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My University's eye sore. The blender. Built to stop hippies from rioting.
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Sep 26, 2013 01:08
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 Château Frontenac. A hotel built in the late 19th century in Quebec City. It resembles the Banff hotel because they were both owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway and both were designed by the same architect. The hotel was the location of the 1943 Quebec conference between the Brits, Canadians, and Americans where they discussed strategy for the war and initiated the planning of the invasion of Normandy. The tour goes through the room FDR stayed in during the conference and being in it is definitely a weird feeling. The hotel itself is incredibly beautiful.
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Sep 26, 2013 01:18
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I could actually post a picture of a political building, but there's boring trolling and then there is just being boring.
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Sep 26, 2013 01:23
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Something positive for a change: George H. W. Bush serving as a witness for a same-sex marriage in Maine.
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Sep 26, 2013 01:35
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ekuNNN posted:
Dude you didn't post the worst one.  
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Plutonis posted:Dude you didn't post the worst one. Did anyone manage to save all those pictures of Tony Abbot's head photoshopped onto various penises that got posted in the Auspol thread a while back? I feel like an image depicting Abbot as a literal dickhead would be an appropriate response. Here's a really good documentary about the early history of the Industrial Workers of the World. http://thoughtmaybe.com/the-wobblies/
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Sep 26, 2013 04:10
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Deceitful Penguin posted:I could actually post a picture of a political building, but there's boring trolling and then there is just being boring. You could have posted something interesting, like the building the Althing uses:  Not bad.
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Sep 26, 2013 04:45
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Hopefully getting in before architecture chat runs out. My favourite building in my hometown! ...And least favourite  Worst part is I have to see this one every weekday (though it's nice on the inside)
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Sep 26, 2013 04:48
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 One of Goldman Sach's 27 Detroit warehouses that stores most of the world's aluminum. Multiple times a day, forklift drivers move the Aluminum from warehouse to warehouse in a scheme that costs consumers billions of dollars a year. quote:MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. —Hundreds of millions of times a day, thirsty Americans open a can of soda, beer or juice. And every time they do it, they pay a fraction of a penny more because of a shrewd maneuver by Goldman Sachs and other financial players that ultimately costs consumers billions of dollars. Thankfully, deregulation has probably kept the complexity of these schemes down, passing savings directly to the consumer.
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Sep 26, 2013 05:10
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The Vancouver Public Library: One of the only interesting buildings in this Architectural wasteland we call a city. Case in point:  Though I will admit the Law Courts Building is interesting, from the outside it looks like an urban greenhouse:  From the inside and at the reflecting pool on top, it's pretty impressive. 
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Sep 26, 2013 05:40
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Out at UBC we also have a great example of Brutalism with Buchanan Tower. Everyone calls it the giant waffle tower. Last time I was up on the top floor I was able to pick away bits of concrete from the walls.
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Sep 26, 2013 06:42
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JoelJoel posted:And of course, the worlds tallest falice:  Thank you for spelling it this way.More of the Glorious Motherland's architecture: My old neighbourhood, St. James Town Toronto!    Highest population density in Canada - 17 - 25k people in 19 apartment towers in a 5km radius. Average Canadian population density is 3.75 persons per km2. One of the lowest average household incomes in Toronto ~ $22k PA. It was rezoned as a middle class neighbourhood in the 1960's and the city allowed high rise developers to build these huge ghastly towers for young singles. But all potential residents decided they were too ugly and moved to the suburbs instead. To cut their losses, the City bought the towers for public housing and it's one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the downtown area. Across the street, and I mean literally across the street, is Rosedale. One of the richest areas of the city, average household income is $220,000 PA. Average house sale price in Rosedale in 2008 was over $1M. Here are some single family homes from Rosedale!    Never change, Canada, never change Actually please change radically in the interest of equality except you won't because permanent residents can't vote and citizens vote against their interests. Somebody fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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Sep 26, 2013 09:34
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Chantilly Say posted:You could have posted something interesting, like the building the Althing uses: 
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Sep 26, 2013 15:00
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 An encouraging graph 
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Sep 26, 2013 15:20
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Fun video of Putin and Lukashenko overseeing the joint military exercises that concluded today in Belarus and Kaliningrad. The boy standing next to Lukashenko is his 8 year old son. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93tZe_Ea96E
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Sep 26, 2013 15:43
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ASDA and Tesco approach the upcoming holiday season with typical corporate sensitivity:  (Article: ASDA and Tesco withdraw 'psycho' patient outfits.) This quite understandably drew severe complaints from actual mental patients who don't like being represented as homicidal maniacs, and who tweeted their own 'mental patient' outfits in response.
