stop it you lazy ****ers!!!
i think a big part of the govt obesity plan should be to make all lifts, moving walkways and escalators really really slow. Annoyingly slow. So slow, that even biffers choose to walk.
Most of them don't even have the decency to look ashamed.
I'd be like this:
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while the rest of the list - which, of course would be full – would be like this:
😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
We've a fat cow in the office who gets the lift to the second floor and then spends the day whinging(sp?) about being fat!
they may have a serious health issue that you dont know about. ❓
I use the lift to go up to the vending machine on the 2nd floor. Why waste the energy?
Even worse are those that get in the lift to go DOWNstairs 😕
Our next door neighbours drive everywhere. The wife works half a mile away and drives her sporty BMW.
The husband takes his punto to the station which is just under a mile away.
The wife then comes home and dons her running gear and goes out for a jog. Madness.
I lived on the second floor of a building last year. Lift to go up, lift to go down, every time. Also regularly take the lift in buildings to go up or down one or two floors.
I use lifts whenever I get the opportunity. Same goes with escalators. Something about them releases my inner child.
Our next door neighbours drive everywhere. The wife works half a mile away and drives her sporty BMW.
The husband takes his punto to the station which is just under a mile away.
The wife then comes home and dons her running gear and goes out for a jog. Madness.
Perhaps she doesn't have the facility to change/shower at work?
Perhaps she doesn't have the facility to change/shower at work?
For half a mile walking would be the most sensible option wouldn't it?
For half a mile walking would be the most sensible option wouldn't it?
But that isn't a jog and perhaps she doesn't like walking?
Perhaps she's fat and useless? A lad at work got into the lift, got out on the 2nd floor and I watched him walk down to the 1st. Had to laugh at that one.
Why do people drive to the gym then spend their whole time on the treadmill? Insanity gone mad, I tell you.
I've just remembered the paternoster lift they had in one of the buildings at Uni. That was magic.
The stairs at our new building have glass sides and there's a sheer drop to one side. People with no head for heights always use the lift.
I use the lift to go 9 floors up and down, it's a time saver (though I am lazy).
Yeah I hate people with disabilities and love judging people.
I have CFS/ME and sometimes take the lift if I'm feeling a bit weak/ill.
My place is on the 5th floor. I always walk up and when it doesn't hurt my legs I know it's time to train hard again. The lift is an old weird thing, takes forever to flaff around with the doors anyway.
Who mentioned disabilities grum?
I've just remembered the paternoster lift they had in one of the buildings at Uni. That was magic.
The Engineering Building at Leicester.
The standard gag was to go 'over the top' and do a handstand as it came down the other side to 'scare' the freshers. 😆
In my old office, the receptionist lived two bus stops away. The road curved in a big u-shape, so the distance travelled on the bus was further than the walking distance. She got the bus home as well. Twice a week her dad drove her to the gym, which was around 700 yards from her house, then drove her home again.
Ay the gym, she spent 20 minutes on the walking machine
Nah, Sheffield's Arts Tower.
Who mentioned disabilities grum?
As ton said, they aren't always obvious.
As ton said, they aren't always obvious.
That's true, but it's not controversial to say that many people take the lift who are perfectly capable of walking up a flight of stairs. It's certainly true where I work.
Due to security restrictions where I work, you can only use the lifts to go up, but you can get access to the stairs to come down.
Half the blame is with the archcitects who design the buildings. Often the lifts are made the central focus of a multi story buildings lobby, all decorated and carpeted to invite you in to the lift, whilst should you choose to take the stairs, your forced to search for a side door into the cold bleak hard concreate stairwell where you feel somewhat second class.
Nah, Sheffield's Arts Tower.
One of my housemates rode it naked apart from a charity bucket.
We had a paternoster thingy at Birmingham Poly - scared the shit out of me. I always had visions of arms and legs being pinched off. Are they legal anymore?
The Southern Yeti - Member
Nah, Sheffield's Arts Tower.
Yes 😆 Think it's gone now though...
I get the lift at work because I'm not carrying my bike up 4 floors of stairs 😆 One of the chaps in the office keep telling me to ride down the stairs, said he'll pay me £50 as well 😆
Edit: This reminds me of teh lift/stairs at Covent Garden. I always take teh stairs, despite there being a sign at teh bottom saying 269 stairs! Great when you see some people half way up stopping for a breather 😆
It's certainly true where I work.
TBH, where I work, if they got rid of the lift I reckon it would cut down on smoking breaks.
