wooden second floor above a latrine cesspit
most hygienic 12th century noble house
cathedral, which means people were praying on the ground floor while over a lake of shit
presumably they sealed off the smell or else what a stanky church
Castle toilets were sometimes just holes in the floor that emptied out the side of the walls to the ground below.
(If that "Incredible Cross Sections" book I had as a kid was a viable source. Those books went into almost comical detail on how sewage is stored and disposed of in various buildings, ships, planes etc.)
Even today with quite advanced plumbing, "where the hell do we put all the shit" is one of the more important parts of urban planning.
they don't seem to have been inside the basilica, some other room or possibly a different building in the cathedral complex. it's all been rebuilt like twice now though so i don't think we know for sure
The modern American equivalent to this would be to have all of our government walk across a bridge that hasn't been maintained properly. It could happen
The modern American equivalent
Helicopter ride over an ill-maintained suspension bridge, and the rotor wash causes the bridge to collapse. The collapsing bridge catapults a piece of steel cabling into the helicopter's rotors, and the helicopter crashes into the water below, thus proving Brace to be objectively correct once and for all.
Or going on a train ride and the train derails on an un-maintained bridge and causes the bridge to collapse along with the train
Toss in a cargo ship gently bumping a pylon and make it extra funny
there could never be a more fitting end to nobility than the guillotine
Build a gallows in which the floor drops out from under the convicted and causes them to fall into a vat of piss and shit.
It sounds even funnier in German: ERFURTER LATRINENSTURZ
It says in the article that in German this has been referred to as "Erfurter Latrinensturz", and frankly "Latrinensturz" feels like a word that should be used in English too. I don't know in which contexts one would need to refer to a "latrine fall" but I'm sure we can think of something.
clearly you're unfamiliar with the fontana latrinensturz of this past february
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/rescue-underway-to-save-woman-trapped-in-25-foot-sinkhole-in-fontana/
i think we need a word for being tipped over in a porta-potty
What's worse, the poop smell or the lack of oxygen? You want to breathe to get so you don't die, but you don't want to breathe because It'll smell bad :/
PISS! SHIT! YEEEEEESSSS!
