• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

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

    • SorryforSmelling@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      misconception. There are many crappy ai imges of them falling through the cathedral floor. there are sources against that and also its very illogical. church ground is holy after all. the fall was most likely outside of a building, somewhat nearby the cathedral. also based on what we know it normally didnt smell. i mean imagin living somewhere and smelling poop every day. you will find a solution to block the smell rather quickly ^^

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          9 months ago

          because people keep telling me to shower xD but seriously. at no point in history did people voluntarily live in reek. since citys formed people manages human waste pretty efficently.

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              9 months ago

              There are stories that people were pissing and shitting in hallways and corners of the palace of Versailles.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      9 months 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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        9 months ago

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

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      9 months 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.