From: rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl   
      
   Op 12-10-2025 om 10:58 schreef Daniel70:   
   > On 12/10/2025 12:04 am, Chris wrote:   
   >> JJ  wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:40:02 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025/10/10 0:34:47, JJ wrote:   
   >>>>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 11:48:06 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 2025/10/8 9:35:15, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Throw it out from the second or higher floor.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Is that a UK second or a US second?>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Wait, what? Aren't both the same?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Not when it comes to floors (storeys)! In British English, the ground   
   >>>> floor is called the ground floor, and the first floor is upstairs (with   
   >>>> the second floor, if there is one, above that, and so on); in American   
   >>>> English, the ground floor is the first floor, upstairs is the second   
   >>>> floor, and so on.   
   >>>   
   >>> Didn't know that, since I'm in Asia. So, thanks.   
   >>>   
   >>> Which one or do both still superstitious on having 13th floor?   
   >>   
   >> Both. It's a common western phobia.   
   >>   
   >> I've not seen it in buildings - in the UK buildings with more than 13   
   >> floors aren't that common - but many airlines don't have a row 13.   
      
      
   Not a "common western phobia".   
   Probably a UK + US thing.   
      
   We have 13th floors with offices or houses in The Netherlands.   
   People live there, people work there.   
      
   Rink   
      
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