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PokePill
United States1048 Posts
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.   | ||
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Salv
Canada3083 Posts
Nice dig on religion there in the final sentence, way to bring a shitty blog full circle. | ||
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TryThis
Canada1522 Posts
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Nitrogen
United States5345 Posts
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PokePill
United States1048 Posts
On October 29 2009 12:03 Salv wrote: This isn't common knowledge? Nice dig on religion there in the final sentence, way to bring a shitty blog full circle. I live in the suburbs. | ||
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MooCow
1434 Posts
The condo i'm living in doesn't have a 13th floor | ||
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skronch
United States2717 Posts
also, that number is baloney. 85% of high rises worldwide? i wonder how they managed to fudge that number for their article | ||
micronesia
United States24751 Posts
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. This thread may go directly to closed. Do not pass Final Edits, do not collect 200 esports dollars. | ||
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SanguineToss
Canada815 Posts
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blue_arrow
1971 Posts
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 | ||
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PokePill
United States1048 Posts
On October 29 2009 12:07 micronesia wrote: My house doesn't have a 13th floor either. This thread may go directly to closed. Do not pass Final Edits, do not collect 200 esports dollars. Shouldn't using the word "retarded" be worse than saying believing in God is stupid? | ||
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micronesia
United States24751 Posts
On October 29 2009 12:09 PokePill wrote: 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. edit: Disclaimer: The above post is purely the opinions of the author. It in no way implies that teamliquid shares any views on bans, nonsecular belief bashing, or the word "retarded." | ||
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Pseudo_Utopia
Canada827 Posts
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ShoCkeyy
7815 Posts
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
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selboN
United States2523 Posts
On October 29 2009 12:14 Pseudo_Utopia wrote: more ppl believe in god than are retarded. so no. Funny how that works isn't it. I believe we call that the snowball effect. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9105 Posts
On October 29 2009 12:03 Nitrogen wrote: oakhill... *sigh* Oakhill's blogs were amazing, this is just dumb. I didn't think it was that bad though until the final sentence. | ||
520
United States2822 Posts
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. | ||
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KrAzYfoOL
Australia3037 Posts
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17732 Posts
On October 29 2009 12:19 b3h47pte wrote: There's no 4th, 14th, 24th, 34th, 44th .. etc floor in chinese buildings :D korea too | ||
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ejac
United States1195 Posts
Care to enlighten me why? | ||
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CrimsonLotus
Colombia1123 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99401 This? | ||
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Polar_Nada
United States1548 Posts
On October 29 2009 13:03 CrimsonLotus wrote: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=99401 This? i like your quote on the bottom | ||
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Divinek
Canada4045 Posts
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jello_biafra
United Kingdom6639 Posts
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ieatkids5
United States4628 Posts
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soudo
603 Posts
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. | ||
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Railxp
Hong Kong1313 Posts
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
United States2523 Posts
On October 29 2009 13:29 soudo wrote: 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
Australia260 Posts
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? | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
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
Croatia2452 Posts
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searcher
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meegrean
Thailand7699 Posts
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Mastermind
Canada7096 Posts
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
The reasoning is pretty bizarre IMO... | ||
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Dr.Lettuce
United Kingdom663 Posts
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TheAntZ
Israel6248 Posts
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
Australia165 Posts
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Hyde
Australia14568 Posts
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Ganfei
Taiwan1439 Posts
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. | ||
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eMbrace
United States1300 Posts
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TheAntZ
Israel6248 Posts
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 | ||
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SK.Testie
Canada11084 Posts
On October 29 2009 12:03 Salv wrote: This isn't common knowledge? Nice dig on religion there in the final sentence, way to bring a shitty blog full circle. I enjoyed this post. | ||
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Warrior Madness
Canada3791 Posts
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HwangjaeTerran
Finland5967 Posts
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p4NDemik
United States13896 Posts
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17732 Posts
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. | ||
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Snausages
United States529 Posts
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Spenguin
Australia3316 Posts
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Julmust
Sweden4867 Posts
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lesser_good
Canada698 Posts
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 | ||
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Energies
Australia3225 Posts
Look, there it is! | ||
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littlechava
United States7221 Posts
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EsX_Raptor
United States2802 Posts
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comabreaded
United States2166 Posts
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Cloud
Sexico5880 Posts
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PokePill
United States1048 Posts
I know you're a fan. | ||
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ShoCkeyy
7815 Posts
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?" | ||
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DeathByMonkeys
United States742 Posts
On October 29 2009 12:14 Pseudo_Utopia wrote: ppl that believe in god are retarded. Edited for accuracy. | ||
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b3h47pte
United States1317 Posts
four in chinese is si (4th accent mark). if you change it to the third (or second...i'm really bad at pinyin TT) it becomes death. | ||
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IdrA
United States11541 Posts
On October 29 2009 15:00 TheAntZ wrote: 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. | ||
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Rainbow
United States249 Posts
There's 4th floors in the malls in Han Dan if I recall right. | ||
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520
United States2822 Posts
On October 30 2009 04:46 b3h47pte wrote: four in chinese is si (4th accent mark). if you change it to the third (or second...i'm really bad at pinyin TT) it becomes death. This transfers to all languages with Sinitic influences, actually. | ||
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koreasilver
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ShloobeR
Korea (South)3820 Posts
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DarkYoDA
United States1347 Posts
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