they give you a smug smile and tell you that they do it much better at Manchester than other airports in the UK...
I've had this too. Someone has been drumming this into them repeatedly it seems, he smirked as he referred to "The Manchester Way" of doing it "properly". In his mind, LHR and LGW were dangerously lax, God only knows what he would have made of the TSA who allowed me to drink my forgotten bottled water post security before proceeding. The MAN chap was adamant I would NOT be allowed to even touch it, as to quote him, "I could drink it and blow myself up." THIS has been taught to them.