I like the bollard that would make it uncomfortable for really fat people to get by.
Not to mention folks on crutches.
I guess there’s an upper limit where they’re like, “Hey, this is getting ridiculous. Take the stairs.”
Apparently Americans aren’t welcome here.
I’ve seen escalator mechanisms fail before, I could believe that’s a dual purpose for it (as well as presumably carts or scooters)
I’m a skinny bastard, so I’m taking the escalator
Idk why you’re joking but i used to be underweight and couldn’t afford a lot of food, and i genuinely tried to burn as few calories as possible, making choices like you’re describing all the time.
Edit: some weird typo autocorrected, i meant to say ‘I know you’re joking but[…]’
calories are cheap, it’s nutrition that costs
Some of us even have to skimp on the rice and beans
In your next life, do more crime.
It’s been less than a decade and it seems I’m already in my next life
Did you even try being born wealthy?
No, way too lazy for that. My own fault, i know.
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You must be THIS BIG to ride this ride.
But no more than THIS WIDE because of the pole
I go on the escalator but walk because I’m only half lazy and also want to go fast
Walking fast on the moving sidewalks makes me feel like Captain America.
Hmm, would running make you feel like the Flash? Or is that just not in the cards?
…moving…sidewalks??
Ohhhhh. I was thinking more of street sidewalks.
Boy, the comment section should be fun with this one
Good chance to curate my block list.
Can I be in your block list?
I don’t have any major infractions but I have the capacity to be bad once in a while
I think it’s more like parachute pants to the right, hipster pants to the left. No regular pants allowed.
What about us who don’t wear pants?
Then feel free to take either option via Zoom meeting
K, jumping on a Zoom meeting in the subway. Not sure how that helps things, but you’re the boss.
But then they put a pole in the middle of the escalator access. LOL.
I was about to say, they put a giant pole in the middle, no one who is fat will enjoy fitting through that and some even fatter people will never fit lmao
The pole is to prevent people from taking carts and similar objects up and potentially causing an accident
Though it does have unintended consequences
Why do people have carts on the subway?
its not for the subway, its for the elevator. Its dangerous to have carts on elevator
I’ve seen these sorts of things at subway exits/entrances in airports, where you have carts for moving lots of bags at once. There might also be shops nearby with shopping carts that people have tried to take on the escalator in the past.
I’m not Korean(perhaps someone familiar with the place might be able to offer more insight), just offering some possibilities, but it’s difficult to know without more context.
Not necessarily carts like the ones you see in shopping malls, but it’s also for things that would not be safe on the escalators like:
- Baby carts (forgot the proper name for them)
- Large carrier bags
- Those cart-like bags elderly people usually carry around that doubles as a walking assistant
Accidentally letting them go would be dangerous.
Stroller is the word you were looking for for baby cart. I hate when I can’t think of a word, it pisses me off until I look it up or somehow remember and I can’t focus on anything else.
Or parambulator if you’re still trying to meet your daily syllable count
In Korea, the left of the escalator is for walking, the right is for standing.
(They have signs saying “no walking” but that’s what the divider is for; to double the capacity)
Same in Austria, and I’m pretty sure also in Germany
Yeah, we do that in America sometimes too. Most people ignore it, just like on the highway.
Yeah well maybe an icon that usually tells people where to take a shit shouldn’t be so fucking critical.
That doesn’t look like Korea, I’m guessing Japan. The text looks like Chinese characters, and Korea hasn’t used those for hundreds of years. Korean script is more blocky and easily recognizable even with this incredible level of blur.
The black speech bubble looks absolutely like Korean to me. It’s possible the text underneath is simply a translation for Japanese and Chinese, though.
Perhaps. I can’t make out the black bubble, it’s too blurry, but I can definitely tell the white bubble is not Korean (SO is Korean and I can read but not speak Korean). If there were just a few more pixels, I could probably read what it says, and I can distinguish Japanese and Chinese, so I could make an educated guess about it being a translation.
That all looks like Hangul to me.
It apparently is, but it was so pixelated it looked like it could be Chinese or Japanese, and those posts are much more common than posts about Korea.
Someone posted a higher res image elsewhere, so I transcribed the Hangul and ran it through Google translate, in case anyone is interested: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/15943722
It’s the Sangbong subway station in Seoul.
Anyone can translate this?
The small amount of pixels make it look Klingon, lol.
Got you, I translated it in another comment here, along with the transcribed Hangul: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/15943722
Oh crazy, even the bottom is in Korean.
Black bubble:
에너지 아끼고 건강도 챙기고
Google translate:
Save energy and take care of your health.
Circled bubble in the white box:
생활 속 헬스장
Google translate:
Gym in your life.
Then the bottom:
계단올 두 칸 오를 때 미다
Google translate:
Every time you climb two steps
And then just documents how much energy you burn.
I’d attempt to actually translate it myself, but I honestly don’t trust my vocab so I went with the Google translation, which is close enough.
I think it’s a good nudge tbh. Stairs are proven again and again to be an incredibly healthy workout given that you don’t have issues with your knees.
I just came back from Japan and 20k steps a day and hundreds of stairs for a month really put me in shape and made me realize how important good shoes are lol
But I do have issues with my knees lol
Agreed… Moving to a perfectly flat city and living on the first floor isn’t helping me haha
Godammit you have to make such a good and insightful comment and then use lol as punctuation. Fuck that. You’re not laughing out loud, liar.
haters gonna hate lol
I literally lolled at this lol
I chortled.
Nudge isn’t real there is no evidence
Dunno it works on me 🤷♂️
Anecdotes are not evidence. I’d suggest reading more about the pseudoscience first but you seem to not care that you’re spreading bs.
Sure thing buddy
Given the current political climate, being on the side of posting lies and misinformation on the internet seems an odd choice. But someone has to be the bad guy, I suppose.
What a stretch my neckbearded dude. Just posting “WRONG” is not helping anyone and just makes you look like a douchebag. Bye
While I agree if you can take the stairs you should, however it really breeds ridicule if you are overweight and can’t do it
I think its a very good point. We should probably figure out how to distinguish representation here between “I’m not taking stair” sort of fat and healthy. Maybe it would make more sense to use a carrot here and instead if skinny stick man have a health symbol like a literal carrot maybe idk
Stairs are proven again and again to be an incredibly healthy workout given that you don’t have issues with your knees.
I think stairs on the way up is good for health and fine for knees, stairs on the way down doesn’t do as much for health and hurts my knees if I do too much.
That’s why on they way down you grind on the railing with your skateboard.
Ever tried to climb 5 flights of stairs after a redeye, with 56 lbs of luggage?
Asians wouldn’t carry so much unnecessary bullshit of course. 😉
Lol spoken like one who has never been to an outlet shopping mall near a major tourist destination.
😉
Right to American embassy?
Maybe it should show the number of calories you’d burn going up the stairs. It would be a small number, but it’s better than 0.
For 75kg (roughly average South Korean male weight) and 7" step height (standard in the US I think, not sure about Korea), this is about 0.13kJ/step.
By coincidence, the human metabolic efficiency is (roughly) the same as the conversion between kJ and food (kilo)calories, meaning this would be (very roughly) 0.1 calories/step.
Not much, given a single French fry is maybe 5-10 calories. But it’s better than nothing!
My former job used to have that on the stairs. Was a nice motivator for me.
It says you burn 0.5Kcal for every 2 steps you take, and extend your life by 8 seconds.
Here is even an example that shows progress as your calories and seconds added increase as you climb up the stairs.
I love it 🤣
