I just found this out that 85% of elevators don't have a 13th floor. This is the most retarded thing I have ever heard in my life. When my friend told me this nonsense, my first thought was, well it's still not as stupid as believing that we evolved from monkeys.
On October 29 2009 12:00 PokePill wrote: When my friend told me this nonsense, my first thought was, well it's still not as stupid as believing in God.
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yeah most of the people i talk to also know about this already lol i nice example of buildings avoiding the 13th floor is my very own uni library; it's suppose to have exactly 13 floors, but since the 7th floor is a mechanical floor, they just call it the mechanical floor and name the actual 8th floor as the 7th floor, the actual 9th floor as the 8th, the actual 13th as the 12th, etc etc
edit: oakhill you should add a poll in the op to see how many ppl know about this, i'm interested as well
On October 29 2009 12:00 PokePill wrote: When my friend told me this nonsense, my first thought was, well it's still not as stupid as believing in God.
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Shouldn't using the word "retarded" be worse than saying believing in God is stupid?
On October 29 2009 12:07 micronesia wrote: My house doesn't have a 13th floor either.
On October 29 2009 12:00 PokePill wrote: When my friend told me this nonsense, my first thought was, well it's still not as stupid as believing in God.
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Shouldn't using the word "retarded" be worse than saying believing in God is stupid?
Depends on how it's used. If you added a line at the end of your post that said:
"<user> is retarded"
then you deserve some kind of ban. However, nonaggressive abuse of the word retarded such as "Social Security is retarded" should not, in itself, warrant a ban. However, it does reveal something about you to the community.
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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..
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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?
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
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.
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....
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
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.
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?
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..
Please, share your beliefs on all the other major world religions too. I'd love to hear it.
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..
must be easy to just copy shit off of 4chan instead of actually putting in the effort to have an informed opinion
On October 29 2009 14:33 Dr.Lettuce wrote: 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
because in asian counteries 13 isnt an unlucky number
I agree its stupid with other people its still the 4th/13th floor even if your write 12A but i guess it just makes people feel better.
"My hotel doesn't have a 13th floor because of superstition, but people on 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on. If you jump out of the 14th floor hoping to kill yourself, you will die earlier." - Mitch Hedberg
On October 29 2009 20:24 Julmust wrote: there's no row 13 on airplanes either (I did check this once, it's true), there's no room 13 or 1313 in hotels and so on.
obviously not 1313 seeing as the first numbers are the floor
I used to live on the 13th floor in one of the few buildings in Hawaii that has one. I swear it was haunted. I used to sleep in the room next to the hallway and late at night I would sometimes hear a young boy running and laughing and then hear an man with heavy footsteps chasing after and yelling at him. I asked my parents about it and they said there was no one like that on our floor. So one time when I heard them run past, I got up on a chair to look out the window (I was small and the window was near the ceiling) and I couldn't see anyone.
On October 30 2009 00:22 Cloud wrote: I was born friday 13. Props to the idiot who found out about it, for he made my first years in highschool impossible.
Lol, that sucks man. What did he do? You should of fucking decked him and be like, "Who has bad luck now?"
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..
must be easy to just copy shit off of 4chan instead of actually putting in the effort to have an informed opinion
ya because the fact that something has been said before removes any validity it once had.