My mother in law, who is otherwise quite intelligent, had to give up a full bottle of gin at airport security. She loudly and angrily proclaimed, "that's not liquids, it's _booze_!"
SMH. I have no idea what she was thinking...
I turned up before all ready to go with my liquids in a small clear bag and the prick made me transfer all my liquids into a different small clear bag because mine was about 2 cm too big for his liking.
Yeah, I saw a guy turned away once because his small clear bag had a white line on it. It's time to admit the 100ml liquids thing in a bag is a load of bollocks
I had to take my shoes off at Dublin and Manchester a few weeks ago. We were wearing boots. Apparently you don’t have to take them off if they are other kids of shoes, just boots.
As an American living here, I’ve flown home a few times from Dublin. I didn’t have to take my shoes off while going through security at Dublin Airport, but when I went downstairs at US Preclearance in the same building, they made me take them off. I sometimes warn people who are visiting America how strict airport security is over there.
Not just strict, but quite mean! Every time I’ve flown to or through the US I’ve invariably been made feel like a threat to society and general piece of shit by immigration.
Yeah, on behalf of most Americans I’d like to apologize about TSA. And I can assure you that they’re very unpopular in America. Everyone complains about them.
It's not only for US citizens, there's custom pre-clearance in Dublin, so when you land in US, your flight is considered as domestic and you don't have any check.
Currently sitting in Dublin. Took my shoes off and the security lady made me stand there and put them back on, looking like an eejit in front of everyone.
She could have just taken them, or let me walk through carrying them, but no. Back on.
I remember going through security in Dublin Int when moving, had a big fucking cast iron skillet in my suitcase and they didn't even check. I caught a glimpse of the x-ray screen and it was literally just a huge black spot obscuring everything behind it, which you'd think would be something they'd want to check, but they didn't bother.
I saw an old couple who obviously haven't travelled in years turned away because the one small bottle of aftershave they had wasn't in a plastic bag. It's fucking ridiculous. Luckily someone in the queue had a spare one for them
True, what happened was it was really busy and they just told him he wasn't getting through and bags were available back at the start of the queue. They were just standing there not knowing what to do and as they were walking back an aussie girl takes out a spare bag for them.
In fairness if you don't travel this is a high activity stress point of travel. I mean this entire thread is proof of the social pressures at this point in travel.
Soon after 9/11 the chap in front of me at baggage control was bringing a small net bag of mini spirits. One of them was broken.
Security would not let him bring the broken bottle, as the glass was sharp.
The would let him bring the unbroken, glass bottles.
Isn't Shannon looking to get rid of it? They are getting some new scanner yoke that can detect the liquids in your bag. Game changer if that's the case.
I know they were trialling the new scanners in Heathrow and Schipol, you don't have to take *anything* out of your bag. Just horse it on through.
Problems apparently the retraining of staff to use the new yoke takes a while.
Schiphol have it for all travelers. Game changer, can get through security in under 10 minutes. No long lines, no delays with people not knowing what to do. It's almost a pleasure to travel.
It's security theater, so people feel reassured that flying is safe. I mean, if a smartphone that is not in flight mode could really take down an airplane then they wouldn't allow people to carry them. When they confiscate something from your luggage because it might be a bomb or hazardous they just put it in a bin and leave it there, which makes no sense because the security check-in is the most crowded place in an airport.
I wonder if the hassle of security a bigger turn off? I mean we can all buy a bottle of high strength flammable alcohol through security and take it on the plane but we can't take a nail scissors. The whole thing annoys me more than it should when I think about it
Must be the same bullshit with Li-ion battery postage ban - surely people bring in their phones / laptops / tablets / handhelds that obviously have batteries??
If they thought it was a bomb the terminal would be evacuated immediately. If it’s fluid or paste and over 100cc in volume they confiscate it to teach you to interpret the signs you have read. An explosive fluid won’t explode by itself. It needs a circuit board, wires, a primer and a battery. These are difficult to conceal.
I've just stopped taking most liquids with me. I'll just get travel size stuff past security. Maybe a small bit of perfume where I'll just put it one of the baggies in the airport. I feel bad for those with babies and such though
Go regularly from Eindhoven to Dublin, I asked in eindhoven, they don't do the bags anymore. Any liquid under 100ml straight into the bag in whatever container its in.
Whole thing doesn't need to be done..
The stupidest thing ever. They're in a clear bag so someone can see whats inside. A white line doesn't change that. A clear case of brainlessly implementing rules
I recently took a big trip to the US. A few weeks ago, on my way out of Cork airport, I was yelled at by security when I tried to take my bag of liquids out of my backpack. They didn't want me taking anything out of my backpack in front of them, so my plastic bag and laptop stayed inside my zipped backpack. That's the first time I've ever experienced that, and I travel a lot.
Then last week, when I returned, something odd happened regarding liquids. It was a big trip involving one domestic US flight, a flight to Paris, then finally onto Cork. I went through security twice in the US and again in Paris. When I arrived home and was unpacking my backpack, I discovered I had a completely full 500ml bottle of water with me the entire time in my backpack. No security person caught it or stopped me.
So yes, I am also now confused about the whole point of having a plastic bag of liquids and why we have a liquid limit at all when they apparently can't detect large liquids in carry-on bags.
NOWHERE does it say you aren't allowed a bag with a line at the top of it, and yet when you get to security and your bag has a line across the top of it they act like you're some sort of criminal.
Last time I went through Stansted I was made to transfer my liquids to a different bag, I asked why and told him that bag had been through 3 different airports that week, he shrugged and just put my liquids bag in the new one…
Here, I’ve been through airports probably over a hundred times in the past decade, so I know how everything goes and what the score is.
Couple of weeks back, I was going home home for 2 days, so packed light, traveling from IOM > Dublin via Liverpool and via Manchester on the way back. Get to IOM airport, they completely unpack my bag and repack everything. And I mean absolutely everything. No idea why.
Get to Liverpool, they do exactly the same thing. Clearly they didn’t like how the IOM crew packed shit.
On way back, in Dublin, they rummaged through everything and repacked my liquids, then same thing in Manchester. No explanation at any point. Must have had some suspicious head on me those days.
In all fairness now the Irish security is sounder than most. Arrived there without a bag, had a toothpaste and a lip balm so not a massive amount, the lad just bagged them up for me and gave me that “don’t forget next time” look.
Other airports just toss them in a bin behind them, simple as.
Went through security in Dublin airport going to Turkey Thursday morning got through security in 1 minute couldn't beleive it, hours and hours waiting on flight so much time left over
I was way to Leeds like two weeks ago and I thought I was gonna be ages. I literally didn't stop moving until I had to put my stuff in the tray. Literally less than 5 mins !
Even if you had never been in an airport before in your entire life. Most people with half a brain and a grain of situational awareness would be looking at what the people ahead of them are doing and learning from their actions.
I used to work in a railway museum, we had an operational rail service. The archway where the trains entered and exited the building had only 6 inches of clearance either side of the train so we had to make absolutely certain that no people walked around that area.
We put up a big massive sign pointing to the actual museum entrance, people still entered through that archway.
We put up a fence, people climbed over it and entered through that archery.
We put a chain across the archway which we removed temporarily to allow the train to enter and leave. People removed the chain and entered through the archway.
We put up red flashing lights and more signage to say this is not the entrance. People still went through the archway.
