>Go to London on work related stuff
>While there i also make plans to meet an english friend
>Tells me to meet him the lounge on the 1st floor
>walk through the hotel doors. see a bar and sit down to wait.
>Don't see friend anywhere and he was supposed to be here 10 minutes ago
>Suddenly he calls me and ask where i am
>"Im in the fucking bar on the first floor ya doofus where the hell are you?"
>He said that he meant the lounge on the first floor and explained to me that i had to take the elevator up one more level up to get to the FIRST FUCKING FLOOR
>mfw english people can't count to one without messing up
>>61044726
Same in German desu
It's the ground floor because it's on the ground. The first floor is the first level which is not the 'ground'. Makes sense really
>>61044726
Your fault for being stupid tbf (to be frank)
>>61044813
It does not make sense to have one floor out of all the floors have a different denomination than all the others. I'm sorry but thats just stupid.
You start at the first floor and then the next is the second one. THAT makes sense.
>>61044726
Wew. First floor, not ground floor.
>>61044967
Are you also scared of the concept of "zero"?
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Retard
>>61044726
Should have gone to America instead and you wouldn't have had to deal with their weird issue of having to change everything from American English to Weird English.
>>61045005
This.
>>61045005
Not at all. But the floor is not called Floor nr.0 now is it Nigel? If you have one floor called "Ground floor" why not go all the way and have the second floor called "Sky floor" or "I can't make my mind up so i'll just call this Tiddelytwat floor"
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>>61045005
>zeroth floor
>implying the floor doesn't exist
I have to say I would prefer ground floor to be the same thing as first floor, but it is what it is.
>>61044979
But anon, the first floor IS the ground floor.
>>61045110
But it is literally the n°0 floor.
>>61045110
>But the floor is not called Floor nr.0 now is it Nigel?
Venture into a lift (not elevator, LIFT) in the UK. The ground floor is either called "0" or "G".
Just mentally translate "ground" to "zero" and you'll be ok. The first floor is the first floor ABOVE GROUND. The second floor is the second above ground
>>61045110
Brits are retards that can't speak there own language. Very sad.
>>61045152
I guess they call the basement "underground floor" too.. If their system would be at all consistent it should though. The fact that it isn't proves they suck ass at a daily basis.
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>>61045152
My rez-de-chaussée isn't my premier étage.
>>61045192
If you walk in to a hotel you are now entering the first floor you have been to in that hotel no?
Does it not make sense that on your way up the stairs from that floor your are then entering the second floor from the ground in that building?
>>61044726
if this is of interest, in my country we have the ground floor too
>>61045517
Based Italy
I never liked Norway
>>61044726
Ground level is not a floor, it is ground level. The first floor is the floor above ground.
>>61045664
I'm sorry to hear that. I Like Britain but this ground floor thing just sound like something a three year old would say.
>>61045517
always thought it was an odd thing, though
>>61045005
Fucking idiot, if a building is only one floor, it doesn't have zero floors. Brits can't even count, UK school system a shit.
Lets look at it like this:
You stand outside a building and you want to count how many floors the building has.
1. You start by counting "0 - 1 -2 - 3"
2. You start by counting "1 - 2 - 3 - 4"
???
>>61045953
If a building is only one floor, then it has no floors above or below ground. No first floor above ground. No first floor.
>>61045894
based Italy
I never like the UK
>>61045769
Friendship with Norway is over. Now Italy is my best friend.
>>61045517
>>61045664
>>61045769
>>61046096
Can't Norway, Britain, and Italy be friends? Just ignore this floor thing. :/
>>61045894
ground floor is ok, but the level above should be called 2nd, not 1st, that's what is strange in my view
>>61046017
Not so fast. We're not counting floors here, we are designating them.
A building has a ground floor and a first floor. If I'm counting the floors, the ground floor is 1, the first floor is 2. The building has two floors.
That doesn't change the fact that the ground floor is the ground floor. Ground zero, if you will. Americans understood this concept back in September 2001.
>>61044726
It's like this in Norway too, albeit most people don't think like that here. Just check the elevators, though.
>>61046230
im partly inclined to agree on this. (though i still don't like the wording of "ground floor" It's just childish)
>>61046018
It has one floor on the ground. Nobody cares if the floor is above ground or not. A floor is a floor, a storey is a storey.
>>61046292
>Nobody cares if the floor is above ground or not
>>61046273
Most elevators start at 1 then the levels below ground are named "u1 - u2 - u3" etc..
>>61046359
No, U2 is always the "first underground" while U or U1 is what you'd think of as first floor.
>>61046341
to be fair, floors are always either above or below ground, unless it's literally just a dirt floor aka the ground
>>61046437
Too much autism; post discarded
>>61046230
>but the level above should be called 2nd, not 1st,
No, it should be called first because it is the first floor above the ground floor
>>61045110
Finngol buildings literally have 0th floor
>>61046592
>>61044801
nope.
Erste Etage = first floor
Erstes Stockwerk = secound floor
2 geschossig = having 2 floors
Stockwerk literally means "worked ontop of it". "It" is the first floor.
>>61046430
Not in my office building nor any of the malls in my area.
>>61044726
I just looked, in architecture the Ground Floor is also called 0 floor (P0), at least in my language, so counting floors 0,1,2... is technically correct
>>61046711
>>61044726
can i comes to norway? pls i of civilized and not mooslem
>tfw finnish used "layer" as a word for floors
so if a house has ground floor and 1st floor it has two layers in Finnish :D
British man here
Norwegians need to get out of Britain if they can't fucking integrate!!!
allahu akbar
>>61046752
>>61046713
Why complicate things Fritz? I thought you were all about efficienc. The first floor is the floor you first build. The you build a second floor above the first.
No one starts counting with zero.
>>61046786
that's qt desu :3. why are finns so cute
do we use american or british I dun know I've never been in a building
>>61046715
I suspect you're lying to me now, I think your malls and your office building do have a ground floor then a first floor. If not though, then I suppose it's done both ways in this great old cunt of ours. Cheers.
>>61046853
Apartment block is literally layerhouse :--D
>>61046948
Apartment block is flat in Britain which is cuter so FUCK OFF
>>61046948
>>61046924
I'm not lying. my office is in an older building in Oslo. The elevator at the entrance goes from 1 - 5. The elevator at the back of the building that goes down two more levels actually goes from 1-7
>>61046948
>appartments are like onions
>>61044726
It seems like you're just mad that you don't know English as well as you thought you did.
But to be fair your English mate should've just told you to go to the "upstairs bar" as I doubt there's other bars on the second and third floors etc.
>>61045769
A flat is an apartment m8. The whole building is called a block of flats or a tower block.
>>61045005
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>>61046592
brits confirmed retards, probably from all the inbreeding on that shitty island of yours
>>61044813
You're an idiot
>>61046249
the second floor of the building is called the first floor?
Brilliant
>>61048639
Bong logic
Bump for some kind of conclusion to this argument
>>61052618
The conclusion is Brits are silly.
Correct method:
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>>61052618
Conclusion is that semantics in all languages often require the suspension of logic.
>why is it called 'this' in your language?
>it just is, either accept it and carry on or piss off
>>61044726
since its our language, what we call it is the right one
now FOY
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>>61053352
FOY
