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Thursday, December 1, 2005 7:59 AM

ORPHEUS


Gilliam flick, right? I've not seen it.
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:19 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Well it's damn faithful to the book and not for the faint of heart, but if you like Hunter S. Thompsen than you are in for a real treat. It makes the earlier movie done on the same vein Where the Buffalo Roam by Ivan Reitman look like a Disney flick. Let me rephrase that Disney makes all kind of movies now. I was a kid in the 70's back when Disney movie would offend no one exception racial, ethnic and religious minorities. Let's just say that Ivan Reitman never left you wondering if the was going to be a happy ending as you saw Ghostbusters for the first time. Gilliam makes no such promises. Oh Yeah! Johnny Dep is fantastic in this, as is Benicio Del Toro.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:21 AM

CITIZEN


mmm Beer...

I wish I had the internet at work, I miss sooo much



More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:22 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by Orpheus:
Delicious. How's that for a great breakfast for lunch?
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Lunch, Where are you at?

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:22 AM

MAL4PREZ



Whoa, too much lunch! I need a BIG spot on the sofa. Move over!

Fear and loathing, fun! I saw it in a really weird theater in Alaska, it made perfect sense.

What's Equilibrium? Never heard of it! Yay - new entertainment discovery!!

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:27 AM

ORPHEUS


I'm on the East Coast (NC, to be exact). It's 1:30 in the afternoon here.

Equilibrium is sort of a cross between Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and The Matrix. It proves that Christian Bale should've played Neo.
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:36 AM

CALLMESERENITY


*wakes up, yawns, stretches*

Ooh, it's nice in here.

Orpheus, you're in NC? Wanna come it my New Year's Eve party?

(Everyone's invited! I even have a thread.)

Now, if I ask nicely would someone bring me something to drink? My plan is to stay curled up in this couch until the weekend.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:40 AM

ORPHEUS


Where's this party of yours?

And what drink might I bring you?
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:45 AM

CALLMESERENITY


Aiken SC

and vodka

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:54 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by mal4prez:

Whoa, too much lunch! I need a BIG spot on the sofa. Move over!

Fear and loathing, fun! I saw it in a really weird theater in Alaska, it made perfect sense.

What's Equilibrium? Never heard of it! Yay - new entertainment discovery!!

Ask Dr. Science ... he knows more than you do.
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I'm sure BLackeyegirl is allready typing like mad and we will probably overlap, but what the hell.
Equalibrium is a fantastic film, made in Germany a couple years ago on a small budget. Don't worry it's in English so you won't have to squint at subtitles. It stars Christian Bale. One of the best underrated actors working today. Bale plays a elite police enforcer in a world where emotions are illegal. This film is the finest example of science fiction used as social commentary I have seen since Fahrenheit 451. It is not a completely original work, watching it you will see elements of so many other movies and books, but that decreases it's message not a whit. It's one of those few films I think everyone should see once they consider themselves a adult. It's heavy, so not for the kids.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 8:57 AM

ORPHEUS


Aiken...Looked it up on Google Maps. That's way down south. I appreciate the invite, but I'll have to pass on that. Being up in Northern NC, that'd be one hell of a drive.

One vodka, coming up.
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:02 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by Orpheus:
I'm on the East Coast (NC, to be exact). It's 1:30 in the afternoon here.

Equilibrium is sort of a cross between Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and The Matrix. It proves that Christian Bale should've played Neo.
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SC, right. I'm on the otherside. Just start with the sun at your back at dawn and follow it to where it sets. Do that till you come to water that can't be crossed by bridge and somewhere on that coast you'll find me.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:06 AM

JADEHAND


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
theres plenty of that over in the drinks cabinet, just behind the projector....fifth element..............mulled wine anyone?


'you'll go to that special level of hell - the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre'



Ummmmmm, really starting to like it 'round here



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Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:14 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by Orpheus:


Equilibrium is sort of a cross between Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and The Matrix. It proves that Christian Bale should've played Neo.
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I can't remember if it was Kenneth Teran or Elvis Mitchell reviewing Batman Begins, (the latest installment in the Batman series a daunting task considering how lack luster the franchise has become,) said that Christian Bale has so much talent that he could play the back story to Mighty Mouse and still get a Oscar nomination for it. The terrifying thing is, he's not wrong. Batman Begins is the best ever, in part because of Bale's fine work.
Of course it doesn't hurt that chic's dig him.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:20 AM

ORPHEUS


Oh, definitely. Bale is hands-down the best Batman ever. And he's certainly the most convincing Bruce Wayne as well. He's always been a great actor. Even back in his early years in stuff like Empire of the Sun.

