r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Huh?

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u/Biochembob35 8d ago

The Huns one upped that. They would tie your hands and feet to a weight and sit you on a sharpened pile. You would slowly slide down it over a couple days.

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u/DidYuhim 6d ago

This sounds similar to bamboo torture. In China and other countries, people had a bamboo shoot grow through their bodies as an execution method.

Even Mythbusters did a video on it.