• @[email protected]
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    1484 days ago

    Japan is the most seismically active country in the world. The likelihood of people being in an elevator when an earthquake severe enough to incapacitate the elevator hits is pretty damn high. This is just a pleasant thing to have.

  • @[email protected]
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    513 days ago

    Well, I didn’t find anyone else saying it, so…

    They’re taking this shit to a whole new level.

    • @[email protected]
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      283 days ago

      It says “非常時”, which means in case of emergency or something along those lines, definitely not extraordinary

      • @[email protected]
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        173 days ago

        What is an emergency if not an extraordinary time? (I get what you’re saying too, just think it’s interesting as far as translation goes)

        • @[email protected]
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          33 days ago

          Emergencies are certainly an extraordinary time, but not all extraordinary times are an emergency. I wonder why it translated like that

          • @[email protected]
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            33 days ago

            Japanese and other character languages (idk the linguistic term off hand) tend to encapsulate phrases or meanings to characters. So it isn’t the same as say translating from French to English. It is a lot more challenging plus context can change the meaning of characters too.

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        23 days ago

        i’d imagine using it would be in a similar category to an emergency exit: don’t unless it’s an emergency; the choice is yours and there are consequences for misuse

    • Maeve
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      84 days ago

      I should have kept reading before commenting lol

  • @[email protected]
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    Well it doesn’t take much space and if it’s even a somewhat common occurrence to get stuck in a lift for even a few minutes, I see that as a good idea.

    Hell, my 6-storey building on Finnish granite which never has earthquakes or power outages could use one — just because the building has a lot of impatient (or incontinent) drunks.

    Honestly every weekend the lift smells worse than the ones on those fuckboats which sail between Stockholm - Turku - Helsinki.

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        Well you’re in luck.

        I just wrote an extensive writeup, sans the sexual encounters and more boys night out. (Usually they were boasting about wanting to find “bitches”, but due to them referring to the fairer sex with terms akin to “bitches” and being awkward slightly autistic guys from bumfucknowhere, none of them managed to and more focused on drinking. Well, if someone really did seem interested the few times it happened I wingmaned for them. Usually successfully, I might add. And never had trouble myself. Because it’s a load of cabins and booze so you know. There’s not much else to do.

        https://lemmy.world/comment/14311082

        Here are the photos edit Here you go.

              • @[email protected]
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                Haha it looks exactly as what I was picturing 😂

                Almost two decades ago! I’ve recently increased my usage of the word decades to describe the past.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Yeah I had some proper flashbacks trying to find these.

                  Almost thought I’d lost the album, but no, it was just that I had had a camera on loan from the school which I used on that trip so it wasn’t in my DSLR folder.

                  God, yeah, almost two decades. I just don’t want to say that as I lived more during that trip than I have for a few years. And the few years surrounding that I lived more than I have in the past 10.

                  I’ve been sick.

                  I want another life.

                  *starts desperately hopping around punching a fist in the air, hoping an invisible brick box will appear pushing out a 1UP*

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              Alright cap, I’ll see if I can find the ext hard drive and post at least an image or two once I’m back on PC

              *edit here

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        Oh… for the experienced of being in a tiny windowless cabin with three other people who got so drunk you had to drag them back to the cabin and who have managed to vomit on the toilet floor so much it’s making waves while the boat is rocking and youre5 nursing a hangover which is splitting your head and it tastes like a cat shat in your mouth during the night.

        Once you manage to get out of the cabin and start feeling like you could put something in your mouth, you realise it’s still 7am and none of the shops are open. All that’s available is either water through the shitty plumbing of the boat from the toilet brimming with vomit or the tax free drinks which you bought the day before. And guess if you bought anything non-alcoholic? Well, you did, a 12-pack of soda, for mixers, but all of the cans are open now and even while sniffing carefully, it’s hard to tell from the stale soda whether it has booze in it or no.

        You dare it. Of course the half can of sprite was half Jäger. “Who the fuck mixes Jäger and Sprite” you think to yourself before a drunken flashback tells you it was you and you feel that twinge of shame in your gut at the same time as the kickback from the sip kicks in and you’re sure you’re gonna hurl. But you remember the toilet. And just… can’t be arsed with the effort of cleaning up anything so you don’t want to be blamed for the vomit since it’d be more likely your now half-a wake friends would register this vomiting but not the one which actually fucked up the toilet. So you put your thumb between your fist and squeeze it while going out the cabin, because that prevents vomiting to an extent.

        You walk around the hallways. Spot a vending machine. Get a cold drink. Refreshing. Ah. No more catshit in mouth. Even feel a bit better, still drunk and nauseous though. Well, have a smoke, get another can, mosy back to the room, get back to your bunk, open the soda, look for a bottle of something easy but still not too mild, which for down easy, like Bailey’s. Take a stroong gulp. Take another. Depending on if you had Bailey’s or had to take vodka or something, wash it down with the soda.

