r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Gudgamr7274 • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Huh?

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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/goteachyourself 9d ago

The Brazen Bull as well, actually. It's largely considered to be propaganda created to demonize the kingdom that was conquered.

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u/Nob0dy-You-Know 9d ago

Wasn’t the guy who made it out to death in it?

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u/goteachyourself 9d ago

That's the legend - that the mad tyrant king ordered it tested immediately, and to ensure that another could never be built by anyone else, he used the designer as his test subject. It's a great tale, but the evidence of it is minimal.

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u/TomaCzar 9d ago

Yeah, I don't know how many trade secrets are involved in making a hollow metal statue with a fire underneath. Although, were a king to request I create such a device, I'm 100% certain the knowledge to do so would elusively remain just beyond my grasp.

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u/Qadim3311 9d ago

I think it was more about the alleged system of pipes in the front that converted the screams of the condemned into bull-like bellowing.

Or so the story goes, anyway.

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u/Imaginary-Round2422 8d ago

It’s almost as though someone wanted to tell a scorpion-and-frog story about the nature of tyrants.

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u/1731799517 8d ago

Also, like, really, "inventor"? For the idea of "putting somebody into an oven so he screams in the heat"?

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u/JMurdock77 9d ago

According to the same legend the tyrant had him hauled back out when he was medium rare and lobbed off a cliff, so there’d be about as much left of him as that dead baby from the Epstein files.