# The Kuznetsova dolls building **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754 "2017-03-22T13:29:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/1 "2017-03-22T13:29:55Z")
So Jared Kushner wants to prove his is just as big as his FIL’s… have a glass dildo, New York! [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kushner-skyscraper-glass-penis\_us\_58d22b6de4b0b22b0d181a9b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kushner-skyscraper-glass-penis_us_58d22b6de4b0b22b0d181a9b?ncid=inblnkushpmg0000000) EFFING AUTOCORRECT… that is supposed to be “Kushner dildo building.” ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/2 "2017-03-22T13:58:31Z")
All skyscrapers look dreary. I daresay the Empire State was denounced as phallic when it emerged from the ooze. And in London there’s a ghastly ‘**[Gherkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe)**’; what does that say about it’s ridiculous architect, Norman Foster ? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/3 "2017-03-22T14:04:02Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > EFFING AUTOCORRECT… that is supposed to be “Kushner dildo building.” What’s the make and model of your device that autocorrects “Kushner dildo” to “Kuznetsova dolls”? I either want to avoid it or buy one for the lolz 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/4 "2017-03-22T14:15:44Z")
It really is sort of a stereotypical canard (redundant much?) that a young lady would marry a man with similar qualities as her father. In this case it’s a need for displaying ostentatious erections. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/5 "2017-03-22T14:27:35Z")
Okay, "**Kuznetsova dolls" brings up [some creepy-ass google images](https://www.google.com/search?q=Kuznetsova+dolls&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiioIu-qOrSAhVI0oMKHYY9BvgQsAQIGw&biw=1280&bih=627).** ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/6 "2017-03-22T14:57:50Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > What’s the make and model of your device that autocorrects “Kushner dildo” to “Kuznetsova dolls”? I either want to avoid it or buy one for the lolz 😃 SwiftKey on a Samsung tablet. I’ve used Swype on my Note II for years and with a little bit of mutual training I became very fast and fluid on the glass, with only rare instances of having to correct more than one or two things in a message. I have battled and battled keyboards on the new tablet - not only is the accuracy abysmal, but the logic defies logic, and once the prediction chooses a word set, it’s impossible to back up to something correct except through total erasure. And then, if I’m not paying attention, when I move to the next line, it will apply its own corrections even though I okayed the “wrong” words one by one. And the predictions! It’s like a really obscure Word-A-Day calendar for philologists. I get words I haven’t seen in decades, so obscure I can’t believe they’re in a modern-mobile dictionary and ridiculous for coming to the top in the predictions. (Although having it suggest “vodka” when I swiped “blackout” makes a certain sense.) Didn’t see that ridiculous corrected subject until I’d posted. But it wasn’t that while I was composing the post, either. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/7 "2017-03-22T15:10:26Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > And in London there’s a ghastly ‘**[Gherkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe)**’; what does that say about it’s ridiculous architect, Norman Foster ? What’s wrong with the Gherkin? I think it’s quite a nice building. Elegant even. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/8 "2017-03-22T15:14:11Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#): > > And in London there’s a ghastly ‘**[Gherkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_St_Mary_Axe)**’; what does that say about it’s ridiculous architect, Norman Foster ? About Foster, I don’t know, but as I first said when I heard the nickname “you Brits are So Polite!” [Its cousin in Barcelona](https://www.google.es/search?q=torre+agbar&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivw__9surSAhWK6YMKHbPIB60Q_AUICCgB&biw=1366&bih=638) is known as the suppository. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/9 "2017-03-22T15:19:39Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Okay, "**Kuznetsova dolls" brings up [some creepy-ass google images](https://www.google.com/search?q=Kuznetsova+dolls&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiioIu-qOrSAhVI0oMKHYY9BvgQsAQIGw&biw=1280&bih=627).** Which completely explains why SwiftKey jumped right to those terms. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/10 "2017-03-22T15:25:55Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > [Its cousin in Barcelona](https://www.google.es/search?q=torre+agbar&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivw__9surSAhWK6YMKHbPIB60Q_AUICCgB&biw=1366&bih=638) is known as the suppository. There’s a smaller version in Vigo, Spain, too. I saw all three on a trip a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/11 "2017-03-22T15:30:27Z")
