Surgery by Dr. Wile Al Quotee, Apparently
Irradiated by Stingray
I made a big mistake today. I read the comments at HotAir concerning the great TSA nipple-gate.
I won’t waste time ragging on TSA, and their wonderful security theater. They did not act in accordance with their own stated policy (because doing so might compromise their image of authority). Moving on.
The commenters defending TSA make my head spin though. I’m not sure which is stupider. Is it the notion that the enemy has surgeons good enough to successfully implant a stable bomb into a breast, leave part of it sticking out of the breast, and have the breast actually heal into anything that would pass visual inspection by anything with a brain larger than a chipmunk, or is it the part where the bomb would work on some Acme principle with a pin to pull, or is it the part that somehow believing the first two to be possible, you insist she pull the pin?
All I can say is next time I have to fly, I’m setting aside bail money first. If I have to put on a show for some GED holdin’ bully, I’m gonna put on a fuckin’ show.
March 28th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Sure … but that’s exactly what I would have said a few years ago about a pair of shoes …. or a bottle of water …
… or box cutters.
Gosh, maybe we should just stop allowing objects on planes. Or people, obviously. Just fly them empty from place to place while everyone takes the train. Commerce and general quality of life may be impacted a bit, but we’ll be so safe!
March 28th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Oh… oh no… brain… go ‘splodey.
March 28th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I’m confident that titanium jewelry is now at the top of this woman’s shopping list.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
It amazes me that anybody has any respect for TSA. They have raised ineptitude, incompetence, and apathy to a new level; they have managed to make air travel much less pleasant while failing utterly to make it any more secure. I’d love to be surprised by nipplegate, but nothing surprises me coming from them.
March 28th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Ah, pfui. They just wanted to see A Real Live Nipple Ring close up, and find out how it comes out. Juvinile pervoids.
March 29th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Hey …. I like looking at real live nipple rings. Of course, it depends on who is wearing said ring.
I do have the grace to at least ask first. Not into the handcuffs/authority thingy.
March 30th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
“It amazes me that anybody has any respect for TSA.”
I didn’t think anyone had any respect for the TSA.
March 30th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
LR, I suffered a major ‘puter crash. Drop me an email so we can touch base. And if you see D4 in chat, have him drop me an invite.
Thanks.
March 31st, 2008 at 11:39 am
I don’t have any holes in me that haven’t been sutured or left to close on their own, but this sort of thing makes me want to go punch in a 4 gauge Prince Albert just so I can show the wand drones a little love.
Regards,
Rabbit.