Can Someone Edjikate Me?

DannoBoone · Member Joined: Sep 16, 2007 Posts: 58 Location: NE Iowa

I'm 67 but believe one can never stop learning.

As a young tot and later in school, I learned that the man-made surface in
which everyone walked on was a FLOOR. If anyone referred to a floor as "the
ground", we would have been laughed out of class.

But now, the police, news media, detective programs, etc., refer to floors as
"the ground". "On the 7th story, we found a body laying on the ground."
Since when is a floor referred to as terra firma? WHY? Seems ignorant as
well as ridiculous to me.

PaulS · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 7:17 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

DannoBoone,
I am with you all the way on this. If someone on the seventh floor found a body on the ground they would have to be looking out the window.

Vince · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

Danno...don't think too hard into it mate...it's "Police speak". You want a good laugh...watch a Police Officer who has lots of "street smarts and experience", but not a lot of education doing an interview and trying to explain a situation...usually the man on the ground is the funniest. They try to put together a blurb using all the Police "buzz words" that are required by "the system"...they sound like a 5 year old trying to speak like his father. It's a scream.

Haha

DannoBoone · Member Joined: Sep 16, 2007 Posts: 58 Location: NE Iowa

Thanks guys.

I guess what I would really like to find out is the origin of such seemingly
retarded terminology and why it was started.

pete4d · Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 2:17 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

DannoBoone wrote:

Thanks guys.

I guess what I would really like to find out is the origin of such seemingly
retarded terminology and why it was started.

Danno , Just look at this newer generation Scratch

, Kids that ate Tide-pods Yuck

trying to tell us older generation of old FARTS what to do ..... Cheers

DannoBoone · Member Joined: Sep 16, 2007 Posts: 58 Location: NE Iowa

Well Pete, most of those I've heard refer to floors as terra firma are older than
the Tide-pod Alexandria O'crazio Cotex crowd. Nuts

English Mike · Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 7:08 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

DannoBoone wrote:

Well Pete, most of those I've heard refer to floors as terra firma are older than
the Tide-pod Alexandria O'crazio Cotex crowd. Nuts

Last time I saw a floor that was also the ground was in a yurt in Kazakhstan somewhere around 1988...

GroovyJack · Member Joined: May 21, 2005 Posts: 621 Location: Bama

a floor is a deck ... probably ties in with the modern math they been teaching for years , and common core ..

dhc4ever · Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

A floor is inside a building.
The ground is outside, usually covered with grass, asphalt or concrete.
A deck is hopefully UNDER your feet on a ship or boat.
Ah Danno, rereading your post I've discovered the problem, media, they seldom apply accuracy to their drivel.

pete4d · Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

dhc4ever wrote:

A floor is inside a building.
The ground is outside, usually covered with grass, asphalt or concrete.
A deck is hopefully UNDER your feet on a ship or boat.
Ah Danno, rereading your post I've discovered the problem, media, they seldom apply accuracy to their drivel.

Dam,,,I think you hit the nail on the head Scratch

Vince · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 3:29 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

Sooooo...where does “Ground Floor” fit into this? Is is a floor on the ground, or maybe the ground on a floor, or...my head hurts

English Mike · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

Vince wrote:

Sooooo...where does “Ground Floor” fit into this? Is is a floor on the ground, or maybe the ground on a floor, or...my head hurts

That's where the Cousins make things confusing.

Buildings here in the UK have a ground floor at ground level, followed by a first floor.
Buildings in the US have a first floor that is also the ground floor...

Vince · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2019 4:06 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

English Mike wrote:

Vince wrote:

Sooooo...where does “Ground Floor” fit into this? Is is a floor on the ground, or maybe the ground on a floor, or...my head hurts

That's where the Cousins make things confusing.

Buildings here in the UK have a ground floor at ground level, followed by a first floor.
Buildings in the US have a first floor that is also the ground floor...

now my head hurts more mate Confused

DannoBoone · Member Joined: Sep 16, 2007 Posts: 58 Location: NE Iowa

Watched a show on Investigation Discovery last week. A civilian and a cop
discovered a body on the FLOOR. Wow! Things were looking up. Then the
investigating detective mentioned that the body was on the ground. My ol'
beaner was spinning.

Bonk

Vince · Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 5:16 pm Post subject: Re: Can Someone Edjikate Me?

DannoBoone wrote:

Watched a show on Investigation Discovery last week. A civilian and a cop
discovered a body on the FLOOR. Wow! Things were looking up. Then the
investigating detective mentioned that the body was on the ground. My ol'
beaner was spinning.

Bonk