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Laziness would appear to be escalating.
Surely this is Lazy Win??
Depends on the point of view.
If you look from the right or the left.
i’m glad that if i visited Japan, my hinesite would be a very valuble tool in navigating the streets and shopping centres. because judging by this photo, if there was a bus going to the town centre at 14:00 and 500 people wanted to go to the town centre, they’d all squeeze onto it, neverminding about the bus going to the same place at 14:10, which would be empty. a whole bus to my self.
although if this cue to go on the esculator was really long, the people at the back might not realise what its for and not know they could bypass it so they cue and it gets longer and longer. to be honest they are Japanise so the people in the photo might not realise they could bypass it and go up the stairs….
Japan is a very collectivist culture. They like to fail together.
It’s not Japan, it’s likely Hong Kong :[ or Somewhere in China
its in hong kong… i think its you who fails
it’s not in Hong Kong…it looks like in Taiwan
who cares? they’re all slopes!
who totally own you hahahaha!!!
Definitely not Hong Kong, as all Chinese characters (such as for ABCD exits) would have English names of the street under them. Also, the Hong Kong metro looks different. It looks like the Shanghai metro, but I’m not sure. Could be Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen or other.
The Google says only Beijing and Shanghai have a line 10. I say it looks more like Shanghai, which have those low white ceilings in the stations.
This is Beijing Subway Line 8. I’ve been there.
It is the metro in Shenzhen, China. I’ve rode it more times than I care to remember.
Also, it gets worse than that.
im pretty sure its the Beijing subway because ive been to china many times and line 10 in beijing is one of the busiest lines.
it really does get worse than that
why does the guy in read have a pink handbag and why is he looking at his legs like hes thinking “right, left, right left”?
this is Beijing
this is in beijing subways line10, u get to see this in every station, walking up the stairs will hurt chinese people…
Yeah, some people just don’t understand luxury
This is not Japan! This is Hong Kong, China.
i was thinking that too,
Lazy: WIN
Common Sense: FAIL
Sure. It’s a Lazy WIN
Getting there faster, who needs the effort.
1st day of school has arrived.
*Cringes* I am excited except for the increase of traffic.
So excited I am up at 6:30 am and my first class is at 11:45 am…
whoo. School. meh. I don’t care much. Its 6:40am right now. My first day in high school starts at 8:30
lol wow lame
and fitness is stepping up?
i thought th u.s was lazzy
Those stairs actually only go down, the people walking up them get told off at the top.
*stares The Moomin down*
heh … looking good
-stairs-
Must say “take this elevator for free cooked dog”
*takes the stairs*Man, these look at that line oh well…there Fail my Win.
what i see mordern day lazyness. are they going to break it or somthing
, what do you think, u think that the are going to take the stairs!
Well, one does not simply walk in to Mordorn!
I couldn’t understand a word of that.
If it was in the US it would be, “take this elevator for free cooked roadkill”
As a former resident of Japan I can tell you that I never saw anyone get “told off” or frowned upon for walking up the ‘down’ staircase when it wasn’t busy. There will also be a designated ‘up’ staircase to the immediate left of the frame of view.
This phenomenom of ludicrous laziness is FAIL for everyone’s health, common sense, and planetary health.
As a resident of Nagoya i can tell you noone would even try! The alarm goes off if you enter backwards, or you would indeed get frowned upon like you do for many reasons. Kissing your girlfriend or boyfriend in public is one of the big ones.
As a resident of the planet Mars, I can tell you that it is very easy to get to a higher floor. The malls are five stories but have no gravity so there is no floor, just doors. We float up to the store we wish to shop in and punch in the store code to open the doors. Then we deactivate our gravitational air packs. This is never a problem, except when people are staking out for a game or something and you can’t go up past them because they in huge floating clusters in front of gamestop. And gamestop is right on the middle floor of the Mars Mall.
as an architect designing those stairs, i can tell you that the are built an extra 1/4 inch higher than regular stairs to scare away people who want to avoid accidentally burning a calorie
if they are not allowed to go up the stairs? then why does the sign above it say exit.
The white zone is for immediate ascending and descending of passengers only. There is no extraneous exertion in the red zone.
sounds like a pick up (and drop off) line
*airport announcer* Fuzz will you come to the airports main central office.
“Escalator to Heaven” would have never been a hit – except with these people.
♬ Love on an escalator… ♬
♬ Gonna keep on tryin’ …till I reach the highest ground. ♬
♬ They should be lifted, lifted, lifted
Too many people on the escalator ♬
♬Keep on go’in, “go’in”
go’in, “go’in”
go’in up an escalator.♬
The sign above obviously means the stairs can only safely carry ten people at once. Obedience and Health and Safety WIN!
