Some kids' bedrooms

21 cool looking place in the world

out of that list i already earmaked a trip to Hong Kong and Singapore. Keen to see the Titanic museum sometime too

Architecturally, some of the buildings are interesting. But the bare fact is most of them are there not because they have to be, or because they serve any useful function, but merely because the people paying for them have literally more money then they know what to do with, often at the misfortune and misery of the people who live in the shadow of them.

Being the ruler of a country and spending several billion dollars US equivalent on a massive penis substitute skyscraper so you can say 'mine's bigger than yours' the next time there's despots of the world get together while a significant percentage of the population you're supposed to be shepherding exist in poverty, uneducated and squalid, is not something to be proud of.

I don't think we can judge from here. In the UK, a lot of families live in squalid, mouldy, aging flats and struggle to heat and feed themselves. Meanwhile, some people in London get basements dug out and pool built etc.
It's easy to look at other countries, a lot more difficult to look at our own.

Many of those buildings are built by companies wanting to be seen as world class. Also a spate of ultra tall buildings is a sign of over exuberance by businesses and banks who fund them. It is sign that markets are over valued. When New York had its boom in the twenties the Chrysler building and Empire State were the tallest buildings in the world for a long time. Interestingly a couple of those were built with lottery money.

You might not be able to, but I bloody well can. Squandering a massive natural resource dividend on ludicrous monument buildings that serve no purpose rather than using it to benefit the people God/Allah/History has left you with the responsibility to look after is, to my mind, objectively and unequivocally wrong. It just is not acceptable. There's just no way to explain doing it beyond gross ego and self-agrandisment. I find it pretty abhorrent.


No, it isn't. It's the same. You look at the money people spend on things and say 'has that benefitted lots of people, including the people they are supposed to be leading, or has someone just squandered a dumper truck full of money on the equivalent of a big neon sign saying "I'm [LIFTED] wealthy and I don't give a [LIFTED] about anyone else". Yes, it happens over here too. It's chuffing wrong over here too. The idea we can't condemn patently wrong things in other countries just because we're not some paragon of virtue is, well, silly.

3. I do number 3.
Number 4 ... there are none! (8+)
11, yes to the pizza.
15, happens all the time (8+p

Mark

I don't really understand how you can not "eat pizza out of the box". I mean, that's just how it works isn't it?

The only other one I'm with is nose-picking. It can be a real pleasure if you shift a particularly chewy piece. I try not to do it when anyone is looking because it seems to upset them.

For 15, if there's someone in my house when I get home it means I'm being burgled! Trousers off at the earliest opportunity though, especially this (hot sticky) weather.

I've still not been to that building yet.

Mark

Some of those were really very good.

Mark

You bastard.
You utter, utter bastard.

Mark