I'm not saying he did it, and I'm not saying he's saying he did it, but:
"For the record I would like to make it clear that I had nothing to do with the theft of the Golden Toilet from Blenheim Palace. My presence here is purely coincidental. I did not take it nor do I currently know where it is. But it has to be the best crime I've ever had nothing to do with today."
Id think doable for a competent single operator with a bit of gear, two would be ideal I should think luckily the heist is a solid gold toilet so everybody makes their nut to say the least
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
280 pounds assuming that the five million is just in the value of the gold not considering the craftsmanship of a gold shitter which I assume is not inconsiderable, so 280 pounds maximum definitley potentially a one man job
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
280 pounds assuming that the five million is just in the value of the gold not considering the craftsmanship of a gold shitter which I assume is not inconsiderable, so 280 pounds maximum definitley potentially a one man job
modern art pieces made of gold are generally not much more expensive than the melt weight of gold
If you wanna do better than the meltweight value, you’re gonna have to find a terlet collector of some kind, one who delights in all manner of Johns and shitbowls.
Do that and the sky’s the limit for your clinquant crapper.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Hmm. I'm kind of disappointed. I suppose it's technically a "solid" gold toilet given that its entire construction is of gold, but it must really be a pretty thin golden shell shaped like a toilet.
Pip's math definitely works out on the price of the piece divided by the current price of gold, which gives us a good bottom line for the price of gold+art.
But a standard one-piece toilet as pictured weighs about 88 pounds. Porcelain has a density of 2.403 grams per cubic centimeter. 18k gold is a bit trickier, since it depends on the other metals involved in the amalgam, but 16.5 g/cc should get us in the ballpark.
So if it really was a solid gold toilet, it'd weigh something like 600 pounds and be worth over $900,000 in raw materials.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
How much value is added if the queen's butt has touched it
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I think it's the same price, but crapping in it cures scrofula.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
280 pounds assuming that the five million is just in the value of the gold not considering the craftsmanship of a gold shitter which I assume is not inconsiderable, so 280 pounds maximum definitley potentially a one man job
I dunno about you personally, but 280 pounds is an AWFUL lot of weight to try and sneak out of a palace past armed guards by hiding it under my jacket...
280 pounds assuming that the five million is just in the value of the gold not considering the craftsmanship of a gold shitter which I assume is not inconsiderable, so 280 pounds maximum definitley potentially a one man job
I dunno about you personally, but 280 pounds is an AWFUL lot of weight to try and sneak out of a palace past armed guards by hiding it under my jacket...
You take in a regular toilet, so the guards already know that you have one, then paint the other one white and do the ol' switcheroo
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
280 pounds assuming that the five million is just in the value of the gold not considering the craftsmanship of a gold shitter which I assume is not inconsiderable, so 280 pounds maximum definitley potentially a one man job
I dunno about you personally, but 280 pounds is an AWFUL lot of weight to try and sneak out of a palace past armed guards by hiding it under my jacket...
You take in a regular toilet, so the guards already know that you have one, then paint the other one white and do the ol' switcheroo
I'm not sure you are thinking about just how difficult it is to be nonchalant and inconspicuous as you carry a toilet weighing 280 pounds, painted white or not...
280 pounds assuming that the five million is just in the value of the gold not considering the craftsmanship of a gold shitter which I assume is not inconsiderable, so 280 pounds maximum definitley potentially a one man job
I dunno about you personally, but 280 pounds is an AWFUL lot of weight to try and sneak out of a palace past armed guards by hiding it under my jacket...
You take in a regular toilet, so the guards already know that you have one, then paint the other one white and do the ol' switcheroo
I'm not sure you are thinking about just how difficult it is to be nonchalant and inconspicuous as you carry a toilet weighing 280 pounds, painted white or not...
Hmmm
Maybe take in a dolly cart thing
Claim you're there to replace a regular toilet
Put a cast on your arm and pretend to struggle with the decoy toilet, so your real struggle with the gold one doesn't look odd
Really? No decoy replacement toilet that's just a regular toilet spray painted gold? Couldn't even shut off the water before they removed it? Thieves have no panache any more.
