With regards to the kerfuffle at the airports, this has to be one of the better rants about it so far:
All you're doing is hurting whatever causes you claim to be supporting by pissing everyone the fuck off. What, do you think that eventually we'll all be flying in hospital dressing gowns with no sharp objects (potential weapons), electronic equipment (makeshift tasers), liquids (apparently, might explode), pants (modifiable into garroting equipment), books (paper cuts are bad!) or small children (they could be encouraged to scream at a frequency that jams radio transmissions, thus allowing someone to take control of the plane), and you'll be able to open a competing airline that doesn't do all this shit but runs the risk of blowing the fuck up? Because there are better business models.
None of this shit is making us safer, it's just making us crankier. Soon, we'll be able to kill and eat terrorists, just to give us something to do. My coffee will not blow up the plane. My toenail clippers will not allow me to kill a man. There are much better ways to do that, which I will not detail here, because I don't want the FBI visiting my house.
Woo! Absolutement correct, whomever wrote it. I don't want to fly without the things that make the screaming children tolerable, much less my airsickness and fear.
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I might try and get some sleeping pills prescribed. At least that way I can try and be unconscious for 7 to 10 hours…
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Look at it this way: if something horrible happens, you'd never know because you're knocked out.
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that's the spirit!
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