Anti-Americanism, Anti-Foreigners of any kind?
Jan 20th 2011, 11:20 pm
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Jan 20th 2011, 11:22 pm
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Jan 20th 2011, 11:24 pm
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We are talking about if you refuse the scanner you numnut. Yes, it is a pat down which firmly feels the genitalia. No one said it was a body cavity search (that's what they do if you fail the pat down).
What is it with Americans and their ability (inability) to read English?
For the record, the scanners at Sydney are a different tech.
What is it with Americans and their ability (inability) to read English?
For the record, the scanners at Sydney are a different tech.
Oh and FOR the record, the scanners that are in place at 4 international airports in Australia are made by the same company and are the same model as those used around the world. ProVision is the company. They own he patents for the tech. Google is your friend!
Jan 20th 2011, 11:32 pm
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Jan 20th 2011, 11:33 pm
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Garbage! DHS, TSA rules protocol states that there is only to be a patdown if they refuse an xray scan. The only other reason they can do a patdown is if their are swab traces of drugs or explosives.
Well, I read quite well. 14 years of university will do that! You said that passengers get a strip search. I am not sure if you know what strip search is, but the picture posted earlier of a pat down is NOT the same as a strip search.
Oh and FOR the record, the scanners that are in place at 4 international airports in Australia are made by the same company and are the same model as those used around the world. ProVision is the company. They own he patents for the tech. Google is your friend!
Well, I read quite well. 14 years of university will do that! You said that passengers get a strip search. I am not sure if you know what strip search is, but the picture posted earlier of a pat down is NOT the same as a strip search.
Oh and FOR the record, the scanners that are in place at 4 international airports in Australia are made by the same company and are the same model as those used around the world. ProVision is the company. They own he patents for the tech. Google is your friend!
Didn't you want a useful job in the real world?
Jan 20th 2011, 11:33 pm
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Garbage! DHS, TSA rules protocol states that there is only to be a patdown if they refuse an xray scan. The only other reason they can do a patdown is if their are swab traces of drugs or explosives.
Well, I read quite well. 14 years of university will do that! You said that passengers get a strip search. I am not sure if you know what strip search is, but the picture posted earlier of a pat down is NOT the same as a strip search.
Oh and FOR the record, the scanners that are in place at 4 international airports in Australia are made by the same company and are the same model as those used around the world. ProVision is the company. They own he patents for the tech. Google is your friend!
Well, I read quite well. 14 years of university will do that! You said that passengers get a strip search. I am not sure if you know what strip search is, but the picture posted earlier of a pat down is NOT the same as a strip search.
Oh and FOR the record, the scanners that are in place at 4 international airports in Australia are made by the same company and are the same model as those used around the world. ProVision is the company. They own he patents for the tech. Google is your friend!
Apparently most Aussies are comfortable with the scanners anyway.
What they need to do to make the scanners more acceptable is to have some buttons so the passenger can select what type of skin they have. So they could chose tiger fur or lizard or something else.
Jan 20th 2011, 11:35 pm
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Nope, never works...well, maybe only with people who don't know better.
I've run into quite a few Americans trying to pass themselves off as Canadians in my travels over the years. All but one didn't have a clue about basic Canadian geography, had no idea that we don't have a President, and all lacked the usual self depreciating inferiority complex type humour that marks most Canadians abroad. I've yet to meet an American posing as a Canuck who gushed appropriately, "Oh thank goodness you guessed I was Canadian...all I hear is 'What part of the States are you from?'"
So, Americans, if you're going to attempt the charade, plonk yourself at a Tim Hortons with a few Canadian history books, a decent map, a few seasons of Corner Gas (or Kids in the Hall--just for Dorothy
), a laptop so you can access the nfb site (let's hear it for "Log Driver's Waltz), a primer on why the Canadian health care system rocks (remember as a Canadian you will fight to the death for universal health care), a stack of the Canadian lit selections we all had to read in high school, and perhaps one of those "Best of Canada" compilation albums...then at least you can make a passable attempt when you sew the maple leaf to your daypack.
I've run into quite a few Americans trying to pass themselves off as Canadians in my travels over the years. All but one didn't have a clue about basic Canadian geography, had no idea that we don't have a President, and all lacked the usual self depreciating inferiority complex type humour that marks most Canadians abroad. I've yet to meet an American posing as a Canuck who gushed appropriately, "Oh thank goodness you guessed I was Canadian...all I hear is 'What part of the States are you from?'"
So, Americans, if you're going to attempt the charade, plonk yourself at a Tim Hortons with a few Canadian history books, a decent map, a few seasons of Corner Gas (or Kids in the Hall--just for Dorothy
), a laptop so you can access the nfb site (let's hear it for "Log Driver's Waltz), a primer on why the Canadian health care system rocks (remember as a Canadian you will fight to the death for universal health care), a stack of the Canadian lit selections we all had to read in high school, and perhaps one of those "Best of Canada" compilation albums...then at least you can make a passable attempt when you sew the maple leaf to your daypack.
Jan 20th 2011, 11:37 pm
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Re: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Foreigners of any kind?
Nope, never works...well, maybe only with people who don't know better.
I've run into quite a few Americans trying to pass themselves off as Canadians in my travels over the years. All but one didn't have a clue about basic Canadian geography, had no idea that we don't have a President, and all lacked the usual self depreciating inferiority complex type humour that marks most Canadians abroad. I've yet to meet an American posing as a Canuck who gushed appropriately, "Oh thank goodness you guessed I was Canadian...all I hear is 'What part of the States are you from?'"
