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[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 38 points 22 hours ago

The fatter arrow is just the icing on the cake.

[-] don@lemm.ee 7 points 19 hours ago

This person attentions to detail

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

This would encourage me to choose physical fitness, or to laugh as my tired ass goes up the escalator. I certainly see where there is room for hurt feelings (especially with regards to health issues), but this is pretty effective given that it is in a different language and I instantly understood it.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 7 points 19 hours ago

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.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 13 hours ago

That's why on they way down you grind on the railing with your skateboard.

[-] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 4 points 20 hours ago

But I do have issues with my knees lol

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 16 points 21 hours ago
[-] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 8 points 21 hours ago

I literally lolled at this lol

[-] Domino@lemmings.world 2 points 20 hours ago

I chortled.

[-] Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Agreed.. Moving to a perfectly flat city and living on the first floor isn't helping me haha

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[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago

But then they put a pole in the middle of the escalator access. LOL.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

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)

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, we do that in America sometimes too. Most people ignore it, just like on the highway.

[-] pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

Same in Austria, and I'm pretty sure also in Germany

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

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

[-] Baguette@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago

The pole is to prevent people from taking carts and similar objects up and potentially causing an accident

Though it does have unintended consequences

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

Why do people have carts on the subway?

[-] Object@sh.itjust.works 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

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.

[-] mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

its not for the subway, its for the elevator. Its dangerous to have carts on elevator

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 82 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think it is more of presenting a choice.

Do you want to be fit and slim? Take the stairs.

Do you want to be fat? Take the escalator.

Anyone know what the speech bubble says?

[-] lime@feddit.nu 42 points 1 day ago

it's not any less problematic if that's the case because it still assumes people taking the escalator do it because they want to, rather than having like a limp or something. that sort of normalized stigma isn't good.

[-] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

Don't normalize stigma, normalize sigma

Obviously I'm obese because I decided to be born with a spinal defect. I should make better choices.

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 11 points 23 hours ago

That's the worst excuse for being obese I ever heard. Does a spinal defect prevent you from eating less food?

[-] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 28 points 1 day ago

Have you tried walking up the stairs to fix your defect

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[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

You should see the names of asian big and tall clothing shops.

Asia doesn't fuck around when it comes to conformity.

finally, accommodations for Americans

[-] ylph@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago
[-] Skates@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago

8 SECONDS FOR EVERY 2 STEPS CLIMBED? Did Korea just discover the secret of immortality and it's to keep climbing stairs?

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 38 points 1 day ago

I like the bollard that would make it uncomfortable for really fat people to get by.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

I guess there's an upper limit where they're like, "Hey, this is getting ridiculous. Take the stairs."

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[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago
[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago

Right to American embassy?

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