'S Naked On a Plane

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:David:

Getting on a commercial airliner these days has become an arduous, frustrating and draining experience. Ridiculous mounds of money have been invested in expensive and intrusive detection equipment, and people (even children and geriatrics) have had to endure the ignonimity of full body searches.
Couldn't we circumvent the need for such demeaning examinations by requiring that everyone be required to board naked? Of course this would be done in a comfortably warm space, one passenger at a time and not in full view of the shady and the curious.
Once aboard, everyone could be given robes and slippers to wear until such time as they've disembarked, and picked up their luggage, after which, adjourning to a little dressing room outside of any potential "danger zone", they could get dressed in their own clothes.
It's a given that very few of us wish to prance around naked in front of folks not of their choosing, but it seems a far less uncomfortable option than the misery of delays and time lost due to excessively intensive security. And it's not nearly as disconcerting as having one's plane blown up by terrorists,
We seem to be the only creature that feels compelled to cover up the body we were born with, and there are times, in the interest of safety and expediency, when we might have to suspend that impulse.
If boarding a plane naked would save you hours of standing in long queues and enduring unpleasant scrutiny, and ensured you could travel in relative safety, would you be willing to agree to it?

[Tars]

No thanks. Being confronted on the sidewalk everyday by all that jiggling cellulite is horrible enough. No amount of supposed safety is worth having to experience it unclothed.

Next big terrorist fad: explosive suppositories.

[theindependenteye]

>>>If boarding a plane naked would save you hours of standing in long queues and enduring unpleasant scrutiny, and ensured you could travel in relative safety, would you be willing to agree to it?

An idea whose time has come. And I would offer that there should be nudist flights -- optional, of course, for those with modesty issues or who dislike non-trim bodies -- that are discounted because of lower-cost security.

Though I'd fear airlines would charge pretty heavily for any blankets if it's chilly.

I'd think at least they might make a bit of extra space at Security for street performers to entertain us as we wait to go thru the cattle chutes.

But in any case, this is the kind of creative thinking we need to survive the 21st Century.

-Conrad

[Sara S]

from theborowitzreport.com:

January 7, 2010

Full Body Scans to Double as Annual Checkups

Solution to Airport Security, Health Care Woes

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) In what some in the White House are calling a "win/win" solution to the nation's airport security and health care reform problems, starting next month U.S. airports will begin conducting full body scans that will double as annual physical checkups.
President Obama announced the breakthrough solution, telling reporters, "With this all-purpose exam, we will be able to find everything from a hidden weapon to a spot on your lung."
After scanning a passenger, Mr. Obama said, "We will either give you a clean bill of health or wrestle you to the ground."
The President added that instituting the body scan/checkup could ward off some terrorists right from the start, "because a lot of them will balk at the $25 co-pay."
But according to Davis Logsdon, who studies terrorism and health care reform at the University of Minnesota, the body scans may attract more terrorists than they deter: "If there's one complaint that terrorists have about al-Qaeda it's that they have lousy benefits."
Elsewhere, a new book claims that actor Warren Beatty slept with 13,000 women, making him the second-ranked golfer in the world.


:David:

Getting on a commercial airliner these days has become an arduous, frustrating and draining experience. Ridiculous mounds of money have been invested in expensive and intrusive detection equipment, and people (even children and geriatrics) have had to endure the ignonimity of full body searches.
Couldn't we circumvent the need for such demeaning examinations by requiring that everyone be required to board naked? Of course this would be done in a comfortably warm space, one passenger at a time and not in full view of the shady and the curious.
Once aboard, everyone could be given robes and slippers to wear until such time as they've disembarked, and picked up their luggage, after which, adjourning to a little dressing room outside of any potential "danger zone", they could get dressed in their own clothes.
It's a given that very few of us wish to prance around naked in front of folks not of their choosing, but it seems a far less uncomfortable option than the misery of delays and time lost due to excessively intensive security. And it's not nearly as disconcerting as having one's plane blown up by terrorists,
We seem to be the only creature that feels compelled to cover up the body we were born with, and there are times, in the interest of safety and expediency, when we might have to suspend that impulse.
If boarding a plane naked would save you hours of standing in long queues and enduring unpleasant scrutiny, and ensured you could travel in relative safety, would you be willing to agree to it?

[gracey]

Nope. I wouldn't do it.

It's not a matter of being naked, it's a matter of being comfortable. I don't walk around the house naked if theres no one around. I don't sleep naked too. So I'd be rather in my comfortable clothes.