Get down on the floor!

[Mad Doug Biker]

Scope for some Ph D funding, I reckon ....

A simple study done in different regions should do it.

 

[ASC1951]

MDB if the 'perp' was laid on the pavement then would he not be on a man made surface above the actual ground and therefore could be said to be laid on the floor? Or should it be lain?

I reckon MDB has it right - 'ground' is outdoors, 'floor' is indoors. The ground floor of a shop is the floor level with the [outside] ground. Rez de chaussee in French i.e. pavement* level.

Laid/lain - ah, tricky! Laid is from 'lay' (transitive) so when you have placed something on the ground you have laid it there. Whereas lain is from 'lie' (intransitive) so when you have slept on the ground you have lain there all night.

*and round here we'd be as like to call it the causey, not the pavement, 'cos we've got that from the Norman French and we're not letting go ....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I reckon MDB has it right

I have?? Bloody hell, somebody call a Newscrew, quick!!

 

[MontyVeda]

Say there, buddy, you've got some real issues. Best of luck working through them. Not much advice I can give you except to try to lighten up and don't skip the meds.

you didnt click the link did you

 

[oldfatfool]

I reckon MDB has it right - 'ground' is outdoors, 'floor' is indoors. The ground floor of a shop is the floor level with the [outside] ground. Rez de chaussee in French i.e. pavement* level.

So what would decking be? Cos we is all lazy sods and don't like cutting the grass, like, so have covered our back yard in decking, posh like.

*and round here we'd be as like to call it the causey, not the pavement, 'cos we've got that from the Norman French and we're not letting go ....

* never heard the phrase causey here in my part of wesy land, all'as been a footpath (made of finest Yorkshire stone, well until the pikeys nicked it all

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

So what would decking be? Cos we is all lazy sods and don't like cutting the grass, like, so have covered our back yard in decking, posh like.

It is decked flooring, sitting on top of the ground.

 

[oldfatfool]

It is decked flooring, sitting on top of the ground.

But it is deffinitely outside

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

But it is deffinitely outside

If you read my original statement, I said that a floor could be outside if it was part of something like a viewing platform, etc.

There of course will be grey areas, yes, such as a railway platform, you think of it being the ground, but, is it really?

 

[hoopdriver]

you didnt click the link did you

No I didn't. Perhaps we are both being kidding around and neither of us are getting it. If you read my posts in this thread and considered the overblown language i used you'll see I am just horsing around

 

[fossyant]

Which cinema, the Scala in Prestatyn or Rhyl ? I'd be surprised at much trouble this time of year, it's usually the scousers during holiday season

(joke - could be Mancs, or Cheshire-ites)

 

[vernon]

It is decked flooring, sitting on top of the ground.

So that's where 'Hit the deck!' comes from?

 

[Aperitif]

"Get Down On The Floor"
Great thread! Here's the one-time Welsh fly half Sammy Davis, geting on down with my role model, James Brown.

This is even better - cop trouble, sure...but he led them a merry dance.

 

[oldfatfool]

If you read my original statement, I said that a floor could be outside if it was part of something like a viewing platform, etc.

There of course will be grey areas, yes, such as a railway platform, you think of it being the ground, but, is it really?

Ah but I was replying to the statement by ASC1951 in my original decking quote, who in is statement testifying to your 'correctness' states that ground is outside whilst flooring must be inside

 

[ASC1951]

So that's where 'Hit the deck!' comes from?

Hah! A naval term, I would have thought.

 

[hoopdriver]

Hah! A naval term, I would have thought.

And here I thought it was blackjack...