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(Message started by: daemonturk on Feb 21^st, 2009, 7:02pm)

Title: James the Depressed.
Post by daemonturk on Feb 21^st, 2009, 7:02pm

James was depressed as he looked through the window and saw soot and grime. He was up on the 30th floor of the building. He opened the window and jumped through and landed without injury...

-He landed on solid ground
-He is a perfectly normal human
-He was COMPLETELY unharmed
-The building had at least 30 legitimate floors, it was hundreds of metres up from the ground.
-There were no trampolines or fabrics to cushion his landing.

How did he land on solid ground without being harmed? What else can you say about James?

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by cheesepuff on Feb 21^st, 2009, 8:32pm

James loved parachuting

James was a window cleaner and was depressed when he saw the soot and grime that he had to clean and so jumped to the window cleaner platform directly outside.

He had a REALLY close call with bungee jumping

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by daemonturk on Feb 21^st, 2009, 8:54pm

Correct, though not that parachuting/bungee jumping part.

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by towr on Feb 22^nd, 2009, 6:53am

on 02/21/09 at 20:54:09, daemonturk wrote:

Correct, though not that parachuting/bungee jumping part.

So that leaves the window cleaner platform. But is that really solid ground?

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by daemonturk on Feb 22^nd, 2009, 6:57am

No. The the building floor is ;D. He jumped from the platform into the interior building after gloomily realising that he had to clean the insides of the window.

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by towr on Feb 22^nd, 2009, 7:49am

Ah, that makes sense.
Although people really ought to close their windows. You wouldn't want to be cleaned out by your window cleaner.

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by iono on Feb 23^rd, 2009, 6:46pm

Well, a building floor isn't really solid ground either.

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by daemonturk on Feb 23^rd, 2009, 11:11pm

It is.

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by towr on Feb 24^th, 2009, 12:19am

Well, it's solid. And it's ground, in a sense.
But conventionally, I'd have to say solid ground refers to the actual ground at ground level.

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by iono on Feb 24^th, 2009, 8:08pm

When I first read it, I thought it had something to do with James Bond. :-/

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by Grimbal on Feb 25^th, 2009, 2:03am

The ground ... er ... was it ground coffee?

Title: Re: James the Depressed.
Post by sippan on Mar 2^nd, 2009, 11:18pm

Did James fall hundreds of meters?

Was he depressed because he felt alienated due to being a giant?