• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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    4 months ago

    What’s the goat for?

    Honestly I’ll take being entombed in a tower over having a guard watch me poo and a goat on sentry.

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    4 months ago

    Option B seems a lot more pleasant in my opinion – just imagine trying to clean out the cesspit, or perhaps you forgot to and the castle came under siege and now it’s crawling up the fluke to the latrine

    We’re not even going to talk about the fact that in the illustration of Option A, the person in the latrine doesn’t have a way in or out and is actually walled-in stone

    This implies that the way in and out is through the cesspit

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    4 months ago

    Interestingly the one on the right is what the Blarney Stone is. But we don’t tell visitors that since they may not want to kiss it anymore…

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    Cesspits were cleaned out by tradesmen known in the UK as gongfermors using shovels and horse-drawn wagons. Cesspools were cleaned only at night, to reduce the smell and annoyance to the public. The typical cesspit was cleaned out once every 8 to 10 years.

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        4 months ago

        Not that they had health codes or even germs theory, it’s a really bad idea to use human waste as fertilizer. At least not without proper composting. Again, not really sure they would know that. I presume that any groups that tried it either realized not to do it quickly and wrote rules against it or died off.

        Fun observation. Consider how many Jewish rules have a sanitation effect. They might now have completely understood what was happening, but they could see the effects of good food inspection and regular bathing.

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    4 months ago

    Option B had invented neither safety rails nor personal space.

    Percival. My brother in Christ. Can ya fuck off for a while? Those medlars needed another week.

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    4 months ago

    Every time I see something like this, I worry about spiders and centipedes in there. I’d just hold it and go for a walk in the woods instead.