        Then just when you start getting back to sleep everyone else wakes up and reminds you you’ve paid for the buffet and there’s limitless wine and beer.

        “Ugh, here we go again.”

        I live in Turku we used to do that shit quite a lot, Turku Stockholm is a cruise of you leave in the evening you spend 23 hours on the boat and then youre back.

        Usually during that 7am morning wakeup you’d be in Stockholm harbor.

        I’ve tons of pictures from early 20’s trips to those. The trip it’self was superb cheap, you might genuinely get free cruises. It’s just youre gonna spend so much on restaurants and tax free that giving the shit lower level cabins for free doesn’t matter they’re never full anyway.

        Best parties in the lower floors though, like Titanic.

        A lot of the times people take cabins next to each other and then people just leave their doors open and there’s a (what I imagine these might be like) frat party atmosphere, with a hallway full off open doors and people drinking in the hallways. Used to be smoking everywhere as well but I reckon that’s gone. Haven’t been in years.

        I had plenty of good times but it was physically demanding, because when you come back there’s all sorts of people asking you for the taxfree shit they wanted you to bring, beer, snus, tobacco. And obviously since you’ve been smashed for the past 27 hours at least (a few hours pregame before boat), you’re not hinnaksi quit in the middle of the evening.

        So you have a shit load of booze and drinks and everyone is absolutely wankered. Manage a taxi, go through a burger restaurant and head to someone’s apartment to drink the rest.

        Sunday: physical regret, mental confusion

  • @[email protected]
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    103 days ago

    Honestly, one of my big fears is being stuck in an elevator when I have to take a dump. This would be a relief.

    • @[email protected]
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      33 days ago

      Well, not yet - it certainly doesn’t look used…

      If it was ‘hey check out my throne’ with a shot of bare knees and shoes then that might be different

  • @Worx
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    174 days ago

    Every elevator has a toilet if you’re drunk enough

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    114 days ago

    Imagine going down from the 30th floor and it stops at the 20th floor and a big 300lb American tourist rushes in and panic operates the buttons. As soon as the door closes he looks at you, apologies and says he has to use the toilet.

    The elevator suddenly stops

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      Yes, because if he’s heavier, it’s grosser, because we’re children and we like to shame people based on their bodies.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s funny because the morbidly obese can’t properly use such a small toilet so it would definitely make a mess, ha.

        Obesity isn’t like race, sex, height, facial structure and other things that can’t easily be changed. Any fat person that doesn’t want to be mocked can simply lose the weight. I know it’s hard but it’s not hard enough for me to give a fuck.

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          Any fat person that doesn’t want to be mocked can simply lose the weight.

          This is simply not true for everyone. Sometimes there are medical reasons that make losing weight very difficult.

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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          Disability, food deserts, depression, anxiety, Neuro divergence, race, medical conditions of all sorts, genetics, government policy, poverty and a million other factors play into obesity. If you mock people based on their appearance then you’re absolutely the type of human shit stain that would mock people based on their race, gender and other characteristics if you didn’t think there’d be social repercussions for it.

          In short, fuck you, you suck. Be a better person.

          • @[email protected]
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            Obesity isn’t like race, sex, height, facial structure and other things that can’t easily be changed.

            That’s my key point. All you did was give causes and guess what, everyone has baggage. We all have challenges and those that refuse to do the most basic action and help themselves have made a mockery of their lives.

            Goverment policy, poverty and even neuro divergence most likely play a huge part in the attitude of a racist uneducated hick. The hick and the fatman know there is a solution to their problem and that they feed into their own habit but they are mocked for it, because they refuse to change.

            Obviously some have medical issues and simply can’t lose the weight but those are few and far between. I also draw the line at mocking the homeless. The rest are fair game imo.

            I’ll refrain from insulting you personally but fuck your petty pc bullshit.

              • @[email protected]
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                Maybe for a simpleton. Depression is much more complicated and mostly doesn’t have simple solutions, while a simple healthier lifestyle is literally the solution for 99% of cases of obesity.

                Instead of pushing for fat acceptance, fat people should accept a salade every now and then.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 days ago

          You shouldn’t hate yourself because you’re fat, bro <3

          You should hate yourself for so many other reasons.

  • Maeve
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    Makes sense. Stuck elevators. They should also put some sort of nonperishables and water behind emergency* glass.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 days ago

        Based on the other comments, it seems like it’s more in case there’s an earthquake or something and the elevator is stuck under rumble. If you were trapped in an elevator under rubble for a few days, it’d probably be nice to have a snack on hand.

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        In a massive earthquake that knocks out the power grid you could be trapped for some time before crews reach you to free you even if the building is structurally unharmed.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 days ago

          I already didn’t love elevators, but now you’ve unlocked a new fear! Trapped in an elevator, that is then trapped inside rubble…