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[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 221 points 7 months ago

Trump’s lawyers also showed a slide claiming the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas is 64 stories. But an architectural drawing shows it likely has fewer levels because the floor numbers jump from eight to 16.

We can do that? Okay. My house is actually five stories. I've labeled the ground floor 1 and the upper story 5.

For tax purposes, though, the ground floor is -1 and the upper floor is 0 so it's a zero story house.

[-] BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 63 points 7 months ago

If you look closely, floor 13 is actually skipped in a LOT of buildings. It's unlucky

[-] Lon3star@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago

Maybe that's why Trump removed so many, still hasn't found the one that causes all of his problems

[-] Soap10116@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The cause is number 1. Himself

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's why he had the elevator people replace it with G for Genius.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

It's trump, so "J" for genius.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 37 points 7 months ago

Skipping floor 13 is one thing, skipping 9,10,11,12,13,14, and 15 is quite another. And has anyone checked the mid-30s are really there? They could be placebo buttons.

[-] nonphotoblue@sh.itjust.works 33 points 7 months ago

Also in East Asian cultures, the number 4 is unlucky either because its pronounced the same or similar to “death”. So, they often don’t have floors with the digit 4.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia

I lived in a condo building in a high Chinese population city in British Columbia, Canada and there was no 4th, 13th or 14th floor.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

I have tetraphobia. That's why I only buy milk and juice sold in bottles.

[-] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

You got me with that one! Magnificently done.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 7 months ago

People with tetraphobia must have to avoid the aquarium section at pet stores

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 17 points 7 months ago

“My hotel doesn't have a 13th Floor because of superstition, but c'mon man... People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you're really on" "What room are you in?" "1401". "No, you're not. Jump out of window, you'll die earlier!"”

— Mitch Hedberg

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

I work on the 13 floor, can confirm I have a lot of bad luck. I had bad luck before I got moved there but I still do

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago

This doesn't make it ok. Children are adept at pointing out the stupidity of adult discrimination, reminding them that people are dumb enough to discriminate against a fucking number is a good way to hopefully help them hold onto their memories of how idiotic some of our learned choices are.

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

So then...what about 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15?

You are right though, I think nearly every tall building I've been in doesn't list a floor 13.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

I thought those floors were there, but usually service floors?

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Anecdotally, having to have to take the stairs down during fire drills, the number of steps between floors 15 -> 14 is the same number of steps from 14 -> 12.

I think it's simply that 13 is considered unlucky, so people won't rent/buy those properties, and it's cheaper to renumber the floors than to risk the floor being unoccupied or below market value.

[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 months ago

Interesting. Now I want to investigate more.

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago

It's not unlucky, morons think it is and do dumb shit like that

[-] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Don't you mean unfortunate?

/s

[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 14 points 7 months ago

When I bought my house it was listed at 5 bedrooms. There are 3 bedrooms upstairs. I think the Master Bedroom (first floor) is actually supposed to be the living room, and the living room was a dining room.

The fifth bedroom is a room in the back of the house just off the driveway. It's uninsulated, the window is single pane, and none of the outlets are grounded. It's unheated. They had a scrap of carpet out there, but it was just covering the cement floor. I installed an insulated exterior door and threw away the solid wood one. I keep the lawn mower and snowblower out there.

[-] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago

“I just bought a 2-bedroom house, but I think I get to decide how many bedrooms there are, don't you? 

"Fuck you, real estate lady! This bedroom has an oven in it! This bedroom's got a lot of people sitting around watching TV. This bedroom's over in that guy's house! Sir, you have one of my bedrooms, are you aware? Don't decorate it!"”

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 7 months ago

That's two Mitch Hedberg jokes in one thread. Chefs kiss

[-] poppy@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Similarly, my house was listed as two and a half bath. The second “full” bath is a random shower, toilet, and sink in the basement just… there. Open to the rest of the basement. No enclosing walls. lol

[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago

Couldn't we just count the stories from the outside?

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