American counting - is it different?

[Pickman's model]

Don't you have any *funny* ones?

 

[danny la rouge]

According to Otis (lift makers) 85% of US buildings (over that height) don't have thirteenth floors and mainly go 12th/14th.Most airlines have a thirteenth row of seats those some don't.

I was in a lift the other day (the Bon Accord Centre in Aberdeen) and noticed the lift manufacturer was Schindler. It was Schindler's lift.

Apologies if everyone else already thought of that years ago, but I'm a teuchter.

 

[Pickman's model]

I was in a lift the other day (the Bon Accord Centre in Aberdeen) and noticed the lift manufacturer was Schindler. It was Schindler's lift.

Apologies if everyone else already thought of that years ago, but I'm a teuchter.

where i used to work i made that joke five years ago when the schindler lift was installed.

 

[two sheds]

said with a lifp

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm a teuchter.

you're not that bad

 

[danny la rouge]

you're not that bad

Thank you.

Does teuchter use a capital? Apparently not.

 

[bimble]

You can tell the really pretentious ones by their falsely modest refusal to use capital letters in their name.

 

[oneflewover]

Yan, tyan, tethera. methera, pimp, sethera, lethera, othera, dothera, deek, yandeek, tyandeek, tetheradeek, metheradeek, bumfit, yanabumfit, tyanabumfit, tetherabumfit, metherabumfit, jiggit.

Must be read / spoken / sung in Jake Thackray accent.

 

[oneflewover]

According to Otis (lift makers) 85% of US buildings (over that height) don't have thirteenth floors and mainly go 12th/14th.Most airlines have a thirteenth row of seats though some don't.

I live at No11. My neighbours live at No9 and No15 there is no 13

 

[Spymaster]

I was in a lift the other day (the Bon Accord Centre in Aberdeen) and noticed the lift manufacturer was Schindler. It was Schindler's lift.

See, that wouldn't work in the US because you'd be in Schindler's elevator.

 

[Spymaster]

Our building, in London, doesn't have a 13th floor.

 

[danny la rouge]

You can tell the really pretentious ones by their falsely modest refusal to use capital letters in their name.

cunts.

 

[danny la rouge]

Our building, in London, doesn't have a 13th floor.

Does is have a 14th? Because otherwise I'm not impressed: my house doesn't have a 13th floor.

 

[The Boy]

In Scotland we say "the back of 5". As in "I won't be there until the back of 5". It means some indefinite point after 5. Some people from outside Scotland interpret it as meaning before 5. I'm not sure, but I think they're thinking the number on the page is facing right, so its front is the right and its back is the left, so times that are at its back are before it. Which is just mental.

Annoys the fuck out of my other half does that one.

 

[Spymaster]

What if street level is the third floor, like a building I often use?

Then the building you use is wrong.

The levels below street (ground) level are -1, -2, and -3.

You should avoid that building in future as it has been poorly constructed and is likely to be dangerous.

 

[Celyn]

My brother once lived on the 13th floor until he got broken into and robbed by a evildoer who climbed in the window.

 

[Spymaster]

Does is have a 14th?

No. Neither does it have a 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th .....

.... my house doesn't have a 13th floor.

That's because it's a house.

 

[Spymaster]

My brother once lived on the 13th floor until he got broken into and robbed by a evildoer who climbed in the window ...

Spiderman?

 

[Celyn]

So-off-his-face-as-not-to-notice-danger man got from next door's balcony to brother's one.

(I've just realised I have no idea what is the cover story, so to speak, for Spiderman. I mean Superman is Clark Kent who works for a newspaper, and Batman is rich and lives in big house with Robin and butler, but I'll have to Google to learn what the deal was with Spiderman.)

 

[danny la rouge]

So-off-his-face-as-not-to-notice-danger man got from next door's balcony to brother's one.

(I've just realised I have no idea what is the cover story, so to speak, for Spiderman. I mean Superman is Clark Kent who works for a newspaper, and Batman is rich and lives in big house with Robin and butler, but I'll have to Google to learn what the deal was with Spiderman.)

Charlie Parker. I don't know his job, though. Geography teacher?

 

[peterkro]

Charlie Parker. I don't know his job, though. Geography teacher?

Saxophonist.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Charlie Parker. I don't know his job, though. Geography teacher?

Tsk.

 

[DaveCinzano]

How many goes at this are you going to have?

 

[danny la rouge]

Tsk.

Scientist! He got bitten by a radioactive spider!

 

[Spymaster]

Spiderman was Peter Parker.

 

[oneflewover]

Spiderman was Peter Parker.

Chairman of British Rail. Seems an odd job share choice.

 

[The Boy]

Then the building you use is wrong.

The levels below street (ground) level are -1, -2, and -3.

You should avoid that building in future as it has been poorly constructed and is likely to be dangerous.

What if two sides of a building are at street level, both sides have an entrance, but the two levels are at different...umm...levels?

 

[Spymaster]

What if two sides of a building are at street level, both sides have an entrance, but the two levels are at different...umm...levels?

Extraordinary circumstances require extraordinary solutions and not all will be the same. The first port of call in the scenario that you propose should be to consider the location of the building's main reception area. This should be considered the ground floor. Of course it's possible that reception is located on an entirely different floor but this would be so unusual that we may consider it an internet only exercise.

 

[danny la rouge]

What if two sides of a building are at street level, both sides have an entrance, but the two levels are at different...umm...levels?

Exactly. It's like the duality of Aces: both high *and* low until your mother in law asks.

 

[danny la rouge]

What if two sides of a building are at street level, both sides have an entrance, but the two levels are at different...umm...levels?

The building I'm thinking of has exactly that. I usually exit on the Bath Street side, which is higher than the Sauchiehall Street side, neither of which is the bottom.