My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn’t want to believe this
Pray for their safety
Submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
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SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 1 year ago
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Of course you can’t walk up an elevator. Sometimes you can manually open the doors, but… Wait, what’s this in the comments?”
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This joke was funnier when Mitch Hedberg made it with fewer words and zero pictures.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s a fake meme.
That said, escalator break downs can kill people. They don’t always just stop, they free wheel and smash everyone into a pile at the bottom.
norgur@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
That’s why they, just like elevators, need overspeed brakes. They are not required to have those in all places sadly.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Queue Mitch Hedberg…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
*cue
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Que?
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They have womewhat distinct uses today, but cue in this sense is an alternative spelling of queue:
idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Broken escalators are no joke. My father starved to death because they couldn’t fix the excalator in time.
Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They should’ve used the excalibur.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Fine to do for getting off the thing if it stopped while you’re on it but no, they don’t just become stairs when they’re stopped. Go look up escalator brake failures if you want to see some horrifying videos of how that can go wrong.
Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Got a sepcific video in mind? all the videos coming up are failures while they’re running.
crashoverride@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mitch hedberg is very disappointed in you
blusterydayve26@midwest.social 1 year ago
If it hasn’t moved in two hours, we can probably assume it’s stopped.
theodewere@kbin.social 1 year ago
i bet if you let loose a couple of lions in there, one or two of them would discover some new escalator climbing skills real quick.. maybe just play lion noises through the intercom..
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh, I thought you were saying the lions would learn.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m down for more wild lion security at malls.
llama@midwest.social 1 year ago
A lot of malls in Asia have signs that say not to walk on the escalators. So yeah I guess if it breaks you’re SOL if the people in front of you aren’t rule breakers.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Acshually, “escalators” are a subset of “stairs”. They would’ve known this had they paid attention during math class 🤓
wigginlsu@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I used to know that. I still do, but I used to, too.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If you integrate stairs you get escalator
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.
isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or a temporary chainsaw from hell. That one clip of the one absolutely shitting the bed will haunt me.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Link?
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The scene you’re probably thinking of is from one of the Final Destination movies. Not sure I’d count those as the most solid of evidence.
LEONHART@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Sorry for the convenience!
(R.I.P. Mitch)
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But their stair form may go out of order under extreme conditions.