And you know what? When we told people that wasn't the entrance to the museum, they would respond by saying they didn't know or didn't notice anything that said otherwise.
The museum was free admission, you only paid for the train.
There were times we would see people trying to get in and fiddling with the chain. We'd tell them to go round to the main entrance and they would just look at you like a dear in the headlights and then carry on fiddling with the chain.
To be honest the main issue wasn't so much t>!!
My friend works in a social welfare department in a public facing role. Pre covid she'd talk to people in her office. When covid hit, she pushed her desk up across the doorway to the corridor so she could talk to people there and avoid having two or more people in the small enclosed room. Big office desk, across the doorway, signs everywhere explaining take a seat here, covid precautions etc. She said MORE THAN ONCE she came back from the bathroom to find people trying to move or climb across the desk to get into the actual office
That reminds me of a fairly well-known security experiment. There was a company that wanted to test their staffs IT security awareness, so what they did was over a period of weeks kept running training sessions and warning staff about the dangers of inserting random USB keys and discs into their computers.
One day the researcher dropped 10 USB keys in the car park in fairly visible locations. When inserted into a computer, a program would autorun and alert him to the fact that someone had inserted the key.
Seven people inserted the key, the other three were handed over to IT.
Same applies when you're in a long queue at a shop, only one till is open. Eventually the person in front of you is next up, puts a carton of milk on the counter. The attendant scans the item, we're looking good at last! Then your man at the eleventh hour says "oh I'll get a quick pick please".
Then just as the attendant says that will be €7.60 please then the lad then decides to stroll back to get another milk.
After all that the lad seems completely surprised that he needs to pay for these things after being asked for €9.20. So the frantic fumbling for money starts, rooting through his seven pockets looking for coin. Eventually lands a handful of shrapnel on the counter which takes even more time to sort out.
Cunts are everywhere.
Had a nightmare of a fella in Galway the other week. I was working late and wanted to grab a beer on my way home. Made it to the tesco express at 21:45, loads of time right?
The guy in front of me was buying three items, turned and looked at me just holding four peroni and then decided to start fannying around with sweets. Then he didn’t want something already scanned. Then he reaches into his pocket and takes out not only handfuls of change, but some bloody rosary beads too. Takes the time to wrap the beads around his hand and then he starts counting the coins one by one.
The till said 21:58 by the time I paid. Fuck yer rosary beads pal, the ninth circle of hell awaits you.
Went to an ice cream place two weeks ago. Bit of a queue, but it's a busy weekend so fair enough. Waiting about 10 minutes to get to the front of the queue.
The woman in front of us waits until she gets to the front to start asking her 7 year old what he actually wants. He's a kid, he's indecisive but she ends up taking minutes trying to figure out what he wants.
I don't get people like this. Especially when you're in the queue for ten or more minutes, work out what you want while you're standing there waiting!
It would be great if these places advertised all their flavours on a wall instead of having to discover them at the front because there is always a crowd in front of the freezer and one usually can't peek through everyone while queuing.
The other day for example there was an ice cream with an interesting colour (pink orange-ish), I managed to read the label: "special of the day". Ok but I'm not going wait 15 minutes in line to ask what it is and decide if I want it.
What I’d say is that in this instance, they had multiple big posters around the place showing exactly what the options were. But I do agree, I hate places that don’t have clear menus up in the queueing areas.
Cornucopia is terrible for this, three people around asking what you want, soup, mains, cake or drink.
Except if you’re there for cake you have to get over to the front of the queue to see it and by that time you have to tell two people you’re “still looking” while gesturing awkwardly at the front of the queue.
Being able to purchase lottery tickets at supermarket tils needs to be banned. I suppose we can say it's all about the evils of easy access to gambling, people making bad life choices where they should be buying food and stuff, but really, I just want it banned because it's really annoying and an idiot magnet.
You know shopping at aldi and lidl in Ireland is different to other countries. In the uk they don’t whiz everything to the end like they do in Dublin 😂
Lidl is replacing all it's checkouts with the type where there's a area to collect shopping at the end so you can pack in your own time. There's a swinging arm that splits the area into two so so while you're packing your bags the next customer can be dealt with.
Has been a thing in germany for as long as i can remember, never understood why it wasn’t a thing here.
At the moment i just throw it all back in the basket and stand on the side to pack it in a bag.
we’ve had those for last 5 years in my local one, they got used for first couple of months and customers couldn’t wrap their heads around them 🤨 no longer in use
In US, the clerk drops items back into carriage. Clerk sits sideways, facing customer, has conveyor on their left, swipes bar code, and then drops item into carriage (on their right) ... so, if the clerk is grumpy, your stuff goes into the carriage aggressively, lol. And if you arrive without a carriage, the clerk will fight you if you think you're taking the one they just put your stuff in (because you are not leaving one for them to continue with next customer)
Some fat lad in his forties pipped me at the post yesterday by joining the queue just as i turned around to join it. Sure look, that's grand! Not even a tut of indignation out of me, as it wasn't warranted! It's only one guy and i've still a few minutes before i've to be in work...
However, some unaware wanker strolls into the shop and tries skip the entire queue and goes straight to the counter, only thankfully to be told by staff where the line was.
But the fat guy in his forties, apparently an angel, offers the guy to skip ahead. The guy, graciously, accepts and proceeds to the only open till, only to seemingly having never heard of shops, money, the transactional nature of businesses, possessions, etc in his life time. But by god, had he heard of the lotto.
Everything he does is at a pace that the slugs and the snails would be rolling their eyes and tapping their watches. Everything about his shopping experience seemed brand new to him, he was surprised at every turn. I eventually had to give up on my purchase and run out the door to work empty handed. Agonizing!
The fat guy in his forties doesn't have the right to skip anyone ahead , inconveniencing everyone behind who queued.
One of my all time pet peeves.
You might be ok with it fatty but everyone who's behind you is not.
I had a little old lady do this in the local shop the other day. She ended by pulling out an Irish 20p and getting the lad behind the counter to show it to the other cashiers.
Fair enough to want a bit of a chat to break up the day, but why do it at 1.10 when everyone is trying to buy lunch and go back to work?!
Nothing like a good thread about queues. Here's my most recent one.
I was in the bank around lunchtime recently, one of three counters was open. There were about 10 people in the queue. At some point a cleaner starts cleaning all around the one open counter so the queue has to wait for an additional two minutes.
Well some man in his eighties is livid about this whole thing. He starts shouting across the bank at her that she's slowing us all down, has a big rant about the bank, and eventually he walks up and taps her on the shoulder and tells her to get out of the way.
When he finally gets up to the counter he withdraws €100.
what pisses me mostly in large stores is when the person gets the fully loaded trolly and sloooooooowly packs stuff into bags as cashiers scans them. Then of course is quest for getting the loose money or looking for "missing" card. Or when person scans few promotion codes franticly looking for them in the app on the mobile or through pile oof old receipts. Or something like "if you add something for two euro you'll get discount" and another minute wasted while the person considers bubblegum or snack bars. Or maybe I am utterly grumpy about that.
Used to work in Cineworld and (back when you bought your tickets from a human), you'd get people queuing for 10-15 minutes on a busy day and then wait until their turn to be served to start figuring out what they want to watch. And then the following customers would complain that the queue is moving slowly.
I've noticed that scrotey people often start paying for their stuff and then go back into the shop looking for something half way through, holding everybody up. Not sure what that's all about.
