Viral Video About Body Scanners

#1

Post by maverhick » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 5:52 AM UTC

Viral Video About Body Scanners
blog.tsa.gov

Re: Viral Video About Body Scanners

#2

Post by maverhick » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 5:53 AM UTC

"around the interwebs" "baggies of drugs" "things that go BOOM"

Seems legit.

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Post by slamdunc » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:05 AM UTC

maverhick wrote: post #2

"around the interwebs" "baggies of drugs" "things that go BOOM" Seems legit.

Agreed. The TSA Out of Our Pants guy goes to the trouble of giving specific examples in a well-articulated video and they respond with some catchy, hip-sounding interwebs keywordz... I feel safer already.

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Post by famousactress » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:07 AM UTC

Wow. This blog post makes me WAY more afraid of the TSA than the original video did. I can't wrap my head around the language used. "Things that go BOOM" ???!?!?! Are you fucking kidding me? These are the people that are supposedly acting in the interests of our safety? Disgusted.

Whoever wrote or approved this post ought to be fired. Fast.

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Post by thaumaturgy » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:12 AM UTC

I've never felt more like I was living in a prequel to Idiocracy than I did while reading that.

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Post by philk » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:15 AM UTC

If their security is as good as their blogging it's time to consider travelling by bus.

Also their "20 layers of security" chart[1] is an unintentionally hilarious masterpiece. Note the arrow they've drawn circumventing every layer of security apart from passengers. So really, we can't say they didn't warn us.

[1] http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/index.shtm

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Post by mattdeboard » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:15 AM UTC

Beyond disturbing. Equivalent of, "u mad?" Rebuttal with no refutation. Embarrassing and useless, but just enough to placate the placid and ignorant.

Re: Viral Video About Body Scanners

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Post by pg » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:18 AM UTC

There is something chillingly unconvincing about their attempts at informality.

Big Brother jokey is a lot more frightening than Big Brother bureaucratic or Big Brother bombastic. Too bad this insight wasn't available to Orwell or he could have made 1984 even scarier.

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Post by grandalf » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:19 AM UTC

famousactress wrote: post #4

Wow. This blog post makes me WAY more afraid of the TSA than the original video did. I can't wrap my head around the language used. "Things that go BOOM" ???!?!?! Are you fucking kidding me? These are the people that are supposedly acting in the interests of our safety? Disgusted. Whoever wrote or approved this post ought to be fired. Fast.

That language is intended to resonate with people who look at cat pictures on the internet and who are (obviously) the people whose clicks made the video in question go viral.

Re: Viral Video About Body Scanners

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Post by drivebyacct2 » Thu, Mar 08, 2012, 6:20 AM UTC

>It is completely safe and the vast majority use a generic image that completely addresses privacy concerns.

Well that makes me feel great. Guess they decided they been caught blatantly lying on that point before so they decided to reiterate it, just with sufficiently vague qualifiers.