Serenity's vodka ~~~> \_/

Cheers!

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:21 AM

CALLMESERENITY


I'm not really into Christian Bale. Something about him bothers me but I can't quite put my finger on it.

But I did enjoy Batman Begins.

I thought it was funny that the batsignal began because he chained that guy to a big light. I was laughing so hard.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:27 AM

MAL4PREZ


Quote:

Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
I'm sure BLackeyegirl is allready typing like mad and we will probably overlap, but what the hell.
Equalibrium is a fantastic film, made in Germany a couple years ago on a small budget. Don't worry it's in English so you won't have to squint at subtitles. It stars Christian Bale. One of the best underrated actors working today. Bale plays a elite police enforcer in a world where emotions are illegal. This film is the finest example of science fiction used as social commentary I have seen since Fahrenheit 451. It is not a completely original work, watching it you will see elements of so many other movies and books, but that decreases it's message not a whit. It's one of those few films I think everyone should see once they consider themselves a adult. It's heavy, so not for the kids.

Scorpion Regent



Sci-fi social commentary, fantastic! Heavy can be fun. Well, you know what I mean.

Tangentially, I once had a scifi/social commentary idea of there being this alien race that shows emotion visibly. like angry=turn red, sad=turn blue, etc. So your emotional state becomes your fashion statement. Seemed an excellent basis for making fun of oh so many things. But then I had no idea where to go with it and then I remembered I'm not a writer.

There was a call for poetry earlier, right? OK, there was a call for poetry warnings. The previous paragraph is as close as I get.

*curtsies, returns to sofa, refills mulled wine*



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Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:32 AM

BLACKEYEDGIRL


I'm glad to see it's not just the usual batch of degenerates around here (from the hidey). Nice to see fresh faces. I think the baggage free 4th floor will be opening tomorrow. So kids get ready to get sucked through the phone (someone found the dude that hooked up the matrix! score!)


Okay Equilibrium. Personally, for me, I think movie is a far greater social commentary than The Matrix (which was very heavy as well). Christian Bale is remarkable. I mean remarkable. If someone would have told me that the kid from Swing Kids and Newsies was gonna grow up to be this amazing as an actor I would have smacked them in the head, with a stick, a big stick. But he is.

Now most people are into Bale from Batman. I've been a Bale fan since the Disney days. I love American Psycho (I'm one of the few who really enjoy Bret Easton Ellis' work), The Machinist is AMAZING, but Equilibrium is hands down one of the best sci-fi future movies I have seen. Screw that one with crazy Cruise, this is the movie that should have made it to the theater.

It goes something like this: Post WW-III the government gives people the equivalent of the Pax from Serenity, but no one starts cannibalizing, nor giving up. Instead they drone about like worker bees in the hive. They have no emotions, there is no music, there is no literature or art or dance or anything. Why? these things breed passion, and passion is dangerous. Bale is an agent with the super special police, his job: find what are known as 'sense' offenders. That is people who have collections of items from the time before the drug (sort of an earth that was idea), cos these people stop taking the drug, and get all passionate and fight back and they know pleasure and pain. Bale's wife had been captured as a sense offender and burned (cos they burn 'em like withces), and he is left with 2 kids. Then his partner is a sense offender and kills himself, so he ends up with a new partner. The totally yummy Taye Diggs. Oh yeah, Taye Diggs and Christian Bale as futuristic cops. It is a yummy-fest. Emily Watson and Sean bean are also in it.

It's amazing the revelations that occur in this movie. I totally agree with ScorpionRegent on this one, this is a movie all adults should see, well the ones with the brains to understand it.

It's got so many elements from other similar movies, but you realize that this is the perfect synthesis of them (although there is no Heston running around screaming about the Soilent Green!). Although some parts are predicatable, its still an amazing movie, that is constantly on my 'you must see this' list.