Keep using the lift it's keeping me in a job 
Lift in my gaff is a Schindler
Lift in my gaff is a Schindler
I giggled when I saw one of those for the first time recently.
Grimy - I'd agree with the thing about the design of the building. As you walk into our offices, the stairs are right in front of you. The lift is tucked away round the back of them. I work on the third floor. In 12 months I have never once used the lift, nor have I seen anyone I work with use it. The only time it is ever used is for deliveries
Idave, I would take the stairs, seriously 😕
In my office, the lift is very slow, and you have to walk past the stairs to get to it. Some people really do work at their laziness.
Who do I write to so we have those stairs everywhere*?
* Except outside my flat, obviously.
I'm just passing the arts tower now
I'm just passing the arts tower now
I almost feel like we're related.
How is the wonderful City?
Holy shit, the Arts Tower paternoster has gone?
At my old work (a two storey building) I used to use the lift occasionally just to have thirty seconds to myself away from the constant nagging.
I wonder how many feet/miles/steps the average person travels in a day without the aid of lifts and cars etc. Not a lot, I'd imagine.
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Do it! I took my bike into the our common room once as I forgot my lock...I was then 'dared' to ride it down the stairs on the way out. But I didn't get £50, and I disrupted the computer class next door as it was a prefab building and apparently it made the floors shake 🙂
That Piano stair, just needs a bike shooting down it at the finish 🙂
Holy shit, the Arts Tower paternoster has gone?
Surely not 🙁
A bit like all the lazy ****ers that get lifts up mountains to ride down them.
Man up, buy a proper bike and ride up it.
I've recently been getting the lift up 1 or 2 floors for 3 reasons -
1) I do enough exercise away from work to care - **** off and judge someone else, moron.
2) I recently pulled my back something rotten, while I'm on painkillers I can walk normally but stairs hurts like hell.
3) I have a knee issue that makes it crack and get really painful if I do stairs too often, I'm avoiding that so I can do 1.
Now go take a long walk off a short pier!
Maybe they are carrying hot drinks and they are in the lift because of H&S reasons?
Heh, i work in a portacabin, so no lifts for me.. 🙂
We also have a fully equipped gym at work which virtually no-one uses.
Signed in today to use the gym tomorrow, and only 2 people have used it so far this week.
Because farting on the stairs isn't half as much fun.
They could be elite athlete's training twice a day and taking any opportunity to have a rest between sessions.
That slacker Seb Coe once said this in an interview about 30 years ago;-)
NHS recommend 10,000 steps per day, average person walks 3-400 steps per day.
With lifts, a number of people will use them due to temporary or long-term health issues (and as others have mentioned, this is not always obvious). Secondly, building / infrastructure design is a significant issue - we have made being 'inactive' the easiest and most convenient choice.
By far the biggest issue is the need for an attitudinal / cultural change towards more active lifestyles, and a better awareness of the significant health impacts of inactivity.
NHS recommend 10,000 steps per day, average person walks 3-400 steps per day.
That does suggest I should be walking 5km a day at least by my stride length. I don't do that, certainly 😀
Our factory has 3 separate buildings 5 floors/7 floors & 11 floors
I can tell you that carrying a 22kg tool box up the stairs to the lift house above the 11th floor really does get your heart rate up and a massive lactic acid burn in your legs.
We often have the sprint race to the 5th floor against the lift & then hold the lift door open for the lazy sods without looking like your about to drop dead 😉
I got in trouble for this at work, twice (long time ago, galaxy far far away, not my current job etc). Walked past the lift, lazy ****er stood there and before I even thought my mouth opens and out comes "are the stairs broken then". Wondered if that was a bit cheeky. Bint complains to her manager Respect & Dignity and all that, who complains to mine so I had to go and apologise. Worth it tho. Then I got in trouble for putting posters provided through an NHS health scheme on the lift that said "free exercise, take the stairs". It seems it is unacceptable behaviour to point out laziness to people.
Probably because it's none of your business?
Cough, cough gravity dropper seatpost OP?
Now that is lazy.
Well there is a line, I give you that. One is allowed to abuse and revile smokers, but fat gits who are too lazy to walk up the stairs should be left to it then ??
Then I got in trouble for putting posters provided through an NHS health scheme on the lift that said "free exercise, take the stairs".
We share a building with an NHS department. They have the bottom two floors, we have the top two.
All the NHS staff get the lift. Even to the first floor.
People have injuries or are disabled and not lazy.
