How Not to Talk to the TSA

From xkcd:

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From the alt-text: A laptop battery contains roughly the stored energy of a hand grenade, and if shorted it ... hey! You can't arrest me if I prove your rules inconsistent!

[Andrew S.]

1. I love XKCD

2. Great. Now the TSA's going to see this and ban laptop batteries. Because, as we all know, without TSA, planes would be blasted out of the sky on a constant basis, tall buildings would be constantly bombarded by planes, there'd be cats and dogs living together. Mass hysteria!

[Slut Bunwalla]

You're giving the TSA too much credit. They won't understand a word of this comic.

[John Tagliaferro]

Why can't comics like this be in the Friday Funnies?

[Team America]

+1

[Big B]

+2

[John Tagliaferro]

Wow. Thanks y'all.

[Curmudgeon]

In my day we had cartoonists who could draw, like Thomas Nast and Winsor McCay. What kind of Harrison Bergeron world am I living in now?

[Mango Punch]

-1

[Big B]

-2

[smartass sob]

Did they even have newspapers yet in your day? 😉

[brotherben]

Are comics sposed to make me weep?

[Pro Libertate]

Lovely cartoon.

[John Tagliaferro]

And educational.

[Xeones]

Great. Now the TSA's going to see this and ban laptop batteries.

Pshh. TSA employees can't read.

[Groovus Maximus]

I would like to know the difference between a TSA employee, those annoying survey takers in malls, and that annoying urine and mouthwash soaked panhandler that just won't leave you alone?

[smartass sob]

The TSA employee gets a government paycheck and full benefits?

[Spartacus]

TSA employees don't use mouthwash?

[James Lansberry]

You can get the panhandler arrested if he tries to search your briefcase without permission?

The survey taker in the mall actually wants to make you happy enough to take the survey?

You can bypass both of them and get where you were going without getting arrested?

[A]

OT: The US goverment's history of supporting free market capitalism is wonderful: http://mises.org/story/3759

[Warty]

STEVE SMITH NO LIKE INSULT TO COWORKERS

[Team America]

What's a cow orker?

[SugarFree]

I'll tell you when you're older.

[Elf Sternberg]

It's where trolls come from in World of Warcraft. An explanation can be found at the end of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo

[WWJGD]

No, silly. Trolls come from the Echo Isles. Well some do.

[John Tagliaferro]

Last night the trolls were from Chicago and wherever MNG is from. Check the FOX News thread.

[Tacos mmm...]

See _Hamlet, The_ by William Faulkner

[JW]

Prius approaching checkpoint! Open fire!

[jtuf]

lol

[P Brooks]

The great thing about American Democracy is that rationality and reasonableness always triumph.

[TrickyVic]

That's more funny than the cartoon.

[Mango Punch]

XKCD is awesome

Will draw anything for $2 had a drawing of the XKCD characters "in real life" that was pretty good, I'm not going to try finding it now, but if anyone else wants to link it, it'd be appreciated.

[William]

Here

[SugarFree]

Heir for da Mango.

[SugarFree]

I will break you, William.

[William]

Tie goes to the runner.

[Danny]

Seconding the notion of using something like this for Friday funnies. Where's the usual breakdown, Warty?

[SugarFree]

A Softer World in a similar vein.

[Franklin Harris]

Ah, my favorite web comic.

[Episiarch]

STEVE SMITH NO HAVE COWORKERS ANYMORE! STEVE SMASH! AND RAPE! ESPECIALLY FIDO! FIDO EAT STEVE'S MILKBONE! AND MILKSTEAK! STEVE WANT TO KNOW IF WASPS MAKE HONEY?

[SugarFree]

When Steve was dating Steve Summers, they could both scream out their own name during sex. This is why Steve is so angrapey.

[Episiarch]

STEVE SMITH PHILANTHROPIST! NO, FULLONRAPIST! STEVE CONFUSED! NEED BORROW NUTRASWEET'S SHIRT!

[Steve Smith]

STEVE WANT TO KNOW WHY EPI GIVE WALKIE TALKIE PHONE TO WARTY, BUT NOT BEST FRIEND STEVE. STEVE SMASH!

[Episiarch]

WARTY STEVE'S BLOOD BROTHER! KNOW MORE ABOUT STEVE THAN STEVE KNOW ABOUT SELF!

[Steve Smith]

STEVE ANGRY NOW! CAT FOOD AND GLUE MAKE STEVE CALM DOWN. STEVE RAPE EPI IN MORNING.

[Warren]

Really funny
Not timely
crappy artwork
Much better than Friday's Fare.

[kinnath]

Back up a couple of days and read "Static"

[Team America]

YOU FORGOT ENCLOSE MESSAGE ABOUT STEVE WITH "" TAGS. PLEASE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[cow orker]

TSA, and WoW. Seems like a good place to refer folks to this thread:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft......&sid=1

[jtuf]

Bomb making is not rocket science. As my friends figured out in high school, you just take a bunch of stuff with labels that read, "Warning Keep Away from Fire" and you light it on fire. Now, building something that burns in a controlled manner to propel it towards an opponent and that explodes when it reaches said opponent, that is rocket science.

[Aresen]

I have had the unfortunate experience of being behind idiots like that in a security check line.

It would have been humorous except for the fact that my flight was boarding in 10 minutes.

[jtuf]

Just imagine what the new hydrogen fueled economy will be like.

[Groovus Maximus]

Hindenburg much?

[BeesInTheBrain]

Great. Now the TSA's going to see this and ban laptop batteries.
No they will allow you on, then if your a prick to the crew they can arrest you for bringing an explosive device onto the plane.

[Bryan C]

"Oh dear," said the TSA, "I hadn't thought of that." and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.

[Dentits Concord]

It makes sense though, and they have other other views regarding this issue.