Toadfish Monastery

The wheel describes two different treatments.
One uses the wheel as the (slow) killing instrument, the other uses it only for the display afterwards.
And then there is the middle position to break some bones to efficiently attach the victim to the wheel which then acts as the operating table for the actual slow killing by other means (afterwards it is put up for display).
Problem is that old literature often confuses those when they use the term 'Rädern'

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I fail to see a scenario where things go well for the victim.

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Let's say, contortionists have a clear advantage

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Spineless politicians are rarely punished.

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Trampling by elephants has a certain appeal.

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Donkeys would just make an ass of you.

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What about a monkey on a donkey?

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A cog in a log and the back against the rack.

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cuios testuculos habes...

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going back to the donkeys? shame on you.
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Don't get me started on donkeys.

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Neither are good launchpads or runways

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Changing the subject abruptly, my son wants to know what are your impressions on Otto Von Bismark.

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If Merkel, in her own way, does as much for the country as Bismark, wil she be remembered as emphatically 200 years later?

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