On my Facebook page, a friend posted a message, a photo of an airplane passenger with this message overprinted: …AIRPLANES HAVE NOW BANNED TWEEZERS. PERSONALLY I THINK ANYONE WHO CAN HIJACK A PLANE WITH TWEEZERS DESERVES THE PLANE. … How about that?
Yeah. How about it? :rolleyes:
Please, tell us more about your Facebook friends’ posts. Any FarmVille updates?
Cite plz. kthxbai
I was flying a month or so ago and they confiscated a poor old lady’s knitting needles!!
They were afraid she’d get on the plane and knit an Afghan.
Great, now the planes themselves are banning things.
A major terror ogranization would never attempt such a brash move as hijacking a plance with tweezers…
This must be the work of a splinter group.
Sicks Ate, Ethilrist, you gave me some good laughs yourselves. Thanks! … Knit an Afghan. … or even weave damask! After all, Damascus is the capital of Syria, an Arab country… :eek: 
You need a loom to weave, and even the table-top versions exceed the size restrictions for carry-on baggage.
Tweezers allowed?
Carry-on Bags-Yes
Checked Bags-Yes
I don’t know about tweezers, but my wife once had one of those tiny little eyeglass repair screwdrivers confiscated. I don’t know what they thought she would do with it. Stab someone? Pick the lock on the cockpit door? Take someone’s glasses apart?
Backstrap loom - I could make one out of:
2 18 inch long half inch pieces of dowel, with a notch grooved around each end about half an inch in from the tip.
1 22 inch strip of lathe, sanded very smooth and waxed to be a beater bar
2 lengths of parachute cord 36 inches long with 4 cable ties [you cable tie each of the dowels so they form the top and bottom bar of the loom] with the top end of the parachute cords tied to a metal ring or d-ring [used to tie off to a tree or the eat back in front of you] and a single d-ring or ring at the bottom ends of the cords [to attach to your belt to hold it stretched between your body and the seat back ahead of you.]
Whatever you are going to string it with.
and a shuttle loaded with whatever you are going to weft with.
I would only string it with maybe 6 inches wide, and cheat and use a shorter beater, and use the beater to pick up the threads instead of a heddle. This vid clip shows using a heddle and a pick up stick to weave in patterns, but you can just use a pick up stick to for the shed without a heddle.
You can make a pin loom out of a freaking picture frame, for certain values of pin loom - instead of squares of rubberband looking wads of fabric, you simply warp it with regular yarn or cording, then weave on it with the equivalent of the long needle. Damn, I can’t remember the name of the kit where you use a 5 or 6 inch long needle to pull thread through the warp. Break for google.
Ha, not what I wanted, but a cardboard homemade cheat sort of that shows another suggestion. Sort of the ‘granny square’ of weaving, useful generlly for small things like hot pads or decorative doilies and pouches.
Or you could do the backstrap version of tablet weaving.
Dammit - you owe me a new keyboard.
If they use eyebrow tweezers, then I admire their pluck.
I can kill you 4 different ways with 3 inches of dental floss. Give to me your things!
A vulture goes to the airport to catch a flight. A TSA agent notices he has a dead animal carcass in his suitcase and informs the bird this isn’t permitted in a checked bag. “That’s OK”, replies the vulture, “it’s carrion.”
You should get 2 to 5 for that pun.
I still think the most absurd thing I have seen confiscated was a bottle of baby apple sauce. The jar is under 100 ml, so it should have been allowed. My wife thought it would make a nice mid-flight snack. But no, no baby then no baby food allowed. You cannot argue with them.