• @[email protected]
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    194 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.

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      194 months ago

      That goat could save your life one day

  • @[email protected]
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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

        • @mrunicornman
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          74 months ago

          Happy anniversary to the Erfurt latrine disaster!

      • @PassingThrough
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        114 months ago

        That’s…

        On the one hand, you get to be the guy that let everyone in and ensured victory. Couldn’t have done it without ya.

        On the other, you crawled through shit to do it. You’re now forever the battalion’s shit crawler, and probably smell like it even when you don’t.

        You’d be both celebrated and ridiculed til the end of your days.

        • @quinkin
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          154 months ago

          I turn the tide of the war but am I called tide-turner Terry?

          Be quiet turd-tunneler Terry.

        • @Rolando
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          64 months ago

          How do you even add that to your regimental colors? If a commemorative medal is struck, what does it look like?

      • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
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        34 months ago

        History in the making:

        It is likely that the humiliation of Château Gaillard played a part in the decision of English barons to challenge King John. That in turn led to one of the most important events in English history: the sealing of Magna Carta.[1]

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months ago

      Option A is about job creation. The Poopsmith was an important part of the working class.

  • @Cosmos7349
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    114 months ago

    B: “THE WORLD IS MY CESSPIT”

  • @TBi
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    94 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…

    • @_lilith
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      24 months ago

      aren’t there windows directly underneath it?

    • @ladicius
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      44 months ago

      They really should have worn life jackets. Amateurs.

  • @JakJak98
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    64 months ago

    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.

    • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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      34 months ago

      I wonder if they used it as fertilizer or just dumped it somewhere.

      • @Duamerthrax
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        24 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.

  • @Etterra
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    34 months ago

    It was a useful part of a castle’s defense.

    • @TwoBeeSan
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      44 months ago

      Until someone pokes your anus with a spear

      • @Agent641
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        24 months ago

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  • @badbytes
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    24 months ago

    Loo stems from a French word, meaning look out below.

  • @clearedtoland
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    24 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.