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people who get in the lift to go up 1 or 2 floors
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Posted 6 months ago #
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People have injuries or are disabled and not lazy.
I work in a University department where I regularly see large numbers of students waiting quite a long time to take the lift either up or down a maximum of 2 flights.Of course some of them may have injuries or disabilities, but I would be willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of them do not.
Sure it's a generalisation that all the people using the lifts are simply lazy gits, and a few people with genuine reasons will get labelled unfairly. But I don't see how pointing out that a few people do need to use lifts makes it somehow bigoted or ignorant to say that most people don't need to.
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I have to admit that I've never been disabled and only on very rare occasions so injured that I couldn't do stairs (unfortunately my uni accommodation didn't have a lift the day after I'd done a 7 mile run having not really run at all for several years
). Yet I quite often took the lift up one floor in work - or even down one floor.The thing is I'd do that when walking with a colleague who had medical problems with stairs (ironically he used to be a very good runner, but has done his back in).
Though I agree with the general gist that suggesting lots of people are too lazy to use the stairs doesn't mean you're complaining about those who have other reasons.
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We CAN'T use the stairs in our shiny new offices.. we're not allowed.. seriously
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Yes lots of people are probably too lazy to use the stairs, but the fact is you don't know someone's individual situation, so it's probably best not to pass judgement. Not that hard is it?
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Other than the fact that I can't believe forumites have to spell out that people who can't use stairs for whatever reason aren't included in the 'lazy gits' category (I'd have thought that was pretty obvious to most intelligent people) ...
Several of my colleagues spend an hour in the gym at lunchtime, but can't even be bothered to walk up a few flights of stairs in the office (there's only 3 floors too) ... I assume these must be the same type of weirdo as those who drive round and round the car park to find a space 3 metres nearer the Gym entrance ...
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Other than the fact that I can't believe forumites have to spell out that people who can't use stairs for whatever reason aren't included in the 'lazy gits' category (I'd have thought that was pretty obvious to most intelligent people) ...
The point is that you don't know - some of the specific people being slagged off in this thread as lazy may well have good reasons why they need to use a lift.
Being judgemental isn't generally seen as an admirable quality. I'd have thought that was pretty obvious to most intelligent people.
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The point is that you don't know - some of the specific people being slagged off in this thread as lazy may well have good reasons why they need to use a lift.
Sorry, what I meant by my poorly worded comment above was:
surely we're all aware enough to realise that some people are legitimately unable to use stairs, and therefore don't need this spelling out to us?
i.e. when I read the OP's opening comment I automatically interpreted it as referring only to those who have a choice, which I believe is the spirit in which it was written.
Being judgemental isn't generally seen as an admirable quality
This is slightly amusing considering some of the banter on this (& other) forums
Posted 6 months ago # -
If I go into a store with stairs I refuse to go up.
Most clothes stores have mens on the first floor- **** right off!
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I catch the lift up one floor to get tea, I then catch the lift down 1 floor because I've got tea.
When I go home the lifts are full of Fat Girls full of cake.Posted 6 months ago # -
Sue_W - Member
NHS recommend 10,000 steps per day, average person walks 3-400 steps per day.
The average is 3000 to 4000.
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According to Nike+ I did 10,463 steps this morning. The downside of this is that I do appear to have caused a little abrasion in the groin area. I think the NHS should lower the recommendation a little.
Posted 6 months ago # -
So what do all these folk do when the fire alarm goes off ?? Attach a slide to the window ?
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