this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2024
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[–] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally me when I was drafted to work on the Great Wall of China.

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 13 points 1 month ago

The state appreciates your sacrifice, comrade.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For God's sake, Montresor!

[–] addie 6 points 1 month ago

For the love of God, Montresor!

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Didn't this happen in Thomas the Tank Engine

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How long would suffocation in there take? Might not be too bad tbh

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depending on how well it's sealed you might die of dehydration first

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would think this.

They didn't have exactly airtight building skills. So it'd be something from three days to a week probably.

[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the real story the walls were covered in arsenic (?) also the executee has sensitive lungs so not long.

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Why didn't my brain bother to check the title of the post lmao

Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado. Flippant internet synopsis: A guy builds a wall and his friend pays for it.

[–] herorobb@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

The Cask of Amontillado

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

Air holes will extend the time to days instead of hours.

A giant hampster bottle of water will extend the time to weeks instead of days.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Banished to the Chuluu Korikh