To think that a cigarette lighter can cause more damage on a plane than 110ml of body lotion?

[MrsMerryHenry]

I don't get these guidelines for what you can take on board. If you take creams into the cabin they must be no more than 100ml. Now, granted, this is because of terrorists hiding dangerous chemicals in drinks, creams and lotions, etc. Fine. They have to set a limit somewhere, however arbitrary it may seem.

But why on earth are people allowed to take cigarette lighters? Have I missed something here; I thought smoking on-board was err, illegal! You can't smoke till you've landed and are out of the airport, so why would you need to carry a lighter?

DH went through the metal detector, doing a domestic flight in Uk for a work meeting up north, and the alarm went off - because a tiny pencil sharpener had fallen through a hole in his suit pocket into his lining - they confiscated it on the grounds that it was classed as a blade!!!!!!!

his colleagues who he was travelling with were ROFL and have never let him forget it!

PMSL at - "my Mum was forced to throw away her handcream. What did they think she could do with it for terrorist purposes - moisturise the pilot's hands until they get too slippy to control the plane?! "

We recently tried to take a child's wooden bow and arrow (rubber sucker ends) onto a plane but had them confiscated. My dad who was with us had a heavy walking stick on board. I know which one would have knocked out the pilot and it wasn't the rubber sucker one. I always get stopped so I must look like a dimwit LOL.

PMSL at Scorpette!

everyone stay away from PinkTulips! She's a woman with a vengeance!

Seriously though, I don't care how long it takes to set a whole plane alight; that's kind of not the point, is it?

I had my stilettos taken off me which I was very very cross about! At the exact same time I walked through the metal detector with my ipod on and in my pocket and it didn't set the alarm off, I could have had something dealdy in the ipod casing!?

Also the thing I don't understand.... if you want to take explosive onboard just put them in your pocket, or am I missing something?