Where is the first floor?

[Gilly]

I don't have a Mars Bar either. I feel I am missing out.

 

[foster grant]

Kit Kats don't count ?

 

[Gilly]

Kit Kats don't count ?

Is that a question.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Welcome to the ground floor, first floor is up a level

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

Kit Kats don't count ?

Well they are inanimate objects.

However I do find it useful to have a stash though for when I run out of fingers and toes (my colleagues think it weird when I try to borrow theirs).

 

[foster grant]

You try to borrow their toes ?

 

[Gilly]

And fingers.

 

[nick.lidgett]

so if the ground floor is the first floor then surely the basement has to be the ground floor because its in the ground and the first floor is first so then the basement is the sub basement but how can you have a sub basement without a normal basement first?

 

[foster grant]

Yes, and fingers

 

[dan958]

so if the ground floor is the first floor then surely the basement has to be the ground floor because its in the ground and the first floor is first so then the basement is the sub basement but how can you have a sub basement without a normal basement first?

The ground floor is the ground floor because it's on the ground. A basement is under the ground.

 

[Lysander]

so if the ground floor is the first floor then surely the basement has to be the ground floor because its in the ground and the first floor is first so then the basement is the sub basement but how can you have a sub basement without a normal basement first?

No. Ground floor, lower ground floor, basement, sub-basement.

 

[foster grant]

Isn't the mantle below the ground ?

 

[nick.lidgett]

No. Ground floor, lower ground floor, basement, sub-basement.

lower ground floor

how many sub basement do you need before you get to the underground lair?

 

[bitslice]

I have it on good authority that in a secret chocloate factory, they have lifts that go sideways.
No word on the numbering system used, suggest vectors.

 

[Antar Bolaeisk]

It's not zero, this is where the confusion arises. It's the ground floor. The floor on the ground. The first floor is the first floor up. It's very logical. The Mars bar analogy is a bad one because you cannot have no Mars bars. But you can enter on the ground floor.

What number comes between 1 and -1?

No. Ground floor, lower ground floor, basement, sub-basement.

What if you have a huge, underground, villainous complex. I really don't have the room for sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basement on the lift control panel.

 

[Yaayuh!]

etc..
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B1
B2
B3
B4
etc..

 

[LOAM]

What if the site is split level with an entrance on lower ground, ground and first.

 

[Lysander]

lower ground floor

how many sub basement do you need before you get to the underground lair?

What number comes between 1 and -1?

What if you have a huge, underground, villainous complex. I really don't have the room for sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basement on the lift control panel.

Lower ground is for buildings which may have a level below ground which is not a basement, such as if it backs on to a lower ground outer courtyard.

Basement is below ground, any levels below that are purely sub-basement levels and numbered accordingly, such as -1+.

 

[kindai]

or....walk into a shop and ask for three mars bars. Does the assistant hand over 3 or 4 mars bars?

1,2,3
0,1,2,3

Winning.

 

[dan958]

etc..
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Triangle
Blue
Pi
Cumberbatch
etc..