Ack! Real-life blue hands!

POSTED BY: Ankhagogo
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 03:07
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ANKHAGOGO

Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:26 AM

Here's the creepiest/weirdest/surest indication that I'm a geek thing I've seen in many a day..

You know how security's gotten at the airports in the last few years?
At my airport, the security guys who examine the checked luggage wear blue rubber gloves. Let me rephrase that -- the TWO security men who examine luggage wear BLUE gloves which are exactly the same as the ones worn by the dudes who are after River.

Now -- imagine seeing this at 6.30 in the morning after getting 2 hours of sleep the night before.
It was a bit unnerving, I'll be honest. Anyone else notice this at their airport?

"But she was naked! And all...articulate!"

AURAPTOR

Sunday, February 15, 2004 7:11 AM

Two by two, hands of blue

- Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! -

GUNRUNNER

Sunday, February 15, 2004 7:20 AM

If they pull out a rod thing that makes a very high pitch noise run like hell!

MRPLASTIC

Sunday, February 15, 2004 12:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Ankhagogo:
Here's the creepiest/weirdest/surest indication that I'm a geek thing I've seen in many a day..

You know how security's gotten at the airports in the last few years?
At my airport, the security guys who examine the checked luggage wear blue rubber gloves. Let me rephrase that -- the TWO security men who examine luggage wear BLUE gloves which are exactly the same as the ones worn by the dudes who are after River.

Now -- imagine seeing this at 6.30 in the morning after getting 2 hours of sleep the night before.
It was a bit unnerving, I'll be honest. Anyone else notice this at their airport?

I haven't traveled by plane lately, but as a chemist I can tell you that either one of those guys or someone else who gets his/her gloves from the same box probably has a latex allergy: the blue gloves are standard, off-the-shelf nitrile rubber gloves, which are latex-free. They're more expensive than latex, but a little added cost beats respiratory arrest any day.

TEELABROWN

Sunday, February 15, 2004 1:47 PM

Blue Hands of the past (which is our present)?

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Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
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SOUTHERNMERC

Sunday, February 15, 2004 2:30 PM

Just be careful, George Orwell looks to be right.

Very scary.

Jayne: "How big a room?"

FIRELILY

Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:09 PM

hehe, I work in a lab and we use nitrile gloves. Guess that makes me a real-life blue hand too

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"Now they see sky, and they remember what they are."

TEELABROWN

Monday, February 16, 2004 12:45 AM

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Originally posted by SouthernMerc:
Just be careful, George Orwell looks to be right.

Very scary.

Yeah. That would be scary, and that's my current theory on Blue Sun. Police-state, which may not be as bad as the one in 1984

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard

DTT

Monday, February 16, 2004 3:55 PM

Hehe. I do volunteer work in an ER, and we use nitrile gloves, I guess just because so many people come in & out of the place.

With all the folks here using the nitriles, maybe we should start a group. You know, Blue Hand Group.

"You didn't have to wound that man."
"Yeah, I know. It was just funny."

TEELABROWN

Monday, February 16, 2004 4:00 PM

Quote:
With all the folks here using the nitriles, maybe we should start a group. You know, Blue Hand Group.

That's hi-larious! Even though I wouldn't be a part of it, that's a cool idea.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard

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