Or: If you take the escalator you get a free give-away bag on top.
or its because the exit sign (on the green background) is only above the escalator
and above the stairs on the left of the picture.
Idiot child.
ha, you’re right.
That’s an exit sign? It looks more like someone’s trapped in a very narrow box. But you may be onto something. Maybe the tourists taking the stairs will end up in a shop whereas the locals using the escalator can escape the subway without having to buy shitty stuff?
The escalator people end up in the abbatoir.
This is, however, quite a typical situation in the subway.
True, the sandwiches they make are THAT GOOD!
I’ll bet Jarred walks up the stairs. He probably also carries his fat pants around in a backpack to show people coming off the escalator.
Maybe stairs are broken?
Best response in thread.
maybe their brains are broken
Worst response in thread.
I want a pony!
I can haz a poneh?
what thread?
It seems to be an interesting correlation between wearing a cap and choosing escalators over stair.
Wearing caps – thinning hair – older – don’t like to climb stairs.
Taa daa!
Wearing caps – always looking down – only sees legs – moves when the legs move?
Surely this is Lazy Win?
I just want to tell you both good luck. We’re all counting on you… and stop calling me Shirley.
*hopes he’s finished with Airplane references*
Surely this is Lazy Win?
If you’d cut and pasted that it would be. Please say you did.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines
Surely.
How are you today?
I haven’t a clue what I am doing.
The boss isn’t sure how to do what I should be doing.
It’s a massive stressful mess.
How are you?
*anklesqueeze*
(I got the secretary to type this up, keeping with the lazy theme)
Damn stressfull days!
*shakes fist at stressfull days*
I’m fine, though I would prefer to NOT work today. But hey, that’s my standard complain until next week…
*makes slave squeeze the Moomin’s ankles*
Use the stairs you lazy fat-asses!
which one in particular is the fat-ass in this picture?
The one on the right
sry but they r clearly not as fat as americans
Hey! Some of us are just big-boned!
some of us are doomed to sloth
That’s a site very commonly seen in Singapore and Hong Kong. I used to get funny looks for taking the stairs. Then I’d go home and cry.
*hands Maddox a napkin*
OT: Did someone get Tom banned? I noticed that about half of his comments disappeared on yesterday’s first fail. And until now he didn’t spam here.
Can we get anybody banned? If so I am going to propose you to be banned until you put a shirt on your avatar.
Partial nudity may hurt the sensibility of failblog readers; if we don’t do anything to stop it we could end having sexual references here!
If we can have anyone banned, does that mean we can invent our own laws?
I propose all avatars have to be of topless males.
I propose all clickies should point to topless poster’s pictures. Clickies should be mandatory.
I agree with that! I also propose we have an IQ test before a first comment.
(I’d never have passed)
My god, I leave you unsupervised for a few hours and you’re harassing the women again.
It’s more of a wishlist methinks. I think his idea could work though. You first Mooks. :p
I’ve seen his wishlist, and nothing on it is legal in this country.
It is a good think I am so ignorant about laws. It is a good think also we visit other countries.
*thing*
I need to sleep more…
Sleep more? There are only 24 hours in a day…
Ahhh, so that avatar is a cat! I was never sure…
Is anything on it legal in any country? I’d be surprised.
Well… “legal” is a relative term more often than not. The key is to have a good lawyer handy.
That strategy doesn’t work so well when the lawyer is naked and covered in lube. It destroys credibility.
Credibility?
I had never none of that, anyways. I prefer to focus on accessibility
In that case, you’re going to need more lube.
Plus the handiness is more like mud wrestling a snake by then.
My handiness is getting tired. How’s the snake doing?
Be careful with dealing with snakes. There are some of them who spits their venom to the eyes of their victim. Accuracy may vary.
The things you learn!
I thought it was only pearl necklaces, turns out there’s eye and nose bling too!
We might be able to get a server on a ship outside the 3-mile limit and pursue this.
Better an island than a ship. Better an hotel than a server.
What about air space?
Do I need to fill a form in order to apply for that exclusive club membership?
You need to fill something, but I don’t think it’s a form.
The people at the bottom don’t know that they’re queuing for ‘It’s a small world’.
Jam! I’m going to totally ignore the earworm you’ve just offered to say thank you for the pbbt! you made just for me! You are the first person to ever make me a Youtube video (well, more like an audio).