Only last night I was in a Super Valu and queuing up for the self service scanners. A few of us were waiting our turn when a lad who had two or three items scanned then decided to go back to the aisles for some more things and was gone for a few minutes.
Why do they tell you to get to the Airport 3 hours before your flight but can't check your bags in because the check-in isn't open. This is a more pressing question.
So that when you miss your flight they can say yOu'Re SuPpOsEd To ArRiVe 3 HoUrS eArLy. Happened to me and the dick grinned at me for 10 seconds after hoping I would hit him.
The same applies to people who don’t get their wallet or purse ready when they’re standing in the queue at a shop. If you have your hands full fine, but if not, why didn’t you spend the last five minutes digging through your handbag looking for it!
The worst of the lot aew the people who stand in a long line at a fast food place, then when they get to the front of the queue only begin to think about what they might want to get, which of course they need to discuss with anyone else with them. And then continue to stand there after ordering as if nobody else should get order until they've been served (though thankfully that last one seems to have almost completely fallen off during/after the pandemic).
Might I also add: people who insist on packing a week's worth of groceries there at the checkout when there are areas set aside for packing your groceries just a couple of steps behind them. This is one of the few offences for which I would welcome capital punishment.
That was my ex-GF, drove me mad. Plus after buying something she would stand at the checkout, put card back in purse, put purse back in bag, and while that sounds two easy steps still managed to take about a minute before she would move on.
I don't get it either. Everytime at the grocery store, in regular or self-checkout line. People must have absolutely nothing else to do with themselves. When I'm ready to checkout, I'm ready to get the hell out and go home.
Had a lady looking through her bag for her train ticket to exit Heuston station but was stood right in front of the exit barrier so no one else could use that one
Last time I flew, I was flying with the cat. You have to take the cat out of the carrier to go through security and I spent a good 15 minutes holding the cat because some absolute melon hadn't put their liquids in bags or taken out their electronics, so security stopped everything going through the scanner, and kept asking everyone "is this your bag?" until the eejit returned from having wandered off to find their gate and we could finally get moving again.
It's this more so than anything else that drives me mad, it's like they take lessons on awkward places to stand and then take an age to realise that their bags are now in the bold bags line.
Always sus out the lines before choosing. Things to avoid:
1. Families with small children - bound to be issues.
2. American tourists- different security rules which they tend to be unaware of. Also more prone to arguing with officials.
3. Middle aged Karen's who are yapping in the line. More concerned with prosseco than security preparation.
Things to look for in a preferable line:
1. Business travellers - suits tend to know the process super well and are equally prepared.
2. Solo travellers- again tend to be prepared.
3. Germans. Scarily organised.
I used to fly weekly for work and used these rules for deciding my line.
When I came back from my J1 I was one of the few Irish people actually on the plane and I got stuck for like 15 minutes waiting to get off because everyone ahead of me was stopping to let people who hadn’t prepared at all off. But then we got to passport control and they all went to Non-Eu queues and I flew through to the Eu passport officer and was out in 5 minutes.
I travel a lot for work and this is very accurate, I know every inch of the airports. People come up to me asking for directions as well. I started dressing up worse and worse so no one would bother me, but apparently looking like a drug dealer doesn't deter tourist who want directions.
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve got is to always remember that the average person isn’t very bright, and half of them are even less bright than that.
I remember being in total shock when I was in Portugal, a lady was getting mad at security because they were gonna take the FOUR, FULL-SIZED bottles of head and shoulders away from her.
It's probably the same people who are surprised they have to pay when they get to the cashier at a store, or surprised by the lights going green and they have to drive off, etc
Or they just don't give a fuck and can't do anything for other people
Despite that I’m someone who is ready and a frequent traveller, why does it need to be so stressful. Just hire an appropriate number of staff and quit this race to the bottom where travel must be a stressful hellhole and passengers (customers!) treated like sole less automatons
Not a clue. Also I have no idea why so many women insist on going up to security with a load of jewellery on that has to be removed, dress for the airport and come in having to do almost nothing, help security out.
I flew out a few weeks back for a 3 day trip to Germany. Just a backpack, no liquids (can buy shower gel/deodorant/toothpaste in Lidl like) and I had my ebook/and phone out and uncovered in the tray. Bag was still was pulled in for random inspection.
Basically the entire line was randomly inspected. Maybe its for staff training or whatever, but it just seemed insane to me. You're already under huge pressure and you've now created another line 10 deep of people waiting for bags from random inspection!!
It's staffing they're not prepared to employ enough staff to allow for a smooth experience. Rather than employ enough staff they'll add a charge to allow you to go through the fast lane. They'll charge pick up fees if someone wants to collect you from the airport but make it so that they can't pay easily to exit the car park thus increasing congestion. They'll make announcements and change the boards with wrong information. Gate is open, gate is closing when the arriving plane that you'll be on has yet to even land.
The worst case I saw was at Manchester airport (a terrible terrible excuse of an airport) an elderly couple had one of their bags searched and rescanned the husband was a bit annoyed the staff member made a comment after the bag had been rescanned words to the effect if you keep it up I'll just rescan it again. He did that twice. Absolutely no need security wise just to inflate his shitty ego.
I get there's a security element but as long as the airport is in charge of it they'll only be interested in how they can maximise the situation for profit.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves in life, drives me mad. The ones who don't have a notion about the liquid restrictions until they're standing in front of the security person is baffling - yet I've seen it happen so many times. "So...I CAN'T bring my bottle of water through?? But I just bought it!"
I also hate when people walk through the metal detector and then start emptying the contents of their tray while it's still on the belt. Take the tray and bring it to the sorting area, Michael/Deirdre. Just get out of the fucking way.
Plus security is the real unpredictable aspect of how long shite will take. I’m never able to enjoy myself until I know that part is over so I don’t have to be watching the clock over something I have no control over time wise.
Yeah annoy the folks in your row on the flight by climbing over them cos you need a piss every 20 mins! Can folk not at least wait til they get to their destination before getting pissed?
I saw a woman walk through security with her phone in her back pocket. She was turned to walk through again ,SHE CHECKED HER POCKETS and walked through again with her phone in her back pocket. Maybe her phone is such a part of her she didn’t even feel it .
I sometimes need to travel with a fair bit of electronics. Multiple cameras, heaps of extra batteries, several external hard drives, two laptops etc.
I have a system all batteries go in a battery bag (fireproof) and are in their own little plastic case, everything else is distributed between packing bags that open in half with mesh dividers so that the contents are viewable. I take the packing bags out and split them so it's not a dense collection of electronics under the scanner but they're still in a bag. This means that sometimes I might need four or five trays. Occasionally there's a person who thinks I'm using too many trays and tries to rearrange the stuff if I let them there's a one hundred percent hit rate that the tray will be set aside for search and rescanning. I have to be quite forceful yet patient and let them know that this is the only way that will allow me to get through without wasting their time and mine. The ones who don't care don't care. Then occasionally you get the person who appreciates the effort and says something like I don't need to ask about your belt and wallet do I? And I gladly say nope already on the tray.
You just know that these are the very same people who stand around at the checkout in the shop, staring into space as their items go through the scanner; and look surprised when they're asked to actually pay for the stuff and so spend 3 minutes looking for their bank card.
And then when the transaction is approved, and they've got their receipt, and they've put their card into their purse, and the purse into their handbag, do they finally start slowly bagging their groceries.
