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>> No. 13322 Anonymous
29th March 2014
Saturday 5:01 pm
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Airports.

I fuckin' hate airports.
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>> No. 14193 Anonymous
21st April 2014
Monday 2:34 am
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>>13341
I should have asked this earlier, but what's your beef with self-help books?
>> No. 14224 Anonymous
23rd April 2014
Wednesday 12:51 am
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I'm always scared of airports because I'm sure I'd get lost.
>> No. 14225 Anonymous
23rd April 2014
Wednesday 1:16 am
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>>14224
It's obvious that airports follow the rule common to many phobias, which is that it's more scared of you than you are of it.
>> No. 14226 Anonymous
23rd April 2014
Wednesday 1:46 am
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>>14225
Hence the security checks. Poor thing's afraid you'll blow it up.
>> No. 15728 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 2:24 am
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Turns out we have to show our phones and laptops to the man from now onwards, if we want to fly. Sigh. This is hopeless.
>> No. 15729 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 2:27 am
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BRING BACK BOATS!

You can't bomb boats anyway. Well, you can, but you need a lot of bombs and the odd torpedo.
>> No. 15730 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 2:28 am
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>>15728
I did remember reading recently that you can't get on a plane if your phone/laptop wasn't charged.

I'm beginning to wonder whether this is for security reasons anymore. It just seems like the lad who looks at them just wants it so he can add to his wank bank.
>> No. 15731 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 3:28 am
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>>15730
They already have enough what with all the body scans and what-not.

I'm seriously considering never flying again. I have been through hell trying to get back into my country. Can people hitch rides on cargo ships? Just how slow are ships?
>> No. 15732 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 4:14 am
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>>15731

The fastest cargo ships travel about 28 knots. They can cross the Pacific in about ten days. It is possible to charter a cabin on general cargo ships, but it's not common or easy, plus they're not quick and don't go where you want.

You could always slip a yachtsman a back hander to get yourself across the channel. Doable, not common. Perfectly legal, though.
>> No. 15733 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 4:26 am
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>>15731

You could buy a boat. Just imagine all the air fares you could save on over the years.
>> No. 15734 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 5:16 am
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>>15732
I looked into travelling by cargo ship some months back for environmental reasons. I was a little shocked to discover they're just as expensive as flying, for a journey twenty times as long.
>> No. 15747 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 4:21 pm
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>>15730

This is now a thing for the TSA, because they want to be able to search your computer/phone/whatever without having to have a set of necessary charges. The bomb rationale they're using for it is nonsense.

AFAIK this rule is not in force anywhere outside of TSA jurisdiction (the US, essentially).
>> No. 15748 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 4:23 pm
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>>15747
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2684723/Now-terror-checks-phones-laptops-spread-flights-Middle-East-Africa-BA-u-turns-says-WILL-able-fly-phones-not-charged.html

Could the shittymail be lying?
>> No. 15749 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 4:27 pm
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>>15748

It was on the beeb earlier so I imagine there's at least a grain of truth in there.
>> No. 15750 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 4:30 pm
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>>15732

Shipping markets are in the toilet, most vessels will slow steam in order to save money on fuel costs. I very much doubt many ships are doing anywhere close to 28 knots.
>> No. 15754 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 9:15 pm
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>>15747
>>15748

Yep. I just arrived at my hotel and saw on Sky News that the UK had adopted the same policy - when flying to anywhere at all - which is somewhat mind blowing. I assume that if the rest of the world hasn't actually adopted the policy already they will do in short order.

Sage for impotent rage.
>> No. 15755 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 9:39 pm
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Is this serious, or is it just some civil servant someone trying to justify their salary?
>> No. 15757 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:00 pm
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>>15755
It is the government trying to look into your stuff without getting the courts involved.

