Torture? (Humor)

Can I compare waterboarding to sitting in a middle seat on an ordinary coach class flight of four hours?

If you don’t know what waterboarding is like buy a New Age Netipot and use it.  You put your head below your shoulders and with this pot of water you pour the water in one nostril and blow it out the other.  It feels terrible until your peer group of New Agers explains the miracle of clear sinuses.

You probably know what the airplane experience is.  Confined to a tiny space smaller than a coffin with plenty of air and virtually no movement unless you use social credits to ask a seatmate to let you stand up and move for a few minutes.  

 The first form of torture, waterboarding is usually done to you and you have no control.  The second is either because you are too poor (our version of a social outcast) or the airline is mismanaged and overbooked.  Both states are only partially in your control.  Some things like a fat or smelly seatmate or bad hair in front of you are out of your control.

The whole issue is clouded when we remember that many people are into sado-masochism.  Control is supposedly absent, but a code word to stop the sado part does exist.

Put the three together and you have my confused reaction to the airline scenario which I experienced recently, inadvertently, for the second time in five years.  I hate it. Fours of waterboarding might be worse... but only a little bit.