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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Surely that info is freely available on the passport they are using to go through the airport.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Probably, but they figured out they could save time by just hiring Björn here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Björgúlfur or something, surely.

Also, is Iceland falling so far behind in racial stereotyping that they’d bring in a German to do it for them?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's a german inside joke, explained in this video (in german).

There is a far right politician named Björn and who was mistakenly called Bernd by a local newspaper and got angry. To annoy him, a satire show calls him Bernd all the time. This caused enough confusion, that a public broadcaster messing up.
Edit: spelling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 2 points 2 weeks ago

How'd it get burned!?

[–] spankmonkey 5 points 2 weeks ago

All they need to do it check all of the passports to make sure his selections are accurate!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Passports are checked by some government authority, they don't give you access to the data, so the professional racist is there for statistics used by whomever.

[–] someguy3 0 points 2 weeks ago

Surely they can extract just that data. Though it might depend on that country's specific regulation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Iceland's in the Schengen area so there's a lot of flights coming where they don't even ask for your passport. That's how it was done when I was there in 2019 or so, anyway.