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What option would you take

Poll: What option would you take (15 member(s) have cast votes)

What option would you take

  1. A Teaspoon (9 votes [60.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 60.00%

  2. A Tea cup (5 votes [33.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  3. A Bucket (1 votes [6.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.67%

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#1 User is offline   sceptic 

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Posted 2008-January-17, 13:56

You need to empty a bath for a test, if you fail you are going to be Institutionalized in the nut house for the rest of your life

What would you use to empty the bath?
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Posted 2008-January-17, 15:05

Trick question. The bucket will go quickly but give you a crap result. If the cup is Hyacinth Bucket's fine china it will be thin enough to be nearly as good as the spoon.
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Posted 2008-January-17, 15:18

sceptic, on Jan 17 2008, 02:56 PM, said:

You need to empty a bath for a test, if you fail you are going to be Institutionalized in the nut house for the rest of your life

What would you use to empty the bath?

If I fail what?
What am I trying to pass, some test, draining the bath tub, other?
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Posted 2008-January-17, 15:26

I'll grab the teaspoon, myself.

I'm guessing that the bath has a drain. I'm not sure what is going on to stop that drain from working, but it seems that a teaspoon will offer me the best options in opening that drain. Maybe I need to stick the handle down into the hole to free a clog. Maybe I need leverage to open up the stopper. Heck - I might even want to unscrew something.

My second thought was to use the bucket to crack the tub, which allows the water to flow out, but then I might be seen as a violent person. I do not want that. Plus, I doubt that the bucket is strong enough for that task.

However, it the bucket has a removable handle, that might actually work better than the spoon. I'd have to see the bucket.

I keep thinking of ways to smash the teacup to get charp pieces that might somehow be useful, but I'm not really liking the options.
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Posted 2008-January-17, 16:01

Geez Ken, is that the best system that you can come up with?? :) (on short notice, understandably) rofl :D

Actually some of those ideas (I guess modern day acrylic tubs are easier to smash than the enamelled metal ones) were pretty decent! :)
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Posted 2008-January-17, 16:44

For some of the posters here the nuthouse may be a step up. I'll take the hair drier.
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Posted 2008-January-17, 16:54

:) :) :lol:

I love this one.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Posted 2008-January-17, 17:17

Gosh.....
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Posted 2008-January-17, 18:55

don't drink and post. on that note, is it water that is in the bath or something else? also, i hope there is no baby in the bathtub.
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Posted 2008-January-17, 21:16

A small nuclear device, to make sure all the water is evaporated - wait, you did say this bath was in Iran, didn't you?
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Posted 2008-January-17, 22:06

Even tho I voted spoon, how about using the bucket at first to fill flagons and then drink the rest and then lick up the residue......you did say that the bathtub was full of gin?..... :)
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Posted 2008-January-18, 01:36

Soon you will realize the truth... There IS no spoon!
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Posted 2008-January-18, 07:11

Hannie, on Jan 18 2008, 12:44 AM, said:

For some of the posters here the nuthouse may be a step up.

Ron, please use your own account instead of Han's. Btw it's safe to go bathing with a hairdryer, saw it on brainiac.

FWIW, I will put the bucket over my head and tell the guards at the nut house that I'm a psychiatrist and that I have a meeting down town. Then they will probably let me go.
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Posted 2008-January-18, 09:23

This is just like a defensive bridge problem, I can see why anything I try is going to fail.
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Posted 2008-January-18, 10:23

The nuthouse for the lot of you


I of course just pull the plug out
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Posted 2008-January-18, 18:33

sceptic, on Jan 18 2008, 11:23 AM, said:

The nuthouse for the lot of you


I of course just pull the plug out

And just as you pull the plug an earthquake tilts the foundation, placing the drain above the lowest part of the tub.

And you scoffed at a small nuclear device. Who's crazy, now, Bub?
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Posted 2008-January-19, 07:46

I sell the nuclear device to the highest bidder? :)
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Posted 2008-January-19, 15:28

Fluffy, on Jan 18 2008, 10:23 AM, said:

This is just like a defensive bridge problem, I can see why anything I try is going to fail.

Ah, but there's a stepping stone squeeze!
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Posted 2008-January-19, 15:30

If you squeeze the bathtup, they may not have the guts to lock you up.
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