"We're riding on the escalator of life, we're shopping at the human mall..."

[/Felony]

With the invention of the second floor just last year, Cambodia may be moving a little too fast into the 19th century.

Anyone want to take bets on how long before that mall gets blown up?

Wait until they get into some Elevator Action (tm, Taito)

I'm surpised they're not all terrified of being sucked into them and turned into accordians.

"At first people were afraid to use it. Some of them fell over."

Firesign Theatre anyone?

Second floor! Disease, genocide, lingerie! Watch your step, please.

If it floats your boat... is it a crime to walk up the down one?

It's a holiday in cambodia!

I like escalators for the most part but they have their ups and downs.

</shoot me>

I still get confused about when the jump off the escalator near the end

nice 80s music reference Bump

Just wait until the US starts importing battery operated Suck-U-Tron self pleasuring devices.
It will blow their... um... minds.

"I am not familiar with it. I find it difficult to follow modern technology," he said before stepping gingerly onto the moving stairway."

He would have a frickin heart attack if he saw a toaster.

Oh well, welcome to 1930 Cambodia.

And I'm sure the mall was built to code and only the best quality materials were used in the bacward country. Holy crap you know the first heavy rain or strong wind is going to topple the mall and all the cambodians will blame (brame) it on the awful anti-escalator god.

*bang*


Wait till they try train surfing!

Man, I loved that game...



(Yeah, ok, someone beat me to it with the mention...)

Maybe they should install tree vines for hopping floor to floor.

Unfetchable image my arse...
Hey Farkmins, how about cgi that lets you preview your post?

Dammit. Suck it long and suck it hard, Trebek.

That story makes me happy, somehow.

Wait until they see an elevator.

Foreign people are stupid

I had a friend who got caught by the escalator death teeth at the end once. I'll have to ask if she's Cambodian.

OVERLOAD OVERLOAD OVERLOAD

too...............much..........to.......make fun of

Look ma, no hands!!

StrikitRich: I won't be waiting for "Fast Times at Phnom Penh."

Will Sean Penh star in this?

I got nothin'

"Watch your robe, So-crates, don't get sucked under"

"At first people were afraid to use it. Some of them fell over."

I wouldn't laugh. I had the exact same reaction the first time the aliens took me up in their spaceship.

I think it is beautiful, it kind of lets us go back an experience the feeling of something new. A lot of us who have ridden escalators just see them as normal things, but put yourself in the shoes of the cambodians. This is great. For me it makes me happy cause I like new ideas and gadgets, though it isnt new for me the concept of an escalator is new for them so a big, WWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEE! and maybe we should send them 5,000 copies of mall rats with 5,000 dvd players.

DAMN YOU PlastiqueJeebuss!!!!

Farkin' beat me to it.

at first the primitive tribe accepts the strange wonders.


This is a "mall" the guide says, "wonder of western civilization".

prepare to have your culture homogenized.

...what ? Cambodia ? oh, sorry, your culture is already homogenized. Why do they want this thing for ?

dammit, i just posted this link. :(

Malinois "He's no fun, he fell right over."

I remember my first look at an escalator and it was similar to their reaction. Being a little kid, though, soon we were running up and down and annoying everyone.

And just the other day, a woman approached the escalator in front of me, looked at it twice and then said "I'm not going to be able to do this" and walked away. That was odd.

Escalator etiquette: stand to the right, walk to the left. And if the escalator is only wide enough for 1 person, would it kill you to walk, especially on the down escalator. Geez, we are a bunch of fat, lazy slobs. :D

What can you buy at a mall with only a unicef box full of pennies? A box of dog-fil-a nuggets?

I like to put slinkys on the UP escalators.

bwahaha ahahaah ahahahah yahahah *catches breath* ahehahaha waahahah

oh yeah, its not nice to make fun of others.

Wait a minute, wait just a gahdamn minute.



(pause)



They have multi-story buildings in Cambodia?

/ducks

"Imported microwave ovens beep to signal completion of popcorn. Elderly Cambodians gasp to signal their heart exploding. Film at 11."

I don't know.... It *could* be a decent "Onion" story.

I also like to rip off Steven Wright, which is what I just did.
Now I'll move on and mention the "escalator to nowhere" from the Simpsons. Whoa! AAA! Oh!!

I got nothin.

Skinink beat me to the zeppelin refrence. see West virginia even cambodia has technology.

"'I've brought my kids to see what the market and the moving stairs are like,' said Siem Sytha, a former Khmer Rouge soldier who had travelled some 200 km (125 miles) for his maiden voyage."

Life in Cambodia really has to suck if people resort to riding on an escalator for kicks.

"'I'm too scared to use the escalator so I'm using the normal staircase,' said shopper Rith Da."

It's a farking escalator? What the hell are they so scared of? I mean, with everything Cambodia has been through in recent hisory, one would think that escalators wouldn't be so frightening compared to other things. What is to be scared off? I could see fearing an elevator because you are enclosed, but an escalator is just fancy stairs.