Elevators?

I have recently moved to the ground floor so I don't get them so much. I like spazzing out in front of the mirrow when there's no one in them. They have low, flattering light in our office's ones.

I always gaze into the mirrors in our lift despite being aware of the CCTV camera in there. Though it paid off once after that motorcycle courier said 'don't worry love you're gorgeous'. Ha ha!

However, I'll just mention the Paternoster lifts in the Art's Tower at sheffield uni, two columns of rising and falling hop in hop out coffins.

God yes. it's an essential part of the day.

I am far too old to be doing this, but it's like... compulsion. Whee!

Why do they call muzak "elevator music"? I swear, I don't think I've ever encountered music on an elevator, and I've been on many. And do Brits call it "lift music"?

I do this too, I'm pleased it's not just me.

Surely this has been done at least 1000 times at film schools if not in a "real" release?

Are tbere any forwards that are actually amusing? I suspect the person who writes the subjects for them like "heh heh check this out guys, it's bonkers" is related to the person who writes the links for you've been framed with Lisa Riley.

"Of heights? An elevator afraid of heights?"

Another classic elevator scene -- The Producers (film version, at least). The Conversation has a pretty good one too.

My personal politics of elevators -- ponder silently. Alternately, start muttering about Jesus and his magic spaceship.

By the way, Tracer is brilliant.

That's probably the most exciting thing that'll happen to me all week. Is my life very sad and boring or am I just easily amused? I don't know.

people who repeatedly MASH the close door button

people who feel the need to press the ground floor button when they walk in, when it is obvious that everyone else is going to the ground floor and the button is lit up (and then MASH the close door button)

people who take the elevator to the 2nd floor instead of taking the stairs

Usually, it's just a room-service guy with a foodcart, but still.

(And that is my favorite Nintendo game of all time, hstencil.)

Unless my name has suddenly been changed to Dave Bowman, there's no way that I'd set foot in this elevator.

My only (vaguely interesting) story about elevators concerns the time when I was young, free and single and living in Hong Kong. I was having some passionate affair with a burly rugby player, and after a drunken night out on the town we headed home to my apartment on the 34th floor of a block of flats up the Peak and we got a bit frisky in the lift on the way, like you do.

Next day I discovered that there was a CCTV camera in the lift which was linked to a bank of monitors in the foyer office full of leering security guards. Oops.

Working in the coal mine
Going down down down
Working in the coal mine
Whoop I wanna sit down

Five o'clock in the morning
I'm already up and gone
Lord I'm so tired
How long can this go on

Cause I work every morning
Hauling coal by the ton,
But when saturday rolls around
I'm too tired to have any fun

Lord, I'm so tired. How long can this go on?

Either that, or can anyone offer me a job in one of those parking garages where the attendent hops onto a corkscrew-like contraption to get to the top of the deck? It's like the opposite of a fireman's pole.

Um...

Nevermind.

Pleasant Plains, I had a look at my sources and I've only got locations for the UK and Europe. That corkscrew thing sounds cool.

When I worked at the World Bank, the employee gym was in one building's basement, but because of "safety restrictions" you could not take the stairs down that one level. So I had to take the elevator down one level, in order to use the Stairmaster.

And of course everywhere else in the Bank there were the usual signs urging people to take the stairs if you were going up one level or down two.

In addition to the gentle clunking noises, they would also sometimes suddenly shudder gently and this would always make the more nervous passengers exclaim "ooo-err!" worriedly. Lots of staff refused to travel on them, preferring the more usual elevators, but I loved them. The best game was a version of 'chicken', whereby a few of us would stand by the edge of the compartment as it travelled on the downward journey, and see how soon we would dare to jump off onto the floor below. Fun!

The paternosters used to break down fairly often, but even if they got stuck between floors you could always manage to clamber out onto to the floor below reasonably safely before the maintenance people (eventually) turned up to try and rescue you. There was no phone for emergencies at all, you just used to have to shout:)

I remember the first time I saw one of those Schindlers tags in a lift it tickled me for days, I couldn't get in the lift without laughing (and thereby getting myself labelled as A Bit Strange thereafter).

I'm looking all over for this "corkscrew" thing I've seen in some parking decks, but so far, this is the closest I've come to finding anything. It's not really a corkscrew, more like a belt with "steps" on it about every four feet.

http://shanghaiist.com/2013/05/16/shenzhen_nurse_sliced_in_half_by_elevator.php

destroy elevators

Guy I knew in college used to (allegedly) board descending elevators on like the 8th floor, hit the button for the 7th, and ride down with his back against the door, giving all the other passengers a disturbing stare. Then disembark on 7 and run for the staircase; then while the others are all like "lol what a weirdo!" he'd be racing down the stairs to 6 where he'd hail the same car and encounter them all again. And then tell them "I heard you all talk about me...and I'm going to kill all of you!", still with the glare, making for an awkward 6-floor ride down to the lobby. Entertainment!

seems like a cool guy

i am always impressed when i go into houses that have elevators, which isn't often. i would be even more impressed if someone had an escalator in their house.

Wasn't there an article detailing elevator deaths - want to say it was a Slate/Atlantic article - not the NYer article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVq_rtaiXQ

WHAT

That’s awesome

thought this was an outkast thread for a min.

but this is also a jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxeOpCIIc60

How is that setup not a major disimprovement on actual elevators

Its cheaper.

That's how miners used to get down deep in the mines. Took an hour..

I think it might also be some sort of evacuation system -- that can be used as a short-cut to your neighbor's balcony party.