Ha. Says the person who probably never landed at Miami after the arrival of several wide body international flights and then cleared immigration and customs in less than 3 minutes while everyone else waited hours. No gloves needed. Didn't realize the CBP was a "mostly useless government agency." You know... there's a reason they call it Global Entry.
Tribal lines on maps? Those have gotten hundreds of millions killed.
Yeah, of all the the useless things humans do, I’d rank that pretty high.
Plus the fact that it’s wholly ineffective anyway.
“Welcome to Quadrant U. I need to see your embossed special paper from your bureaucrats in Quadrant B.”
“Okay here you go.”
“Why are you here?”
“Wanted to see the place. Sounded interesting.”
“Do you like us?”
“I haven’t met you until today but you seem fine. Didn’t some guy not like your politicians and shoot Archduke Ferdinand or something?”
“Yes. That’s why we have to ask.”
“Didn’t they just lie?”
“Probably.”
“Stupid crap will probably start a war over some guy we don’t know in frilly clothes who has a nice horse.”
“Yeah. Have a nice stay.”
LOL.
My favorite was modern Canada though.
“Are you here to do a job a Canadian can do?”
“Why don’t you ask the Canadian who paid my boss to assign me from the Appeasement Engineer pool to come up here and do it? I mean I assume there’s a number of bright people who can unpack a shipping crate of electronics, stuff them in a telecom rack, run some wires, and load software from floppy disks into them. But they don’t WANT to, so they paid my boss to send me. It’s a phone system. Do you have phones? If you say I can’t install phone systems I don’t care. My boss will be ****ed though.”
Nah. I just checked no on the form and went about my day. I knew big company tech secrets no Canadian knew, like that to load the software you stuck the disk in and typed “./setup.sh”.
The highly trained customs guy opened the big case with the Sage 930 inside and looked at it dully pretending he knew what a T1 test set was, and deemed it worthy of carrying in my rental car to the customer site.
If you want to cross lines on maps with 50 lbs of cocaine in a backpack, I really don’t care about that either. Heck nowadays if you wanted to take out politicians like that Archduke, you’d just be doing everyone else a favor.
Until they riled everybody up and got all tribal again and send millions to die for their map lines... again.
The really funny one is Canadians and drunks. They’ll lock those out to cultivate their own! LOL.
“Our entire town hockey team got so drunk we ****ed off a bridge together last night. But hey, you have a DUI so we can’t let you visit. Soooooh, reeee.”
ROFLMAO.
As far as clearing customs or TSA or anything else quickly... We all had our tricks learned if we flew all the time. Knew where to park, how to pack the stuff on the wheels, where the bathroom was, fastest lines, blah blah. Also develop SA for the airports you didn’t know. That line... will move fastest... And how to navigate quickly around the perennially lost tourists. Ha. etc.
Not sure what it has to do with my comment that the “bypass” systems are just the people who can afford to use the “HOV”/ toll lane, while everyone else sits in traffic in the lanes they paid only their taxes for.
Peasants! LOL!
I’m sure if I did it often enough today, I could easily afford the equivalent of the FastPass transponder, or make my boss pay for it, too. I didn’t say I didn’t know how to fill out a very convincing expense report. Especially if someone ever makes me travel again.
Was just sayin, this place WOULD be full of folks who can. Demographics and such. Go figure.
Remember kids... (the shirt is available on Amazon) ...
And we can make that joke in all honesty here in good old DEN! Really happened.
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/09/02/tsa-groping-video-released/
The high glamour of air travel and security theatre. LOL.
