[Misanthrope]

I wouldn't be asking if I wasn't.

I just keep seeing lots of similar threads, so I wanna know who else I can conspire with.

[engaged]

By virtue of the fact that it is a house, it has more than one floor - so, yes, we have stairs. Don't tell me that fat Americans have lifts installed in their homes 'cuz they're too lard-arsed to walk up stairs...

[scaught]

oh. but there are many houses that dont have stairs. a ranch style house with no basement for example.

[nonhuman]

Originally posted by engaged:
By virtue of the fact that it is a house, it has more than one floor - so, yes, we have stairs. Don't tell me that fat Americans have lifts installed in their homes 'cuz they're too lard-arsed to walk up stairs...

Not all houses have more than one floors. In Texas, for example, most houses have only one floor because land is cheap as hell, and it's more efficient if you only have to air condition a single floor.

In the San Francisco Bay area, on the other hand, multi-story houses are much more common because land is incredibly expenssive and we dont have to worry about things like extreme temperatures.

Both my mom and my dad live in the Bay Area (Oakland and Berkeley respectively), and both of their houses have stairs.

[ghost_flash]

Originally posted by engaged:
By virtue of the fact that it is a house, it has more than one floor - so, yes, we have stairs. Don't tell me that fat Americans have lifts installed in their homes 'cuz they're too lard-arsed to walk up stairs...

A house by definition doesn't have to have
stairs.

It could have ramps if the person living there
is not able to walk and has to use a wheelchair.

It could have only one floor as with all ranch
style homes with no lower level (Basement).

It could have an elevator as well, but not
because those that live there are fat, but
because they have one occupent that cannot
use the stairs, but this house would have them
for those who can.

Did you just reply so you could bash
Americans?

How sad.

[xi_hyperon]

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

I am protected.

[OldManMac]

<huff-puff, huff-puff, Whew>

I do!

[engaged]

Originally posted by scaught:
oh. but there are many houses that dont have stairs. a ranch style house with no basement for example.

Originally posted by nonhuman:
Not all houses have more than one floors.

Originally posted by ghost_flash:
A house by definition doesn't have to have
stairs.

Language differences at work here - in the UK we'd actually call a single storey house a bungalow. Don't know if you use that word in the US - that's why I said that (in the UK, anyway) the word house implies more than one storey. Guess your replies make sense if you don't use the word bungalow to distinguish!

Originally posted by ghost_flash:
Did you just reply so you could bash
Americans?
How sad.

It was a joke, for goodness sake - requires a sense of humour to appreciate; go get one. Unless you took it personally, and are actually obese and require a lift... I which case, I apolagise.

[nonhuman]

Originally posted by engaged:
Language differences at work here - in the UK we'd actually call a single storey house a bungalow. Don't know if you use that word in the US - that's why I said that (in the UK, anyway) the word house implies more than one storey. Guess your replies make sense if you don't use the word bungalow to distinguish!

Interesting, I was not aware of that. I think "bungalow" does actually exist in American English, but I don't think I've ever heard it actually used. It may have been dropped from common usage.

We have "ranch" houses which are only one storey, but they are just a sub-type of house.

It's very strange the things that can cause misunderstandings between two speakers of English!

Ah, just looked it up on Dictionary.com. One definition defines bungalow as "A small house or cottage usually having a single story and sometimes an additional attic story." which certainly does not exclude multiple stories. Another is "a small one-storied house" which certainly does. That last definition also lists "cottage" as a synonym.

[Kenneth]

I do & I love stairs.

[ryju]

Stairs are for weaklings.

I jump between floors.

[Gankdawg]

Are we supposed to reply if we *don't* have stairs? Cause I don't, unless you count the step at the front door or the step off of the porch in the back.

[Kilbey]

We use ladders. Keeps the old and the too young from bothering us when we are on a different floor than the 1st floor.

[JHromadka]

Yep, my townhouse back home has stairs, and here I take a flight to get to my apartment.

[Cadaver]

Stairs, yes. Fat, no.

[Face Ache]

No stairs in this house. A few steps in the garden though.

If this is a bungalow it's a bloody big one.

[Misanthrope]

Well, one person passed. The rest of you are sentenced to being left out of insane inside jokes.

Shame on you all.

[Rain]

I usually beam myself to each floor, but we do have stairs just in case the beamer breaks down.

[Cipher13]

Nope. Stairs to the front verandah, and stairs and a ramp to the back verandah.

[Buck_Naked]

No stairs, but a couple of steps in the Garage.

[sanity assassin]

i live one story up, so got 2 flights of stairs to go up n down each day.

i found this pic of my street, taken in 1901 i think, not really channged much since then either.

[Kilbey]

My uncle always tell me that people who live in houses with stairs that they have to climb everyday live longer.

He has never given me any studies or data to back it up, I am just sharing with the group here.

[Eriamjh]

My problem is all my stairs go up and I can't figure out how to get down.

[wdlove]

I have 3 sets fo stairs in my house, cellar, 2nd floor, and 3rd floor. Also have steps going up to the front and back door.

[Misanthrope]

Minus the one correct response, I'm ****ing laughing like a bastard at this thread.

[engaged]

Originally posted by Misanthrope:
Minus the one correct response, I'm ****ing laughing like a bastard at this thread.

So put us out of our misery then, Misanthrope - who gave the one correct response?

[Frisbee]

I have sets of stairs totally three. One of them is spiral! (oooh, ahhhh)

How lame can a thread get

[OpenStep]

i am protected

[Chemmy]

I am protected as well.

[Misanthrope]

You two: prove it.

edit: wait, you're both from boston, I'll even bet you two know each other.

sup?

[dillerX]

Originally posted by Misanthrope:
You two: prove it.

edit: wait, you're both from boston, I'll even bet you two know each other.

sup?

You replied (twice) in your own thread. You're fired.

[Misanthrope]

Originally posted by dillerX:
You replied (twice) in your own thread. You're fired.

I'm fired? Let me go ask Aria.

[SomeToast]

Originally posted by Eriamjh:
My problem is all my stairs go up and I can't figure out how to get down.

You're lucky. Mine only go down.

[dillerX]

Originally posted by Misanthrope:
I'm fired? Let me go ask Aria.

ow.

[ReggieX]

Originally posted by SomeToast:
You're lucky. Mine only go down.

I'm not so lucky


EDIT: sup goons?

[Tantrum]

I have stairs in my pad in which i fall down about 3x a week. All my parent's cali houses are two stories cept for 1, and 1 of 2 houses in FL are two stories.

[ion1626]

Well I walk up stairs to get to my house, does that count?

[Chemmy]

Originally posted by Misanthrope:
You two: prove it.

Prove what? I'm a pretty big wheel down at the pen factory.

I take it you don't check out forum 11 very much.

[Misanthrope]

Originally posted by Chemmy:
Prove what? I'm a pretty big wheel down at the pen factory.

I take it you don't check out forum 11 very much.

Sadly no. I think I uploaded some stuff to contribute, but it was atleast a year ago, maybe more.

I'm much more of a forum 22 person.

[ReggieX]

More like forum 25 am I rite?

[wulf]

what

[rjenkinson]

the

-r.

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by xi_hyperon:

They look nice, but they're hell to walk down after you've spent hours in there...

[Misanthrope]

Originally posted by ReggieX:
More like forum 25 am I rite?

LOL U R RITE

(funny how 26 is right after 25...)