Member of the Month

JalmarKalmar
April, 2024

Online

Welcome to the Newschoolers forums! You may read the forums as a guest, however you must be a registered member to post. Register to become a member today!

The fun theory

profile picture
yellav
Posts: 10056 - Karma: 1,217
http://www.thefuntheory.com/
Oct 15 2009 12:43PM
0 0
profile picture
sk1er
Posts: 614 - Karma: 10
Its funny how the piano stairs shows how lazy people are.
Oct 15 2009 12:47PM
0 0
profile picture
saucybiscuits
Posts: 2554 - Karma: 173
hahaha this made me smile
Oct 15 2009 1:06PM
0 0
profile picture
kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
That's cool and all but it still kind of disgusts me that people need to be satisfied in some way in order for them to do basic functions that they should already be doing without thinking.
Oct 15 2009 1:07PM
0 0
profile picture
GORlLLA
Posts: 1950 - Karma: 45
They also did one with a trash can. I don't understand why they want people to use the stairs so bad, i can understand them wanting people to throw away litter.
Oct 15 2009 1:07PM
0 0
profile picture
JRullo
Posts: 1794 - Karma: 265
i loled
Oct 15 2009 1:11PM
0 0
profile picture
kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
Really? You don't see a problem in almost every person taking a cramped escalator instead of taking a wide set of stairs?

It's not like there is an obesity problem in the world or anything...
Oct 15 2009 1:14PM
0 0
profile picture
Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
None of the people on the escalator looked obese. I think you are taking a unnecessary negative stance on this. No one takes the stairs 100% of the time.

I think this is great. Kind of reminds me how you can get animals to do just about anything for food. Humans can get food whenever they want so it is not a good reward. However fun is something that is harder to come by.

It's a new approach and I like it. Telling someone to do something to help themselves is hard, telling someone to do something because it is fun is easy. Bravo Volkswagen.

Also all the girls were pretty hot, fuck you Sweden.
Oct 15 2009 2:17PM
0 0
profile picture
Mr.Panda
Posts: 17711 - Karma: 564
Or you could go to Sweden and join in on the fun.
Oct 15 2009 2:19PM
0 0
profile picture
kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
If there is a choice between stairs and an escalator, and they both have equal number of people on them, I will always take the stairs.

And escalators obviously can't be the reason people are obese. It's a long process of giving up and taking the easy way out that makes people obese. And it's still sad that people need fun noises in order to make the healthier, smarter decision.

And just for clarification, I'm not taking a negative stance towards what Volkswagon and the fun theory are trying to accomplish.
Oct 15 2009 2:30PM
0 0
profile picture
yellav
Posts: 10056 - Karma: 1,217
i view escalators as a metaphor for obesity and an overall lack of exercise in america. if you really look at them subjectively they are the epitome of the typical fat lazy american lifestyle. not to sound pretentious but i always take stairs i have weird values like that.
Oct 15 2009 2:33PM
0 0
profile picture
Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
Taking the stairs is a habit not a value.

I agree that conveniences have made us lazy, however I would much rather take the elevator than walk up 10 floors each morning in my work clothes.

If there was piano stairs I might reconsider though...
Oct 15 2009 2:38PM
0 0
profile picture
DrZoidberg
Posts: 5675 - Karma: 4,268
That was rather entertaining, I never really though like that before. Good analogy with it being like dogs and food.

I hate escalators, too slow for me.
Oct 15 2009 2:40PM
0 0
profile picture
cultrara
Posts: 5147 - Karma: 46,851
there was a piano staircase at a museum I went to, sooo cool
Oct 15 2009 2:43PM
0 0
profile picture
yellav
Posts: 10056 - Karma: 1,217
not when you take my whole post into consideration?
Oct 15 2009 2:46PM
0 0
profile picture
Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
so you value doing things the hard way? Or you value being counter to the American lazy lifestyle? Or maybe you value the importance of stairs as a means of gaining potential energy...

not trying to be a dick just having fun.
Oct 15 2009 2:49PM
0 0
profile picture
yellav
Posts: 10056 - Karma: 1,217
Oct 15 2009 2:52PM
0 0
profile picture
kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
So taking the more efficient route with little to no more effort is the hard way?

And if we're talking potential energy we need to set ground zero.
Oct 15 2009 2:56PM
0 0
profile picture
Tasche
Posts: 5422 - Karma: 99
well lets talk about efficiency; the ratio of output to input of a given system. Taking a small steep onto a escalator then being effortlessly lifted up 2 stories is far more efficient, for a person, than walking up said stories. However if you include the power of the escalator in the system it is probably more efficient to walk. But remember the escalator will continue to run if you walk on it or not. So the escalator power cancels out across the equations and you are left with the energy you used personally to walk up the stairs. So it is more efficient to take the escalator, however if you are talking about time then that is a different story. If you went up the stairs faster than the escalator you would have to solve this equation.

Energy Used Taking the Escalator = (Time on escalator)*(energy used by esclator)+(personal Energy)*(Time on escalator)

Energy Used By Taking Stairs = (Time on Stairs)*(...

holy shit there is a kid in a balloon thousand of feet in the air...

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=125161&catid=339
Oct 15 2009 3:12PM
0 0
profile picture
PeteP
Posts: 482 - Karma: 110
people made the escalator a lazy invention. If people walked up it and used it for its intended use which is to traffic large amounts of people at a higher rate, escalators would not be bad and people would not be fat
Oct 15 2009 3:30PM
0 0
All times are Eastern (-4)