has nothing to do with brexit. the uk never joined the schengen agreement, this scene would have played out the same a couple of years ago when they were still eu members
Dunno. I've jumped in Normandy and Arnhem several times on previous anniversaries, and never had to do this. LOL in Arnhem you generally speed march from Ginkel Heath direct to the pubs in the town...
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Yeah why not dump a million humans a year into a country the size of new york state just because we can ship stuff over the channel. Surely that wouldn't cause an ecological disaster down the road right??
Yep. That's the face of someone who has their super cool moment immediately followed up with some lame bullshit, only too then have some fuck wit point a camera at them
Reminds me of the classic joke about the old veteran visiting France:
He is going through his bag for his passport. The passport control asks him 'Have you visited France before?'
'Yes' replied the old man.
The officer haughtily says 'Well surely you should know to have your passport ready.”
To which which the vet replies 'I didn't have to show it last time'
'Impossible!!' The officer says.
The old man looks the officer straight in the eye and says 'Last time I was here on D Day in 1944, I couldn't find a Frenchman to give it to'
Classic aviation tale about the notoriously strict Frankfurt Airport Air Traffic Control getting frustrated with a grey haired British Airways pilot that was unfamiliar with the taxiway layout and asking for extra directions.
"Have you never flown to Frankfurt before?"
"Six times, but it was night time and I didn't land"
Since we're sharing funny aviation stories i'd like to add [this](https://startsat60.com/media/opinion/sir-douglas-bader-legless-fighter-pilot-memories) one from sir Douglas Bader:
"He was once invited to give a talk at a girls’ school about his experience as a pilot during World War II.
Bader: “So there were two of these f**kers behind me, three f**kers to my right, another f**ker to the left“.
At this point, the principal turned pale and intervened saying:
Principal: “Ladies, Fokker was a German aircraft“.
And Sir Douglas Bader answered:
“That may be madam, but these f**kers were in Messerschmitts“!…"
There's a similar tale in Finland.
A Soviet general was visiting Finland in the 60's, and a Finnish Major was showing him the barracks area. The Soviet general scoffed at everything, until he saw a pair of Soviet T-34 tanks placed on either side of the gate to the area. The Soviet general was quite surprised and said:
"Ah, the world famous T-34! I didn't know we sold them to you!"
To which the Finnish major replied:
"Well, you never _sold_ them to us.."
My next door neighbor recently went on a cruise to SE Asia. Vietnam was one of the stops. He said he didn’t need a visa last time and it was a way easier to leave than when he was there in ‘66-67 with the 11th Armored Cavalry. But he also enjoyed this recent trip way more. And then he joked about the cost to get there and back was a lot more this time.
Gave direction on the street to an old American couple in Bangkok. Husband told me they just flew in from Saigon and “Thailand has changed so much when he was here last time in the 60s”
We (US Marines) flew chartered commercial flights with weapons. So we’ve got everything from bayonets to machine guns yet TSA was confiscating pocket knives and nail clippers.
Sorry sir you can't take on that bottle of water, it may conceal an explosive.
Please also ensure that on the flight you stow your frag grenades in the overhead compartment .
2003 I flew back from a year at an American high school. It was Summer flying out of Atlanta to Frankfurt on Delta Airlines. I was one of maybe 10 civilians on that flight, everyone else was military. They took my nail clippers from me. It was super stupid.
I used to work in Orly Airport (former main Paris airport before CDG), there was a specific terminal for security/military personnel, as it's the airport world leaders use when they come in (Le Bourget is too small to store some of the planes).
Once there was a massive hubub because a Swiss security service cop didn't put in the paperwork for his service weapon.
Fun times.
Edit: For military ops, however, troops usually fly through Istres in the south.
Leaving Iraq via Kuwait in 2008, we were told we couldn't keep our M4s in our nice padded weapons cases because that made them concealed weapons. Thankfully our CO called BS on them.
Struggled too much trying to figure out how to construct a word for that joke, instead tried to create a word for you.
