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That the sign in the photo says "Welcome to the UK Border" and not "Welcome to the UK" sums it up for me.
by thanatos519 5y ago
That the sign in the photo says "Welcome to the UK Border" and not "Welcome to the UK" sums it up for me.
- OJFord 5y agoHa, I noticed that too. More than a whiff of a lawyer's touch! Reminds me of that Parks & Recreation scene where Andy's in the hospital having (for the second time) fallen in the pit, and Leslie visits chased by 'the city's lawyer' who has a long increasingly ridiculous list of interjections for things she 'can't say because it implies X'. i.e. 'you can't say Welcome to the UK, because it implies you have been allowed in to the UK'. Personally I think, fine, but maybe a subtler and nicer way to do it would be to position the sign on the other side of customs, visibly perhaps, and just have nothing or simply 'UK customs & border control' or whatever on the other.