• clif@lemmy.world
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    17 hours 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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      14 hours ago

      I don’t need a source to believe it. Humans are humans, and rich fucks always want to one up each other. Be it via who has the biggest rocket, mansion, boat, or, in the 12th century, tower.

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        14 hours ago

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

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            13 hours 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!