[_slavo_]

Burj Dubai. I'm utterly fascinated. The only skyscraper I've ever been to was Sears Tower. This is gonna be WAY taller.

Planned: 2,650' Pinnacle / 2,034' Roof | 162 FLOORS

 

[su x*]

i saw it being built when on a plane stopover in dobai, did a 4hr tour


the place is fucked, impossible to stand the heat, sand everywhere
and then a HUGE street of MASSIVE skyscrapers

astonishing, yet easily compared to a gold painted poo

[afterthefact]

I wanna go!

[_slavo_]

I wanna go too.

[Savage Clone]

Dubai is nuts.

[Rob Instigator]

they just started a very exclusively expensive direct flight service from Dubaui to my city of Houston Texas, with houstion being the energy capital of the USA, they ahd to do it eventually.
crazy.
those fuckers have so much stiking money.

they are the ones who pay the USA to go start these bullshit little wars that allow them to consolidate their oil control and to make money for american investors.

[Sheriff Rhys Chatham]

I saw a show about it on the tube.

[o o o]

By the way...

Dubai to build French city by 2012
'Lyon-Dubai City' to be built near Burj Dubai

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/01/04/43782.html

After Abu Dhabi's deal for its own Louvre museum, neighboring emirate Dubai is also going for the French touch with plans to build its version of Lyon, complete with cafes, cinemas and schools, according to Lyon officials.

Due to be completed by 2012, the project is the brainchild of a Dubai entrepreneur who fell in love with Lyon, one of the France's three biggest cities, after traveling there as part of plans for a French-language university in Dubai in partnership with Lyon-2 university.

Buti Saeed Al Gandhi, who heads investment capital firm Emivest, is expected to sign a draft accord next week between the French city and Dubai.

He wants to extend the university project into a huge district named Lyon-Dubai City that will be graced with public squares, restaurants, outdoor cafes and museums, and play host to the same gastronomic, cultural, sporting and economic institutions found in the French urban hub.

"We're not going to just copy the buildings and make a type of Lyon decor, but reinstitute the city's atmosphere with boutiques and cultural places in the heart of the city, transport, a social mix, streets and lanes," said urban specialist Jean-Paul Lebas, who is working on the project.

(...)

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,...-998339,0.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3177701.ece

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by o o o

"...reinstitute the city's atmosphere with boutiques and cultural places in the heart of the city, transport, a social mix, streets and lanes," said urban specialist Jean-Paul Lebas, who is working on the project.

everybody loves an engineered social mix!

do you think that there will be a quota of gay people?

[m1rr0r dash]

mr foatingslowly! mr floatingslowly! do you support quotas for gay people in the younited states? what's your position on anal probing?

[floatingslowly]

Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash

mr foatingslowly! mr floatingslowly! do you support quotas for gay people in the younited states?

although I do not support mandatory quotas, I think we may be forced to import more of them so that we do not fall behind Dubai culturally.

we may even need to establish a new "Gay City" due to the fact that San Francisco will be contaminated by fallout from LA. the working plan is for Provo, Utah to become this new shiney beacon of gaydom.

Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash

what's your position on anal probing?

classic doggy seems to always do the trick, however you can switch things up with a reverse cowgirl(or boy), if the mood strikes you.

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

These are also the people who make man made islands shaped like the continents of the world and palm tress.

[Rob Instigator]

that is right spectral

 

 

here is trumps Dubai tower

 

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I saw a program on the palm one. They have to have ships go around and take built up sand from one place and spew it in another place, because the shape screws up the natural disbursement of sand.

[LittlePuppetBoy]

he first one reminds me of the Citadel in Half -Life 2..........creepy.

[ALIEN ANAL]

that palm place makes me feel ill
it just looks so wrong

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

Originally Posted by LittlePuppetBoy

he first one reminds me of the Citadel in Half -Life 2..........creepy.

Maybe Dubai is where City 1 is?

[atari 2600]

Originally Posted by _slavo_

Burj Dubai. I'm utterly fascinated.

I'm not fascinated; for lack of a better word, I'm disgusted.

It seems obvious enough to any thinking person what exactly is going on with Dubai. World's tallest building? Here's another "world's largest": Dubai City is a huge money-laundering operation, probably the world's largest money-laundering operation. And any thinking person should know what I implying. And any unthinking person will dismiss this message as so many unfounded theories.

At any rate, the leader of the UAE is also the leader of the state of Dubai and Dubai City. <I have removed his name from this post.> He is worth fourteen billion. When the CBS newsmagazine program 60 Minutes did a segment on him months ago he claimed that he goes about his business in Dubai unarmed and unescorted by security. Of particular note during the interview was that they were standing in a posh neighborhood in which none of the houses or villas had any residents. The properties had owners, but no residents. In fact, just about anywhere cameras went during the piece, you couldn't see any considerable population of people for such a large metropolis.

Even at a cursory glance, it strikes one immediately that Dubai City seems to embrace many Western concepts that are taboo to so many Muslims.
I have heard about the new tower, and it is obviously being built as an affront. Again, any thinking person should know what I'm implying.

Aside from the skyscrapers and the strip, another remarkable feature of the city is the group of small islands for rent that has been constructed to resemble a map of the world.

 

And of course, as many will no doubt remember, U.S. port security was almost handed over to a Dubai company by the Bush/Cheney adminstration.

[_slavo_]

Originally Posted by atari 2600

I'm not fascinated; for lack of a better word, I'm disgusted.

It seems obvious enough to any thinking person what exactly is going on with Dubai. World's tallest building? Here's another "world's largest": Dubai City is a huge money-laundering operation, probably the world's largest money-laundering operation. And any thinking person should know what I implying. And any unthinking person will dismiss this message as so many unfounded theories.

Atari, ... my friend ... I was talking about the building.

There will be a buliding. The building will be tall. I love tall buildings. Hence I am fascinated by this one.

[atari 2600]

Good for you, tall-building enthusiast.

It's a sound plan, _slavo_; keep it light and fluffy.

I would do best to take the advice myself.