https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Handbugexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2026-04-11T13:29:09ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:252:_Escalators&diff=75668Talk:252: Escalators2014-09-11T04:23:39Z<p>Handbug: </p>
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<div>I just wanted to point out that I think it's funny how in-depth some of these wiki's are and how others aren't. In this one we have good hearted contributors explaining what an escalator is, while in [[Appropriate Term|the last article I read]] the author uses NSFW as if it's common parlance. My rhetorical question is this: who, reading this article, immediately recognizes the acronym NSFW yet has no previous knowledge of escalators? Although not an Explain XKCD reader, my kindergartener has less knowledge of work ethics (let alone Internet slang regarding work ethics) yet has a basic understanding of escalators in popular culture, including the phenomenon of "running up the down". That is all ;) [[Special:Contributions/71.154.215.156|71.154.215.156]] 17:51, 10 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Welcome to public wiki's ;-) You get what people are willing to write. Both articles could do with some wikilinks. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 18:37, 10 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Haha! I suppose someone who spends all his time indoors on the internet would understand NSFW but not an escalator. Maybe that's who I was writing for. And maybe that says too much about my life. ;) --[[User:Druid816|Druid816]] ([[User talk:Druid816|talk]]) 21:54, 16 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I've confirmed "tangent graph" is from the official transcript, but it doesn't look like a tangent graph, except perhaps on its side. It looks more like a bell curve to me. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 10:18, 26 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I have to assume by "tangent graph" he doesn't literally mean a graph of the trigonometric tangent function, but a graph that shows an asymptotic approach to a particular value (in this case, probably zero). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 19:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I changed the explanation to make it less about what an escalator is, and more about the intent behind the joke. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 19:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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It depends on what kind of escalators it is. If you are running up the 70-meter-long down escalator which has a [[Chin-Up Bar]] at the end of it, you should feel like what you was supposed to feel.--[[User:Handbug|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug|talk]]) 04:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)<br />
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It also depends on whether you have need of doing this, for example if you are rushing to the metro station finding an overcrowded upward escalator and a sparsely crowded downward escalator every day, then you will have much strong urge to put in that chart.--[[User:Handbug|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug|talk]]) 04:23, 11 September 2014 (UTC)</div>Handbughttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:252:_Escalators&diff=75667Talk:252: Escalators2014-09-11T04:19:56Z<p>Handbug: </p>
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<div>I just wanted to point out that I think it's funny how in-depth some of these wiki's are and how others aren't. In this one we have good hearted contributors explaining what an escalator is, while in [[Appropriate Term|the last article I read]] the author uses NSFW as if it's common parlance. My rhetorical question is this: who, reading this article, immediately recognizes the acronym NSFW yet has no previous knowledge of escalators? Although not an Explain XKCD reader, my kindergartener has less knowledge of work ethics (let alone Internet slang regarding work ethics) yet has a basic understanding of escalators in popular culture, including the phenomenon of "running up the down". That is all ;) [[Special:Contributions/71.154.215.156|71.154.215.156]] 17:51, 10 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Welcome to public wiki's ;-) You get what people are willing to write. Both articles could do with some wikilinks. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 18:37, 10 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:Haha! I suppose someone who spends all his time indoors on the internet would understand NSFW but not an escalator. Maybe that's who I was writing for. And maybe that says too much about my life. ;) --[[User:Druid816|Druid816]] ([[User talk:Druid816|talk]]) 21:54, 16 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I've confirmed "tangent graph" is from the official transcript, but it doesn't look like a tangent graph, except perhaps on its side. It looks more like a bell curve to me. [[User:Markhurd|Mark Hurd]] ([[User talk:Markhurd|talk]]) 10:18, 26 May 2013 (UTC)<br />
:I have to assume by "tangent graph" he doesn't literally mean a graph of the trigonometric tangent function, but a graph that shows an asymptotic approach to a particular value (in this case, probably zero). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 19:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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I changed the explanation to make it less about what an escalator is, and more about the intent behind the joke. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.223|108.162.219.223]] 19:14, 17 January 2014 (UTC)<br />
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It depends on what kind of escalators it is. If you are running up the 70-meter-long down escalator which has a [[Chin-Up Bar]] at the end of it, you should feel like what you was supposed to feel.--[[User:Handbug|Handbug]] ([[User talk:Handbug|talk]]) 04:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)</div>Handbug