Lots of folk on here trying to justify their lift habit.
The first step is admitting you have a problem...
14 November World Diabetes Day
16 November International Day for Tolerance
17 November World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day
I reckon there's an argument for scrapping the day for Tolerance and replacing it with an International Day for using the Stairs
Well there is a line, I give you that. One is allowed to abuse and revile smokers, but fat gits who are too lazy to walk up the stairs should be left to it then ??
Personally never feel the need to comment on other ,peoples fitness, or lack thereof. Or whether they smoke or not, or whether they're gay or straight. It just doesn't concern me and I really dont give a flying fudgecake or see why I should hold a moral high ground over them because I choose to do something they don't, or vice versa. I can only think it stems from having low self esteem and having to raise it by insulting others, or maybe having a superiority complex, but since I don't know them and they don't have an impact on my life I don't really give two hoots. Ho hum. 😆 I do think fitness is the better option, but I wouldnt comment about it unless asked by them.
We saw a man get in the lift to go down one floor yesterday. The stairs were so close to the lift we got from the lift doors, across the landing and back past the lift on the ground floor before he got out.
The paternoster in the Attenborough tower at Leicester uni was a great piece of planning. Moving thousands of people up and down an eighteen storey tower with several 30-40 capacity classrooms in it and countless smaller tutorial rooms all in a small 'footprint', and hardly any space for a lift and stairs? Ace idea. It meant proper stairs, a small-ish proper lift and a paternoster: no way that at 'lesson changeover' time you could have got that many people up and down it so quickly without the room for another three or four lifts.
They used to slow it down at the beginning of September because people used to fall on the floor when they stepped off it going down, and then got it back up to 'normal speed' a month or so into the term.
I work at Royal Blackburn Hospital and I must admit i do use the lift sometimes to get from the groundfloor to ours on the 3rd floor. As its a 5 minute walk from the main lifts to the wards from the main car park. However i don't get in the lift to go downstairs.
+1 coffeeking
hels - Member
Well there is a line, I give you that. One is allowed to abuse and revile smokers, but fat gits who are too lazy to walk up the stairs should be left to it then ??
I never used to take the lift, used to run up stairs even if there were several flights. Since getting ill a couple of years ago I often take the lift. I have no obvious physical signs of illness. I also used to be a lot thinner than I am now since I can't exercise half as much as I used to.
The idea that there are people judging and criticising me for that seems pretty pathetic TBH.
A bit like all the lazy ****ers that get lifts up mountains to ride down them.
If you rode all the way up the mountain somewhere like Whistler you'd probably get one or two, maybe three (if you're fit) downhill runs in per day. If you're there 10am-8pm and get lifts you can probably get at least 10+ depending on the queues 🙂
Why do people drive to the gym then spend their whole time on the treadmill? Insanity gone mad, I tell you.
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At a hotel I've been to often, the stairs are in the corner of the lobby. They are very wide, plushly carpeted and they open out right into the room. The lift on the other hand is nestled under the stairs quite visible and just as accessible, but its visually dominated by the nice looking stairs.
Almost everyone takes the stairs unless they have heavy bags. Rather interesting, I thought. In most places the lifts have pride of place in the lobby and the stairs are hidden right away through some fire doors. In those places everyone takes the lifts.
The 'stick man' signs for the lift/stairs in Poole hospital have MUCH fatter characters fire the lift than the stairs! Not sure if it was intentional?!
DrP
I some times use the lifts at work but then only towards the end of the day and depends on how many times i have been up the 6 or 7 storeies. You do see plenty of people get in them to go up one floor often waiting for long periods to get in. Ok it is a hospital but its the staff i will let visitors and patients off.
What really gets me is West Quay shopping centre where the lifts are full of people and block you from taking the buggy in whilst the escilator right next to the lift is empty and you get told off for taking the buggy on the eslcilator (mind you i also got frowned at for bumping it down the stairs my duaghter found it very funny).
I've been using lifts as much as possible for the last 2 months or so, in fact I have even driven to the local shops which are only about a 5 min walk away.
Why, because I've had Pneumonia and I physically couldn't walk up stairs or walk for 5 minutes. Not every one is a lazy ****er 😈
That paternoster liftimajig thing looks fun! Love it.
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.
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.
We CAN'T use the stairs in our shiny new offices.. we're not allowed.. seriously
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?
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 ...
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.
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 🙂
If I go into a store with stairs I refuse to go up.
Most clothes stores have mens on the first floor- **** right off! 😆
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.