DTS
The Business
As I am sure most of you do - Sunday night is TV night. After Mrs DtS has conjured up a culinary delight that supassed even her own high standards (Aromatic Chicken with Apricots - Delightful) we sat down to watch the box.
Mrs DtS intially made a school boy error of choosing Coronation Street as our viewing. I made it clear to her that watching a load of Northerners moaning was not my idea of fun and we swapped to C4 to watch a programme.
It was basically a programme about a bloke who predicted 9/11. Basically this bloke worked for Morgan Stanley and because he had predicted the terror attacks weeks before they happended and planned for it. He managed to get all but seven of his 2000+ staff out the building without harm.
As the programme ended Mrs DtS came out with possibly the most outragous claim. ever She said that more people would have got out alive if the builders of the world trade centre had added a firemans pole down the centre of the building.
I pointed out that if there were say 150 floors and each floor had 100 people on each floor then that would be 15,000 people that would have to go down the firemans pole which would take longer than the stairs Mrs DtS was moaning about.
In addtion to this I also commented that if you were on say floor 70 you would have no chance of getting out as you would have to wait till everyone from floors 150 down to 71 had gone down the pole.
I personally would not fancy my chanes of getting on the pole on floor 150 and holding on to the bottom floor.
I said that stairs were a better option as at least everyone can use them at the same time in theory.
Despite the fact she is very clever normally she failed to grasp the concept that this is a really poor idea. Her count comment to my "It would take hours to get everyone out" was we could have loads of firemans poles.
I personally think this is the worst idea I have ever heard. Am I right or what?
Mrs DtS intially made a school boy error of choosing Coronation Street as our viewing. I made it clear to her that watching a load of Northerners moaning was not my idea of fun and we swapped to C4 to watch a programme.
It was basically a programme about a bloke who predicted 9/11. Basically this bloke worked for Morgan Stanley and because he had predicted the terror attacks weeks before they happended and planned for it. He managed to get all but seven of his 2000+ staff out the building without harm.
As the programme ended Mrs DtS came out with possibly the most outragous claim. ever She said that more people would have got out alive if the builders of the world trade centre had added a firemans pole down the centre of the building.
I pointed out that if there were say 150 floors and each floor had 100 people on each floor then that would be 15,000 people that would have to go down the firemans pole which would take longer than the stairs Mrs DtS was moaning about.
In addtion to this I also commented that if you were on say floor 70 you would have no chance of getting out as you would have to wait till everyone from floors 150 down to 71 had gone down the pole.
I personally would not fancy my chanes of getting on the pole on floor 150 and holding on to the bottom floor.
I said that stairs were a better option as at least everyone can use them at the same time in theory.
Despite the fact she is very clever normally she failed to grasp the concept that this is a really poor idea. Her count comment to my "It would take hours to get everyone out" was we could have loads of firemans poles.
I personally think this is the worst idea I have ever heard. Am I right or what?
