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Chair inside main door of Martin Ryan building

  • 04-12-2010 5:56pm
    #1
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭


    What's up with this? Some sort of pseudo-security system to lull potential marine science-poachers into thinking this plastic chair has caused the building to become an impenetrable fortress?

    For those who don't know what I'm talking about, there's often a brown, plastic chair just inside the main glass doors of the Martin Ryan Institute (not the Annexe). It always seems to be there after they've locked the building up for the night.

    I'll try to get a picture next time I'm passing, but no doubt some of you know what I'm referring to.


Comments

  • #2
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    Maybe it's a ****ing transformer


  • #3
    leeroybrown
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    I'd assume it's so people know that the building is locked up.


  • #4
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    It's a chair on a floor in a building.


  • #5
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Had I put the chair there it would have been to facilitate sitting either in the sunshine, to perve on passing students,or both.


  • #6
    Fisher Calhoun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Fisher Calhoun


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    What's up with this? Some sort of pseudo-security system to lull potential marine science-poachers into thinking this plastic chair has caused the building to become an impenetrable fortress?

    For those who don't know what I'm talking about, there's often a brown, plastic chair just inside the main glass doors of the Martin Ryan Institute (not the Annexe). It always seems to be there after they've locked the building up for the night.

    I'll try to get a picture next time I'm passing, but no doubt some of you know what I'm referring to.
    I think the real question here is whether the chair is propped up against the doors to stop them opening! Such is the level of extreme security measures in Ireland, I wouldn't be surprised!


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  • #7
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    Works for CompSoc and our server room...

    IMG20101109_001.jpg


  • #8
    Clemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭Clemon


    Who gives a ****?


  • #9
    brianthebard
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    maybe they need the chair to stand on to reach something above the door when locking and opening it....


  • #10
    TheCosmicFrog
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    brianthebard wrote: »
    maybe they need the chair to stand on to reach something above the door when locking and opening it....

    Ah... that does sound plausible.


  • #11
    Fisher Calhoun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Fisher Calhoun


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    Ah... that does sound plausible.

    Maybe a little too plausible.... :eek:


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  • #12
    Fionn MacCool
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭Fionn MacCool


    Sounds to me like the sort of issue the SU might be interested in solving :D


  • #13
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    Ah... that does sound plausible.
    Fisher Calhoun wrote: »
    Maybe a little too plausible.... :eek:

    Emm, I agree maybe a little too plausible indeed.
    Sound's like they have gotten to you Cosmic Frog.

    **Don's Tin foil hat**


  • #14
    IsThisIt???
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭IsThisIt???


    Think this thread def needs to be a sticky!


  • #15
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    It could be to keep the door closed to prevent a draught?


  • #16
    Fisher Calhoun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Fisher Calhoun


    Ficheall wrote: »
    It could be to keep the door closed to prevent a draught?
    Rubbish... that's not nearly conspiratorial enough to be at all likely!


  • #17
    Fisher Calhoun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭Fisher Calhoun


    TheCosmicFrog wrote: »
    Works for CompSoc and our server room...
    Also meant to comment on this earlier...

    Absolute height of security there! I especially love that the door opens outwards! :D


  • #18
    TheCosmicFrog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭TheCosmicFrog


    See! I'm not crazy! :pac:

    chair_inside_door_mri.png

    But yeah, the lock-above-the-door theory makes the most sense...


  • #19
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    i bet now the door opens the other way as well :pac:


  • #20
    Columc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭Columc


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    i bet now the door opens the other way as well :pac:

    the word Pull on the outside of the dorr have any reason to your comment?


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