I swear I'm not even searching for this stuff. Everything is coming up penis these days. The larger story? Too many people have dirty minds...and too much time to put pen to paper to complain about perceived phalluses.
Or do I just have too much time on my hands that I'm blogging about them?
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and two beholders – one of them a government agency's architect – have very different views of a 40-story residential tower proposed at a gateway to downtown San Diego. Sandor Shapery says his design is like a flower. A consultant to the Centre City Development Corp. says it looks like a giant phallus.
The Shapery proposal, a 160-unit hotel and condominium tower, was supposed to go before the downtown redevelopment agency for initial feedback this month. But the developer asked for a postponement, saying he will “revisit” and perhaps “tone down” the design because he doesn't want to offend anyone. Shapery, however, said he disagrees with the criticism. He said he wanted to create an “organic form,” which is how flower petals came to mind. “If it looks like a phallic symbol, someone has a strange perception,” said Shapery, a San Diego-based developer. “You can find sex anywhere if you want to. . . . There's just some sick people out there.”
Gwynne Pugh, a Santa Monica architect hired by the downtown redevelopment agency to review building designs, has questioned whether the design is right for the city...
“With its rounded forms and swelling of the uppermost floors . . . this building structure is very phallic,” Pugh wrote in his critique of the project...Some downtown residents seem to agree with Pugh. At one public meeting on the design, comments from the audience included “appalled” and “too iconic.”
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These people need to get lives.
Having said that, please post more phallus stories. They make me humorusly sad for our country.
imagine any other nation spending time on these complaints!
There has got to be something weird in that west coast water!
What was that old phrase, "Those who do it least, talk about it the most". Perhaps they just need to get shagged?
Strange.
Paint a painting with a giant pair of breasts, and people call it art.
But make one building or road barrier look even remotely phallic, and everyone gets up at arms.
What? You can gawk at softcore porn all day on TV, but you can't handle 60 stories of manhood? Get real, folks.
That's all I read on the Internet every freaking day: 60 stories about bandhood.
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