Phallic? You tell me

[n2doc]

The Burj tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, still under construction, is seen in a Friday, Aug. 17, 2007 file photo. The Burj will become the world's tallest building by next year. The Burj Dubai surpassed Canada's Toronto-based CN Tower on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, which at 555.3 meters (1,822 feet), had been the world's tallest free-standing structure since 1976, the developers said in a press release. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

[ananda]

1. Definitely excessive.. like a cancer.

nt

[SoCalDem]

2. Tall buildings cannot help it...I'm not so sure I like those spikey antennae

:scared:

[TankLV]

11. Ummm - they're CONSTRUCTION CRANES

antennaes, if there are any, will not be airlifted until the majore structure is completed...

[cgrindley]

3. Why shouldn't things be phallic? People with penises have done much

over the long march of history. Perhaps we should celebrate the penis more, not less.

[Ian David]

16. I agree! Hail To Thee, Penises!

[Snarkturian Clone]

28. I agree.

So it's a phallic symbol. BFD.

At the same time, can I call diamond mines vagina or anal symbols?

Here's the big shiny cock we're getting in philly right now

[soleft]

4. I think it looks like a snail

[asthmaticeog]

5. (Tall or long thing necessarily = phallic symbol) = boring and trite

It's not about cock, it's about getting a lot of lease-able real estate into a comparatively small parcel of land.

[PCIntern]

9. That's what I had told one ex-girlfriend...

but she wasn't buying!

:rofl:

[Phillycat]

47. HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

*dies*

[Phillycat]

49. Dirty!

:D

[asthmaticeog]

50. Sorry, real estate just gets me so hot.

So, uh, I hope you brought a condominium. :blush:

[Phillycat]

53. Tee hee!

Get under the blanket mortgage with me and stick your dividend in my proxy clause!

[asthmaticeog]

54. No can do babe. I'm insolvent.

It's a shame, your assets seem to have gotten pretty liquid.

[PCIntern]

55. Hey!

My Conagra has kicked in, so I'm spiking...don't think I'm selling short!!! We're going long here, baby!

[Lint Head]

6. Phallic? Hell yes. Their money is fucking us over by propping up

the corporations that support fascists like George and Dick :dem:

[rurallib]

7. Sort of looks like a middle finger extended to the world

[displacedtexan]

8. Looks like a telescopic penis with antennae.

[porphyrian]

10. We got it beat.

The Florida Capital in Tallahassee:




It's not as big as the Burj, but it's got balls.

[Bluebear]

12. I dunno, it's not really saying "come have sex with me" to me, but what do I know?

[liberalmuse]

13. Wow.

So that's what happens when you use a penis pump on a building.

[Ian David]

14. Looks more like a giant tweedlebug.

[shain from kane]

15. Looks like a target to me. n/t

[CrispyQ]

17. It certainly is ugly.

I guess there is only so much you can do with a monolith, but this one is particularly unattractive.

[DemGa]

18. Sure is ugly..IMO

Other than that, I'd say of course it's phallic.

[Odin2005]

19. The "tall structure = phallic object" is BS pop sociology IMO.

Though it seems to be a common assertion of many postmodernist pseudo-intellectuals.

[havocmom]

24. Saw an inverted pyramid building once. It wasn't very tall

Guess there are some limits to design when engineers actually have to build something ;)

My daughter laughs about a college class where there was much talk/complaint about all the 'phallic symbols' around in our lives. She remained amused and silent until one bible thumping ding bat went on a tirade about tampons being phallic shaped.

"Would you rather have a Rubik's Cube stuffed up there?" was her high decibel retort to the foolishness.

Made me so proud ;)

[TahitiNut]

32. Indeed. Washington Monument: Penis. Lincoln Memorial: Vagina?

Reflecting Pool: ?

Ridiculous.

