1st Time Masterlock open

[Lk25]

My dad was trying to cut the lock off my pool barrier and i was like wtf are you doing. Let me open it. So i bring up my picks and i opened it in 12 seconds i was like wow I learned new experience

[/url]http://media.putfile.com/MasterLock-5-Picklock[url][/url]

[Lk25]

oops this should work

http://media.putfile.com/MasterLock-5-Picklock

ps: I havnt been on this web site lke 5 months ago and im 14

[tweed]

good job, i belive i have that same lock and i can never get it that fast. Have you always been able to pick it that quickly? or have you been practicing on that particular one for awhile?

[pinsetter]

good job!

that first lock makes you feel so good! It gave me the bug when I opened my first one. Now I have 40+ locks that I practice with! I still love it every time I open a lock without a key!

[Lk25]

Well tis is not my 1st lock. Its my 1st Masterlock but i can open it in 4 seconds

Ive opened it 8 times and i juste knoe how to open this one, i can open my frontdoor and some other doorknobs locks.

[illusion]

the government can do no wrong

Wrong according to whom?

I'd care to wager they DO wrong, but for a greater good.

Having the skill to break into forbidden places is not a crime, but using it for the wrong reasons is.

[Mollywirebandit]

the government can do no wrong

Wrong according to whom?

How about the 76% of the population that didn't want the UK to go to war, illusion?

and then 2 years later we vote the same buggers back into power - bet that taught them a lot about their responsiblity to public opinion - "they're lying scum, but they're still better than the Tories or the Lib Dems". Great.

soz, seriously off topic.

Well done for picking the padlock, Lk25, wish I'd started doing this at 14!

I do take exception to your .sig though - quite a few of us on here are locksmiths - I don't think they would consider lockpicking criminal or a hobby.
How about being a bit more specific -

Trespassing / Burglary is criminal!
Hobby Lockpicking gets the Chicks!

hmm, might need a bit of work....

[ablazia]

I picked up an Master #5 just to see if I could open it... I was appalled at how easy it was. I don't think it took me 10 seconds my first time and the time has come down from there.

It's just as easy to shim it too though you have to shim both sides of the shackle. I know shimming isn't picking but I am working toward being a lockie and figure any method that is non-destructive is good to know.

And yeah, I wish I had started on this when I was younger in body (my mind still hasn't caught up with my age; but that's a good thing actually).

And great job on picking your first Master!

[USMAN]

I wish to get these Master Locks but got Only Tri-Circles or some more types of low quality China locks

[LockNewbie21]

How about the 76% of the population that didn't want the UK to go to war, illusion?

Myself personally would be proud and honored to have these people around me, they went not because the wanted to but for the better of there country people like this deserve the utmost respect, and goverments are corrupt its not the latest news story.. but they have some good points and actions nobodies perfect. I could sit and yell and scream about hundreds of things Geoger bush does wrong, but untimatly they do alot behind closed doors to insure there homeland is safe.. so point being never critisize what you don;t understand. I think illusion is right on, and i also respect oyur opinions as well buddy just offering my 30.34443 cents

P.s- great job with the lock buddy, and oyu were lucky you have a nice practice lock for free I ENVY YOU

Andy

[illusion]

As a representative parliamentary democracy, we elect somebody to make descisions for us.

Want to hear something that is funny?

When we elect a government we give them a mandate, of instruction to fullfill their manifesto. Under the Salisbury convention, not even the Lords can make a peep when a government enacts something highlighted in it's manifesto. The logic behind it is that we read the manifesto and were sympathetic to it. This is one of the fundemental blocks in our democracy, and yet there is a problem. NOBODY READS THE DARN MANFESTO!!!!!!! So the entire thing is a sham, and we elect governments, presidential style by choosing the candidate who has the best image.

Ahh... please learn about politics before making a complaint, you actualy have missed something huge.

Okay, let's check the last general election, shall we?

labour ONLY got 35.3% of the vote in the UK, which means that 64.7% DIDN'T WANT HIM!

So you will be shaking your head now, but it gets WORSE!

Right, so the country is split into 659 constituencies, and at a general election, each constituency votes to send the Member of Parliament to the House of Commons. The person who finishes with the more seats in parliament, makes the government, even if it is by 1! (although it will be a weak government)

In terms of who VOTED:

Labour: 35.3%
Conservative: 32.3%
Liberal Democrats: 22.1%

Okay, so you would think that since it was a close call between Labour and the Conservatives, then the number of seats would be similar? Wrong, since we use the First Past the Post voting system, we end up with hugely unfair results. This arises because the consituencies are are of different sizes, and intersteingly, Tony Blair has fiddled with the constituency boundaries since being in office.

The number of seats won are:
Labour: 356
Conservative: 198
Lib-Dems: 62

See? it really doesn't sometimes matter who you vote for - Conservatives finish with half the seats despite getting almost the same number of votes.

