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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That goat could save your life one day
Its the goat, after all
Counterbalance, you shit off one side while the goat vommits off the other
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
Option B has the risk of enemy troops climbing up the poop chute though
If they climbed up the poop chute to take the castle they deserve the castle
You think that's bad? Imagine your whole family falling into the cesspit during a party
Happy anniversary to the Erfurt latrine disaster!
It has been exactly 840 years as to why we have discovered Option A was bad
There are shit-winds brewing, Randy...
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.
I turn the tide of the war but am I called tide-turner Terry?
Be quiet turd-tunneler Terry.
How do you even add that to your regimental colors? If a commemorative medal is struck, what does it look like?
$5 says it’s brown.
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]
Option B has a goat.
Option A is about job creation. The Poopsmith was an important part of the working class.
B: "THE WORLD IS MY CESSPIT"
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…
aren't there windows directly underneath it?
Erfort Noises Intensify
They really should have worn life jackets. Amateurs.
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.
I wonder if they used it as fertilizer or just dumped it somewhere.
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.
Why so high up? No backsplash?
When you're under siege, you wouldn't want someone poking your anus. Though at that time there probably were some pretty good marksmen.
Very good point.
It was a useful part of a castle's defense.
Until someone pokes your anus with a spear
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Loo stems from a French word, meaning look out below.
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.
... Because there's no spiders and centipedes in the woods?
seen vs unseen
So don’t look down.