Escalators and autowalks

philiy

I always walk when Im on these and it wrecks my head when people stand on them and get in your way, they are designed to help people move at a faster rate to avoide hold ups in high traffic areas.

If you are not going to walk while on them, at least move to the side.

Menengroth™

make a facebook group about it, then the world is your oyster.

6th

I wanna make love on one. Just the one thats going down though.

dvpower

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1193

paddydriver

I always ensure the pram is right in the middle and then I hold one rail and get daughter to hold other:D - Bet I would really annoy you:eek:

My name is URL

Jerry Seinfeld did it

biko

I put cellophane across the exit.

lisbon_lions

Wanna stand? <--- Keep left. Wanna walk? ---> Keep right. simple.

HxGH

Thats crazy!

I was just thinking of this earlier!

Why must they stop?

I can't get my head around it! :mad:

6th

Its the fcukers that stop at the top/bottom who annoy me. Move bitch or I'm gonna bump into you and put a baby in you!

philiy

dvpower wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1193

point taken

mikom

philiy wrote: »

they are designed to help people move at a faster rate to avoide hold ups in high traffic areas.

Love Escalators, especially cos that they can never break, they just become stairs.

AttackThePoster

Terrible thread, would never read again.

bonerm

lisbon_lions wrote: »

Wanna stand? <--- Keep left. Wanna walk? ---> Keep right. simple.

First time I went to London I soon realised they had this convention worked out completely. If you were standing on the left then you best be prepared for someone ploughing into the back of you high speed. None of that British "oh I'm terribly sorry" neither.

bonerm

6th wrote: »

I wanna make love on one. Just the one thats going down though.

Would you not be worried you might accidently catch your wee willy winky in the metal teeth of the bottom step. Ouch!

WindSock

bonerm wrote: »

First time I went to London I soon realised they had this convention worked out completely. If you were standing on the left then you best be prepared for someone ploughing into the back of you high speed. None of that British "oh I'm terribly sorry" neither.

Bring the Brits back, I say.

Whippersnapper

Is it stupidity or laziness or both? It drives me insane!!!

AttackThePoster

WindSock wrote: »

Bring the Brits back, I say.

-1

syklops

The unwritten rule across all of Europe is stand on the right. Why us Irish have to be different and stand all over the shop is beyond me.

syklops

Whippersnapper wrote: »

Is it stupidity or laziness or both? It drives me insane!!!

What, starting threads to complain about something that people could care less about?

CrazyRabbit

philiy wrote: »

I always walk when Im on these and it wrecks my head when people stand on them and get in your way, they are designed to help people move at a faster rate to avoide hold ups in high traffic areas.

If you are not going to walk while on them, at least move to the side.

All the slow lazy people are on the escalators, so you should use the almost always empty stairs and run up/down them as fast as you wish.

enda1

lisbon_lions wrote: »

Wanna stand? <--- Keep left. Wanna walk? ---> Keep right. simple.

If its so simple, how did you get it arse-ways?

syklops

enda1 wrote: »

If its so simple, how did you get it arse-ways?

Where did this stand on the left thing come from??

enda1

syklops wrote: »

Where did this stand on the left thing come from??

No idea.

Its stand on the right everywhere I've ever been.

stupidusername

I've experience of how well this unwritten rule can work. In London up and down to the underground you must stand on the right, and let those who want to walk go on the left. It's easy. really don't know why it couldn't work here. It seems people just don't care enough. Well in fairness there's a lot more people in London than there is in any city here, so it's probably more necessary there. I don't walk on the escalators though, unless i'm in a hurry. On the flat ones in airports I do, you'd be 12 days trying to get where you're going if you didn't.

syklops

syklops wrote: »

The unwritten rule across all of Europe is stand on the right. Why us Irish have to be different and stand all over the shop is beyond me.

In the words of the Dunnes stores advert "It's because we're Irish" :rolleyes:

lisbon_lions

enda1 wrote: »

If its so simple, how did you get it arse-ways?

Says whom? Every escalator i've been on, I choose to stand left walk right. Not my fault if everyone else has a different rule book.

enda1

lisbon_lions wrote: »

Says whom? Every escalator i've been on, I choose to stand left walk right. Not my fault if everyone else has a different rule book.

Yes it is.

witchgirl26

Whippersnapper wrote: »

Is it stupidity or laziness or both? It drives me insane!!!

Or in the case of some people I know, they have problems with their legs & walking around a lot so take a bit of a break while on an escalator or an autowalk. That said they do keep to the right like you should.

lisbon_lions

enda1 wrote: »

Yes it is.

Ah dry yer eyes would ye

Ciaran187

I've never seen stand right walk left in Ireland. Every one I've seen is stand lift walk right. It's based of traffic. Traffic passes on the right.

Also why you should walk on the left side of a hallway etc.

syklops

Says whom? Every escalator i've been on, I choose to stand left walk right. Not my fault if everyone else has a different rule book.

So it is literally a case of everyone else is out of step except my jonnie?

brianthebard

mikom wrote: »

Love Escalators, especially cos that they can never break, they just become stairs.

