IKR? Those things are dangerous when they explode!
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Omg, you win all the daw today! 
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Their job isn’t to keep stuff out of airplanes, it’s to indoctrinate the people into reflexively accepting totalitarian government, and they’re still doing a bang-up job of it.
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I assure you that other nations have their own airport kabuki and have had it long before 9/11 or the TSA.
Stop it! You’re making me excited!
Travelling with my family some years back, Malaysian transport security got rather interested in our bag of Thomas the Tank engine toys.
This story needs to become the TSA equivalent to the obligatory xkcd
https://storify.com/mmastertheone/seanan-mcguire-and-the-tsa
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Talcum powder isn’t flammable. But not all baby powder is talc Much of these it days is cornstarch.
And yeah, you betcha, cornstarch is flammable. (-:
See, f’rex, a Youtube search for “baby powder flamethrower.” (-:
A. Be dressed nice, and it helps a shitload if you’re white.
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As proven by Mythbusters:
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When King Edward VII had the Cullinan diamond, he had Joseph Aascher, who had studied photographs of it, come over from Amsterdam to see the real thing. The cover story was that the diamond was to go to Amsterdam with an escort of navy destroyers. In fact, the King told him to pop it in his pocket and take it back on the ferry. Presumably, he had some escort, though this is not recorded. But you can imagine the conversation…
“There’s something in your coat pocket here. It looks like a big lump of glass”.
“Yes. It’s the world’s biggest diamond”.
“Really?”
“Yes. The King of England gave it to me today”.
“Oh. Why did he do that?”
“He wants me to cut it up for his crown”.
I suspect the escort we don’t know about may have made themselves known at this point.
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A lot of baby powder is cornstarch. Whether that’s what’s in the video, I don’t know. http://blog.coxwelllaw.com/talcum-powder-versus-cornstarch-whats-the-difference
Oh CORNSTARCH - duh - yeah. I forgot most of them moved to that.
From the Bernie Mac episode where he freaks out over a break-in, installs an aggravating security system, and forces strict rules on the kids. Generally makes everyone’s lives miserable. Outcome:
I bet they’re afraid you’ll smelt down the talc and produce a gypsum sword mid-flight.
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