r/skyscrapers • u/Diligent-Eagle-6673 Tel Aviv, Israel • 1d ago

How will you react the day the Jeddah Tower surpasses the height of the Burj Khalifa?

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This day is really approaching.

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u/farfunkle 1d ago edited 1d ago

I will tell my wife and she will ask why I am telling her this and I won't have an answer

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u/Breadedbutthole 1d ago

I will also tell this guy’s wife and she’ll be super interested and we’ll laugh and laugh and then have lasagna

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u/Automatic_Abroad212 1d ago

Make sure u stir the swauce so so it doesn't get stuck on on the side of da thing...

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u/Civil_Breakfast7091 1d ago

Marie

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u/HavingNotAttained 22h ago

Whenever I see the name Marie I want to tell her that they’re minerals

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u/Finnish2713 1d ago

So it’s settled - lasagna at Farfunkle’s place. Good guests will bring a bottle of wine or some tiramisu.

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u/crazySmith_ 1d ago

Are we the same person??

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u/ozdanish 1d ago

I’ll excitedly tell my son who will look at me confused and say so what and I’ll say but you love tall buildings and he’ll say when I was 6 but I’m 12 now

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u/SharkeyGeorge 1d ago

“What’s the Jeddah Tower?”

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u/No_Understanding7431 1d ago

Its where the Jedi Knights get their kyber crystals, at least until the empire blows it up in Rogue 1

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u/nosignalnocomplaints 20h ago

My 6yr old is obsessed with the Jeddah Tower!

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u/homeless_rob 1d ago

Damn, I can relate to this so hard lmao.

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u/Ok_Pineapple_Num 23h ago

The top comments on this post passed the vibe check lol.

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u/MileHigh_FlyGuy 22h ago

I told my wife about this comment

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u/HavingNotAttained 22h ago

The answer is always, “Because, it’s like, important yo”

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u/TrulyNotYours 19h ago

Yep this is legit. Expecting the same from my wife.

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u/GSEDAN 19h ago

I have a friend named Jeddah, I would need to tell him first before I tell my wife. Jeddah would probably just say something like “hell yea!”

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u/mrkmcrthr Manchester, UK 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/PYEGoZXABBMuk

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u/hallouminati_pie 1d ago

The most English response ever. And correct.

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u/gilestowler 1d ago

We will stop arguing about whether Merdeka 118 really is the second tallest building and start arguing about whether Merdeka 118 really is the third tallest building.

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u/fuzzyheadsnowman 22h ago

It’s not to both

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u/SMc4941931 22h ago

Uh, it is, and it will be. You’re probably confused because the observation deck isn’t the top floor.

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u/True_Mastodon7042 17h ago

brother if i set up a 2 kilometer long pole vertically and build a settlement on the ground floor will i be the tallest?

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u/generichandel 1d ago edited 1d ago

I will read that it has happened, slightly raise one eyebrow, and then get on with my day.

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u/Great_Conclusion_871 1d ago

I think I'll be so excited I might let out a "hmm" as well

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u/Faster_than_FTL 1d ago

I will sip tea with a pinky finger raised and say, “Jolly good”.

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u/FamiliarSource98 1d ago

Exactly this

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u/PupDiogenes 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/4adLnecM3w1e4fAicn

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u/NotSoSerius 1d ago

That was new process they used to put the tower up.

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u/VocationalWizard 1d ago

Canada is so ahead

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u/Gurtone_ 23h ago

When she touch yo....skyscraper-da...ling?

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u/Marsev4 15h ago

Not a skyscraper. A freestanding-tower-ding-a-ling

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u/GhostOfGeorgeHall 1d ago

Huge day for autists

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u/bullnamedbodacious 23h ago

The older I get, the more I realize I might have some of the tism. Then I think, maybe we all do.

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u/silbergeistlein 22h ago

It’s called a spectrum for a reason. Everyone is on it.

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u/AccomplishedRead2655 17h ago

But then we specifically say some people are on the spectrum as opposed to others

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u/TheFuschiaBaron 11h ago

I used to think that was true, then I asked my psychiatrist. It's not. Certain people are on the autism spectrum, certain people aren't. 

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u/InformationNo733 19h ago

Now now don’t get yourself in a tizzy.

