What made me laugh today...

[think positive]

I looked up "hypersensitivity" in the dictionary the other day and found a picture of airport security.

It would have taken a government agency about 5 minutes to find out who this girl was and that she posed no threat. I'm pretty sure a stern phone call or police doorstop visit would have sufficed. But no, viva authoritarian overreaction and its News Corp cheerleaders.

Bloody oath they're hypersensitive and anyone with half a brain would know better than piss them off.

They have to assume every single one of these kinds of threats is legitimate until proven otherwise. If it had of been a real threat and they managed to close it off with swift action it wouldn't be considered an authoritarian over reaction.

Yep

We flew home from Queensland the day after September 11 happened. Also the week ansett(??)went broke. OMG the airport and plane were spooky places to be. You just don't say or even think the word bomb anywhere near an airport

[Tannin]

I should think it's the same as customs officers. They never, ever take anything as a joke, for two reasons. First because, to a brave but nervous would-be smuggler, joking about smuggling seems like a good, cheeky way to relax and get through the inspection. They reckon if you joke about smuggling something, you might just be really smuggling something, and they are probably right. Second, they really, really hate wasting their time on jokes and hoaxes (and rightly so), so they like everyone in the world to know that they take every little bit of levity very seriously and it is emphatically not, repeat not, a good idea to crack a joke or make even the lightest threat 'coz you will spend the entire rest of the day in a small, windowless room having your orifices probed and all your belongings wrecked in tedious detail.

Is this a power trip by low-paid, bored control freaks? Sure it is. Does it work, making their lives easier and your life safer? Sure it does.

[HAL]

No, this is real life.

[David]

Tannin, I know these people do a very important job and that they don't want idiots wasting their time, but responses still ought to be proportionate. Anyway, why are airports such special cases? If I joked about having a bomb on the train or at the cinema nobody would bat an eyelid, yet as far as I can tell an actual bomb in either scenario could cause just as much carnage. I just think it's an overreaction to September 11, to be honest, and the stigma attached to the event has allowed certain control freaks way too much power.

I looked up "hypersensitivity" in the dictionary the other day and found a picture of airport security.

It would have taken a government agency about 5 minutes to find out who this girl was and that she posed no threat. I'm pretty sure a stern phone call or police doorstop visit would have sufficed. But no, viva authoritarian overreaction and its News Corp cheerleaders.

I thought you wanted more government David?

I want more regulation (particularly of business) but also more civil liberties. I think these things are compatible.

My world view may be complex, but I like to think it's reasonably consistent.

[stui magpie]

Tannin, I know these people do a very important job and that they don't want idiots wasting their time, but responses still ought to be proportionate. Anyway, why are airports such special cases? If I joked about having a bomb on the train or at the cinema nobody would bat an eyelid, yet as far as I can tell an actual bomb in either scenario could cause just as much carnage. I just think it's an overreaction to September 11, to be honest, and the stigma attached to the event has allowed certain control freaks way too much power.

I suggest you don't test that hypothesis.

[David]

[stui magpie]

[think positive]

/\. Claimed!

That's cool!!!!

[Bucks5]

Why did I read that link as Tits R us, really

[Lazza]

This made me laugh today.


And it was at this time during the darkest days of Christianity, that as he was nailed to the cross and raised up for all to gaze upon his tortured and twisted body, he looked down wearily at his 12 apostles and speaking softly but firmly, with his last gasping breath, said unto them.....









Don't touch my bloody Easter eggs, I'll be back on Sunday!!

[stui magpie]

This made me laugh today.


And it was at this time during the darkest days of Christianity, that as he was nailed to the cross and raised up for all to gaze upon his tortured and twisted body, he looked down wearily at his 12 apostles and speaking softly but firmly, with his last gasping breath, said unto them.....









Don't touch my bloody Easter eggs, I'll be back on Sunday!!

hah, like it.

[3.14159]

I was watching 7's The Chase this afternoon and saw this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG8hgkIplcY

[think positive]

for the guys this winter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR949AQ9jbA

[King Monkey]

Lindsay Thomas.

[Morrigu]

My mum

Took her to her high point today as she wanted a new scratching pole for Sox the cat.

Walking past one of the jewellery stores she spotted a lovely pearl and marcasite brooch - didn't have a price on it so I went in to ask them. Cause she has lost so much weight she can't wear a lot of her earrings these days as her ear lobes are too skinny

So it was reduced to $150 so I bought it for her for Mother's Day ( didn't think she would be here so it was a good pressie for me too!)

The sales guy was lovely and as camp as a row of tents with bling of serious quantity on display - she spent the entire time he was serving us explaining to him that Collingwood got within 5 points of Geelong so we are a chance - " might get to see another one before I go to God" says she - mmmm says he I hope you do - he obviously had no interest in footy but he mmm'd and ahhh'd in the right places!

When we left she said quite seriously - " funny how people end up in some jobs wouldn't have thought a jewellery store would be the job for him"