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My Life as a Teenage Juggernaut... (Worm AU x Marvel)

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Martin Bajar said:
That and floor 13 being skipped by Americans
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Speaking as one who has traveled all over the US (and once into Canada), and is observant enough to notice things like that (and no, that's not just me saying it; everyone I know has said that I'm good at observation); I've never noticed that anywhere.
Though I can easily see that being done; superstitions can be powerful and never really die out. It's often impossible to get people to see how silly it is.
 
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PhoebusArtemis said:
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Speaking as one who has traveled all over the US (and once into Canada), and is observant enough to notice things like that (and no, that's not just me saying it; everyone I know has said that I'm good at observation); I've never noticed that anywhere.
Though I can easily see that being done; superstitions can be powerful and never really die out. It's often impossible to get people to see how silly it is.
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I think that's mostly older buildings, as in early 1900s or before.
 
sdwood said:
I think that's mostly older buildings, as in early 1900s or before.
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I understand, still happened up to the 1970s, but really very patchy by then.

Looking at media, it used to be a curse/ghost/demon (alien, evil faery, etc.), more recently an evil AI, but The Thirteenth Floor (film, 1999), worked its way up to (Philip K.Dick-worthy) VR.

I've staying in (non-USA) places where the floors, in the lift, went from 12 to 14. I've been told persuading people to stay/live on floor 13th could be... tricky. I lived on the 13th floor, one year, at university!

Seeing Taylor 'discuss' things with an evil 13th floor might be fun!
 
PhoebusArtemis said:
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Speaking as one who has traveled all over the US (and once into Canada), and is observant enough to notice things like that (and no, that's not just me saying it; everyone I know has said that I'm good at observation); I've never noticed that anywhere.
Though I can easily see that being done; superstitions can be powerful and never really die out. It's often impossible to get people to see how silly it is.
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"Many buildings in the United States don't have a 13th floor due to superstition, which is known as Triskaidekaphobia. This practice became common among early tall-building designers who feared fires or tenants' superstitions on the 13th floor. The practice has become so ingrained in American culture that in 2002, Otis Elevators estimated that 85% of buildings with their elevators didn't have a 13th floor."

"Famous US Buildings without a 13th Floor
Hotel Burnham (Chicago) - while the 13th floor is still used as a residential floor, the hotel has skipped the number 13 in its floor plans.
Trump Tower (Chicago) - the 13th floor is designated as a mezzanine level.
The Essex House (NYC) - This hotel also skips the number 13."
 
the cruiseship MSC World Europe skips the 13th and 17th floor, the 17th is because there is a crew deck there. The 13th though is just skipped, there ain't enough room between 12 and 14 for another deck there
 
As for the 13 thing, if you drive through Watkins Glen, NY, you'll drive past a number of numbered roads. !st, 2nd, 3rd ... 12th, Durham, 14th ... yeah, they were scared (or the townsfolk were) of numbering a street 13.
 
tortiecat said:
Maybe Max is using a European floor count and Piggot is using an American one. (For those who don't know, Europeans don't include the ground floor when counting stories.) It would track with Max specifying the window thickness using millimeters vs. Piggot using inches.
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I recall someone claiming the reason was older European properties literally had the ground as a floor, maybe with stone slabs on it, and almost all USA-ian older properties had a gap under them, so they have a floor even if single storey. Thus, need to start counting floors only when above one storey. Consequence of building from wood rather than earthy materials? Dunno.

Chop down all your trees to build ships, to Rule The Waves? So have to use bricks (more recently concrete, and on concrete 'rafts') to build stuff? Which nation might that be? :)

The British would tend to say 'Metric', with inches being 'Imperial' measurement. That might not go down well with Piggot. :)

Of course, for Taylor, number of floors isn't an issue. Unless they're a bit flimsy, so she ends-up on a lower one. Or, the ground. :)
 
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Ace Dreamer said:
The British would tend to say 'Metric', with inches being 'Imperial' measurement. That might not go down well with Piggot.
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I almost used measurement systems instead of units but got stuck on whether I should call the system Piggot used "Imperial" or "US Customary" then went "Screw it. I'll use the unit names." US Customary units aren't quite the same as Imperial units, e.g. an Imperial pint is twenty ounces but a US pint is sixteen ounces, although I think inches are the same in both systems.
 
tortiecat said:
an Imperial pint is twenty ounces but a US pint is sixteen ounces
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Even more fun: while the weight ounce is the same in both systems, an Imperial fluid ounce of distilled water at 16.7°C under an ambient pressure of 102kPa weighs exactly one ounce, but a US fluid ounce weighs about 1.04 ounces under equivalent conditions.
 
tortiecat said:
I almost used measurement systems instead of units but got stuck on whether I should call the system Piggot used "Imperial" or "US Customary" then went "Screw it. I'll use the unit names." US Customary units aren't quite the same as Imperial units, e.g. an Imperial pint is twenty ounces but a US pint is sixteen ounces, although I think inches are the same in both systems.
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Yeah, volume measurements, and tons. How ships were measured? But, those used to vary all over the world, so Metric nails things down, properly. Using multiples of ten so all's needed is some decimal point tracking in calculation - with my terrible math greatly increases the accuracy of calculations in the head...

You know, Taylor could probably toss whole eggs in the air, and just swallow them, these days... Or, hand grenades, but, not generally available in grocery stores. :)
 
tortiecat said:
Maybe Max is using a European floor count and Piggot is using an American one. (For those who don't know, Europeans don't include the ground floor when counting stories.) It would track with Max specifying the window thickness using millimeters vs. Piggot using inches.
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Eh, I've seen both ways used in buildings here in the US. It depends on the architect or the owner of the building, though it is true that very few use the European way.
 
The elevators I've ridden in are labeled with a G, a star, a L, or just a 1 for the ground floor, then 2 3 4 5 etc. going up.
Most of those are in the US but it includes one in Mexico.
 
FaerieKnight79 said:
Taylor does not do that with mothers, consenting or otherwise, thank you very much. She's much too young.
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Taylor grew up around dockworkers, longshoreman and her father, plus a literature professor. She can likely curse up a blue streak that would have long term navy men grinning in appreciation of a well phrased rant, just before they ran for the hills when the cold fury behind it showed it's face. Once a Hebert gets truly pissed, they tend to go through mad and straight to calm cold absolute white fury.

Taylor embodying the Juggernaut? The powers that be better hope like hell she maintains a relative calm, because her abilities could easily level a city, or possibly crush an EndBringer if she gets enough pissed off.
 
I'm afraid Taylor's only going to find Tailored clothing easy to wear. Once you cross the eight foot line there is nobody who makes mass produced clothes for you.

Learned that from a 9 foot tall dood I was in basic with. They had to break out the tailors for that guy's BDUs and those are usually off the rack.
 
I might be exaggerating his actual height a little. I'm over six foot and he was taller than I could reach standing on the ground. I literally could not reach his head from the ground and his feet hung over the edge of his bunk by a good two feet when his head was resting on the headboard, dood was f'n huge.

If he wasn't nine foot tall, he was damned close. If it makes any difference to you, he was on the darker side of the black skin spectrum.
 
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