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Friday Humor: Overcompensating In China
China may or may not be building empty cities any more, but when it comes to the buildings it does, ahem, erect, it appears that the communist regime is either running out of ideas or is taking the symbolism of the skyscraper just a little too seriously. Behold the building that will house the new Beijing offices of the People's Daily, the official paper of the China Communist Party...
In the perfectly chosen words of the NYDN, after thinking long and hard, the mouthpiece for China's Communist Party was cocksure that the erection of a new headquarters would be warmly received — but they blew it.
The new building for the People's Daily newspaper, still under construction, has attracted more attention online for its suggestive shape than sound engineering...."
Internet users came up with jokes about the phallic structure. Others rose to the occasion by juxtaposing shots of the new building with another Beijing landmark, the China Central Television headquarters, which is nicknamed the “Underpants Building” and has a large opening.
The one thing we don't understand, however, is how did Donald Trump not think of, and erect, this building first?
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Gland deck...
So that's how they inject liquidity into the system!
Given the choice, wouldn't we all?
Sure, but I always preferred it without the scaffolding.
And speaking of adding liquidity, what will the market make of Hilsenrath's article and Bernanke's QE-tus interruptus? I fear bond vigilantes might suffer premature evacuation from the market. If all that liquidity dries up, it's going to be a hard push to new highs.
This is what happens when your architects use that suspect Chinese Viagra
King Cong Dong Long - Kiing Kao Sheck Erect Chang Check
As for Donald Trump, he was too busy converting a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Scotland to a golf course
If it looks like a dick and walks like a dick and quacks like a dick...
Is this where Johnny Bravo ****ed off to
Whats Chinese for Dickhead Towers
...then it must be a duck in a penis costume.
(I doubt that I'll ever write that again.)
My compliments on some of the best inductive reasoning skills I've seen!
Is this the polling place for the upcoming erections ?
Not much of a joke. The illusion which has excited titlliation is due to the bamboo scaffolding within which tall buildings are constructed in Asia. The building is a design clone of that similar thingy in London, so it's not even unique.
Yes, a lot of us do know that. Might want to look into "meta" as a part of humor. Unless you're unfamiliar with the Brutalism of London, or the certainly phallic tones of the Gherkin or new pyramid of the Shard. Here's a video of the Shard's launch. If you missed it, you'll want to check the name of the piece of music being played, and then who financed it, and who can afford to live there.
It's a giant fuck you to the monkeys, if you missed it. Or England snarking ME cash again.
<LOOK! A SQUIRREL!>
The photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson is famous for capturing The Decisive Moment. While the image in this article is much more than a moment, the same thing sort of applies. It's a Friday, everybody was looking for a little humor, everyone (else) was willing to accept that the final structure will have the scaffolding removed, but for this admittedly lengthy Decisive Moment, humor trumped pedantry. Get in The Moment.
Long Duck Dong.
I vote to call it "Tumescent Towers"
The control tower at National Airport (Alexandria VA) is pretty Phallic too. I see it across the river every day. Nothing to see here, move along.
Sometimes I wonder if there are phallic things going on inside the National Airport tower?
Build it and they will come....
You didn't erect that!
Now I understand what "The Chinese Dream" is all about ...
i guess there is some charm in having Dick-House instead of a White-House
+INFINITY for the comments
it's really just a distraction so the aliens stop screwing with nuclear weapon sites...
" so, what do you want to do tonight?"
" I don't know, let's buzz the US, shut down their nuke silos that's always good for a laugh."
" nah we just did the US and Russia not that long ago"
"ok...how about China then?"
"alright, lets see here...hey wait, is that what...hey you gotta check this out"
"what? holy shit... are they building a giant penis?"
(fits of alien laughter)
"oh man, that's some funny shit right there"
"yeah... especially since they're building it in China"
(more fits of uncontrollable alien laughter)
"ok, lets head back up to higher orbit, the guys back home are gonna piss themselves when we send this"
...and so the worlds nuclear missile sites are safe for yet another night, thanks to one giant Chinese prick.
Many of the ladies in this region of the world would be scared to climb up there. Why? Here's a scientific explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyGOJ1_kcI8.
It coordinates with the pollution beautifully.
"how did Donald Trump not think of, and erect, this building first?"
Simple: Donald is already the biggest Dick in NYC. No skycraper could ever exceed him!
Donald's real threat is Mayor Bloomberg, who may just become the Biggest Dick in NYC of all time.
lol