Irony, American style

[Trinoc]

Just found this thread on the SGU forum ... here is my favourite:

[al_capone_junior]

I love that pic

BTW the gym I'm going to has no escalators

[Mojo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2844161.stm

[Tim the Mage]

I love that pic

BTW the gym I'm going to has no escalators

An elevator?

[al_capone_junior]

An elevator?

Nope. It's one story and on the first floor only lol.

[Trinoc]

Nope. It's one story and on the first floor only lol.

That's American "first floor", meaning ground level, right?

(Over here we have a zeroth floor, which at least makes the arithmetic work out correctly if you have floors down as well as up ... only we call it "ground floor" because some British people are still uncomfortable with the idea of zero, it only having been introduced to Europe about 800 years ago and all that. Needless to say, floors down are almost never labelled with negative numbers.)

[al_capone_junior]

That's American "first floor", meaning ground level, right?

(Over here we have a zeroth floor, which at least makes the arithmetic work out correctly if you have floors down as well as up ... only we call it "ground floor" because some British people are still uncomfortable with the idea of zero, it only having been introduced to Europe about 800 years ago and all that. Needless to say, floors down are almost never labelled with negative numbers.)

Yes, in "Americanese" first floor means ground level.

But I'm sure the British system is much easier

[polomint38]

Yes, in "Americanese" first floor means ground level.

But I'm sure the British system is much easier

Very easy until you throw in Mezzanine floors.

LG - Lower ground, it is a basement or the Cellar.

[farmersboy]

Working in the building trade, it always makes me chuckle when you look at a schedule of, say radiators, and see and 'a' suffix, like R14, R15, R15a and you know someone missed one or a redesign has introduced another and no-one could be arsed to redo the whole thing...

...well, on the hospital I'm currently involved in in Birmingham, we have an entire floor like that! It goes Basement, Level 00, 01, 02, 02a, 03...

It's one gigantic plantroom that was going to be at roof level until it was redisigned and no-one wanted to renumber the floors. It'll be interesting to see how they label the buttons in the lifts...

[Trinoc]

Working in the building trade, it always makes me chuckle when you look at a schedule of, say radiators, and see and 'a' suffix, like R14, R15, R15a and you know someone missed one or a redesign has introduced another and no-one could be arsed to redo the whole thing...

...well, on the hospital I'm currently involved in in Birmingham, we have an entire floor like that! It goes Basement, Level 00, 01, 02, 02a, 03...

It's one gigantic plantroom that was going to be at roof level until it was redisigned and no-one wanted to renumber the floors. It'll be interesting to see how they label the buttons in the lifts...

Where did you fit the new floor in? Did the higher floors all have to move up?

[farmersboy]

The floor was always there, but I don't know what it was called. They must have renumbered the other floors (this all happened way before I started on site), but if that's the case why call it 2a?

Sums up the whole job really...£560M PFI contract that just goes from muddle to muddle.

[Trinoc]

The floor was always there, but I don't know what it was called. They must have renumbered the other floors (this all happened way before I started on site), but if that's the case why call it 2a?

Sums up the whole job really...£560M PFI contract that just goes from muddle to muddle.

PFI ... that explains it. A mechanism for transplanting money from taxpayers to rich investors without doing any useful work on the way.

[al_capone_junior]

PFI ... that explains it. A mechanism for transplanting money from taxpayers to rich investors without doing any useful work on the way.

We have the same problem here. We just waste money on stadiums and crappy construction projects instead of buildings. Oh yeah, and bridges that don't go anywhere. In this town we had a bridge that for ten years had no connecting streets on either side of it, only open fields.

[farmersboy]

Well, at least this one is a hospital, so it's useful.

[Trinoc]

Well, at least this one is a hospital, so it's useful.

Except that the costs would probably have comfortably paid for all of its future patients to be treated privately instead ... in much greater comfort and with a much higher chance of survival.