Chinese bringing food into Australia

[d000hg]

They're about five to ten years old, those programmes. They're repeated endlessly on channels with numbers in the double digits. When they get to the end, they loop straight back to the beginning. Include weekend repeats and you could easily see the same episode six or seven times a year

Or is this called "Border Patrol" or similar, I think I've heard of it... "this foreign-looking guy looks like he has something to hide", etc?

[mattster]

They're about five to ten years old, those programmes. They're repeated endlessly on channels with numbers in the double digits. When they get to the end, they loop straight back to the beginning. Include weekend repeats and you could easily see the same episode six or seven times a year

There's nothing more depressing, or triggering of a bit of soul searching, than watching some garbage TV filler show and realising that you have actually already seen it.

[NickFitz]

Or is this called "Border Patrol" or similar, I think I've heard of it... "this foreign-looking guy looks like he has something to hide", etc?

Oh, there are loads of them. The Australian one has Chinese people with weird foodstuffs, New Zealand for some reason tends a bit more towards people from places like Thailand and Vietnam either also bringing weird foodstuffs or intending to engage in sex work (which is legal there but only for NZ citizens), the USA is mainly dope and guns, Ireland is predominantly more duty-free cigarettes and booze than allowed… the world is your oyster (where permitted by import regulations)

[DoctorStrangelove]

the world is your oyster (where permitted by import regulations)

IIRC, the penis bone one was on the NZ customs show.

Other things they're twitchy about are rattan mats and taxidermied animals.

I think some of the latter get the Cobalt Thorium G 60 treatment to make sure everything but the cockroaches is dead.

[ladymuck]

I remember declaring a leather handbag I'd bought en route in Singapore when I went to NZ as the landing card is quite broad in what it requires you to declare. That was in 2013, no idea if much has changed since then.

[SueEllen]

Oh, there are loads of them. The Australian one has Chinese people with weird foodstuffs, New Zealand for some reason tends a bit more towards people from places like Thailand and Vietnam either also bringing weird foodstuffs or intending to engage in sex work (which is legal there but only for NZ citizens), the USA is mainly dope and guns, Ireland is predominantly more duty-free cigarettes and booze than allowed… the world is your oyster (where permitted by import regulations)

What I've learnt from the Australian, NZ, Canadian and US ones is don't bring weird food into the country and if you bring any food what so ever declare it. (And I actually did.)

What I've learnt from the Irish ones is don't bring moonshine into the country.

What I've learnt from the British ones is don't print your CV out and put it in your luggage with your chef knives, plus don't ship your worldly goods including your US car into the country if you are only coming on holiday.

What I've learnt from all of them is if you don't have a couple of credit cards in your name on you, make sure the person who will vouch for you in the country is your boyfriend's/girlfriend's mum as your boyfriend/girlfriend won't and neither will your slave master....

[NotAllThere]

What I've learnt from all of them is if you don't have a couple of credit cards in your name on you, make sure the person who will vouch for you in the country is your boyfriend's/girlfriend's mum as your boyfriend/girlfriend won't and neither will your slave master....

What if the slave master is the mum?

[SueEllen]

What if the slave master is the mum?

The slave master is never the mum of your boyfriend/girlfriend. Even though you have only met your boyfriend/girlfriend on the interweb...

[BigDataPro]

Weird thing is, one need to declare even the fruit given to them during the flight that they have carried with them. It's quite easy to forget. Pure non-sense by the customs especially in Australia.

[northernladuk]

Weird thing is, one need to declare even the fruit given to them during the flight that they have carried with them. It's quite easy to forget. Pure non-sense by the customs especially in Australia.

Not really. How do they know what you brought with you or what was given on the flight (Do they even give fruit on flights?). So they have a blanket policy to cover any eventuality. It's just one of those things when dealing with policies. Hardly non-sense.