Years ago and it's still an ongoing problem with copper theft one of the local grocery stores had the copper tubing for their refrigerators sawed out. They opened the store not knowing this until about a hour later {I only know this as I arrived just a few minutes after they opened}
Also I got various city people very upset at me when I said Detroit, looks safer and cleaner than Albuquerque
i was hoping the toilet belonged to winston churchill but it seems like it's a modern art installation? which makes me wonder why it needed to be piped into the plumbing
280 pounds assuming that the five million is just in the value of the gold not considering the craftsmanship of a gold shitter which I assume is not inconsiderable, so 280 pounds maximum definitley potentially a one man job
I dunno about you personally, but 280 pounds is an AWFUL lot of weight to try and sneak out of a palace past armed guards by hiding it under my jacket...
You figure the guards are in on it, I like that it'd definitley make extraction easier and again a five million take keeps everybody pretty happy but man that introduces a lot of variables in the long run, somebody might get sloppy or grow a conscience probably you should kill everyone after the job
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
i was hoping the toilet belonged to winston churchill but it seems like it's a modern art installation? which makes me wonder why it needed to be piped into the plumbing
It ain't called a modern art just sitting there, is it?
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Ha ha! Nothing like gold on gold.
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
That toilet has 100% already been chopped, melted down, and smuggled out of the UK by now.
I would imagine with the low melting point of gold it would be easy to melt down chunks of toilet but also if one lacked the equipment to melt gold one could simply bang on chunks of toilet with a hammeruntil they are unrecognisable as toilet chunks and then sell them off to most any semi-dodgy gold dealer, no need for smuggling
ok so even after reading the blog linked to in this tweet I still ... don't really understand the underlying phenomenon (it's a way to get thousands of people to follow you blindly on social media that emerged spontaneously from the way social networks are perceived and formulated on the right? I guess?) but anyway, whatever, it lead me to Gephi, which is some seriously beautiful data/network visualisation software. Free, too!
plus I guess there's some insight into weird trump shit or something.
valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
edited September 2019
As an active left-leaning political twitter-er, there are plenty of liberals doing something similar. So when he says there's nothing like it on the left, maybe not to the extent of the Trump trains, but the left generally isn't as "jump on board what others are doing" as conservatives.
The left is much, much more diverse than the Trump fans
Everyone to left of trump, which includes like 75% of the country, is included in that nebulous term
You have some Republicans, all Democrats, liberals, all other centrists, the Democratic socialists, actual socialists, anarchists, every flavor of communist...
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
Another reason this kind of thing hasn’t taken off so much on the left is the bots and trolls love to impersonate and infiltrate so you have to be a lot more careful about curating your feed or you run a high risk of getting swarmed when you post something that gets the attention of the horde.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
edited September 2019
So if you'd asked me an hour ago how those old-timey dynamite plungers from the cartoons worked, I'd have said "Who the fuck are you and how did you get in my house?"
If pressed, I'd have hypothesized that it was basically a giant version of the control boxes I used on model rockets as a kid: there's probably some kind of big old battery in there, and when you push the plunger down it completes the circuit and ignites the blasting caps.
The truth is much weirder! The box actually contains an electrical generator, pushing the plunger down creates the electricity needed for ignition, and there's a whole ingenious little Rube Goldberg machine inside to rev up the voltage and release it all at once.
I would desperately love to use one of those to blow something up one day. I wonder if that's a thing you can do? Just rent out a city bomb squad, a reasonable patch of land, maybe a safe of some sort, and laugh maniacally as you press a Dynamite plunger. Maybe twirl your moustache a bit.
I would desperately love to use one of those to blow something up one day. I wonder if that's a thing you can do? Just rent out a city bomb squad, a reasonable patch of land, maybe a safe of some sort, and laugh maniacally as you press a Dynamite plunger. Maybe twirl your moustache a bit.
Probably quicker/cheaper to find the nearest quarry and offer to write a check.
