Showing posts with label dwarves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dwarves. Show all posts

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Yotel: hotel rooms to match the new airline leg room

It's a good thing we're all getting smaller...

Tiny Hotel Rooms Follow High Land Prices in Yotel Growth

"...Yotel, a minimalist hotel brand whose signature feature is tiny rooms, or “cabins,” of about 175 square feet (16 square meters). That means Synapse can fit 202 revenue-producing rooms into a building that would accommodate just 94 were it a standard hotel, he said.

“People in the industry in San Francisco thought we were crazy until they figured out that we were fitting in two times the amount of keys,” said Palmer, who bought the property with Yotel’s largest shareholder in April and expects to open the hotel in 2017.

"Yotel is finding that its small rooms are a big selling point as it seeks to expand globally. With land costs soaring in cities such as New York, San Francisco and London, the company is pitching itself to developers as a revenue-maximizing solution for small and odd-sized lots.

“You can unlock the potential from sites in an area where you don’t know what to do,” Chief Executive Officer Hubert Viriot, who’s based in Dubai and took the helm of London-based Yotel in May, said in an interview. “We fit pretty much everywhere.”

Friday, November 1, 2013

A Finnish team takes top honors at 2013 North American wife carrying championship

Sometimes when I talk about dwarf tossing (which is illegal in many places), I also talk about wife carrying, which is not.  Here's the latest from the North American championships: Results from the 2013 North American Wife Carrying Championship

It includes a video of the competition

Friday, November 4, 2011

Colbert on proposal to repeal Florida's dwarf tossing ban

Colbert Supports Repeal Of Dwarf-Tossing Ban Proposed By Florida Legislator Ritch Workman



(Dwarf tossing was one of the repugnant transactions I described in
Roth, Alvin E. "Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21:3, Summer, 2007, pp. 37-58.)


HT: Parag Pathak

Saturday, March 27, 2010

China's theme park of dwarves

A Miniature World Magnifies Dwarf Life

Quotes reflecting opposing views of repugnance:

“I think it is horrible,” said Gary Arnold, the spokesman for Little People of America Inc., a dwarfism support group based in California. “What is the difference between it and a zoo?” Even the term “dwarf” is offensive to some; his organization prefers “person of short stature.”

"But there is another view, and Mr. Chen and some of his short-statured workers present it forcefully. One hundred permanently employed dwarfs, they contend, is better than 100 dwarfs scrounging for odd jobs. They insist that the audiences who see the dwarfs sing, dance and perform comic routines leave impressed by their skills and courage."

HT: Zhenyu Lai and Aytek Erdil

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Repugnant transactions in Australia

Australian pub offers free alcohol for knickerless women.

Mayor Janet Cribbes slammed the promotion in the local press.
"It fuels the fire for irresponsible drinking, irresponsible behaviour and puts young women at risk and makes them more vulnerable to sexual assault," she said.
"I'd thought they would have learnt their lesson from the dwarf episode. We'll be paying them a visit soon, I'd say."