Pray for their safety

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Escalators can never be temporarily out of order. They can only be temporarily stairs.

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  • Strykker@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know it’s a quote, but if the brakes failed on an escalator then yes it would be unusable even as stairs, however you wouldn’t be stuck on it at that point, you’d be in a pile at the bottom.

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    • Brickhead92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or possibly crushed, which some would agree is worse.

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  • 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.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Link?

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    • 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.

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  • LEONHART@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sorry for the convenience!

    (R.I.P. Mitch)

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  • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • Mitch Hedberg

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  • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But their stair form may go out of order under extreme conditions.

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  • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Graceful degradation. We can all learn from its example.

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• SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My mind changed escalator to elevator because it didn’t want to believe this

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  • 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?”

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• jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This joke was funnier when Mitch Hedberg made it with fewer words and zero pictures.

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• 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.

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  • 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.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Queue Mitch Hedberg…

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqOkWWV6a_U

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *cue

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah, you’re right. Silly me.

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    • Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Que?

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They have womewhat distinct uses today, but cue in this sense is an alternative spelling of queue:

      www.etymonline.com/word/cue

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• 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.

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  • Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They should’ve used the excalibur.

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• 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.

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  • Tarkcanis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Got a sepcific video in mind? all the videos coming up are failures while they’re running.

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    • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Saw it a few years back and don’t care to look for it since that shit scares the shit out of me (used to be a ski lift operator, rollbacks become a phobia in that line of work) but it was a large amount of people marching up the thing like it was a set of stairs when it just gave out.

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  • crashoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mitch hedberg is very disappointed in you

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  • blusterydayve26@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If it hasn’t moved in two hours, we can probably assume it’s stopped.

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• 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..

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  • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, I thought you were saying the lions would learn.

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  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m down for more wild lion security at malls.

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• 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.

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• 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 🤓

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  • wigginlsu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used to know that. I still do, but I used to, too.

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  • Rubanski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you integrate stairs you get escalator

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