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[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 31 points 1 month ago

Literally me when I was drafted to work on the Great Wall of China.

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 13 points 1 month ago

The state appreciates your sacrifice, comrade.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

For God's sake, Montresor!

[-] addie@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

For the love of God, Montresor!

[-] Alice@beehaw.org 12 points 1 month ago

Didn't this happen in Thomas the Tank Engine

[-] pixeltree 11 points 1 month ago

How long would suffocation in there take? Might not be too bad tbh

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Depending on how well it's sealed you might die of dehydration first

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I would think this.

They didn't have exactly airtight building skills. So it'd be something from three days to a week probably.

[-] Dave2 17 points 1 month ago

In the real story the walls were covered in arsenic (?) also the executee has sensitive lungs so not long.

[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Why didn't my brain bother to check the title of the post lmao

Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado. Flippant internet synopsis: A guy builds a wall and his friend pays for it.

[-] herorobb@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

The Cask of Amontillado

[-] uriel238 7 points 1 month ago

Air holes will extend the time to days instead of hours.

A giant hampster bottle of water will extend the time to weeks instead of days.

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Banished to the Chuluu Korikh

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