Airport full body X-ray scanners

Unless...   Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:48 pm GMT
That doesn't make any sense. It wouldn't be an issue of privacy unless you got a psychological or (lack of) physical (exercise) problem, both of which are things which you are responsible of. Or if you're an Asian...sorry, that's just bad luck.

It's not like they're anal probing you or anything.
Proud   Tue Apr 20, 2010 1:11 pm GMT
Why is everyone so insecure about their bodies?
Don't get me wrong I am hardly an Adonis myself but I couldnt really give a shit if a security guard sees my pecker.
Bastard   Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:00 pm GMT
If I were British, I would be a lot more worried about the security cameras every five metres (the most in the world) and the massive amount of government data collected on innocent people. Not to mention that they leave the confidential data on trains. That's a lot more offensive to privacy than nude photos. Nude photos can't do anything to you, government spying can fuck you up big time.
Damian in Edinburgh   Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:57 pm GMT
It is absolutely true that the UK has, by far, the largest number of CCTV cameras located here, there and everywhere in our towns and cities......if you take a moment to look around you then you will see them slowly revolving back and forth from their straregic vantage points on walls and on rooftops in our streets and squares and market places. Woe betide any criminals up to no good in quiet, deserted streets in the dead of night as like as more likely than not a police car will appear from nowhere and apprehend the crims before they have time to leg it as they have been captured on camera.

Only the guilty need fear the CCTV cameras, so be warned - do not pee against the wall of a bank or the local Town Hall at two o'clock in the morning in a deserted street as sure as eggs is eggs some bloke in a nice cosy room somewhere will be spying on you in action.

Woe betide any dropper of litter on the street as there are now cameras to record this heinous offence and the offenders will be taken to task by a loud voice over a tannoy system ordering them to pick up whatever it is they have carelessly dropped on the street and chuck it into the nearest litter bin. Such is the Big Brother "joy" of Labour Party Britain...."He's Watching You and You'd better Smile as you're on Candid Camera!"
Damian in Edinburgh   Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:58 pm GMT
strategic
Uriel   Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:27 am GMT
Seriously? Have you ever seen an x-ray? It's a bunch of bones, surrounded by ghostly shadows of softer tissue. Nobody's going to be whacking off to that. And as for print-outs, don't worry -- your innards won't be recognizable as you. They'll look like everyone else's skeleton.
Smith   Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:14 am GMT
Re: Unless...

<It's not like they're anal probing you or anything.>

The inspector looking at the computer screen can zoom in any part of your body and look at it in detail. It is not anal probing but is not far from that though.

By the way, these X-ray scanners can't penetrate your muscle, only your clothes. So bear in mind that when the government change the law again in the future you may be forced to have your rectum probed before you board on your flight.
Smith   Wed Apr 21, 2010 4:18 am GMT
Re: Uriel

<Seriously? Have you ever seen an x-ray? It's a bunch of bones, surrounded by ghostly shadows of softer tissue.>

These X-rays are not like the ones they use in the hospitals. They are transmitted at wavelengths that would see through your clothes but not your body tissues, resulting in images which can show your facial features and clear outlines of your body parts.
Badarse   Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:34 am GMT
After reading through all comments, it's clear that 'Unless...' is biased against Asians. I guess that is because his mum was ever raped or anal probed by Asians.
Damian in Edinburgh   Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:27 am GMT
For goodness sake, get over yourselves.....honestly now, just where IS the problem in having your body frisked when semi naked, or, as it appears, having your pulsatingly lurid innards displayed in glorious technicolour and stereophonic sound on a giant plasma screen and then repeated on late night Freeview TV channels when the end purpose of it all is the utmost security and safety of not only yourself but of everyone else involved in air travel, or any form of travel for that matter. I would have thought that the various tragic calamities we have all seen take place, from New York City and London and Madrid and elsewhere across this world of ours would have been sufficient to dispel and feelings of affront or indignity or "invasion of personal space" once and for all.

Just be grateful that it may well save your life in some other way - the on screen display may well reveal some malfunction in your endocrine system or a problem with your bowels which could well benefit from medical attention.
Unless...   Wed Apr 21, 2010 2:56 pm GMT
After reading all the comments, it's clear that Badarse (or Badarusu) is either an Asian or a highly uninformed person, who was never watched asian porn and compared the size of their penises to the ones found in porn from any other place, probably because he was too busy tickling his throat with them.
Armada   Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:12 pm GMT
I'm afraid that people are irrationally prudish, there is nothing intrinsically wrong in scanning your body for the sake of security in airports and planes. I wonder what is the origin of feeling shame when other people see our body naked. In the end we all were born naked. Is this sentiment innate or cultural? In the case of fat people you also have the fact that they have been taught by our society that they are no less than trash just because they don't adjust themselves to an artificial canon of beauy . If the aforementioned sense of prudery is cultural then I guess that there is a solution to this: children should be taught since an early age that we all are only a sack of flesh and bones like any other animal species , even very beautiful people are , so there is nothing to be proud of. Children also should be forced to attend to school naked (or with underwear at most) at least once a week so they lose their prudery.
Smith   Wed Apr 21, 2010 6:41 pm GMT
Shut up Unless, its not my fault I only have a 1 inch maggot, I don't want them people looking at at it incase they feel like sucking it.!!
Dr Evilone   Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:01 pm GMT
All your body parts belongs to us!