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WTF There's no 13th floor in most buildings? - Page 2

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ejac
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States1195 Posts
October 29 2009 03:59 GMT
#21
On October 29 2009 12:54 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 29 2009 12:19 b3h47pte wrote:
There's no 4th, 14th, 24th, 34th, 44th .. etc floor in chinese buildings :D

korea too

Care to enlighten me why?
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CrimsonLotus
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Colombia1123 Posts
October 29 2009 04:03 GMT
#22
On October 29 2009 12:59 ejac wrote:
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On October 29 2009 12:54 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
On October 29 2009 12:19 b3h47pte wrote:
There's no 4th, 14th, 24th, 34th, 44th .. etc floor in chinese buildings :D

korea too

Care to enlighten me why?


http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99401

This?
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Polar_Nada
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States1548 Posts
October 29 2009 04:07 GMT
#23
On October 29 2009 13:03 CrimsonLotus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 29 2009 12:59 ejac wrote:
On October 29 2009 12:54 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
On October 29 2009 12:19 b3h47pte wrote:
There's no 4th, 14th, 24th, 34th, 44th .. etc floor in chinese buildings :D

korea too

Care to enlighten me why?


http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99401

This?

i like your quote on the bottom
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Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
October 29 2009 04:09 GMT
#24
yeah I thought this was common knowledge. I think it's funny, not stupid. Why not have stuff that makes us a little bit less like robots
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6635 Posts
October 29 2009 04:15 GMT
#25
Yeah people are paranoid about 13 even though it's completely irrational lol. An apartment complex I used to deliver papers to had like 70 apartments but a 12A instead of 13 lol.
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ieatkids5
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United States4628 Posts
October 29 2009 04:16 GMT
#26
this isnt that common for anyone who has lived in the suburbs all his life. just because there usually arent any buildings that have at least 13 floors.
soudo
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
603 Posts
October 29 2009 04:29 GMT
#27
On October 29 2009 12:45 KrAzYfoOL wrote:
Ya but the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree isn't stupid at all..


Owned.

Ahh...After Racenilatr and Heavonearth stopped blogging, I haven't been able to hand out 1/5 stars to preteen bloggers. Good to have you here.
Railxp
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Hong Kong1313 Posts
October 29 2009 04:32 GMT
#28
On October 29 2009 12:42 scintilliaSD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 29 2009 12:19 b3h47pte wrote:
There's no 4th, 14th, 24th, 34th, 44th .. etc floor in chinese buildings :D

Maybe in the mainland.


actually the building i'm in has U3, U13, U23, U33 to replace the 4s. So some older buildings in HK do still follow this quirk.
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selboN
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2523 Posts
October 29 2009 04:38 GMT
#29
On October 29 2009 13:29 soudo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 29 2009 12:45 KrAzYfoOL wrote:
Ya but the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree isn't stupid at all..


Owned.

Ahh...After Racenilatr and Heavonearth stopped blogging, I haven't been able to hand out 1/5 stars to preteen bloggers. Good to have you here.

heyheyheyhey.... Nam is 17! :-P
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potchip
Profile Joined October 2004
Australia260 Posts
October 29 2009 05:00 GMT
#30
This is pretty shitty unless it is common knowledge (like 99% of population) or it is a building regulation.

I'm not aware of this in Australia (though not too many residential buildings are above 13 floors in Aust LAWL.)

Just imagine in the event of a fire, and a building somehow has 13th floor. How would an external rescue party assess the headcount? Will they form an assumpion that there's no 13th floor?
JohnColtrane
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Australia4813 Posts
October 29 2009 05:09 GMT
#31
On October 29 2009 14:00 potchip wrote:
This is pretty shitty unless it is common knowledge (like 99% of population) or it is a building regulation.

I'm not aware of this in Australia (though not too many residential buildings are above 13 floors in Aust LAWL.)

Just imagine in the event of a fire, and a building somehow has 13th floor. How would an external rescue party assess the headcount? Will they form an assumpion that there's no 13th floor?


theres quite a few big residental apartment buildings in the hurstville / rockdale area
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besiger
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
Croatia2452 Posts
October 29 2009 05:19 GMT
#32
I dont get it, how does naming a floor 12a instead of 13 make it good, its still the 13th floor of a building no matter what you call it.
A weak will coupled with delusions of grandeur
searcher
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
277 Posts
October 29 2009 05:23 GMT
#33
Every single building I've been in to in Hong Kong in my 18 years living there didn't have any "missing" floors. People like to exaggerate to make cultural differences more interesting.
meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
October 29 2009 05:25 GMT
#34
There are a lot of superstitious people out there.
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Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-29 05:30:08
October 29 2009 05:28 GMT
#35
How stupid does someone have to be to not realise they are actually on the 13th floor when it is called the 14th? Seriously? Just because it is named 14th floor doesnt mean it isnt the 13th floor. But I guess someone who is dumb enough to believe in superstitions shouldn't be expected to figure that out....
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
October 29 2009 05:32 GMT
#36
Oh wow did not know that.

The reasoning is pretty bizarre IMO...
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Dr.Lettuce
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United Kingdom663 Posts
October 29 2009 05:33 GMT
#37
I estimate that the guy who made that 85% estimate, never left America. I've been to lots of different countries, and pretty much everywhere I go, there is a 13th floor. The only place I noticed without it, was the USA and the phillippines
TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
October 29 2009 05:39 GMT
#38
On October 29 2009 13:15 jello_biafra wrote:
Yeah people are paranoid about 13 even though it's completely irrational lol. An apartment complex I used to deliver papers to had like 70 apartments but a 12A instead of 13 lol.


Those poor people...dont they realise...they are still living on the 13th floor.
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peanutter
Profile Joined February 2009
Australia165 Posts
October 29 2009 05:43 GMT
#39
I don't understand. You find the scientific theory of evolution non-sense but believe that there's no 13th floor in 85% of elavators/buildings?
Hyde
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Australia14568 Posts
October 29 2009 05:51 GMT
#40
This is kind of like how the hospitals near me don't have certain bed or room numbers due to superstition, numbers like 4 and 13. Are all other hospitals like this or just the ones around me?
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