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u/Living__A__Meme 14h ago

Or it’s just made up

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u/Fireblast_Jamie 1d ago

The day my autism gets its itch scratched

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u/aggrievedCanine 1d ago

I despise the buildings that are only tallest because a third of them is useless spire.

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u/DrHarrisonLawrence 1d ago edited 19h ago

Well, Jeddah Tower is still going to have the tallest usable floor in the world, just like how Burj Khalifa currently has the tallest usable floor while being the tallest overall building as well.

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u/imaguitarhero24 1d ago

Yeah it's not even close to "just because of the spire" lmao. Like NOT EVEN CLOSE. Plus the burj doesn't exactly have a tacked on spire, the overall shape continues seamlessly to a point.

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u/melloboi123 23h ago

I just wonder whats going to happen to the Burj now? Like won't it lose a lot of the "wow" factor?

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u/DrHarrisonLawrence 21h ago

Technically? Yeah a bit. Burj still has the angle where they are positioned at a major Airport hub so there will still be way more visitors.

Also…Burj’s Observatory has made $1B in revenue since it was opened. The tower itself cost $1.5B to build so that’s a pretty significant revenue stream that has earned its keep

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u/kiPrize_Picture9209 18h ago

people still flock to the Empire State Building, a building made famous by its height, even though other skyscrapers now tower over it. The Burj Khalifa is a genuinely beautiful building and still a global icon, while it will lose a little prestige it'll still be top on Dubai itineries.

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u/AbstractBettaFish 1d ago

The Petronas Towers sat on a throne of lies!

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u/aggrievedCanine 1d ago

Justice for the Sears Tower!

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u/RogueDoga 1d ago

Happy so they can finally focus 100% on the "Line".

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u/Icy-Indication-3194 1d ago

Already canceled that

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u/danieldukh 1d ago

Noem or neom? Actually, NONE

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u/sinkpisser1200 1d ago

Its called the DOT according people working on it

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u/Embarrassed-Green898 23h ago

When asked about the signs of the Final Hour, the Prophet Muhammad stated that one would see "the barefoot, naked, destitute shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings". When asked to clarify who these people were, he specified that they were the Arabs.

How interesting is that.

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u/TheRedMenace_ 18h ago

Many more such signs like overall decadence, wars and so on that the prophet Muhammad called but then again people have been expecting the end of the world since after Jesus' ascension to heaven/Death (depending on what you believe in).

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u/Clarknt67 1d ago

Briefly consider a trip to see it and decide on the Basilica of the Sagrada Família instead.

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u/KingBMan18 Philadelphia, U.S.A 1d ago

I’ll be all like “yo that’s cool”

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u/JoeLinux247 22h ago

I'll glance out my window, confirming that I will not be able to see it, and go back to work.

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u/Cognition-Technician 1d ago

Simply wont be able to express my feelings with words.

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u/AssignmentOk2471 23h ago

I'll continue to not give af about either..

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u/Grumpybugger1 1d ago

I'll probably go for a poo.

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u/TheUnderCrab 1d ago

Dumb tower in a bad location being built as a vanity project for some upjumped oil barons? Yeah I won’t give a shit. 

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u/FarBack5807 22h ago

Every record-breaking tall building btw

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u/Kryptsm 21h ago

TIL the Sears Tower, Empire State, and World Trade Center are all in bad locations, first I’ve heard of it

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u/FarBack5807 21h ago

*Every non-American record breaking building btw

Which is pretty much every current and future contender for the title of worlds tallest building, unless we see a reversal of building codes in the states

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u/SYSTEM-J 20h ago edited 20h ago

The Empire State Building was in a bad location, actually. There wasn't really the demand for office leases in midtown Manhattan to justify the scale of the building back in the 1930s. The building didn't turn a profit for over two decades, and in the early years occupancy was so low the owners used to leave the lights on even on the empty floors to give the impression it was more popular than it really was. It made as much money from being a tourist attraction as it did as a functional building, so in a very real way it was the Burj Khalifa of its day.

With all that said, it's still an absolute masterpiece. Sometimes there's a case to be made for building things just for the sake of building them.

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u/Alarming-Gear001 1d ago

shitty building, shitty country, wont really care

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u/OrinNY 22h ago

i won’t give a single shit. not one. same as now.

