RMweb Gold Popular Post Dagworth Posted February 5 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted February 5 1 hour ago, luckymucklebackit said: That's wrong on so many levels! Andi 1 6 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernowtim Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 02/02/2024 at 21:00, PhilJ W said: I'd like to see what he told the insurance company. The vehicle was going to be weighed in for scrap, Auto gearbox died and a replacement box was £3000 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 5 8 hours ago, Dagworth said: That's wrong on so many levels! Andi Levels 2 & 10 are fine! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 5 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 5 Except that they only serve to highlight the wrongness of the others. There is of course no reason that the floor indicator or the buttons inside the lift cannot be ordered in that way if you wanted them so, so long as the lift stops at the floor you pressed the button for. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 5 hours ago, The Johnster said: Except that they only serve to highlight the wrongness of the others. There is of course no reason that the floor indicator or the buttons inside the lift cannot be ordered in that way if you wanted them so, so long as the lift stops at the floor you pressed the button for. There should also be a "Lucky Dip" button! 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6 5 hours ago, The Johnster said: Except that they only serve to highlight the wrongness of the others. There is of course no reason that the floor indicator or the buttons inside the lift cannot be ordered in that way if you wanted them so, so long as the lift stops at the floor you pressed the button for. No it just means that you shouldn't believe everything you read! If a sign says 4th floor, how do you know it's true? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 hour ago, kevinlms said: No it just means that you shouldn't believe everything you read! If a sign says 4th floor, how do you know it's true? It all depends on the indexing system used. Start at 0? Or 1? Or something else! They're both valid. In fact, some UK lifts are effectively indexed to start at, say, -1. eg: Basement, Ground, 1, 2, 3 ... n. 🤪 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted February 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6 6 hours ago, Hroth said: It all depends on the indexing system used. Start at 0? Or 1? Or something else! They're both valid. In fact, some UK lifts are effectively indexed to start at, say, -1. eg: Basement, Ground, 1, 2, 3 ... n. 🤪 Of course and some buildings have the street level at different levels as far as the lift is concerned - front or rear entrances, depending on fall of the land. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 6 hours ago, Hroth said: In fact, some UK lifts are effectively indexed to start at, say, -1. A previous day-job location had a lift with floors going down to -10. Our security pass only allowed us into floors +1 to +3. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6 (edited) Our local hospital is like this, and has a lower groud floor, ground floor, and an upper ground floor. Below lower ground is basement, and below basement is lower basement. Below that, not accessible by public lifts, is 'The Catacombs', an impentatrable maze of concrete passageways carrying service cables and pipes. There are tribes down there that have never seen a white man, and they whisper of unspeakable eldritch creatures even further in. People get lost, and sometimes they are found, but what q!comes back is, um. not the same person... Sometimes you can hear distant noises, but it's only Cthulu shifting in his sleep. Best not to awaken him. Shadows lurk and scuttle away when you turn to look, which is just as well because you don't want to see what they are. Something nameless watches, but not with eyes... It's still better than waiting to be seen in Casualty on a Saturday night, though. Even Cthulu is scared of that! Edited February 6 by The Johnster 1 1 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6 (edited) Talking of basements, back along in 2007 - 2012 the Co I used to work for looked after The Plymouth Aquarium's fire alarm and emergency lighting... in those days they had a section called 'The Deep' as part of this they had a mechanical giant squid, to access this section and the motor room was under the display and stepping round the squid which was triggerd by a motion sensor. This area was under the floor area in a basement corridor, so when I went there for the first time with the our other engineer Dave who knew the run of the site I was completely unaware where I was ... ' oh just open that door there's a smoke detector in the plant room and lighting bank'.... so RJB opens the door where upon the Squid opens his eyes in the gloom by my face and starts wagging his tentacles - shock horror! help!, I turn round and Dave is doubled up with laughter - 'everytime it never fails' 😀 'Rotter' There was another time when changing an emergency light on a metal open grid ceiling found the grid was live - now that wasn't funny Edited February 6 by John Besley 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted February 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6 5 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: A previous day-job location had a lift with floors going down to -10. Our security pass only allowed us into floors +1 to +3. Bank? Missile silo? Bond villain's lair? I'm sure you can't tell us anyway..... 😏 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6 19 minutes ago, John Besley said: Talking of basements, back along in 2007 - 2012 the Co I used to work for looked after The Plymouth Aquarium's fire alarm and emergency lighting... in those days they had a section called 'The Deep' as part of this they had a mechanical giant squid, to access this section and the motor room was under the display and stepping round the squid which was triggerd by a motion sensor. This area was under the floor area in a basement corridor, so when I went there for the first time with the our other engineer Dave who knew the run of the site I was completely unaware where I was ... ' oh just open that door there's a smoke detector in the plant room and lighting bank'.... so RJB opens the door where upon the Squid opens his eyes in the gloom by my face and starts wagging his tentacles - shock horror! help!, I turn round and Dave is doubled up with laughter - 'everytime it never fails' 😀 'Rotter' There was another time when changing an emergency light on a metal open grid ceiling found the grid was live - now that wasn't funny You sure it wasn't Cthulu? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium John Besley Posted February 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6 20 minutes ago, The Johnster said: You sure it wasn't Cthulu? Having had a genteel upbringing I had to Google Cthulu .... and there was more than a passing resemblance.. A few years later the squid was dumped in a skip ... the site engineers had great fun drapping him in there as you can imagine his eyes peering over the top of a 8 ton high sided skip... 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 41 minutes ago, John Besley said: Having had a genteel upbringing I had to Google Cthulu .... and there was more than a passing resemblance.. A few years later the squid was dumped in a skip ... the site engineers had great fun drapping him in there as you can imagine his eyes peering over the top of a 8 ton high sided skip... Was the squid sick and how much did it cost? 🤮🦑 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ian Posted February 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6 7 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: A previous day-job location had a lift with floors going down to -10. Our security pass only allowed us into floors +1 to +3. If your pass didn't allow you to the area below ground you obviously weren't a mole... I'll see myself out. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 11 minutes ago, ian said: If your pass didn't allow you to the area below ground you obviously weren't a mole... I'll see myself out. More likely to be not allowed, because they hadn't confirmed that he was not a Mole..... ..... Probably a sensible precaution, given that they had taken the trouble to construct so many levels of tunnel depth. A Mole might create a lot of damage to the tunnels and their contents. Julian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted February 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6 1 hour ago, Steamport Southport said: Was the squid sick and how much did it cost? 🤮🦑 On offer at £5.99, not a penny less... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted February 6 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 6 3 hours ago, Ramblin Rich said: Bank? Missile silo? Bond villain's lair? I'm sure you can't tell us anyway..... 😏 If we did we will have to kill you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 46 minutes ago, The Johnster said: On offer at £5.99, not a penny less... Nahhh... Its sick squid, no timewasters! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dagworth Posted February 6 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 6 9 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: A previous day-job location had a lift with floors going down to -10. Our security pass only allowed us into floors +1 to +3. Circular place not far from me? Andi 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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