Terror chief tries to board plane with banned liquids
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#2Two questions from a parochial, isolated US citizen:
1. The newspaper article uses the phrase "know to be haughty". My intuition tells me that phrase informs the British public about aspects of Baroness Neville-Jones' personality, but it means almost nothing to someone not steeped in British newspaper cultural references. Can someone explain that phrase?
2. Where does the "Mirror" fall on the British newspaper spectrum: "reliable" or "less reliable" or "out and out tissue of lies"?
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#3I'm not getting the point here - we all get pissed when they launch into a lecture about how important security is, and start treating us like criminals due to common mistakes. I imagine if I had some kind of ranking above said security employees in the grand scheme of things I might be letting out a bit of an outburst as well!
Re: Terror chief tries to board plane with banned liquids
#4Two questions from a parochial, isolated US citizen: 1. The newspaper article uses the phrase "know to be haughty". My intuition tells me that phrase informs the British public about aspects of Baroness Neville-Jones' personality, but it means almost nothing to someone not steeped in British newspaper cultural references. Can someone explain that phrase? 2. Where does the "Mirror" fall on the British newspaper spectr…
1. being haughty would be something like "unafraid to complain and taking a superior air when doing so". The sort that would say "My bags, boy" to a bellhop. A pretty traditional attitude for a Baroness to take on.
2. Mirror is a tabloid, generally considered somewhere between less reliable and a "tissue". Certainly prone to revel in the slip-ups of snobby government officials.
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#5I'm not getting the point here - we all get pissed when they launch into a lecture about how important security is, and start treating us like criminals due to common mistakes. I imagine if I had some kind of ranking above said security employees in the grand scheme of things I might be letting out a bit of an outburst as well!
>I'm not getting the point here - we all get pissed when they launch into a lecture about how important security is
I think their point is that she is the figurehead of the group setting the minor rules that govern the security protocols that she is complaining about. I think it's irony, but it seems irony is like Lupus ...
Re: Terror chief tries to board plane with banned liquids
#6I'm not getting the point here - we all get pissed when they launch into a lecture about how important security is, and start treating us like criminals due to common mistakes. I imagine if I had some kind of ranking above said security employees in the grand scheme of things I might be letting out a bit of an outburst as well!
>I'm not getting the point here - we all get pissed when they launch into a lecture about how important security is I think their point is that she is the figurehead of the group setting the minor rules that govern the security protocols that she is complaining about. I think it's irony, but it seems irony is like Lupus ...
The article was thin - it seems more that she was complaining about being spoken down to and mini-lectured on why "security is important" rather than the simple fact that the spray bottle was against regulations.