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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by dijit on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:55PM (#43006915)
if there are nails in the boots it triggers the metal detector. My boots aren’t glued (like timberlands and doc martins might be) and they trigger the detectors.
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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by extraduder_ire on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:48PM (#43008035)
Almost all of my shoes nowadays have steel toes in them. I think my count for being told to not take them off because they expect them not to exceeds being asked to take them off. Never flown out of a non-EU country.
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