Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

Second the tickling solution.

def tickle him

tickle his face with your fists

Also, his office is on the 2nd floor (1st floor for you Brits in the audience)
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Sounds like he needs a bumper sticker.

http://www.libertystickers.com/static/images/productimage-picture-only_an_asshole_would_park_like_this-44.gif

Also, his office is on the 2nd floor (1st floor for you Brits in the audience)
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Why??!

Australians also can't count stories in a building.

it's not just brits ffs

brits and brit jrs

or is brits jr?

Do Canadians do that too?

Sorry AA, I was TRYING to be culturally sensitive, but I went and ruined everything ;__;

It is as though the shame will outlive me.

<3 je55e, I know you mean well etc, but when americans (no other country seems to do this btw) hear about something they don't do and assume it's 'british'

i genuinely dgi

and as this is the ia thread

Well the whole practice of not numbering the first floor is obviously complete dumb, we probably just expect better from Australians tbh.

oh it's definitely dumb, no question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey

Some American high-rise buildings follow the British system, often out of a desire on the part of the building's architect or owners to suggest a posh UK/ European setting[citation needed].

dying

Canadians are perfectly capable of counting floors, FYI.

It's not stupid. It is the first floor up, the second floor up, the third floor up, etc.

http://student.rio.edu/s627570/lets-make-a-deal-doors.jpg

Hey look. It's the door, the first door over and the second door over.

Well, no, because you're not standing in Door #1.

If you were standing in one doorway and were presented with three doors in order, they are the first, second and third doors. The doorway you are standing in is the start-point.

No, I'm standing in the parking lot looking for that asshole lawyer guy.

What if you weren't standing in the building when you said it?

lol, PP.

Laurel, it is generally assumed that you will enter the building at ground level. From there, you need to work out how many floors you go up. It's the same principle.

basement is the second floor, sub-basement is the first floor, ground floor is ground floor, second floor is third floor

emil.y I see your point, but logically it's just as easy (if not easier) to say that the floor you enter is the first as you enter the building.

i think what we're getting at here is that all language is wrong and horrible

Laurel, it is generally assumed that you will enter the building at ground level.

Again, not saying you're wrong in any way, but when a building on a slope has a ground floor and a lower ground floor, people's heads can explode.

I mean there are places with LG, then G, them M for god's sake (mezzanine), then 1, 2, 3 etc.

Where I work it goes concourse, ground, second, third, etc.

It is a small cruel sport of mine to watch visitors guess whether they want the ground (where you exit the building) or the concourse (where you encounter the food court) and choose poorly.

Like if you had a committee, right now, determining how best to number floors, they would probably decide (after some power lunches) that numbering them 1–n is most logical and easiest to standardise across building types.

Laurel, it is generally assumed that you will enter the building at ground level.

Pointing to the fact that this system may have made more sense when 90% of building entries were, in fact, on the ground floor. In the age of interconnected buildings this is just not true

On the concourse level, my building connects to a system of awesome underground pathways leading to numerous other buildings.

In China (dayo will correct me if I am wrong) they start with 1 (i.e. no G) but many also skip 4 altogether because evil, so what they call the 5th floor is what you would call the 4th floor and what we would call the 3rd floor.

('you' being anyone who doesn't do G floors)

A lot of US buildings skip the 13th floor or did so traditionally, right?

Yeah, I think loads of western places do that

It's certainly something that was supposed to happen, but I'm not sure how many people actually did that.

(Also I would say G and LG would be even more confusing if labelled as 1 and 2 - at least with 'lower ground' you are given an indication that the building is of a funny layout.)

at least with 'lower ground' you are given an indication that the building is of a funny layout.

Do you need to know that, though? imo floors should be labelled relatively to one another, not the world around the building; and if you want to leave you will follow exit signs.

basement is the second floor, sub-basement is the first floor, ground floor is ground floor, second floor is third floor lol

Re my saying "British:

1. I didn't really know if AU or NZ or anywhere numbered floors the way they do in Britain, so I just said British

2. AU, NZ, and even Canada still smell of Britain to me, so when my thumbs get tired, I don't bother listing all the English-speaking places that feel sorta British, and for that I'm sorry.

Really Je55e, it's cool, it's a raw nerve of mine (and this being the ia thread I thought it fitting to overreact)

I feel badly for getting IA about this, and I know it makes me a bad person, but being involved in or overhearing a conversation with an elderly person that goes:

ELDERLY PERSON: [Asks a question]
OTHER PERSON: [Starts to respond]
ELDERLY PERSON: [Before other person has gotten three words out] "HUH?"

repeat ad nauseam

oh god yes, my mother-in-law does almost exactly that, you sigh quietly to yourself and she's all 'PARDON??'

and yeah, one can never finish a sentence

working in a library, i would say i get IA about old people who aren't comfortable with computers but refuse to admit that they aren't comfortable with computers and instead try to muddle their way through and get confused and accidentally don't save any of their work after three hours of research. i guess they don't necessarily have to be old but they tend to be.

my grandfather is genuinely hard of hearing now, but really in the past he just wouldn't pay attention to what you were saying since he's kind of wrapped up in his own world

--when both my roommates are home, UPS guy comes with a package for me, neither answers the door, so now I get to wait til tomorrow