If you like looking at Bale I recommend American Psycho or Laurel Canyon, if you don't mind him looking kinda gross totally see The Machinist, it's remarkable! Equilibrium: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JLWN/qid=1133465006/sr=8-1/ref=
pd_bbs_1/104-5779693-9731957?n=507846&s=dvd&v=glance


Mmm Cocoa. Doesn't cocoa soudn good? with little marshmallows...

Fear and Loathing is one of the most fucked up and hilarious movies I have ever seen. Oi!

Got back from lunch an hour ago and I still feel the need to nap. Damn job, getting in the way of my napping!!

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:35 AM

JADEHAND


Quote:

Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
I'm not really into Christian Bale. Something about him bothers me but I can't quite put my finger on it.

But I did enjoy Batman Begins.

I thought it was funny that the batsignal began because he chained that guy to a big light. I was laughing so hard.

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Ever see American Pyscho? That could make you weary of Bale.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:03 AM

CALLMESERENITY


No. Is that the one where he lost all that weight?



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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:07 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Orpheus: Empire of the Sun. That's right that was Christian Bale. Damn talk about starting big.

BLackeyedgirl: Equalibrium did make it to theaters, I saw on the big screen twice. It was carried by less than 50 theaters in the entire US though, and only for two weeks. I realy enjoyed Laurel Canyon for some really good reasons and even a few bad ones. Natascha McElhone does such a intense job of reminding me I'm male it's,...Unsettleing! I thought she was tough sexy in Ronin too, to bad the movie itself was only okay. The Machinist, a friend of mine told me Bale lost over 80 pounds for that role. Talk about dedication to the craft, because if that's true he obviously put it all back on and shaped it well.



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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:17 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Not the usual batch of degenerates.
So that makes us unusual degenerates?

OOOOOH! Another cool movie: Usual Suspects.


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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:22 AM

BLACKEYEDGIRL


no that's The Machinist, very good movie, but he looks really sick.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:34 AM

CALLMESERENITY


*decides to go back to sleep till the talk of movies she's never seen is over.*

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:34 AM

ORPHEUS


No, man. It just means that next to us, there's a whole new batch of degenerates in here. Loafing degenerates unite!
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:44 AM

SERYN


the machinist was absolutely sodding brilliant, so unsetttling, and you get to the end (complete with cramp from winceing every time he comes on the screen - he did actually loose over 80 pounds, you really can tell) and your totally gobsmacked, its one of those endings that just leaves you... well i can describe it, but only in random noises that i can't spell.

do you remember the ending of out of gas? when you realise that mals choosing serenity was a gut reaction, kind of destined to be, and a perfect resolution? well the end of the machinist has nothing like that, but it still leaves you with the tingling didgits and the sense of woah, but i just remember thinking, 'everything is going to be all right now' even though the shit appears to have hit the fan, you just now that the character's going to deal and get his good ending.

this is why I never attempt to write novels...


pass me a cup of that cocoa, I lost an orca whale today

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:50 AM

CALLMESERENITY


I just made cocoa myself!

I was going to have peppermint tea, but when I went to the microwave there was this big basket full of hot chocolate packets and I couldn't resist. Though it's not nearly as nice as when I make it from scratch. Ghiradelli's sweet ground cocoa is the best thing ever!

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 10:57 AM

BLACKEYEDGIRL


Aww Orca. Lost as in missing or as in 'big ocean in the sky'? Either way, it's upsetting, here, have some cocoa, I put on extra marshmallows (they always melt too fast). I promise we will abstain from watching Free Willy (as if we were going to anyways).

Also I made chili last night,(chili today, hot tamale!) so get a bowl and some bread and eat up!

The Machinist was amazing, and the ending, well youa re so right, I didn't see it coming, but somehoe it was enough. I dunno, I'm good with words and this one left me speechless and making the noises I generally only make at the TV after watching Lost.