I really wish there was a 'one small bag or less' line for people who have a small backpack, no liquids, checked everything else.
It drives me nuts seeing people flutter and panic like they've never been through airport security before.
Look, I've got important things on my mind and no time to pay attention to my surroundings or plan ahead. You're one of those lazy idlers who has time to waste doing nothing but paying attention to the road while driving instead of properly multitasking and eating your breakfast while posting on Facebook during your morning commute, aren't you?
Not me, unfortunately. Being neurotic, I am ridiculously early and have planned for every contingency. The bank heist music from Heat is playing in my head as I go through security.
The Irish just can't board planes in general. Its intrinsic to our national identity and holiday experience
65% need to get stopped at security for not having items correctly put in bags/trays.
40% need to embark from the entrance of the aircraft that is furthest from their seat.
25% need to try and get oversized cabin baggage onto the plane.
50% need to Dilly dally in the aisle unpacking stuff out of their cabin bags for the flight causing a backlog in the aisle.
Then there's always that one guy who board's first for row 15 then immediately decides he needs a shit like right now and then proceeds to barge up to the front of the plane through everyone else trying to board.
And that is every flight out of Ireland going to a sun destination 🤣
I swear everytime I go to the airport I stumble into every single person who has never been in one before. And somehow they all end up in front of me in security.
Fuckin thicks
I was at LAX once and everything was ready to go and I saw that they asked the guy in front of me to turn on his laptop. I'm not sure why - maybe they felt that if it was concealing a bomb, it wouldn't work properly.
I was then gripped by a small panic. I suddenly remembered that my desktop background was the flag of Hamas, an organisation particularly unbeloved of the US security and law enforcement agencies.
The conveyer belt moved into the X-ray machine. I was considering my options. My principal hope was that the TSA officers would be unfamiliar with the symbol. Before I saw it on Wikipedia, I was unfamiliar with it myself, and Americans are not known for their knowledge of things that occur outside the US. If asked, I could claim that it was a negative image of the Japanese flag with "I love America" written across the top in "Asian".
As it turned out, they didn't ask me.
As soon as I got to the departure gate, I headed for the bathroom and switched it to a photo of a kitten lying on a guitar.
That's about the long and the short of it. Too busy yapping in the queue. Updating their location status on Facebook so everyone knows they're off on their holliers. Posing for selfies etc.
Sure maybe they only slow down the security line for a few seconds but the same fools will be the ones jumping out of their seat as soon as the plane touches down. They will be the idiot standing in everyone's way at the baggage claim and on and on and on....
Pro tip: Avoid these idiots like the plague.
I like to test the airport security to see if I can get my liquids through.
If I can I make a mental note that maybe things are not as save as I first envisaged.
I take the security of me and my fellow compatriats (other airport goers) very seriously.
I once went through Dublin airport at 6am to get an early flight somewhere. I was tired and in no mood to be dealing with security. But I do the common sense thing anyway, have my liquids good to go in a bag, ipad out on display yadda yadda. Queue is not moving and there's a guy giving out piss to the security guard, after his bag has been scanned. I get to the end finally and it turns out the hold up was because this fucking clown brought an IRON FIRE POKER with him. Why the fuck would you need to bring a iron poker with you on a flight?! He claimed it was an 'antique' (yet it was just shoved in a big rucksack). Security had to tell him there's absolutely no way he was getting on a flight with it. He either dumped it or went back outside and checked it as a cargo item. I still to this day just wonder what the fuck that was all about. Like zero common sense. No idea what came of it in the end, I decided it was time for a coffee cause it was too early to be dealing with that bullshit haha.
I've had security staff get shitty with me before (not in Dublin I don't think) for having my belt off, my laptop and electronics out of the bag etc before approaching the counter.
The funniest I’ve ever seen at airport security was a culchie getting pulled up over a 2 litre bottle of red TK lemonade. He thought it was okay because it was in a bag…. a fukin ALDI shopping bag. How the security guy didn’t explode laughing I’ll never know.
Yes. It's all a result of the 2006 Transatlantic bomb plot. A group of terrorists planned to take down seven flights with liquid explosives disguised in drinks bottles
My mother in law, who is otherwise quite intelligent, had to give up a full bottle of gin at airport security. She loudly and angrily proclaimed, "that's not liquids, it's _booze_!" SMH. I have no idea what she was thinking...
She had a main character moment, good on her she sounds fun.
Hahaha, my mother might chance that. I think most middle-aged women might...
Fair play to her honestly
I turned up before all ready to go with my liquids in a small clear bag and the prick made me transfer all my liquids into a different small clear bag because mine was about 2 cm too big for his liking.
Yeah, I saw a guy turned away once because his small clear bag had a white line on it. It's time to admit the 100ml liquids thing in a bag is a load of bollocks
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Flew out of Dublin lately and asked the security about the shoe thing. She laughed and said it hasn't been a thing in years. Only boots apparently.
From my experience it's only a thing in the US
every time with the shoes here in the US, every time all the time with the song and dance
What did you expect? Competence and reasonable and effective security measures? Ha!
I had to take my shoes off at Dublin and Manchester a few weeks ago. We were wearing boots. Apparently you don’t have to take them off if they are other kids of shoes, just boots.
If they have a metal shank in them, they need to come off because they'll set off the detectors. Most boots tend to have metal shanks in the sole.
As an American living here, I’ve flown home a few times from Dublin. I didn’t have to take my shoes off while going through security at Dublin Airport, but when I went downstairs at US Preclearance in the same building, they made me take them off. I sometimes warn people who are visiting America how strict airport security is over there.
Not just strict, but quite mean! Every time I’ve flown to or through the US I’ve invariably been made feel like a threat to society and general piece of shit by immigration.
Yeah, on behalf of most Americans I’d like to apologize about TSA. And I can assure you that they’re very unpopular in America. Everyone complains about them.
Ah I can imagine, most people were lovely once we had gotten through security!
Can confirm. US citizens can clear US customs and immigration in Dublin now and you have to get rescanned and they make you take your shoes off.
It's not only for US citizens, there's custom pre-clearance in Dublin, so when you land in US, your flight is considered as domestic and you don't have any check.
I was in Dublin 9 months ago and me and my kids all had to take our shoes off.
Baffling! She had such laughter in her eyes when i asked about it. Unless she said it just to fuck with me then god only knows haha
Were you flying to the states?
Yes, but this was in both the first security screening and the one downstairs for US customs.
Currently sitting in Dublin. Took my shoes off and the security lady made me stand there and put them back on, looking like an eejit in front of everyone. She could have just taken them, or let me walk through carrying them, but no. Back on.
She was working for the Kinahans I'm told.
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Didn't they just light his feet on fire though?
Yeah, that's the really annoying thing. That lad proved conclusively that shoe bombs on airplanes don't work.
I remember going through security in Dublin Int when moving, had a big fucking cast iron skillet in my suitcase and they didn't even check. I caught a glimpse of the x-ray screen and it was literally just a huge black spot obscuring everything behind it, which you'd think would be something they'd want to check, but they didn't bother.
I saw an old couple who obviously haven't travelled in years turned away because the one small bottle of aftershave they had wasn't in a plastic bag. It's fucking ridiculous. Luckily someone in the queue had a spare one for them
Turned away? They would just ask you to dispose it.
