I'm a newbie here. I love the site. It's friggin fantastic.
Don't know what the Wheel of Banishment is... can you let me know?
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pavyracer
SBR Aristocracy
04-12-07
82898
#3
It's a torture device.
Being broken or "braided" on the wheel was one of the most insidiously painful methods of torture and execution practised in Europe.
After hanging, “breaking with the wheel” was the most common means of execution throughout Germanic Europe from the early Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth century; in Gallic and Latin Europe the breaking was done with massive iron bars and with maces instead of wheels.
The victim, naked, was stretched out supine on the ground or on the execution dock, with his or her limbs spread, and tied to stakes or iron rings. Stout wooden crosspieces were placed under the wrists, elbows, ankles, knees and hips. The executioner then smashed limb after limb and joint after joint, including the shoulders and hips, with the iron-tyred edge of the wheel, but avoiding fatal blows. The victim was transformed, according to the observations of a seventeenth-century German chronicler, “into a sort of huge screaming puppet writhing in rivulets of blood, a puppet with four tentacles, like a sea monster, of raw, slimy and shapeless flesh (rohw, schleymig und formlos Fleisch wie di Schleuch eines Tόndenfischs) mixed up with splinters of smashed bones”. Thereafter the shattered limbs were “braided” into the spokes of the large wheel, and the victim hoisted up horizontally to the top of a pole, where the crows ripped away bits of flesh and pecked out eyes. Death came after what was probably the longest and most atrocious agony that the ingenuousness of the power structure could inflict.
Together with burning at the stake and drawing-and-quartering, this was one of the most popular spectacles among the many similar ones that took place in all the squares of Europe more or less every day. Hundreds of depictions from the span 1450-1750 show throngs of plebeians and the well-born lost in rapt delight around a good wheeling, better if of a woman, best of all if of several women in a row.
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fiveteamer
SBR Posting Legend
04-14-08
10805
#4
Chance Harper
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pat venditto
SBR Posting Legend
05-07-07
14347
#5
Fiveteamer
Guy is hitting 18% in the past week. He needs a day off of the forum to get his head right before the sharks take his apartment and his dog.
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yisman
SBR Aristocracy
09-01-08
75682
#6
unit1884
[quote=jjgold;5683305]I win again like usual
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[quote=Whippit;7921056]miami won't lose a single eastern conference game through end of season[/quote]
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MilfDriller
Restricted User
11-23-08
10186
#7
Ah, I think I understand now. This is fockign cool. Great idea.
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nosniboR11
SBR Posting Legend
09-02-08
10042
#8
pavyracer, the attack machine
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Stumpage
SBR MVP
09-21-05
2906
#9
JJ.....Nothing against him, just that the poor guy is suffering right now and is talking about getting out of gambling once and for all. I say do him a favour and banish him into the wilderness.....
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RogueScholar
SBR Hall of Famer
02-05-07
5082
#10
purecarnagge
Originally posted by StraitShooter
90% of the guys dont give a shit about your problems..and the other 10 are glad you have them..
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diogee
SBR Posting Legend
01-11-08
19477
#11
bigboydan for fading me all of December and hitting 61%.
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CaneDawg
SBR Hall of Famer
08-25-08
6256
#12
jj
he needs a break..i am starting to worry
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Chi_archie
SBR Aristocracy
07-22-08
63172
#13
CHI_ARCHIE!!!
I'm worried I might post some more gay pictures for y'all