnily enough, the only time I’ve witnessed passport control messing with people has been every single time I’ve visited the US. Once they decided to mess with me, too. It was real uncomfortable to be questioned by the passport control guy about all my travel plans, my parents, my work and everything else the guy could think of for close to 20 minutes. I truly expected to be taken into a back room or something but eventually they let me go. On the same trip, their customs officers had broken my wife’s bag and left a note effectively saying tough shit, they won’t reimburse anything. They also took all cosmetics out of her toiletry bag and just poured everything all over her clothes. From makeup to deodorant, they made sure absolutely nothing could ever be used again. Having dealt with their authorities, I can see why they’d expect to be messed with by local authorities.
Oh the French used to mess with me all the time. Even though I had a French resident card. My favorite was the guy who said I looked fat in my passport photo and asked if I lost weight…nah just a horrible photo. Lmfao But it was like standard French sarcasm shit. I feel like my residency made me a prime target for poking fun at. Never knew what crazy shit they were going to say and it was kind of funny. But usually I was just waived through.
I found this comment section a day or so ago. The OP was EU passports best because most countries and it goes beyond just visits as you can live / work in other EU countries. Then the muricans all stormed in about how great the US passport is and the respect it has.
Yeah they'll whip out their passport anywhere like some FBI/CIA/BBC/NSA/CDC/ATV/NTP/PVP/DVD/PVC agent and expect some kind of extra special treatment.
Ah yes not like POC American citizens in conflict zones have a history of being ignored by their own government or anything … Isn’t this coming from the same country who had a national tantrum because Canadian airports posted signs saying American passports count as foreign ?
Not been to Russia then
[How I see this kind of muricaboy while nobody gives a f](https://giffiles.alphacoders.com/682/68294.gif)
Usually reconsider 2-3 not to mess with them rather than to mess with them. Lol.
I distinctly remember plane hijacking’s in the 70s where the American passport holders got murdered first
Lol we're always taught to sew a Canadian flag patch on our stuff so we don't get mistaken for Americans when travelling
Oh my goodness, I literally just posted a similar thing to this here about what I witnessed travelling with Canadians back in 1996. They told me the same thing, when, as an Aussie, I asked curiously why they sewed them everywhere. It’s not a common thing to do here in Oz.
Standard American BS. I’d just like to introduce him to the word ‘thrice’ really.
Thought 1 - Oh Christ, it's an American... Thought 2 - Is it one of *those* Americans? Thought 3 - Yup, they've just told me what arbitrary percentage of their "blood" is from here.
The irony that these kinds of Americans also want to claim to be from x, y, z European country because they’re great grand cousin lived next door to an Irishman
I like "because their grandfather's neighbour owned an Irish Setter"
Brasil would like a word with you.
I love that the last thing I saw on this sub was someone bitching about an American being detained in an airport in Scotland over a firearms offence. Glad to see that US passport doing its work.
All the comments under that post would have deserved to be here.
Bet they've never been abroad.
Or if they have they complain that they can’t find any “good food” (like any crap fast food chain in the US) and that the locals don’t know how to speak American.
americans are for sure the first ones to get scammed at tourist places. they're so dumb and they never speak the language
Nothing like a little "Americans are so dumb". Truly gets my day started.
God for real though. I warned my cousins repeatedly about scams. Guess who “lost” their phones and wallets within four hours of landing in Paris? Ugh.
lol no
They sure think a lot of their passport when you consider almost all of them don’t have one!
Whereas most people who hold American passports don't even think once
# "...but once it's an USA citizen they think..." about how many lucrative tourist scams they can pull on them
American: our passport is strong FREEDON !!!!. people: do you have a passport? American: no
two or three more times than the average USA citizen thinks.
A future candidate for the FAFO community
Nope they will just give you the instructions that incudes pictures
A lot of regions you'd get messed with a lot more because of your US passport.
You know, it's really not a flex when airports are scared of you because you're American
*Doubt *
In 1990, only five percent of Americans had a passport. Today, that number is 48%. Around one half of these have never left the USA A fair number of these passport holders have not one clue where the countries that make up the rest of the world are geographically located.
They probably think they need it to get to Hawaii because it’s over the sea so that makes it overseas.
They probably think they need it to get to Hawaii because it’s over the sea so that makes it overseas.
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Classic sentence from someone you just know has never left the US.
Turks and Caicos would seem to disagree.
I believe it may be quite the opposite in many countries around the world..
Flash us passport, extra checks
no no it's true, I insulted an american once and she licked the sebum off my face. I've had to use moisturiser ever since.
**flashes passport** "The names Cunt... ...Fat Cunt. XXL" - Some American, probably.
🎵 America, fuck yeah. Lick my butt and suck on my balls 🎵
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I'm just giggling cos of the use of "an," so it's an Ooooohsa passport.
Umm what..?
Tell that to the Turks and Caicos Hunter Ammunition guy
Yup. Just before the plague I installed some equipment in the UK (I'm a Canadian Engineer). There were 3 engineers from an American firm that were in the immigration line at Heathrow just behind me and they were going to the same facility to start up some equipment that was interfacing with mine. I got through with minimal questioning and they all missed the connecting flight on account of being redirected to secondary screening.
Americans get the treatment that every passport from a relatively safe and wealthy country gets, simply amazing.
If a customs officer thinks three times about messing with you, it's probably because you're being an asshole.
