Bonkers new lift at work

woah · Sat 21 May, 2011 20.24

Is this guy serious? I've no problem with people having odd interests (that would be very hypocritical) but what possible interest can you have in a box that goes up and down with some buttons..? And who buys a bigger bike, so they can make more polystyrene snow..? Christ..

WillPS · Sat 21 May, 2011 21.22

His website is a throwback to when every fanboy 13-year-old had their own Geocities.

Some generic comapnies replace old lifts that don't need replacing with a lift that will only last 10 years, when the old lift would have lasted a lot longer.

I hate these generic companies, A lot of old lifts last over 50 years when some generic lifts don't last more than 10 years.

These are the bog standard Dewhurst lift buttons. These are used by a lot of little companies.

This is my favourite:

1990s

Express merged with Evans to become ExpressEvans. ExpressEvans neither made Express nor Evans style lifts, instead they went on to make generic lifts. This was a very big mistake as their lifts were not distinctive or different from all the other generic companies. In 1997 ExpressEvans went Bankrupt and were taken over by Otis.

It is very sad how 2 great lift companies went Bankrupt.

So many lift companies try to save money by buying in generic parts instead of making their own. when what actually happens is that their lifts stop being special.

Making the classic fanboy mistake of thinking that the whole industry exists to excite them, and not to, say, manufacture a means of transportation from one floor to another.

jsm · Sun 22 May, 2011 01.25

He also has a collection of self-designed flash games:
http://benobve.110mb.com/games/

Lift Filming Game: Film all of the lifts in a building without being caught.
PIGS POOING PROBLEMS 2: This is a platform game, where you are a pig and you can poo on things

Beep · Sun 22 May, 2011 02.05

jsm wrote:He also has a collection of self-designed flash games:
http://benobve.110mb.com/games/

Lift Filming Game: Film all of the lifts in a building without being caught.
PIGS POOING PROBLEMS 2: This is a platform game, where you are a pig and you can poo on things

PIGS POOING PROBLEMS 2 is just disturbing...

bilky asko · Sun 22 May, 2011 14.04

Beep wrote:
jsm wrote:He also has a collection of self-designed flash games:
http://benobve.110mb.com/games/

Lift Filming Game: Film all of the lifts in a building without being caught.
PIGS POOING PROBLEMS 2: This is a platform game, where you are a pig and you can poo on things
PIGS POOING PROBLEMS 2 is just disturbing...

But it does get tough.