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Marie Antoinette was guillotined 216 years ago tomorrow :(

The guillotine was invented in Halifax, Yorkshire. 15 000 people are estimated to have been killed by it in France, only Germany has killed more with it - 40 000. The last person killed by guillotine in France was Hanmida Djandoubie for rape and murder in 1977. The death penalty was abolished in France in 1981. It is impossible to accurately guage how long a severed head survives, it is estimated at between five and thirteen seconds.

The Halifax Gibbet. I actually had a history professor in a very reputable university not believe me when I mentioned its existence, or that of the Scottish Maiden. I had to bring him books to prove that the devices were real.

If you're into that sort of thing, there's a wonderful and fascinating book with a very inappropriate name: The Pleasures of the Torture Chamber. Mainly it's a very well-written history of torture and public execution, even though the title makes it sound like second-rate Sade.

http://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Tort.../dp/1566197724

I haven't got a book on torture yet, actually. I want one too large to properly fit on a shelf, with full colour pages.

I have a good coffee table book on the history of public executions.

http://www.amazon.com/Public-Executi...5630358&sr=1-1

that dip between nose and lip

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I live near Halifax.

It's very boring there.

I can speak for the erogenous part, personally.

i just really really reallly want to sleep right now.

right

ah come on baby, it'll be over in seconds.

But you're so asexual and different

I dunno why you'd take me seriously. I've never known anything before, why should you assume I'd have started now?

anatomy and physiology traumatized me :(

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LIES

I remember they did the Mythbusters balloon lawnchair episode too. It was dreamy ^.^

Geez, try to point out that his dog had something potentially toxic in it's mouth and I'm a bad guy.

:rolleyes

Alright guys, I'm out of here soon. Have fun with the newest loser.

:/

The philtrum allows us to breathe when we drink from bottles. I doubt that we evolved it for that reason though. While on that subject, it was just announced that QI qill now be shown on Australian television. Hooray.