Discussion about hot topics trending today

[Gatefan1976]

So how's that great yuge Carrier deal going?

This one?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.eb0dd565169f

How many new jobs has Trump created inside the USA?

Probably quite a few, but lets see what happens with trumps tax cuts. If they fall through, it could get interesting.

[garhkal]

Of course not. As I noted, all the company has to do is lie. Damned hard to prove it's a lie. "We felt that another candidate was a better fit for the job". How you going to prove or disprove that?

Yup. Which is why imo those laws are toothless, since there IS no real way to prove or disprove someone violated them..

Have you been on a vacation by plane lately? Have you seen how they abuse your suitcase...
Cause mine's scratched all over, and possibly dented. One of my wheels is rolling funky and the sticker I put on the side is ripped (fixed that with ducktape).

Handle with care is quite foreign to the the machines smacking my suitcase around as it makes its way to the right plane, and then there are the guys throwing them around.

Yup. Just like marking boxes sent by the mail "Fragile handle with care" is often a signal to those postal workers to KICK it around..

[pookey]

When i went to New York you had to open your case, for someone somewhere to search them, they were not in view of us, they told us that the people doing the search would lock them for us, they didn't lock them, great eh, anyone could have put anything in them, and this was just after 9/11

[Falcon Horus]

Every search of handluggage at least, has been done after approval from the owner, in this case me (and I won't say no -- cause I'm not that stupid ), and always in front of me. Same with luggage. If they see something that doesn't track, they pull you from the waiting line and do a search with the owner at their side.

Leaving for Mallorca, my sister was checked for explosive residue, and my backpack got a drugtest.

[jelgate]

What did they find?

[pookey]

I expect and accept that, but we remained in line while they went off somewhere with it and they did not lock it up as they said they would, that to me is stupid, anyone could have put anything in it

[garhkal]

Leaving for Mallorca, my sister was checked for explosive residue, and my backpack got a drugtest.

I've known EOD techs returning from deployment who's stuff set off those explosive residue testers..

[Falcon Horus]

What did they find?

I suspect the wiff of weed-smoke we passed through on our way to the terminal set it off.

Test came back negative.

Although, I have to admit I'm always pleased when I casually mention there's a roll of toiletpaper at the bottom, right when the security person's hand gets at the bottom of my backpack. There's always that moment's hesitation of "say what now?" -- I'm a hiker, guys, and in the middle of nowhere it comes in handy.

[Coco Pops]

OK so they have a ban on laptops and such devices but what's to stop someone putting their device in the cargo hold as requested and then if it is a bomb it goes off by remote.?

[Womble]

Leaving for Mallorca, my sister was checked for explosive residue, and my backpack got a drugtest.

I am not sure I even want to know what your backpack does in its spare time.

[SoulReaver]

I am not sure I even want to know what your backpack does in its spare time.

well backpacks are for trips

[Gatefan1976]

well backpacks are for trips

[SoulReaver]

[garhkal]

Although, I have to admit I'm always pleased when I casually mention there's a roll of toiletpaper at the bottom, right when the security person's hand gets at the bottom of my backpack. There's always that moment's hesitation of "say what now?" -- I'm a hiker, guys, and in the middle of nowhere it comes in handy.

Heck, as i have had issues using the TP ON planes before, i've also often taken a roll with me in my carry on..

[Ian-S]

Haha that's exactly what happened to me at the London Eye security check, the guy asked if there was anything sharp and I said no, just a flask, portable power bank, my lunch and a toilet roll.

He literally froze solid, looked up and said "toilet roll?", the other security guy laughed and said "this isn't their visit to London if they bought a bog roll with them".