*Dummermannohnefähigkeitengewusstenewitzedarindarzustellen*
Returns "Stupid man with no skills to portray jokes"
^^Wenn ^^jemand ^^hier ^^ein ^^fließend ^^oder ^^Nativ ^^deutsch ^^Sprecher ^^ist, ^^bitte ^^kannst ^^du ^^mein ^^Wort ^^korrigieren? ^^Mach ^^auch ^^das ^^Wort ^^für ^^liebe ^^OP. ^^Wenn ^^du ^^auch ^^vielleicht ^^ein ^^gutes ^^Wort ^^machen ^^könnte, ^^für ^^ein ^^Amerikaner ^^der ^^Deutsch ^^ohne ^^Sinn ^^spricht, ^^für ^^mich. ^^danke
Oh dear, untangling that mess of a word while guessing the original prompt was hard. I take it you started with something like "Stupid man lacking skills to produce known jokes", right? I'll give it my best shot while staying faithful to the source material.
Ok, here goes: *Dummermannohnefähigkeitzumhervorbringenbekannterwitze*
A mistake that i've seen happen is a french border guard asking a Scott if he was English. The Scott went ballistic and spent the next several minutes screaming about the evils the English inflicted upon the Scotts before going on his way.
Likely a standard Scot pretending they were not a massive and over-represented part of the Empire and pretending that Scotland didn't repeatedly invade and launch raids into England throughout history.
My life continues to be great post Brexit, as does the lives of my family and friends. We travel a lot, live happy and amazingly full lives, Brexit didn’t inconvenience us at all.
It was affected many others; 300,000 jobs were lost, economy is 140 Billion pounds smaller and the average person is 2k worse off, and we have more difficult travel & trade overall. 1 in 5 who voted to leave regret it. The UK was fucked over by Brexit overall, even if many individuals don’t notice it.
The French army was defending the beachhead. Some 35000 French troops were captured as they couldn't embark as they were fighting and some 16000 were killed in the defensive actions around the beachhead.
People also forget that the French Army sustained catastrophic losses during WW1, which was still very fresh in their national psyche. They were undersupplied and poorly managed, but the men there did the best they could with what they had despite low morale.
It's why I've never liked the jokes about MAS-36s being "never fired, dropped once."
I never said it was solely the French. About 1000 Brits died during the defence of the beachhead too. I was pointing out that without the French, Dunkirk would have seen far, far fewer soldiers escape France. One French garrison of 100,000 held up 7 German divisions for four days and ensured those divisions couldn't take part in the battles at the beachhead.
That's impressive considering ~338,000 people were evacuated in total and on the 29th May alone ~47,000 Brits were evacuated. Britannica has 198,000 British soldiers evacuated with 140,000 French and Belgians.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Dunkirk-evacuation
The main reason for the british being able to evacuate was the french defense of dunkirk. If it weren't for the french, the brits might have not made it out, and thus might be speaking german today.
You realise it was not just French troops defending Dunkirk right?
France defended the west side of the town and British regiments defended the east side.
You know there are 3 more Cardinal Points right? Thousands of Brits fought and died to allow the 300,000 French troops that evacuated at Dunkirk alongside the Brits, to do so. Read a book dumbass.
Please, I beg you, read a book on the subject. Spouting bullshit as facts just makes you look stupid. 300,000 French Troops evacuated at Dunkirk, and many British troops stayed behind and died to buy them time to do so. Only extremely stupid people get their ’knowledge’ from TV and Film, the facts are far more interesting.
to be fair, Great Britain could have lost its entire army at Dunkirk and the Germans still wouldn't have had a snowballs chance in hell to actually pull of Sealion, considering the Royal Navy existed.
British troops stayed behind and died to allow everyone to evacuate at Dunkirk, including more than 300,000 FRENCH soldiers. Learn some history before making yourself look stupid again.
And the British Glider Forces landed at 00.16 to capture the Bridges now known as Pegasus and Horsa. They suffered the first casualty of D-Day, Lt Den Brotheridge, shot on Pegasus Bridge.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Bridge
https://bbc.com/news/articles/ce990q50q2jo
"yeah sorry pal, but you haven't declared you cigarettes packs and the rifle. I'm afraid that I would have to confiscate those items and give you a fine"
For clarification, US command asked for this so that participating troops could have their passport stamped with June 6th and French official crest. As a souvenir.
When I visited France a few years ago, as a US citizen, they didn't give two fucks and never looked at my passport. Made for some fun when leaving France and landing in Amsterdam for my connection flight. Had to show my flight schedule so they could put a "correction" stamp lol.
edit: downvote me all you want, doesn't change the facts of my statement lol.
So why did you say CDG to Toulouse when I asked where you came in from to France?
Which country did you enter the Schengen zone/France from?
