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		NYC's Freedom Tower - which will surpass the height of the Empire State Building today - is not even finished yet and it's already at war with another NYC building. You know what happened last time a couple of buildings went to war? (nypost.com)		135
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dittybopper		2012-04-30 08:23:18 AM

The Crimson Permanent Assurance?

Sybarite		2012-04-30 08:24:05 AM

Well, what's fun about that?

Cythraul		2012-04-30 08:24:57 AM

I hate that name, so much, 'Freedom Tower.' It's ridiculous. There, I said it. It's a huge phallic shaped piece of propaganda being named something like that.

Angry Drunk Bureaucrat		2012-04-30 08:27:55 AM

Cythraul: I hate that name, so much, 'Freedom Tower.' It's ridiculous. There, I said it.

Why do you hate Freedom?

Jake Havechek		2012-04-30 08:30:42 AM

They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

antidisestablishmentarianism		2012-04-30 08:37:22 AM

I was coming here to make a Lucky Number Slevin joke.

DjangoStonereaver		2012-04-30 09:14:07 AM

Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

You know how I know you have no idea what you're talking about?

Jake Havechek		2012-04-30 09:22:15 AM

DjangoStonereaver: Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

You know how I know you have no idea what you're talking about?

I'm just saying, I have no personal stake, frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there. They can build a 90 foot cement cock and balls there for all I care.

PC LOAD LETTER		2012-04-30 09:45:32 AM

Jake Havechek: DjangoStonereaver: Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

You know how I know you have no idea what you're talking about?

I'm just saying, I have no personal stake, frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there. They can build a 90 foot cement cock and balls there for all I care.

If the first thing you think of is a cock and balls, you might really like it here.

JerseyTim		2012-04-30 09:52:14 AM

Cythraul: I hate that name, so much, 'Freedom Tower.' It's ridiculous. There, I said it. It's a huge phallic shaped piece of propaganda being named something like that.

Freedom Tower is just a nickname. The official name is One World Trade Center.

Rusty Shackleford		2012-04-30 10:00:00 AM

A point is all that you can score?

thomps		2012-04-30 10:11:57 AM

"You've got to get people back to thinking of the trade center not as a site of an attack but as a center of commerce," said one person who has been involved with the reconstruction of lower Manhattan.

but you said you'd never forget.

stpauler		2012-04-30 10:16:01 AM

Splay!

Cythraul		2012-04-30 10:21:07 AM

JerseyTim: Cythraul: I hate that name, so much, 'Freedom Tower.' It's ridiculous. There, I said it. It's a huge phallic shaped piece of propaganda being named something like that.

Freedom Tower is just a nickname. The official name is One World Trade Center.

I've heard it referred to as that, but didn't know which was the official title, and which was the nickname.

Mugato		2012-04-30 11:14:07 AM

Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

Building a park or a monument would be the absolute worst thing they could possibly do with the site.

The Why Not Guy		2012-04-30 11:58:35 AM

Jake Havechek: I have no personal stake, frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there.

How reasonable.

Stabone33		2012-04-30 11:58:53 AM

You know what happened last time a couple of buildings went to war?

Hey...the WAR went to the BUILDINGS. And they did pretty well for themselves in spite of the final result.

busy chillin'		2012-04-30 11:59:40 AM

JerseyTim

Cythraul: I hate that name, so much, 'Freedom Tower.' It's ridiculous. There, I said it. It's a huge phallic shaped piece of propaganda being named something like that.

Freedom Tower is just a nickname. The official name is One World Trade Center.

That it is a tad better. But one world sounds kinda cheesy too.

And now my tinfoil hat is really tingling. One world? Illuminati naughty.

lenfromak		2012-04-30 12:00:42 PM

Mugato: Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

Building a park or a monument would be the absolute worst thing they could possibly do with the site.

I'm one of those who thinks that they should have put up the same number of towers that fell that day, minus all the asbestos of course, per the original set of drawings.

RibbyK		2012-04-30 12:00:47 PM

Jake Havechek: DjangoStonereaver: Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there. You know how I know you have no idea what you're talking about? I'm just saying, I have no personal stake, frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there. They can build a 90 foot cement cock and balls there for all I care.

Partially this (but less harsh), but I completely lost interest when they rejected Trump's plan: rebuild the twin towers, one story higher. In the words of Neil Simon, "New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it."

titwrench		2012-04-30 12:01:27 PM

The Why Not Guy: Jake Havechek: I have no personal stake, frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there.

How reasonable.

There is a reason I have him farkied as always angry/hates everything

LineNoise		2012-04-30 12:01:50 PM

freedom tower is what slackjawed yokels from flyover country who come and stare at the sky call it.

1 World Trade is its name.

SN1987a goes boom		2012-04-30 12:02:39 PM

We got the top of the Chrysler building, subby?

/look it up

bikerbob59		2012-04-30 12:03:58 PM

lenfromak: Mugato: Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

Building a park or a monument would be the absolute worst thing they could possibly do with the site.

I'm one of those who thinks that they should have put up the same number of towers that fell that day, minus all the asbestos of course, per the original set of drawings.

I thought the same thing actually.

busy chillin'		2012-04-30 12:04:23 PM

LineNoise

freedom tower is what slackjawed yokels from flyover country who come and stare at the sky call it.

1 World Trade is its name.

The New York Post in this very link just called it the Freedom Tower in the headline, so relax.

/promises to never call it the Freedom Tower

fisker		2012-04-30 12:04:41 PM

They named it Freedom Tower so when it gets knocked down they can literally say that Freedom was lost that day. It's only a matter of time.

It's no different than doing things in the name of Jesus and fulling getting away with it because it's Jesus.

This is the Freedom Tower. Because, America is all free and shiat.

busy chillin'		2012-04-30 12:05:33 PM

fisker

This is the Freedom Tower. Because, America is all free and shiat.

Restrictions apply. Void where prohibited.

sonofslacker		2012-04-30 12:07:30 PM

The building from Chicago won? What is the subby alluding to?

groppet		2012-04-30 12:08:09 PM

Well as long as they didnt use that chicken coup design.

H31N0US		2012-04-30 12:11:50 PM

Jake Havechek: frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there

Stop being coy

Rakishi		2012-04-30 12:14:08 PM

Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

They did but then again I suspect you pride yourself on being an ignorant moron so I doubt you'll care.

TheOriginalEd		2012-04-30 12:14:25 PM

Theres more money to be had in a construction site for the people invested in it. Shuffling the paperwork for the site has become an industry in and of itself. Its to the benefit of all involved that they drag it out as long as possible and keep their jobs rather than build it and lose them.

/truf

fisker		2012-04-30 12:14:29 PM

groppet: Well as long as they didnt use that chicken coup design.

They should have constructed a giant ipad that you could climb around in and stuff. Get on the internet and send video mail to your friends back home.

SuperNinjaToad		2012-04-30 12:15:42 PM

I wished they chose a more exciting design. Weren't there a few other submissions from major architectural firms? I think the one we ended up with is the most conservative one of all!

Some countries are building really nice futuristic looking buildings and we are building one that wouldn't look any different if it was built in the 1960s.

astro716		2012-04-30 12:16:39 PM

busy chillin': JerseyTim

Cythraul: I hate that name, so much, 'Freedom Tower.' It's ridiculous. There, I said it. It's a huge phallic shaped piece of propaganda being named something like that.

Freedom Tower is just a nickname. The official name is One World Trade Center.

That it is a tad better. But one world sounds kinda cheesy too.

And now my tinfoil hat is really tingling. One world? Illuminati naughty.

It's the address.

/u trollin?

Spaced Lion		2012-04-30 12:16:56 PM

busy chillin':One world? Illuminati naughty.

I used to play keyboards for Naughty Illuminati.

busy chillin'		2012-04-30 12:24:01 PM

astro716

It's the address.

/u trollin?

I don't know really. So the street is World Trade Center Drive or something? And the supposed goal of the Illuminati is alleged to mastermind events and control world affairs through governments and corporations to establish a New World Order. It just sounds so cheesy, one world....like Bob Marley should be on the side. This is America. We hate each other. Now I'm trollin'.

Spaced Lion

busy chillin':One world? Illuminati naughty.

I used to play keyboards for Naughty Illuminati.

ha cool.

BigNumber12		2012-04-30 12:28:40 PM

Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

We should design our cities based on feelings of juju.

Jake Havechek: frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there

I like you.

lenfromak: I'm one of those who thinks that they should have put up the same number of towers that fell that day, minus all the asbestos of course, per the original set of drawings.

Learning from the past is for f*ggots.

Jake Havechek		2012-04-30 12:29:59 PM

9/11 happened, get over it.

eggrolls		2012-04-30 12:30:34 PM

Jake Havechek:

I'm just saying, I have no personal stake, frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there.

Can you grasp the enormity of how little eight million people care what you think?

soy_bomb		2012-04-30 12:31:27 PM

It's about damn time.

slotz		2012-04-30 12:31:45 PM

The problem with "Freedom Tower" is that it smacks of "Freedom Fries" and "Freedom Toast." Too jingoistic.

"One World Trade" has BALLS.

/GO CAPITALISM

Purdue_Pete		2012-04-30 12:31:54 PM

Cythraul: I hate that name, so much, 'Freedom Tower.' It's ridiculous. There, I said it. It's a huge phallic shaped piece of propaganda being named something like that.

I know you're only trollin'... but yeah, there is no Freedom Tower at all - the media just keeps being clueless. It is simply "One World Trade Center" now. Period.

Freedom Tower was the working name initially but does not exist in any form now. Actually I think the original name on the blue print was "The Fark Your Terrorists, America Wins Again Tower", but it was quickly changed to the Freedom Tower...

Mrtraveler01		2012-04-30 12:32:32 PM

Jake Havechek: I'm just saying, I have no personal stake, frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there.

Well if you listen to WFAN or ESPN Radio 1050 AM, I can see how you can reach that conclusion.

But you have no room to talk you're in New England and I don't think anyone who calls into WEEI has an IQ above room temperature.

Witchyman		2012-04-30 12:32:56 PM

Time for you to settle down, citizens.

soy_bomb		2012-04-30 12:34:34 PM

Jake Havechek: I'm just saying, I have no personal stake, frankly I despise NYC and everybody who lives there. They can build a 90 foot cement cock and balls there for all I care.

Still bitter we won't let you in?

/Go Giants!

groppet		2012-04-30 12:34:54 PM

I think on any news station I have only heard the correct name once. Other than that its been freedom tower.

Igor Jakovsky		2012-04-30 12:36:24 PM

bikerbob59: lenfromak: Mugato: Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

Building a park or a monument would be the absolute worst thing they could possibly do with the site.

I'm one of those who thinks that they should have put up the same number of towers that fell that day, minus all the asbestos of course, per the original set of drawings.

I thought the same thing actually.

I also agree with that. At least put up 2 skyscrapers, 1 just seems out of place.

thomps		2012-04-30 12:37:49 PM

Igor Jakovsky: bikerbob59: lenfromak: Mugato: Jake Havechek: They should have just made it a park or a nice monument on the site. Bad juju to be building a place of commerce there.

Building a park or a monument would be the absolute worst thing they could possibly do with the site.

I'm one of those who thinks that they should have put up the same number of towers that fell that day, minus all the asbestos of course, per the original set of drawings.

I thought the same thing actually.

I also agree with that. At least put up 2 skyscrapers, 1 just seems out of place.

weren't they contemplating building two towers on the same footprint but couldn't get enough leasing interest to justify that much square footage?