Where I've been the last two weeks...

[Charger]

Why can't you get a passport?

Well the thing is Passport is an official identification document and in order to get one you need to have an official identification document. And by recent legislation Driver's licence is no longer an official identification document and as such I cannot prove my identity anymore thus I can not get an official identification document so that I could prove my identity....a nice little catch 22...way to go Finland.

Birth certificate should do the trick, I would imagine. I just looked over the website for applying for a Finnish ID card, and there's just an online form and a photo needed in order to get one. Once you have that, you are on your way to a passport. It can be done!

Actually no. It won't do. If you have an existing form of ID like an old passport or an id card that is still valid then it is possible. But I have none of those...only my driver's license which like I said is not valid anymore as a form of Id. The thing about birth certificate is that (naturally) it doesn't have a picture so I could have anyone's bc and go an apply a passport...well that's their logic anyways.

[Zzzptm]

How about a valid residence card?

Or some other document that references the Population Information System?

[Charger]

How about a valid residence card?

Or some other document that references the Population Information System?

We don't have that here...no residence card. Also eventhough my mom does have a valid ID she can't testify to my identity either.

It's not just the passport issue ofcourse that this brings...as it is I can't also open a new bank account or if I accidentally screw up my current internet bank sign-in I can't reopen that either as I don't have a valid ID...So honestly I am bit screwed in all regards on this...just because I didn't get a passport when it was possible as it never even occurred to me that one day Driver's license wouldn't be valid anymore...but that's just a part of the entirely fucked up burocracy here in Finland...

But regardless it's not just about the passport anyways...plus I'm bit too close to death anyways to deal with shit like this anymore in my old days.

[Zzzptm]

Well, if the ship has sailed, the ship has sailed. But if I'm ever on my way to Finland, I'll see if I can stretch a visit out your way!

[Charger]

 

[Jack the Stripper]

There must be a way of obtaining a passport Charger? Surely they don't just stick you in the all too hard basket.

[Zzzptm]

There must be a way of obtaining a passport Charger? Surely they don't just stick you in the all too hard basket.

Or there could be a way, but it's so bureaucratically painful that other activities are much more preferable.

Kind of how I feel about teaching. Yes, I could have gone to a private school after leaving public school teaching, but if I was going to go through a job search at that point in my life (6 years ago), I was going to do a job search for a career that would grow better than teaching. I'm in IT now and very happy with that change.

[Charger]

There must be a way of obtaining a passport Charger? Surely they don't just stick you in the all too hard basket.

I am sure there might be one...but as ZZZ said the bureaucracy of it all doesn't interest me especially as I have very little need for one at this point anyways...I know it would include some for of police interrogation for sure.

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
Doing my spring cleaning and just finished the spare bedroom.  Now you have a reason. 

[Zzzptm]

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OK, now that I got all the cops to look the other way, maybe we could smuggle Charger over in a shipment of reindeer?

Charger, do you have a fur coat and some antlers handy? And would you mind staying at the Boston Zoo for a while, as we work up a plan to have you break out of the reindeer enclosure there?

For the rest of the board - I need a substantial donation from all of you to support the construction of a new reindeer enclosure at the Boston Zoo...

[Charger]

I could disguise myself as a fat raindeer for sure...

[Typhon]

A facsimile.

[AnnoMundi]

Yeah I know...the ones you mentioned and ofcourse Route 66....It was honestly one of my biggest dreams...Although I always thought that if I'd come there I'd never want to leave again so I guess that scared me a bit too...

But yeah...that plane has now flown and I was never on it...So I'll just go to my grave (or urn to be more precise) without ever visiting further abroad than Stockholm.

I know what you mean, Charger.  I always wanted to get to Europe, but I have never been off my continent.  It seems especially tough to do when you are on your own.  But, you should never say never. 

Hey Typhon, I remember reading a post where you said you were Portuguese, you have never been to Europe?

[Typhon]

Yeah I know...the ones you mentioned and ofcourse Route 66....It was honestly one of my biggest dreams...Although I always thought that if I'd come there I'd never want to leave again so I guess that scared me a bit too...

But yeah...that plane has now flown and I was never on it...So I'll just go to my grave (or urn to be more precise) without ever visiting further abroad than Stockholm.

I know what you mean, Charger.  I always wanted to get to Europe, but I have never been off my continent.  It seems especially tough to do when you are on your own.  But, you should never say never. 

Hey Typhon, I remember reading a post where you said you were Portuguese, you have never been to Europe?

Correct.

[AnnoMundi]

Yeah I know...the ones you mentioned and ofcourse Route 66....It was honestly one of my biggest dreams...Although I always thought that if I'd come there I'd never want to leave again so I guess that scared me a bit too...

But yeah...that plane has now flown and I was never on it...So I'll just go to my grave (or urn to be more precise) without ever visiting further abroad than Stockholm.

I know what you mean, Charger.  I always wanted to get to Europe, but I have never been off my continent.  It seems especially tough to do when you are on your own.  But, you should never say never. 

Hey Typhon, I remember reading a post where you said you were Portuguese, you have never been to Europe?

Correct.

I knew a Portuguese couple, hard working family, they use to go to Portugal every couple of years, the guy made some great wine and grappa which is literally like drinking firewater what he told me that’s what they call it in Portuguese, good stuff though, especially in the winter. They made homemade sausages, very good and tasty.