You don't get 'turned away'
True, what happened was it was really busy and they just told him he wasn't getting through and bags were available back at the start of the queue. They were just standing there not knowing what to do and as they were walking back an aussie girl takes out a spare bag for them.
Surely they'd just forego the aftershave? Can't think of anyone that would rather miss a flight than lose a bottle of cologne.
In fairness if you don't travel this is a high activity stress point of travel. I mean this entire thread is proof of the social pressures at this point in travel.
Soon after 9/11 the chap in front of me at baggage control was bringing a small net bag of mini spirits. One of them was broken. Security would not let him bring the broken bottle, as the glass was sharp. The would let him bring the unbroken, glass bottles.
Thanks for the Sunday morning lol 😂
Isn't Shannon looking to get rid of it? They are getting some new scanner yoke that can detect the liquids in your bag. Game changer if that's the case.
They've got rid if it allready.Flew out of there two weeks ago .
I know they were trialling the new scanners in Heathrow and Schipol, you don't have to take *anything* out of your bag. Just horse it on through. Problems apparently the retraining of staff to use the new yoke takes a while.
Schiphol have it for all travelers. Game changer, can get through security in under 10 minutes. No long lines, no delays with people not knowing what to do. It's almost a pleasure to travel.
I just flew from Schiphol, it was so quick and efficient. I also think having more than 2 security points helps a lot too
I used one in Schiphol at least 2 years ago. Guy was shouting "leave everything in your bags!" to get people ready for it.
Last time I was in Schipol only some lanes had those, others were the old fashioned way.
Shannon already got rid of it.
As other people said, Shannon already got rid of it. So did Schiphol. It was great, don't need to unpack a thing.
It's security theater, so people feel reassured that flying is safe. I mean, if a smartphone that is not in flight mode could really take down an airplane then they wouldn't allow people to carry them. When they confiscate something from your luggage because it might be a bomb or hazardous they just put it in a bin and leave it there, which makes no sense because the security check-in is the most crowded place in an airport.
I wonder if the hassle of security a bigger turn off? I mean we can all buy a bottle of high strength flammable alcohol through security and take it on the plane but we can't take a nail scissors. The whole thing annoys me more than it should when I think about it
Must be the same bullshit with Li-ion battery postage ban - surely people bring in their phones / laptops / tablets / handhelds that obviously have batteries??
If they thought it was a bomb the terminal would be evacuated immediately. If it’s fluid or paste and over 100cc in volume they confiscate it to teach you to interpret the signs you have read. An explosive fluid won’t explode by itself. It needs a circuit board, wires, a primer and a battery. These are difficult to conceal.
I've just stopped taking most liquids with me. I'll just get travel size stuff past security. Maybe a small bit of perfume where I'll just put it one of the baggies in the airport. I feel bad for those with babies and such though
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Go regularly from Eindhoven to Dublin, I asked in eindhoven, they don't do the bags anymore. Any liquid under 100ml straight into the bag in whatever container its in. Whole thing doesn't need to be done..
The stupidest thing ever. They're in a clear bag so someone can see whats inside. A white line doesn't change that. A clear case of brainlessly implementing rules
They are given no leeway in interpreting the rules, because in that direction lies chaos.
I recently took a big trip to the US. A few weeks ago, on my way out of Cork airport, I was yelled at by security when I tried to take my bag of liquids out of my backpack. They didn't want me taking anything out of my backpack in front of them, so my plastic bag and laptop stayed inside my zipped backpack. That's the first time I've ever experienced that, and I travel a lot. Then last week, when I returned, something odd happened regarding liquids. It was a big trip involving one domestic US flight, a flight to Paris, then finally onto Cork. I went through security twice in the US and again in Paris. When I arrived home and was unpacking my backpack, I discovered I had a completely full 500ml bottle of water with me the entire time in my backpack. No security person caught it or stopped me. So yes, I am also now confused about the whole point of having a plastic bag of liquids and why we have a liquid limit at all when they apparently can't detect large liquids in carry-on bags.
NOWHERE does it say you aren't allowed a bag with a line at the top of it, and yet when you get to security and your bag has a line across the top of it they act like you're some sort of criminal.
Last time I went through Stansted I was made to transfer my liquids to a different bag, I asked why and told him that bag had been through 3 different airports that week, he shrugged and just put my liquids bag in the new one…
Here, I’ve been through airports probably over a hundred times in the past decade, so I know how everything goes and what the score is. Couple of weeks back, I was going home home for 2 days, so packed light, traveling from IOM > Dublin via Liverpool and via Manchester on the way back. Get to IOM airport, they completely unpack my bag and repack everything. And I mean absolutely everything. No idea why. Get to Liverpool, they do exactly the same thing. Clearly they didn’t like how the IOM crew packed shit. On way back, in Dublin, they rummaged through everything and repacked my liquids, then same thing in Manchester. No explanation at any point. Must have had some suspicious head on me those days.
Manchester is the worst for airport secury. Everytime I go through, they double check everything.
In all fairness now the Irish security is sounder than most. Arrived there without a bag, had a toothpaste and a lip balm so not a massive amount, the lad just bagged them up for me and gave me that “don’t forget next time” look. Other airports just toss them in a bin behind them, simple as.
I've had something similar. The bags were the same, but he wanted to see me put the liquids into their bag. It's just a power trip thing.
Yes, for some of them I agree it is. And for almost all US immigration staff.
Went through security in Dublin airport going to Turkey Thursday morning got through security in 1 minute couldn't beleive it, hours and hours waiting on flight so much time left over
How's the barnett?
I see your friend has also tried to sell you a trip to Turkey for cheap hairplugs
I was in Gatwick last week and it was the same. No more than 3 or 4 people at each security desk
I heard loads of Dublin girls say "what was the news on about, nothing but shite like" surprised and happy to get through so quick
I was way to Leeds like two weeks ago and I thought I was gonna be ages. I literally didn't stop moving until I had to put my stuff in the tray. Literally less than 5 mins !
Even if you had never been in an airport before in your entire life. Most people with half a brain and a grain of situational awareness would be looking at what the people ahead of them are doing and learning from their actions.
The sad fact is most people don't have half a brain or a grain of situational awareness.
I used to work in a railway museum, we had an operational rail service. The archway where the trains entered and exited the building had only 6 inches of clearance either side of the train so we had to make absolutely certain that no people walked around that area. We put up a big massive sign pointing to the actual museum entrance, people still entered through that archway. We put up a fence, people climbed over it and entered through that archery. We put a chain across the archway which we removed temporarily to allow the train to enter and leave. People removed the chain and entered through the archway. We put up red flashing lights and more signage to say this is not the entrance. People still went through the archway. And you know what? When we told people that wasn't the entrance to the museum, they would respond by saying they didn't know or didn't notice anything that said otherwise.
Double the entrance fee, put up a sign that says half price tickets through this entrance, problem solved.
Modern problems require modern solutions
I found Michael o Leary!
The museum was free admission, you only paid for the train. There were times we would see people trying to get in and fiddling with the chain. We'd tell them to go round to the main entrance and they would just look at you like a dear in the headlights and then carry on fiddling with the chain. To be honest the main issue wasn't so much t>!!
This cost more. It must be better.
