Originally Posted by AAaLot
So what do you respond when regular people blindly accept new regulations and say 'I guess we need it to keep safe'
Welcome to
essxjay's Rhetoric College of Security Knowledge!
Let me offer just a
small sampling of clever rejoinders and zingy one-liners to
slay any unsuspecting, unthinking dumb@ss stupid enough to cross paths with you *wink*:
Witless Bromide: Well, if makes us safer.
Witful Rejoinder: Exactly! As long as they change gloves between cavity searches for plastic explosives. Hey, if some terrorist wants to shove C4 up his kazoo, that's his business. But *I'm* insisting on fresh gloves. You really can't be too careful!"
Witless Bromide: I guess we need it to keep safe.
Witful Rejoinder: Yeah. Except for the gazillion tons of unscreened cargo in the hold below the passenger deck. I'm just hoping terrorists aren't smart enough to think of that. {
Especially effective if spoken in a wistfull tone as you wander off ... }
Witless Bromide: I feel safer flying now because I know no one setting next to me is a potential terrorist.
Witful Rejoinder: Amen! Of course, {glancing around, in conspiratorial
sotto voce}, I am a *tad* worried about all the unsecured perimeters around commerial airfields. Any yahoo can walk right onto the tarmac, fire a shoulder-launched missle and be gone before anyone is the wiser ... Oh, maybe I've said too much ... Erm, ne'ermind.
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This is just a few of the $10 come-backs you'll have in your rhetorical arsenal. But only if you call within the next 30 minutes!! OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY! Dial 1-800-IMA-RUBE. That number again ....