Yay, I love being free.
>> No. 15758 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:04 pm
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>>15757
/boo/, lad.
>> No. 15759 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:09 pm
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>>15758
Sadly, it isn't /boo/ any more. What has been /boo/ a decade ago, is reality now. Why else would they want us to show them our laptops and phones? How much more will they take before anyone says enough?
>> No. 15760 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:11 pm
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>>15759
>Why else would they want us to show them our laptops and phones?
I know, right? It's not like laptops or phones show up on X-rays or anything.
>> No. 15761 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:12 pm
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I bet it's a fun time to be taking filming equipment transatlantic.

You know what would help people? Just telling them why this shit is necessary, all I can imagine is that some Jihadilad has made a post on salaf.ist on how cool it would be if he had an iPhone shaped grenade.
>> No. 15764 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:16 pm
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>>15759
Having airport securibots search your laptop for information is roughly as effective as a mass surveillance technique as it is in reducing terrorism.
>> No. 15765 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:21 pm
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How do storage devices get through airports?

Like say an external hard drive. Given that ANYTHING these days can be considered a bomb from underwear, to bottles of water to shoes I imagine airport officials will be a bit antsy about a big block of encased plastic.
>> No. 15766 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:23 pm
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>>15761
I really wonder how necessary it actually is, though. It's like when body scanners got introduced, but that guy managed to sneak a syringe of liquid through them and the like. Does it all really do anything if someone's determined?
>> No. 15767 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:24 pm
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>> No. 15768 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:24 pm
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>>15766
Like that guy who made a bomb with stuff he bought at the airport after clearing security.
>> No. 15769 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:30 pm
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Didn't people say that the people who operate those backscatter scanners couldn't save images and then suddenly it turned out they were saving them?

Airports these days must be the biggest black market for voyeuristic porn.
>> No. 15770 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:31 pm
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They are just taking the piss, and we are letting them.
>> No. 15771 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:32 pm
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>>15769
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/10/27/tsa-is-firing-the-get-your-freak-on-girl-baggage-screener/
>> No. 15773 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:41 pm
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>>15765
I'll take my 2TB brick-like external HDD with me in hand luggage next time I fly and report back.
>> No. 15774 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:54 pm
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>>15771
>While the person will be fired for remarking on the intrusion of privacy that took place, he or she is still entitled to a bit of privacy. The TSA is not revealing the gender or name of the officer, as that would be a violation of the Privacy Act.

hah
>> No. 15775 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 10:57 pm
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>>15770

You don't have to fly to America. I personally don't intend to again, the last time I did was a bloody shambles. Who would have thought that being British is like being a fucking martian to those obese cunts.

Let them cut themselves off from the world if they want to. Good riddance.
>> No. 15776 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 11:01 pm
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>>15775
>You don't have to fly to America.
However, a lot of people in general do have to fly somewhere.
>> No. 15777 Anonymous
9th July 2014
Wednesday 11:02 pm
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What if, right, this is all a big tourist board conspiracy to get you to go to Centre Parcs instead of Corfu?

Maybe they don't want you to fly and are doing this so you'll join the caravan club and go to Berwick for a fortnight instead.

I hear the Berwick Rotary Club have a lot on during the Summer months.
>> No. 15778 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 12:34 am
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>>15775
Flying back from the US to Heathrow was stressful as fuck. I do not wish to experience that again. When you're half asleep and in a bad mood, having some fat Glock-wielding seppo cunt shouting at you to take your shoes off, put my laptop and everything else in a tray, go through a rather intrusive scan that made me feel like they thought I was best mates with Bin Laden and generally talk to us like we had just come via Kabul. Fuck off America, never again.

Fucking Heathrow was nicer than that shite. Even the passport woman was friendly and treated us like people.
>> No. 15779 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 12:59 am
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>>15775
This is happening here. HERE. If you want to fly anywhere, the border bastards here will fist you.
>> No. 15780 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 1:00 am
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>>15778
Last time I went on a plane was before 9/11. I think it was 1997 on a family holiday.

