I dunno, why not ask one of our transatlantic posters. :)
Heh, I actually thought this was one of the things that everyone knew.
I've seen one of those 'faces of death' videos where this student bungee jumps off a highrise but didn't realise that the building's 1st floor was the ground floor.
He created quite a mess on the pavement.
pretty fucking dumb setting a bungee to a depth where it's only one storey from the ground at the end anyway, I'd have thought?
I never realized that there was a different school of thought on ground/first floor until Daniel mentioned it yesterday when he walked me to work (we saw an apartment with the first floor to rent...and he asked if that meant the ground floor)
I have no idea why it's like that over here. The ground floor has always been the first floor. Even when it's called the ground floor, the next one up is invariably called the second floor.
That makes one of us then ;) I might be USian, but was as confused as any by Babel-speak.
I thought Minority Report was ok. Especially that bit where he rescues the see-into-the-future-woman and they're in the shopping centre and she tells him to do stuff but you're not sure why and then it all comes together like a good cunning plan.
Yeah, but Equilibrium has more shooty bits and swords.
Yes, well, swords are always good, especially ninja or samurai swords, and even moreso in a modern/futuristic context.