But what if you have greasy, dirty, thinning, quiffed hair?
The government has a form that allows you to report a benefit thief online. I would LOVE to have been in the meeting where they came up with the options in the dropdown menus ....
Hair: This is blatant prejudice against people with combovers. More importantly, how do you decide between spikey and spiked hair?
Hair: Where's combover?
Build: What the hell is proportionate? Do we need heavy, overweight AND stocky? What about short AND small?
Build: what do these options mean?
Eye colour: pink, really?
Pink? huh?
Contact lenses: That's him, over there in the contact lenses. The cheat. (H/T Shark SEO). How do you check this? Presumably while staring at his eyes to see if his eyes are pink.
How closely do you have to peer to check?
Thanks to Gerry White for pointing the form out.
It's also good to see the Royal Opera House still has the most number of options ever for your title when you register. Maybe the government could introduce those options too - I'm sure Dowager Marchionesses and French Ambassadors could be benefit cheats:
M'lady
As long as your hair's not greasy.
The Chartered Management Institute has the same issue with its title dropdown:
No French ambassadors
While RIAS also likes to cover all bases in its title dropdown - but what if the French Ambassador wants insurance?
Comprehensive insurance
I think this blog post may have wandered off topic now ...
HAHA this cheered me up this morning!
What an awesome list of titles! What ever happened to a simple Male/Female choice??
I think i may go and report someone just to see how ridiculous that form truly is
Someone with albinism may have purple, red or pink eyes. The title lists are mind blowing
I really wonder if they've ever had a "HRH the Duke of" sign up to buy tickets. One thinks that they might have minions to do that for them....
There's a great selection of titles (including the wonderfully precise Cllr Dr) on the TfL site if you follow through to make a complaint:
https://custserv.tfl.gov.uk/icss_csip/CreateRequestDisplayServiceForm.do?nav=A1%23Z0000002%23Z020
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