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Gotta take a break now and then, it's a long way up!
Yeah, was gonna say. Neat idea for the elderly and the not-quite-able
It makes me nervous...
Looks like it has iron supports, not wood, should be fine.
On the bright side the trip down will be much, much quicker.
Every time I see a precarious stairs situation, I think of a Spider-Man novel I read as a kid wherein he descended a great number of floors very quickly by straightening his body and diving between the railings.
I've always been terrified of heights. Even disregarding the logistical questions I never liked thinking about that.
There was a cheesy 2000s action movie where the hero jumped down the stairway center hole to escape an ambush and used a bad guy's body as a cushion to survive the landing. I wanna say either Punisher or Shoot-Em-Up?
I remember thinking how much easier it would have been to simply dive out a window. Same distance, but without all the railings to avoid on the way down.
Your username is awesome.
And yeah, one of the non-height things that bothered me was how Spider-Man would recover from the fall. He didn't have a corpse cushion.
I think I read that book twenty-two years ago, so I might be forgetting some things, but I don't think the author described his landing. The only two options I could figure out were him grabbing a railing above ground level, in which case he'd surely flip around and slam various parts of himself against stair bits; or he could land at ground level (or wherever the bottom of the stairs was). In the latter case, being a superhero, I'm sure he'd negate the fall damage ... But given how narrow the space was described as being, it seems like he'd still be unable to avoid slamming into stair bits.
All that said, in the same book, the villain was described as being of an indeterminate size due to standing completely still. That made even less sense to me, but at least didn't trigger my fear of heights.
I always thought whoever did that matte painting did an incredible job with perspective, you can barely tell when examining the still.
I like it.
we definitely need more sitting spaces in public...though mid-stairwell is an odd choice.
I think that would have been designed for the women hauling 40 pounds of petticoats up the stairs with her lungs corseted shut in a room emptied of oxygen by the gas lights.
My first thought was that you'd appreciate it more every decade.
For a building with no elevators, it makes perfect sense.
+1
That being said, as someone having a hard time using stairs (some issues with me knees) I know I'm very appreciative when there is a chair or something to sit on for a short rest.
Need a minute? Rest your ass here.
Stchairs
Chrailing
Sit on it? Probably not.
Tie my shoes on it? Hell yeah.
Rikers nemesis
Because he can't fuck it?
You underestimate the man
You hmmming about a bench bro?
Is this really where you're at in life?
You sit on it.
You'll have to slow down so that I can take notes.
OP is American, they don't know what stairs are for.
Please. This is stupid.
If you are in Canada you are american as well.
Not a bad idea
I would sit in that on every trip up.
Looks cool, but no way in hell do I trust that enough to sit on it
I’d put a plant there
A vining plant to climb up and down the railing! Yes.
It is very nice. I wish I had the same in my building.
Cuckstoel?
Ugh, y'all, it's not for sitting, it's for putting your groceries on while getting your keys for your apartment door. Geez
It's got a scalloped edge for legs, a rounded back for shoulders, lumbar indents, and looks to be several feet from the doors... it's a seat for elderly folks to rest on as they climb, as the steps are too deep and the rise is too low to allow comfortable sitting.
Ok, good points. Maybe I'm just projecting my desire to have tables or something outside my apartment door.
this looks flimsy as fuck though
When this was built people weren't as heavy as they are today.
Plus people had more kids, so it seems like they were less worried about losing one or two over a railing...
no, not really
Maybe for you, fatass.
Idk why but this screams "equipment at a sex club I'm too big a loser to understand." Something about this image has me convinced that seat is somehow meant for banging
That would be an extraordinary level of trust between me and the unknown persons who secured the railing to the structure.
As a sex club goer, idk maybe, looks like an ill advised seat to me
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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