• clif@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    That was actually one of the reasons I learned. The rich families wanted to show how rich they were so they built towers. Then other rich families built their own, preferably bigger, to show that they had a bigger penis more money.

    Are there any facts to back that up? I don’t know. I heard it ~25 years ago and I don’t remember the source. Though, I was in Bologna around that time so possibly from a tour or possibly from some drunk guy at a party.

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      5 days ago

      Take also meant more unstable, so there was a component of an engineering challenge.

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        9 days ago

        Or horse. I wonder what the 12th century equivalent of a modified tailpipe was?

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            9 days ago

            Those are words I’ve never seen, thanks. I guess I can see that, imagine some smelly poor showing up on a nag in a burlap caparison then some medieval influencer on a Percheron with a purple silk caparison pulls up alongside? All the fair maidens faint right there!