darraghmac and executions

Nice

I think, given its 2016, a nod here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executions_during_the_Irish_Civil_War

gets us off to a good start

I'll get to the top five in a while

Im for hanging. Public anyway. Nothing like injection. Spectacle. Amuser les autres

Firing squad ok.

Chair is foolishly showy

Beheading is topical but guillotine is again more about the imagery than the act so when i say beheading im talking axe or scimitar, clean sweep mind none of this youtubey sawing with a fuckin penknife shit

the soviet style single shot to the brainstem could be a goer for these austere times

A little too....idk, personal? Couldnt make a good interval out of it

afaik it's still being used in belarus

after the uk leaves the sclerotic confines of the european union and the council of europe, how much of the ensuing 30-40% growth in gdp should be devoted to executions?

Essex MP Priti Patel, whom it is customary to describe as a "rising star" of the Tory party, made her first appearance on BBC's Question Time this week, and set off a Twitter storm.

Just hours after the execution of Troy Davis, in Georgia, she issued a call to bring back hanging.

If we take her words literally, she would see others, as well as murderers, swinging from a rope. She mentioned rapists three times, and paedophiles once.

Do u attribute any particular import to the ratio there?

Bears investigation

~thinking about executions~

Lonely guy just thinking baout hangings

Thom P.

I've no idea what that means tbh

Reference to last UK hangman maybe?

Eichmann in Jersulem was a dope book

thanks but that wasnt one of mine

Excutes.

— Finnegans Wake (@finnegansreader) May 14, 2017

did we discuss this

Thinking back to when my sister made cakes professionally and I went with her to a cake fair and they had a decorating competition and one of the themes was 1916 and someone made James Connolly strapped to the chair being shot. Out of cake and icing.

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Would you believe it, this showed up on my Facebook memories today. pic.twitter.com/ua2ZEr5rai

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) March 12, 2022

pure practicality but i'd say the wall has the most cake in it

What if you ate the British soldiers though, could icing Connolly escape?

my first instinct was to bite the heads off the soldiers obv, but i like cake more than icing. pacifist option = just eat the rifles

the picture doesn't look like a cake?

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2021-06/4/19/asset/5fb237bd544f/sub-buzz-4278-1622834752-5.jpg

now this, this is a cake

On this day in 1969 - Britain abolishes capital punishment

on this day in history, the Bolsheviks executed the Tsar -- I felt the need to bump this thread.

This is a sticking point in downton abbey. It is the moment their communist cab driver becomes disillusioned with lenin.

why's it always the driver. the car as a symbol of modernity interfering with the old noblesse?

my only acquaintance with that show is this:
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O7Gt6jc3JBA/XyWHiKdMoeI/AAAAAAAArcQ/6On4PvRWi_cw5NSInPqhQxGGWoxdeSIcACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Downton%2BTabby.jpeg

should be downtown

Good thread