# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/661 "2024-10-18T19:11:56Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Those that are related to structural issues like bridge weight capacities may not be updatable. The thing that has been oft commented on, in the UK at least, is that multistorey car parks (multistory in US English?) just won’t be able to cope with the additional weight. (Aside: I was quite pleased with this. Those car parks have _ **tiny** _ spaces in them. The obvious way to make multistorey car parks safe for EVs is to reduce capacity, = bigger parking spaces.) j ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/662 "2024-10-18T19:17:44Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > (Aside: I was quite pleased with this. Those car parks have _ **tiny** _ spaces in them. The obvious way to make multistorey car parks safe for EVs is to reduce capacity, = bigger parking spaces.) Sounds like a job for Kramer: [![](https://i.imgur.com/AJx6y8j.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/AJx6y8j.png) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/663 "2024-10-18T19:33:10Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > The thing that has been oft commented on, in the UK at least, is that multistorey car parks (multistory in US English?) just won’t be able to cope with the additional weight. Funny I had _almost_ included a comment about car parks. But yes, if at some point in the future most vehicles are EVs and most are WAG 25% heavier than cars were when the facility was designed, something is going to give. There was a building collapse in New York City a couple years ago. Apparently it’s common to repurpose old 3- or 4-story factory / warehouse buildings as car storage facilities. Where you drop your car off at the ground and the staff somehow gets it upstairs. Turns out these are sometimes bootleg conversions, woefully under-engineered, and cars are wedged in there at great density. So eventually something is gonna give. See > **[One dead in NYC multi-storey car park collapse](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65319586)** > > The NYPD's new robotic dog was sent into the shattered structure to hunt for survivors, the mayor says. and > **[Parking garage collapses in New York City, killing one person and injuring...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/people-reportedly-trapped-parking-garage-collapse-downtown-new-york-ci-rcna80318)** > > Firefighters responded but pulled members of the department because of concerns about the building’s structural stability, the FDNY said. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/664 "2024-10-18T21:58:06Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > multistorey car parks (multistory in US English?) In US English, that’s “multistory parking garages”. 😜 To someone from the US, a car park sounds like a place where you can take your car on the weekend to play with other cars. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/665 "2024-10-18T22:22:33Z")
I stand corrected! ( 😉) j ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/666 "2024-10-19T00:52:11Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > In US English, that’s “multistory parking garages”. 😜 > > To someone from the US, a car park sounds like a place where you can take your car on the weekend to play with other cars. Not necessarily. “Car park”, “parking structure”, and “parking ramp” are all regional terms for multistory (never an embedded “e”) parking facilities. If any American thinks there’s only one universal term, they simply haven’t traveled very much around their (admittedly vast) home country. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/667 "2024-10-19T01:08:07Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > “Car park”, “parking structure”, and “parking ramp” are all regional terms for multistory (never an embedded “e”) parking facilities. But “parking garage” is used nationally, that’s why in the articles above, the BBC called it a car park but NBC called it a parking garage. (There _may_ though be some regional variation in the US that calls it a “car park”, but it would be odd to hear outside that region.) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/668 "2024-10-19T01:27:07Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > There was a building collapse in New York City a couple years ago. Discussed in this thread at the time: [Parking garage collapse in Lower Manhattan [2023-04-18] - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parking-garage-collapse-in-lower-manhattan-2023-04-18/982874) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/669 "2024-10-19T01:58:24Z")
I’ve never heard “car park” used in the US. But I did love the image of people’s cars all going to the park on Saturday to play with the other cars. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/670 "2024-10-19T02:03:59Z")
I have lived in the Great Plains/Lower Midwest, Southeast, Mid Atlantic, New York City and New England and have traveled extensively on business to several places each in Texas, California, Colorado and Washington (and I mean spending 4 days a week, months on end in each place). Never have I heard “Car Park” to refer to a parking garage or a parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/671 "2024-10-19T02:07:33Z")
I’ve heard it used by a co-worker in the US…who happened to be a British ex-pat ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/672 "2024-10-19T02:48:54Z")
> [@Great\_Antibob](#): > > _Gods of Egypt_ I have never watched “Gods of Egypt”, but I did read a movie review on how it was the worst movie ever, by Becky Chambers, which introduced me to her writing and, for that, I will give “God’s of Egypt” a small nod. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/673 "2024-10-19T04:46:30Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > But I did love the image of people’s cars all going to the park on Saturday to play with the other cars. I did as well. My follow-up thought was that that image is the most American thing ever. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/674 "2024-10-19T04:58:06Z")
I remember the episode of _Happy Days_ when the Fonz and Pinky Toscadero took their cars to the car park to play… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/675 "2024-10-19T05:47:31Z")
And having a picnic with jam sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/676 "2024-10-19T05:56:37Z")
For what it’s worth, in German, it’s not a garage, it’s a “house.” Parken + Haus = Parkhaus. Parking house. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/677 "2024-10-19T07:51:24Z")
Yeah, but that’s because they can’t stand the French, or they’re not direct enough to refer to it as a REAL American, like Moe Szyslak\*. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/m5t9w98afJo/hqdefault.jpg "The Simpsons - Mou - The car hole") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5t9w98afJo) \*That’s gotta be the hardest name in the Simpsons for me to spell, had to look it up. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/678 "2024-10-19T13:06:41Z")
Germans like to stick -haus on many things…Rathaus…Bauhaus…Mehrfamilienwohnhaus… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/679 "2024-10-19T13:24:41Z")
My favorite has always been _Krankenhaus_ - sickness house. AKA a hospital. Completely logical but somehow so wrong at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2024, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/680 "2024-10-19T13:38:40Z")
Just as logical-but-wrong as **[leaving the fire alarm out of the fire station](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-2/1004785/666).** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=35)