NewBluePassport

[@MrKikoboy]

Unfortunately most of the responses prove that the majority of the world has lost its sense of humour ...thankfully as a Canadian I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok.....

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I bet there were people who took that song literally too....🙁

[@MrKikoboy]

@@DavidThorpeMFT I'm sure there were ( he says adjusting his bra and pantyhose...)

[@KarolWalkowski]

@@MrKikoboy HAHAHAHA!!! You made my day mate! I also want to be a girl like my dear papa ;)

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

@@MrKikoboy Come over to England - you will have a glittering career here!

[@douglasolsen1208]

‘I’m a Lumberjack and I’m OK’ is one of the finest songs ever written and performed. Not only for the Canadian but the PNWer in general, too! (Not that I’m a lumberjack, but I’ve cut a bit of firewood in the PNW!)

[@paspartu2453]

In the Monty Pyhton's spirit. Well done sir.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

That was my intention - incredibly;y influential, those Pythons! Thank you!

[@ivangalea8628]

So funny! But I had to re-check that I was watching a David Thorpe video!!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I thought about starting a separate channel but it's a lot of faffing about for something I did to alleviate boredom in the lockdown!

[@micgent]

Ahh yes that blue passport. Our local lads lost the print contract to the French who designed it then they subbed out the printing job to Poland

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

You couldn't make it up, could you?

[@w0lfyovi294]

Man, you are a legend in my book ... and I don't even know what color my book is :P

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

If I am to be a legend, I don't mind the colour of the book!

[@1fareast14]

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[@cecilthornhill4999]

David, this video is great! Like Britain I suppose 🙂. I want to congratulate you on the wonderful Bonzo Dog band feel to the performance. I guess both sides of the pond are well and truly embroiled in a fit of old fashioned jingoism. Hey, ho...I hope we all live through it. At least you made me smile about it, and for that Good Sir, I thank you!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

It was meant as a gentle poking of fun at exactly that, the jingoism. If I made you smile, that'#s all I was wanting to do! Cheers, Cecil.

[@philbrown8181]

Brilliant, thanks for making and posting David!

[@MichaelSchagen]

I've reached the conclusion some time ago that satire and the internet are not compatible. Satire works when author and audience share common values and cultural references, but on the internet, you never know who your audience is. So at some point someone will pass by and not get it. The fact that everyone is living in their own media bubble isn't helping either to get people to have a shared sense of the world. Poe's law at work I guess. Just do what you enjoy doing.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I agree Michael. It is what it is and how people take it is for them to decide.

[@Electromanx3]

I liked the song. You could make a novelty t shirt out of it: "My countrymen voted leave and all I got was this lousy passport." Oh, and don't let people tell you to "stick to photography". At least 50% of why your camera reviews are so great is your sense of humor.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks, I like to have some fun. There's always someone who takes things literally but I just like to laugh.

[@andresgonzalezcerda7635]

Even you left us, I’m still knowing you. And you are still my guru with my gear adquisition syndrome.😉 Best wishes to The family.

[@hellfire2574]

I'm so glad I subscribe to this channel. Very well done!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Very nice of you to say so - thanks!

[@jcurtis4082]

What a hoot! Thank you David, well done!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks, Jeff!

[@conifr]

Why the reference to the EU? Croatia, an EU member, has blue passports too.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

EU members can have any colour they like but we English were told that the EU forced us to have maroon ones. So now the blue one is a symbol of nationhood, apparently.

[@keithfarquhar9819]

Can you hear me mother ?

[@cmartin_ok]

@@keithfarquhar9819 It's turned out blue again, hasn't it !

[@johnrenton3463]

Now all you need David is a quarantine free destination... Nice one, keep them coming and slip in the odd camera / lens review! Cheers!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Cheers, John!

[@gerardg1950]

That calls for a review of the ukelele

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I think you probably heard enough of my playing there 😀

[@magnusfahlstrom3262]

I must admit I didn't see that one coming 😅

[@soundknight]

Me too but we should have, he has such a cheeky witt. Very enjoyable.

