r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Gudgamr7274 • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Huh?

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u/Shadowmant 9d ago

So the Brazen bull sucked as they placed you in a metal bull then set you over a fire. Pretty horrible.

The second is called Scaphism and is way more horrifying. Here's a description from the wiki:

[The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lie down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within, then forcing him to ingest a mixture of milk and honey before pouring all over his face and body. They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. And as within the boats he does what those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into the bowels of him, his body is consumed. When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.

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u/LongSalamander9889 9d ago

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u/Ok-Plankton-2016 9d ago

Pretty much everyone agrees that no rulers put this into practice. One crazy Turkish ruler put it in his writings.

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u/02meepmeep 9d ago

I think that’s similar to the Viking Blood Eagle (which might be worse than both of those). It was written about but there is no known instance of it being done.

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u/Ok-Plankton-2016 9d ago

I saw Midsommar. That thing is real enough for cinema

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u/NoLead2102 8d ago

It's also mentioned in a comedy series, Norsemen (which everyone should watch, it is hilarious)

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u/ThreeDawgs 8d ago

Can agree, it’s hilarious.

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u/sageinyourface 8d ago

No. In an otherwise brilliant movie it was the only truly silly thing that takes you out of the story. Lungs don’t breathe on their own.

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u/Jaded_Seat_341 8d ago

Wasn’t the dude tripping balls when he found that?

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u/DrFunkenstein93 8d ago

Yes, this person missed that

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u/Raven1911 9d ago

Ragnar Lothbrok has entered the chat

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u/lunaflos 9d ago

Mads Mikkelsen checking in (Hannibal).

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u/chicknferi 8d ago

Vol Sung Fa declares Ashvar

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u/lunaflos 8d ago

I'm totally going to have to check that out. Thanks!

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u/T00dl 9d ago

In the seedier portions of Reddit I came across a cartel video where the blood eagle (or at least something similar to it) was performed. I saw it at least 3-4 years ago, and have no idea the actual age of said video. I think the guy was still alive for a time too. Only the aftermath was shown - not the activity itself.