It’s the top of the stairs because in the top left of thr image you can see the banister support. If the mattresses were at the bottom then the angle of that support would be different
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DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 days ago
bottom, as we only can see the treads not the risers (that small inset underneath a step).
YoFrodo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Why is no one else talking about this.
There’s no debate. It’s at the top of the stairs.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 days ago
when the mattress is at the top, where is gravity and on what is it resting?
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It could be wedged.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You think a folded in half mattress could get stuck in a stairwell? You might be on to something!
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think it might actually be held up by the other end of that banister.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I think it’s bottom too but I don’t agree with your reasoning, I’ve seen steps without that bit.
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
How does the single mattress in half bit make you think it’s at the top? If it were at the top, the force of the mattress trying to straighten itself out would push it down the stairs. Much more likely the mattress was pushed/ tossed/ fell down the stairs and got folded in that position, imo.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Back when I thought it was two mattresses, I thought it couldn’t be at the top because the right mattress probably wouldn’t be held up like that. But since it’s one mattress, it can relatively easily be held at that angle with most of its weight resting on the step.
And that’s my main reason: it really seems like the mattress is being pushed towards that step, and I believe it’s being pushed by gravity. Doesn’t make as much sense for it to be pushed in that direction by someone.
I’m not married to it though, it’s a really tricky picture.
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m not gonna lie, you’ve got me rethinking my position pointing out the right side of it. I do think though, that if it were at the top and resting on the one step, that the corner of the mattress resting on the step would be bowed in a bit more.
It is quite tricky.
franzcoz@feddit.cl 2 days ago
That’s what I was thinking too
Dolphinfreetuna@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You live in fancy houses!
Pistcow@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean, it’s code for anything built during the age of home electricity.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Well, my house has electricity and the stairs do not have that indentation at all.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 days ago
its simply code where I live and my old home where I grew up was already old AF and had those risers and treads (albeit not as deep as they should have been, I always tripped)
M137@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Never lived in a house, only apartments with no stairs (inside the apartments) and this is obvious even to me. You can know something without ever having owned or lived with that thing.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Some stairs don’t have different looking risers, but you’re still correct because you can see wear marks from steps on the carpet.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
agreed
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And you can see the wear on the treads. plus the handrail mount in the top left would be at a very inconvenient height of we were looking from the bottom up
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
The handrail argument doesn’t make any sense. It would be at the same height regardless of direction.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Also, the handrail mount is sideways if we’re looking down; if we’re looking up, it makes sense.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe it is a light fixture.
obinice@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s at the top, I have that same bannister mount, it points upwards to the banister.
The mattress is wedged at the top of the stairs thanks to its extreme springiness.
Brown5500@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
This is what gets me confused. If we’re at the top, I see the banister mount turning horizontal, not up. Up from that POV would be slightly towards us but it’s angled away. We have to be looking from the bottom for it to be turning up in this photo. I have no idea how hundreds of people look at that and say it’s turning up.🤣