[@magnusfahlstrom3262]

@@soundknight I totally agree. David's wit is one of the reasons his channel is my favourite of all photography related channels. The combination of that and his expertise is unbeatable.

[@DH-uc4je]

Had to forward your nice little song, even with dark blue passports now circulating I still consider myself an Anglophile - it's a terrible loss being on a continent cut off.

[@Michael-fw5ef]

There is nothing better than British Humour. And btw, you look much younger than I imagined.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks, Michael. I think my rugged good looks, twinkling eyes and craggy, manly jawline combined with my ripped physique gives the impression that I am younger than I am. I'd never let a comment like your go to my head, of course 😇

[@welshskies]

Excellent. The way things are going the Scots will be able to choose a new colour soon and we in Wales already have some alternative designs in "Dragon Red"being discussed. 😂😂

[@pablorenteria7634]

Nothing like some brit hummor for a cuban living in corona full spain. Thank you David.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Glad to supply a laugh, Pablo. Sometimes it's all you can do!

[@lgude]

I knew you were my kind of bloke when you mentioned in a 2016 video on the G85 that photojournalists in the film era could handhold their Nikons with the 50mm f1.4 at 1/8th second and get sharp pictures. Exactly my experience with my my 1967 F in New York. Didn't hurt that I'd done a lot of target practice as a boy. So I already take you seriously as a photographer and now I have to take you seriously as a man and a patriot. My cup runneth over. As it happens I have two blue passports - one US the other Aussie. The downside is that I have to pay taxes to both countries. The upside I get to vote in both countries - which these days is worth the price of admission.

[@saintsi6997]

Spot on. Well done. I can't play the ukulele either. Is that a U47 ? the Germans do make good mic's!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

The mic is a Rode, Australian made, I think. Probably modelled on a German design.

[@tonysaunders9655]

learnt to fly many years ago the licence cover colour was appropriate brown

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Haha!

[@mfreider]

OMG!!! It is so funny! Honestly, when I press “play” , I didn’t expect song. You made my day! PS I hope there are still people who managed to save they sense of humor during lockdowns

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Great to hear that, Mike, thank you!

[@deen_771]

posted on my birthday. you're a real one

[@henkpeter1755]

The first thirty seconds I thought WTF.. Then I laughed out loud: my dog has an EU passport. It's blue.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

😂😂😂😂

[@douglasolsen1208]

Good one, David! Bless you, old son! Congrats on your Blue Passport! Screw the EU!

[@douglasolsen1208]

BTW Been enjoying your videos for some time now.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Good to hear - thank you!

[@WhoIsSerafin]

As a American this was great and Now you gotta do one about this Covid debacle.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

A bit beyond my capabilities, I think!

[@nathanpaxton8589]

Very funny and not at all what I was expecting.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

😎

[@beadierps14]

So good, thanks :)

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thank you!

[@AndrewSowerby]

What better way to demo the 4K 30 output of the new Oly OMD E-M10 MkIV ;) Very funny song. What else can we do, but laugh the state of affairs over recent years?

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Laughter is all there is, sometimes.

[@Bakin]

You looked like you were enjoying that song. With all respect intended; keep your day job! Your camera reviews are a tad better; actually a lot better! Keep Safe!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks, George! I could just has easily made the video from the other perspective - funny is funny - but there's so much pomposity from the the Rees-Moggs and Mark Francois people that they are an easier target. From my perspective, I'm just whiling away time while on lockdown.

[@tommeunier4711]

I love it. You’re a man again.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

@Daniel Spaniel It's a spoof, Daniel, for people with a sense of humour.

[@alisinclair8529]

The scary thing is people think you're serious which shows how ridiculous the brexit gammon's argument is

[@dr34mlucid]

Ali Sinclair gammon is a racist word.

[@Electromanx3]

@@dr34mlucid are you saying he should take back gammon?

[@alisinclair8529]

@@dr34mlucid gammon is an insult yes but not a racial slur

[@StudioBonn]

Ok, so we can see...hear your real talent 👍 I'm sitting here on the toilet for my daily KZbin-dose and miss some grips not falling off my seat 😂😂😂

[@tebscat]

If I'd heard in your listening situation I'd be needing prolapse surgery...

