Gotta take a break now and then, it's a long way up!
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Yeah, was gonna say. Neat idea for the elderly and the not-quite-able
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It makes me nervous...
On the bright side the trip down will be much, much quicker.
Every time I see a precarious stairs situation, I think of a Spider-Man novel I read as a kid wherein he descended a great number of floors very quickly by straightening his body and diving between the railings.
I've always been terrified of heights. Even disregarding the logistical questions I never liked thinking about that.
There was a cheesy 2000s action movie where the hero jumped down the stairway center hole to escape an ambush and used a bad guy's body as a cushion to survive the landing. I wanna say either Punisher or Shoot-Em-Up?
I remember thinking how much easier it would have been to simply dive out a window. Same distance, but without all the railings to avoid on the way down.
That was a lot of movies. I think the first Bourne had it.
I feel like all the parkour films (banlieue 13, Yamakasi) had a lot of staircase scenes
Hardcore Henry certainly does.
Your username is awesome.
And yeah, one of the non-height things that bothered me was how Spider-Man would recover from the fall. He didn't have a corpse cushion.
I think I read that book twenty-two years ago, so I might be forgetting some things, but I don't think the author described his landing. The only two options I could figure out were him grabbing a railing above ground level, in which case he'd surely flip around and slam various parts of himself against stair bits; or he could land at ground level (or wherever the bottom of the stairs was). In the latter case, being a superhero, I'm sure he'd negate the fall damage ... But given how narrow the space was described as being, it seems like he'd still be unable to avoid slamming into stair bits.
All that said, in the same book, the villain was described as being of an indeterminate size due to standing completely still. That made even less sense to me, but at least didn't trigger my fear of heights.
the villain was described as being of an indeterminate size due to standing completely still
That has to be the most hilarious riff off of Heisenberg I've seen
I always thought whoever did that matte painting did an incredible job with perspective, you can barely tell when examining the still.
You hmmming about a bench bro?
Is this really where you're at in life?
You sit on it.
You'll have to slow down so that I can take notes.
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I like it.
we definitely need more sitting spaces in public...though mid-stairwell is an odd choice.
My first thought was that you'd appreciate it more every decade.
For a building with no elevators, it makes perfect sense.
I think that would have been designed for the women hauling 40 pounds of petticoats up the stairs with her lungs corseted shut in a room emptied of oxygen by the gas lights.
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Stchairs
Chrailing
I’d put a plant there
A vining plant to climb up and down the railing! Yes.
It is very nice. I wish I had the same in my building.
Need a minute? Rest your ass here.
Or rest your grocery bags. Very useful!
Looks cool, but no way in hell do I trust that enough to sit on it
Not a bad idea
Good place for taking shoes on and off, especially in the winter if you wanna minimize slush in your apartment
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