Funny Pic Thread VII - No swearing. No sex. No complaining. (READ FIRST POST)

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Keef
I'd like to ask the Brits: What do you call the surface of the ground floor upon which you walk? Is it not a floor?
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It is indeed a floor as you state, it is the floor that is level with the ground. You then proceed to the first floor above it that is NOT at ground level, and second after that etc etc....
 
ECGadget
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Lol saw that pic somewhere. Doesn't mean it's a repost though.
 
Keef
I'd like to ask the Brits: What do you call the surface of the ground floor upon which you walk? Is it not a floor?
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The ground.
 
HAHAHA good one!!
 
pezzarinho17
It is indeed a floor as you state, it is the floor that is level with the ground. You then proceed to the first floor above it that is NOT at ground level, and second after that etc etc....
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So let's say you're in a two-story house in the UK.

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Where is the second floor?
 
To add to the confusion :

In Dutch the word for floor is : verdieping, if you would translate it literally it would be something like : endeepment~ish.

Feel free to replace it with an actual english word.


Ground floor = Begane grond.
1st floor = 1ste verdieping.
etc. etc.
 
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Keef
So let's say you're in a two-story house in the UK.

Where is the second floor?
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Nowhere?

I mean, it's two-story, not two-floory, right?

By the way, it's similar in German.

Ground level is called "Parterre", derived from the french expression for "on the ground". The floor above that would be called "erste Etage", which basically translates to "first floor". So the brits got it right :sly:
 
In Portugal and in Europe i believe, thats ground floor and 1st floor.
 
Luminis
Nowhere?

I mean, it's two-story, not two-floory, right?
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Thats what I'd say. Unless there's a loft conversion that we can't see... :dunce:
 
When you build a house, which floor is built first? That's right: the one on the ground. Ground floor = 1st floor.


The exception is for big huge buildings that have large ceilings on the ground floor, with the next floor up beginning a uniform floor height. So you'd have a big huge main lobby, and then on top of that the first floor of apartments/offices, for example.
 
Omnis
When you build a house, which floor is built first? That's right: the one on the ground. Ground floor = 1st floor.
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Just use this:

Floor number in US -1 = Floor number in UK

Simple.
 
Omnis
Ground floor = 1st floor.
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The ground floor is the ground floor/ 1st floor is the 1st floor:sly:. (wich is above ground floor :p)
 
Luminis
Nowhere?

I mean, it's two-story, not two-floory, right?
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ryanb98
Thats what I'd say. Unless there's a loft conversion that we can't see... :dunce:
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Definition of "story":

Dictionary.com/Random House
sto·ry
2    [stawr-ee, stohr-ee] Show IPA
noun, plural -ries.
1.
a complete horizontal section of a building, having one continuous or practically continuous floor.
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This definition states that the stories of a building have floors. That means that a two-story house - and you agree my example is indeed a two-story house - has two floors, one for each story. That means that the 1st story, which is between the ground and floor of the second story, has a floor, and the second story, which is between its floor and the roof of the building, has a floor also. There are two floors in said building; a first and a second. The notion that a two-story building doesn't have a second floor (which it apparently wouldn't by classic British custom) is just crazy. This definition of "story" makes it clear that the ground floor is the first floor and that can't be argued against, unless you believe that house to be a one-story house, which of course it isn't because that also violates the definition of "story".

Omnis
When you build a house, which floor is built first? That's right: the one on the ground. Ground floor = 1st floor.

The exception is for big huge buildings that have large ceilings on the ground floor, with the next floor up beginning a uniform floor height. So you'd have a big huge main lobby, and then on top of that the first floor of apartments/offices, for example.
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Even if numbering for convenience's sake begins on a different floor, the fact is that the first floor of a building is the one on the ground.
 
Why are we having an argument about floor numbers in the funny pic thread?
 
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Funnies are back!


Jerome
 

Is she stealing something? :lol: Hang loose brotha? :p
 
shem
I just checked for an irrational fear / hatred of zombies phobia. Turns out there isn't a name for one. Anyone with any bright ideas PM me and I'll make a Wiki page about it.
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Sorry I'm late on this, but a phobia is an irrational fear of something. There is no irrational fear of Zombies, it's quite rational to have a fear of Zombies. It's like having an irrational fear of man-eating snakes if you live near a snake pit... Nothing irrational about that fear....
 
It's still irrational to fear something that doesn't exist.
 
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