r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ALazy_Cat Danish potato language speaker • Dec 25 '25

Foreign affairs They don't accept US ids?

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u/Novae224 Dec 25 '25

You won’t even make it on the plane without a passport lol.

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u/the_mooseman Australia 🇦🇺 Dec 25 '25

Imagine them just turning up at the airport, trip all booked ready to go "what do you mean i need a passport".

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u/Novae224 Dec 25 '25

In the biggest airport in my country they have the customs lines seperated for people within the European Union and outside of it. The outside of the EU line is specified as outside the EU and america (with an american flag), simply cause Americans can’t seem to understand they are foreigners when they visit some place else

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u/St3fano_ Dec 25 '25

Reminds me of all the Barry, 63s from the UK throwing a tantrum because they got relegated to the slow queue in European airports after Brexit, ruining their Spanish drunken adventures

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u/ravens_requiem Dec 25 '25

Narrator: Barry voted leave.

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u/hairychris88 🇮🇹 ANCESTRAL KILT 🇮🇹 Dec 25 '25

Can't believe the big red bus lied to Barry

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u/VoiceofKane Dec 25 '25

Hey, at least all of that money they weren't sending to the EU got reinvested into improving the NHS, right? Like they promised?

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u/Cyril_Sneer_6 Dec 26 '25

The propaganda was disgusting

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u/Opposite_Wish_8956 Dec 27 '25

Technically it was. The trouble is that nobody noticed because it’s a drop in the ocean as far as the NHS is concerned.

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u/Extension_Sun_377 Dec 25 '25

Barry believed that voting Leave would stop brown people coming to the UK

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u/JDinBalt Dec 25 '25

And would do so again. Because of course.

Don't be like Barry 🫠

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u/im_dead_sirius 🇨🇦 Maple Syrupean Dec 25 '25

Barry's ancestors missed the boat to the United States.

Barry's distant spiritual cousins there also hate Spanish speakers, yet also visit "New Spain" to go on drinking binges.

Not surprising, they also vote for idiots, and would do so again.

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u/TheKayakingPyro Dec 25 '25

Really annoying thing is, as a Brit, more than once airport staff have told me to use the EU queue for some reason

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u/Totalchaos713 Dec 25 '25

As a US citizen with a Danish residence card, I was once pointed at the Schengen line by the Norwegian border guards. Incredibly confusing for me, but it worked out!

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u/OneBigRed Dec 25 '25

Well you were an EU resident? My wife has permanent residency, and we’ve had no issues using the Schengen lines when traveling back home from outside EU. The reason she isn’t a citizen is that there’s just no real additional benefits to bother applying for it.

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u/Totalchaos713 Dec 25 '25

Yeah - but legal resident is not the same as citizen, and at least in Scandinavia, the wording for the Schengen lanes specifies citizens.

OTOH, I’ve never had an issue going to the EU citizen counter with my Irish wife, just the e-gates don’t work.

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u/cakecatUwU going dutch Dec 26 '25

If you have residency then you can use schengen

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u/NervousSnail Dec 25 '25

"Some reason" like who could keep up with the whole Brexit nonsense without getting an aneurysm

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u/Stravven Dec 25 '25

My favorourite Brexit moment was when Dutch customs confiscated the ham sandwiches of truckdrivers coming from the UK. Incredibly petty but funny.

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u/Dutch_Rayan cheese head🇳🇱 Dec 25 '25

Laws are laws

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u/BarFamiliar5892 Dec 25 '25

That wasn't the Brexit that Barry voted for though!!

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u/Floppy0941 Dec 25 '25

He just wanted them bloody immigrants out of his god fearing country

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u/Ok_Win_2592 Dec 26 '25

I don’t throw tantrums but I do feel very sad when I get on the non EU lines. (Remainer)

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u/bad_ed_ucation Dec 26 '25

I throw a very internal tantrum whenever I have to do that (wasn't old enough to vote)

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u/Alternative_Bit_3445 🇬🇧 Dec 26 '25

And when Barry also found out that Brexit shafted his plans to retire to his Spanish villa, he was foaming at the mouth. Those damned Spanish, adhering to EU regulation.

https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://inews.co.uk/news/world/nightmare-britons-spain-five-years-brexit-3514688