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Do you care airport screeners can see privates
Topic Started: Dec 4 2006, 09:14 PM (1,694 Views)
Frank_W
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What kills me, is when I fly, there are people in line for security who act like they've never flown before.

"You mean I have to take my shoes off?!"
"No, asshole, you don't. See the exit over there? Go through it."


"You mean I can't take my cigarette lighter?!"
"No, f*cktard. You can't. If you don't like it, see the exit over there? Go through it."


"Why is the line so long? I'm going to miss my flight!"
"Because of jerkwads like you, who can't pull their head out of their ass and cooperate. If you miss your flight, there's a nice big exit over there for your buffalo ass."

:veryangry: :cursing:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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ny1911
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I think the security is overkill. It takes too much time and improves one's perception of security more than anything else.
So live your life and live it well.
There's not much left of me to tell.
I just got back up each time I fell.
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It's because flying has become like taking the bus. Soon it may become like taking the bus and like a grade B futuristic police state move- at the same time.

I think I agree it would be cheaper to strip search people- line them up against a wall- do cavity searches. I think we should do that because it will make us safer.

But if people object they should be allowed to be put in a human microwave oven X rayed.

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kenny
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ny1911
Dec 5 2006, 05:45 AM
I think the security is overkill. It takes too much time and improves one's perception of security more than anything else.

I agree.
Same with the "safety labels" you have to peel off the top of bottles of Isopropyl alcohol today.
Or strapping your kid into 5 tons of metal that flattens any car it hits.

We have been taught we have a right to expect a pristine bubble of perfect safety.

Fear is a powerful emotion.
It is used by powerful people to manipulate us.
Whipping up fear can even get countries to finance senseless wars.

Fear Fear Fear.
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jon-nyc
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Frank_W
Dec 5 2006, 08:36 AM
What kills me, is when I fly, there are people in line for security who act like they've never flown before.

"You mean I have to take my shoes off?!"
"No, asshole, you don't. See the exit over there? Go through it."


"You mean I can't take my cigarette lighter?!"
"No, f*cktard. You can't. If you don't like it, see the exit over there? Go through it."


"Why is the line so long? I'm going to miss my flight!"
"Because of jerkwads like you, who can't pull their head out of their ass and cooperate. If you miss your flight, there's a nice big exit over there for your buffalo ass."

:veryangry: :cursing:

Don't hedge, Frank. Tell us what you really think. ;)
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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jon-nyc
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Mikhailoh
Dec 5 2006, 08:30 AM

Wrong line, MP.. I'm at the redhead station.

I wonder if this machine will let you see if the curtains match the rug.


In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Frank_W
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jon-nyc
Dec 5 2006, 05:55 AM
Don't hedge, Frank. Tell us what you really think. ;)

Well, okay:

Airports are the reception area of Hell, where you get to observe self-important asswipes yammering into their cellphones about nothing, televisions blaring the editorialism that passes for "news" now, pay $3 for a utterly sh!t cup of coffee served up by a surly immigrant, and deal with other peoples' snotlings running amuck or having F5-level tantrums.

Flying itself, is a little slice of Hell, served up in a flimsy tube of sheet metal, blasted four miles high in the sky at 300 mph, where you get to be treated like a criminal for the entirety of your travel experience, and pay exhorbitant fees for the privilege.

I could go on, but I've had a pretty nice morning so far, and I'm more relaxed and easygoing than usual. :devilgrin:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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kenny
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Hahahahahaha :lol2:
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Frank_W
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The other term for them is "loinfruit." :devilgrin:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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kenny
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jon-nyc
Dec 5 2006, 07:29 AM
I'm not against it per se, but I do think the government focuses too much on airline security.

9-11 taught us that planes can be missiles. OK, make the cockpits impregnable, and now its just a tube with 200 people on it.

If I want to kill 200 people, I could do it in any shopping mall. Why spend so much energy protecting people when they are in a tube but not when they are in a box?

