All spiral staircases have a single guardrail. That’s why they aren’t double helix staircases.
nottorp 6 hours ago [-]
> with no safety barriers
A guardrail isn't a safety barrier? The photos of the staircase don't look like star wars walkways to me at all.
MithrilTuxedo 9 hours ago [-]
Ahhh.... I couldn't figure out why they said that. I forgot the Statue of Liberty had double-helix staircases.
madaxe_again 6 hours ago [-]
We call them “spiral staircases” yet rarely do they actually contain a single spiral - but they do have a helix. I guess “helical staircase” was just too much for people to care about as the term embedded in the 1600s. Previously they’d been winding stairs, screw stairs, and earlier yet just a “vice”, so common were they. Weird how language adapts to what’s easy rather than what’s correct.
It also looks like a spiral when looking up or down.
nkrisc 2 hours ago [-]
> Weird how language adapts to what’s easy rather than what’s correct.
It’s not weird at all, it’s quite sensible. The purpose of language between people is not to produce correct sounds, it’s to facilitate some other activity or intent, so people will tend towards whatever manner of language makes achieving their goals the easiest.
It’s the same reason desire paths form: it’s less effort.
cheschire 3 hours ago [-]
If some language conveys meaning successfully, it ultimately doesn’t matter what the rules are.
technothrasher 2 hours ago [-]
The old prescriptive vs descriptive linguistic battle rears its head once again.
FrustratedMonky 1 hours ago [-]
Wasn't the Eiffel Tower built as a temporary exhibition?
Can't believe the resources that took for 'temporary', and that it lasted this long.
ianpurton 5 hours ago [-]
That site is everything that's wrong with the internet at the moment.
A dizzying array of adverts and popups.
consp 4 hours ago [-]
And it was very persistent In should enable those. No thank you.
tjoff 3 hours ago [-]
Not a single popup, didn't find any ads more than a text-only banner on top asking to subscribe. Some whitespace where ads might go though. No adblock.
I'm in EU though, maybe they actually respect GDPR. Or maybe it is just a glitch.
SV_BubbleTime 8 hours ago [-]
Look, I know ads are the mechanism for some sites. And I don’t normally “this site gave my phone cancer”.. but on IOS with blockers, everything except the text on the site can go fuck itself.
Been to the top of the Eiffel, it was a long enough set of elevator rides to flirt with and eventually date a French girl. So that probably wouldn’t have happened on stairs.
procaryote 6 hours ago [-]
FWIW, on android with firefox + ublock origin it's clean from ads.
On iOS with firefox it's filled with ads; with firefox focus it's mostly clean but you get a dismissable "please disable adblocker" style prompt I didn't get on android. I don't know if there's a browser with a good adblocker allowed in iOS walled garden, but I'd be happy for suggestions
aaronbrethorst 7 hours ago [-]
Do you think you might have also broken up if it had only been stairs?
aaron695 57 minutes ago [-]
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A guardrail isn't a safety barrier? The photos of the staircase don't look like star wars walkways to me at all.
It also looks like a spiral when looking up or down.
It’s not weird at all, it’s quite sensible. The purpose of language between people is not to produce correct sounds, it’s to facilitate some other activity or intent, so people will tend towards whatever manner of language makes achieving their goals the easiest.
It’s the same reason desire paths form: it’s less effort.
Can't believe the resources that took for 'temporary', and that it lasted this long.
A dizzying array of adverts and popups.
I'm in EU though, maybe they actually respect GDPR. Or maybe it is just a glitch.
Been to the top of the Eiffel, it was a long enough set of elevator rides to flirt with and eventually date a French girl. So that probably wouldn’t have happened on stairs.
On iOS with firefox it's filled with ads; with firefox focus it's mostly clean but you get a dismissable "please disable adblocker" style prompt I didn't get on android. I don't know if there's a browser with a good adblocker allowed in iOS walled garden, but I'd be happy for suggestions