so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Jan 12th 2010, 4:48 pm
#48
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Oh I meant it as a compliment and it's painless too- kinda means pertaining to the practical reasoning or point of view.Hmmm that surprises me ,you hang up yr clothes on the floor?Thought you would have folded and sent for laundering....oh well.
Anyhoo,yes my potty mouth is Bigtaff's fault, you're right
Anyhoo,yes my potty mouth is Bigtaff's fault, you're right
Engineers tend to be that way.
Jan 12th 2010, 7:04 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Doesn't anyone else despise "Close Doors" syndrome?
You know, that button with two arrows pointing inwards (or it actually says 'Close Doors').
You and another person get in a lift on the ground floor. He presses, say, 7 and you are going to, say, 12...............
When he gets out, you press the 'Close Doors' button to make the doors close 0.423 secs more quickly.
Why???? What are you going to do with the time you save? Cure cancer???
You know, that button with two arrows pointing inwards (or it actually says 'Close Doors').
You and another person get in a lift on the ground floor. He presses, say, 7 and you are going to, say, 12...............
When he gets out, you press the 'Close Doors' button to make the doors close 0.423 secs more quickly.
Why???? What are you going to do with the time you save? Cure cancer???
Jan 13th 2010, 3:29 am
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Doesn't anyone else despise "Close Doors" syndrome?
You know, that button with two arrows pointing inwards (or it actually says 'Close Doors').
You and another person get in a lift on the ground floor. He presses, say, 7 and you are going to, say, 12...............
When he gets out, you press the 'Close Doors' button to make the doors close 0.423 secs more quickly.
Why???? What are you going to do with the time you save? Cure cancer???
You know, that button with two arrows pointing inwards (or it actually says 'Close Doors').
You and another person get in a lift on the ground floor. He presses, say, 7 and you are going to, say, 12...............
When he gets out, you press the 'Close Doors' button to make the doors close 0.423 secs more quickly.
Why???? What are you going to do with the time you save? Cure cancer???
I do it....why not?.....it's not about saving half a second....it's just about getting on with where you're going. I doesn't cost you anything to do it.
And some lifts are really slow at closing.....just better to get on with it and close them yourself.
A bit like people that stand on travelators....sure - walking on them only gets you to the end of it a few seconds earlier so you might say, why walk? But I get annoyed with people who don't just get on with it and walk.
Why stand there? Would you stop anywhere else on the journey and stand there for 10 seconds for no reason?
Jan 13th 2010, 4:04 am
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
A bit like people that stand on travelators....sure - walking on them only gets you to the end of it a few seconds earlier so you might say, why walk? But I get annoyed with people who don't just get on with it and walk.
Why stand there? Would you stop anywhere else on the journey and stand there for 10 seconds for no reason?
Why stand there? Would you stop anywhere else on the journey and stand there for 10 seconds for no reason?
Jan 13th 2010, 6:17 am
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
how about when people push the floor button and then push the "close door" button several times just as the doors are about to close...
Jan 13th 2010, 6:23 am
#59
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
What I have never understood is why people who want to get ON, insist on blocking the way outta the lift, thus creating a bottle neck for those who want to get off??
Jan 13th 2010, 6:25 am
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
That's an odd thing to get annoyed about.
I do it....why not?.....it's not about saving half a second....it's just about getting on with where you're going. I doesn't cost you anything to do it.
And some lifts are really slow at closing.....just better to get on with it and close them yourself.
A bit like people that stand on travelators....sure - walking on them only gets you to the end of it a few seconds earlier so you might say, why walk? But I get annoyed with people who don't just get on with it and walk.
Why stand there? Would you stop anywhere else on the journey and stand there for 10 seconds for no reason?
I do it....why not?.....it's not about saving half a second....it's just about getting on with where you're going. I doesn't cost you anything to do it.
And some lifts are really slow at closing.....just better to get on with it and close them yourself.
A bit like people that stand on travelators....sure - walking on them only gets you to the end of it a few seconds earlier so you might say, why walk? But I get annoyed with people who don't just get on with it and walk.
Why stand there? Would you stop anywhere else on the journey and stand there for 10 seconds for no reason?
The travelator thing - agree. They are meant to get you from A to B more quickly, not less......