Talk:252: Escalators - Revision history

82.132.244.45: Actually, ~~~ just adds the datestamp, and ~ just adds the 'userlinks'). But I know you meant ~~~~ that does both.

2025-09-25T00:15:20Z

Actually, ~~~~~ just adds the datestamp, and ~~~ just adds the 'userlinks'). But I know you meant ~~~~ that does both.

Treeplate: forgot ~~~~~

2025-09-24T14:16:39Z

forgot ~~~~~

Treeplate: add comment

2025-09-24T14:16:08Z

add comment

The Cat Lady at 11:32, 13 August 2021

2021-08-13T11:32:08Z

Phlaxyr at 20:47, 21 July 2016

2016-07-21T20:47:18Z

Leafy Greens at 02:40, 16 November 2014

2014-11-16T02:40:52Z

Handbug at 04:23, 11 September 2014

2014-09-11T04:23:39Z

Handbug at 04:19, 11 September 2014

2014-09-11T04:19:56Z

108.162.219.223 at 19:14, 17 January 2014

2014-01-17T19:14:30Z

Markhurd: Doesnt klook like a "tangent graph" to me.

2013-05-26T10:18:57Z

Doesnt klook like a "tangent graph" to me.

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	Sometimes when I'm going up an escalator and there are lots of people behind me, when I get to the top, instead of walking off I just stop and stand there, forcing everyone behind me to start walking backwards :) [[User:The Cat Lady\|--The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)		Sometimes when I'm going up an escalator and there are lots of people behind me, when I get to the top, instead of walking off I just stop and stand there, forcing everyone behind me to start walking backwards :) [[User:The Cat Lady\|--The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

−	It should probably also be mentioned that the downwards graph looks like an escalator and there's a person at the bottom looking up, as if to contemplate running up it. 14:16, 24 September 2025 (UTC)	+	It should probably also be mentioned that the downwards graph looks like an escalator and there's a person at the bottom looking up, as if to contemplate running up it. [[User:Treeplate\|Treeplate]] ([[User talk:Treeplate\|talk]]) 14:16, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

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	Sometimes when I'm going up an escalator and there are lots of people behind me, when I get to the top, instead of walking off I just stop and stand there, forcing everyone behind me to start walking backwards :) [[User:The Cat Lady\|--The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)		Sometimes when I'm going up an escalator and there are lots of people behind me, when I get to the top, instead of walking off I just stop and stand there, forcing everyone behind me to start walking backwards :) [[User:The Cat Lady\|--The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

−	It should probably also be mentioned that the downwards graph looks like an escalator and there's a person at the bottom looking up, as if to contemplate running up it.	+	It should probably also be mentioned that the downwards graph looks like an escalator and there's a person at the bottom looking up, as if to contemplate running up it. 14:16, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

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	Sometimes when I'm going up an escalator and there are lots of people behind me, when I get to the top, instead of walking off I just stop and stand there, forcing everyone behind me to start walking backwards :) [[User:The Cat Lady\|--The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)		Sometimes when I'm going up an escalator and there are lots of people behind me, when I get to the top, instead of walking off I just stop and stand there, forcing everyone behind me to start walking backwards :) [[User:The Cat Lady\|--The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
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		+	It should probably also be mentioned that the downwards graph looks like an escalator and there's a person at the bottom looking up, as if to contemplate running up it.

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	One could also interpret the graph as the y axis as the altitude on an escalator and the x axis as time. If someone started running up the down elevator as soon as they got on, their altitude would remain at the top, whereas if someone rode the elevator down, their altitude would go down as shown in the graph. [[User:Phlaxyr\|Phlaxyr]] ([[User talk:Phlaxyr\|talk]]) 20:47, 21 July 2016 (UTC)		One could also interpret the graph as the y axis as the altitude on an escalator and the x axis as time. If someone started running up the down elevator as soon as they got on, their altitude would remain at the top, whereas if someone rode the elevator down, their altitude would go down as shown in the graph. [[User:Phlaxyr\|Phlaxyr]] ([[User talk:Phlaxyr\|talk]]) 20:47, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
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		+	Sometimes when I'm going up an escalator and there are lots of people behind me, when I get to the top, instead of walking off I just stop and stand there, forcing everyone behind me to start walking backwards :) [[User:The Cat Lady\|--The Cat Lady]] ([[User talk:The Cat Lady\|talk]]) 11:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