So, Americans, if you're going to attempt the charade, plonk yourself at a Tim Hortons with a few Canadian history books, a decent map, a few seasons of Corner Gas (or Kids in the Hall--just for Dorothy ), a laptop so you can access the nfb site (let's hear it for "Log Driver's Waltz), a primer on why the Canadian health care system rocks (remember as a Canadian you will fight to the death for universal health care), a stack of the Canadian lit selections we all had to read in high school, and perhaps one of those "Best of Canada" compilation albums...then at least you can make a passable attempt when you sew the maple leaf to your daypack.
I've run into quite a few Americans trying to pass themselves off as Canadians in my travels over the years. All but one didn't have a clue about basic Canadian geography, had no idea that we don't have a President, and all lacked the usual self depreciating inferiority complex type humour that marks most Canadians abroad. I've yet to meet an American posing as a Canuck who gushed appropriately, "Oh thank goodness you guessed I was Canadian...all I hear is 'What part of the States are you from?'"
So, Americans, if you're going to attempt the charade, plonk yourself at a Tim Hortons with a few Canadian history books, a decent map, a few seasons of Corner Gas (or Kids in the Hall--just for Dorothy
), a laptop so you can access the nfb site (let's hear it for "Log Driver's Waltz), a primer on why the Canadian health care system rocks (remember as a Canadian you will fight to the death for universal health care), a stack of the Canadian lit selections we all had to read in high school, and perhaps one of those "Best of Canada" compilation albums...then at least you can make a passable attempt when you sew the maple leaf to your daypack.
Jan 20th 2011, 11:38 pm
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Re: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Foreigners of any kind?
Nope, never works...well, maybe only with people who don't know better.
I've run into quite a few Americans trying to pass themselves off as Canadians in my travels over the years. All but one didn't have a clue about basic Canadian geography, had no idea that we don't have a President, and all lacked the usual self depreciating inferiority complex type humour that marks most Canadians abroad. I've yet to meet an American posing as a Canuck who gushed appropriately, "Oh thank goodness you guessed I was Canadian...all I hear is 'What part of the States are you from?'"
So, Americans, if you're going to attempt the charade, plonk yourself at a Tim Hortons with a few Canadian history books, a decent map, a few seasons of Corner Gas (or Kids in the Hall--just for Dorothy ), a laptop so you can access the nfb site (let's hear it for "Log Driver's Waltz), a primer on why the Canadian health care system rocks (remember as a Canadian you will fight to the death for universal health care), a stack of the Canadian lit selections we all had to read in high school, and perhaps one of those "Best of Canada" compilation albums...then at least you can make a passable attempt when you sew the maple leaf to your daypack.
I've run into quite a few Americans trying to pass themselves off as Canadians in my travels over the years. All but one didn't have a clue about basic Canadian geography, had no idea that we don't have a President, and all lacked the usual self depreciating inferiority complex type humour that marks most Canadians abroad. I've yet to meet an American posing as a Canuck who gushed appropriately, "Oh thank goodness you guessed I was Canadian...all I hear is 'What part of the States are you from?'"
So, Americans, if you're going to attempt the charade, plonk yourself at a Tim Hortons with a few Canadian history books, a decent map, a few seasons of Corner Gas (or Kids in the Hall--just for Dorothy
), a laptop so you can access the nfb site (let's hear it for "Log Driver's Waltz), a primer on why the Canadian health care system rocks (remember as a Canadian you will fight to the death for universal health care), a stack of the Canadian lit selections we all had to read in high school, and perhaps one of those "Best of Canada" compilation albums...then at least you can make a passable attempt when you sew the maple leaf to your daypack.
Jan 20th 2011, 11:40 pm
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And cardiology. It's not exactly brain surgery.
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Jan 20th 2011, 11:41 pm
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Re: Anti-Americanism, Anti-Foreigners of any kind?
Nope, never works...well, maybe only with people who don't know better.
I've run into quite a few Americans trying to pass themselves off as Canadians in my travels over the years. All but one didn't have a clue about basic Canadian geography, had no idea that we don't have a President, and all lacked the usual self depreciating inferiority complex type humour that marks most Canadians abroad. I've yet to meet an American posing as a Canuck who gushed appropriately, "Oh thank goodness you guessed I was Canadian...all I hear is 'What part of the States are you from?'"
So, Americans, if you're going to attempt the charade, plonk yourself at a Tim Hortons with a few Canadian history books, a decent map, a few seasons of Corner Gas (or Kids in the Hall--just for Dorothy ), a laptop so you can access the nfb site (let's hear it for "Log Driver's Waltz), a primer on why the Canadian health care system rocks (remember as a Canadian you will fight to the death for universal health care), a stack of the Canadian lit selections we all had to read in high school, and perhaps one of those "Best of Canada" compilation albums...then at least you can make a passable attempt when you sew the maple leaf to your daypack.
I've run into quite a few Americans trying to pass themselves off as Canadians in my travels over the years. All but one didn't have a clue about basic Canadian geography, had no idea that we don't have a President, and all lacked the usual self depreciating inferiority complex type humour that marks most Canadians abroad. I've yet to meet an American posing as a Canuck who gushed appropriately, "Oh thank goodness you guessed I was Canadian...all I hear is 'What part of the States are you from?'"
So, Americans, if you're going to attempt the charade, plonk yourself at a Tim Hortons with a few Canadian history books, a decent map, a few seasons of Corner Gas (or Kids in the Hall--just for Dorothy
), a laptop so you can access the nfb site (let's hear it for "Log Driver's Waltz), a primer on why the Canadian health care system rocks (remember as a Canadian you will fight to the death for universal health care), a stack of the Canadian lit selections we all had to read in high school, and perhaps one of those "Best of Canada" compilation albums...then at least you can make a passable attempt when you sew the maple leaf to your daypack.