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Taipei 101 Now World's Tallest Building

Posted by michael on from the spires-are-cheating dept.

mstamat writes "A 101-storey skyscraper in Taipei is from today the world's tallest building. The new scyscraper is 508 metres (1,667 feet) tall, beating the 452-metre (1,483-feet) twin Petronas towers in Kuala Lumpur. The full height was achieved after adding a 60-metre (197-ft) spire on top of the building. The story is on Reuters." There's plenty of information about the building available.

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  1. Adding a spike to the top... by aiyo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..is like sticking a toothpick on my dick to gain that extra two inches. Not very fair huh?

    1. Re:Adding a spike to the top... by Joel+Carr · · Score: 3, Funny

      ..is like sticking a toothpick on my dick to gain that extra two inches. Not very fair huh?

      Well I'll take your word that that is what it is like, having never done it myself. But it has to be said, it sounds extraordinarily painful. Each to his own I guess. :-P

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  2. Re:Spires shouldn't count by POds · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nope, i've thought this myself.. Its stupid.. if i wanted, and with appropriate concil approval i could put a 508 spiral on my house and then my house would be the talest building in the world...

    Should be floor, but then you'r gunna run around with people saying "Technically, this" and "Technically that"... So theres no use in changing it now!

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  3. Re:World's tallest building? by ftvcs · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always thaught the highest building was that little shack on the mount-everest.

  4. Re:Nothing to learn? by Saeger · · Score: 3, Funny
    Haven't we learned anything of World Trade Errors?

    What? Like being too chickenshit to build taller? Lesson learned; terrorists won.

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