Britbong Education

Why is it that Nigel calls the first floor of a building the "ground floor." The second floor is literally called the "first floor" in bongland. Did no one teach these fuckers how to count? It's not a flat, it's an apartment building. Get your shit together Britannia, no wonder your empire has fallen.

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>First floor

It's not though

Why do American buildings have no 13th floor?

The same reason why you guys still are a "christian" nation, you believe in fairy tales

Also: Maths? Like more than one?

Also, you don't put petroline into a car. You put gasoline.

>not knowing the difference between the ground and a floor

got some news about the big blue ceiling for you user, might want to sit down for this

4pbp /thread

>UK can't into count

A

is the whole of the earth a floor?

who fucking cares. you can say ground floor in either country to someone and the person would know what you are saying

SAVAGE
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If superstition bothers you, never visit China.

ground is the fucking dirt outside, you put a floor on that
First floor

Ground, (noun): The solid surface of the earth.

Floor, (Noun): The surface of a room on which one stands.

So unless the first floors of all buildings in the uk are made of dirt, it isn't ground.

fuck off wanker

americans frequently use ground floor, but the next one up is called the second floor because we are not retarded

No. Do bears ride unicycles?

>mathematics
>a liquid called gas

>the second floor of a building called the first

gas is short for gasoline

also, if you were shortening mathematics, you would drop the "s" as it isn't a plural word.

Mostly concrete, so close enough.

FUCKING

Why are Burgers weird, everyone else calls it petroleum

Says the socialist nation that ditched its gold and is taking in just how many more fucking migrants in the name of you secular lord called diversity

Dont throw stones while living in a glass house.

ground floor implies access is easily available from the ground. do you yanks seriously refer to a one storey house having 1st floor rooms? that kinda implies theres more than one floor. Typical American thinking, must make things seem bigger than they are. now excuse me, me and my boyfriend's dog are just off to our bungalows first floor bathroom to shit out some vexing turd.

Jesus fucking mother of God. You yanks are so retarded. Ground floor means ground floor for fucks sake. From the GROUND FLOOR you start counting up. 1. 2. 3. Like that. Just fuck. You people are like simple minded children.

SAVAGE

Ive seen both in USA.

it's like that in many canadian apartments

when you count fingers do you start with zero or one?

Just makes no sense. :^)

American will do anything in their power to use as little brainpower as possible for everything they do, hence this retarded thread

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I'm triggered that there's no 14.

So after the first floor count the first floor? lul

meh

wait, do americans not have a 13th floor? what do they call it then?

The only ground floor yanks know is ground zero.

This is coming from a country that still uses inches, pounds and pints.

The reason being the Yanks are incapable as a nation of effecting any change that would require their population to think logically. Its just too much for them.

Honestly Yanks are like the imbeciles of the western world. Sort of like a retarded family member everyone is embarrassed about.

America: man falls through hole in 1st floor of building.

UK: man walks out of front door.

In Italy we do the same as you anglo

When you subtract 2 from 1 do you skip zero?

Because according to you the answer would be -2

No, because its the fucking GROUND floor, dumbass. Because its like, you know, at GROUND LEVEL.

Jesus/

I agree, we inherited the English system and its always confused me.

America got it right on this one.

3/2/17

We can all see this as the 3rd of Feb

Unless you live in US and its 2nd of March

I buy and import shit from the USA and i have to FAX the orders with black ink stating the correct date.

Driving on the French side of the road
Calling chips french fries
calling jam jelly
confusing crisps
calling the path.pavement the side walk
boot is trunk
antenna is ariel
hood is bonet

need i go on?

you are as bad as the Aussies, but not as bad as Kiwi who have literally decided to drop vowels for her life.

fuck me

it's OK, scots in edinburgh can't even decide what the ground floor is because they will havew a 5 storey building and they all have ground level entry.

Yeah I've had this argument with my fellow bongs before. The ground floor is a floor and so it is also the 1st floor making the next floor the 2nd floor. If we called it 'ground' you could call upstairs the 1st floor maybe, but that seems more like a workaround to avoid the burger system. 1st and 2nd floor seems right to me

t. erasmus student

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This is dumb, I've been in countless buildings/apartments that refer to the first floor as the 'ground floor'

It isn't an American thing, you're fucking retarded

And calling the second floor of the building the first makes perfect sense?

>flag

the first floor is the first floor of the structure
the second floor is the second floor of the structure
the basement floor is not the first floor because that's unnecessarily retarded and confusing

By this logic this is First zero.

No, 'cause there are over one hundred floors there.

If you are a CS major counting begins at 0.

Kek

>My uni has the ground floor as 2
>first basement as 1
>and second basement as Subfloor 1

"Ground zero" is the point directly below a nuclear air-burst; for some stupid reason its what we call the WTC site. Cause it was shocking like a nuke or something.

Ground floor is ground floor, the first floor comes on top of that.
Ground floor is the zeroth floor.

Not having a ground floor is retarded because it means there is no base level.
How do you call the first and second underground floors?

Here in Europe an elevator control panel would go

2
1
0
-1
-2

Which is logical and consistent.


Anyone who doesn't start counting at 0 is a subhuman desu

t. programmer

Well, some here alternately call the first floor the ground floor. But the second floor sure is not the fucking first floor.

I'm a programmer as well and I think you have to be severely autistic to expect people to call the first item in a list the zeroeth item.

>a country that couldn't understand the French roots of words, so just took out all the U's
>a country that couldn't understand phonetics without putting Z's where the S's should be
>a country that still uses imperial measurements because without them they wouldn't understand their burgers
>caring what they think about "education"

Checked.

