Up in the Air

he made a joke that he had been trying to light his shoes

/thinks/ Dude went to the George W. Bush School of International Diplomacy.

In fact, he might have simply been having a cigarette and responding sarcastically, which I guess the marshal didn’t pick up on.

How much of a moron do you have to be to not know by now that you don’t even fucking joke about this shit. Even if the air marshal is 100% certain you’re being sarcastic, your ass is going down, and your wallet is about to get hit hard when the airline sues you for fucking up their shit and forcing a re-rout of their plane, wasting their fuel and having to re-book every passenger.

@Serolf Divad: “But monsieur, I am un diplomat, in my country we choke about zees all zee tyme!”

No, seriously, a total idiot. If I’m a white man visiting Zimbabwe, I don’t go around joking about how I was just “trying to get some land back from Mugabe”.

@NaBEEsko: This is my comment on this at the site which must not be named:

“My god, a haughty, arrogant Arab diplomat who thinks he can get away with anything? I am shocked, shocked, I tell you. I mean, its not like Arab countries aren’t meritocracies, with a professionalized foreign service orgnaization. I can’t believe this guy acted like he came from a ruling family in an autocratic kingdom and has spent his whole life as a privileged, spoiled, ruling class thug asshole. Thats so unlike the way you would expect a diplomat from Qatar to act.”

@Prommie: The limited time I rocked diplomatic immunity, I never embarrassed my hosts. Well, once – I gave the finger to a seriously douchish driver in a country that ‘chu knows well and where that is one of the most offensive things in the world*. It was a moment of high passion, fell on my sword, etc, but it most certainly didn’t bring traffic to a halt, or even make the papers.

*He flipped me off as well, a fact never admitted in our telephone exchange afterwards.