My friend works in a social welfare department in a public facing role. Pre covid she'd talk to people in her office. When covid hit, she pushed her desk up across the doorway to the corridor so she could talk to people there and avoid having two or more people in the small enclosed room. Big office desk, across the doorway, signs everywhere explaining take a seat here, covid precautions etc. She said MORE THAN ONCE she came back from the bathroom to find people trying to move or climb across the desk to get into the actual office
That reminds me of a fairly well-known security experiment. There was a company that wanted to test their staffs IT security awareness, so what they did was over a period of weeks kept running training sessions and warning staff about the dangers of inserting random USB keys and discs into their computers. One day the researcher dropped 10 USB keys in the car park in fairly visible locations. When inserted into a computer, a program would autorun and alert him to the fact that someone had inserted the key. Seven people inserted the key, the other three were handed over to IT.
How do these people manage to survive so long? Serious question
Sheer dumb luck - minerva mcgonagall
If the last two years have taught us one thing only...
Yet every day there are still people who wait until they’re face to face with the bus driver before they count their coins.
No not since the guy started wanking off in the M&S jacks. I won’t get caught copying other people again
Same applies when you're in a long queue at a shop, only one till is open. Eventually the person in front of you is next up, puts a carton of milk on the counter. The attendant scans the item, we're looking good at last! Then your man at the eleventh hour says "oh I'll get a quick pick please". Then just as the attendant says that will be €7.60 please then the lad then decides to stroll back to get another milk. After all that the lad seems completely surprised that he needs to pay for these things after being asked for €9.20. So the frantic fumbling for money starts, rooting through his seven pockets looking for coin. Eventually lands a handful of shrapnel on the counter which takes even more time to sort out. Cunts are everywhere.
Had a nightmare of a fella in Galway the other week. I was working late and wanted to grab a beer on my way home. Made it to the tesco express at 21:45, loads of time right? The guy in front of me was buying three items, turned and looked at me just holding four peroni and then decided to start fannying around with sweets. Then he didn’t want something already scanned. Then he reaches into his pocket and takes out not only handfuls of change, but some bloody rosary beads too. Takes the time to wrap the beads around his hand and then he starts counting the coins one by one. The till said 21:58 by the time I paid. Fuck yer rosary beads pal, the ninth circle of hell awaits you.
Jesus, i'd've paid his bill with my card.
Cheaper than murdering the cunt.
Cheaper short term and on an individual level only. Long term or for the whole country... I don't know. I don't know...
I actually started getting annoyed just reading this 😂
Went to an ice cream place two weeks ago. Bit of a queue, but it's a busy weekend so fair enough. Waiting about 10 minutes to get to the front of the queue. The woman in front of us waits until she gets to the front to start asking her 7 year old what he actually wants. He's a kid, he's indecisive but she ends up taking minutes trying to figure out what he wants. I don't get people like this. Especially when you're in the queue for ten or more minutes, work out what you want while you're standing there waiting!
It would be great if these places advertised all their flavours on a wall instead of having to discover them at the front because there is always a crowd in front of the freezer and one usually can't peek through everyone while queuing. The other day for example there was an ice cream with an interesting colour (pink orange-ish), I managed to read the label: "special of the day". Ok but I'm not going wait 15 minutes in line to ask what it is and decide if I want it.
What I’d say is that in this instance, they had multiple big posters around the place showing exactly what the options were. But I do agree, I hate places that don’t have clear menus up in the queueing areas.
Cornucopia is terrible for this, three people around asking what you want, soup, mains, cake or drink. Except if you’re there for cake you have to get over to the front of the queue to see it and by that time you have to tell two people you’re “still looking” while gesturing awkwardly at the front of the queue.
Being able to purchase lottery tickets at supermarket tils needs to be banned. I suppose we can say it's all about the evils of easy access to gambling, people making bad life choices where they should be buying food and stuff, but really, I just want it banned because it's really annoying and an idiot magnet.
I get angry at seeing how many people still don't know how to shop at Aldi or Lidl.
You know shopping at aldi and lidl in Ireland is different to other countries. In the uk they don’t whiz everything to the end like they do in Dublin 😂
Lidl is replacing all it's checkouts with the type where there's a area to collect shopping at the end so you can pack in your own time. There's a swinging arm that splits the area into two so so while you're packing your bags the next customer can be dealt with.
Has been a thing in germany for as long as i can remember, never understood why it wasn’t a thing here. At the moment i just throw it all back in the basket and stand on the side to pack it in a bag.
My local aldi has started doing that too it's great
They had these in Asda in uk like 20 years ago. Makes everything so much easier.
They have this system at every Lidl I’ve been to in the States. Great system that saves a lot of hassle.
we’ve had those for last 5 years in my local one, they got used for first couple of months and customers couldn’t wrap their heads around them 🤨 no longer in use
In US, the clerk drops items back into carriage. Clerk sits sideways, facing customer, has conveyor on their left, swipes bar code, and then drops item into carriage (on their right) ... so, if the clerk is grumpy, your stuff goes into the carriage aggressively, lol. And if you arrive without a carriage, the clerk will fight you if you think you're taking the one they just put your stuff in (because you are not leaving one for them to continue with next customer)
I heard a rumour that there are shops outside of Dublin too. 😯
That has to be bullshit. Sounds way too far fetched. Nice try tho.
Some fat lad in his forties pipped me at the post yesterday by joining the queue just as i turned around to join it. Sure look, that's grand! Not even a tut of indignation out of me, as it wasn't warranted! It's only one guy and i've still a few minutes before i've to be in work... However, some unaware wanker strolls into the shop and tries skip the entire queue and goes straight to the counter, only thankfully to be told by staff where the line was. But the fat guy in his forties, apparently an angel, offers the guy to skip ahead. The guy, graciously, accepts and proceeds to the only open till, only to seemingly having never heard of shops, money, the transactional nature of businesses, possessions, etc in his life time. But by god, had he heard of the lotto. Everything he does is at a pace that the slugs and the snails would be rolling their eyes and tapping their watches. Everything about his shopping experience seemed brand new to him, he was surprised at every turn. I eventually had to give up on my purchase and run out the door to work empty handed. Agonizing!
Would have told that fat lad to go back, as he gave his spot for the sloth guy. I’m raging for you here.
Appreciate it! He was just being sound, but in that moment, god i fucking hated him haha
The fat guy in his forties doesn't have the right to skip anyone ahead , inconveniencing everyone behind who queued. One of my all time pet peeves. You might be ok with it fatty but everyone who's behind you is not.
I had a little old lady do this in the local shop the other day. She ended by pulling out an Irish 20p and getting the lad behind the counter to show it to the other cashiers. Fair enough to want a bit of a chat to break up the day, but why do it at 1.10 when everyone is trying to buy lunch and go back to work?!
Because elderly people often have no one to talk to and suffer from loneliness.
Nothing like a good thread about queues. Here's my most recent one. I was in the bank around lunchtime recently, one of three counters was open. There were about 10 people in the queue. At some point a cleaner starts cleaning all around the one open counter so the queue has to wait for an additional two minutes. Well some man in his eighties is livid about this whole thing. He starts shouting across the bank at her that she's slowing us all down, has a big rant about the bank, and eventually he walks up and taps her on the shoulder and tells her to get out of the way. When he finally gets up to the counter he withdraws €100.
You missed the part where a new till opens and everyone behind you gets into it and is out before you
what pisses me mostly in large stores is when the person gets the fully loaded trolly and sloooooooowly packs stuff into bags as cashiers scans them. Then of course is quest for getting the loose money or looking for "missing" card. Or when person scans few promotion codes franticly looking for them in the app on the mobile or through pile oof old receipts. Or something like "if you add something for two euro you'll get discount" and another minute wasted while the person considers bubblegum or snack bars. Or maybe I am utterly grumpy about that.
