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Taking the piss is a British term meaning to take liberties at the expense of others, or to be unreasonable. It is often used to mean (or confused with) taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, ridicule, or scoff.[1]
TV spinoff The Lone Gunmen comes to DVD with its prescient 9/11 episode
"The Lone Gunmen, the Complete Series (Fox) - Back in 2001, when The X-Files was breathing its last prime-time gasp, this oddball spinoff series hit the airwaves for 13 episodes. The three unlikely conspiracy investigators built their own little cult following with the show, still shot in Vancouver after the original fled to sunny California.
"The most remarkable episode... aired just a few months before 9/11 with an incredibly prescient plot about terrorists hijacking an airliner and threatening to crash it into the World Trade Center. Except, in this plot, the terrorists were a cabal within the U.S. government itself.
In real life, there’s no fancy machine doing all the work, but some Dutch scientists somehow discovered that a common heart medicine can have a similar effect, erasing traumatic memories.
And in the last few years, similar scanners have been implemented in airports the world over; though they obviously don’t provide an image of you as clear and graphic as in the film, it is an X-Ray-type image that nevertheless will reveal intimate imagery of your body. True to the film, countless airport staff members have already been accused of sexual harassment while using the technology.
Back in 1998, reality TV shows were virtually non-existent, yet within two years, the likes of Big Brother and Survivor kick-started the craze that nowadays includes the braindead likes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Jersey Shore. Shoot me now.
The POTUS’ publicist (Robert De Niro) enlists the help of a Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman) to stage a fake war in order to draw some of the heat away from the Presidential scandal; the titular term refers to the fact that the politicians controlling the media is like a tail wagging its own dog.