It still is no substitute for actually meeting you in person and getting a face-to-face raspberry. Maybe someday…
Here is my incredibly stupid comment for the day (Well, hopefully I won’t make an even stupider one later…): My first thought on hearing your actual voice was, “Wow, she sounds so British!” (I’m not complaining, I love the accent.) I guess that’s because, even though I, of course, know you’re British, I probably always read your comments here with my mind’s ear using a voice I’m more familiar with, which would be some form of U.S. accent. Anyway, I have it bookmarked, and play it about once a day to cheer me up. You were so sweet to do that!
Was that your comment then? I just figured some random person thought I was funny. hehehe
That was my posh accent; had I spoken in my dulcet Geordie tones you’d never have understood what I was saying.
I didn’t comment. What, you can look at videos and then comment? That idea will never catch on! What next, actual dialogue? Soon people will be squeezing total strangers!
*stops italicizing*
Who thinks up this rubbish, eh?
I guess that random guy thinks I am funny then, maybe just funny peculiar. Eeeek!
Get a room!
Jam and MRN in a tree. . .
Here’s one for you too! Pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt
Dork!
Off topic: MRN, did you see the pbbbbbbt I made for you?
See above ^^^^
oh god. this happens at my local station in Tokyo daily.
Be even stranger if it happened only on Thursdays.
I think it happens at ALL stations in Tokyo. You should see Shibuya at rush hour.
They don’t really like escalators all that much but they LOVE standing in lines.
Let me guess…the people on the escalator are all going up to the gym to use the stair master.
Call me lazy, but after hours standing on the train/on my feet in a crowded museum, or spending a good 5-10 minutes going up stairs, I join the escalator line too. Gotta perfect my stair-climber stare-down, after all. >:D
*says kindly* lazy
*squeeze*
*lazy squeeze*
ahaha this is so true, Pic must have be taken in Shanghai
If this had been the US they wouldn’t even have the normal stairs.
If that was the US nobody in that queue would be as slim as they are.
well this is what happens in most developed countries i supposed.. in my country it is like this too. i mean aint developed countries more fast-paced? but why do people still want to wait for space to get on the escalator instead of just walking up the stairs??!
or even better, get that stairs off and construct a wider escalator hahahaha!!!
People standing on escalators is a testimony to human laziness.
What annoys me more is when you have those moving paths at airports and people just stand there. It’s flat for God’s sake… keep bloody moving.
*shakes fist*
It’s worse when they take up the entire path. STAND ON ONE SIDE FOR CHRIST’S SAKE!!!
*foams at the mouth*
*collapses*
*lazy squeeze*
Peer pressure win?
I pity the fool who disagrees with me.
*hastily agrees with Czuhc*
*squeezes*
*is not influenced by peer pressure*
I disagree!
*hides*
Me too!
*flees*
*is charmed by the non-conformistic behaviour*
*obliges Jam*
*covers eyes*
Czuhc! There are children around!
I guess I’ll just be doing self pity then. *sigh*
Nobody really cares about me anyways. *sniffsniff*
(Did I miss something???)
But I do! I DO care!
*SQUEEEZE*
HAHAHA! When I enlarged your shirtless avatar it became shouting Haddock after the last step! HIGH-larious!
No, it didn’t, d…?
.
I had it all planned of course.
Missed your chance, ladies.
I laughed out loud!
I guess that would have made more sense to me had my cache refreshed. I missed the fun… again! *sigh*
Hehehe… I saw a glimpse that time.
No, I wanted your pity, that’s why I disagreed with you.
hehehe
*squeeze*
Jam you have a lot of friends on here that care. Open up and give us the low down.
*raises eyebrow*
Nobody sees me low down… ummm!!
*looks down low*
Eyes up AE she(Jam) has eyes.
Not down there I don’t. Eeeek!
Lips but no eyes? Can’t be your face.
Nobody will ever nose!
Morning there!
To this pic: Nah, let’s go upstairs, we need to exercise. Come with us.
Morning Tomothy of fail. Yes lets exercise can we take the elevator?
I think this is more a “Fail Blog Fail”. This happens pretty much everywhere in the world. There’s absolutely nothing special or unusual about people queueing for the escalators.
I disagree, I think they’re all ‘special’.
i hope it sucks them all in and turns them to ground human meat…….wait i think i just stumbled onto something if cows=beef and pigs=pork what is ground human meat called?
Like the Moloch scene from “Metropolis”.
Dunno but it probably tastes like chicken.
Damn, I gotta stop doing that!
Hi Jam!
Hey there. I missed by that much! *holds arms out*
*squeeze*
from, 12,000 miles away.
that makes me hungry
it was like this in singapore when i went for the wcg lol
Weapon of Cool Giggling?
Wasted Call Girl?
One of those could come in handy. Defuse all sorts of awkward office situations.
Grrr! Nesting fail.
