HALT! We are the fluids Police

[Blakenzy]

... and we are here to see what you are ingesting. Now lemme stick this grimy object in your beverage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7XsOnI-78s

Next up, colonoscopic examinations: Is that a turd in your colon or a block of C4?

[longeyes]

You are describing the revolutionaries of the future.   

[Jamisjockey]

While its still ten levels of stupid wrapped in a turd, they don't stick anything in the drinks.  They are testing for vapors.

What they should do is just tell everyone to take a big slug of their drinks.  Would save a bunch of money on stupid testing gear.

 

We've truly lost our way.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

While its still ten levels of stupid wrapped in a turd, they don't stick anything in the drinks.  They are testing for vapors.

What they should do is just tell everyone to take a big slug of their drinks.  Would save a bunch of money on stupid testing gear.

 

We've truly lost our way.

thats what they used to   make you take a swig

[zxcvbob]

While its still ten levels of stupid wrapped in a turd, they don't stick anything in the drinks.  They are testing for vapors.

What they should do is just tell everyone to take a big slug of their drinks.  Would save a bunch of money on stupid testing gear.

Somebody is making a lot of money selling those test strips.  (Chertoff, perhaps?)

[erictank]

Somebody is making a lot of money selling those test strips.  (Chertoff, perhaps?)

DINGDINGDINGDING!!! We have a WINNAH!


Gotta be honest - the way I see it, when someone approaches me and asks to sample my purchased-inside-the-secure-area beverage in whatever manner, I intend to guzzle the entire thing as fast as I can, toss 'em the empty, and walk the frak away. They can deal with THEIR trash, at that point, and I'll say it to their faces before walking away from them. Might ask them if they failed to screen the people who brought the pallets of food and drink - and the items themselves, for that matter - through "security" for delivery in the "secure area" the first time 'round, since they're wasting time pretending to check it again at the gate, as well.

If they're going to be morons, I'm going to make that blindingly and publically obvious to them.

Note -those test strips they use can't distinguish between hydrogen peroxide of a concentration useful in the production of explosives (something like 30+%, IIRC) and the concentration of H2O2 in Clear Care brand contact solution (~3%). So while contact solution is medically necessary and can be brought through "security" (even in >3oz bottles, although the screeners will argue with you), Clear Care will alarm their "security" analyzers and will be confiscated - or, rather, according to them, you'll "voluntarily surrender it" if you want to catch your flight.

So watch out for that, lens wearers. Of course, the glycerin in a lot of hand lotions alarms their analyzers, as well...

[stevelyn]

Welfare-to-work morons led by bureaucratic morons looking for an excuse for their existence. Typical.

I won't go anywhere that requires me to suffer the indignities of the TSA thugs.

[Jamisjockey]

DINGDINGDINGDING!!! We have a WINNAH!


Gotta be honest - the way I see it, when someone approaches me and asks to sample my purchased-inside-the-secure-area beverage in whatever manner, I intend to guzzle the entire thing as fast as I can, toss 'em the empty, and walk the frak away. They can deal with THEIR trash, at that point, and I'll say it to their faces before walking away from them. Might ask them if they failed to screen the people who brought the pallets of food and drink - and the items themselves, for that matter - through "security" for delivery in the "secure area" the first time 'round, since they're wasting time pretending to check it again at the gate, as well.

If they're going to be morons, I'm going to make that blindingly and publically obvious to them.

Note -those test strips they use can't distinguish between hydrogen peroxide of a concentration useful in the production of explosives (something like 30+%, IIRC) and the concentration of H2O2 in Clear Care brand contact solution (~3%). So while contact solution is medically necessary and can be brought through "security" (even in >3oz bottles, although the screeners will argue with you), Clear Care will alarm their "security" analyzers and will be confiscated - or, rather, according to them, you'll "voluntarily surrender it" if you want to catch your flight.

So watch out for that, lens wearers. Of course, the glycerin in a lot of hand lotions alarms their analyzers, as well...

Expect to be handcuffed and questioned and not make your flight.  The security, the guns, they are all pointed inward at us.

[longeyes]

Welfare-to-work morons led by bureaucratic morons looking for an excuse for their existence. Typical.

I won't go anywhere that requires me to suffer the indignities of the TSA thugs.

Guess you won't be travelin' much.  It won't stop at public venues and public transportation.  Public safety requires the omnipresence of "guardians."  Unless this is stopped we will have the paradox of open borders and ubiquitous roadblocks PDQ.

[roo_ster]

Expect to be handcuffed and questioned and not make your flight.  The security, the guns, they are all pointed inward at us.

Funny how that works for "Homeland Security."  We forgot to ask the question, "Secure for whom?"

[Blakenzy]

Funny how that works for "Homeland Security."  We forgot to ask the question, "Secure for whom?"

The "Homeland"(read State), is kept safe from "Us" (the peasantry).

This has happened many, many times before, all over the Globe and throughout history.

We were warned about this: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."- James Madison

[Fitz]

I hate that the border patrol and coast guard fall under DHS...

The work we do for them is pretty damn important, and yet by association we get lumped in with the f*expletive deleted*tards at the TSA and the DHS idiocracy.

EDITED to add: I am neither border patrol nor coast guard, but the system I support involves both agencies.

[longeyes]

The State invites in our most virulent enemies, then uses draconian means against US to "defend" us from the people they admitted.

If the American people can't understand what the contradiction is, our future is dim.

[Hawkmoon]

I hate that the border patrol and coast guard fall under DHS...

I hate that there IS a DHS. To me, the names of some groups within the .gov are messed up. We have a Department of Defense that doesn't do much defending, but seems to do a lot of offending all over the world. So why not give them back their old name, the War Department, and put them in charge of ... wars.

Then take the groups that actually defend the homeland, such as the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard, and put them in a group called the Department of Defense.

Finally, take TSA and FEMA and disband them.

[Blakenzy]

I hate that there IS a DHS. To me, the names of some groups within the .gov are messed up. We have a Department of Defense that doesn't do much defending, but seems to do a lot of offending all over the world. So why not give them back their old name, the War Department, and put them in charge of ... wars.

Then take the groups that actually defend the homeland, such as the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard, and put them in a group called the Department of Defense.

Finally, take TSA and FEMA and disband them.

Throw in some more alphabet agencies and you got yourself a deal Mister. 

[stevelyn]

Guess you won't be travelin' much.

I left that place down there 25 years ago and have no intention of ever returning.

The places I need to fly to I can fly to on a local commuter that doesn't require having to deal with that nonsense.