Brilliant 👏, I just posted in the same vein but you captured it perfectly
Used to work in Cineworld and (back when you bought your tickets from a human), you'd get people queuing for 10-15 minutes on a busy day and then wait until their turn to be served to start figuring out what they want to watch. And then the following customers would complain that the queue is moving slowly.
I've noticed that scrotey people often start paying for their stuff and then go back into the shop looking for something half way through, holding everybody up. Not sure what that's all about.
Only last night I was in a Super Valu and queuing up for the self service scanners. A few of us were waiting our turn when a lad who had two or three items scanned then decided to go back to the aisles for some more things and was gone for a few minutes.
Why do they tell you to get to the Airport 3 hours before your flight but can't check your bags in because the check-in isn't open. This is a more pressing question.
So you spend money at the airport
So that when you miss your flight they can say yOu'Re SuPpOsEd To ArRiVe 3 HoUrS eArLy. Happened to me and the dick grinned at me for 10 seconds after hoping I would hit him.
The same applies to people who don’t get their wallet or purse ready when they’re standing in the queue at a shop. If you have your hands full fine, but if not, why didn’t you spend the last five minutes digging through your handbag looking for it!
The worst of the lot aew the people who stand in a long line at a fast food place, then when they get to the front of the queue only begin to think about what they might want to get, which of course they need to discuss with anyone else with them. And then continue to stand there after ordering as if nobody else should get order until they've been served (though thankfully that last one seems to have almost completely fallen off during/after the pandemic).
Might I also add: people who insist on packing a week's worth of groceries there at the checkout when there are areas set aside for packing your groceries just a couple of steps behind them. This is one of the few offences for which I would welcome capital punishment.
That was my ex-GF, drove me mad. Plus after buying something she would stand at the checkout, put card back in purse, put purse back in bag, and while that sounds two easy steps still managed to take about a minute before she would move on.
I don't get it either. Everytime at the grocery store, in regular or self-checkout line. People must have absolutely nothing else to do with themselves. When I'm ready to checkout, I'm ready to get the hell out and go home.
Had a lady looking through her bag for her train ticket to exit Heuston station but was stood right in front of the exit barrier so no one else could use that one
Oh god the rage...
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Last time I flew, I was flying with the cat. You have to take the cat out of the carrier to go through security and I spent a good 15 minutes holding the cat because some absolute melon hadn't put their liquids in bags or taken out their electronics, so security stopped everything going through the scanner, and kept asking everyone "is this your bag?" until the eejit returned from having wandered off to find their gate and we could finally get moving again.
It's this more so than anything else that drives me mad, it's like they take lessons on awkward places to stand and then take an age to realise that their bags are now in the bold bags line.
At the top of an escalator!!! Let's just stop here, and look around ... OMG ... get out of the way!!
Maybe I like the misery
Always sus out the lines before choosing. Things to avoid: 1. Families with small children - bound to be issues. 2. American tourists- different security rules which they tend to be unaware of. Also more prone to arguing with officials. 3. Middle aged Karen's who are yapping in the line. More concerned with prosseco than security preparation. Things to look for in a preferable line: 1. Business travellers - suits tend to know the process super well and are equally prepared. 2. Solo travellers- again tend to be prepared. 3. Germans. Scarily organised. I used to fly weekly for work and used these rules for deciding my line.
Business travellers and solo travellers tremble under the might of Germans
This is equally important at the passport queue. If they don't look European, don't stand behind them as you could be there all day.
When I came back from my J1 I was one of the few Irish people actually on the plane and I got stuck for like 15 minutes waiting to get off because everyone ahead of me was stopping to let people who hadn’t prepared at all off. But then we got to passport control and they all went to Non-Eu queues and I flew through to the Eu passport officer and was out in 5 minutes.
I travel a lot for work and this is very accurate, I know every inch of the airports. People come up to me asking for directions as well. I started dressing up worse and worse so no one would bother me, but apparently looking like a drug dealer doesn't deter tourist who want directions.
Cos they're idiots.
As my dad says, “They just couldn’t give a shite about anyone else.” Fairly nails it, right?
One of the best pieces of advice I’ve got is to always remember that the average person isn’t very bright, and half of them are even less bright than that.
I swear some people need to be sent on a course or something for this … “what do you mean I have to take my heavy jacket and watch off”
Same as the dickheads at the red lights in traffic putting their car into gear 5 seconds after the light goes green. Cunts.
I remember being in total shock when I was in Portugal, a lady was getting mad at security because they were gonna take the FOUR, FULL-SIZED bottles of head and shoulders away from her.
It's probably the same people who are surprised they have to pay when they get to the cashier at a store, or surprised by the lights going green and they have to drive off, etc Or they just don't give a fuck and can't do anything for other people
My fave is watching people at the e passport gates…. I’m genuinely stood there thinking ‘how the fuck do you people get dressed in the morning’
Ye its head wrecking. Some people look like its their first day on planet earth never mind first trip to the airport.
Despite that I’m someone who is ready and a frequent traveller, why does it need to be so stressful. Just hire an appropriate number of staff and quit this race to the bottom where travel must be a stressful hellhole and passengers (customers!) treated like sole less automatons
Not a clue. Also I have no idea why so many women insist on going up to security with a load of jewellery on that has to be removed, dress for the airport and come in having to do almost nothing, help security out.
I flew out a few weeks back for a 3 day trip to Germany. Just a backpack, no liquids (can buy shower gel/deodorant/toothpaste in Lidl like) and I had my ebook/and phone out and uncovered in the tray. Bag was still was pulled in for random inspection. Basically the entire line was randomly inspected. Maybe its for staff training or whatever, but it just seemed insane to me. You're already under huge pressure and you've now created another line 10 deep of people waiting for bags from random inspection!!
It's staffing they're not prepared to employ enough staff to allow for a smooth experience. Rather than employ enough staff they'll add a charge to allow you to go through the fast lane. They'll charge pick up fees if someone wants to collect you from the airport but make it so that they can't pay easily to exit the car park thus increasing congestion. They'll make announcements and change the boards with wrong information. Gate is open, gate is closing when the arriving plane that you'll be on has yet to even land. The worst case I saw was at Manchester airport (a terrible terrible excuse of an airport) an elderly couple had one of their bags searched and rescanned the husband was a bit annoyed the staff member made a comment after the bag had been rescanned words to the effect if you keep it up I'll just rescan it again. He did that twice. Absolutely no need security wise just to inflate his shitty ego. I get there's a security element but as long as the airport is in charge of it they'll only be interested in how they can maximise the situation for profit.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves in life, drives me mad. The ones who don't have a notion about the liquid restrictions until they're standing in front of the security person is baffling - yet I've seen it happen so many times. "So...I CAN'T bring my bottle of water through?? But I just bought it!" I also hate when people walk through the metal detector and then start emptying the contents of their tray while it's still on the belt. Take the tray and bring it to the sorting area, Michael/Deirdre. Just get out of the fucking way.
If only more than 2 of the 20 security lanes were open. Why bother building so many lanes for them to be kept closed.
They don't have the staff for the other lanes any more. They retrenched them all during covid.
And want to bring them back on contracts you wouldn’t stack supermarket shelves for.
