You hmmming about a bench bro?
Is this really where you're at in life?
You sit on it.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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You'll have to slow down so that I can take notes.
I like it.
we definitely need more sitting spaces in public...though mid-stairwell is an odd choice.
My first thought was that you'd appreciate it more every decade.
For a building with no elevators, it makes perfect sense.
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...
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.
That was a lot of movies. I think the first Bourne had it.
I feel like all the parkour films (banlieue 13, Yamakasi) had a lot of staircase scenes
Hardcore Henry certainly does.
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.
the villain was described as being of an indeterminate size due to standing completely still
That has to be the most hilarious riff off of Heisenberg I've seen
Looks like it has iron supports, not wood, should be fine.
Yeah, and marble floors and possibly polished concrete steps. This staircase looks like it was built like a tank. Or for an old courthouse or bank or something.
Lol kinda basic older apartment building made of stone, I think you might be American, lol.
Those stairs aren't even that thick, tbh.
I do get the vibe you're talking about, but honestly the stone buildings in my city have wider and more elaborate staircases even when they never had any sort od business in the building. I'd love an apartment in one of those, if they weren't solely in the center of the city, because the thick stone walls in them make it so you can hardly hear anything your neighbour is doing. Also the ceilings are tall af.
Yeah, those would be like the back stairs, in a nicer building. Good point.
Thanks, but I don't really know what you mean by backstairs, as most apartments I know just open to the one staircase. It's not way thin, but I'm just saying most of the ones in my city were wider and thicker. The ones which exist, that is. There's only some of them left in the center and other apartment buildings are basic concrete shits.
My point is rather that it needn't be a bank or anything like that to be somewhat fancy, that used to be in style... some time. Early 20th century, maybe?
On the bright side the trip down will be much, much quicker.
I’d put a plant there
A vining plant to climb up and down the railing! Yes.
Need a minute? Rest your ass here.
Or rest your grocery bags. Very useful!
Stchairs
Chrailing
this looks flimsy as fuck though
no, not really
Flimsy cast iron, yup.
When this was built people weren't as heavy as they are today.
Also it's probably in Europe, not the US.
Plus people had more kids, so it seems like they were less worried about losing one or two over a railing...
Rikers nemesis
Because he can't fuck it?
You underestimate the man
I would sit in that on every trip up.
... and down.
Sit on it? Probably not.
Tie my shoes on it? Hell yeah.
It is very nice. I wish I had the same in my building.
Good place for taking shoes on and off, especially in the winter if you wanna minimize slush in your apartment
Stepladder of end.
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