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Originally Posted by Brock
Hey Waldo -
Your opening comment, which is:
" Really? Guarantee? Bwahhahaha. Sure thing, pal."
leads me to believe you did not understand it was a hypothetical, totally unrealistic situation I made up ... as in "pretend like."
A lot of the rest of what you said was a good history refresher. Much of it I agreed with.
Waldo, my pal - everyone was impacted. Our whole fucking nation was tramatized.
You don't mind me calling you pal, do you? I see you used that endearing term towards me.  LOL!
This has been interesting discussion. I am out of here. Past my bedtime. |
Um... but it's not. It's a real situation which did, in fact, happen. And the scanners and the pat-downs are also real. You are not asking a hypothetical question at all. What you are asking is a moot question. It's really not my fault you don't understand the concept.
It's a moot question because even if the people on that plane submitted to the scans and the pat-downs it wouldn't have changed the outcome. Heck, they could have submitted to cavity searches and it wouldn't have changed one thing. It wasn't explosives or guns and even knives. The hijackers had box-cutters. Which, at the time, were perfectly acceptable to fly with. Box-cutters.
But you're right. Everyone was impacted and my own impact is no greater than that of anyone else. But then again, that was my point, you see?
And no, I don't mind you calling me "pal". I do mind you doing it in a way which comes across, here in writing, like some sort of posturing, but that's only because I find that sort of behavior to be annoying and childish.