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Sep 26, 2013 20:47
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Kegluneq posted:ASDA and Tesco approach the upcoming holiday season with typical corporate sensitivity: Those loving outfits.  Remember two years ago the mental hospital I was based at, had a tescos just across the road from it and they were selling straitjackets for halloween.   Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me is the biggest lie parents tell their kids. Bigger then Santa. Fluo fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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Sep 26, 2013 21:07
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Didn't see this posted yet.  And the response:  Resulting in this news story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1o1JgpJfcg
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Sep 26, 2013 22:16
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There were several protests here in town after Clement Meric was killed, being from Brittany. I saw this in town and it made me pretty happy I live here. The top poster is an Antifa punk concert, the bottom line says "Rennes is red and black" and the bottom poster is in solidarity with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a leftist Lebanese militant imprisoned by France since the 1980s.  Brittany will not be a refuge for fascists.  Various t-shirts worn by Antifa at protests. The bottom-right one is against a large airport to be built in the east of Brittany that will kill all the other airports in the region.  A local Antifa protest a couple of years back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F04Piq-eKss&t=114s And for architecturechat, this is the coolest modern building in my town, Les Horizons. A certain percentage of apartments (I don't know how many) are for low-income families.  And since I'm Brittanyposting, have a video of leftist Breton militants in the 70's planting a Breton flag on Notre Dame in Paris, and when the police gathered around to watch it get pulled down they spray painted buses to protest the trial of 11 members of the Breton Liberation Front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odTTbuEU5Zg Also, have the Internationale in Breton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9_OWk-sRh8 Soviet Commubot fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Sep 26, 2013 |
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Sep 26, 2013 22:58
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Amazing MS word 2003 clipart from Minnesota's official manual on illegal gambling(pdf):
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Sep 26, 2013 23:34
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Dirk Pitt posted:My University's eye sore. The blender. Built to stop hippies from rioting. quote:This building houses the departments of math and history of science, as well as numerous numerous classrooms of all sizes. Build to be riot proof, it has been dubbed by OU students as "The Blender"  How the gently caress do you make a building riot proof? Do the stairs turn into steep inclines to prevent rioters from occupying the upper floors?
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Sep 26, 2013 23:34
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I'd like to point out that the Great Lakes megaregion is both the most populous as of 2000 and projected to be the most populous as of 2025. Basically, the "two coasts with gently caress-all between" image many people have of the US is stupid and dumb. Have some cool Yiddish/English music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KFVVKFxr60
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Sep 26, 2013 23:46
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beefnoodle posted:Something to note while watching Ted Cruz read Green Eggs and Ham, from 1942. More here. Seuss' war years political cartoons are pretty harsh. 
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Sep 27, 2013 00:09
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 Free Cascadia!!
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Sep 27, 2013 00:10
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Dirk Pitt posted:My University's eye sore. The blender. Built to stop hippies from rioting. Welcome to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Gruening Building. The main floor stairs exited near an entrance to the building and have (had? Been a while since I was in there...) a waist high concrete slab so in the event of a riot, security could fire out the door while having some protection...  Edit - Oh hey, found this Youtube video while looking for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf2-Eif-39M Edit 2 - My concrete slab theory seems to be disproved around the 19 minute mark of that video.  Ah well, it seemed so plausible.
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boom boom boom fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Oct 6, 2014 |
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Sep 27, 2013 00:21
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Where's the Moon Base?  (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 27, 2013 00:50
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Gonna get some tourist dollars to this place. Wonder if they'll find some Homo-X remains under there.
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FuzzyBuddha posted:Welcome to the University of Alaska Fairbanks Gruening Building. The main floor stairs exited near an entrance to the building and have (had? Been a while since I was in there...) a waist high concrete slab so in the event of a riot, security could fire out the door while having some protection... There isn't an attractive building on that whole campus, but along the continuum of "bad" to "good", it's a safe bet that the better the building, the more oil money went into it.  Of course they've got nothing on this monstrosity: 
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Sep 27, 2013 01:46
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Basscop posted:Didn't see this posted yet. Laughed when I saw they were interviewing mensrights superstar GirlWritesWhat. I can't find the picture of her lecturing to an empty room so here's her spewing poo poo to Libertarians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dwLzB0kFxI
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Sep 27, 2013 01:47
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It is difficult to find a good perspective view, but the Australian Parliament House has grass on top, so ner! Current Parliament House at the back, Old Parliament House in front of it, now a Democracy Museum.  Edit: on the lawn of Old Parliament House there is a permanent Aboriginal Tent Embassy, which was erected in 1972.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Tent_Embassy They talk about trying to get rid of it often, but it is still there, despite people occasionally trying to burn it down. Josie fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Sep 27, 2013 |
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Sep 27, 2013 06:05
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down with buildingchat
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Sep 27, 2013 07:54
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USS Peleliu (LHA 5) visiting Hong Kong.  My uncle used to be the captain of this ship.   Unfortunately, not when it visited.
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I have absolutely no idea where this is from. Still, lust demons. Who's patient zero in this scenario? Who was the gay Prometheus?
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