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

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

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

Not limited to old people! I thought I had posted about this stupid phenomenon here w/r/t dummies of all ages on the telephone who do that. Similarly, say someone is giving me an address over the phone:

Them: 1500 [pause.....]
Me thinking I should repeat: Fifteen hu--
Them interrupting: North Lincoln [paaaaaaaaaaaaause.....]
Me: Oka--
Them interrupting: Avenue

Also those people who insist on repeating EVERYTHING you say AS YOU'RE SAYING IT e.g.

Me: I am...
Them: You, yes...
Me: I am holding...
Them: Oh yes, holding, yes I see
Me: ...a banana...
Them: Oh a banana, yes, okay
Me: ...in my...
Them: Oh yes, a banana, yes, you are holding it, yes...
Me: ...in my...
Them: In your hand, yes, in your hand yes

Yep!

ground floor is like the prep of a building, and 1st floor is 1st grade

i think that makes the basement kindergarten

are you saying early learning centres are full of shit or

parking area iirc

My MOTH is totally computer paranoid but does the weirdest things. Her phone wasn't working & it turned out she'd wiped all the settings. After a lot of back and forth it turned out that she couldn't type numbers in a text message so she went into settings and changed EVERY setting she could find to see if that would help. From a lady who gets a panic attack writing an email. That's like going into nuclear meltdown & hitting every button on the console! Hilarious and kind of cute but also wtf

Re interrupters: I am reading a deposition transcript in which every time the attorney asks the witness to look at an exhibit, she says "uh-huh" or "Okay" so that it reads like

Q. Please take a look at
A. Uh-huh
Q. -- the email marked Exhibit 4

She does over and over and it's pretty annoying.

oh old people and computers. My dad complained because his PC was virtually at a standstill. I opened a browser and he had installed so many mystery toolbars that the actual browser window only took up about 40% of the screen. Then when I tried fixing it he stood over me and constantly threw random ideas at me with such intensity that I actually couldn't fix his computer.

xp oh god

knock knock
whos there
interrupting cow
interrupti---MOO!

Details changed, but:

Q. And then if you go to the next
page, Bates numbered 120, have you --
A. Yep.
Q. -- seen this document
before?
A. I'm sorry.
Q. Do you recall seeing this?
A. Sure.

haha oh god

And it's funny b/c at the beginning of every single deposition, the witness is instructed not to say uh-huh, yep, mm-hmm. This lady doesn't respect The Law.

yep.
uh-huh.
definitely.
huh?

Sorry, "MOTH" is that an abbreviation for mother-in-law or something?

Q. Ma'am would it be OK if --
A. Yeh.
Q. -- I punched your tits off? You already said yeh, so here we go.

xpost yes. or a very large scary moth.

lol jesse dying over here