Though they might be a bit grumbley about not using the modern safety stuff.
I would desperately love to use one of those to blow something up one day. I wonder if that's a thing you can do? Just rent out a city bomb squad, a reasonable patch of land, maybe a safe of some sort, and laugh maniacally as you press a Dynamite plunger. Maybe twirl your moustache a bit.
I'm pretty sure there was a long running TV show about this. You just need a beret.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
I mean if I remember correctly you can literally rent a rocket launcher and blown up cows with it in Mongolia, I believe, so really it's all about location.
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"For the record I would like to make it clear that I had nothing to do with the theft of the Golden Toilet from Blenheim Palace. My presence here is purely coincidental. I did not take it nor do I currently know where it is. But it has to be the best crime I've ever had nothing to do with today."
$5million worth of gold? a tremendous amount
hold on lemme do some quick maffs
fodo...
also the pound sterling has fallen an enormous amount thanks to the whole boris johnson trying to destroy everything issue
modern art pieces made of gold are generally not much more expensive than the melt weight of gold
Do that and the sky’s the limit for your clinquant crapper.
Pip's math definitely works out on the price of the piece divided by the current price of gold, which gives us a good bottom line for the price of gold+art.
But a standard one-piece toilet as pictured weighs about 88 pounds. Porcelain has a density of 2.403 grams per cubic centimeter. 18k gold is a bit trickier, since it depends on the other metals involved in the amalgam, but 16.5 g/cc should get us in the ballpark.
So if it really was a solid gold toilet, it'd weigh something like 600 pounds and be worth over $900,000 in raw materials.
I dunno about you personally, but 280 pounds is an AWFUL lot of weight to try and sneak out of a palace past armed guards by hiding it under my jacket...
You take in a regular toilet, so the guards already know that you have one, then paint the other one white and do the ol' switcheroo
I'm not sure you are thinking about just how difficult it is to be nonchalant and inconspicuous as you carry a toilet weighing 280 pounds, painted white or not...
Hmmm
Maybe take in a dolly cart thing
Claim you're there to replace a regular toilet
Put a cast on your arm and pretend to struggle with the decoy toilet, so your real struggle with the gold one doesn't look odd
Years ago and it's still an ongoing problem with copper theft one of the local grocery stores had the copper tubing for their refrigerators sawed out. They opened the store not knowing this until about a hour later {I only know this as I arrived just a few minutes after they opened}
Also I got various city people very upset at me when I said Detroit, looks safer and cleaner than Albuquerque
r/whatisthisthing
It's just people finding random bullshit and asking what it is.
Lotta people finding bombs.
You figure the guards are in on it, I like that it'd definitley make extraction easier and again a five million take keeps everybody pretty happy but man that introduces a lot of variables in the long run, somebody might get sloppy or grow a conscience probably you should kill everyone after the job
It ain't called a modern art just sitting there, is it?
Just a gang that is specialised in stealing solid gold art installations.
Fake edit:
Ah, those were actually caught? Well, could still be the same mastermind
"Per Erling's garden decoration frightens pedestrians"
EDIT: this was the wrong thread, but you know what, I'm going to leave it here
plus I guess there's some insight into weird trump shit or something.
Everyone to left of trump, which includes like 75% of the country, is included in that nebulous term
You have some Republicans, all Democrats, liberals, all other centrists, the Democratic socialists, actual socialists, anarchists, every flavor of communist...
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
If pressed, I'd have hypothesized that it was basically a giant version of the control boxes I used on model rockets as a kid: there's probably some kind of big old battery in there, and when you push the plunger down it completes the circuit and ignites the blasting caps.
The truth is much weirder! The box actually contains an electrical generator, pushing the plunger down creates the electricity needed for ignition, and there's a whole ingenious little Rube Goldberg machine inside to rev up the voltage and release it all at once.
Watch this video and be moderately impressed.
Probably quicker/cheaper to find the nearest quarry and offer to write a check.
Though they might be a bit grumbley about not using the modern safety stuff.
I'm pretty sure there was a long running TV show about this. You just need a beret.