People Who Call The Ground The Floor and Vice Versa

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PEOPLE WHO CALL THE “GROUND” THE “FLOOR” (& vice-versa)
… are CUNTS.

Could be a bit divisive this one.

Grammarphobia.

Just a couple of sentences for reference, but it`s just a thing which drives me somewhat insane …

When the noun “ground” first appeared in Anglo-Saxon times (spelled grund or grunde), it referred to the bottom of something—the sea, a well, a ditch, and so on, according to the OED.

Perhaps the oldest citation is from Beowulf, an Old English epic that may have been written as early as 725: “Me to grunde geteah fah feondscaða” (“A sea fiend dragged me to the ground”).

OK, let’s have a vote — where do YOU stand? [pun intended]: Is it `floor` or` ground`? …

Nominated by : Sam Beau

79 thoughts on “People Who Call The Ground The Floor and Vice Versa”

    • I agree with Thomas.

      Only popped in to add that the story
      of Beowulf is based in Lejre, which is just outside Roskilde in Denmark.

      Lots of old burial mounds and a stone burial ship to see. you can spot them on Google maps.

  2. If you have a hotel room it wouldn’t be on the 4th ground.

    If you parachute out of an airplane you don’t land on the floor.

      • Well “Ground floor” used to be used together when big stores had lifts (elevators to American cunters). I don’t think it matters either way. “Nothing matters very much, and most things don’t matter at all” (Balfour)

  4. I was watching Monty Don last night.
    Planting his dahlias in the floor.

    What the fuck is this all about?

  6. I’m not rattled by the ground/floor debate that’s sweeping the nation.

    1) I don’t care
    2) I call it the deck
    3).it doesn’t matter
    4) I’ve bigger more immediate concerns in life.
    5) still don’t care

    If someone said ground instead of floor if I noticed I doubt I’d muster the energy to comment it’d be that unconcerned by it.

    Did Beowulf have a cleft palate?
    I can’t understand a fuckin word he said!!!

    • Morning MNC/all.
      I have a thick mate who said to me several years ago:
      “That film, you know the one; is it about a bear or a wolf?”
      “What, Beowulf?”
      And he’s allowed to drive and vote.

      • Morning Thomas 👍

        I read the story of Beowulf as a lad and loved it.

        Grendel the monster coming to the hall at night and slaughtering the warriors,
        And Beowulf ripping his arm off.

        A great Norse story!!

        So imagine my disappointment when they picked cockney typecaste hard man Ray Winston to star in the film ?!!

        Awful.🙁

      • Pendantry incoming!

        It’s not a Norse story. It is an Anglo-Saxon poem based in Scandinavia.

        The bloody Saxon middle-class wankers! They’ve been fetishising the “exotic foreigner” trope since at least the 11th century.

      • Doubt anyone would notice if you fucked off Flexi.
        Your such a non entity bet family struggle to remember your name
        💋

      • @ Flexicunt

        Did you enjoy the European Championsips final?

        What was your prediction again?

  7. Off topic already, but there appears to have been a knife attack at a ‘diversity’ festival in Germany.

    Three dead and nine critically wounded.

    Police have no idea what the attacker looks like.

    I think there will be no surprises when they do find out.

    Knifeman leaves several dead after stabbing random passersby https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13774951/Terror-Germany-Knifeman-dead-stabbing-random-passersby-neck-diversity-festival-armed-police-hunt-killer.html?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton

  9. Is it an earth spike or a ground spike ? It’s never a floor spike.

    PS: It’s Grendel’s mum you need to watch out for. ;

    • Exactly Civvy. The floor is a human construct. The ground was there before we appeared and will still be there when the human race is extinct.

      On a lighter note we got married fifty years ago today. Best day’s work I ever did, never regretted it and don’t think I could have done better. Best wishes to you all.

  13. Buried in the ground
    Buried under the floor
    Electrical terms we call it earthing our US cousins call it grounding

  15. When you hear people talking about a fight they usually say ‘i fucking floored him’. Sometimes decked him 👊
    No grounded….so that’s out 🫡

  16. Great Nom,

    Being precise is important. ‘Loose talk can cost lives.’ I hate inaccuracy. The King’s English provides everything necessary to communicate clearly and unambiguously. Politicians use weasel words to obfuscate, to provide wriggle room for reneging on promises, and so on. To put it plainly, they can fuck off.

    Good morning, everyone.

      • Or the low road.
        Hang about what the fuck has road’s got to do with anything?
        Nothing that’s what tis all a bit early for considered thought so soon after last night.

    • I agree TTCUS. In English you can say precisely what you mean with no need for ambiguity. People who say four times more when they mean four times as many i.e. three times more. Using completely the wrong word which sounds a bit similar e.g. pry for prise and flaunt for flout, using i.e where they mean e.g.

      Grrr!

      • That multiplier business infuriates me because, unless they provide figures, you don’t know the story. 60mph is not twice over the speed limit, it’s twice the speed limit, twice over is 90mph.

      • I have often thought that using too many words in an explanation can mean the person is lying, such as rambling stories about why someone didn’t go to work the previous day, or was late yet again. I got a lot of this when I worked at the DWP years ago as well, but some of the stories were so entertaining I had a sneaking regard for the teller.

  17. Or the “popular” ground zero nowadays. When any shit happens…

    Floor zero perhaps if the aforementioned shit happens indoors…..⚒️

  18. Its to my knowledge and understanding Sam, the we have always called the entrance to a building the ground floor. Below that is the basement and above, the first floor. The silly yanks are the only ones who enter a property and call it the first floor. Its because they’ve never had their feet firmly on the ground.

  19. Thanks Sam for the Grammarphobia. Didn’t notice it at first before jumping in with both feet on the English v yanks situation. I’m not perfect by a long chalk due to not having an education. I just have a go at others when English used by foreigners just doesn’t sound right.

  20. The yanks always tell children they are grounded (annoying cunts) when its to be properly explain they are to stay in for being naughty. My phrase for yankie English is the way their Tarzan speaks as though he’s never grasped the concept of the English language.

  21. The yanks always tell children they are grounded (annoying cunts) when its to be properly explained they are to stay in for being naughty. My phrase for yankie English is the way their Tarzan speaks as though he’s never grasped the concept of the English language.

    • Churchill said that England and America are “two nations divided by a single language”

  22. The Twin Towers in New York consisted of 117 floors each, 7 of which were basement levels B1 to B7, below ground level, used mainly for parking, stores & machinery. Level 1 above ground actually started 6 metres up. When they both collapsed they formed part of what became known as Ground Zero. This area over time has been given a full makeover, & is now a big tourist attraction, & is now considered a must see on any visit to The Big Apple.

  24. You’re obviously educated, and male, so I won’t spare the horses.

    I’ve hit the ground numerous times,in my drunken stupor.

    both are correct. relax dude

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