otb,

"Someone mentioned a grandstanding politician who took a dummy pipe bomb into the Parliament. He should have been censured by the Parliament, removed and charged by police and given a rest in a gaol. One jackass gone from the House."

I thought he was grandstanding too...until I noted the govt had cut security.

Now his grandstanding makes sense...after all he waltzed into Parliament House with a dummy pipe bomb.

You say...

"Although for the benefit of the ignorant and frivolous it should be mentioned that some devices will not register on a metal detector and can be in small flexible packages, liquid in plastic bags for instance....."

And then deride the pollie who brought attention to the govt's shonky cheapskate security - when someone could walk in with an undetected dummy pipe bomb.

Funny?

Dear O Sung Wu,

I've got family members in the police force (in Los Angeles),
I've had other relatives who've worked as security-guards -
so that may explain my empathy towards officers in uniform.
Besides I believe in letting people get on with doing their
job. What would I have achieved in arguing with that man?
This way I was able to sit and enjoy "Question Time,"
and I put my furry hat back on as I left the Public Gallery.
No harm done really - except for my initial embarrassment
over looking like a plucked chicken without the hat.

Wounded Goose,

I suppose we should thank you for writing a post on 'The Great Burqa Debate' without once using the word 'burqa'. Oy. Nikab. Nikab. Nikab.

My faulty memory of the incident was that the chairs of the two houses ordered people with face-coverings to sit in a glassed-in area, where they could not be heard if they interjected. After all, with a face-covering, so the logic went, an interjector could not be identified. and properly ejected.

Was there some dumb-@rse plot by 'children of the left' to dress in nikabs and get into the public gallery, from where they could heckle the ministers of the day ?

I couldn't possibly comment.

There you go, Poirot, half a dozen potential diversions :)

Joe

Poirot, Friday, 10 October 2014 3:17:30 PM

LOL Your 'logic' is something else entirely.

As a 'Poirot' impersonator, you make a damn convincing Otto,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5IQnQhzMSI

I will leave you and your endless parlour game of tit-for-tat - where your exchange is always exasperatingly irrelevant - for the very patient and new posters. Bless them.

ONTHEBEACH...

You're absolutely right on the money there old mate ! That politician who foolishly took an inert looking fake bomb into the Parliament building itself, should've been criminally charged ! What an irresponsible action, imagine if a security officer did discover this device, I would've thought there would be a veritable suite of security protocols available. Any one of which could set in train all manner of emergency protocols ! People could've been hurt, who'd know ? Yet this peanut trying to grandstand about the level of detection by Security staff should've..... actually MUST be brought to account, for his stupid inane behaviour !

Politicians ---> Too lazy to work; ---> Too frightened to steal; and ---> They haven't the brains to get a real job ! The most useless, unavailing, and ineffectual idlers, and dullards; That have ever been 'chronicled', in the entire history of mankind !

Besides that, I don't like them very much either ?

Take it easy there, ONTHEBEACH !

Paul,

Similar!

I must watch that in full.