Gollum@feddit.de to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhich one do you prefer?i.imgur.comimagemessage-square37fedilinkarrow-up1899arrow-down114
arrow-up1885arrow-down1imageWhich one do you prefer?i.imgur.comGollum@feddit.de to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square37fedilink
minus-squareClarke @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoThey had communal sponge on a stick they washed the sponges between use. There was a restroom attendant whose job it was to do that. Fun fact this is where the expression shit end of the stick originates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium#:~:text=The xylospongium or tersorium%2C also,spongos)%20fixed%20at%20one%20end.
minus-squareHurlingDurling@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoAnother fun fact a gladiator killed himself with one of these by shoving it down its throat until he died
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoI feel like there are easier ways for a gladiator to kill himself.
minus-squareBlackdoomax@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoShittiest fact of the day. Thanks.
minus-squarecasmael@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoHighly informative, but I feel like I was mis-sold the fact at the end, which I fact wasn’t fun at all :(
They had communal sponge on a stick they washed the sponges between use. There was a restroom attendant whose job it was to do that. Fun fact this is where the expression shit end of the stick originates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium#:~:text=The xylospongium or tersorium%2C also,spongos)%20fixed%20at%20one%20end.
Another fun fact a gladiator killed himself with one of these by shoving it down its throat until he died
I feel like there are easier ways for a gladiator to kill himself.
Yeah but not as kinky
Kinky And stinky.
Shittiest fact of the day. Thanks.
Highly informative, but I feel like I was mis-sold the fact at the end, which I fact wasn’t fun at all :(