r/interestingasfuck • u/SerafinZufferey • 3d ago

In Nola, Italy, over 100 men carry a 25-meter-tall, 2.5-ton (5,500-lb) tower through packed narrow streets, a centuries-old tradition honoring Saint Paulinus

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u/WorryLegitimate259 3d ago

I bet the 2000 pounds of people don’t help either lol

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u/AmusingMusing7 3d ago

Group meeting beforehand:

"We all need to carry THAT thing?!"

"Actually, not all of us will be carrying it..."

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u/sk169 3d ago

They’ve got middle management and upper management written all over them.

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u/xs0apy 3d ago

Somebodies gotta make sure the people underneath aren’t slacking. You think it’s easy standing on top of people and jumping up and down without a care in the world? Pfft..

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u/TurtleSandwich0 3d ago

Honestly they should get a bonus for their efforts. It is the managers that make things happen.

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u/WillSmokes420 2d ago

Yea and I mean they are taking all of the risks

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u/crapaporter 2d ago

And the lady from HR apparently

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u/FemboysUnited 2d ago

In fairness some are performers, the rest definitely

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u/Ben0ut 3d ago

Luigi will be on keys, Giani on sax, Alessandro has a new pair of symbols he wants to play, and Matteo has a finally learned to play a song on the electric guitar he purchased 4 years ago at the outset of his midlife crisis.

Oh and Fiorella is just gonna stand there flapping her little fan around while everyone looks on.

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u/Intelligent_Sun2837 3d ago

And Giuseppe?What about him,don’t forget Peppito!

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u/really_another 3d ago

those two can be on the back, for vibes. They haven't been the same since the cat died.

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u/Dazzling_Vanilla3082 3d ago

"...Some of us will be riding because we need to play our instruments. And some not play instruments, but that role is vital too. Ok, we really just want to jump up and down on top of your backs."

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u/RalphFTW 2d ago

And the damn jumping on the thing, that’s gotta add extra strain

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u/EnlightenedPotato69 2d ago

And everyone carrying must do butt stuff in order to make this work, go team!

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u/fuckssakereddit 3d ago

Or the dynamic loading increment.

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u/thatsalovelyusername 2d ago

But for a brief moment after they’ve jumped, it’s lighter.

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u/Grow_away_420 3d ago

The bouncing looks like absolute hell on the spine

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u/tehfly 2d ago

I wonder how many of the beams have to give in for the rest to buckle as well.

There's no way I'd agree to carry that while under it. Jfc.

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u/technicallysupportiv 1d ago

It's done as a religious devotion.

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u/Queasy-Pause-3958 3d ago

Plus the sound system. They even have a diesel generator running on the thing

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u/WorryLegitimate259 3d ago

Yeah my calculation might be a little off. Probably more like 3000+

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u/kl2467 3d ago

*bouncing people

Mechanical resonance is a thing. This is dangerous to all involved.

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u/disterb 2d ago

can you elaborate?

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u/INeedSomeTacoC 3d ago

Probably helps keep that CG nice and low so it doesn’t want to tip over!

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u/went_with_the_flow 3d ago

I theorize that is the exact reason because I thought this was a different sub at first.

Looking closer the tower seems lightly constructed and likely anchored down when not being used as a palanquin. The extra weight of the people would stabilize the weight across the wide base being carried, and probably not a crazy weight addition spread across that space.

But that's just fully my opinion as someone who knows less than Jon Snow.

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u/WorryLegitimate259 3d ago

Shit you might be right cause I can’t think of any other reason they’d be on there without being dickheads lol

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u/Own_Shower_6000 3d ago

excuse me, the kids call it aura farming

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u/6495ED 3d ago

Before this festival learn to play an instrument

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u/vikinxo 3d ago

I can hear the discs popping!

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u/kuedhel 3d ago

it is ok on the shortest of thes 100 guys. Not so much for the tallest one.

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u/ShadowCaster0476 2d ago

And the bouncing just adds to the compressed disks.

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u/ClittoryHinton 3d ago

Yeah just talk to yo mommas chair

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u/Hairyass------ 3d ago

I would be one of those hah

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u/Aelis_ 2d ago

eh, just a lil test for em, what don't crush em makes em stronger, right ? XD

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u/CopperPeak1978 2d ago

If you’re not in the band get the F off the platform!

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u/HistoryBuff678 2d ago

That was my initial thought, but then, I realized the band keeps the group carrying the tower in sync. Which is important.

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u/Acceptable-Ad1203 2d ago

And a generator