It’s a big container full of heavily compressed gas. If it cracks, there will be an explosion. Maybe not so much *fire* as a movie explosion, but one with plenty of shrapnel and deafness for too-close bystanders anyway…
“Ya gotta strike while the union is hot / Ya gotta get all the money they got / If a scab tells ya to stick it / ya just stand right up and picket / Ya gotta strike while the union is hot!”
looking a Bubbles face there in the last panel I wonder …
… how long before she ‘borrows’ Gentle Persuasion and goes on a rampage?
So a move from dispensing water to dispensing fire?
Cooling is just a matter of moving heat from one place to another…
I’m pretty pleased at how she’s learned to use sarcasm to enhance her limited vocabulary.
For once, Bubbles’ language uses exactly the same phoneme combination that I would choose to use in this situation.
And yeah, it’s quite a bit cleaner than what most people would say, but would you expect a water purifier to use dirty language?
Well, yes, but this is not the time for her to mention her “joy service”.
I look forward to Bubble’s inevitable and nearing Rampage.
“SERVICE IS MY ONLY JOY!” *flamethrower noises* “JOOOOOOY!”
Bubbles has become my favorite Skin Horse character in this arc, and she’s had steep compitition!
TTTO: No Regrets (performed by Gary Allan, written by Randall, Jon / Hanna, Jamie / Allan, Gary)
Termites in the cryo room
We need a big bomb filled with CO2
I’ve got a plan to get past this place
Irradiation made them large
And hungry, of course, but now I’m taking charge
I can lead them on a merry chase
Now I regret this plan I made
Termite beasts have me so afraid
I’ll be glad when this is done
Run away!
Well, I’ve a plan, you bet
For this termite threat
Already, I regret
Now, why’d I have to be so bold?
Well when I’m running so fast at least I don’t feel cold
But dead ‘n warm is really dead anyway
Well I know I can’t look back
Or I’ll fall prey to a bug attack
I’ll just run now – run and pray
Now I regret this plan I made
Termite beasts have me so afraid
I’ll be glad when this is done
Run away!
Well, I’ve a plan, you bet
For this termite threat
Already, I regret
If you run with a large spherical metallic object screaming “bomb” people usually get out of your way. I don’t know if machines react the same way.
Machines may know a bad thing when they see it, but they typically don’t know fear.
…or is that kender?
“That was the equation! Existence! Survival must cancel out programming!”
– Ruk the ugly-ass android.
“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.”
Yay, original Batman movie reference!
…though, according to Wallace and Gromit, you always have the option of chucking it over the border into Yorkshire.
Even if that would normally work, that bomb has a big “CO2” painted on its side. Kind of like having “replica” written down the side of your gun.
It’s a big container full of heavily compressed gas. If it cracks, there will be an explosion. Maybe not so much *fire* as a movie explosion, but one with plenty of shrapnel and deafness for too-close bystanders anyway…
I just saw Edge of Tomorrow, and you’ve probably already been told this, but they totally stole the premise from you.
Whoops. Didn’t mean for that to be a reply to anyone.
And here I was hoping to be the first one to mention the new movie that appears to be Choose but with Tom Cruise.
I’m not even kidding. He even uses the same exact method of figuring out what to do.
I know what you mean, but intimidation relies on perception.
(TUNE: “I Won’t Back Down”, Tom Petty)
Managed one floor down!
We got one floor down!
Gotta make it through
With the bomb of CO2!
We made one floor down!
To the room of flame
That the bomb can tame!
The machines say no!
But we really need to go
Deeper underground …
We’re just one floor down!
(We’re one floor down, yeah!!)
We can’t go back or around!
(We’re one floor down, yeah!!)
Making Bubbles frown!
Only one … floor … down!
“I don’t regret this, but I both rue and lament it.”
I can’t decide which part of this strip I like best, the giant cartoony bomb or Bubbles learning sarcasm.
Shouldn’t all this office equipment be out on the picket lines?
they could picket, or they could beat up Bubbles the damn dirty scab.
“Ya gotta strike while the union is hot / Ya gotta get all the money they got / If a scab tells ya to stick it / ya just stand right up and picket / Ya gotta strike while the union is hot!”
‘Tis a thing of beauty when an innocent young creature first discovers sarcasm.
I’m beginning to adore Bubbles.
With the shredder aligned against them, there is no hope for those files.
Bubbles (although I prefer Brita (TM), too) is beginning to rival Zerhakker in the pre-programmed repressed cursing department.
By the way, I love the nice retro look of the CO-Two bomb.
Again, Tip may go for the simple solution here.
“Hey, any of you guys want to melt in the fire downstairs? No? Good, then let us get this extinguisher through!”
Self-preservation tends to trump idealism nine times out of ten. (It’s that tenth you have to watch out for.)
Wait… is that a garbage bin? That’s not even a machine! It’s a solid piece of molded plastic
I think what you’re seeing may be the shredder.
There does not appear to be a shredder attached to the garbage bin, no.
Maybe the shredder part crossed the picket line.
Light it then roll it down the stairs
Huh, so they did make the drone capable of eye-twitching.