This was a reply to AE’s “Weapon of Cool Giggling” post.
You caught it from me. I’m infectious like that.
At least here you have the option to either take the stairs OR the escalator. I’ve seen a lot of places where you only have an escalator and people on the escalator have the tendency to stop walking the moment they “don’t have to anymore”, especially when there are a lot of people so you can’t get past them :/
This could be any underground train station in Singapore as well, and I’m guilty of being one of the ones waiting on the escalator.
an what if the power fails? the people on the escalator will he helplessly stuck!!!
I’m pretty sure this photo was taken in Beijing. If they lived here, I highly doubt they would refer to this behavior as lazy. The fact of that matter is that living in this city, you naturally walk about an hour a day and ascend 2-8 flights of stairs just commuting to school/work. Taking the escalator when you have the chance is hardly lazy – it’s only considered lazy if you’re living back in the States, where walking up a flight of stairs is our exercise for the month…
Couldn’t agree more. Having lived in Beijing, everything is so very spread out. Also, some of those stairs can be QUITE long (3-5 stories worth), and you can’t really see in this picture how far up you have to go.
Also, notice that people are not a bunch of fatasses.
I love the defenses I’m seeing here.
“Yeah, that’s pretty bad.. we’re pretty lazy and would rather stand around than walk up a flight of stairs…
BUT LOOK AT THAT FAT KID!
Yeah, that one over there– America!
LOL she’s so lazy!”
I’m just relieved this photo wasn’t taken in north america. The world thinks we’re the only ones that do this sort of nonsense. XD
this looks like the train station in taiwan, i was the only one who took the stairs lol
Sadly, when I got off the tour at Universal Studios on Sunday I saw this exact same thing.
lol, notice how the fat people are goin up the stairs and the skinny people arn’t
But you can’t tell how long the stairs is… what it’s it’s 5 storey high?
This sight is all so common… can’t believe this is on failblog. Escalators in subways (esp. in Asian countries) can go far far longer than most here are used to seeing… and notice that average weight of these Asians are probably 30 lbs less than your average American.
Yep, I’m lazy– but I’m not fat, so it’s all good.
yeah this is way too common here. Im from Singapore. so I was actually searching for the fail part of the photo for a good 5 minutes.
yeah this is Beijing, the pillar is like the blue and white porcelain vases thats how i remember the subway, qing hua ci springs to mind, i spent a month there and in that heat in june there was no way in hell i was walkin up so many stairs, especially after spending a bit in the subway where people are basically standing on top of each other cause its so cramped!
this is hong kong (i live there)
not japan or other asian city
It’s very possible that the stairs are very long and it’s more viable to take the escalator. There are several subway stations in Atlanta that are like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1LlpGOZc5U.
Are you sure this picture wasn’t from Dragon*Con? Same stuff every year.
Yeah this looks an awful lot like the subway in Shanghai. Maybe Beijing and Shanghai’s subways share a very similar design.
Yeah in Shanghai you do a lot of walking but still it took the lazy way up maybe about half the time. The other time I just though “This is stupid” and just went up the stairs.
Only in america!
Because only in America are signs in Asian characters. Observation fail.
It looks like the Shanghai metro. Definitely not Hong Kong, where there would be English under all the Chinese characters (those are Chinese characters) and which looks different, anyway. Maybe Shenzhen, Beijing, hard to say. China for sure.
I noticed that when i was taking a flight from Iceland to Bosten, MA, in october last year, haha! all the overwight americans was standing in line for the escalator, a fat old american woman fell, when she stood in the escalator, and everyother american was sanding looking ” oh my God!” haha! I rofl mao!!!
maybe the escalator is the only exit, the stairs go to another platform?
Notice, on the right are liberals. Liberals think that all people are equal and that all people receive the same beniefits regardless of their situation. Most importantly, the liberals think that the “system” should provide for everyone, regardless of how much an individual puts into the process.
On the left are conservatives. Conservatives feel all people are equal and should receive the same opportunities. They feel that if someone works hard and makes the most of the opportunities given, the person can benefit from the effort. Most importantly the conservative believes that the “system” should only be a set of rules that ensure and protect the individuals.
In this case, what we see is the liberals waiting for “assistance” to get to the train platform. The liberals will never understand why the conserative, who arrived at the front gate at the same time, will be allowed to enter the train first. The conservative will simply not understand why they had to stand on the platform waiting for the train that is five minutes late.
…. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin’ to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to take the stairs instead of the escalator?
Congratulations on posting in the right place! This is indeed a superior fail metaphor! May we know who referred your fail metaphor to failblog? We need to give credit where it is due.