-BEG, tuking CallMeSerenity in for her nappy-nap-nap

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:09 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


The end of the Machinist, I saw it coming from the point the clue was dropped.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:10 AM

SERYN


lost as in i know exactly where he is but have no idea how to rescue him - I was putting him up on a high shelf along with some new friends (some whale's, a couple of dolphins and a hammerhead shark)when he fell down behind a partition that was hiding some water pipes - I didn't know that it wasn't covered)

The crazy thing is is that theres a little door in the base of the partiton - no one knows why its there, and we can find the keys that turn the lock, but it doesn't open, so he's trapped there, waiting for someone to work out how to open the mystery door and let him out.

By the way he's 12" long and made of plastic.

(jadehand -don't even think about it)

But loosing him was still traumatising.


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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:18 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
lost as in i know exactly where he is but have no idea how to rescue him - I was putting him up on a high shelf along with some new friends (some whale's, a couple of dolphins and a hammerhead shark)when he fell down behind a partition that was hiding some water pipes - I didn't know that it wasn't covered)

The crazy thing is is that theres a little door in the base of the partiton - no one knows why its there, and we can find the keys that turn the lock, but it doesn't open, so he's trapped there, waiting for someone to work out how to open the mystery door and let him out.

By the way he's 12" long and made of plastic.

(jadehand -don't even think about it)

But loosing him was still traumatising.


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I'm not thinking about it either. I'm not, really. I swear, my hand to god! I am not thinking about it. Oh damn!
I'm going to the special hell

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:22 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
lost as in i know exactly where he is but have no idea how to rescue him - I was putting him up on a high shelf along with some new friends (some whale's, a couple of dolphins and a hammerhead shark)when he fell down behind a partition that was hiding some water pipes - I didn't know that it wasn't covered)

The crazy thing is is that theres a little door in the base of the partiton - no one knows why its there, and we can find the keys that turn the lock, but it doesn't open, so he's trapped there, waiting for someone to work out how to open the mystery door and let him out.

By the way he's 12" long and made of plastic.

(jadehand -don't even think about it)

But loosing him was still traumatising.


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Have you tried unwrapping a wire coat hanger and fishing him out? Yes, I know Orcas are mammals, but hey one word:plastic.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:26 AM

SAMEERTIA


oh no! Seryn, do we need to start a Save The Whale operation?

*whips up a double cappucino and adds a dose of chocolate syrup*

Need more caffiene...more!




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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:28 AM

SERYN


the partition is about 8ft high, I can't actually see over it, it would take a lot of coat hangers, and some pretty damn fine fishin.

what we thought was getting up there on a ladder, and using one of those big stick lasso things that dog catchers have, and getting him out that way.

Problem one, we don't have a step ladder

problem two, well...

our best bet is getting that door open, but knowing my life, i'll end up inside the head of some crazed indie film actor.

i'm going to that special hell

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:32 AM

SERYN


Yes!

SAVE THE WHALE!

call in greenpeace!



proof of how badly i need my head checking - i was stood at the train station today and behind me where about six pigeons all puffed up trying to keep warm, the first thought to enter my head?

'they'd be easier to juggle than goslings'

'you'll go to that special level of hell - the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre'

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:35 AM

BLACKEYEDGIRL


I was totally having a 'Being John Malkovich' moment there! Sure there isn't a half floor in your building??

Let's see here, Okay this partition, is there an opening on either end? Cos you could sort of use a big stick to push him to freedom at one end.

Otherwise, talk to maintenence in your building, they may know the secret to the door (OMG! It's the secret hidey place of lost orcas!!) and getting it open.

Otherwise, try this: get a st of tongs, tape measuring sticks to them. get someone to hoist you up so you can see over the partition, use gigantic togs to pick up orca to safety.

I so need to go home. Work is getting to the point where I am coming up with Orca tongs to avoid working!

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:35 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


If the wire hanger doesn't work you can use a screw driver to prise open the door if the door is just sticky. If it's the lock I can tell you how to get past the lock, but you will have to promise me not to go breaking into your neighbor's flats for fun and profit.

Scorpion Regent

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:38 AM

MAL4PREZ


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
proof of how badly i need my head checking - i was stood at the train station today and behind me where about six pigeons all puffed up trying to keep warm, the first thought to enter my head?



Make an appt at the head checker for me too - I so relate to that!

Last time I went away for awhile it was handcuffs. This time it's 12 inch plastic things. hmmm.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:39 AM

SAMEERTIA


I'll have some more cappucino and then I'll just bounce the door open for you!
:D
But seriously, sounds like a job for Coat Hanger & Rubber Band. They're my heroes.

