I got flagged for a random TSA pat down once and the agent asked me if I had any metal in my body. I replied “I have an IUD”. The agent freaks out and starts flagging other agents over. She musters all her calm and says “Please repeat that you have an IED on you” to which I had to say “no, an IUD, a copper intrauterine device, for birth control”. She didn’t know what an IUD was and I had to explain it to her. I bet she’ll remember now!
That happened to me too. But my TSA agent just said "You said WHAT?" And when I said IUD verrry slowly he calmed down and was like oooooh okay that's not a problem then.
The one where Reddit triumphantly declared Sunil Tripathi as the terrorist and the poor boy went missing and was eventually found dead in the river by suicide?
That's what I get for going off memory. I thought the WMDs predated Desert Shield by enough it had to be Reagan for the WMDs sold to put down the Kurds.
If only they went with bringing him to justice for bombing a city of ~50k of his own civilians with chemical weapons in the ‘80s….it would have been difficult to argue against that justification for the war.
So we shouldn't have to fight the propaganda disinformation anymore as the facts are as clear as they ever will be. Then clearly point out how bad the media is and that's it's even worse today.
That's how the media operates. They want you to focus on the current controversy with many unknown and not how they have been lying to the American public for decades without consequence
Intermittent explosive disorder involves repeated, sudden bouts of impulsive, aggressive, violent behavior or angry verbal outbursts. The reactions are too extreme for the situation. Road rage, domestic abuse, throwing or breaking objects, or other temper tantrums may be symptoms of intermittent explosive disorder.
These explosive outbursts, which occur off and on, cause major distress. They can harm relationships and cause problems at work or school. They also can result in problems with the law.
Intermittent explosive disorder is a long-term condition that can go on for years. But the severity of outbursts may lessen with age. Treatment involves talk therapy and medicine to help you control your aggressive impulses.
Impulsive attacks and angry outbursts occur suddenly, with little or no warning. They usually last less than 30 minutes. These bouts may occur often or be separated by weeks or months. Verbal outbursts or less severe physical attacks may still occur in between these times. You may be irritable, impulsive, aggressive or angry most of the time.
Before an aggressive bout, you may feel:
Rage.
Irritability.
More tension and energy.
Racing thoughts.
Tingling.
Shaking.
Fast or pounding heartbeat.
Chest tightness.
The explosive verbal and behavioral outbursts are much too intense for the situation, with no thought about what might happen as a result. The outbursts can include:
Temper tantrums.
Long, angry speeches.
Heated arguments.
Shouting.
Slapping, shoving or pushing.
Physical fights.
Property damage.
Threatening or harming people or animals.
You may feel a sense of relief and tiredness after the outburst. Later, you may feel guilty, sorry for your actions or embarrassed.
It's not the same as IERD, It's more of a situational response.
My father had it (RIP) my older half brother, myself, younger half brother and younger half sister have some form of it.
I've only had the "Red Haze" three times in my life, twice during puberty and once about four years ago, in response to another grown man with no emotional regulation or logical sense, grabbing my son by the shirt and drawing his fist back.
Even then it wasn't a full red haze, my version tends to run closer to Cold Rage, more of a "detatch from emotional center" and do what needs to be done.
Mine developed differently all of my dad's kids were raised by their respective mothers (dad had a type, and none of them should have been mothers).
Mine was alcoholic, verbally and mentally abusive (the physical attempts started when I was 13, I was able to defend myself).
So I learned to detatch, can't manipulate me with emotions if I don't feel them, can't mentally gaslight me if I don't respond.
Took me years and therapy to get some humanity back, I still say I don't feel emotions as deep as most people.
To the point that video games will use IED instead of C4 or mines sometimes. Anyone who was related to the War on Terror and gaming knows what an IED is
I would guess more people in the US know what means IED as a concept (or at least most people would know it in general as a bomb) than they know what the acronym actually stands for.
Especially if they were non-military during the Iraq and Afghan wars.
Something that I've come to learn from interacting with English speakers on the internet is that they LOVE their acronyms, at least when writing. The other day I saw someone abbreviating "femboy" as "fb", which was extremely confusing until I realized they weren't talking about Facebook.
Did the Brits and other English speakers involved use all 3 words when their news reported their troops getting blown up by them in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Common terminology in the context of security checkpoint personnel trained specifically to prevent (among other things) bombs -- that is, IEDs -- from getting on to planes... uh, yes?
US tends for some reason to be very heavy on the acronyms. Gets especially ridiculous if you have a sentence with mutliple acronyms, some of which are more annoying to pronounce than just the word.
See this is texting. Here i understand it. But then you have people talk like that. Honestly I feel sometimes I need to learn a third language for such people.
The acronyms are a remedy for the proliferation of jargon, I think. "Eye-ee-dee" is an easier word to remember than "improvised explosive device". "Deemvee" easier to remember than "department of motor vehicles", especially if your state actually calls it something else, etc.
Amusingly from the perspective of a non native english speaker these acronyms are often even used by non native english speakers, especially kids/teenagers, as if they are their own language. My 14 year old cousin somehow manages to text in a way that is understandable to a US teenager despite his english being somewhere on seventh grade level.
That's because the terms were proliferated in American television, "IDK My BFF Jill", and of course when it entered the broader lexicon, around the mid to late 90's, it quickly spread online.
Tell me about it, I've never been big on acronyms except the standard ones used in the military (Grew up a squid brat, went donkey myself).
Then I met my wife, and holy hell she abbreviates EVERYTHING.
I can remember the first time she confused me, she told me that my stepson and she were going to DGs. and I went "DGs?" and she goes "Yeah, Dollar General" and I went "Nobody calls it that, they just say Dollar General!".
Look, you got mad at a clarifying comment. There are so many acronyms rn that no, the average person’s mind might not automatically go to a bomb anymore. That’s all i was saying, and clarifying with the submarine. If it doesn’t effect us personally we’re much more likely to not automatically place the two as the same thing if it comes up
Hence why the TSA Agent probably didn’t identify an IUD as a medical device, even though they should have been able to. That’s two separate people influenced by vernacular in their environment
everyone (at least in the US) of news-hearing age during the first 10 years of the "War on Terror" knows what an IED is. It was incredibly common both in actual reports and widely used in pop culture.
I imagine the TSA agent pulling out his training manual and frantically flipping through pages until he finds the page he's looking for. On the left page, in giant letters, it says
Do they really think someone’s realistically going to just tell them, oh hey by the way i got an ied on me, trying to not make a big deal of it though, as nonchalantly as you would tell someone you have a coffee
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u/mariahmce 29d ago
I got flagged for a random TSA pat down once and the agent asked me if I had any metal in my body. I replied “I have an IUD”. The agent freaks out and starts flagging other agents over. She musters all her calm and says “Please repeat that you have an IED on you” to which I had to say “no, an IUD, a copper intrauterine device, for birth control”. She didn’t know what an IUD was and I had to explain it to her. I bet she’ll remember now!