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  • #46
    Originally posted by VetLegion
    I'm curious why they opted for a reinforced concrete design. What are its advantages over the lighter steel frame design which is usual in skyscrapers.
    Is reinforced concrete aeroplane-resistant?

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    • #47
      Originally posted by cronos_qc


      There is no phallic issues; there is a will to show the power of the corporation. So the phallic symbol is the best way to show it up.

      Otherwise we would dig a big ****ing hole to show our power...

      You're saying that if they were not phallic symbols we would dig deep holes?

      How many windows would the corner office of the building in the big hole have? How would the view from the penthouse be?

      Anyway it's much more expensive to excavate the half mile deep hole than it is to to build a tower half a mile high. It's also much easier to attract tenants for the half mile tall building than for the hole in the ground.

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      • #48




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        • #49
          Originally posted by cronos_qc
          Otherwise we would dig a big ****ing hole to show our power...
          If women ruled the world?

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          • #50
            I wonder how many tenants they have lined up for it.
            Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We are evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that. --Saul Tigh

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            • #51
              Originally posted by Blake


              If women ruled the world?
              What, like a giant Arch de Triomph?
              Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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              • #52
                Originally posted by Geronimo



                You're saying that if they were not phallic symbols we would dig deep holes?
                ground.
                I'm not really serious. But...

                I've only said that the phallic symbols is associated with power and strength... so is skyscraper...

                A hole is not (generally) associated with power! (Actually I find the idea funny)


                Imagine:

                Big CEO corp talking to his second:
                "Hey, we're so powerful, let's dig a big ****ing hole in the ground"

                2nd Executive:
                "Yeah, It would look like if we're ready to swallow anything that come near us"

                Big CEO:
                "Oh wow, It would surely show our powerful we are, people will look at the hole and will say: "Wow, that's a powerful hole"!
                bleh

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Colonâ„¢




                  Phallic Symbols
                  bleh

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Sprayber
                    I wonder how many tenants they have lined up for it.
                    Which building?
                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #55
                      How about the world's tallest log cabin?
                      Last edited by bipolarbear; June 30, 2007, 09:00.
                      Lysistrata: It comes down to this: Only we women can save Greece.
                      Kalonike: Only we women? Poor Greece!

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                      • #56
                        That's more like it.
                        Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse

                        Do It Ourselves

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by Sprayber
                          I wonder how many tenants they have lined up for it.
                          Many, because you see, Dubai has a Visionâ„¢ and that Visionâ„¢ will make them the global hub of finance, commerce, retail, tourism, art, fashion, education, airtravel, seashipping and pimping. It's their Visionâ„¢ that makes them the preferred destination for any noteworthy international corporation, unlike cities with a vision.
                          Last edited by Colonâ„¢; June 30, 2007, 09:45.
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                          • #58
                            Yeah but aren't they just a teeny bit too close to the equator for that to matter providing that global warming is true? It seems probable that they would be quite ****ed if sea levels were to rise.
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                            • #59
                              They have plenty of money to go all Netherlands on us.

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by bipolarbear
                                Yeah but aren't they just a teeny bit too close to the equator for that to matter providing that global warming is true? It seems probable that they would be quite ****ed if sea levels were to rise.
                                Nah...They would just build the Al Burj Dubai Seawall
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