March 2, 2009 faii Blog

[YouTube] World’s shortest escalator

Thought the Japanese were already the world’s shortest for several different things (xiang3 wai1 required), but doubt they come close, in any way to being the world’s laziest. That would be the Americans. Hardworking populations cannot afford not to live long. Lazy societies just can afford to live long. Never mind. That didn’t make the least bit of sense.

… So due to a rapidly aging society, or perhaps that frivolous products need to be manufactured in order to jumpstart japan’s economy, or it could be that japanese boffins needed to verify and test their theories on the limits of escalator physics, or whatever…

This is officially the world’s shortest escalator. At least according to a particular book of records compiled by sloshers.

In the context of integrated knowledge (and hence bovine turd), tagged with descriptors like ‘synthesis’, ‘synergy’, ‘web 2.0′, ‘social networking’, challenge yourself: figure out just how many ways in which this escalator is pointless. And how spending that time thinking how it is pointless, is pointless. And how reading this post and being induced to think circularly in a loop is pointless. And then how having an assploded mind is pointless.

Anyways this escalator is pointless too in so many ways. It’s a grand five steps (834mm) high – a toddler’s play-slide is higher.

And i quote from a blog, ‘And lest you play the disability card on me in the comments, the escalator is followed immediately by a set of regular, manual stairs.’

Hope you noticed the escalator’s bringing people downwards. Pointlessness that could have been avoided by falling (utilising gravity – a sustainable, natural resource, as the ecomentalists would have it).

Kawasaki More Departmental Store, you will be forever remembered.