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| Alt-text: Even governmental elevator inspectors get bored halfway through asking where the building office is. |
Guys, guys! Bureaucracy is boring! It is so boring that I get bored reading comics about it! Also, don't you hate it when you have to kneel down in the lift to press the ground floor button? That really sucks!
Anyway, I learned two things about lifts today, at least the ones I use.
One, if you press and hold the button for a particular floor for the whole ride, the lift doesn't stop at any intervening floors. Apparently, this is used by the emergency services.
Two, lifts make you fat.
Good to know.
JON LEVI'S BINGO TIME!
How much can be said about lift safety?
Quite a lot, although nothing related to feminism, unfortunately.
Apart from being a meh comic, it strikes me because something much more interesting could have been used here. I've never once seen an elevator with the "certificate in building office" notice, in fact all the levators here have a signed certificate in them. So it may only make sense in elevator-dense areas like Boston, where perhaps building managers can get away with uncertified elevators.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, pretty much every elevator has a "shut doors" button, usually labeled like
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Everyone presses it repeatedly until the doors shut, but in fact, the button has been functionless in pretty much any North American elevator installed in at least the past 30 years. This could have made at least for a silly "My Hobby" comic, or something.
I find the button thing unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteEmergency responders have a key that turns in the control panel. If you look, you can see the socket for it. When the key is in the socket, all commands to the elevator are obeyed instantly. This includes open and close door.
PS: I suspect Randy's town has a law that says that elevator inspection certificates need not be installed in the elevator. That's why he sees those "available on request" cards. In most towns, however, it's the law that the certificate must be posted in the elevator, which is why the comic makes no sense to 95 percent of people.
PS: Even in Randy's town, there's one person who certainly will demand to see the certificate: the fire marshal.
22:21 You are so lucky. The elevators around here have functional "shut door" buttons and half the time you try to ride an elevator there's some self-possessed fuckwit who presses it as soon as people have finished getting out. You have to stick your arm in to stop the door from closing on you. I swear, next person who does it to me gets his fucking arm torn off and left on the outside.
ReplyDeleteKitten(s), allow me to present my newest project. It's like bingo, but for the xkcd forums. It also includes a non-impossible centre-square.
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Tell me what you think. I hope it can become a new regular feature on this blog.
"Lift"? What are you, some kind of communist?
ReplyDelete@Jon - Yes! Very awesome, but of course there is no way I'm going into the fora to fill that out every time. I'll include it whenever you fill it out.
ReplyDelete@Anon02:44 - We tested it yesterday with the lifts here, and it worked.
Lifts in Japan have a functional "close door" button, but people in Japan are polite enough not to close the doors in front of your face.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, lifts in Japan close really quickly on their own. If more than two people are getting in or out, someone simply must hold the "door open" button otherwise everyone is just going to end up bumping into the door.
We also have a lift at my work that shows various messages on an LCD display, including one where it apologizes when the lift is crowded (presumably using a weight sensor). Only in Japan...
Kitten(s), although my post got deleted my offer of bingo still stands.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how I will do this. I will probably do postings on weekends. I've just done a trial run, and the results are good.
However that said, I'm not sure sure if I could bear to do this three times a week. I might just pick the best one or two comics threads in a week, and just read those.
I will also have to wait for each forum thread to be at least a week old, so when I post on weekends it will be for the previous week.
Yeah, I wouldn't expect anyone to go through every forum thread. Your idea seems like a decent one. I will just post it whenever you put one up, so no need to worry about doing it regularly.
ReplyDeleteYou can sometimes save a lot of time reading threads by skipping the sections in which Aquarians Like To Fuck has been spamming. The dull attempts at comedy in those sections shouldn't count for anything anyway, not even bingo.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, you seem to be misunderstanding. This is not about the comment threads on xkcdsucks anymore. Instead I will be going into
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the xkcd forums.
Don't go there, Jon! It's too dangerous.
ReplyDeleteNo, Anon, I must, for it is my destiny!
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Now everybody just STFU and get over it."
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