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	I've actually run up a down escalator. It was: 1) exciting, and 2) actually pretty hard to do. [[User:Leafy Greens\|Leafy Greens]] ([[User talk:Leafy Greens\|talk]]) 02:40, 16 November 2014 (UTC)		I've actually run up a down escalator. It was: 1) exciting, and 2) actually pretty hard to do. [[User:Leafy Greens\|Leafy Greens]] ([[User talk:Leafy Greens\|talk]]) 02:40, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
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		+	One could also interpret the graph as the y axis as the altitude on an escalator and the x axis as time. If someone started running up the down elevator as soon as they got on, their altitude would remain at the top, whereas if someone rode the elevator down, their altitude would go down as shown in the graph. [[User:Phlaxyr\|Phlaxyr]] ([[User talk:Phlaxyr\|talk]]) 20:47, 21 July 2016 (UTC)

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	It also depends on whether you have need of doing this, for example if you are rushing to the metro station finding an overcrowded upward escalator and a sparsely crowded downward escalator every day, then you will have much strong urge to put in that chart.--[[User:Handbug\|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug\|talk]]) 04:23, 11 September 2014 (UTC)		It also depends on whether you have need of doing this, for example if you are rushing to the metro station finding an overcrowded upward escalator and a sparsely crowded downward escalator every day, then you will have much strong urge to put in that chart.--[[User:Handbug\|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug\|talk]]) 04:23, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
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		+	I've actually run up a down escalator. It was: 1) exciting, and 2) actually pretty hard to do. [[User:Leafy Greens\|Leafy Greens]] ([[User talk:Leafy Greens\|talk]]) 02:40, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

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	It depends on what kind of escalators it is. If you are running up the 70-meter-long down escalator which has a [[Chin-Up Bar]] at the end of it, you should feel like what you was supposed to feel.--[[User:Handbug\|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug\|talk]]) 04:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)		It depends on what kind of escalators it is. If you are running up the 70-meter-long down escalator which has a [[Chin-Up Bar]] at the end of it, you should feel like what you was supposed to feel.--[[User:Handbug\|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug\|talk]]) 04:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)
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		+	It also depends on whether you have need of doing this, for example if you are rushing to the metro station finding an overcrowded upward escalator and a sparsely crowded downward escalator every day, then you will have much strong urge to put in that chart.--[[User:Handbug\|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug\|talk]]) 04:23, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

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	I changed the explanation to make it less about what an escalator is, and more about the intent behind the joke. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 19:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)		I changed the explanation to make it less about what an escalator is, and more about the intent behind the joke. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 19:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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		+	It depends on what kind of escalators it is. If you are running up the 70-meter-long down escalator which has a [[Chin-Up Bar]] at the end of it, you should feel like what you was supposed to feel.--[[User:Handbug\|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug\|talk]]) 04:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

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	I've confirmed "tangent graph" is from the official transcript, but it doesn't look like a tangent graph, except perhaps on its side. It looks more like a bell curve to me. [[User:Markhurd\|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd\|talk]]) 10:18, 26 May 2013 (UTC)		I've confirmed "tangent graph" is from the official transcript, but it doesn't look like a tangent graph, except perhaps on its side. It looks more like a bell curve to me. [[User:Markhurd\|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd\|talk]]) 10:18, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
		+	:I have to assume by "tangent graph" he doesn't literally mean a graph of the trigonometric tangent function, but a graph that shows an asymptotic approach to a particular value (in this case, probably zero). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 19:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)
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		+	I changed the explanation to make it less about what an escalator is, and more about the intent behind the joke. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223\|108.162.219.223]] 19:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

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	:Welcome to public wiki's ;-) You get what people are willing to write. Both articles could do with some wikilinks. [[User:Markhurd\|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd\|talk]]) 18:37, 10 May 2013 (UTC)		:Welcome to public wiki's ;-) You get what people are willing to write. Both articles could do with some wikilinks. [[User:Markhurd\|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd\|talk]]) 18:37, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
	:Haha! I suppose someone who spends all his time indoors on the internet would understand NSFW but not an escalator. Maybe that's who I was writing for. And maybe that says too much about my life. ;) --[[User:Druid816\|Druid816]] ([[User talk:Druid816\|talk]]) 21:54, 16 May 2013 (UTC)		:Haha! I suppose someone who spends all his time indoors on the internet would understand NSFW but not an escalator. Maybe that's who I was writing for. And maybe that says too much about my life. ;) --[[User:Druid816\|Druid816]] ([[User talk:Druid816\|talk]]) 21:54, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
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		+	I've confirmed "tangent graph" is from the official transcript, but it doesn't look like a tangent graph, except perhaps on its side. It looks more like a bell curve to me. [[User:Markhurd\|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd\|talk]]) 10:18, 26 May 2013 (UTC)