The two main justifications for adding chips to passports are that they improve security at border crossings and speed up immigration procedures. Your correspondent thinks this is poppycock.
I saw one the other day, people said, 'It's an acronym, 'chav', from council house and violent' - well, no, it isn't, that was made up in recent times.
我有天看到了一个,那些人说,chav是个首字母缩写词,来自‘council house and violent’。嗯,不是的,不是这样的。这是最近才出现的胡扯。