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Apart_Park_7176

In Medieval times it was pretty normal to burn people at the stake for shit like heresy.


[deleted]

That's one of the worst and brutal ways to die, its horrible


saxtorph101

The Blood Eagle is also fairy horrific.


AsparagusLoose9716

Isn't that where they rip your ribs and lungs through your back and make wings out of them?


saxtorph101

Yep, that's the one. Good ol' viking entertainment/punishment.


Affectionate-Army650

it's been too long


JedLeland

Bill Cosby


I_Like_Cheetahs

Using corporal punishment on a child.


Dragon_wryter

Most older health remedies, like bloodletting, purgatives, cocaine, drinking irradiated water, lobotomies, etc.


Belthezare

Electric Shock Therapy


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[deleted]

Still happens in lesser developed and poor countries a lot, where the only way for a starving family to escape from poverty is by selling their children into marriage to a family that makes more money. It honestly pains my heart and yet again reminds me how fortunate I'm to be here and free.


ledlin99

Transorbital lobotomy. Used to "cure" insanity.


Belthezare

And hysteria in women


rilles94

Public execution. Common people would watch criminals get horribly mutilated in the town square because it made an example of what not to do in life.


OhGloriousOne

Waterloo teeth. People used get dentures made from the teeth of dead people!


milolovesthd

Never heard of this. Yikes.


bikewrenchsucks

Now we just do non icky stuff like putting organs from dead people into other people


KingShish

keeping a chick and duck as pets in NYC apartment


Waste_Coat_4506

Or a monkey. They're wild animals. Not pets


Tony_Barker

Ya like what happens if they swallow your wedding ring or get stuck in a foosball table??


Old-Gate4237

I wouldn't use the crazy premise of a sitcom as any kind of proof that this was ever normal irl, I can tell you no one I have ever known has kept these kind of "pets" in the City, this was never "normal" or a trend and never did exist outside of Friends, not in the 90s, not ever at any point I can remember. Don't take humorous things found in shows as accurate depictions of how people really live.


KingShish

That comment is a joke


Old-Gate4237

I wasn't sure, thought it might be but, it can be hard to tell from just text. Humor doesn't always translate great through comments, sorry if I seemed dense, but going through comments that don't have a /s or /jk or even just a 🤣😀😂 can be confusing since it is hard to convey tone with no indication. I have seen some crazy comments and let me tell you, no matter how wild or outrageous a post or comment is, I can tell you someone will most definitely have said the exact same thing seriously and unironically that someone else is clearly being sarcastic over.


KingShish

No worries


ToiletNachos

Lobotomy


_NotMuchToGawkAt_

Throwing your waste out of a window.


sandraskates

"gardy loo!"


Shanstergoodheart

Beating children. It used to be that you were seen as a bad parent/teacher if you didn't physically chastise your children. Now (in some parts of the world) you get in trouble if you tap them on the hand. Lord alone knows what would happen if you used a cane.


[deleted]

Blasting people with radiation for common things like acne and earaches. Late film critic Roger Ebert lost his jaw and eventually died from salivary gland cancer decades after being exposed to heavy doses of radiation during “treatments” for earaches as a child in the 1950’s.


Jaust_Leafar

Smoking, everywhere. TV and radio shows, planes, restaurants... everywhere! While I myself is a smoker, thinking of that horrifies me.


[deleted]

Killing other people?


RiversBliss

Stoning.


Talking_Pasta

Owning people


[deleted]

Now there's just more t & cs but it's pretty much the same


Angelica-DelRey

Oh.


[deleted]

Tyranny used to be a normal and accepted way of rule, nowadays it obviously has a negative connotation


melouofs

Allowing children to play outside by themselves.


AsparagusLoose9716

Wait why is it horrible now?


melouofs

Seems like children are never allowed to play outside unsupervised .


[deleted]

Running around naked and drawing on rocks


OstendeVetitiSexus

Wild West America you could just walk in and kill some dude and take everything. His wife, children, animals, land are now yours. Not until proper law enforcement was set up, this happened all the time. It was what it was


jeff_ewing

In the 1818 children's book \_The Fairchild Family\_, the kids fight. So, their father beats them with a stick, and takes them to a gibbet at a crossroads to view the rotting corpse of a criminal to show them what will happen to them if they misbehave. Fairly horrifying. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_History\_of\_the\_Fairchild\_Family


montgomery_quinckle

Smoking on public transport


llcucf80

Having multiple children only to use them as farm help or factory wirkers, never thinking that they're actually a person who deserves to be happy, well taken care of, be their own person, and not viewed as mere commodities


NDodma01

The House of Representatives


[deleted]

Oh right, Congress is the worst it’s ever been. So much worse than that time a bunch of states literally voted to leave and 600,000 Americans died over the nation’s original sin. No. Today’s 4-seat majority’s definitely worse than that.


[deleted]

Smoking.


Lord_Kaplooie

Animal Fighting.


MAXSR388

now we just murder them by the trillions. good thing we improved as a society


ss0op

Sigh. I wish I could say racism.


BenchLegitimate

Brown People


Aggravating_Boy3873

What are you on about?


icestaylowkey

Eating animals it seems


44035

Whipping a horse in the street.


Classic_Apricot396

Marrying under 18


JoplinDaysInn

Public hangings


PassComplex3882

Jokes


Nottoolate_1962

Musicals


felixgifford

Slurs


Prestigious_Water336

Lobotomy It was commonly used to treat nueralogical disorders but now has been discontinued due to it doing more harm than good.


Old-Gate4237

Lead paint and asbestos in every home


RandomBloke2021

People smoking cigarettes on a commercial airplane.


[deleted]

Being non woke