[aldo_14]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/18/hitler_san_diego/

[Rictor]

dun dun dun!

[karajorma]

It's amazing what sneaks past the architects sometimes.



Sometimes you do need a forum of juvenile people who can all post "It looks like a...."

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by karajorma
It's amazing what sneaks past the architects sometimes.



Sometimes you do need a forum of juvenile people who can all post "It looks like a...."

Where is it?

[karajorma]

That's the Smaralind shopping mall in Iceland.

 Considering how cold it is up there maybe the designers had never actually seen that part of their own bodies

[aldo_14]

Well, it's blue, so it'd be the right colour..........

[StratComm]

For the original picture, that's a perfect example of just what the intenet is good for.  Ironically, there's nothing to indicate that the building in question is newer than 1942.  SF has been a Naval hub for far longer than that, and it's quite possible that this building pre-dates WWII.

As for the second pic, no comment

[WMCoolmon]

My high school had that Nazi problem.

Of course, it was supposedly designed by prison engineers (and looked it), so maybe that had something to do with it.

[TrashMan]

Oh please spare me with the - "a curved cross! Natzi! Evil! Kill!" mindframe.

Teh svastika as a simbol has many menanings and a BLACK svastika on a WHITE circle and a RED background - that's a natzi symbol.

If it's any other color or even a tad different shape, then it's not!

[delta_7890]

Originally posted by TrashMan
Oh please spare me with the - "a curved cross! Natzi! Evil! Kill!" mindframe.

Teh svastika as a simbol has many menanings and a BLACK svastika on a WHITE circle and a RED background - that's a natzi symbol.

If it's any other color or even a tad different shape, then it's not!

Very true, but the fact remains that the symbol is synonomous with the Nazi party.  Plaster a swastika somewhere and the first thing someone will think of is, well, the Nazis, who are generally regarded as one of the most brutal and evil regimes to arise out of modern history, hence why..well..no one uses swastikas anymore.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by TrashMan
Oh please spare me with the - "a curved cross! Natzi! Evil! Kill!" mindframe.

Teh svastika as a simbol has many menanings and a BLACK svastika on a WHITE circle and a RED background - that's a natzi symbol.

If it's any other color or even a tad different shape, then it's not!

Whilst I'd welcome* an intellectual discussion on the cultural meaning of the swastika throughout time and its misappropriation by the Nazi party in the 1930-40s, i think that would be somewhat missing the point of this thread.

*Actually, I can't be arsed

[Taristin]

Originally posted by aldo_14
i think that would be somewhat missing the point of this thread.

Which is...?

[aldo_14]

Laughing (gently - chuckling even) at structural designs that inadvertantly resemble something inappropriate.

[Taristin]

Fair enough.

[mikhael]

Hey, I trained near there when I was in the navy. that's pretty funny.

[Solatar]

Originally posted by delta_7890


Very true, but the fact remains that the symbol is synonomous with the Nazi party.  Plaster a swastika somewhere and the first thing someone will think of is, well, the Nazis, who are generally regarded as one of the most brutal and evil regimes to arise out of modern history, hence why..well..no one uses swastikas anymore.

And he ruined the whole rectangle/square moustache style too...bastard...

[Bobboau]

not to mention the whole arm in the air solute. everyone used to do that, it's even how we saluted our flag untill WW2

[Goober5000]

Also keep in mind that the swastika is a flipped version of a common good-luck symbol.

[aldo_14]

*bangs head against keyboard*