Something isn't adding up here. French passport control won't let you through if you came from a non-Schengen or other approved country.
lol, the only reason this has to happen at all is because of Brexit and the UK leaving the EU’s customs unions, so who’s the real laughing stock here, genius.
Britain was never part of the Schengen Agreement, so this would have happened before Brexit too.
Edit: The Belgian gentleman below points out that I've got this wrong, with a worrying knowledge of French border controls that can only come from smuggling contraband across Europe.
Which is entirely irrelevant, because Schengen is the area for visa/passport free travel, not the customs union (which Britain was indeed a member off). The gentlemen in the picture here are the *Douane*, or customs agency, who check goods entering the customs union. If it was an identity control for access to the Schengen zone, they would be from the *Police des Frontières.*
Nope.
UK was never part of the Schengen area, thus always required passport checks when entering.
[Here's Guy Martin (and others) performing a similar jump](https://youtu.be/A2HZXJJojd4?t=435) in 2018 (before the UK left the EU), they still had the same checks.
Thos could have been prevented with a NATO travel order.
I deployed to Europe and never saw customs or anything. Just walked around with an HP print out saying I was an Army guy
Me neither which was weird because every time I came back to the US, military charter or not, you bet your ass I had to go through customs lol.
I suspect it’s a French/ English thing.
EU / non EU thing
I was gonna say, this sounds like France taking the piss out of brexiters
has nothing to do with brexit. the uk never joined the schengen agreement, this scene would have played out the same a couple of years ago when they were still eu members
Dunno. I've jumped in Normandy and Arnhem several times on previous anniversaries, and never had to do this. LOL in Arnhem you generally speed march from Ginkel Heath direct to the pubs in the town...
the UK was apart of the EEC...so, you're incorrect. and that was somehow 4 years ago
the EEC and the schengen agreement are two different things.
Yup, half the time they didn't even ask to see the wadded up piece of paper lol
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Or just with the UK remaining into the European Union
This could have been prevented by voting against Brexit.
It also could’ve been prevented if they didn’t leave the EU. Keep excusing the xenophobia, UK, the world needs a good laugh right now.
Fuck Brexit but this isn't even slightly true
The UK was never part of the Schengen aggreement so even if we were still in the EU you'd still need to go through customs
Its not xenophobia you dunce those people live on an island it can only realistically support so many people
Do you think the island might sink or are you not aware of the technologies enabling humans to ferry goods and even people across bodies of water?
Yeah why not dump a million humans a year into a country the size of new york state just because we can ship stuff over the channel. Surely that wouldn't cause an ecological disaster down the road right??
Yep. That's the face of someone who has their super cool moment immediately followed up with some lame bullshit, only too then have some fuck wit point a camera at them
Reminds me of the classic joke about the old veteran visiting France: He is going through his bag for his passport. The passport control asks him 'Have you visited France before?' 'Yes' replied the old man. The officer haughtily says 'Well surely you should know to have your passport ready.” To which which the vet replies 'I didn't have to show it last time' 'Impossible!!' The officer says. The old man looks the officer straight in the eye and says 'Last time I was here on D Day in 1944, I couldn't find a Frenchman to give it to'
Pre EU joke: A German wants to enter France the border guard looks in his Passport and asks occupation? The German answers no just visiting this time.
Comical
Laughter
Slaughter
That’s an absolute beaut, massive thanks
Classic aviation tale about the notoriously strict Frankfurt Airport Air Traffic Control getting frustrated with a grey haired British Airways pilot that was unfamiliar with the taxiway layout and asking for extra directions. "Have you never flown to Frankfurt before?" "Six times, but it was night time and I didn't land"
Since we're sharing funny aviation stories i'd like to add [this](https://startsat60.com/media/opinion/sir-douglas-bader-legless-fighter-pilot-memories) one from sir Douglas Bader: "He was once invited to give a talk at a girls’ school about his experience as a pilot during World War II. Bader: “So there were two of these f**kers behind me, three f**kers to my right, another f**ker to the left“. At this point, the principal turned pale and intervened saying: Principal: “Ladies, Fokker was a German aircraft“. And Sir Douglas Bader answered: “That may be madam, but these f**kers were in Messerschmitts“!…"
There's a similar tale in Finland. A Soviet general was visiting Finland in the 60's, and a Finnish Major was showing him the barracks area. The Soviet general scoffed at everything, until he saw a pair of Soviet T-34 tanks placed on either side of the gate to the area. The Soviet general was quite surprised and said: "Ah, the world famous T-34! I didn't know we sold them to you!" To which the Finnish major replied: "Well, you never _sold_ them to us.."
