Brits to spend an hour longer in EU airports

[shaunbhoy]

As a single white male I usually get stopped and sometimes the car searched. Yet families with kids seemed never to be stopped. It's obvious that I am viewed as a social misfit.

ftfy

[Zigenare]

As a single white male I usually get stopped and sometimes the car searched. Yet families with kids seemed never to be stopped. It's obvious that a smuggler would travel with a wife and kids.

I never had you pegged as single. I thought you'd be fighting them off with a tulipty stick given your witty repartee!

Still, goes to show how wrong you can be. At least I got the fact that you're a clueless correct.

[Paddy]

I never had you pegged as single. I thought you'd be fighting them off with a tulipty stick given your witty repartee!

Still, goes to show how wrong you can be. At least I got the fact that you're a clueless correct.

I never said I was single or married, again you are wrong in any event, I rarely take her on business trips. In the good old days I drove twice a week to Germany and back and later weekly to NL until I stayed there for some years.

Customs used to ask where have I been, once I said Holland you can imagine what goes through their minds

[Zigenare]

I never said I was single or married, again you are wrong in any event, I rarely take her on business trips. In the good old days I drove twice a week to Germany and back and later weekly to NL until I stayed there for some years.

Customs used to ask where have I been, once I said Holland you can imagine what goes through their minds

[Panto Season]
Oh yes you did!
[/Panto Season]

Read your original post...

As a single white male I usually get stopped and sometimes the car searched. Yet families with kids seemed never to be stopped. It's obvious that a smuggler would travel with a wife and kids.

FFS, you really are a clueless fuqwit.

[clearedforlanding]

eGates don't seem to care about that. But lots of people don't know how to use them. They'll spend multiple minutes trapped in the cage pressing random pages against the scanner.

eGates are manually verified by the people at a desk as you walk through, and a whole team in a back office.

The eGates look for 2 out of three hits on select variables & verify biometrics amongst other things - and flag these as per Europol & Interpol requirements, but a rolling list of people passing through along along with their API, origin, destination and a whole bunch of other stuff including photo is watched by real people.

My stuffed monkey consults on these matters

[Zigenare]

eGates are manually verified by the people at a desk as you walk through, and a whole team in a back office.

The eGates look for 2 out of three hits on select variables & verify biometrics amongst other things - and flag these as per Europol & Interpol requirements, but a rolling list of people passing through along along with their API, origin, destination and a whole bunch of other stuff including photo is watched by real people.

My stuffed monkey consults on these matters

Looks like a reasonable case of "Right of substitution".