(of course i know the answer, its because the public freaks out, but thanks for letting me vent)

No, you are completely right. I'm totally going to get flagged for this, but if I knew that the cockpits where impossible to get into...at most I could kill a couple hundred people. That of course is a shame, but if that's the reason why we now have to pass the family jewels through the x-ray machine, why not do it when you get on the metro, or before entering a mall, etc?
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jon-nyc
Dec 5 2006, 09:57 AM
Mikhailoh
Dec 5 2006, 08:30 AM

Wrong line, MP.. I'm at the redhead station.

I wonder if this machine will let you see if the curtains match the rug.

I can always tell... don' need no steenkin' ma-chine to tell me a REAL redhead!
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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1hp
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I still think it would have been better to not beef up screening at the terminals and, instead, instal a Taser at each seat next to the fold down tray. Anyone gets out of line........zowie.....several tasers firing at them simultaneously. That's how the west was won.

There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and................
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big al
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1hp
Dec 5 2006, 07:19 AM
I still think it would have been better to not beef up screening at the terminals and, instead, instal a Taser at each seat next to the fold down tray. Anyone gets out of line........zowie.....several tasers firing at them simultaneously. That's how the west was won.

At last, a sensible proposal. :thumb:

The alternative, of course, is that everyone simply fly naked. We're surrendering most privacy already, what's a few pieces of cloth.

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ny1911
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Fly naked
***CONTENT WARNING***

sorry 'bout that
So live your life and live it well.
There's not much left of me to tell.
I just got back up each time I fell.
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Dewey
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I can't understand the thought process that would allow someone to be perfectly willing to get shiny-boned naked in a locker room with a bunch of strangers just because they wanted to have a workout or a dip in the pool; but to feel it an unacceptable invasion of privacy for some TSA screener to catch a five-second glance of a ghosty image of their dick, in order to possibly save a few hundred lives.

:rolleyes:
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kenny
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ny1911
Dec 5 2006, 01:19 PM
Fly naked
***CONTENT WARNING***

sorry 'bout that

This one wasn't so bad.

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Frank_W
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A fun game they play on such flights: "Bobbing For Kiwis." :devilgrin:
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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kenny
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Dec 5 2006, 01:20 PM
I can't understand the thought process that would allow someone to be perfectly willing to get shiny-boned naked in a locker room with a bunch of strangers just because they wanted to have a workout or a dip in the pool; but to feel it an unacceptable invasion of privacy for some TSA screener to catch a five-second glance of a ghosty image of their dick, in order to possibly save a few hundred lives.

:rolleyes:

I see your point, but that group that disrobes in a locker room is self-selected.

I think there is a fear of the viewer having a sexual reaction.
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ny1911
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So is the group that flies!

Editted to add: I don't think it is the fear that a screener will have a sexual reaction, I think it's the fear that they won't.
So live your life and live it well.
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kenny
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ny1911
Dec 5 2006, 01:27 PM
So is the group that flies!

But disrobing in a locker room has always meant nudity. (except for those darn guys who keep a towel around them) :veryangry:

Flying hasn't.
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ny1911
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We used to run into "thong boy" at the gym. It wasn't a boy...it was a 70+ year old guy. For some reason, it was more offensive to see him walking around in a thong than naked in a shower.

Maybe it's becasue he was walking around the ladies locker room door.
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Dec 5 2006, 04:31 PM
We used to run into "thong boy" at the gym.

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I see your point, but that group that disrobes in a locker room is self-selected.


As ny has said, so is the group that flies. No one's holding a gun to anyone's head to get on a plane, and we should do everything we can to keep from having a gun to their head once they're on board. To me, it's a really misdirected sense of propriety to be worked up over something like this. If we have that preventative technology, and someone is too put out to use it, my answer is "You see that exit door that Frank W showed those other guys? You can use it, too."

And it won't be much consolation to the survivors of someone who was killed in the next terrorist hijacking - even if "only" the couple hundred on board were killed, instead of the plane being flown into the Sears Tower - to tell them, "Well, we had the technology to prevent this, but some people were a little shy about going through the X-Ray, so we didn't implement it."
"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685.

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"Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011

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