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A shopping mall which you can't leave and in which you aren't allowed to bring your own drinks with few exceptions.

can bring a quart zip lock bag stuffed to brim with nips (50ml bottles of booze) through TSA security. While you are technically not allowed to drink them on the plane absolutely nobody gives a shit as long as you are not an idiot about it.

bingo! for long-haul flights (>10hrs) i'd even bring two zip locks. Relax and fall asleep right during takeoff while everyone else has to wait for the stupid cart forever.

And you can also bring an empty water bottle that there are often stations setup for the purpose of filling next to water fountains.

Mind you, I'm annoyed at the liquids thing given I used to routinely bring bottles of wine or a local liqueur home in carry-on. And I can't any longer.

I recall when those guys in the UK (?) had their plan to explode a plane by mixing some volatile chemicals in the plane toilet. IIRC this kicked off the whole no liquids requirements. At the time I remember reading an article by a chemist on the chances of actually pulling off what they wee planning to do, and it was comical. To not just make a giant poof that mainly singed off some hair they needed to carefully mix the liquids in an ice bath for about 1h (without anyone noticing) and every little shake could potentially mess up the whole thing.

He then went on to what he considered dangerous and mentioned a couple of powders which you can easily bring on board which are much more devastating.

>He then went on to what he considered dangerous and mentioned a couple of powders which you can easily bring on board which are much more devastating.

So this is why we also can't bring own cocaine on board in addition to not having own booze. What a shame

I think the point of it was that our enemies had figured out that the way to destroy America wasn't to kill our leaders, but rather to convince us that our enemies were inside the country, and then watch us tear each other apart.

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