Alas its a pack of lies.
They had a pretty good lens and developer system in them, and provided the chemicals were changed on time and cleaned out, it gave a pretty good accurate print. (unless some oik smeared vaseline (or worse) over the glass covering the lens)
And they were wet, because they used a wet developing system, dumping the little strip of photo paper in the various chemicals.
I think Alexi Sayle said that because he could never really believe he was actually that ugly and miserable looking. A bulldog chewing a wasp had a better disposition.
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