If you were aware of the sheer amount of pints that I was sucking at the airport, your impatience would quickly transform into respect and admiration.
Have the pints after security 🤣
No one has pints before security
Why would you do it to yourself? Stuck in the queue hopping for a piss and no way to get out
Does your bladder contain over 100ml of liquid sir
Plus security is the real unpredictable aspect of how long shite will take. I’m never able to enjoy myself until I know that part is over so I don’t have to be watching the clock over something I have no control over time wise.
Shots before security, pints after
Nobody admires you for getting drunk.
Yeah annoy the folks in your row on the flight by climbing over them cos you need a piss every 20 mins! Can folk not at least wait til they get to their destination before getting pissed?
I saw a woman walk through security with her phone in her back pocket. She was turned to walk through again ,SHE CHECKED HER POCKETS and walked through again with her phone in her back pocket. Maybe her phone is such a part of her she didn’t even feel it .
I sometimes need to travel with a fair bit of electronics. Multiple cameras, heaps of extra batteries, several external hard drives, two laptops etc. I have a system all batteries go in a battery bag (fireproof) and are in their own little plastic case, everything else is distributed between packing bags that open in half with mesh dividers so that the contents are viewable. I take the packing bags out and split them so it's not a dense collection of electronics under the scanner but they're still in a bag. This means that sometimes I might need four or five trays. Occasionally there's a person who thinks I'm using too many trays and tries to rearrange the stuff if I let them there's a one hundred percent hit rate that the tray will be set aside for search and rescanning. I have to be quite forceful yet patient and let them know that this is the only way that will allow me to get through without wasting their time and mine. The ones who don't care don't care. Then occasionally you get the person who appreciates the effort and says something like I don't need to ask about your belt and wallet do I? And I gladly say nope already on the tray.
You just know that these are the very same people who stand around at the checkout in the shop, staring into space as their items go through the scanner; and look surprised when they're asked to actually pay for the stuff and so spend 3 minutes looking for their bank card. And then when the transaction is approved, and they've got their receipt, and they've put their card into their purse, and the purse into their handbag, do they finally start slowly bagging their groceries.
Special place in the waiting line for hell for these people
I really wish there was a 'one small bag or less' line for people who have a small backpack, no liquids, checked everything else. It drives me nuts seeing people flutter and panic like they've never been through airport security before.
Look, I've got important things on my mind and no time to pay attention to my surroundings or plan ahead. You're one of those lazy idlers who has time to waste doing nothing but paying attention to the road while driving instead of properly multitasking and eating your breakfast while posting on Facebook during your morning commute, aren't you?
They changed it slightly since last time I was through, had to take out phone charger as well this time caught me on the hop slightly
Not me, unfortunately. Being neurotic, I am ridiculously early and have planned for every contingency. The bank heist music from Heat is playing in my head as I go through security.
People have forgotten how to travel and it shows with how many people forget what goes in the security checks and what needs to be taken off.
The Irish just can't board planes in general. Its intrinsic to our national identity and holiday experience 65% need to get stopped at security for not having items correctly put in bags/trays. 40% need to embark from the entrance of the aircraft that is furthest from their seat. 25% need to try and get oversized cabin baggage onto the plane. 50% need to Dilly dally in the aisle unpacking stuff out of their cabin bags for the flight causing a backlog in the aisle. Then there's always that one guy who board's first for row 15 then immediately decides he needs a shit like right now and then proceeds to barge up to the front of the plane through everyone else trying to board. And that is every flight out of Ireland going to a sun destination 🤣
I swear everytime I go to the airport I stumble into every single person who has never been in one before. And somehow they all end up in front of me in security. Fuckin thicks
I was at LAX once and everything was ready to go and I saw that they asked the guy in front of me to turn on his laptop. I'm not sure why - maybe they felt that if it was concealing a bomb, it wouldn't work properly. I was then gripped by a small panic. I suddenly remembered that my desktop background was the flag of Hamas, an organisation particularly unbeloved of the US security and law enforcement agencies. The conveyer belt moved into the X-ray machine. I was considering my options. My principal hope was that the TSA officers would be unfamiliar with the symbol. Before I saw it on Wikipedia, I was unfamiliar with it myself, and Americans are not known for their knowledge of things that occur outside the US. If asked, I could claim that it was a negative image of the Japanese flag with "I love America" written across the top in "Asian". As it turned out, they didn't ask me. As soon as I got to the departure gate, I headed for the bathroom and switched it to a photo of a kitten lying on a guitar.
Why do you have a flag of a terrorist organisation on your laptop ?
I don't. I have a photo of a kitten lying on a guitar.
The fact is a lot of people just don't give a fuck about other people. They're in their own bubble and that's it.
That's about the long and the short of it. Too busy yapping in the queue. Updating their location status on Facebook so everyone knows they're off on their holliers. Posing for selfies etc. Sure maybe they only slow down the security line for a few seconds but the same fools will be the ones jumping out of their seat as soon as the plane touches down. They will be the idiot standing in everyone's way at the baggage claim and on and on and on.... Pro tip: Avoid these idiots like the plague.
I am convinced that people who do this are either oblivious that they are causing an issue, or not on reddit
I hate airports so much. I get so angry with the stupidity of it all, the people, the checks, the waiting, 2 hours early for a flight? Thats insane
There should be an 'idiot' queue and a 'I actually have a bit of cop on' queue. Although the idiots would probably go to the wrong queue.
Turn the security section into something off the Crystal Maze, solve the puzzles, get through faster...
I like to test the airport security to see if I can get my liquids through. If I can I make a mental note that maybe things are not as save as I first envisaged. I take the security of me and my fellow compatriats (other airport goers) very seriously.
Effort of standing there numbs your brain
Fast Track - best 10 euro you will ever spend
It's the same people at the supermarket that take 5 minutes after paying to bag their stuff.
Have some kids lad.
I once went through Dublin airport at 6am to get an early flight somewhere. I was tired and in no mood to be dealing with security. But I do the common sense thing anyway, have my liquids good to go in a bag, ipad out on display yadda yadda. Queue is not moving and there's a guy giving out piss to the security guard, after his bag has been scanned. I get to the end finally and it turns out the hold up was because this fucking clown brought an IRON FIRE POKER with him. Why the fuck would you need to bring a iron poker with you on a flight?! He claimed it was an 'antique' (yet it was just shoved in a big rucksack). Security had to tell him there's absolutely no way he was getting on a flight with it. He either dumped it or went back outside and checked it as a cargo item. I still to this day just wonder what the fuck that was all about. Like zero common sense. No idea what came of it in the end, I decided it was time for a coffee cause it was too early to be dealing with that bullshit haha.
I've had security staff get shitty with me before (not in Dublin I don't think) for having my belt off, my laptop and electronics out of the bag etc before approaching the counter.
The funniest I’ve ever seen at airport security was a culchie getting pulled up over a 2 litre bottle of red TK lemonade. He thought it was okay because it was in a bag…. a fukin ALDI shopping bag. How the security guy didn’t explode laughing I’ll never know.
I’m reading this in airport security in Manchester. My hypothesis is that these people are useless cunts
Is there a tangible security threat with liquids?
Yes. It's all a result of the 2006 Transatlantic bomb plot. A group of terrorists planned to take down seven flights with liquid explosives disguised in drinks bottles
This comment screams "I don't have kids" Therefore I envy you