Kev W wrote: » Pressing the "close door" button does.
According to a 2008 article in the New Yorker, close buttons don’t close the elevator doors in many elevators built in the United States since the 1990s. In some elevators the button is there for workers and emergency personnel to use, and it only works with a key. The key-only settings isn’t always active though, as the blog Design with Intent asserts. Each elevator is different. In some, the emergency function requires a long-press of several seconds longer than the average user attempts. The website, The Straight Dope, investigated the issue in 1986 by asking elevator companies and elevator repairmen directly. According to their investigation, “The grim truth is that a significant percentage of the close-door buttons in this world…don’t do anything at all.” The reasons cited were that the button was never wired up, or that it was set to a delay, or was deactivated by the owner, or it broke long ago and no one ever complained because the doors eventually close whether or not you press the buttons.
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asherbassad wrote: » Yes I'm aware of that but many lifts only have an "open door" button and in the lifts that have both I have witnessed the aforementioned **** continue to pummel the floor number button or hammer the "close door" button, again thinking this will have an effect. I'd love to see one of these **** do such a thing on a bus. Hammer the stop button until the bus stops. Would be delightful to the witness the driver get out and proceed to pound the wanker's head into the luggage rack. That would certainly speed up the onset of unconsciousness
asherbassad wrote: » No you fucking couldn't. How the fuck could you be sued if someone choked on food you gave them? If that was the case then the entire food industry would cease to exist as any restaurant/cafe/supermarket/waitress/server could be sued for giving food to someone who then choked on it. YOU really haven't thought that one through.
Kev W wrote: » The button on the bus only rings once.
grundie wrote: » People who abuse CD (diplomatic) plates ... the CD plates made them untouchable.
storker wrote: » On the 9:04 train between Wicklow and Dublin today, I sat at a table with just one woman sitting opposite. It appeared that she wanted to stake out the entire space as her personal office. The laptop was almost in the middle of the table at a 45-degree angle, her bags were on the seat beside her. Because I sat at the window, she wasn't actually in my way, funnily enough. Just as well, because she didn't move the laptop closer to her and out of the way as I got into the seat, as you would expect. I said nothing, but watched with interest to see what would happen with others. At another station a lady stopped and pointed at her bags and asked "Is there anyone sitting here?" The laptop lady said "No..." and looked at her bags next to her but didn't actually do anything. The lady standing then must have got tired waiting for the hint to be take so she just took a seat further down the carriage. She looked cross about it, though. I thought she should have said something, but laptop's lady's obvious unwillingness to show any manners worked. I'm sorry to say. I supposed I shouldn't be surprised these days by such selfishness and ignorance, but for some reason it still has the power to shock when you see it done so obviously, and in such a "fcuk you" manner. (Yellow t-shirt, longish brown hair (dyed, I'd say), tried back in a ponytail. Glasses. MacBook. Just in case someone recognises her.)
Samaris wrote: » I'm gonna talk about the Train Issue from a slightly different angle. I'm afraid there's going to be "justifying!", but tbh, it's the truth. I do try to be considerate of those around me.
asherbassad wrote: » I HATE **** like her. Is it your regular train? Did she look like a commuter or just some cow who fucks around the place thinking all public spaces are her own personal property?
storker wrote: » However, to look at your own approach from another angle, if experience has shown you that the bus is likely to fill up while you're distracted then why not avoid it becoming a problem for someone by not leaving bags on the seat in the first place? Seat are for backsides, not bags. And yes, people will get annoyed by it, because your setup is saying, whether intentionally or not, "this is my strategy for preventing people from sitting next to me". You can't feel hard done by if they assume you're being ignorant. People can't be expect to intuit the kind of person you really are. People will assume that you are what you reveal yourself to be through your actions. (I'm using the word "you" here generall in the sense of "one", it's not that I mean to be personal.)
grundie wrote: » People who perpetuate medical myths such as vaccines cause autism and WiFi allergies. Specifically those who slip such comments in to conversations as if they are commonly accepted facts and when challenged state that you just need to "read up on the facts". I recently had an argument with someone who claimed to be allergic to WiFi. I found this out when I mentioned I had tennis elbow and she said "You see, that's what WiFi does to you!". The fact that my spending 14 hours a day coding was the probable cause didn't sway her. When I pointed out that she was absorbing more RF energy from her mobile phone than from any WiFi router I was accused of perpetuating myths.
Puibo wrote: » I could type everything a guy at work has ever said to me or ye could just agree with me that he's a wanker!!
osarusan wrote: » You could type everything a guy at work has ever said to you or we could just agree with you that he's a wanker!!
Kev W wrote: No, you definitely have to type everything.
gimmick wrote: » How to spot a wanker at quickly. If someone is described by another as "Johnny is sound, no sh*t about him, if he doesn't like you he will tell you". In my book that makes Johnny a wanker who thinks he is this "truth speaker and honest". The person who appreciates this trait also gets upgraded to wanker straight off.
JonJones wrote: » not only **** but breaking law