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

😂

[@Clickumentary]

Love the Feathers McGraw homage 🐧

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

He's evil but not in a bad way :-)

[@zayacz123]

Thank you! I love it!

[@tebscat]

PMSL😂 . I sincerely Stephen "There's Always One Twat" Yaxley-Lennon doesn't see this. He might take it to heart...🤣

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

There's always anger that someone will take it literally - someone advised me to make it clear in the description that it was a spoof, so I did. Not everyone reads the description, though. Oh well....

[@yootoob7048]

From a Yankee across the pond, welcome back blue, we did miss you.

[@johnhaynes9910]

Very funny David, a man of many talents no less !

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I like to think of myself as the new Elvis, John. But I keep waking up :-)

[@davidaldridge3669]

@@DavidThorpeMFT You sound more like the new Ed Sheeran and that's not a compliment :-)

[@edwinparker6732]

😁👍and and elephant stamp for good measure🐘

[@brianb6603]

Excellent as usual!!!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks, Brian!

[@enigmabletchley6936]

Brilliant!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks you!

[@SGR47]

It is funny. I used to have maroon USSR passport too, and now I have blue USA. Just like you...Seriously, thanks for the pleasure.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Glad to raise a smile, Simon, thank you!

[@maxheadroom7687]

With apologies to George Formby?🇦🇺😎👍

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Absolutely. What a great player he was.

[@lixx9277]

Love it. Watching this from HK (still have access to google and KZbin). Mr. Xi doesn’t need to know the brits no longer have a navy, anyway, please take HK back.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I have my bandanna, loin cloth, headband and twin machine guns in my hands all ready. I am on my way 😎

[@lixx9277]

David Thorpe We're doomed. Doomed.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

@@lixx9277 😁

[@joeakestudiosstudiob9300]

Love this.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

😁

[@TITAOSTEIN]

Dear David, you are a talent! Photography, video, music, comedy! The best KZbin channel !! Greetings from the Black Forest!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks! And greetings from london!

[@serebrenikovvadim]

OMG! Great!!🤣

[@furiousdoe7779]

Why are there are so many U.K. rich people having a huge mansion around the corner of Schiphol Airport then... because with theire huge amounts of cash they bought a European Passport ..just to be safe .....

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Known as "I'm all right, Jack", I believe :-)

[@soundknight]

That was such a joy, it really tickled my funny bone. The best thing I've seen on YT in months. Keep up these sort of things David, as a professional musician I thank you.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks, Brian. Glad you enjoyed it. I always wanted to be a professional musician but somehow never had what it took. I can't wait for live music to come back again, from my blues club to the opera and everything between.

[@soundknight]

@@DavidThorpeMFT we have similar tastes ;)

[@steveschnetzler5471]

Now you will be confused again with all those dark blue USA passports, while the others get to take the fast lane (assuming we ever get to travel again).

[@WMedl]

I am still not sure whether your song was satirically meant...

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Have no doubt, it was!

[@patrickvandervalk9622]

Well, no passport nor a MFT camera helps against the COVID virus it seems. I did not know that getting creative and making funny songs were side-effects. I vote for a life long lock down for everyone with a passport until the creativity is cured.....

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

😀

[@Lanalana80]

Your song reminds me Yellow submarine !

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I wish it would sell as many!

[@trainz49]

I thought it was funny and this is from a lad in the USA, although I am way past 50 does that still make me a lad

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I don't see why not. Lad is an attitude, not an age :-)

[@cedrichuen4080]

Yeah mate, greeting from Hong Kong! Glad to listen to this song!!!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thanks - I hope things work out for you all there. Been a few times and really enjoyed myself.

[@guyo68]

Missing David...

[@rudolfabelin383]

Cleaning windows!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

George Formby was great, wasn't he? George Harrison was a big fan, I believe.

