Check out this video in Japan.

How would you like to head off to work like this? LOL

http://www.chilloutzone.de/files/08040701.html

That is rich!

Any time now, Pronatalist will be here to write a novel length post about how wonderful that is.

i hate crowded spaces and i tend to avoid them if i can, so that would be a nightmare for me

i hate crowded spaces and i tend to avoid them if i can, so that would be a nightmare for me

No kidding, I couldn't get in there. How do you breathe :bugeye:

No kidding, I couldn't get in there. How do you breathe :bugeye:

knowing my luck it would be packed out with people with BO problems! lol :bugeye:

i hate crowded spaces and i tend to avoid them if i can, so that would be a nightmare for me

Yeah, me too.
I live in what is called the Wilderness Coast for a reason.

Yeah, me too.
I live in what is called the Wilderness Coast for a reason.

concerts are brillaint and a big pastime for me, but i get worried about the crowds before i go, i have to take deep breaths,

getting there is all that matters

I bet getting a seat is the worst thing, suffocation anyone?

Any time now, Pronatalist will be here to write a novel length post about how wonderful that is.
He likes seeing Japanese people packed in like sardines? :confused:

The 4/5 trains in NY during the morning commute aren't that bad (we don't have MTA officials pushing us in) but it's sort of close. You don't have to hold on to anything because everyone's so squished together, there's no chance of you falling or stumbling.

Get the next train. Sheesh.

Staged

Staged

No, this kind of stuff really happens in Japan. I wouldn't be surprised if this were 100% real.

No, this kind of stuff really happens in Japan. I wouldn't be surprised if this were 100% real.

It looks fake because there isn't anyone left in line when they're done. It's not like they were fighting to get on the train. They knew exactly how many people they were going to shove in and had just that amount standing there.
No ones going to hold their breath with a knee in their eye or risk injury by the railmen shoving them if the next train is going to be empty.

Just my opinion, but I've seen stranger things that were true, like how some in Japan rent a drawer to sleep in instead of an apartment. Because they're always working and only need somewhere to sleep rather than somewhere to collect items they're never around to use. Just the essentials.

I would die before living like that.

Staged

not at all. hey really do hire "pushers" during peak travel times to fit everyone in there.

not at all. hey really do hire "pushers" during peak travel times to fit everyone in there.

seriously, pushers, to push people into the train?

No thanks, I rather stay at home then.

Any time now, Pronatalist will be here to write a novel length post about how wonderful that is.

It's not wonderful, it's acceptable. They have to "push" people in, because they stand in the doorway of the subway train, and the train can't move on, until all the doors close.

I might rather be squeezed in, than wait for the next subway train. But then if there's that many people, maybe the wait for the next train, is but only a few minutes.

I rode the subway trains in Washington D.C. and in Seoul, Korea. Better than driving. The subway systems work pretty good. One of the advantages of big cities. Making subway systems cost-effective. With less population, the buses, run around once an hour, a rather long wait.

Reminds me of Nazi's packing jews in the trains headed for death camps.

I find it strangely funny what people now do by "choice", what totalitarian states wanted them to do by force, in the past.

People are basically, for the most part, slaves. This is a clarifying example of the truth of the statement - "persuasion is better than force".

Hahaha, that was hilarious.

Still beats driving, IMO.

Reminds me of Nazi's packing jews in the trains headed for death camps.

I find it strangely funny what people now do by "choice", what totalitarian states wanted them to do by force, in the past.

People are basically, for the most part, slaves. This is a clarifying example of the truth of the statement - "persuasion is better than force".

Uh, the analogy kind of drops off with the "death camps" part. Though I think your last point is undebatable in most contexts.

Uh, the analogy kind of drops off with the "death camps" part. Though I think your last point is undebatable in most contexts.

Persuasion takes longer...we haven't seen the end-game of the industial-consumerism-complex, play out yet.

How do you think this form of persuasion going to get that far?

How do you think this form of persuasion going to get that far?

The Double income parents "slavin" away so their kids can have all those "things" they didn't have...are going to get old someday. The end product of all these things and a neglect of time and attention - from what I observe, is kids whom really do not give a flying fuck about their parents.

Many youngsters will quite frankly grow up with a need for that inheritance a little "sooner", that "job" some old person has a little sooner, even the space they take up a little sooner. They will have small moral objection to "obtaining" these things a "little sooner". Consumer-Capitalism is a snake, long and convoluted, that does not even know it is slowly feeding on itself.

I am so getting a CAR. SOON. Whoops. I'm a capitalist. Damn.

Reminds me of Nazi's packing jews in the trains headed for death camps.

I find it strangely funny what people now do by "choice", what totalitarian states wanted them to do by force, in the past.

People are basically, for the most part, slaves. This is a clarifying example of the truth of the statement - "persuasion is better than force".

It's not the same at all. One main difference, it really is to serve the people, not to disrespect them. In some places, people are so numerous, you just have to keep them moving along.

I would like to see more people be able to work at home, but that might be a whole another topic?

don't be so sure its fake - I've been on the underground in London at rush hour and its been just like that

don't be so sure its fake - I've been on the underground in London at rush hour and its been just like that

That is nuts!! People here complain about the public transit all the time.
I have NEVER in my life seen anything like this. I am somewhat claustrophobic and there is no way you could push me in there and shut the doors.

commuting in london on public transport during rush hour is pure hell - driving is worse - unless you don't care what time you arrive :bugeye:

that's why a bought a motorbike to get to work when I lived there :cool: