..actually, it took the stairs.

So true love is indicated by elevated heart rate? I hope nobody wearing this bra is subject to date-rape, because the stress of that situation would never elevate the heart rate. Nor would running for the train. Nor climbing the stairs on return from a night of dancing. Nor the dancing for that matter.

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Initially they had to hold because of a Cessna disabled on the Kilimanjaro runway, but it actually sounds like they just landed at the wrong airport afterwards. They had been cleared for landing at Kilimanjaro, but Arusha's runway was visible from their position and with the same orientation as their intended destination.

The passengers were initially told they had in fact landed at Kilimanjaro, 50 km away, and were then stuck on board the aircraft for 3.5 hours until stairs could be brought from there.

Reader N writes:

At least 100 people (police, fireman, military, airport officials) were on the runway, taking pictures with their phones, and no one gave us any explanation, no words from the pilot, nothing.

Funny now, but it was not quite funny 2 weeks ago.

I usually take normal stairs two steps at a time, so the higher escalator steps (where I only take a single step at a time) actually are the lower ones for me. Would that mean that I get a higher momentum and speed at the top from walking up an escalator than ordinary stairs, then?

Also toward the top steps get shorter as it begins straightening out and it confuses your brain/muscle memory compared to the regular stairs.

I would suppose that escalators have a bit higher steps than standard, which would also make it feel harder to scale than regular stairs.

I always loved how he's running up the stairs to get away from Wanda...

The point of the clockwise spiral stairs is that it restricts right handed attackers going up the stairs, but not right handed defenders facing down them.

So while a left handed knight would have an attacking advantage they would have a disadvantage when defending instead.

At my grandmother's pub, we used an old door to roll them down off the truck. Stopping a keg of 100+kg takes a toll on your legs though. Still, hauling it down a 13th century stair into the cellar was even worse. Gives me fucking nightmares even though I only fell down it once with a crate of plums.

Nowadays it's just 50 litres a pop or even 20. You can pick those off the truck and fling them straight down the driveway with ease.

Our brains are set up to understand the language we hear around us. If you grew up in America you'll be used to the american language constructs. They'll be familiar to your brain. If you say 53 hundred to an american they will instantly know what you mean, because it's only ever meant one thing to you. But say it to an english person and it'll throw them. They'll understand what it means, but in the flow of a conversation it provides a small momentary stumble, and that can mentally trip the brain up.

If you walk down a flight of stairs and there's one stair in the middle that is a slightly different size it'll likely trip you up unless you've been warned about it. It's not that you can't walk, and it's not that you can't negotiate stairs properly, it's just a little thing that's slightly out of the ordinary.

English people are used to hearing the low numbers (I'd guess anything up to 2000, don't know why, it's just like that) said as 12 hundred or 15 hundred or whatever, but we just don't use that number construction for anything higher. We do say 53 thousand, or 70 thousand, so when we hear 53 hundred the brain is expecting 53 thousand but then it hears hundred and that trips it up.

Nothing to do with being stupid or clever, it's just the way your brain works.

As for the 000 in the number, I'd say that as zero zero zero, but 00 I'd say double 'o' (not double zero).

The house numbers must be a London thing, I've never come across this myself in the midlands.