[@dolfschuurman474]

I have a maroon passport Why can't it be blue? Because this EU citizen Does not know what to do I bought your favourite lenses I bought your favourite bag But while i try to look the part I'll never have your swag

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Maybe not but your rhymes are better than mine 🙂

[@RealMrGreenTeaLatte]

That’s new...

[@joetag5429]

I can hear it chanted in stadiums when the Three Lions are playing on the continent, an instant classic on the terraces.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

That would be fun - I'd love that!

[@JoergenKHKnudsen]

Funny song over a very sad Subject.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Agreed!

[@ricardorgomez]

Funny! Though, us Americans have a blue passport....

[@MrKikoboy]

Canadians too...although with almost everyone having blue now I vote for Teal....

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I bet yours are printed in the USA, though! Our new blue patriotic symbols are printed in Poland it seems. How the irony of that can be missed I don't know 😅

[@malcolmlawrence3169]

Fantastic!! Ours are BLACK Grrrrr makes all the difference for defence!

[@minorrhoads5318]

WOWSA !! . And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: , well that was a surprize . yes i've edited my comment , as some take thing's the wrong way SO I WILL JUST AD , GOOD IN THE SPIRIT OF DADS ARMY HUMOUR DAVID . NOT TO BE TAKEN OVER SERIOUSLY IN PART . IN THIS COVID CRAZY CLIMATE , GO THERE KATIE !! ha ha ha

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Not to be taken seriously at all. Like most of what I do when I come to think of it 😀

[@minorrhoads5318]

@@DavidThorpeMFT WELL 99.9 % OF WHAT YOU DO IS ACE AND SPOT ON 🎳 AND 🎼TO THE EARS . HAVE A GREAT AUTUMN DAVID .

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

@@minorrhoads5318 You too - and thanks!

[@Thegbiggamerz]

Idk why but this was soo funny. I'm canadian and my passport has been blue.

[@Dicedogg22]

I need to know...How High Are You?? But seriously.. I love and really enjoy your videos 99% of the time.. - this is the 1%

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

I had fun making it - which, like my reviews, is the reason I make them, really.

[@overhang88]

well done this is great

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Thansk you, Abdul!

[@deathdoor]

I always knew I liked you but not this much!

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

😄

[@tizio54]

Whatever makes you happy... I'd rather have an EU passport, which entitles its holder to unrestricted travel, employment and settlement in 27 countries.

[@KarolWalkowski]

Oh dear...

[@Simoneister]

Woosh

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

You can't have taken the video seriously, can you? Did nothing in the visuals or the words tell you this might be a joke? It's just fun, irony, a sense of humour.

[@alexmorgan3435]

@@DavidThorpeMFT Obviously not a Brit but some one from another EU member state. They don't do irony.

[@ryserofilms]

To be fair it's not 100% clear that it's satire. The words used are not too dissimilar to what actual anti EU brexeteers say online and in public.

[@kent2000100]

😂😂😂👏👏👏👏

[@KarolWalkowski]

David... You should change the video name to "NewBluePassport (WARNING! SATIRE)". Looks like few people here either think you're serious or they have a super quirky sense of humour.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

You are right, Karol, I'll put satire in the description. I didn't realise anyone would take it seriously.

[@marcomarcon5802]

Hahaha

[@canturgan]

I've heard worse.

[@douglasallen511]

No you haven't, this channel is supposed to be about photography not effing passports, yeah, this is the worst that you have heard and this Thorpe guy is slipping fast, real fast.

[@canturgan]

@Daniel Spaniel Idiots.

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

@@douglasallen511 This video is on the playlist Comedy, The Theatre of Death. Not photography.

[@Leptospirosi]

😂😂😂

[@JoeMaranophotography]

Brexit! Wooooo!

[@MrJueKa]

Sorry, but does it really matter what color a passport is?

[@DavidThorpeMFT]

Exactly my thought!

[@thomasb4717]

😅😅😅

[@stevehallam0850]

🤣🤣🤣

[@hanslamal5632]

😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@olafweyer859]

Congrats for getting out of this EU asylum. I wish we wouldn't be the driving force behind it all.

[@thomasb4717]

😅😅😅