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Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

Fartbox posted:

I did some googlin on medieval torture and boy howdy did we like to destroy eachother back then. Reminds me of ISIS and how they basically torture and kill people in new inventive ways for seemingly no other reason than because they can

Society breaking down = apparently we turn to ultraviolence for our primary means of entertainment

Like half those devices were made up centuries later to make Catholics look bad. The ones that weren't though...

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Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

I'm not the king's favorite. You don't know what you're talking about. Look, just because he made me the Treasurer, Chancellor, and Captain of Guard doesn't mean I'm loving him. That's gross man. He gave me the queen's jewels because he respects me. Look, just let it go and I'll let you borrow Ireland when I'm done with it. Anyway, I gotta go, I hear he's giving me another duchy today.

*gets murdered*

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

marijuanamancer posted:

Your cannabis is really bad, cannabis you are growing at this time won't be worth much more than using for rope btw

Tell that to the Hashishin.

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

marijuanamancer posted:

Yeah they actually put effort in to concentrate the thc, this guy is just growing and smoking it

Eh, you'll still get high if you just smoke enough. Just make a gravity bong out of a pig's bladder and an old bagpipe and take it down to yonder mill pond.

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

Oh poo poo, the plague is back! Better kill all the cats and Jews.

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Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

That Robot posted:

I hadn't heard that some were created later; can you elaborate please?

The iron maiden and "pear of anguish" are both probably fake. There were a couple others, but I'm forgetting them now. There was sort of a vogue in Protestant countries for fantastical depictions of the barbarity of the Inquisition and Catholic monarchs during the early modern period and historians think a lot of these devices were likely made up then.

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