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    Not Enough Day DrinkingMonique Judge
    7/02/18 9:49pm

    Which is why I only fly private charter now.

    One day we’ll tell the children stories of the days of pre-9/11 air travel where you showed up 20 minutes before your flight with a student ID and still had 5 minutes to stop at the McD’s on the concourse to pick up something to eat on the plane.

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      PaulMooneysTongueNot Enough Day Drinking
      7/02/18 10:36pm

      I thought we were already telling them about this.

      I remember when you could smoke on a plane and family could come to the gate to greet you.

      Damn wypipo and their fears....

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      LolaFalanasLongAssLegsNot Enough Day Drinking
      7/03/18 12:42am

      Don’t forget the silverware...

      And real food from the four food groups.

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    JustinMonique Judge
    7/03/18 12:38pm

    A lot of black tears in this thread.

    Out of all the law enforcement agencies that abuse Black folks the TSA ain’t one. (I can say the same for ICE, but what they do to brown folks ain’t right.) The TSA treats EVERYONE like shit the same way which is why White people truly hate them so much. Nothing makes me smile more at the airport than watching some crotchety (likely super racist) old white man get bossed around by a sista with a $25 synthetic weave cocked to the side and some dated ass mid 90's metallic lipstick. Actually, what makes me smile anymore is the anger underneath shown on his face. He’s dealing with a fraction of the indignity Black/Brown folks deal with on a daily basis for five goddamned minutes and he doesn’t like it.

    Seriously, I’ll take off my shoes, my belt, my watch, etc. I’ll take out my laptop and my snacks. That is minor indignity compared to the shit most Black folks deal with not just by the cops but by their employers by landlords and by creditors. The fucking flight will be late anyway. It will be full. I will be seated next to someone that smells, talks a lot, and snores in a cramped ass coach seat. The airlines will be out of ginger ale/stroopwaffles/peanuts or whatever I want to eat/drink. I can handle taking out my snacks for security.

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      Monique JudgeJustin
      7/03/18 1:56pm

      Who made this about race? You? Cause the article didn’t. 

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      JustinMonique Judge
      7/03/18 2:22pm

      Oh, I know. I’m even the only one that mentioned it in the comments.

      This was just my first time reading tons of Black folks mad at the TSA.

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    dudebraMonique Judge
    7/02/18 10:43pm

    Wasted tax dollars on kabuki security and fake cop ego stroking. Abolish the whole DHS, it doesn’t do shit.

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      UglyTenguMaskdudebra
      7/03/18 12:42am

      I keep thinking about the time a decade ago where the TSA flagged my power cables, but missed the giant scissors I forgot were in my carry on. 

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      Ray-Handudebra
      7/03/18 4:11am

      Has the DHS achieved anything meaningful in its 17 years of existence? Has it done anything other American federal institutions couldn’t have? I’m genuinely curious.

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    500 Days of Kitten CalamariMonique Judge
    7/02/18 10:53pm

    This is a surprising story. Thanks for the scoop!

    I actually flew from Seattle to Cleveland last Thursday, and the TSA screening at SeaTac was the most comfortable and least invasive I’ve had in about 15 years. They only had a random handful of people do body scanners (not sure the criteria?) and while we were walking towards the x-ray machines, they had a little roundabout in the line where an agent was just walking in circles with a dog, obviously trained to sniff out bomb materials or other no-nos.

    When we got to the check, they told us not to take our shoes off and not take out our laptops separately, just to take everything out from our pockets and stick it into one of our bags to go through the x-ray machine. Then as I said, no body scanner thingy. Of course, I did not have any delicious snacks with me, so apparently this is just a war on the war on hunger.

    Must just be different standards at different airports now, which seems...surprising.

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      emptyspaces500 Days of Kitten Calamari
      7/02/18 11:18pm

      That’s the frustrating part - every single airport is a little different. My favorite thing is when there’s a sing-songy person shouting protocols as if we’re all too dumb to know the arcane policies of that particular airport.

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      novembertoast500 Days of Kitten Calamari
      7/02/18 11:52pm

      Actually this exact thing has happened to me the last couple times I went through a major airport (Philly and Orlando) this year. Keep your stuff on and shit in your bag, walk past a bomb-sniffing dog and do the x-ray machines. A lot of people were confused and disassembling all their stuff anyway. The TSA agents I saw seemed frustrated shouting at us to put all our stuff back in bags now that they finally have us trained. I like it a lot better; using the dog seems more sensible to me that invasive machines and human screeners who don’t pay attention.

      I had tons of snacks but didn’t get selected for snack inspection. I must not have had anything tasty.

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    NOPE. I'm out. Too toxic.Monique Judge
    7/03/18 9:15am

    This is all done to make people buy TSA Pre-Check and/or snacks and drinks in the terminal, where it’s hilariously expensive. The whole thing is a great big swindle.

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      STLOrcaNOPE. I'm out. Too toxic.
      7/03/18 1:01pm

      I’m 50% with you on this one. Airport food and snacks are designed to hoover the cash from your wallet straight to someone else’s bank. For what they charge for a burger and fries, we could provide clean water to Flint for a year .

      TSA Pre-Check? Worth every penny. Shorter, faster lines and I don’t have to take off my shoes or pull my Kindle out of my bag. Plus, you should see the looks I get because a large Negro gets to go first.

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      NOPE. I'm out. Too toxic.STLOrca
      7/03/18 1:13pm

      I was with you on Pre-Check. I started the process to get mine...but now there’s apparently a new thing called Clear. Of course, this means another fee...

      It smells like too many people got Pre-Check, and now we’re being hit with an all new swindle.

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    HollylujahMonique Judge
    7/03/18 11:27am

    Don’t forget to tell the TSA screeners to change their gloves before touching either your or your food items. If they’re getting phantom “maybe-food-maybe-explosive material” on their hands, that their machines can’t tell apart from one another, then by god I am scolding them to fondle me and my stuff with fresh gloves only.

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    RumHammeredMonique Judge
    7/03/18 11:42am

    The number of times my camera bag gets flagged for additional screening blows my mind considering on more than one occasion I traveled with the controller that launches rockets for a blackhawk helicopter in my luggage.  It literally says on the box “Property of US Government Rocket Interface Unit” and then a big long NSN.  But hey, obviously the camera lenses I brought are the ones with explosive residue.

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    La BanditaMonique Judge
    7/03/18 3:43am

    Noboby is talking about their tasty snacks. I have two little girls now. Are they vegan and gulten free? I do a mix of cashews, dried cranberries, cherrios and granola for the oldest. Her dad calls her ‘our young lady’ she’s our ‘in love child’. I like the sweet and spicy pecans - just like me. Mi marido needs something salty. If shit goes down for him because he’s a black man I have some mangu con onions in my purse for him. Afterwards, we pushed the babies to our parents and start making out.

    Traveling is stressfull.

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    PaulMooneysTongueMonique Judge
    7/02/18 10:37pm

    The only fear of explosives hidden in snacks are of the silent fart kind.

    Hotboxed at 30,000 ft is no fun. 

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    llaalleellMonique Judge
    7/03/18 8:36am

    Thank you for confirming that this is a new weird thing. When they started asking about snacks a few months ago, my first thought was, “Wait, do I look hungry? Are you hungry? Why are you asking me this?”

    Now that I think about it, it was around the same time that I applied for global entry. I must have been that rattled.

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