Congratulations! Your most penultimate sense of humor fail with crass reply means you have advanced from PencilSharpener to Coffee Grinder. Go have a double latte decaf!
Maybe its 5000 flights tall
This is pret universal..I saw this a couple of days ago in San Francisco…hahha….people are often predictable…and lazy…
woooow. thes ppl r soo lazy they wont walk up the friggin stairs, cuz god forbid u have 2 walk upward
ehh no, uh this is Beijing subway line 10…. I just came back from Beijing and was personally on the line 10…… A lot of people ride the line 10 back and forth and the subway station is actually pretty deep. At this one particular station at Shuang Jing on the line 10, there’s these two escalators that lead down and they’re pretty long, probably OVER twice as long as the one in a mall here in the states, and there’s TWO of them.
This is actually Korea…I can tell some of the symbols are hangul..
The stairs actually go some where else to the escalator.
This is a WIN!
So who the **** said this is taken from hong kong?
1.They are not wasting the electricity for turning on the esculator.
2.They use this MTR system instead of driving.
They are apparently more environmental friendly than us.
That’s absolutely a win.
every sporting event I’ve gone to is just like this. At least in this photo they aren’t hugely obeses (like at said sporting events)
I’ve seen this plenty too convention time in Vegas on the monorail stops.
I would call it ‘lazy win’
It’s hardly a win. By the time the people in the back of the line get to the escalator, they could have finished walking to where ever this walkway goes.
And “they” say Americans are lazy. Geez.
OMG what are those comments don’t you have anything else to do ?
Pretty funny.
It was like that at Dragon*Con last weekend, too!
FAIL! what a bunch of lazy ppl!
LOL This is DEFINITELY Korea! I was there for like 6 weeks this summer and the subway is like this all the time…like come on now use the stairs lol!…but i cant lie i used the escalator lol
Hmm maybe i was wrong…idk it looks like Korean…but huh…idk
Laziness fail? As in, look at all those people on the left who have completely failed to be lazy?
No. It’s look at those people on the right who are lazy therefore they fail.
This is the scene every day in Boston too
Pathetic, just plain pathetic. Must be a douchebag convention at the top.
To clarify, this picture was taken in one station of Line 10 in Beijing, not in Japan. It is happening everyday.
This is seen all across Asia… how is it fail?
Elevators get crowded so people walk…
i think you missed the point, which is that people are so lazy they’d rather wait in line for the escalator than walk up the stairs.
There is another fail – check out one of the men who are just about to go up the stairs – he has a gay pink bag.
I thought it was Taiwan at first, but Taiwan has people stand to the right. It was a pain in the butt to get on the escalator with an injured foot when people were too lazy to use the stairs. =_=;;
did they died?
duh
In Singapore, that is as usual everyday.
This is subway line 8 (the olympic line) in Beijing,
connecting to line 10. Trust me when I say that those
stairs are at least 3 storeys tall, so the escalator
is a welcome alternative.
Yeah, it is in Hong Kong
I’m HKer
so …. you know
anyways, yeah people are lazy to walk….
Nup, Beijing. http://en.beijingology.com/index.php?title=Image:SubwayMassCrowds.jpg
Same lighting, signs etc
They might be lazy…but you don’t see as much obesity as you
do here in the states. They walk everywhere anyways…they
just like to take a break once in awhile.
Are u sure this isnt America…
No need to look to asia for scenes like this. At nearly every airport in Ireland or Germany (this are the places I usually fly to) you see exactly the same picture. And on subways in Germany it was like that for longer than I care to remember. Good for people like me who prefer normal stairs – they can overtake everybody
I know that’s Hong Kong, but oy, does that ever look similar to what I see every time I go in and out of Penn Station when visiting NYC! Escalators = filled, stairs = empty.
I have to laugh at my friends when they decide to use the escalator and I use the stairs. I always make it outside before they do ^^;.
~~Bee
I fairly sure this is Beijing. Shanghai subways look a little different. Also, Beijing I know has those lines in the ground for the blind to follow. I can’t remember if Shanghai has them or not… China is pretty good at making things accesible for the blind… Or maybe not, guess I should ask a blind person.
Maybe its a really long climb?
That’s China, not Japan.
To be fair we don’t know how fast that line and escalator are moving.
Happens a lot in my neighbourhood.
i think its taiwan..
WAIT NO ITS NOT HAAH
ish beijing -.- i’ve lived there for 4yrs.
i can’t say where this is, but it’s definitely happening in singapore too.
This is a WIN
It’s disappointing that none of the people in line are fat.
This is downtown Beijing, I took this subway everyday.
It’s amazing more of them aren’t fat.
Where is it?
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