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Thrillho:
Garand, do me a favour. Count from -2 up to 5.

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You even refer to things as 'ground zero' in the US. Having a 0th floor makes perfect sense.

Schmee:
Well, while you Americans are whimpering your way through the Polar Vortex, we in the Antipodes are receiving the other end of the stick - last night I checked a thermometer and it read 34 degrees Celsius (that's a good 93 degrees for all you non-metric barbarians :mrgreen:).
At 2 AM.

*whimper*

GarandMarine:

--- Quote from: Gareth on 15 Jan 2014, 01:39 ---Garand, do me a favour. Count from -2 up to 5.

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You even refer to things as 'ground zero' in the US. Having a 0th floor makes perfect sense.

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Ground Zero is usually a blast crater, so it'd probably be below the average floor of a building in the area :P

94ssd:

--- Quote from: Gareth on 15 Jan 2014, 01:39 ---Garand, do me a favour. Count from -2 up to 5.

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You even refer to things as 'ground zero' in the US. Having a 0th floor makes perfect sense.

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I tend to think (and this is pretty common around here) ground floor is the first floor BELOW ground. I think if you've built one floor of a building you've built up from the ground, so it's the first floor. Maybe it's a matter of whether you count the floor or the ceiling.

Thrillho:
I count the floor, because it's called the ground floor, not the ground ceiling.

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