[Prophet 451]

20. It's not bloody phallic

Maybe I'm taking this too seriously but I get really tired of everything from towers to missiles to cars being called "phallic". OK, they're longer than they are round but they are designed the way they are for the soundest principles of engineering and aerodynamics. What's next? Accusing the Marble Arch of being "yonic"?

[asthmaticeog]

22. That will never happen.

"Yonic" is not an intrinsically bad thing, while "phallic" is, of course. :eyes:

[Prophet 451]

46. Thanks for the eye-roll

I was just about to blow my top too...

The very fact I had to invent the term "Yonic" just shows how ridiculous and one-sided this thing is.

[asthmaticeog]

48. I'll bet some horrid Gaia-worshipping menses-poet invented it before you.

Either that or a meses-worshipping Gaia poet. ;)

[jdlh8894]

21. Guess I need to get more Viagra stock. n/t

[SoCalDem]

23. This ad is SO phallic, they had to tie it down..(to protect the wimminfolk, no doubt)

and there is always the giant stinky plant

[blondeatlast]

36. *snicker*--"Blowup Media"

:rofl:

[redqueen]

38. That ring around the top part

makes the resemblance even stronger

[havocmom]

25. Nah, picture place markers on a page don't look phallic to moi (n/t)

[Holly_Hobby]

26. Unidentified Flying Organ

http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1184504805

Play video "Name That Shape" :)

[underpants]

27. Wow great minds n2doc

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=6927726&mesg_id=6927726

[sinkingfeeling]

29. No, but pretty damn ugly!

[Bake]

30. You don't suppose somebody will fly a plane into it ...

... do you?

Bake

[donsu]

31. our capitol in D.C. is a fat one. most days viewing Wash. Journal

I see the US capitol and think - male. what? built by male slaves? for male politicians. women couldn't vote then and had few rights.

(wonder what a capitol bldg. would look like designed by feminist women, and built by non slave feminist women?)

[Buzz Clik]

33. It's a phallus if you're a guppy.

Or maybe a cat. Mine doesn't look like that. Although the telescoping feature might be useful.

However, if you're of the mindset that anything longer than it is wide is a phallic symbol, well, that's every high rise building on the planet.

[Sequoia]

34. Tower of Babel.

[AngryAmish]

35. Do you mean that the large building means the designers or owners have small penises?

The "phallic symbol" concept comes from Freudian psychoanalysis.

You do realize Freudianism is just about wholly discredited?

It is pseudo-intellectual nonsense usually spouted by someone who has little original to say. Indeed, that is the case here.

So, to answer your question, this building does not correllate to the size of the designer's or owner's genitals. Got it?

[blondeatlast]

37. That's a real--wait for it--stretch... No, just a tall, ugly building. I prefer the Petronas Towers

Absolutely beautiful inside and out--and KL is a wonderful place anyway.

[jdlh8894]

40. Try these

[jdlh8894]

41. Sorry!!

The pic was not to be that big.

[Hosnon]

39. How should skyscrapers be built?

Small base that gets larger with height?

[blondeatlast]

42. The background buildings are shopping for Hummers even as we discuss... nt

[Quantess]

43. No. As skyscrapers go, it is not phallic.

Phallic structures are a dime a dozen, and this Burj Tower doesn't cut it. It's too long and skinny, and there is no auxilliary structure that resembles testicles. No it does not remind me of a phallus.

You asked.;-)

[aikoaiko]

44. Phallic? Only if you envy such things.

;)

[donsu]

45. oh, you are bad lol

nt

[LosinIt]

51. Has anyone ever seen the Rochester, NY skyline??

This isn't a very good shot of it (no pun intended), but all I could find.

http://www.finalimpressions.com/printindex/fiPrint-k03116.htm


Check out the building to the left. It's pretty blatant. I think the designer is fairly famous, but a migraine if preventing me from researching it any further at this point.

[ladjf]

52. That is one big, ugly building. I'd be nervous to be in or near it

in a big wind.

[semillama]

56. Can't believe no one has made this comparison yet: