And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You can make a plumb bob with a nut and a string. I used some keys and kite string to line up a set of shelves once. The aliens that built Egypt knew that trick....
"Hey, we finished the fourth floor and we have some extra bricks!" Right side of window has five layers; left side has seven. Even a visual inspection would show something amiss.
There's a building in the City Life shopping district of Milan that's at least as out of sorts as that one. It is one of three towers there that are unreal.
Third world construction techniques are death defying and so very fragile as they go up. "Innovative" takes on an entirely new depth of meaning. I saw some terrifying sites in India. Most of the labour had to be slave labour, so gaunt.
YEAH, but the design team was inclusive and ensured diversity considerations were of the highest priority. Expecting a building to stand straight up is manifestation of you white privilege.
You can make a plumb bob with a nut and a string. I used some keys and kite string to line up a set of shelves once. The aliens that built Egypt knew that trick....
ReplyDeleteWhat is a building inspector?
ReplyDeleteWakanda!
ReplyDeleteThe guys hanging out on the balcony next door have quite a lot of faith, Inshallah.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think the fourth floor got photo-shopped.
ReplyDeleteIf that is for real it is certainly a fine example of minority contracting.
ReplyDelete"Hey, we finished the fourth floor and we have some extra bricks!"
ReplyDeleteRight side of window has five layers; left side has seven. Even a visual inspection would show something amiss.
It ain't the Duomo in Pisa, dat's fer sure
ReplyDeleteProof positive that the fictional city in Black Panther was just a dream.
ReplyDeleteThere's a building in the City Life shopping district of Milan that's at least as out of sorts as that one. It is one of three towers there that are unreal.
ReplyDeleteLibeskind Tower, nicknamed "Il Curvo"
DeletePerhaps it's half of an improvised tribute to architect Eero Saarinen's famous monument.
ReplyDeleteThe building inspector's name is Mr Jenga.
ReplyDeleteImagine thinking there was a building inspector.
ReplyDeleteThird world construction techniques are death defying and so very fragile as they go up. "Innovative" takes on an entirely new depth of meaning. I saw some terrifying sites in India. Most of the labour had to be slave labour, so gaunt.
ReplyDeleteYEAH, but the design team was inclusive and ensured diversity considerations were of the highest priority. Expecting a building to stand straight up is manifestation of you white privilege.
ReplyDeleteConcrete block doesn't bend. It explodes.
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