{"id":354,"date":"2007-10-30T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/the-airport-panto-continues\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T20:26:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T20:26:12","slug":"the-airport-panto-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/the-airport-panto-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The airport panto continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been unlucky enough to have to get on a plane in the past couple of years, especially across the Atlantic, then you&#8217;ll no doubt have been irritated by the ridiculous pantomime of the airport security checks that you are required to endure just so the stupid people feel a bit safer. The limited liquid rule is particularly irritating, based, as it is, on a bizarre knee-jerk reaction to a very dubious threat.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an old joke that involves asking someone why they&#8217;re performing a bizarre ritual, such as constantly throwing confetti out of a car window. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s to keep the crocodiles away&#8221; the person explains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you don&#8217;t get crocodiles around here,&#8221; you point out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See it works well doesn&#8217;t it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now this is not just a crap joke, it also seems to be what the UK government are basing their airport security policy upon.<\/p>\n<p>According to an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/10\/30\/lords_liquid_ban\/\">El Reg<\/a> Baron Bassam of Brighton, the government&#8217;s lordly gobshite on the matter, explained the need for the 100ml restriction of all liquids and gels thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fact that there has not been a serious incident involving liquid explosives indicates, I would have thought, that the measures that we have put in place so far have been very effective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, not only has this measure prevented terrorists creating liquid explosives in airplane khazis, but it seems to have also put off the crocodiles as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been unlucky enough to have to get on a plane in the past couple of years, especially across the Atlantic, then you&#8217;ll no doubt have been irritated by the ridiculous pantomime of the airport security checks that you are required to endure just so the stupid people feel a bit safer. The limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}