While I understand the need for security for all, including pilots.
The difference is in the attitude as many have mentioned.
Personally I find the Aussies the most officious to the point of rude, this goes for their customs too.
I was hassled by this short, fat security guy, with a goaty beard who would look more at home as a bouncer outside a strip bar.
He made me walk through the screener 3 times. The last time without my hands in my pockets. I havnt had that before, but by holding a knife in your hand while walking through the scanner, supposedly the knife will not be detected, or was it an ego trip by a small minded bouncer.
It was more his attitude that annoyed me than anything else.
Occasionally if I get annoyed I do point out that I dont need an inch long nail file attached to nail clippers to hijack the aircraft, as i'm the pilot, I could fly it into any building I wished if I was so inclined. Also I have an axe behind me, I could use a metal fork that all paxs are given for meals, or I could smash a wine bottle to make a dangerous weapon. All these are far more threatening than the inch long nile file the Aussies are breaking off.
They are also the only country I know who require you to take youre laptop out of its bag to scan. Is every other country in the world slack, do the Aussies have old equipment, or are they been prats.
I can imagine the lawsuits when these new scanners come in. These security types that will be using them dont seem mature enough to be able to use them without schoolboy humor. How long until these naked scan photos end up on the internet, or handed around the tea room. Especially celebs. Way over the top. The airport and security will have huge lawsuits against them, and quite rightly so.
Now where to buy that penal extension kit.