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I wouldn't say it's Klingon, but that's some mean stuff.

Gandalf wrote:I wouldn't say it's Klingon, but that's some mean stuff.

I know but i learned that if you want to sell a story,you must publicise it.

Montcalm wrote:

Gandalf wrote:I wouldn't say it's Klingon, but that's some mean stuff.

I know but i learned that if you want to sell a story,you must publicise it.

You used my Trek obsession to manipulate me?

I'm shocked, appalled and such and such.

Bah! Weapons regulations are for pussy government champaigne-sipping yuppies who would ban letteropeners if they could get away with it.

Stofsk wrote:Bah! Weapons regulations are for pussy government champaigne-sipping yuppies who would ban letteropeners if they could get away with it.

Especially on airplanes.

I`m watching on the news again,and some of these "weapons" are fucking cool collectors items.

Gandalf wrote:

Montcalm wrote:

Gandalf wrote:I wouldn't say it's Klingon, but that's some mean stuff.

I know but i learned that if you want to sell a story,you must publicise it.

You used my Trek obsession to manipulate me?

I'm shocked, appalled and such and such.

He's a publicist. What did you expect?

The weapons look cool but I doubt they would as good as real swords.

So, why did they take them? Too mean looking?

Who cares that they'd probably shatter once you hit something hard with them.

Nathan F wrote:So, why did they take them? Too mean looking?

Who cares that they'd probably shatter once you hit something hard with them.

Flesh is not so hard But if you take it this way they should seize chitchen knives too.

The Klingon vs. non-Klingon here reminds me of when I went to science fiction convention and spotted some bathlets (those half-circle things with lots of points I probably can't spell correctly) for sale

ME: "Hey, those are some great looking bathlets"

DEALER: "That's not a bathlet. It's an intergalactic sword."

ME: "It looks like a bathlet"

D: "It's not a bathlet"

ME: "Well, what's the difference"

D: "The difference is that if I call it a bathlet Paramount wants a royalty fee and the price doubles"

ME: "Oh. Hey, those are some really cool looking intergalactic swords"


And about letteropeners and such on airplanes - in the insanity that prevailed shortly after 9/11/01, I was getting ready to take off solo in a small plane from an airport when a security guy came up and demanded I hand over the fire extinguisher between the seats as it could be used as a weapon. WTF? I was alone in the airplane, what was I going to do? Hit myself over the head and hijack myself??? It some doing to convince him it was necessary safety equipment and that I would not take off without it. What a jackass.


Too many people these days squeal in terror when they see a "weapon" and expect and inanimate object to LEAP off a table and ATTACK THEM!!! YAAAARRRRRRRRR! Think it's time to add some more cholorine to the gene pool.

Takeoff without a Fire extinguisher on a single engine GA aircraft? What, he want you to take off without fuel too?

What's this guy think he works in an air terminal or something? If you are working airside, you see pilots. I'd be ok with it if he had asked to see your liscence, even if he'd asked to see a valad medical. but To hand over your fire extinguisher is just fuking nuts. I would likley have told him to stand under the wing (Cessna) or by the wing (piper) and wait whyle I got Company frequency up and turned the audio onto cabin audio, then told the story and then asked the guy for his name position, company and any other relevant details. I'd have made a big fuss as possible for his incompetence, so that tomorow he wasn't posted airside!

Broomstick wrote:The Klingon vs. non-Klingon here reminds me of when I went to science fiction convention and spotted some bathlets (those half-circle things with lots of points I probably can't spell correctly) for sale

Bat'leth.

And about letteropeners and such on airplanes - in the insanity that prevailed shortly after 9/11/01, I was getting ready to take off solo in a small plane from an airport when a security guy came up and demanded I hand over the fire extinguisher between the seats as it could be used as a weapon. WTF? I was alone in the airplane, what was I going to do? Hit myself over the head and hijack myself??? It some doing to convince him it was necessary safety equipment and that I would not take off without it. What a jackass.

You should've told him to kiss your ass, and that it was required to be there.

Too many people these days squeal in terror when they see a "weapon" and expect and inanimate object to LEAP off a table and ATTACK THEM!!! YAAAARRRRRRRRR! Think it's time to add some more cholorine to the gene pool.

Most of it has to do with the airport nazis going on a power trip. They got a little bit of power, and they're taking full advantage of it just to be assholes.

And if they are going to be on a power trip, I wont fly anymore.

I see it as too much of a hassle when these half educated egomaniacs are running around.

Montcalm wrote:Google It Or Look At An English News Site

I love their translation of Canada Customs

YT300000 wrote:

Montcalm wrote:Google It Or Look At An English News Site

I love their translation of Canada Customs

We learn new things every day,i didn`t know that it was the "Wearing of Montreal" i always said "Port of Montreal"

Qo'Nos Liberation Organization vows revenge

Comosicus wrote:

Nathan F wrote:So, why did they take them? Too mean looking?

Who cares that they'd probably shatter once you hit something hard with them.

Flesh is not so hard But if you take it this way they should seize chitchen knives too.

Correct. By that logic any sharp object capable of harming humans should be seized.

jenat-lai wrote:Takeoff without a Fire extinguisher on a single engine GA aircraft? What, he want you to take off without fuel too?

Clearly, the dude was not a pilot or knowledgable about airplanes.

What's this guy think he works in an air terminal or something?

Acutally... yes, he did work in an air terminal. It was an airport with "scheduled air service" as well as GA. Except us GA folks weren't allowed by the passenger terminal (which has been effect for years and years, even prior to 9/11). I don't know if this guy was bored and just wandered over to the little planes or what.

If you are working airside, you see pilots.

Maybe that was the problem - a lot of people from outside aviation tell me I don't look like a pilot - whatever that means I guess I don't fit the stereotype.

I'd be ok with it if he had asked to see your liscence, even if he'd asked to see a valad medical. but To hand over your fire extinguisher is just fuking nuts.

See, he didn't ask me for ID (got pretty pissy when I asked for his - hell, just 'cause he's got a uniform on doesn't mean much - I want to know who he is, too. Anyone can buy a uniform.) or to see my FAA license or anything, really, just came over, announced he was doing a security inspection. Stood on the wing (Piper), looked in the cockpit, and I guess he just fixated on the Bright and Shiny Object.

Anyhow, I convinced him that fire extinguishers were Required Equipment and he went elsewhere - probably to harass someone else. It was in that initial couple of months when folks were over-reacting big time. (One of the local charter pilots got intercepted three times in a month - folks saw a brown-skinned guy with an accent climb into a cockpit and assumed the worst. Uh, folks, they let non-Caucasians fly, too )

It hasn't happened to me, but apparently some folks have had parts of survival kits confiscated in the name of "security". I'm sorry, folks, I've been down in a field - I carry basic equipment on any flight outside the traffic pattern and even on some of those. If I wind up parked in the middle of nowhere in the upper Midwest during January I have to have means to make a fire or I risk freezing to death before rescue. That's matches, a lighter, and my trusty flint-n-steel. A knife is a basic, baisc tool and has been for several million years if you count the chipped-flint variety.

Fortunately, some sanity seems to have been regained since late 2001. But what a pain in the ass!