Originally Posted by ND Sol
Based on the TSA announcement, all pens should not be permitted as they use liquid to write. I'm not checking my fountain pen and I'm not so sure that I want a ballpoint pen in my checked luggage given the leak possibilities. I guess I will be taking only a pencil from now on.
According to press reports, both pens and pencils are now banned in the UK, as are books, magazines and newspapers. After all, one never knows what subversive ideas might be lurking in the literature that one might consume in several hours without the internet or television to suffuse Newspeak into one's brain.