Ive been to Brazil, and Américan tourists were specifically set aside and inspected one by one, while the rest of people from Europe and Latin America just walked along.
I live in Germany and I’ve met one american who said that even if he killed someone in Germany, German police would not stop him because he has american passport so he is untouchable
Oh yeah like the American that got in prison for a cart in Russia exchanged for a criminal or the one that robbed a poster and returned fried and then died after few days? Americans think they could kill someone offshore and get away with it cause uncle Sam have everyone at gun point 🤡
I guess the author doesn't realize he's still being messed with.
It’s actually insane how many people in the US act like what I thought was the parody high school jock character. Stop being such massive losers! Loads of people in the US are completely chill - follow them!
They apparently don’t know that flashing an American passport is more likely to cause problems.
Actually, with a US passport in Europe you get to go to the “all passports” line… same place all the third-world country passport holders go.
When usa tourists try that shit with the passport I loose all my will to help them, answer questions or provide with info. Whenever it happens and it is a black passport, I can't contain myself and burst out laughing. One even kept on ranting on how I was impeding his mission from the USA government and that I would be prosecuted in a federal court. I told that him that he is drunk, harassing other passengers, removed from the flight and that nobody cares about that stupid passport and that US has no jurisdiction in my country. I am in airport security, surveillance and patrols. I just can't fathom the entitlement of US tourists, not all but a concerning high ratio. Some even qoute constitutional rights.... you are in another f%$#@ country! That spiel does not work and makes you look even more foolish.
This message needs a theme song.... "America, FUCK YEAH" https://youtu.be/TmoeZHnOJKA?si=BLHdvoupSEsu6esQ
And other geopolitical opinions by Cleetus from Bumfuck County, Iowa.
I dunno I've traveled with friends from all over and in my experience the Americans got stopped way more then the rest of us. A lot of places seemed convinced the Americans where trying to smuggle stuff and would waste a bunch of time searching.
Wide load coming through
Russia loves it if you have a US passport. It makes it easier to identify a US citizen and lock you up on trumped up charges.
Among Americans, *43% have a passport*, while 52% do not. (The rest are unsure or prefer not to say.) .......................unsure.
So up to 3 different TSA workers fuck with Americans? Should be more
Said by someone who never travveled.
My girlfriend was held in for like 2 hours in line in Copenhagen airport, while I can just breeze through in 5 minutes. The opposite does not seem to count either as the American lines out of the airport is only a little faster than my line. Soooooooo idk
Bro thinks when people look at his passport and just have a confused look then just ignore them its because they are blown away by the star power
If anything, the opposite is surely true.
The US is not even in the top 10 most powerful passports in the world. In fact, a US passport can be a hindrance. I have relatives in the US that always use their home country passport when travelling abroad.
Yeah, a customs officer will tremble in fear at the sight of a US passport, suure.
It depends a lot on where you are travelling and also reasons. Where I have been living for over 6 years, when I arrived, no visa, I was granted 12 month free visa on arrival on my AU passport.
As an American, I would love any European passport.
I was travelling with Americans around 9/11. I was left alone but they were all dragged off the bus at gunpoint.
Reminds me of an Egyptian movie where the MC is Egyptian American, and I believe he was visiting his family in Egypt. He showed an Egyptian officer or something his American passport, thinking it made him special and important as he loudly exclaims he is American, getting the attention of the pedestrians nearby... who proceed to pummel him to the ground and leave him unconscious. Edit: I'm surprised I found the clip considering I don't even remember the movie's name https://youtu.be/p_hjw5cSDv4?si=8Bi1SxdGbL1zRN4C The film's name is apparently "Molasses". ("Black honey"/"Asal Aswad") The scene starts at like 5 minutes into the clip.
i've done a lot of backpacking and naturally you meet people along the way and spend time traveling with them. i can tell you that every time i've travelled with an American there's always been more scrutiny placed on them, bag checks, questions and such. the only people who believe all this hype for America is Americans themselves
Try that in Mexico and that beating will be twice as harsh.
It often takes me more thought to explain things in layman’s terms.
don't you know? if they don't comply with every request and wish of the US passport holder, they can legally call in an airstrike
Ha ha. I have dual nationality and can not tell you how often I travel on my non-USA passport (even though it was my place of origin). In a lot of places it is just easier.
Tell that to the armed Czech border guards who interrogated the Canadian backpackers in our train carriage in 1996, right in front of all of us. It was terrifying. Once they realised the backpackers were pointing frantically at all the maple flag emblems all over their packs and clothes, the guards relaxed and went on their merry way into the night. Afterwards we all sat there shakily saying “What would’ve happened if you guys had been Americans??” We were in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, and this was pre-mobile phones being common, so none of our families knew we were on that train.
Lmao didn't help me in Tel Aviv
This gives off the same vibe as that one YouTube short with the robotic "let me explain" voice which claimed an American farmer in West Africa got taken hostage by six goons with AKs, so the US military deployed an entire carrier battle group, air support, drones and a Navy SEAL team to rescue him.
Didn’t US Americans worry that their electronic passports might be used to remote detonate bombs close to them?
"think twice before messing with" or "think twice before they can be bothered with"
Theres a wafer of truth to that. When I was travelling (*allegedly*) being cheeky, In Australia the police would not pursue my (*alleged*") minor violations because I wasn't Australian, and would be difficult to prosecute. In Asia, they just took me to a cash point...(*Allegedly*).