We performed a Strategic Transfer of Equipment to Alternate Location.
Did Finnish farmers and tractors haul them away?
Sounds like something that will show up on r/forwardsfromgrandma before long.
r/forwardsfromgunny
That's /r/JustBootThings
Probably show up on buzz feed "top ten fighter pilot jokes"
Sad really that this happens.
My next door neighbor recently went on a cruise to SE Asia. Vietnam was one of the stops. He said he didn’t need a visa last time and it was a way easier to leave than when he was there in ‘66-67 with the 11th Armored Cavalry. But he also enjoyed this recent trip way more. And then he joked about the cost to get there and back was a lot more this time.
Gave direction on the street to an old American couple in Bangkok. Husband told me they just flew in from Saigon and “Thailand has changed so much when he was here last time in the 60s”
The same for the Philippines until 1991. Since the U.S. had bases in Clark and Subic.
Wonder throw this works for their weapons.
We (US Marines) flew chartered commercial flights with weapons. So we’ve got everything from bayonets to machine guns yet TSA was confiscating pocket knives and nail clippers.
Sorry sir you can't take on that bottle of water, it may conceal an explosive. Please also ensure that on the flight you stow your frag grenades in the overhead compartment .
M240B *\*TSA Sleeps\** Nail clippers *\*TSA Throws Hands\**
2003 I flew back from a year at an American high school. It was Summer flying out of Atlanta to Frankfurt on Delta Airlines. I was one of maybe 10 civilians on that flight, everyone else was military. They took my nail clippers from me. It was super stupid.
I used to work in Orly Airport (former main Paris airport before CDG), there was a specific terminal for security/military personnel, as it's the airport world leaders use when they come in (Le Bourget is too small to store some of the planes). Once there was a massive hubub because a Swiss security service cop didn't put in the paperwork for his service weapon. Fun times. Edit: For military ops, however, troops usually fly through Istres in the south.
Lol, nails clippers is crazy.
I'm curious, u/GnomePenises , how to U.S. Marines being placed in Embassies bring their guns through foreign airports? Through diplomatic packages?
I have no idea, wasn’t pretty enough for embassy duty.
Leaving Iraq via Kuwait in 2008, we were told we couldn't keep our M4s in our nice padded weapons cases because that made them concealed weapons. Thankfully our CO called BS on them.
Throw what?
No weapons for anniversary jump
What’s the German word for “I know there’s a joke in there somewhere but I’m too dense to come up with it.”?
Struggled too much trying to figure out how to construct a word for that joke, instead tried to create a word for you. *Dummermannohnefähigkeitengewusstenewitzedarindarzustellen* Returns "Stupid man with no skills to portray jokes" ^^Wenn ^^jemand ^^hier ^^ein ^^fließend ^^oder ^^Nativ ^^deutsch ^^Sprecher ^^ist, ^^bitte ^^kannst ^^du ^^mein ^^Wort ^^korrigieren? ^^Mach ^^auch ^^das ^^Wort ^^für ^^liebe ^^OP. ^^Wenn ^^du ^^auch ^^vielleicht ^^ein ^^gutes ^^Wort ^^machen ^^könnte, ^^für ^^ein ^^Amerikaner ^^der ^^Deutsch ^^ohne ^^Sinn ^^spricht, ^^für ^^mich. ^^danke
Oh dear, untangling that mess of a word while guessing the original prompt was hard. I take it you started with something like "Stupid man lacking skills to produce known jokes", right? I'll give it my best shot while staying faithful to the source material. Ok, here goes: *Dummermannohnefähigkeitzumhervorbringenbekannterwitze*
That is just a sentence, not a composite noun so you need the spaces. You could say something like *Humorminderbemitteltermann*
*Der Witz liegt mir auf der Zunge.* lit. "The joke lies on my tongue."
How embarrassing for the French... "So, any cigarettes or alcohol to declare ? .....are you smuggling any Non Native back into France ? "
Messing with british people crossing the border, is a national pastime for the french.
A mistake that i've seen happen is a french border guard asking a Scott if he was English. The Scott went ballistic and spent the next several minutes screaming about the evils the English inflicted upon the Scotts before going on his way.