I am absolutely terrified to get on a plane. Not because of the turbulence, terrorists/hijackers, the taking off/landing or the air pressure drilling into my ears but because I'd have to deal with the security checkpoints. They're getting people used to this sort of treatment and if I was to ever go on a plane again I'd have an anxiety attack and then promptly shot in the head by armed goons for looking suspicious.

And I have a beard.
>> No. 15781 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 1:05 am
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If you just go into the whole experience expecting it to be absolutely dire - it normally ends up ok. It's like taking a commuter train or dealing with the council. Your expectations are at rock bottom, and they never fail to disappoint.

But then again, how hard is it actually to comply with their rules - they don't ask the world - and how long does it take to get through security, 15-20 minutes?

Out of interest, I recently 'accidentally' took 2 boxes of matches and 2 lighters on a plane. Would I actually get in trouble for that shit? I just wanted a fag at Schipol without paying 4 euros for a bic lighter.
>> No. 15782 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 1:08 am
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>>13421
Bumping for this link, it's superb.
>> No. 15783 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 1:08 am
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>>15780
I think a lot of people look nervous at airports. Last time I flew I certainly did, though that was more to do with getting on the right plane in time rather than security.
>> No. 15785 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 1:31 am
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>>15781
>Would I actually get in trouble for that shit?
Probably depends which airport. I once left a knife and a butane lighter in my carry-on luggage (camping trip). The woman on security just said "you can't take these on the plane" and that was the end of it.
>> No. 15786 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 1:55 am
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>>15781
That's the thing, sometimes if you just forget to take stuff out, it slips through anyway. Which makes me wonder how thorough and useful all this crap in the name of security really is.
>> No. 15787 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 5:00 am
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>>15781

That's 20 minutes out of the lives of millions of people every year at each airport. In terms of life-hours lost, many lifetimes are completely wasted.

I'm not being a drama queen about it, you can describe any sort of systematic inefficiency in terms of life-hours and therefore lifetimes lost.
>> No. 15788 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 9:34 am
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>>15787

What utter tripe. No one person loses a lifetime from this experience, you choosing to aggregate data and the explain it that way doesn't make it so.

Besides, I don't think most people brush for the full 2 minutes they're supposed to, let alone floss daily. So imagine how many lives the dental industry have saved by failing to get this message out effectively!

And what about Sky+, with all the adverts people have been able to skip over these past years, probably close to offsetting China's one child policy by now?
>> No. 15789 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 10:12 am
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>>15788
>What nonsense. No one person lost their savings when I robbed that bank.
Fixed that for you.
>> No. 15790 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 2:06 pm
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Honestly I think you're all making a big deal out of a fairly minor inconvenience.
>> No. 15791 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 2:34 pm
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>>15790
Welcome to the UK m8
>> No. 15793 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 4:16 pm
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>>15790
They said that about Vanessa Feltz, m8.

Spiritual sage for actual sage box not responding on my phone.
>> No. 15794 Anonymous
10th July 2014
Thursday 4:22 pm
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>>15757
Also, maybe it's just a security theatre.
What is freedom anyway.
>>15764
Some folks say it has nothing to do with reducing terrorism but making people feel safe. Like when you have a massive high-end lock on a thin door that can be kicked out with just one kick.
Abuses may be a side-effect of this. I don't know.
>>15765
Here is a somewhat funny story about their competence.
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Back in the olden (pre-TSA) days I was asked to turn on a massive Toshiba laptop, although to be fair that laptop could easily have contained a bomb and perhaps an armored regiment.

It was running Linux and booted to a command prompt.
No turn it ON he insisted.
It is on!
English didn't seem to be the officer's 1st language (actually speech didn't seem to be his first language)
I eventually worked out he wanted to see pictures, so "startx" and move the cursor around and he was satisfied.

Presumably his training in detecting advanced covert IEDs had been been shown a copy of Windows and told that a moving mouse cursor meant not a bomb.
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