Smile! Urine Candid Camera! 370
Anon E. Muss writes "Just because you can put a camera somewhere doesn't mean you should. Apparently, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't grasp this concept. They've installed video cameras in urinals at Houston's Hobby Airport. At least they weren't sneaky about it — they posted a notice saying 'Automatic infrared flush sensors also provide video monitoring for security purposes.' (Insert bad joke about bashful bladder syndrome here)."
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, that just takes the piss...
oh hai (Score:1, Funny)
i see what you did there.
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:5, Funny)
Except that most people don't walk around on the street corner with their wang out.
Excuse me but... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:5, Funny)
I do.
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
What if the camera is too big to flush?
I smell a prank. (Score:2, Funny)
I smell a prank.
Oddly, the prank smells a lot like asparagus.
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:3, Funny)
Except that most people don't walk around on the street corner with their wang out.
What? You don't walk out with your cock out?
Re:I smell a prank. (Score:3, Funny)
I'm pretty sure that's a common side-effect from taking Modafinil.
i wondered what larry craig was up to (Score:3, Funny)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig#2007_arrest_and_consequences [wikipedia.org]
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I smell a prank. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:5, Funny)
Obvious Prank (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Any other confirmation? (Score:2, Funny)
Indeed. This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:5, Funny)
They exist?
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:5, Funny)
And you get modded insightful... What's going on today
Yes, clearly that comment should have been modded informative.
Re:Urine a lot of trouble TSA!! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
That sound you hear is 16 armed TSA officers bursting in the bathroom.
Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Funny)
>> 1. I thought Houston was in Texas.. why weren't you packing? Defend yourself asshole.
Please carry a firearm into the Houston airport terminal and let us know how that works out for you. kthanksbye.
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, yeah, the land of the "free". Just continue being "proud" and do some flag-waving.
Re:Hrmm (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
Citizen. Come with me. Uncle Sam wants to peep your dilznick. Make even the least bit of sense? No? We're detaining you indefinitely anyhow, terrorist.
Re:Simple solution (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:5, Funny)
And you get modded insightful... What's going on today
Yes, clearly that comment should have been modded informative.
The mod may be apt as it's fully...in...sight
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:3, Funny)
Plus, they are probably desensitized to it all anyway. It would take a bit to shock them.
Still, I wonder what happened to the goatsie guy, and whether he ever flies.
Re:When does "stupid" and "ridiculous" (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously, though, when I travel, I generally carry with me some essential survival equipment: pocket-size rain poncho; "space blanket"; some string; some tape; a couple of needles, 2 or 3 yards of thread in different colors, and a thimble; a magnifying glass; some safety pins; a multi-tool; at least a small lighter but usually also some matches in a waterproof case; a flint-steel-magnesium firestarter; a small but powerful flashlight (Surefire or equivalent).
Re:Isn't it probably just a prank? (Score:3, Funny)
Tomorrow: Ironically it turns out there really are secret IR cameras installed in these facilities which caught him in the mischievous act of labelling. Hmm.
I'm not going to Houston then... (Score:4, Funny)
I wouldn't want to reveal my Willy of Mass Destruction to the cameras.
Hard to read, (Score:3, Funny)
What's with all the unnessicary bolding that seems to occur ever three or four words. It almost seems like their word processor is trying to speak like Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.
Re:oh hai (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, yeah, the land of the "free". Just continue being "proud" and do some flag-waving.
<sarcasm>
Well, the terrorists hate us for our freedom. Obviously the solution is to destroy all traces of freedom.
</sarcasm>
Great! (Score:2, Funny)
Normally, I have to trick people into looking at my penis. Now, I have an audience. Thanks, TSA!.
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Isn't it probably just a prank? (Score:3, Funny)
No way it could be a fake. If somebody tried to plant those stickers the urinal cameras would have identified him immedi.... Oh. Hang on....
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Simple solution (Score:5, Funny)
Well you don't need to be so pissy about it. :-P
Re:Not as bad as it sounds (Score:2, Funny)
Now, and totally ignoring your ramblings about intelligence and technology and averages, let's move to the next point.
Jokes that rely on stereotypes.
Ok, so let's make something clear: stereotypes are sociological constructs based on empirical statistical evidence. By definition, being cultural knowledge and not individual knowledge, they can have a generation delay if changes occur to the grounds where that statistical data is based.
Jokes about stereotypes can be of two main types:
1) Jokes created by generations less than two generational replacements away from the social change that renders the stereotype incorrect, or 2) Jokes created by further generations.
The jokes contained in "1" are generally speaking jokes aimed at ridicule or derision of the joke's subject. The jokes in "2", however, even if they can contain exactly the same words, are created to ridicule the people from the previous generations, or those in the current generation whose beliefs are still rooted in the stereotype, against all statistical and social change available. They can also be aimed (and this is your case) at the excessive (to absurd levels) defensiveness of some members of the social group that the stereotype refers to, or white knights that believe the defense of that group to be their life's goal.
Now, the only way you can distinguish easily between those two types of jokes is by context and by knowing the person (or getting subtle hints in the joke itself, or accompanying sentences. This of course requires a high capability for empathy, a good sense of humour, and a clear view of the world without excessive defensiveness clouding your judgment, and we both know dykes don't have that.
See?
Re:I'm not going to Houston then... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Simple solution (Score:1, Funny)
now when you say "flag" do you mean my penis? because i have to say that i will proudly waive mine for the camera in a most patriotic fashion to let them know that i am a true patriot. hell i might even go and get an American flag tattooed on my flagpole so that i can relieve myself with true patriotism and in a free manor that all Americans can be proud of. because as every free man and woman and child in the US of A knows there is no better expression or re-enforcement of those freedoms our forefathers died for. yes i have to say that as an american i would be proud to have someone film my junk while i go to the bathroom. and then put it on the nightly news as a perfected example of the kinds of freedoms we have in this country. we have freedom from free speach, we have freedom from expression, we have freedom from information, we have freedom from our own privacy, and now we have the freedom to be free from not being watched while we pee. this is a true and perfect step in the right direction for this great country we live in.
seriously tho guyz if i really wanted to have my wang filmed while i take a piss i would move to frakkin tokyo.
Penis Recognition Software (Score:2, Funny)