This is known as the 'distortion effect' and it's so utterly unfair I would complain, were politics really that simple.

The fairer solution is Proportional Representation, since it gives you a number of seats, according to your number of votes received. The problem with this, is that no party can get a majority in commons by itself and have to form coalition governments. Coalition governments are made upon compromise, have squabble internally about legislation, and are prone to splitting over issues. You get a fairer government, and one that is more representative, but it rarely manages anything remotely revolutionary.

I was once told by a person I have utter respect for, that in politics you pay your money, and take your choice. No system is perfect - it all depends upon what you want out of government. If you want strong go for a majority system like First Past the Post, but then it's unfair and urepresentative, but has power to push things through Parliament. If you want fair then get Proportional Representation, since it allows small parties to have a say and enriches representation. The backhand to PR is that it's weak and struggles to achieve anything.

Don't talk out of your backside, about something you know absloutely nothing about, ESPECIALY when it's something I am really into, and have plenty to squash your crummy arguments with.

If you want more examples messed up stuff, check out QUANGOS, elective dictatorship in Commons, and the civil service (velvet drainpipe)

Mods, can you please leave this up? Smile

I had my politics final exam yesterday, and am so geared up I had to answer to this one. Smile

Thanks for reading!

Ben

[Jason13]

Could you upload this on www.youtube.com theres something wrong with my pc that i cant watch on sertin sites something to do with direct show players but if you can put it on that site it would be veyr helpful.

[Mollywirebandit]

Hey Ben, congrats on completing your finals, does this mean you are going into politics, or will you just be a pundit?

but untimatly they do alot behind closed doors to insure there homeland is safe.. so point being never critisize what you don;t understand.

Okay, well bad grammer and spelling aside, LockNewbie21, if the government do a lot behind closed doors, how do you know about it? parsonally I feel what they have been upto NOT behind closed doors has made our homeland infinitely less safe.

Personally I am of the opinion that if the government did anything remotely competent or useful they would be shouting it from the rooftops with megaphones!

Just like the Forest Gate raid, you know they didn't find anything, because they didn't anounce it straight away. Same with WMDs in Iraq; If they found them you'd bet your right bumcheek they would being having a worldwide press conference 30 seconds later.

I'm not claiming to be a political expert, but I'd like to think I understand more about the situation than the average beer swilling, England-flag-on-my-car man on the street.

F'instance:

Under the Salisbury convention, not even the Lords can make a peep when a government enacts something highlighted in it's manifesto.

Soz Ben, but some people DO read party manifestos (manifestii?), thats why labour got hammered for Tuition fees after stating it would never implement them in their manifesto. The problem is not people not reading them, the problem is the electorate believing in what they read!

Also I failed to notice the section in the manifesto which stated they would ignore the UN, copy a ten year old essay from the 'net and pass it off as the latest intelligence and effectively go to war (no declaration of war remember) because of peer pressure from a redneck fundamentalist hick!

or maybe it was in the addendum?

and as for this:

Ahh... please learn about politics before making a complaint, you actualy have missed something huge.

Sorry? You're saying I missed the fact labour only got 35.3% of the vote?
I didn't miss that fact, Ben, just lamenting that enough people voted for our warmongering government for it to continue on for five years, and that Tony Blair could have been caught fisting kittens in Picadilly after nuking Switzerland and would have still retained power 'cause a large proportion of our population were scared to death of any other party getting in to power.

My point was that the last general election we (the electorate) effectively taught all of our politcians that they can do whatever they wish with our armed forces and civil liberties and still retain power

Don't talk out of your backside, about something you know absloutely nothing about, ESPECIALY when it's something I am really into, and have plenty to squash your crummy arguments with.

How woood! Ben, I know you're "so geared up" that you had to answer my post, but I wouldn't expect this infantile tirade from someone who has just completed their Uni exams, you sure you're at voting age?

Notwithstanding the fact that you know very little about me and the extent of my political knowledge, I haven't made any 'crummy arguments'. These statements are known as opinions. I'm 'into' politics too, maybe my opinions differ from yours because of age, race, background or intellect, but hardly justifies badly spelt words in capitals.

I'd be happy to discuss politics with you further, if you are capable of civilised intercourse, perhaps you would like to create a new topic?



Jon

Mods, can you please leave this up? Smile

Ditto!

[illusion]

Yes, I would be glad to continue this. This convo does not really belong on this site, but if you want to continue then by all means PM me and we'll talk.

[LockNewbie21]

Sorry about the spelling i type to fast i get flamed all the time lol, yea i just realized the no politics rule i would be glad to pm, but i am not saying our govs. are complete shams but what i meant is they do many things behind closed doors not shady sometimes but mostly if they would tell the general public the truth about certain issues there would be uproars and protest glalore.. i guess the only way to find out is to be behind those closed doors But thats it! no more politics for me but PM by all means i like talking abou tpolitics but not argue because there are so many contradictory points to every goverment.

Andy