• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Too dangerous to allow a liter of liquid on a plane.

    Let’s mix them all together in an airport where nothing bad can happen.

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      what if terrorists brought actual bomb juice and poured in in there and then just flicked a match into there and the whole fuckin airport blew up? things to think about when youre on your way to the airport.

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        Or something which acts like a catalyst to make all kinds of soda explosives! (I’m not a chemist, so please don’t judge me for this ridiculous statement)

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        Every time I’m at an airport I’m just struck at how much it’s changed since I was young.

        In the olden days, it was like a big, clean bus station, people were free and happy and kids were running around, no barriers or guardrails anywhere. Now it feels like a funeral procession getting on a plane with the amount of searching and scanning and poking and prodding and massive walls of rules being posted about what you can’t do or say and one-way labyrinths of security hell.

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      The liquids are not allowed because they mess with explosive detectors. Not because anyone thinks they are dangerous.

      It’s not “too dangerous to allow liquid on a plane”. It’s “we can’t detect explosives in your luggage if there are also liquids in it”.

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        That doesn’t make sense. If that was the only reason, it would be easier and safer to just get people to take their liquid, in its container, out of the bag at scanning time

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        I thought that somebody could sneak a explosive liquid into a plane via cup or bottle, and that the liquid could look so much like coffee or water or fuckin diet Pepsi that the security people were like “nah bro we aren’t gonna test it”.

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        Why can’t the liquid be allowed on the plane after the rest of your luggage is scanned then?

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      It also frustrates me how restaurants in international airports only follow the local “meal schedule.” If everyone were in the same timezone all day, then okay, I can see why you’d only offer breakfast before 10am. But that isn’t the case in an international airport. Why are all the dinner places closed? (Rhetorical question - I know the answer is “$$$”)

      But if you’ve been flying for hours, jetlagged from changing timezones, and you still need to catch a connecting flight, you may be ready for dinner/supper. It sucks when you want a more substantial meal, but the only options are eggy breakfast sandwiches and doughnuts.

      It just makes more sense to offer options for any time of day in a place that’s open 24 hours, where you know the people you intend to serve will be on different meal schedules from what the locals might follow.

      And that includes allowing people to buy/drink beer. But alas, those damn blue laws supersede all of that.

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        My little middle of nowhere airport will serve you before noon but damn you if you want a smoke or anything outside

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      You should fly through the Milwaukee airport some time. It’s the only airport I’ve ever been to that just had beer carts everywhere, and you can just carry a beer with you throughout the entire airport. There are bins by each jetway where they make you throw your beer out before you can board. It’s wild.

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        Flying out of Madison recently I saw so many people bringing cases of Spotted Cow as their stowed carry-on. There’s a store right by the gate with a pile of cases for exactly this purpose of course

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      And then, being the law abiding citizen, I tried to relinquish my explosive fluids… Turns out they didn’t mean diarrhea. I think I made several lists that day, not sure which though.

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        I think k putting all the explosives together in one big container is a better idea than collecting Al the drugs

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        I love the one time they didn’t like the hard drive expansion bay with vents in my laptop but decided it’s okay because it can’t be opened by hand but didn’t care about the screwdrivers in my carry-on bag that I forgot about which would allow me to access the expansion bay in flight if desired

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    My dad worked at Gatwick Airport as a cleaner in the 70s when he was a teenager. His first week there, a woman drops a duty free bag with a bottle of booze in it and he rushes over to clean it up. He’s just about to put the bag, full of liquid booze and broken glass, in the bin when one of the senior porters stops him and tells him to bring it in the back. Turns out they had a filtration system in the break room for this exact scenario. They’d pour the booze out of the plastic bag and through a sieve that would collect all the broken glass, it would all go into a big container at the bottom and voila, free booze! They offered my dad some, but he declined. Anyway, I guess if you were working at Gatwick in the 70s you could have had a chance to drink some airport jungle juice, you’d just need to be brave enough.