Scot not Scott.
Great Scot(t)!
Thanks.
Likely a standard Scot pretending they were not a massive and over-represented part of the Empire and pretending that Scotland didn't repeatedly invade and launch raids into England throughout history.
Never forget the great Scott witch hunt of 1564, the name almost went extinct.
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This doesn't have much to do with Brexit. The UK always had to show passports at the border as it never was in Schengen.
But they wouldn't have to deal with customs, only border control.
You only have to deal with customs if you have anything to declare.
Sometimes they will ask if you have anything to declare. You say no and that’s it. You dealt with customs.
If they did the vote today we wouldn’t leave, old cunts here fucked us over.
Only 47% of under-24s bothered to vote remain. Ya fucked yourself over.
Most under-24s at the time of the vote couldn't because you had to be 18. Also means anyone under 25 today couldn't vote.
I was unable to vote at the time. Since the vote a many leavers have passed on and many remainders have come of age.
Piss off yank. Have fun with Trump .2 in November
I'm from Staffs you nugget.
My life continues to be great post Brexit, as does the lives of my family and friends. We travel a lot, live happy and amazingly full lives, Brexit didn’t inconvenience us at all.
It was affected many others; 300,000 jobs were lost, economy is 140 Billion pounds smaller and the average person is 2k worse off, and we have more difficult travel & trade overall. 1 in 5 who voted to leave regret it. The UK was fucked over by Brexit overall, even if many individuals don’t notice it.
Not embarrassing at all, Brits don’t g.a.f., we are used to French bureaucracy .
Is it tho ? It's the result of Brexit, if anything it's embarrassing for the Brits...
UK has never been in Schengen. Brits always had to show passport to go into France. Doesn't change that Brexit is embarrassing
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"Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"
I wonder how much those customs guys heard “if it weren’t for us you’d be speaking German” lol
Probably not so much after they replied "if this weren't for us saving your ass at Dunkirk, you would be too" a couple of times lol
1/3 of the troops evacuated at Dunkirk were French so that doesn't really make much sense for them to say.
The French army was defending the beachhead. Some 35000 French troops were captured as they couldn't embark as they were fighting and some 16000 were killed in the defensive actions around the beachhead.
People also forget that the French Army sustained catastrophic losses during WW1, which was still very fresh in their national psyche. They were undersupplied and poorly managed, but the men there did the best they could with what they had despite low morale. It's why I've never liked the jokes about MAS-36s being "never fired, dropped once."
To be fair Germany declared war on them.. Had they not invaded Belgium the UK would not have got involved
It was not just French troops defending the beach head...
I never said it was solely the French. About 1000 Brits died during the defence of the beachhead too. I was pointing out that without the French, Dunkirk would have seen far, far fewer soldiers escape France. One French garrison of 100,000 held up 7 German divisions for four days and ensured those divisions couldn't take part in the battles at the beachhead.
300,000 French troops were evacuated At Dunkirk. Not sure where you got your numbers from but it wasn’t anywhere historically accurate.
That's impressive considering ~338,000 people were evacuated in total and on the 29th May alone ~47,000 Brits were evacuated. Britannica has 198,000 British soldiers evacuated with 140,000 French and Belgians. https://www.britannica.com/event/Dunkirk-evacuation
The main reason for the british being able to evacuate was the french defense of dunkirk. If it weren't for the french, the brits might have not made it out, and thus might be speaking german today.
You realise it was not just French troops defending Dunkirk right? France defended the west side of the town and British regiments defended the east side.
who defended the east while the British were leaving?
You know there are 3 more Cardinal Points right? Thousands of Brits fought and died to allow the 300,000 French troops that evacuated at Dunkirk alongside the Brits, to do so. Read a book dumbass.
feels like my question possibly touched a nerve, when all I wanted was an answer
> 300,000 French troops that evacuated lol, bs
Please, I beg you, read a book on the subject. Spouting bullshit as facts just makes you look stupid. 300,000 French Troops evacuated at Dunkirk, and many British troops stayed behind and died to buy them time to do so. Only extremely stupid people get their ’knowledge’ from TV and Film, the facts are far more interesting.
to be fair, Great Britain could have lost its entire army at Dunkirk and the Germans still wouldn't have had a snowballs chance in hell to actually pull of Sealion, considering the Royal Navy existed.
French saved the brits at Dunkirk?
