Brickbat: All Pumped Up
Transportation Security Administration officials have apologized for forcing a woman, who wasn't named in press reports, to demonstrate that her breast pump was real before allowing her to carry it on board a plane at Hawaii's Lihue Airport. "I had to stand in front of the mirrors and the sinks and pump my breast in front of every tourist that walked into that bathroom," the woman told a local TV station.
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She got an apology out of a federal agency. Most people will go their entire lives without getting that. She should be grateful.
The TSA agent just wanted to see those lovely lady pumps in action.
Pump. Pump. The. Jam.
What if you have a penis pump?
"Woman here says there's a coffee shop on the west side hiring only Large. Breasted. Women."
Assuming these were female agents that were eyeballing her while she pumped, and given that most of the women of the TSA had their first child before the age of 18, I have a hard time believing they didn't immediately recognize a breast pump when they saw it.
They were following procedures. There is nothing in The Manual about common sense or discretion.
Common sense and discretion require thought.
In Soviet Russia, breast pumps YOU!
/yakov
In Soviet Russia, breast pumps YOU!
Is that necessarily a bad thing?
You've never seen the withered sac that was once a mammary of a lovely Russk lass once The Babooshka Gene kicks in, have you?
. . . the withered sac . . .
I'm stealing this phrase, btw.
I met a Russian friend recently. An Uzbek, in fact. She was only 33, so babushka-hood was years away. She was about 5'4", 115lbs with the most perfect little B-cups I've had the fortune to encounter.
I met a Russian friend recently. An Uzbek, in fact.
I met an American friend recently. A Canadian, in fact.
Well played, sir.
I met an American friend recently. A Canadian, in fact
Uzbekistan's a former Soviet constituent, and she spoke Russian, so . . . yeah, Russian.
Giorgi! Uzbeks drank? my battery acid!
In Soviet Russia, pump breasts YOU.
Yeah I never thought about it like that dude.
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