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(Reason Magazine)   Michael Bloomberg wants to push New Yorkers up stairs   ( reason.com) divider line
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7149 clicks; posted to Main » on 23 Jul 2013 at 7:59 AM (4 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook   more»



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Make More Hinjews
2013-07-23 12:35:13 AM  
4 votes:
In related news, once they get to the top of the stairs, over 70% of NYers want to push him down again!
Hobodeluxe [recently expired TotalFark]
2013-07-23 08:12:47 AM  
3 votes:
he just wants to save us from the terrible secrets of space
dittybopper [recently expired TotalFark]
2013-07-23 08:03:55 AM  
3 votes:

vernonFL: His Lower East Side apartment doesn't have an elevator, he said.

"I have five floors," Bloomberg said. "I take the stairs. The hallway smells like urine", he said.


It wouldn't smell that way if you stopped pissing on your constituents, Mike.
ChuckRoddy
2013-07-23 01:11:11 PM  
2 votes:
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buckler [BareFark]
2013-07-23 09:26:38 AM  
2 votes:
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Prank Call of Cthulhu
2013-07-23 08:22:19 AM  
2 votes:
Pushing them down the stairs is more fun.

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/Tommy Udo, we hardly knew ya'.
PirateKing [TotalFark]
2013-07-23 08:16:12 AM  
2 votes:
He also has an initiative to push around the blind people and shove bread down their throats.

/I will push grandma outside into the snow.
epoch_destroi
2013-07-23 08:15:06 AM  
2 votes:
He is the space robots and he is here to protect us.
Pants full of macaroni!!
2013-07-23 08:05:06 AM  
2 votes:

Make More Hinjews: In related news, once they get to the top of the stairs, over 70% of NYers want to push him down again!


Aaaaaaand we're done.
Aarontology [TotalFark]
2013-07-23 07:44:11 AM  
2 votes:
Ah yes. Stairs. The most insidious aspect of the Nanny State.

Not his papers please stop and frisk policies. Not his statements that black people should be stopped and frisked more. Not his continual support for the war on drugs.

But stairs.
Triumph
2013-07-23 01:33:53 AM  
2 votes:
"I rarely use the elevator in my townhouse."

And Prince Charles rarely has the royal servants wipe his ass.
Zeb Hesselgresser [TotalFark]
2013-07-23 10:37:01 AM  
1 vote:

Richard C Stanford: So how do we solve the obesity crises?


Stay with me here.

Lions. Tigers. Bears.
Surgically remove their rear legs.
Replace them with trollies, that adjustable for resistance (speed)
Set them up, so that reasonably fit adults, including the elderly can out run them
Make the elderly and obese, physically pick their disability/social security checks up.
Starve the animals, and set them free.

Solve the obesity and medicare/social security problem.  Adjust for the old folks when
the fund is solvent again.
The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2013-07-23 10:29:38 AM  
1 vote:
Stairs, hunh? We just call 'em streets. They're good for you. Build character.

Maybe get you to stop whining about small drinks.

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chaosangel
2013-07-23 10:19:34 AM  
1 vote:

Richard C Stanford: So how do we solve the obesity crises? I say we just don't make any accommodations for fat bastards. If you can't fit in the ambulance, then you don't get any medicine. It's time to start holding people responsible and stop coddling them. We need to thin the herd somehow.


I am guessing some solutions will be market based.  Eventually, insurance companies will have to wade in to bring down the costs.

When repugs complain about paying for my birth control (for my sins of lust), I say they have a valid point.  So, no birth control for me and no erectile dysfunction drugs for you (which have pretty much always been covered, BTW).

But why stop there?  Why should I pay for your sins of gluttony and sloth?  Your lifestyle choices bring greater risks, so your premiums should be higher. Whereas I work very hard to stay fit and healthy, so how about a discount for those of us who try?  Of course the teabaggers, who scream about personal responsibility, are just full of denial and/or excuses when it comes to their taking responsibilty for their choices.

Unfortunately, having obestiy recently declared a disease (oh please) throws a major wrench in my brilliant plan.
THX 1138
2013-07-23 10:17:49 AM  
1 vote:
snocone: THX 1138: My apologies.  I didn't clarify that (in my experience at least), buildings with stairwells that only open to ground level will automatically release door locks on all floors during an alarm, for exactly that reason.  Still farking annoying.

Oh, you mean like the consulate building in Benghazi?

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HotWingConspiracy
2013-07-23 10:15:14 AM  
1 vote:

elvindeath: I love the nanny state.  Just wait until they decide its unhealthy for you to spend hours on the internet all day, and that reading Fark comment threats and participating in online discussions just raises your blood pressure and ban all that too.

/ I wish that was out of the realm of possibility, but these big government "wer're here to help you" types are never known for restraint.  Just look at all the pits filled with bodies of "the opposition" in all the big Socialist states of the 1900s.


I recall reading about how in Russia, the gulags and mass killings only became possible after they posted signs showing where stairways were in buildings.
HotWingConspiracy
2013-07-23 10:06:18 AM  
1 vote:

This text is now purple: Mrs.Sharpier: This text is now purple: mbillips: Obesity is a public health issue. You have a problem with the government paying for vaccine research and ensuring that kids get their shots? Same thing.

Obesity isn't contagious. Try again.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/health/25cnd-fat.html?_r=0

Study finds obesity can be contagious...

I don't see a viably proposed physical mechanism for transmittal. Correlation is fun, but it's not causation. And it only works for friends; co-workers and family don't cause it.

Try again.


I think it's more of a social disease, like libertarianism.
ValKilmersElbow
2013-07-23 08:56:03 AM  
1 vote:

Hobodeluxe: he just wants to save us from the terrible secrets of space


The shover robot tells me that shoving is the answer...  Who am I to believe?
BraveNewCheneyWorld
2013-07-23 08:53:51 AM  
1 vote:
It seems Bloomberg didn't even bother looking at how many calories something like this will really burn.  I don't think anyone's going to use the stairs if it will take them more than 2 minutes to reach the top, and a 300 lb person will only burn 40 calories at the 2 minute mark.

/I'm even being excessively generous with the 2 minute number.
HotWingConspiracy
2013-07-23 08:37:26 AM  
1 vote:

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion: I don't know why you thought Nanny Bloomberg would stop at smoking, or transfats, or sugary drinks, or any of the other things that adults should be able to decide for themselves.  You elected him.  You wanted someone to tell you how to live and now you've got it.  Tagging it "asinine" now is just closing the barn door after the horse has already gotten out.


I can't believe everyone was duped in to allowing the tyranny of access to stairs and signs showing you where they are. Truly, evil only prevails when good men do nothing.
Frankentots
2013-07-23 08:34:51 AM  
1 vote:
He should combine strategies to make his policies a little easier to swallow.  For example, why don't we make 32 oz sodas available exclusively on fifth floor establishments with no elevators?

I think it would be a step in the right direction and perhaps it wouldn't fizzle out this time.
PC LOAD LETTER [TotalFark]
2013-07-23 08:32:00 AM  
1 vote:

Merltech: Wouldn't this go against Americans with Disabilities Act?


What you might think he's doing: shutting down escalators and elevators and mandating new buildings don't have them.
What he's really doing: not that
HotWingConspiracy
2013-07-23 08:13:46 AM  
1 vote:
Legislation being submitted to Council would require building owners to provide visible access to stairs and post signs encouraging their use near elevators

Oh my god freedom is dead forever.
bdub77 [TotalFark]
2013-07-23 07:51:01 AM  
1 vote:
I personally think what  Generalissimo Franco Mayor Bloomberg is doing will serve as a referendum for improving the country.
 
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