Items Of Interest
That baby bottle bomb/peroxide thing: any woman who’s ever coloured her hair at home knows that the kit comes with a squirty plastic bottle that contains ‘developer’, ie peroxide. One brand ( can’t remember which one offhand, it may be Movida) has a two-part click-system bottle with a squirty top and peroxide in the bottom.
So you see these ‘items of interest’ the police keep announcing they’ve found may have perfectly innocent explanations.
I wouldn’t advise taking a hair colour kit on a plane though. I brought 4 back last time I went home, as it’s so much cheaper there ( I wonder why? It’s a common market. But I digress.). I doubt I’ll be doing that again. I’m willing to suffer a little for beauty, but I’ll not be arrested as a terrorist and be banged up indefinitely for the sake of vanity.
It still pisses me off though, At the risk of sounding like one J. Aniston ( see below) being unable to get my usual haircare is just one more of those grim petty restrictions sent to try us. All this security theatre is staged to turn us all into conveniently timorous numbered units to be securely shuttled back and forth between our living spaces and workplaces. I worry that we’ll just shrug our shoulders and accept it all like sheep. That certainly seems to be the case to some extent; I’m already changing my plans so that makes me a sheep too.
It’s no coincidence that the US hired two ex-KGB generals and an ex-Stasi chief to work on a putative internal passport system. That little nugget of news kind of got conveniently lost in the media storm around the Iraq war.
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