They're building Barad-dûr

[Shitty Dual]

Let me know when they install The Eye.

 

[Shitty Dual]

!

 

[CaptainWacky]

Stark.

 

[FBI parte due]

I plan to move to Dubai and become a mugger/misc crazy person eventually.

 

[CaptainWacky]

There's no eye in the book so there shouldn't be in real life either.

 

[Shitty Dual]

There's no eye in the book so there shouldn't be in real life either.

TOLKIENAZI

 

[Shitty Dual]

There's no eye in the book so there shouldn't be in real life either.

So where did that whole image come from, anyway?

 

[CaptainWacky]

I'm sure the book talks about "Sauron's eye" being fixed on Frodo but it's more a metaphorical thing rather than a big honking eye on top of the tower.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Did they put the eye in yet?

 

[Cassie]

Everything's bigger in Dubai!

 

[Big Dick McGee]

Excep the uncut penises!

 

[Mentalist]

I've been following the progress of the Burj Dubai for a while now. I think I have a thread about it around here as well..

IT's truly a remarkable building. Not just because it's going to be the tallest building in the world but also due to the technology being employed in it.

Check out the offical site. Has some cool facts about the building:

http://www.burjdubai.com/

Anyway.. as impressive as it is you should see what they're going to be building a few blocks away..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Burj

 

[Zimmy]

how do the cranes get down when they are finished?

 

[Mentalist]

That's a pretty good question.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Maybe they live up there.

 

[Cassie]

I bet they get them down piece by piece using helicopters.

 

[Big Dick McGee]

I work in commercial real estate construction, and a little known fact is that those construction cranes? Made out of super-dense, semi-sweet chocolate. Part of the "topping off" ceremony of any skyscraper includes the whole crew and staff systematically dismantling and eating the construction cranes.

FACT.

 

[Mentalist]

How do they raise the cranes up as the floors go up as well?

 

[Big Dick McGee]

The chocolate cranes have a marshmallow filling; they just slowly add more marshmallow via high-pressure hose, and that causes the cranes to gradually raise higher and higher.

 

[Mentalist]

When are they going to actually build the Freedom Tower? You'd think they would have started by now.