I always use a trebuchet to yeet babies.
Really depends on the weight of the baby. A trebuchet can yeet a 300kg baby 90m, no Victorian yeet machine will come close.
Chonky baby
He’s not fat! He’s big-boned!
This would be lighter to travel with, though. No counterweights.
You fill the counterweight with localy available ballast. What, have you never laid siege to a castle before?
Look, sometimes you gotta yeet an infant on short notice, and you don’t have time to scavenge.
Then you toss in the nearest American.
This doesn’t look safe. With rungs that far apart, a baby could get its head stuck between the bars.
I think you’re supposed to line the basket. It’s just unsanitary otherwise.
Bring forward the baby artillery if you PLEASE sir.
Is a cat acceptable?
Old and busted: catapult
New hotness: yeet machine
I like juggling, so I’ll take two.
Ye olde Yoter
Did you know that in old English, Þ þ was a thorn, which was pronounced “th” like the word the. In Middle English, the shape of the thorn got, well, sloppy, because people are lazy as shit, and eventually took on the shape Y.
Thus, when you see a sign in “old English” (actually Middle English at best) that says ye olde shoppe, you should read it boringly as “the old shop”.
Off I go to ruin more days!
Yeah but what vowel set were they using in ye olde timesy shoppe? The Great Vowel Movement (previously known as the Great Vowel Shift) changed things.
It depends where it was in the country. Even now, after fast travel, radio, television etc, you can still get completely different vowels within 100 miles.
If I took the word “road” and travelled 100 miles either North/South/East/West, I could find it pronounced (as it would sound to me) as reud, raad, rird or roud.
Finally, a better way to catapult sacrifices to the Volcano Gods!!!
Lemmy feeling a bit too local now…