Eh, I didn’t get “dildo” out of it. Between the change in visual texture halfway up, it looked to me more like a short lightsaber or a giant egg whisk. I mean, I get it: long cylindrical object = phallic but it doesn’t jump out like that to me. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/12 "2017-03-22T15:34:43Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > About Foster, I don’t know, but as I first said when I heard the nickname “you Brits are So Polite!” > > [Its cousin in Barcelona](https://www.google.es/search?q=torre+agbar&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivw__9surSAhWK6YMKHbPIB60Q_AUICCgB&biw=1366&bih=638) is known as the suppository. I don’t like that one so much - it’s a bit more organic a shape, and that does look weird to me - but that’s probably just lack of familiarity. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/13 "2017-03-22T15:36:52Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Eh, I didn’t get “dildo” out of it. Between the change in visual texture halfway up, it looked to me more like a short lightsaber or a giant egg whisk. > > I mean, I get it: long cylindrical object = phallic but it doesn’t jump out like that to me. Every skyscraper can be interpreted as a phallic symbol. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar though. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/14 "2017-03-22T16:05:47Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Eh, I didn’t get “dildo” out of it. Between the change in visual texture halfway up, it looked to me more like a short lightsaber or a giant egg whisk. > > I mean, I get it: long cylindrical object = phallic but it doesn’t jump out like that to me. It’s the most dildo-looking building I think I’ve ever seen. All the more it needs is pink glass and periodic steam releases from its tip. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/15 "2017-03-22T16:30:25Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > Every skyscraper can be interpreted as a phallic symbol. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar though. Yeah, there is a finite number of practical, useful shapes for “tall building with small footprint” (including “[paperclip]([Oiio imagines The Big Bend skyscraper for New York as "the longest building in the world"](https://www.dezeen.com/2017/03/16/oiio-imagines-big-bend-skyscraper-new-york-longest-building-in-the-) world/).”) Lots of especially tall, skinny buildings in [the works or already completed](http://skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/TEN_TOPS/slender.php) (some more rounded, some more blocky.) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/16 "2017-03-22T16:33:10Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yeah, there is a finite number of practical, useful shapes for “tall building with small footprint” (including “[paperclip](https://www.dezeen.com/2017/03/16/oiio-imagines-big-bend-skyscraper-new-york-longest-building-in-the-world/).”) Lots of especially tall, skinny buildings in [the works or already completed](http://skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/TEN_TOPS/slender.php) (some more rounded, some more blocky.) And the proportionately tall, cylindrical building style that tapers from the base and has a rounded or conical tip is inescapably phallic, whereas even the new FU building - 660 Riverside or whatever that giant middle finger is - slim, square-edged, flat-topped… is not. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/17 "2017-03-22T16:45:28Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yeah, there is a finite number of practical, useful shapes for “tall building with small footprint” (including “[paperclip]([Oiio imagines The Big Bend skyscraper for New York as "the longest building in the world"](https://www.dezeen.com/2017/03/16/oiio-imagines-big-bend-skyscraper-new-york-longest-building-in-the-) world/).”) That paperclip is neat, but isn’t it a big waste of space? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/18 "2017-03-22T16:50:13Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yeah, there is a finite number of practical, useful shapes for “tall building with small footprint” (including “[paperclip]([Oiio imagines The Big Bend skyscraper for New York as "the longest building in the world"](https://www.dezeen.com/2017/03/16/oiio-imagines-big-bend-skyscraper-new-york-longest-building-in-the-) world/).”) > [@Okrahoma](#): > > That paperclip is neat, but isn’t it a big waste of space? Gives it room to be bent into many different configurations. ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/19 "2017-03-22T18:54:55Z")
Shoot, I was hoping it was like a Matryoshka Dolls building where, when the building eventually fell down, you’d find a smaller building inside of it. And then, inside of that one there’s a smaller building and so on until, finally, there’s just a little Pup’n’Taco or something. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754/20 "2017-03-22T19:09:44Z")
Ivanka should erect a building that looks like [this](http://cdn4.gurl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/boob-tanks.jpg). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-kuznetsova-dolls-building/782754.md?page=2)