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Taylor's avatar

I am in suspense. I hope this post will pick back up on 6th June 2046 again so that we may know what will come to be, and whether her part of the deal was met -- and what that was! Such delicious suspense.

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Richard Partridge's avatar

Thank you Taylor - I hope I am here on my birthday in 2046 to continue ...

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Graham Vincent's avatar

Why do we number things in the same direction as we write things? Do you think the numbers would have started in the right-hand corner in a country whose language is written right to left?

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Richard Partridge's avatar

These habits are hard to imagine being broken - thank god there are people who like to break the rules ...

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Graham Vincent's avatar

1. Plumbing law dictates that the hot tap goes on the left, the cold on the right. If that law is always observed, why are the taps marked? And is that law "broken" when the taps are arranged in the only "other" way that's possible. Driving the wrong way down a highway is problematic if others adhere to the norm. But taps, once installed, do not vie for position on the wash-hand basin.

2. I quite like the notion of numbering postboxes utterly randomly. Start with, er ... 5. left to right, 5, 9, 14, 2. But postboxes are not numbered for the convenience of those who receive mail - surely everyone knows which is theirs even without a number? It's for the post deliverer, who NB do not get paid per hour.

3. Numbering doorbells would be more interesting if it were random. If you simply look for the number and then check the name, you never notice who all else lives in the block. Could be Dimitri Shostakovitch, but you'd never know. A friend in Munich lived in a block in which, on the third floor, was Mr Neiss, and on the fourth, was Mr Nasty. I wonder if they were on speaking terms?

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Gianni Simone's avatar

What kind of place is that, I thought. Amsterdam? Ah, ok.

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Richard Partridge's avatar

Lol - Actually more innocent than it looks Gianni! It's the Social Hub Hotel! ( Not dodgy - honest ! )

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Gianni Simone's avatar

PLEASE, don't ruin my fantasies!

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