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I never have, but it seems kind of sexy in a flight attendent kind of way.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

but then again it's kinda j.g ballard creepy too.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:54 (twenty-three years ago)

(like flight attendants)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 01:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an occasional desire to live in a high rise apartment in Vancouver.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 02:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Blech, there's nothing sexy about it, although High Rise is a fab Ballard book. Wasn't Crash filmed in Vancouver?

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Toronto.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew a kid who lived in the John Hancock Tower in Chicago [a few floors below Jerry Springer's apartment] and when it got windy, the building would gently sway back and forth and the water in the toilet bowl would swish around. scary

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

it seems to be far nicer to do this in the US than the UK somehow.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

My childhood apartment was on the 23rd floor of a 23-story building. It was nice. We had a terrace and a view of the skyline that many New Yorkers would have killed for. And it was low-income housing!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

FIfth (and Sixth) floor of a seven floor building is not that high rise - however we do have commanding views over London (Highrise on top of a hill). However our landlord is a very nice flight attendant.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody, did you live in Illuminati Towers?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. Yes I did.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

aren't high rises one of those things that only scumbags and yuppies ever live in, because they are always either superswish appartments for the nouveau rich or council housing for poor people?

it would be great if they had a high rise where the different groups lived on alternate floors, each with separate entrances to the building so that they never had to meet each other.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Dud dud dud dud dud. I hate 'holding lifts' for ppl and the fact that the stairwell doubles as a alcoholic shelter/pissoir.

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Err, yes DV - that used to be the case (assuming you are joking about the poor=scumbag thing), but what with council housing sales and property being at such a premium, they are now quite popular with all all and sundry.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Lift politics: GRRRR.

Some twunt going 'four, please' when IN CASE YOU HAVE NOT NOTICED, I AM NOT YOUR EMPLOYEE makes me want to scream and throw things. I have been known to make the "ta-daa!" signal with my hands to show these schmucks the location of the lift buttons.

Having now channeled Dave Q, I will add that if the person coming into the lift is under some burden, I'll punch their floor for them.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I always ask, but I always expect a tip.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I live on the first floor now, so I only take the elevator when I'm going to the basement (where the washer/dryer, storage room, and garbage cans are). I avoid my neighbors as much as I can -- if I need to leave my apartment and I see someone out in the lobby through my peephole, I wait until they're gone. Same re the mailman.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody, that sounds slightly agoraphobic. Is it?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

If the person is under some burden and looks stressed and hurried I press the 'Emergency Stop' button, then look at them with a big smile and say "Are you friends with Jesus?"

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

No. I'm not an agoraphobe. I'm just slightly antisocial.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

What? It seems quite normal courtesy that if you are standing near the lift buttons you press the floor for other people. People in our block do this all the time. It's neighbourly, like, innit? You people sure are mean.

― Emma, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I was about to say the same. Suzy and her kind are breaking down the very fabric of our society.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

DO YOU WANT YR FLOOR PUNCHING N?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Emma, it's the difference between someone imperious demanding/assuming you do it for them and you offering to do it for someone who hasn't asked but is your neighbor or summat. Surely you've never worked in an office where some middle-managing bint has seen you with armfuls of stuff and still gone 'four, please' with NO questioning tone at all in her voice?

Last time I was on the receiving end of one of those requests, I made the woman press her own damn buttons and then others in lift nailed her with 'two, please', 'five, please' etc. Lesson learned, I think.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Talking to other people who live in your building is WEIRD. I have tried convincing Suzy of this fact, but she won't listen. It's weird enough that you have to share a building with them. Acknowledging this fact is just sick.

― kate, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Other lift nuisances - dogs, children, cripples, old ppl, ppl moving house, ppl holding the door for their friends who are carrying heavy bags at 2 MPH, people who won't put out their fags, ppl who ask me to put out MY fag. I'm so sick of it I always take the stairs even though I'm on the seventh floor. Fuck ppl, man.

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate, I grew up in a neighbourhood, with neighbours, some of whom were close relations. I'm used to neighbours. If their place might leak water into yours, or somehow you might leak water into theirs, or whatever, it's better to know people a bit so when you have to deal with them urgently that bad-news time isn't the only time you see them.

Also it means I can go and see about putting a stop to the loud thumping from upstairs.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"I don't think you understand the situation. See, I'M not trapped in here with YOU - YOU are trapped in here with ME." -Rorschach, 'Watchmen'

― dave q, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Christ - there sure am be some mean people round here. I bet you wouldn't buy bageuttes for the nice lady on the landing either when you were popping down Baby Sainsbury's. Coo. You deserve to get broken in to.

Er, what Suzy said. Knowing neighbours puts you in a position of power when othe rneighbours cross that line, if you need someone to let in a gas repariman, need to borrow some fenugreek.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:14 (twenty-three years ago)

dud. i've always been scared of tall manmade structures.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Beehive hairdos?

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

& halston shirtdresses?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 15:22 (twenty-three years ago)

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