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What kills me about this is now he works as TSA in Seattle!
Security in the US is nothing compared to the security I went through flying in/out of Kuwait/UAE. Had my passport and bags checked at least 6 times. The size of the planes was worth it though.
Either way, my experience with travel has been "When in Rome..." and not spend a lot of time getting indignant over something that costs me less than 15 minutes total anyway out of a grand total of 20-or-so hours of travel.
That's pretty outrageous.
Being in jail is no fun.
I don't think it needs to happen to a 90 year old to be outraged by that kind of stuff.
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It's also security overkill trending towards ineffective.
Inefficient is the thing that pisses me off.
All that shit costs a tooooooon of money, which is of course passed on to you, the consumer.
it's stupid
http://fuspawn.tumblr.com/
The airport is like the DMV but there's a totally sweet adventure at the end. You get through it and unless you threaten the staff with physical violence, it's over and you get to do the rad shit you wanted to do.
I wish they were more welcoming to foreigners, though. Our visa shit and the procedures visitors to this country are asked to go through is pretty excessive.
It was crazy!
Made me want to travel more!!!
It's tyranny by a thousand cuts. I have no intention of going along with it.
That's horse shit.
And I have been patted down by airport security. Took 5 minutes of my time and then I got on the plane.
It occurs to me I have never asked any one this question before.
But I was by the wing!!!
The Robot Chicken sketch for this is fantastic.
Mucinex or something else with guaifenesin in it, it's an expectorant but essentially thins the mucus in your sinuses and eustachian tubes so it's easier to clear your ears.
I don't know if it's because I had a lot of ear infections as a kid or tubes in my ears, or what, but adjusting the pressure in my ears has always been really easy for me. I increase the pressure by inhaling through my nose, and release it by exhaling, or sometimes as little as wiggling my ears. It's easier to do when you plug your nose, but it seems like it might be a lot more difficult for you. What you may want to do is actually practice it until you get comfortable with it. Learn the finer points of adjusting it outside of flying so that when you need to use it, you already know exactly how.
I'm having difficulty being more clear on how exactly to do it, I've never tried explaining it to anyone before.
I really enjoy flying, even commercial. The TSA stuff is annoying, but not so much for me since I'm flying out of a smaller airport ("Oh hey WuShock! Where are they sending you today? You join any terrorist organizations since Tuesday? No? Cool. Have fun in San Diego.") The only problems I've really had is American Airlines having the habit of botching the baggage handoff to British Airways.
Pax Prime '11, '12, '13 - Cookie Brigadier
Have you ever gotten off the plane somewhere where you don't speak the language?
I use to be absolutely terrified of it but I've done it enough now where it's kind of exciting. Trying to get to the hotel (or better yet, FINDING one) is pretty fun.
I'd like to do it in India some time. =P
What is terrible about airports?
the scottish airport whose name i forgot was gross and tiny, but you could keep your shoes on going through it so its super worth it
The major ones are Glasgow, Edinburgh, Prestwick, Aberdeen, Dundee, and Inverness.
we were in nice when I was in high school and we'd checked in early but there were about 4 seats in the entire airport so we all sat down in the middle of this huge entry hall, which I guess they didn't like because they came out with a bunch of gendarmes and yelled at us
it was alright because one of them was smokin
on the way to pax last year me and @Romanian My Escutcheon were sat on either side of this kid who was also going to pax
and was absolutely terrified of flying
so we had to talk him through an anxiety attack for the beginning of the flight
cool kid though
we watched adventure time together
detroit airport
owns bones
Also there's little solid evidence that they're actually effective at consistently finding such substances (at least with narcotics, don't know about explosives). But it's a situation where cops/security that work with dogs are absolutely convinced that their dogs can actually tell and will ignore any evidence that suggests the dogs may just be getting cues from the handlers and thus are indirectly being prejudiced in who they target.
my flight from texas to tokyo was miserable for a lot of reasons but most of all because i got sick midway through the flight and that was just the pits
all snotty and junk
my ex had to put up with me bein a whiny baby for like
16 hours
I have you scheduled for a 10:00 am meeting with a margarita on the beach.
It is such a great airport
and the trains pull INTO the airport, so you can seamlessly transition between train and airport with exactly 0 hassle.
It is a crime that every major airport everywhere in the world is not also a train station.
I had actually not flown at all until I was 29, and my first flight was Australia to Canada which was not pleasant. Overall it's just a necessary evil that I can get through, and I've never had any issues with airport security or immigration.
Naw, unfortunately everything I've done for work has been in the US. Someday I'll get out of here!
Well maybe not the best thing
But it's (or at least the McNamara terminal) one of the nicest airports I've been in, every time I fly through there I sit by the shooty water fountain for a while and feel way better for it.