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I've just received a new British passport. It looks like a cross between a 'Visit Britain' tourist brochure and a series of weather maps, even includes a Fahrenheit/Celsius conversion table. Okay, all these things are security features, to make the pages as complicated as possible. But I'm trying to work out whether, in this context, the features are imaginative or just kitsch. German passports have nothing like it.
Author escoville (237761) 30 Apr 13, 17:54
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Neither do American passports. :-))
#1Author Helmi (U.S.) (236620) 30 Apr 13, 18:12
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If it is the one with a picture of Bibury, I'm all for it :-)
#2Author CM2DD (236324) 30 Apr 13, 18:18
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Is that Bibury (page 18, 'Village Green')? The weather symbol on that page is rain.

I think I recognize beach-huts at Southwold (broken cloud, strong wind -- I suppose that means 'bracing').

Apart from a lone salmon, the passport seems to be anticipating Scottish independence.
#3Author escoville (237761) 30 Apr 13, 18:54
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#4Author no me bré (700807) 30 Apr 13, 18:55
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Das sieht ja mal nett aus - soweit man das von der google-Bildersuche sagen kann :)
Jetzt möchte ich auch Bilder in meinem Pass!

(von etwas anderem als von mir, meine ich natürlich)
#5Author pelikan (339101) 01 Mai 13, 10:52
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I hadn't even noticed the temperature conversion table till you mentioned it.
#6Author Spike BE (535528) 01 Mai 13, 11:57
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the Australian passport is full of pictures of flora, fauna and people, everything from a platypus to cricketers.

The new Finnish passport apparently has a walking moose http://www.news.com.au/travel/world/finland-passport-has-walking-moose/story-e6f...
#7Author Knittelcity (282544) 01 Mai 13, 12:09
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Jetzt möchte ich auch Bilder in meinem Pass!

Time to apply for citizenship, pelikan? :-)
#8Author Pippa G (860829) 01 Mai 13, 14:29
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The new Finnish passport apparently has a walking moose

That's nice, but I can imagine it delaying immigration queues as officials flip through it, probably for fun, but on the pretext they're checking it for genuineness. If the forger gets it wrong, the moose (or rather, elk) might be walking backwards...
#9Author escoville (237761) 01 Mai 13, 16:35
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@ # 9, the moose (or rather, elk)\
Not so. Moose = Elch in German. Elk is an entirely different species which belongs to the deer family and is not native to Finland.
#10Author Helmi (U.S.) (236620) 01 Mai 13, 17:35
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#0: even includes a Fahrenheit/Celsius conversion table.

Does it have weights too? ;-) I'll have to check my passport later (renewed it only last December).
#11Author KinkyAfro (587241) 01 Mai 13, 18:18
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The walking moose is nice.
#12Author Amy-MiMi (236989) 04 Mai 13, 00:56
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Yeah, the walking moose is cool. I think it has cult potential; but the guy flipping the pages (in #7) does not to justice to it. Schade.
(wavingatAmy-MiMi)
#13Author wupper (354075) 04 Mai 13, 02:24
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@#10

As far as I know, moose and elk are an AE/BE dichotomy. What is called a moose in AE is called an elk in BE. Therefore, elks belong very much to the fauna of Finland.

However, this may have changed and BE may have adopted the AE usage.
#14Author rvaloe (588295) 04 Mai 13, 10:30
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#1 Dafür haben sie neben einer Reihe von Blidern amerikanischer Landschaften auch ein Bild vom Mond. Wann wurde der denn eingemeindet?
#15Author Russisch Brot (340782) 06 Mai 13, 11:24
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#16Author no me bré (700807) 06 Mai 13, 11:41
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Probably it's RFID-chipped and all the nice extra features are just smoke and mirrors to distract from the real reason to introduce a new passport :-)
#17Author Sage N. Fer Get K.S.C. (382314) 06 Mai 13, 12:15
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@#10

Wikipedia says, confirming what I thought: The animal bearing the scientific name Alces alces is known in Britain as the "elk", and in North America as the "moose".

The Finnish creature is certainly Alces alces
#18Author escoville (237761) 06 Mai 13, 12:43
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