• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world
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    2 months 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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      2 months ago

      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.

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        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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        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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      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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        2 months ago

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

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        2 months ago

        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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    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.

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    2 months ago

    anybody wonder what they do with that jungle juice…? cause the soda machines are tastin’ kinda funky…

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    2 months ago

    Lot of dead people in an airport after someone with an ammonia based cleaner they have to dump out right after someone else had some bleach they had to pour out.