Random Picture Thread

All over the World is the same but different environment and people are the same but different. Some love the out doors and some love the cities.
New Zealand has Bayou country and Bayou people.
I have control.

 

At the Omaka Aviation Heritage Center in Blenheim, NZ.

 

Thanks for the picture as I can see the boat ramp I used to go to and from the river shack when I was living in recluse with my dog flash.

 

Myark

Any idea why they would go to so much trouble to stick a number 4 on the building?

Poida

 

Knit wits

 

Hawker Sea Hurricane ?

 

The number four is the fourth building number which is not any trouble and a normal low cost working situation with very few rules.
The same as my neighbors pictured building their new homes pictured on two work sites that workers are shoveling concrete by hand yesterday and had all the upright foundations finished today, they are making a 8 story building mixing concrete by hand which in no time they will have it finished, the concrete foundations they built are huge and 3.m below ground.
The other building site you can see the women handing buckets of concrete up above which she also mixes the concrete by hand and will help build a 3 story building in very little time.

 

Are the people of China getting less superstitious . . .

The usage of the number 4 amazes me as in Mandarin Chinese it is 四 ‘‘sì’’ which is pronounced almost the same as the sign of death 死 ‘‘sǐ’’ and therefore 4 often is avoided...

The fear of the number 4 ---> Tetraphobia

 

My above post was made in response to the previous page, I was catching up, I only now read Poida's question about the 4 on the building and Myark's response to it, but I still have the same question about the usage of the number 4 there . . .

 

Aside: any physics or mathematics building named after Schrödinger should, at least on Halloween, sport an "i" button in the elevator ... which should also have a recording of a cat intermittently playing.

 

Schrödinger's cat . . . .

 

Altogether there are by 5 buildings which in the picture attached shows the number 4 named building second from the right side of picture, you can see my apartment on the left side of picture which is a 8 story high building.
That's interesting about the number 4 sign which like you say is similar to an apartment building I rented in Thailand who also removed the number 13 of the lift numbers and had not recorded number 13 floor as it went from 12 to 14 which I lived on the 16th floor but was actually the 15th

 

The question that I asked about the number 4. I didn't really ask thee question properly because obviously buildings have numbers and asking why a building has a number on it would seem like a stupid question.

However, the number is a stick on number, one that you wouldn't expect to last. Further to this building numbers are normally where you can read them from the street ie on the front of the ground floor facing the street.

Another point is that it would have been easier to attach a permanent number on the building while they were working on that floor with scaffolding around it.

Not that I'm really worried, but I couldn't sleep last night and probably won't until I find out why they stuck a number 4 half way up a building.

Poida

 

I believe so. There is also a Stuka parked behind it.

 

Thoughtful moment, rather like whale hunting.