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- zombiecarlin, on 03/17/2009, -102/+1684The Russians have designed, constructed, shipped and errected their own 10 storey monument to 9/11 yet the Trade Center site is still very much a big hole in the ground with little or no progress made towards a memorial or the new tower for that matter.
- lilhelper, on 03/17/2009, -16/+821It's beautiful.
Its nice to see Russia and USA are friends in some respect. - jpdeckard, on 03/17/2009, -8/+788Whether you like the sculpture or not, that was pretty classy of the Russians.
- BorsKaegel, on 03/17/2009, -143/+899Wow... the Russians created a punching bag for Chuck Norris.
- bonk2k, on 03/17/2009, -8/+705Thanks Russia.
- FlippityFlipz, on 03/17/2009, -13/+574That's very nice of the Russian government to say "We will remember you" rather than "We will bury you"
I think this is an admirable gesture - innovati, on 03/17/2009, -14/+407ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.
It's so nice to see another country reaching out in this way to the US, especially one with who the US has been at odds in the past few decades. A wonderful token of friendship.
I think it's lost on most americans that Lady Liberty isn't american, but rather a friendship gift from the French. It saddened me to see they way Americans treated the French after 9/11, boycotting everything even distantly related to France, including French's mustard, an American company.
I hope Americans realize friends are more valuable than enemies out there, and you don't look a gift horse in the mouth. What will the US be giving to Russia to symbolize their thanks besides comments that they don't particularily enjoy the æsthetics of the gift? - tgjerusalem, on 03/17/2009, -74/+405Nothing is ever going to be done with the WTC site. There aren't going to be any damn "freedom towers," and god knows what's happened to all the money that's been poured into it. Eight years, and it's still just a hole in the ground.
Fill it up, plant some trees, declare it the WTC Memorial Park, and put in some big spotlights to be "towers of light" or wtf to save some face. It's an eyesore the way it is now. - compgeek, on 03/17/2009, -20/+288I like this sculpture. It will be a fitting reminder of the lives lost on that day.
- inactive, on 03/17/2009, -12/+280So far about every third comment is about the sculpture resembling genitalia.
You stay classy, digg. - cl2yp71c, on 03/17/2009, -53/+307In Russia, tears cry you.
- inactive, on 03/17/2009, -26/+248Wow, you guys are both fulla *****. Evidently neither one of you has actually seen it in a while.
I live in the neighborhood. Quite a huge amount has been done in the last few years, and its all coming along actually pretty nicely. You have no idea the logistics of conducting an excavation for bone fragments at the same time you're pouring cement. - cjharty, on 03/17/2009, -42/+238Thank you for ***** all over the first post of this beautiful gift.
- beatski, on 03/17/2009, -20/+180It's Russia calling you all big pussies
- fezzasus, on 03/17/2009, -52/+211So this is the modern equivalent of a wooden horse?
- TheTimHortons, on 03/17/2009, -45/+199Looks like a big drop of oil...
- tgjerusalem, on 03/17/2009, -15/+159I live near it too. Hell until recently my commute took me right through it on the PATH.
It's been 8 years. The Dubai tower started in 2005 and is almost done. - Skurt, on 03/17/2009, -4/+131The Memorial is right across the harbor from Manhattan in NJ. I wish to thank the Russian people for this wonderful gift and thought.
I am surprised I had not heard of this anywhere before,
“To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” is a 100-foot-tall sculpture by Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli, that is the new “teardrop” memorial at the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor.
The majestic sculpture evokes the twin towers that once stood across the Hudson River. In the middle, a 40-foot steel teardrop hangs like a bell in the open center.
Its groundbreaking last September drew Russian President Vladimir Putin. - drowningfish, on 03/17/2009, -25/+150Do I get +5 Intellect -3 Spirit if I touch it?
- plzdiekevin, on 03/17/2009, -5/+117"Nothing is ever going to be done with the WTC site. There aren't going to be any damn "freedom towers," and god knows what's happened to all the money that's been poured into it. Eight years, and it's still just a hole in the ground."
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/when- ...
You guys are the worst kind of idiots. The kind of idiots that are so stupid they are SURE that they are right. Wow. I'm still pretty stunned. - iodineee, on 03/17/2009, -20/+127Wow! ... You're people are either perverts or a bunch of high school students. Think of what it represents ... it's very touching.
- Solstice, on 03/17/2009, -2/+97Freedom Tower site looks pretty busy to me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Freedomtower-feb ...
