ozneil 0 Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 In the interests of science "Do revolving doors go counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere,or anywhere where cars drive on the wrong side of the road?" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Jolly Jumjoogler 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 "Do revolving doors go counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere,or anywhere where cars drive on the wrong side of the road?" No wantin tae be pedantik ur nuthin Ozzy, but cars don't drive oan onyside o' the road. Howiver, peepul dae drive caurs oan the wrang side o' the road. That wrang side bein the right side o' course. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ozneil 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 No wantin tae be pedantik ur nuthin Ozzy, but cars don't drive oan onyside o' the road. Howiver, peepul dae drive caurs oan the wrang side o' the road. That wrang side bein the right side o' course. Ah think it should be left at that! Does water go down plugholes anticlockwise or clockwise in UK? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest westtender Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Does water go down plugholes anticlockwise or clockwise in UK? If I thought you were really interested, I'd tell ya. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notanimby 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Ah think it should be left at that! Does water go down plugholes anticlockwise or clockwise in UK? Oor economy's goin doon ra plughole right noo, it's goin both ways Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gladtobeglas 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 The revolving door was invented by the German Hans Linksgesteuert in 1885 for the entrance of the newly built Hamburg City Hall. The hall had been built at the end of a long avenue lined with large municipal buildings and because of the lay of the land it had the effect of tunnelling and magnifying the prevailing wind. The effect on the new building was to blast open the original conventional doors and basically freezing out the grand lobby in winter and scattering. Linksgesteuert's first attempt at solving this problem was to change the hinges around so that the doors opened outwards instead of inwards but there was a fatal flaw in this plan and it was down the the wind again. Anyone who wanted to go into the building couldn't because the force of the wind kept the doors slammed shut. It was then that he hit on the idea of a revolving door. But there were teething troubles. The doors were designed to rotate either way but because some people naturally go clockwise and others go anti-clockwise. This caused confusion, anger, quite often stale-mate and, on many occasions, trapped occupants when neither wanted to give way to the other. A sort of circular push-of-war. In the end Hans stepped in to fix a sort of ratchet mechanism so the doors could only turn in one direction. It was his choice that the doors rotated clockwise. He was left-handed and as that is the outer hand on clockwise revolving doors the pusher has more leverage - there was still a bit of a wind resistance problem to be overcome as well. Since then, in honour of the revolving door inventor, all doors are set to revolve clockwise. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nwe 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Evidence please. Linksgesteuert does seem like a particularly coincidental name. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Jolly Jumjoogler 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 Since then, in honour of the revolving door inventor, all doors are set to revolve clockwise. Whit? No the wans ah yaze maist often. Guid story tho'. Ah liked the left handit link. Howiver, ah aye thot the revolvin door wiz modelled oan the turnstile, furst inventit by a Greenock man, and installed et Cappielow, so'z the Moton fans who arrived five minnits late fur kick-aff, only tae fun thur team wur awriddy 3-0 doon, cood go straight back oot fur a swally alang et the Para Handy, Bernadette Flynn's ur the Oban Bar if it wisnae shut. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ozneil 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Report Share Posted March 23, 2009 If I thought you were really interested, I'd tell ya. PMSLSOAMUR Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notanimby 0 Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 Whit? No the wans ah yaze maist often. Guid story tho'. Ah liked the left handit link. Howiver, ah aye thot the revolvin door wiz modelled oan the turnstile, furst inventit by a Greenock man, and installed et Cappielow, so'z the Moton fans who arrived five minnits late fur kick-aff, only tae fun thur team wur awriddy 3-0 doon, cood go straight back oot fur a swally alang et the Para Handy, Bernadette Flynn's ur the Oban Bar if it wisnae shut. HArumph................ They 3 bars are noo all shut ur knocked doon in the drive upmarket (somethin still tae be experienced in Paisley) Morton recently bought St Midens old stand frae Love St, they got thousands of Tesco points on teh kerd but spent them all on bleech an disenfektint tae remove awra shite, ye would nevur know it hud been in Paisley(weel apart frae ra chib and needle marks tghat is) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HollowHorn 0 Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 Howiver, ah aye thot the revolvin door wiz modelled oan the turnstile, furst inventit by a Greenock man, and installed et Cappielow, so'z the Moton fans who arrived five minnits late fur kick-aff, only tae fun thur team wur awriddy 3-0 doon, cood go straight back oot fur a swally alang et the Para Handy, Bernadette Flynn's ur the Oban Bar if it wisnae shut. :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notanimby 0 Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 :lol: Shutit Yoo! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rolo tomassi 0 Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 Since then, in honour of the revolving door inventor, all doors are set to revolve clockwise. Good wee story, Glad! almost sinister in fact.... Hans Linksgesteuert.......ahahahaaaaaaaa! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ozneil 0 Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 From today's Column 8 Sydney Morning Herald The revolving door debate is, fittingly, spiralling out of control. There is a general consensus among the readership that national standards of rotational direction are indeed determined by the side of the road on which citizens drive, rather than by hemisphere. We need data from Britain in order to confirm this, and we have as yet no reports from Singapore as to whether equatorial location has any bearing on the matter. In the meantime, we have a lengthy note from Peter Nation, of AGP Door Systems, outlining all sorts of fascinating facts about revolving doors in Australia. Quite apart from the savings of air-conditioning costs they bring by creating an effective airlock, it turns out that the maximum allowable speed for a revolving door in this country is 0.75 metres a second. Bet you didn't know that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
heidcase 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Weel ra wan at Silverburn's M an S is motuur drivin an ferr clips yer ankles if ye dither attaw! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ozneil 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Weel ra wan at Silverburn's M an S is motuur drivin an ferr clips yer ankles if ye dither attaw! You shouldnae stoap in thum tae tie shoe laces! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gladtobeglas 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Best revolving door in a movie ... the one in The Godfather. Also pretty good steps in The Godfather but pipped at the post by the ones in Battleship Potemkin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
notanimby 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Weel ra wan at Silverburn's M an S is motuur drivin an ferr clips yer ankles if ye dither attaw! Gordon "Bawbag" Broon would be flattind then, wae ra amount of ditherin he duz (hmmmm, poetic justish indeed) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tam 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Obama:- I watched some of his "my fellow Americans", last night and I wid have been proud to vote for him. It is early days but he does seem capable. Also noted the reception given to Bush, in Alberta....that was really a surprise, given that Alberta tends to vote right/right wing........ tam Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tam 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Eve Muirhead: This young lassie needs tae win the last three matches tae have any chance of qualifying for a play-off spot. She has done quite well, especially for someone so young. tam Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ozneil 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Eve Muirhead: This young lassie needs tae win the last three matches tae have any chance of qualifying for a play-off spot. She has done quite well, especially for someone so young. tam She the revolving door champion??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ozneil 0 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Column8 SMH The revolving door/hemisphere discussion has, as we expected, taken a turn for the worse. Most readers assumed that northern hemisphere revolving doors followed the example set by driving on the wrong side of the road, and thus turn in the opposite direction to ours. We asked for confirmation from Britain - if their doors spun clockwise, then the driving thesis looked good. But sadly, British doors do not do this. "Just confirming that the revolving door at my local supermarket goes counter-clockwise," reports Lyndal Howe of Wakefield, West Yorkshire. We have further baffling data from South-East Asia, courtesy of John Sullivan, in Bangkok. "The revolving doors at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport rotate anti-clockwise. Being a northern hemisphere nation of left-side drivers, Thailand fits the theory that rotational direction of revolving doors is determined by hemisphere. Maybe the doors were imported from a nation of right-side drivers. I prefer to believe someone installed the doors upside down." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Jolly Jumjoogler 0 Posted March 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 Column8 SMH This argyoomint is jist gaun roon in circles. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tam 0 Posted March 26, 2009 Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 This argyoomint is jist gaun roon in circles. Thon makes me think we should have started a thread aboot curling. tam Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Jolly Jumjoogler 0 Posted March 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 Thon makes me think we should have started a thread aboot curling. tam Tongs ya bass. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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