The universe has many immutable laws, such as Newton’s laws of motion and Avogadro’s principle. It turns out that the bad passport photo constant is not actually one of them.
Who’da thunk it?
It is not a law of any type of science that you must look like a vacant-eyed, crazy-haired, drug-addled low life in the photo representation of yourself pasted for the next decade inside your national identity document.
So why, then, do so many of us look like the photographer caught us on our way out of the crack house where we spent the weekend? Or speeding away from the scene where we just ran a busload of senior citizens over a cliff on their way home from a gambling trip to Vegas?
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