For Fuck's Sake: No Liquids!

[antarctico]

The geniuses running Homeland Security have just banned all liquids and gel products from airline luggage. This means nothing in liquid form except breast milk and juice for the baby gets on the plane. Obviously, this brilliant strategy was coined by balding, glasses wearing white men whose heath and beauty needs can be met by a bar of Ivory soap

Comments

[judithiscariot]

is this for checked baggage too? is this permanent? does this include SHAMPOO and CONDITIONER? this is the stupidest piece of shit ever.

nope

[kitteblue]

At the moment it's just for carryons. Interantional passengers are going to smell funky.

Re: nope

[antarctico]

Mmmm...Euro-funk.

Re: nope

[pastor_saturn]

Love the bands...hate the DJs.

[antarctico]

No shampoo or conditioner for Judy.

I doubt the ban will be permanent, I mean I can put toenail clippers in my carry-on these days, and this used to be utterly forbidden. Whether you can stow your liquids in your checked baggage, I have read it one way and heard it the other -- I am sure DHS will just be making this shit up as they go along. Of course, after years of be counseled to use carry-on luggage only so as to avoid getting your goods lost by the airline, what hapless, credulous fool checks their luggage anymore?

[judithiscariot]

i check luggage all the time, even if it's of a size that i CAN carry on. i hate carrying shit on the plane; usually all I take is my laptop in a slim-case and my purse. that's enough to deal with. and also i have been known to check a CASE AND A HALF of beer in my luggage, which they're not going to let me carry on anyhow. so, yeah.

this has instilled in my a towering rage at the assholes with outsized carryons who refuse to check their stuff and insist on jamming their crap into the overheads in the most space-inefficient way possible, clogging up the whole works and wasting my time and generally making air-travel more unpleasant than it already is.

and i haven't had anything lost by the airlines since 1988 (and i got that back eventually).

[pastor_saturn]

When I flew back from Peru the first time, the airport employees made me take my liquor OUT of my checked luggage and put it IN my carry-on. This is because they hate freedom.

[antarctico]

CASE AND A HALF of beer in my luggage

Um, OK... You don't look like a frat boy. ;)

If it soothes your rage any, I travel with only one peice of carry-on and it has no wheels. This means if I can't pick it up and walk around with it in one hand, it doesn't come with me.

[pastor_saturn]

This is why I don't travel with you. I'm not portable enough. :p

[nixieq]

oh, c'mon, he could pick you up and carry you under one arm. close enough. >;)

[pastor_saturn]

Nope, just carry-on bags. Yep, check your shampoo and conditioner. And your contact lens solution, your hair gel, your hair spray, your bottled water, your carry-on flask, your double tall soy mocha no whip, your saliva, and your personal freedom.

[antarctico]

Leave my saliva out of this.

[pastor_saturn]

It's a LIQUID, isn't it? Is no one safe from your exploding saliva?!

[antarctico]

No, no one is safe. All must fear my saliva!

[pastor_saturn]

[antarctico]

Nice -- for the win! :)