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:46 AM

SERYN


Its like he's in a really tall bucket, but with a door at the bottom.

No fear, i'm going to smuggle a really big screwdriver in with me tomorrow and spend a few hours surrepticiusly prizing the door open.


one thought did occur to me today, how did those original goose jugglers stop the geese from flying away, or even -as a goose most certainly would -turning round and pecking them to death?

'you'll go to that special level of hell - the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre'

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:49 AM

BLACKEYEDGIRL


I think that's why they use goslings, they can't fly away yet.

Save the whale!

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:50 AM

SCORPIONREGENT


Talk to me Seryn: Is this like a normal house door? Does the door open in or out? If it opens out can you see the hinges? You say you have the key and the lock turns. Is there more than one lock on the door? This is a lot like my day job, no not a burgular, no not tech support, no not locksmith. Don't ask.
Don't worry about John Malkovich's head right now, first things first.

Scorpion Regent

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:51 AM

SERYN


ah, yes, obviously missed the bit about their being goslings - but the pecking-to-death (well, fingerlessness) question still stands

'you'll go to that special level of hell - the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre'

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 11:54 AM

CALLMESERENITY


*murmurs in her sleep*

Save the whale!

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 12:00 PM

SERYN


it's about two foot high and painted bright pink (though i swear i've never noticed it before)it should open outward, but the hinges are concealed. it has the same lock as all of the other cupboard doors, and the key goes in,turns and feels like its released the lock perfectly., theres no other locks. the storage cupboard door have either a key lock or a slide latch, and as it seems to be sticking from the top i'm tempted to think that some berk of a workman has fitted it with both and closed the latch before fitting the panel its in...

the same workmen who fitted an entire information desk that you can't actually get your knees under with no handles on cupboard doors, and no space for a computer or ticket machine.

joy

'you'll go to that special level of hell - the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre'

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 12:19 PM

ORPHEUS


Quote:

ah, yes, obviously missed the bit about their being goslings - but the pecking-to-death (well, fingerlessness) question still stands

One word: gloves.

Is it bad that I left this party to go watch The Train Job? You're all helping Seryn retrieve her orca, and I'm watching Mal kick whats-his-nuts into Serenity's right engine.

Now I feel bad.
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Thursday, December 1, 2005 12:23 PM

LIGHTMEDARK


hmm, double post

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 12:23 PM

LIGHTMEDARK


/me picks a spot on the couch and passes out

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inch towards daylight

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 12:28 PM

SERYN


'salright, Mals possibly the one person in the world I can forgive people leaving me for.

but i hope you've come back with lots of ideas for our save the whale operation

'you'll go to that special level of hell - the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre'

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Thursday, December 1, 2005 12:40 PM

SCORPIONREGENT


Quote:

Originally posted by seryn:
it's about two foot high and painted bright pink (though i swear i've never noticed it before)it should open outward, but the hinges are concealed. it has the same lock as all of the other cupboard doors, and the key goes in,turns and feels like its released the lock perfectly., theres no other locks. the storage cupboard door have either a key lock or a slide latch, and as it seems to be sticking from the top i'm tempted to think that some berk of a workman has fitted it with both and closed the latch before fitting the panel its in...

the same workmen who fitted an entire information desk that you can't actually get your knees under with no handles on cupboard doors, and no space for a computer or ticket machine.

joy

'you'll go to that special level of hell - the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre'


Berk of a workman? You can explain that later. Let's try using that coat hanger I mentioned earlier. You only need a section of straight metal about 30cm long then bend the last 6 or 7cm at a right angle. That is your basic tool, you may have to modify it to suit. Slide the right angle between the frame and the door. Once the right angle is inside you can manuver the tool around, rotating it, sliding it back and forth, pushing it in and out and such. Manuver the tool around till you find the internal latch by feel and the try to manipulate the latch till the door releases. This may take a bit of patience, but it builds great character. Stick with it and you may just save the whale. After all that you can tell your mates that you broke into a secure locked installation and liberated a captive ceatean. If this get's you nowhere fast then by all means use the screwdriver.

Scorpion Regent

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