They only started doing the surveying work for utilities and such in 2006. The tower is slated to be complete in 2013. In Dubai, they didn't have to worry about cleaning up rubble, demolishing other damaged high-rises, existing utility lines, routing a train station, rebuilding a massive seawall, etc. - Iggins, on 03/17/2009, -7/+102I don't want to sound insincere, I'm actually wondering: why sift for bone fragment 8 years after the fact? Or why has it taken 8 years?
- tgc1, on 03/17/2009, -3/+91Looks quite fitting actually. To think a Cold War Enemy has done this for you, is kind of nice actually. Gives me a smidgen of hope for the future of mankind.
- Avaseal, on 03/17/2009, -2/+88At last! For years the poor Washington Monument has stood erect all by its lonely self.
bowchicka-wow-wow - DarkBlueAnt, on 03/17/2009, -1/+69We were friends for a brief moment after Rocky defeated Drago and gave that speech.... Then we went back to being awkward acquaintances.
- DirtyVicar, on 03/17/2009, -10/+71I found a picture of what Freedom Tower looked like a few weeks ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Freedomtower-feb ...
Man, two years and that's all there is? That's really sad. - papashawn, on 03/17/2009, -2/+62With a giant metal *****.
- inactive, on 03/17/2009, -14/+70I was thinking big ball sack myself, but I'm glad we're on the same wave length.
- Powerfan5000, on 03/17/2009, -14/+69You're getting buried because your comments aren't funny. It's not because they are offensive, it's because they are lame. Quit whining and get some better material.
- cstaylor89, on 03/17/2009, -1/+56Hmm.. You must have a weird looking ball sack.
- IphtashuFitz, on 03/17/2009, -1/+55@Iggins: Apparently no remains have ever been found of a number of the victims of 9/11. Over the years additional remains have been found numerous times. Mostly stuff that's now individual bones and fragments. The construction workers, etc. there have been trained to look for any remains in the hopes of finding anything of those yet-to-be-found victims.
Of course that still doesn't fully explain why it's taken 8 years, but it does slow down the entire process somewhat.
@tgjerusalem: How many years of planning did the Dubai tower take? They likely have been working on the construction plans for that tower for close to a decade before ground was even broken. With ground zero they already had a hole in the ground that they've had to completely rebuild (to deal with utilities, subway lines, etc. already underneath) as well as design plans before they could do any significant work. - Terrin, on 03/17/2009, -2/+54@anshuman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Freedomtower-feb ... - mavranos, on 03/17/2009, -44/+96I dugg you up but I don't think its helping. Looks like a giant vagina to me too. AND when paired with "A constant flowing of water which causes the sculpture to appear to weep"...
Fantastic gesture from Russia.
Too bad the artist made a ten story leaky vagina. - inactive, on 03/17/2009, -6/+56That's what she said.
- Nconn360, on 03/17/2009, -3/+52It`s a snuke.
- mixxo, on 03/17/2009, -19/+67ooohh plans for the freedom towers...and because someone drew it on paper it must mean that it will be built.....sometime in the 22nd century maybe. It's disgusting what is happening at the site. A big giant hole in the ground......really a shame. I hate to even walk past it, not because it represents the attacks but because it represents our failure.......
- nickp2943, on 03/17/2009, -4/+49what's a vagina?
- Lavarock, on 03/17/2009, -2/+47oh god this man isn't kidding
- Jonjonr6, on 03/17/2009, -2/+46in Soviet Russia, monument erect YOU!
- Lavarock, on 03/17/2009, -9/+51Um... that actually looks like a ***** of work went into it. They're trying to make it plane-proof and everything. The basements of these buildings are HUGE too.
- ichunxo, on 03/17/2009, -4/+44I saw a vagina, and I HAVE a vagina. *shrug*
- chix0r, on 03/17/2009, -13/+53Yeah, you tend to start seeing everything as a vagina when you haven't been laid in 10 years.
- CaviMike, on 03/17/2009, -5/+44Did you notice it looks like a vagina?
- joe122370, on 03/17/2009, -0/+39they also don't have to worry about OSHA, EPA, slave labor laws etc.
- shanelw24, on 03/17/2009, -2/+40if you think a vagina and a ball sack are anywhere on the same wavelength, then i have a friend you need to have a drink with.
- jd33, on 03/17/2009, -17/+55Dude, both your comments fail on so many levels that I wouldn't even know where to begin. And wtf is a kteis?
- rockstar1o9, on 03/17/2009, -8/+45In Soviet Russia, pussy calls you.
- pinguz, on 03/17/2009, -1/+37funny how the very first comment on the page is at -250 diggs with exactly the same joke, and you're at +60
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