Originally Posted by [MERIT]

I thought that dying in a fire would be the worst, but I heard that your endorphins kick in and you stop feeling it fairly quickly.

Originally Posted by Frownland

What's worse: being buried alive or being cremated alive?

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Past: the Romans used to have this thing where they would sew you up into a bag, and also in the bag was a live snake, a dog and a chicken. Then the sack got tossed into the river. Imagine the carnage inside that sack! Doesn't bear thinking about!

Originally Posted by The Batlord

A slow death at the hands of upside down keyboard cleaner might be pretty terrible.

Originally Posted by Frownland

Reminds me of what's probably a myth about Native Americans covering people in honey then dropping them in a pit of fire ants. Don't remember if it was a torture or execution thing.

Originally Posted by Anal Impalement

Here's how it worked:

A smooth, thick pole with a narrowed, but blunt, top end would be embedded in the ground. If you think of a width you can barely get the fingers of both hands around, you're probably about right. The height of the pole is carefully adjusted so the top is slightly higher than the victim's behind, when standing on tiptoes. It's a bit like hanging, where you adjust the rope length for the weight of the victim, but in this case we adjust the pole for height.

The pole and the entry point are then smeared with fat or grease. The victim is held above the pole and placed down on it. If the width doesn't quite fit, that's not a problem; simply use a knife to slit from the anus towards the genitals until we have a snug fit. Now the victim is lowered down until they can stand on their own feet on tiptoes.

You see why the pole height varies per person. The pole is in, and the victim can't step off because even on tippy toes, too much of the pole is inside, but to keep it from going further in, the victim has to stand there, and stand, and stand. For days. They can't keep this up forever. Eventually their feet slip a trifle, or they sag, and the pole slips further in. Because it's blunt, it pushes organs to the side as it penetrates. With every slippage, there's a tear and a little more blood loss, weakening the victim, making it harder to stand, so the pole pushes further in, and so on in a vicious cycle. The grease and fat and blood trickling down the pole would have attracted flies and other insects, which would have eaten their way into the wound to add to the torture.

Originally Posted by Plankton

This would suck pretty bad:



Anal Impalement

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.