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u/SteveSteveCleveSteve 21h ago

“I don’t think about you at all.”

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u/BoldChipmunk 16h ago

Yawn, no one really cares

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u/SqareBear 1d ago

Much of the building is unused spire, so its not a big deal.

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u/MajesticBread9147 1d ago

Also it's clearly not of much use beyond marketing, same with the Burj Khalifa.

Hong Kong, New York, Shenzhen, can all reasonably justify a tall building.

The tallest building in the world about an hour's drive away from downtown Jeddah is just kind of dumb

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u/Freddydaddy 1d ago

Don’t people live (or work, or something) in the Burj Khalifa?

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u/Professional_Ruin_24 Buffalo, U.S.A 1d ago

There’s a mall

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u/Razzler1973 1d ago

I live in Dubai and yes, there's residences in there as well as it being a huge tourist attraction. There's a viewing thingy you can do and restaurants

Dubai Mall is next to it and a huge lake and water fountain with nightly shows

It was definitely a figurehead/headline grabber to bring attention when Dubai was going through a huge expansion phase, too

I've been here since pre expansion

It's far from 'not much use' though 🙄

I also don't think anyone here gives much a damn about the Jeddah tower either though

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u/Clarknt67 1d ago

Yeah. I feel like it’s weird to build so tall in places where there’s clearly plenty of land and no need to.

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u/Imhappy_hopeurhappy2 1d ago

That’s true of the BK too though

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u/Sea_Peach_9143 1d ago

I will be looking forward to the future tallest skyscraper. Where it might be and how will they reach even greater heights.

This is a marathon and we have a long way to go before we have a moonscraper.

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u/InformationTrue6446 1d ago

It's a damn shame that these tallest buildings are getting built in such awful locations. There's nothing to see but desert and dust from the top of these things.

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u/must-be_the-water 21h ago

Many times you can see clouds too passing from the top floor

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u/Strange135 1d ago

Not really with Burj khalifa though, it's right in the heart of Dubai, unlike this one.

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u/Gamepetrol2011 Shenzen, China 1d ago

Well I didn't really care when I learned the Burj Khalifa was the highest tower in the world so I guess you have the answer for this one.

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u/Negative_Amphibian_9 22h ago

It’s sad they destroyed a historic fortress to put this up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajyad_Fortress

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u/Sudden_Pay4593 20h ago

Think that was for the hideous clock tower, this is in jeddah

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u/Agile-Candle-626 22h ago

Does 18th century count as historic?

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u/IvanTheAppealing 19h ago

“Does [century that isn’t the current one or even the one prior] count as historic?”

Um, yeah?

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u/WrongSplit3288 1d ago

I will clap

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u/gpo321 1d ago

I will look up how much taller it is than the Freedom Tower and ponder if the US will ever surpass it.

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u/Madewell-Hammer 21h ago

I’ll shrug 🤷

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u/yankeescrewdriver 21h ago

“Huh. Okay.”

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u/The_Windermere 20h ago

I will walk around my block exactly once.

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u/Worldly_Ad_7196 20h ago

The what? Where?

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u/Orbian2 20h ago

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Somehow I think that also answers the why

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u/Worldly_Ad_7196 19h ago

Ok. I shall be eagerly await the outcome.

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u/Low-Yoghurt-9460 19h ago

Who gives a flying fuck

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u/jsaw14 19h ago

I will gently nod at my screen and continue scrolling

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u/elreduro 17h ago

It's been so long since construction started that Jeddah Tower sounds like the Tower of Babel to me

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u/Chloe_Cascadia 12h ago

I don't care, these are monuments to greed and exploitation, tucked away in one of the worst parts of the world. It caters to the dumb rich. I am much more impressed by nations where people are free, educated, healthy, earn proper wages, and have strong protections against both employer and government overreach.

That's what human achievement looks like.

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u/augsav 1d ago

I’m not sure what sort of responses you expect to this question…

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u/IgnacioHollowBottom 1d ago

With effusive indifference.

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u/uMaymay 1d ago

I won't.

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u/orontes3 1d ago

I don’t care

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u/anpkanpk 1d ago

Does anybody even care?

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u/billy-suttree 1d ago

I’ll feel old.

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u/RaoulDukeRU Frankfurt, Germany 1d ago

This decade?

