• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      This makes me think of that story I heard about a jester that was sentenced to death for angering the king.

      For whatever reason the king let the jester determine how he would die, so the jester requested death by old age.

      The king thought it was hilarious and let the jester live but banished him from the kingdom.

      I always wondered why the king didn’t just string him up and keep him alive until he died naturally

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        8 months ago

        If by string him up you mean tie him up, then he would’ve died of starvation or thirst, not old age. (The only definition I can find of stringing someone up seems to be hanged till death, which is its own thing)

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          8 months ago

          keep him alive

          This would involve feeding him and giving him water. But just enough to survive.

          As for the definition thing it might be colloquial. Everyone around where I live refers to stringing someone up as tying someone to a pole or something like that

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    8 months ago

    All the gangsta if holding your pistol sideways but adjusting to aim properly. Except he still couldn’t hit anybody.

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    8 months ago

    Fuck I’m gonna be that guy aren’t I.

    Wasn’t that a disruptor?

    Given how he missed every damn shot yet blew up rocks?