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Packing for an overseas flight is troublesome.

You have to remember all the little bits to make daily life in a new place run normally and comfortably, which means the anxiety of possibly forgetting something – like enough underwear, god forbid – is extreme.

Throw in the pesky liquid and laptop rule, and you’re basically a jittery mess by the time you get to the pre-flight security check.

We’ve all held the line up by forgetting to put our laptops in a convenient spot to whip out quickly for the security baggage scan, or spent a few added minutes downing whatever liquid we forgot to empty beforehand.

Why even are we not allowed to take more than 100ml of liquid through with us?

Apparently, it’s all thanks to some dimwits who decided to try and blow up as many as 10 planes using explosives hidden in drinks bottles.

Thankfully, British police foiled that plan, but the ban has been in place ever since November 2006.

Anyway, the UK government has plans to scrap these pesky rules in the coming year, reported BBC:

[source:bbc]