For reasons far too wanky to tell you, I am looking to buy (if not too expensive) a metro / underground / subway / tube door. Yes, really.
Unsurprisingly they're not being flogged on ebay and a quick google throws up a bunch of estate agents for some reason.
Where do trains go to die? Is it possible to buy such a thing? Any ideas???
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
That's the wankiest thing I've EVER HEARD
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Totally dude, wanky as fuck. But I want, I want.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
hmm, maybe this is the worng forum. oh well!
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
A scrapyard would be your best bet, I would have thought. While you're there, you could stage some impromptu performance art themed around consumerism and waste.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
they should do that. make it a tv show. scrapheap challenge for guardian readers. michael landy could host.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
no, Banksy
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
stop it! my mind is spinning like a tassle.
so a scrapyard eh? when i have time, i shall call tfl or whatever and ask them bout it.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
that should give them a laugh.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
I'm beginning to reconsider this.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
no, you should do it, and if they take the piss, just slag them off in Vice magazine or something.
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
Don't get picked on by these bullies Vikram-san, scrapyards are the best, there's one for rail stuff near Purley. I currently attempting to convert one of these into a shower unit. Not everything has to come from IKEA.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
VOP is like a successful version of me.
No offence!
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
umm, not sure about the phone box thing. Unless you're superman or something.
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
it's for outside, next to the pool.
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
VOP, your life sounds way better than mine.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
i dont know where mine's for. the wall i think. as a piece of art. graf tube door. next to the 'tribute to basquiat' piece, opposite the we love you kate shrine.
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
... I like the superman idea ...
I wouldn't mind getting hold of one of those Dr Who boxes either, if I could find some tenuous excuse for making it useful.
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr. Benway: VOP, your life sounds way better than mine.
Why thank you, I often think of you if I need cheering up though.
Dunno if that helps at all
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
poor benway Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
sometimes, I think of myself to cheer myself up.
Posted by Vanilla Online Persona (Member # 301) on :
Sometimes I think of kovacs when I need to delay certain natural reactions.
Everyone has a purpose.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Lindsay Lohan makes me happy. I wish she were my friend
[ 27.10.2005, 07:14: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: Where do trains go to die? Is it possible to buy such a thing? Any ideas???
I could tell you where a broken one is and you can try to pull the door off.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
We all know vandalism and theft makes wanky things cool.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
I could pay a rat kid to. Where nwod, where? And what sort of train? Only want the underground kind.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
cool . as a child i'd stay up to watch the equaliser.
[ 27.10.2005, 07:22: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: I could pay a rat kid to. Where nwod, where? And what sort of train? Only want the underground kind.
I er....... not on here.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
vikramahl [at] gmail [dot] com
Posted by Dr. Benway (Member # 20) on :
vikram, would it bother you if this train was in service when it had its door ripped off?
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
dude, it's art.
(and i'm not gonna nick the door, but if i did, the train wouldn't be in service instead it's be rusting away which makes it fair game.)
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
and anyway, i want.
Posted by OJ (Member # 752) on :
Vikram, re your original request this is one of the main rail vehicle overhaul and maintenance plants in the UK.
It's a subsidiary of an American corporation, hence the paucity of info on the website, but you could phone them and ask whether they can sell you carriage-part scrap.
It's where trains go to get spruced up, repaired, overhaulted, given facelifts etc.
Don't ever say I'm not a mine of weird information.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
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