Reply to: Friday Rant

[BrilloPad]

Is breastfeeding on the plane not allowed?

Only for nazis.

And why is this thread still here? Its a Friday rant not a Monday rant.

[psychocandy]

Is breastfeeding on the plane not allowed?

Far as I know. My baps arent big enough though.

On a serious note though, not everyone breastfeeds out of choice or for other reasons.

[d000hg]

Don;t get me going on baby milk though. Whole system sort of falls down here to be honest.

Baby has got to have milk otherwise babies wouldnt be able to fly. 100ml doesnt really cut it so they let you on.

In reality, you're only supposed to take as much as needed for consumption. But who measures this? Also, they're supposed to make you taste it but then they;re supposed to make you taste most of it.

Sort of knackers things because you need to keep milk sterile so cant go and open all the cartons.

Last time we flew fronm Gatwick and they've got a family security bit which was nice. The security people were fine but it did highlight that this causes the system to fail somewhat.....

Then again, babies on 9 hour flights is hard work as well. Not helped by tossers at Virgin decided we could have the front row (with baby bassinets) after all because they'd now sold them as upgraded seats to someone else.

Is breastfeeding on the plane not allowed?

[psychocandy]

Don;t get me going on baby milk though. Whole system sort of falls down here to be honest.

Baby has got to have milk otherwise babies wouldnt be able to fly. 100ml doesnt really cut it so they let you on.

In reality, you're only supposed to take as much as needed for consumption. But who measures this? Also, they're supposed to make you taste it but then they;re supposed to make you taste most of it.

Sort of knackers things because you need to keep milk sterile so cant go and open all the cartons.

Last time we flew fronm Gatwick and they've got a family security bit which was nice. The security people were fine but it did highlight that this causes the system to fail somewhat.....

Then again, babies on 9 hour flights is hard work as well. Not helped by tossers at Virgin decided we could have the front row (with baby bassinets) after all because they'd now sold them as upgraded seats to someone else.

[darmstadt]

Last time I flew I told them I had a least a liter of liquid with me, upon asking me to show it to them I pulled my penis out and piddled all over the place as I had just had 4 pints of lager

[psychocandy]

I was stopped a while back at UK airport for jokingly mentioning "I am not a terrorist". I was arrested and told by a jobs worth that that kind of language is banned. I argued my case re: free speech?

Iasked to see where it was written that there was a restiction on language and told "no you cannot see a copy of the rules".

Probably the rule that says staff are sick of people who think they're funny and have to listen to this all day long.

[Ticktock]

Yes its funny that isn't it. I too have searched in vain before flying to acquire “airline compliant” personal hygiene products and curiously they always seem to be 120ml or larger.

Did your search extend to Boots, where they sell travel size bottles of most stuff?

[Contractoid]

The 100ml seems to be scientifically determined to be less than the small bottles of things you buy cheaply from the supermarket. I drove to France and flew back recently; travelling light with just a backpack and change of underwear, and still had to leave behind the small can of deodorant and bottle of shampoo I'd taken as they were both 125ml.

Yes its funny that isn't it. I too have searched in vain before flying to acquire “airline compliant” personal hygiene products and curiously they always seem to be 120ml or larger. A cynic (not me of course) might suggest that rather than any strenuous scientific study to determine this threshold of safety was influenced more by the above supply conditions, but I’m sure that’s not the case. Its all about safety of course, and security, more importantly OUR safety and security. Silly old me!

And to add to that point, the fact that its all about security and nothing to do with airport and airline profit margins did you hear about the new technology that HAS to be adopted to screen these pesky liquids for tampering / illicit substances. At one stage there were headlines predicting that this would have the side benefit of ending all these restrictions. But curiously, weeks before the various detection technology was officially launched an EU directive was issued allowing the industry to extend indefinitely the restrictions. A cynic (really, really not me of course) might suggest that airports and airlines may have (just may – I wouldn’t possibly know of course) carried out financial analysis of potential lost profits from being able to scam millions of passengers on the back of said restrictions and this may have been influential in the strictly impartial, absolutely not corrupt, absolutely not influenced by controlled by or “incentivised” by corporate industry players in any way whatsoever EU politicians.

Like I said, its all about OUR Safety and Security and nothing else.

Does this qualify as a better Rant now?

[scooterscot]

Another reason why I like using the train.

[d000hg]

They allowed me to take an empty water bottle.

So you could take 3x100ml bottles and an empty 300ml bottle and decant the contents just to make a point.

I really don't think customs people are the type you want to make a point to, when they can detain and probe you "because you seem suspicious".

[mudskipper]

They allowed me to take an empty water bottle.

So you could take 3x100ml bottles and an empty 300ml bottle and decant the contents just to make a point.

[vetran]

..another thing I had taken off me that fits this bizarre rule, small allen keys. A friend who I was staying with asked me to bring them out to fix something. No issue taking them from UK but stopped by French on the way back. When I queried why I wasn't allowed them, was told that I could use them to take the plane apart.

that's Airbus for you, a proper Boeing has flat blade screws.

[BigTime]

It means they have total freedom to reject something they think dangerous for whatever reason. e.g. you're allowed to take a pen, but if you have a pen with a serrated sharp edge they will take it off you.

I think...

..another thing I had taken off me that fits this bizarre rule, small allen keys. A friend who I was staying with asked me to bring them out to fix something. No issue taking them from UK but stopped by French on the way back. When I queried why I wasn't allowed them, was told that I could use them to take the plane apart.

[d000hg]

No. The rules, https://www.gov.uk/hand-luggage-restrictions/overview

wtf does this mean? 'Airport security staff won’t let anything through if they consider dangerous - even if it’s normally allowed in hand luggage.'

It means they have total freedom to reject something they think dangerous for whatever reason. e.g. you're allowed to take a pen, but if you have a pen with a serrated sharp edge they will take it off you.

I think...

[MyUserName]

Unusual to find a customs guy who is polite with common sense in the UK. Most of them are abroad.

I had one. When Mrs MUN, both kids and I were going to across the channel on the ferry I got spot checked.

They asked me some questions and looked under the car etc. They decided that they wanted to search the boot but when they there they found that it was jam packed full of family holiday stuff, she looked at it for a few seconds and then just asked me if I had packed it myself, I told her I had. She asked if there was anything in there I should tell her about, I said 'no' and they let me go without opening it. I was happy with that, packing it again would have been a nightmare.