Also, I mostly agree with you, I was joking.

I don't have a zeroth apple in my basket of apples because that'd be retarded, but whenever your number is relative it makes sense.

In the case of a building the most important floor is clearly the ground floor, because it's the building's entry point.
As you pointed out normies would be triggered by a zeroth floor so we call it ground.

I doubt Italians call it that, he was just making a point. How do Americans number the floor under ground/1st btw, 0 or -1?

it goes from 12 to 14

Britbongs are literally this backwards???
>shitty bathroom electrical
>shitty taps
>laundry done in kitchen
>55degree threads
>assortment of measurement systems that makes US look better than Metric
>wtf is a stone?
>tax just for owning a TV
>pointed knives illegal

Kill yourselves.

>Cause it was shocking like a nuke or something.
Public schools folks!

>you now realise there are entire areas of the US where you can't drink tap water. 10% in fact.

>be at ground level
>enter building
>is there a floor
yes
>is it second floor?
no.
>is it the 0 floor
0 would imply there is no floor.
>is this the FIRST floor you interact with?
yes.

ground floor = first floor

Today I will go outside and walk on the first floor that I see.
> goes outside, sees sidewalk
There it is, the first floor.
Now I'd like to go into a building, but remain at the current altitude.
> walks into building,
remaining at current altitude
If that was the first floor, and I didn't move up or down a level, then this is also the first floor.
> reads building directory
> current floor: ground floor
> floor above: first floor
>...
>existential crisis
>kills self

Is this what you want?

Ground floor is normally labeled G.

Here we have both.
The first level is the groundlevel.
The first elevation, first "floor" is the second level, because it is elevated above the first.

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Why do you even bother?

This is probably a relic from French. For people who cannot do history, the Normans invaded England and ruled it for like 200 years back in the day and the English English language has lots of French in it.

In French, the ground floor is the rez-de-chaussee, the "second floor" is the premier etage or the 1st floor.

This is because an "etage" to them is not exactly what a "floor" is in english, it's like.. a stage, an additional level, not the main one, which is another thing.

These UK terms are probably bad translations of the French system

I hope that 10% is attributable to remote locations with no municipal running water, which would be completely understandable, and not cities that have running water but non potable which is 3rd world tier.

right, but do you disagree that its the first floor you interact with?

No, it's 10% of the inhabited land. I'll give them due because it's a very big country, but potable water should be among their primary concerns.

>interact with?

Not sure what you mean.

oh you.

thanks OP you pissed off a shit ton of muslims. now I'm not gonna vote on tuesday cause isis.

That's not a computer, retard. It's a building.

In my city there is a shopping centre (mall) that faces 3 streets on a sloping block. Because are 3 different levels that open out onto the 3 streets they are labeled by the first letter of each street name. About these 3 levels numbering goes from 1 up and below the carparking levels are numbered -1 and down. How would a mall in America number this sort of arrangement?

I get why you would call the first floor the ground floor. It's fine, it makes perfect sense, we all should be using it interchangeably honestly.

But why the ever loving fuck would you then go and call the next floor, the one above your head, the first floor?

I patrol a building with no 13th floor

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I don't see a New Zealand flag on the moon.

>crowing over past glories

Goddamn, that was 47 years ago. Literally a lifetime to most of your population these days.

The first floor you usually step on when entering a building, and dont use some bullshit anser where you go up the stairs to get into a building

B1, B2, B3 so on so forth so it essentially looks like this:
3
2
1 (front entrance)
B1
B2
B3

Okay you cunts, just listen up. Its time we fixed this whole cluster fuck of what floor is what and whether there is a fucking ground floor and shit like that.

Form now on we are all going to call our floors by an easy to remember and common sense method. All of us. Americans, Brits, the Aussie cunts, and God's own blessed, the Kiwis.

Old name: (English: Ground floor. American 1st floor)

New name: The fucking floor what you dont need to walk up a flight of steps to reach.

Old Name ( English: 1st floor. American: 2nd floor)

New name: The fucking floor above the first fucking one you came in.

Old name: (English 2nd floor. American 3rd floor)

New name: The fucking floor you take a lift to reach.

I am sure you will all agree that this makes much more sense and will heal the growing rift between the stupid fucking Yank bastards and ourselves.

I agree, I say first floor in bongland and everyone thinks I mean the floor above, like what the fuck is this the zeroth floor?

In Australia that ground level is usually labeled G. Most of the world uses this labeling arrangement btw, it's not just a British thing.

Curious. There is no front entrance btw, there are 3.

>The fucking floor you take a lift to reach.
Kiwis don't know elevators

stop being australian and answer the fucking question.. dont make me get my leaf blower

IS the ground floor the first floor you interact with

Notice I used the word level, that's the terminology we more likely to use btw and if you do that it resolves this whole question.

dodging the quesiton this hard..
is the ground level the first level you interact with?

That is just pants on head retarded. Where the fuck is the zero?

Christ, get into the cardinal number counting system already. No wonder you fucks had to fake the moon landings.

What do Americans call it when you are hovering in between the ground floor and the 1st floor?

1.5th floor? Makes no sense.

The question is resolved, move on.

>look at my beautiful American baby, he was born last week
>how old is he?
>1

>being this emotionally invested

Tricky yank with his leading question.

Its a trap. He want to hear you say "yes" to justify calling it the 1st floor. WHICH IT ISNT!

Listen pal, I am onto you and your clever little mind tricks. They dont fool me. I dont "interact" with it, I walk into it from GROUND LEVEL, which is exactly why its called the GROUND FLOOR!