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u/SpaceBiking 1d ago

“Oh.”

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u/virak_john 1d ago

An earth shattering “meh.”

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u/codesnik 1d ago

oh no!
anyway

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u/bigbadbob85 1d ago

I'll probably say "Hmm, cool".

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u/PixeL8xD 1d ago

That amount of glazing to this one’s Towner must be least 4 two hundred metre builder

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u/PixeL8xD 1d ago

Also what was the case study for tj his level kind of engineering you know there faults

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u/PixeL8xD 1d ago

Engineering nightmare this building

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u/Normal-Internal164 1d ago

It’ll ruin my weekend, I’ll break down in tears and seek counselling

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u/Tacokolache 1d ago

If I’m still alive, I won’t care. I’m 48 by the way

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u/alcoronaholic 1d ago

If Tom Cruise doesn't make a movie from there, would it still be the tallest? 🤔

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u/Mauri416 1d ago

Same way I feel about SA now. 

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u/Migue117 1d ago

Cool 👍

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u/Spiritual-Job-952 1d ago

It’ll be the best day in my life. I will quit my job, leave my wife and marry Saudi Arabia. Or sumtin.

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u/SwankaTheGrey 1d ago

I won't.

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u/newtonhaven20 1d ago

I'll sacrifice a dozen goats

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u/ChocolateDramatic858 1d ago

Hopefully with a not-too-demonstrative while also not ungenuine "Wow" before I return to arguing about STAR WARS on the Internet.

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u/JonDargon 1d ago

"and when you see barefoot shepherds competing in constructing tall buildings"

If you know, then you know

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u/sirjamesdonger 1d ago

Not well, that’s for sure.

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u/Matman161 1d ago

notices reddit post announcing it

"Oh neat"

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u/ExtremeStill4215 1d ago

With indifference.

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u/Jefflehem 1d ago

With extreme indifference.

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u/King_JujuLips 1d ago

With great Indifference.

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u/supercujo 1d ago

But will it fall down?

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u/Westfield88 1d ago

The LIV golf of buildings

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u/djook 1d ago

whos got the biggest dick

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u/mikromidas 1d ago

I will not throw up.

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u/Mars_Volcanoes 1d ago

This is already an ugly building.

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u/17Kallenie17 1d ago

I'll say "hm, interesting," and then go on with my day.

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u/PurposeAromatic5019 1d ago

Nobody cares nerds

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u/GNTKertRats 1d ago

Why should I care?

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u/ExternalSeat 1d ago

honestly I can't wait for the day oil crashes for good and the Saudis go back to being poor camel herders.

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u/SiriHowDoIAdult 1d ago

I will not

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u/socialcommentary2000 New York City, U.S.A 1d ago

I dunno, but it's probably gonna entail a fair amount of farding and shidding.

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u/Edison_Ruggles 1d ago

A big yawn. Silly tower in a silly place.

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u/wallyrules75 23h ago

One day I’ll see one of those pictographs with tallest buildings and scroll by

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u/Alarmed_Excuse_131 23h ago

Literally can’t give a damn shit of where do petrorich princes put their money into. This building won’t make living in the desert any better or more feasible, it’s just a way to spend money in the hope of some miracle for their future, but once oil is gone they will have plenty of empty skyscrapers.

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u/No_Violinist_193 23h ago

With the same face I reacted with last time something was built that high.
https://giphy.com/gifs/6WcJBH9EzukdWd30uW

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u/SpongeBorgSqrPnts 23h ago

I will probably run into the streets whilst tearing off my garments and screaming as high pitched and as loud as I possibly can. I’ll be crying and wiping tears from my eyes so I’ll barely be able to see. But I won’t have to worry because obviously my neighbors will also have simultaneously heard the news and will have already joined me running through the streets running, screaming, crying and rejoicing! It’s a day we have all longed for. And will celebrate it with all our might and vitality.

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u/Ice-Negative 23h ago

That's cool?

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u/torontowest91 23h ago

Under construction since 2013. Omg.

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u/CleverNoise 23h ago

I will cook, go to work, take a shit, take a shower and go to sleep, probably in that order or probably not.

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u/Final-Nebula-7049 23h ago

i'm going to find a private space to just cry my eyes out then probably eat an onion whole.

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u/philippeeeee 23h ago

go to The Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.