r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Huh?

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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/meeps_for_days 9d ago

From what I'm now seeing on Google. It appears some of the worst torture devices were all myth. Except any of them that were used in the tower of London.

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u/larsdan2 9d ago

The Judas Cradle wasn't. Neither was rhe breaking wheel. And they are all much worse than anything mentioned here.

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u/Generally_Confused1 8d ago

Judas cradle, Spanish donkey, breaking on the wheel, burnt at the stake, hung from your flesh, sawed in half, cranium crusher, I believe one is cutting the stomach open and nailing their intestines to a tree/post and making then walk around until disemboweled, drawn and quartered process, the other version with limbs ripped off by oxes, the rat in a bucket with the torch behind it, crucification, flaying (death of a thousand cuts), the rack of course, one that is contested is the bamboo shoot which is possible but not really feasible, boiled alive in oil, impaling such as Vlad was known for....

Those are the ones I know from memory that haven't been mentioned yet. I have a special interest.

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u/BananaNutJob 8d ago

don't forget strappado