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I read loads of Horrible Histories when I was little. They got a lot of mileage out of toilets.
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Reminds me of the old fencing school in I think Poland where archaeology on the latrines found an Early Modern dildo. Apparently some dude was rawing himself so hard between lessons that he accidentally dropped it.
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Oct 27, 2018 21:25
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FiftyFour posted:The flipside, from the Hanoi Women's museum. "Nixon owes us a debt of blood" its depressing that american presidents never were or will be put on trial for their crimes. and that kissinger will also die before we can put him in a guillotine
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Oct 27, 2018 22:03
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Seadraugar hate land draugar so if you're walking on the beach and a walking corpse emerges from the waves just run through a cemetery or by a barrow and the inhabitants will rise up to fight the drowned dead.
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Oct 27, 2018 22:10
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Edit: Nah, unfunny joke.
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Oct 27, 2018 22:16
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The guillotine has never seemed like a terribly practical way of liquidating a large number of people to me. I assume it's still a point of reference today for symbolic reasons. In any event, I assume that if there was a revolution tomorrow, more expeditious and efficient methods would probably be applied.
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Oct 27, 2018 22:34
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Has anyone made a 3d printer blueprint for a guillotine? That seems like it would be a thing.
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Oct 27, 2018 23:07
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System Metternich posted:
This guy assuredly told people to “suck my hairy balls” when he outbid them.
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At Fort Henry in Kingston, Ontario, which was built in the early 19th century, a german PoW escape attempt during one of the world wars (forgot which) almost succeeded by traversing the 19th-century-era latrines that empty into Lake Ontario. Also in WW1 a dude almost escaped by hiding in a grand piano.
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Wheat Loaf posted:The guillotine has never seemed like a terribly practical way of liquidating a large number of people to me. I assume it's still a point of reference today for symbolic reasons. In any event, I assume that if there was a revolution tomorrow, more expeditious and efficient methods would probably be applied. The whole point of a guillotine is it's something you use to execute your fellow revolutionaries for being too revolutionary or not quite revolutionary enough, before they get you first.
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Oct 28, 2018 01:42
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norton I posted:The whole point of a guillotine is it's something you use to execute your fellow revolutionaries for being too revolutionary or not quite revolutionary enough, before they get you first. I mean not really? It was just a more efficient killing machine than the alternatives Plus you could make it an event
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This day and age imo bring back the blunted axes
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Oct 28, 2018 03:07
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean not really? It was supposed to be more merciful and modern than having some guy hack at the victim's neck until the head came off. In Europe at least, you could get people to show up for an execution with any method, if anything they thought the guillotine was too quick to be worth watching. George Carlin has a whole long podcast about this. Condemning people to the guillotine is just the goon equivalent of hanging from lamppost / first against the wall. Because of that one meme.
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Oct 28, 2018 03:09
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pidan posted:It was supposed to be more merciful and modern than having some guy hack at the victim's neck until the head came off. In Europe at least, you could get people to show up for an execution with any method, if anything they thought the guillotine was too quick to be worth watching. George Carlin has a whole long podcast about this. I think you're thinking of the hellban.
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Oct 28, 2018 03:18
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pidan posted:George Carlin has a whole long podcast about this. I'm gonna need you to elaborate on this, because I'm wondering whether podcast technology advanced way beyond what I thought was possible.
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Oct 28, 2018 03:35
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pidan posted:It was supposed to be more merciful and modern than having some guy hack at the victim's neck until the head came off. In Europe at least, you could get people to show up for an execution with any method, if anything they thought the guillotine was too quick to be worth watching. George Carlin has a whole long podcast about this. Guillotining enemies (read: billionaires) is an excellent way to get rid of them, it's got spectacle and it's reasonably humane.
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Oct 28, 2018 03:40
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pidan posted:It was supposed to be more merciful and modern than having some guy hack at the victim's neck until the head came off. In Europe at least, you could get people to show up for an execution with any method, if anything they thought the guillotine was too quick to be worth watching. George Carlin has a whole long podcast about this. But then you would have to listen to Carlin and I can’t recommend that
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Trabant posted:I'm gonna need you to elaborate on this, because I'm wondering whether podcast technology advanced way beyond what I thought was possible. I think he means this standup bit CharlestheHammer posted:But then you would have to listen to Carlin and I can’t recommend that 
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My mistake, it's actually Dan Carlin I just looked him up and he's much younger than I thought. I pictured him as 60+ when I first heard his show ten years ago, but he's actually born in 1965. Weird.
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Oct 28, 2018 04:19
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Looks like a bad time for the person on the far right, having the blade stop halfway through. Otherwise, nice concept. The heads dropping off in sequence would add some whimsy to the occasion.
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Oct 28, 2018 05:16
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Wheat Loaf posted:The guillotine has never seemed like a terribly practical way of liquidating a large number of people to me. I assume it's still a point of reference today for symbolic reasons. In any event, I assume that if there was a revolution tomorrow, more expeditious and efficient methods would probably be applied. It's a meme for people who'd probably either faint or piss themselves at the thought of actually inflicting violence on another person. A pithy "how do you do fellow revolutionaries" for Twitter leftists, the "nothing matters why didn't you write in bernie lol" crowd, accelerationist/collaborationist morons and so on. norton I posted:The whole point of a guillotine is it's something you use to execute your fellow revolutionaries for being too revolutionary or not quite revolutionary enough, before they get you first. To elaborate: Something like 85-90% of the people killed during the Terror were of the Third Estate, eg, peasants and workers. A good portion of the nobility left France entirely beforehand, and those who stayed were the "liberal nobles" who'd started the whole revolution in the first place, and when the Law of Suspects came around most of them were just placed under house arrest or were eventually released: of the 500,000-some persons accused under the law fewer than 20,000 were executed. 1914-1918 on the other hand allegedly wiped out about a third of France's noble families.
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Oct 28, 2018 05:39
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Silmarildur posted:a bad time for ... the far right That's rather the idea, yes
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C.M. Kruger posted:It's a meme for people who'd probably either faint or piss themselves at the thought of actually inflicting violence on another person. A pithy "how do you do fellow revolutionaries" for Twitter leftists, the "nothing matters why didn't you write in bernie lol" crowd, accelerationist/collaborationist morons and so on. You have certainly owned all the 18th-century revolutionaries posting here, as well as the modern people who genuinely believe that mass guillotine executions are imminent.
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Oct 28, 2018 06:34
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Wheat Loaf posted:The guillotine has never seemed like a terribly practical way of liquidating a large number of people to me. I assume it's still a point of reference today for symbolic reasons. In any event, I assume that if there was a revolution tomorrow, more expeditious and efficient methods would probably be applied. Vasily Blokhin 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:You have certainly owned all the 18th-century revolutionaries posting here, as well as the modern people who genuinely believe that mass guillotine executions are imminent. they aren't, but they ought to be 
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Oct 28, 2018 08:48
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The guillotine was named for Joseph-Ignace Guillotin who apparently meant it as a sort of thought experiment, because at the time commoners in France were killed by hanging while the nobility got their heads whacked off. Given the quality of the hanging involved this probably seemed like the loving nobles got the better end of the deal even when they were executed. Guillotin actually hoped that some kind of universal, consistent system of execution would be a first step towards ending the practice entirely, as well as equalizing the treatment of social classes. He hated that it was named after him and requested that the French government rename the device (which, obviously, they did not). Later in life, Guillotin was an early adopter of Jenner's theories of vaccination and died of a carbuncle.
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Oct 28, 2018 09:17
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Before Joseph-Ignace Guillotin it was actually called the Halifax Gibbet.
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Alhazred posted:Before Joseph-Ignace Guillotin it was actually called the Halifax Gibbet.
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It just seems to me that something like a gas chamber or a large furnace or something would let you reduce larger numbers of your enemies in one go; with a guillotine, you need to do it one at a time. 
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Oct 28, 2018 10:13
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I know the "guillotine" smilie on SA is named "thermidor" which I understand was when the conservative factions in the French revolution turned against the radical factions and destroyed them, so I assume the name is a bit of an ironic joke.
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Oct 28, 2018 10:28
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Wheat Loaf posted:I know the "guillotine" smilie on SA is named "thermidor" which I understand was when the conservative factions in the French revolution turned against the radical factions and destroyed them, so I assume the name is a bit of an ironic joke. No, it’s related to a terrible JRPG some dude tried to plug in Games that was named “Thermidor” although it took place in another month before the revolutionary regime even changed the names.
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Oct 28, 2018 10:35
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Wheat Loaf posted:It just seems to me that something like a gas chamber or a large furnace or something would let you reduce larger numbers of your enemies in one go; with a guillotine, you need to do it one at a time. I'm really good at saying "he's just a quiet, harmless fellow" with a straight face so please don't liquidate or reduce me :( P.S my brother works with Goodwill and can help you dispose of all those tiny shoes
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:No, it’s related to a terrible JRPG some dude tried to plug in Games that was named “Thermidor” although it took place in another month before the revolutionary regime even changed the names. Which didn't involve guillotines.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:No, it’s related to a terrible JRPG some dude tried to plug in Games that was named “Thermidor” although it took place in another month before the revolutionary regime even changed the names. Christ, that was a shitshow.
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Oct 28, 2018 12:17
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C.M. Kruger posted:It's a meme for people who'd probably either faint or piss themselves at the thought of actually inflicting violence on another person. A pithy "how do you do fellow revolutionaries" for Twitter leftists, the "nothing matters why didn't you write in bernie lol" crowd, accelerationist/collaborationist morons and so on. Lol someone is insanely mad, some leftist on twitter make fun of you or something
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