• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    If the latrine was in the cellar under the first floor. Can you imagine the awful smell in that cathedral?

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      16 days ago

      It also hadn’t been cleaned out in a long time. I think they were supposed to do it yearly, but they hadn’t done it in five.

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      15 days ago

      The past smelled like shit, everywhere.

      The past smelled like Delhi on a hot day, except all the time, everywhere.

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        15 days ago

        In Europe that is. In some other places, people did not build their temples on top of … their pools of excrement