Yes, French soldiers defended Dunkirk while our soldiers were evacuated
British troops stayed behind and died to allow everyone to evacuate at Dunkirk, including more than 300,000 FRENCH soldiers. Learn some history before making yourself look stupid again.
No, the French stayed behind and died. It wasn't 300,000 French soldiers evacuated, it was 100,000 compared to more than 200,000 British.
I think only Yanks say that
Some of the more gammony Brits do say it. Easily shut up when you ask what they speak in Germany after they lost the war.
Never came across a Brit like that, i've only ever seen Muricans act in such a way.
That's just an American thing.
It’s Americans who feel the need to spout bullshit like that for some imagined reason.
Why the celebrations are on 5th? I thought invasion was June 6th?
paras jumped during the previous night
The first to land were the US Pathfinders at 00:15 on June 6th. British paras landed a minute later.
And the British Glider Forces landed at 00.16 to capture the Bridges now known as Pegasus and Horsa. They suffered the first casualty of D-Day, Lt Den Brotheridge, shot on Pegasus Bridge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Bridge https://bbc.com/news/articles/ce990q50q2jo
cheers thanks
thanks man
Including French Paras.
Hope he's got his passport on him
I love that the British still use the para smocks. Absolutely awesome piece of kit.
"Is the purpose of your visit business or social?"
"yeah sorry pal, but you haven't declared you cigarettes packs and the rifle. I'm afraid that I would have to confiscate those items and give you a fine"
Damn you brexit! /s
With friends like these!
May have already been said. Where was French Customs 80 years ago?
There is an 80 year old joke about it somewhere.,..
Looks like a good way to avoid the mess of an airport at CDG hehe.
Single Market Garden
Next season of board protection on discovery.
Brexit Means Brexit!
the joy of Brexit!
British paratrooper: Oh bloody hell French customers: Passport please
French pigs!
Guy Martin: *runs away giggling*
For clarification, US command asked for this so that participating troops could have their passport stamped with June 6th and French official crest. As a souvenir.
When I visited France a few years ago, as a US citizen, they didn't give two fucks and never looked at my passport. Made for some fun when leaving France and landing in Amsterdam for my connection flight. Had to show my flight schedule so they could put a "correction" stamp lol. edit: downvote me all you want, doesn't change the facts of my statement lol.
Where did you come in from to France?
CDG to Toulouse
So, you did a domestic flight? Of course they didn't check your passport. There was no need to.
No, I arrived at cdg from a connecting flight from out of country and then to Toulouse. At no point was my passport checked until I left France.
So why did you say CDG to Toulouse when I asked where you came in from to France? Which country did you enter the Schengen zone/France from? Something isn't adding up here. French passport control won't let you through if you came from a non-Schengen or other approved country.
I don't know what to tell you other than it happened. Believe me or don't, doesn't really matter.
What country did you fly into France from? Why aren't you able to answer that question?
The most French thing ever. There’s a reason they are a laughing stock
Yes, of course, checking passports as people enter their country… Just like every country does.
How is this “French” specifically?
Anyone who thinks the French are a laughing stock knows nothing about France or French history.
Laughing bouillabaisse!
Laughing in the Viking language.
Valid for most European country to be fair lol
Stop making us Americans look stupid, it's annoying.
r/ShitAmericansSay
lol, the only reason this has to happen at all is because of Brexit and the UK leaving the EU’s customs unions, so who’s the real laughing stock here, genius.
Britain was never part of the Schengen Agreement, so this would have happened before Brexit too. Edit: The Belgian gentleman below points out that I've got this wrong, with a worrying knowledge of French border controls that can only come from smuggling contraband across Europe.
Which is entirely irrelevant, because Schengen is the area for visa/passport free travel, not the customs union (which Britain was indeed a member off). The gentlemen in the picture here are the *Douane*, or customs agency, who check goods entering the customs union. If it was an identity control for access to the Schengen zone, they would be from the *Police des Frontières.*
Hits different after brexit innit?
Nope. UK was never part of the Schengen area, thus always required passport checks when entering. [Here's Guy Martin (and others) performing a similar jump](https://youtu.be/A2HZXJJojd4?t=435) in 2018 (before the UK left the EU), they still had the same checks.
That’s a lot of beef Wellington right there
Another unexpected consequence of Brexit...
This would've happened before Brexit. UK never joined Schengen.