Lift priority button combo - urban myth or truth?

[Martinus]

So, about two weeks ago someone told me that apparently most lifts have a "priority" mode built in. According to him, if you press the button of the floor you want to go to simultaneously with the door-closing button, the lift won't stop at any intervening floors, even if someone called the lift to them earlier.

I was quite incredulous about it, as you can imagine, but since I have been doing this and always got to my floor of destination without stops. Now of course this could be a coincidence, but I was wondering if anyone heard about it at all.

[Neil]

It's a common belief with children, but it is untrue.

[Martinus]

I never heard it before.

[Neil]

I never heard it before.

Perhaps you were not adequately exposed to elevators in your youth?  Did you live somewhere with few elevators?

[Faeelin]

I never heard it before.

Perhaps you were not adequately exposed to elevators in your youth?  Did you live somewhere with few elevators?

I am extremely disappointed you did not make a joke about how backwards Poland is.

[Josquius]

I've heard of it before.
From what I hear it only works with certain brands of lift.

However, in the same cool little technology stories vein there's the one about coke vending machines having a combination to press to go into debug mode- this one definitely works. Unfortunately there's just crap like changing language and that in there though, getting free drinks can only be done from the inside.

And on lifts- what the hell is it with mainland Europe and those unsafe, single door lifts?
I've never seen one in Britain but they're all over elsewhere I've been.

[Neil]

I never heard it before.

Perhaps you were not adequately exposed to elevators in your youth?  Did you live somewhere with few elevators?

I am extremely disappointed you did not make a joke about how backwards Poland is.

A lack of elevators isn't necessarily backwards.  It could be that he lived somewhere within Poland where they built low, as the local commissar had declared that no building could be built higher than the local statue of Lenin.

Besides, I prefer to mock Marti based on his homosexuality, not on his Russian background.  There really wasn't a good gay joke to be made.  I could have said something like 'You would have heard about this if it had involved elevating yourself onto some cock', but that just sounds retarded.

[Ed Anger]

There is a Yakov Smirnoff joke that could be told, but I'll hold off.

[derspiess]

Definitely works in my work building.  I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.

[katmai]

Definitely works in my work building.  I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.

you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!

[Jaron]

Definitely works in my work building.  I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.

you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!

PAWNED

[Barrister]

Definitely works in my work building.  I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.

you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!

PAWNED

I wonder how much you can get for pawning a derspeiss? 

[Agelastus]

Definitely works in my work building.  I actually posted that here 4-5 years ago.

you are such a fucking liar spicy, we weren't even "here" 4-5 years ago!

PAWNED

I wonder how much you can get for pawning a derspeiss? 

Nothing, if Derspeiss was referring to Languish as a forum, rather than Languish as a location on a particular server etc. Languish is at least 8 or 9 years old, I am certain.

[katmai]

[katmai]

Yes aggie the languish forums were started about 8 years ago, with the 7th anniversary of the large exodus on the 11th of this month.