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Comment by noir_lord | Hacker News Reader

Airports in UK have started lifting the fluid limits, the new X-ray machines are much better at determining the contents.

So as airports upgrade those rules may finally be getting obsoleted.

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Can't happen soon enough. My wife tried to bring home a nice little bottle of scotch from Edinburgh and security confiscated because they could not convince themselves that 10 dL <= 100 mL. And further, that since the bottle capacity was cast into the glass and not printed on the paper label, it was possible that the actual content was greater than 100 mL. When my wife tried to question the logic of that reasoning, the lead security guy more or less threatened to fuck over our entire trip home by detaining us for a while.

They did offer to ship the bottle to us at our expense, but the shipping fee was over a hundred pounds and it was cheaper to buy a much larger bottle of the same stuff from an importer.

I hope some day we can dispense with the security theater.

Hey man. 10dL = 1L

Plot twist: it was 10 deka-liters! (;->

Yeah, I don't do metric by default, so I sometimes mixup the exact conversions, especially from memory. It was certainly cL, not dL. It was a bottle of this, which is not special, but a novelty souvenir my wife wanted to bring home: https://stagsbreath.co.uk/products/stags-breath-liqueur-10cl

She ended up just having a 70 cL bottle shipped to us and we wrote off the one stolen at Heathrow.

That is good news!

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