The insanity of Catalonian human towers

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This looks to be the Catalan version of Cheese Rolling. People having fun.

Anyone else reminded of In the Hills, the Cities?

(oh look, that article even mentions the Catalonian castells)

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This is what sticks out in my memory from the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. I think they made eight human towers as part of the opening ceremony, all in different colors.

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There’s even a board game about this activity. It’s quite good, too, I own it.

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Huh! And it is not an anti-Jenga (which is what I am calling a game where you would stack various people shaped pieces until they fell over). It looks more like a management game with some travel around the board to gather resources and stuff. Interesting!

(The thing I love about the BBS is how one wonderful thing in an article leads to more, sometimes related, wonderful things in the comments!)

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Came here to post this. Glad to see this game getting some love.

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Hands-on structural engineering, what’s not to like?

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“Can you identify the cause of the collapse?”

“Yes well it all went wrong when the third structural member of tier five had a sneezing fit and asked the fourth structural member to scratch his nose, leading to loss of grip and a runaway collapse.”

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First thing I thought of.

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The climber could not hear the other sneeze
The center could not hold
Things fell apart

– Yeats describing a Catalonian Human Tower collapse to an uninterested Byron’s ghost

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Yeats? Or Keats?

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Keats yeets beets and meats in the streets.

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Dammit. You’re right. I should not right anything before coffee. Fixed

Thats quite a feat.

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