Plagarism!

lisbon_lions

syklops wrote: »

So it is literally a case of everyone else is out of step except my jonnie?

+1

Whippersnapper

witchgirl26 wrote: »

Or in the case of some people I know, they have problems with their legs & walking around a lot so take a bit of a break while on an escalator or an autowalk. That said they do keep to the right like you should.

I understand that, that's not a problem. But 99% of people on the escalators do not have these issues!

syklops

Ciaran187 wrote: »

I've never seen stand right walk left in Ireland. Every one I've seen is stand lift walk right. It's based of traffic. Traffic passes on the right.

Also why you should walk on the left side of a hallway etc.

Its because the escalators in other countries can be quite large/high, and some move alot faster than Irish ones do. If the power gets cut, or someone presses the emergency shutdown button, people are literally catapulted up or down depending where they are going. To combat this, most people grip the hand rail with their strongest hand which for most people is their right.

The fate of people who are walking or running up the escalator at the time of the power cut is obviously out of their hands.

stupidusername

syklops wrote: »

Its because the escalators in other countries can be quite large/high, and some move alot faster than Irish ones do. If the power gets cut, or someone presses the emergency shutdown button, people are literally catapulted up or down depending where they are going. To combat this, most people grip the hand rail with their strongest hand which for most people is their right.

The fate of people who are walking or running up the escalator at the time of the power cut is obviously out of their hands.

Sorry not trying to be rude..... but what bullsh*t!

corglass

WindSock wrote: »

Bring the Brits back, I say.

-2

syklops

stupidusername wrote: »

Sorry not trying to be rude..... but what bullsh*t!

Care to elaborate?

An Autowalk? WTF is an Autowalk?

A travelator like?

stupidusername

syklops wrote: »

Care to elaborate?

Its because the escalators in other countries can be quite large/high, and some move alot faster than Irish ones do. If the power gets cut, or someone presses the emergency shutdown button, people are literally catapulted up or down depending where they are going. To combat this, most people grip the hand rail with their strongest hand which for most people is their right.

The fate of people who are walking or running up the escalator at the time of the power cut is obviously out of their hands.

What's there to elaborate on? what you're saying is completely ridiculous as a reason for this.

syklops

stupidusername wrote: »

Its because the escalators in other countries can be quite large/high, and some move alot faster than Irish ones do. If the power gets cut, or someone presses the emergency shutdown button, people are literally catapulted up or down depending where they are going. To combat this, most people grip the hand rail with their strongest hand which for most people is their right.

The fate of people who are walking or running up the escalator at the time of the power cut is obviously out of their hands.

What's there to elaborate on? what you're saying is completely ridiculous as a reason for this.

WHY is it ridiculous? Thats what elaborate means.

MagicMarker

Deleted User wrote: »

An Autowalk? WTF is an Autowalk?

A travelator like?

Gladiators, are you ready!?

redout

Dublin airport is the worst.

Gob****es just stand side by side chatting oblivious to everyone else who is trying to get by.

Doesnt occur to them some people could be rushing to a gate.

FlutterinBantam

No way buddy, worst are those fcukers who wear those 'Skipper' caps like Charley Haughey and spend their fcuking day walking around shopping centres holding people up.

Was in the Jervo last week in a big hurry to an important meeting when this fcuking 'Skipper' hoves across my bows ,onto the escalator with two big bags, which the fcuker planks on either side.

No way through, and the cnunt had to audacity to unload a fcuking super sour 'Gert Stonker' about four steps from the top at my eye level.

Fcukin trousers rippled with the force and the bang of 'blown' bacon and cabbage nearly stunned me.Cnunt even flapped the hand across his nethers to dispel the fetid stink.

As I passed him after alighting I muttered 'I'd change that restaurant pal, cnunts are feeding you with pegged horsemeat'

Cunt is still looking.

syklops

syklops wrote: »

WHY is it ridiculous? Thats what elaborate means.

Its been 30 minutes. It looks like I'm not going to get a further clarification.

BluesBerry

If it annoys you that much press the red stop button at the end* so everyone has to walk up problem solved

*Its probably illegal so do so at own risk

syklops

BluesBerry wrote: »

If it annoys you that much press the red stop button at the end* so everyone has to walk up problem solved

*Its probably illegal so do so at own risk

And let me know before you do so I can hold the hand rail tighter.

Rowley Birkin QC

CrazyRabbit wrote: »

All the slow lazy people are on the escalators, so you should use the almost always empty stairs and run up/down them as fast as you wish.

Yup, simple.

Bog

The high spees ones are utterly useless. The one in Montparnasse station in Paris is forever broken down.



They are pretty handy to clean though.

Rented Mule

Question: What is an escaltor ?

Answer: A moving staircase

Question: What do you do on a staircase ??

Answer: You freaking move your lazy ass up and down the stairs.

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There should be someone with a giant mallet at the top/bottom of escaltors bopping these people on the heads that want to stand in the way of everyone.