cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19519545
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REJECT MODERNITY, RETURN TO BUTT SPONGE
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2024
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Bristles were a mistake.
I wonder if there's some kind of absorbent silicone foam you could boil, if you wanted to do a modern spin on xylospongium.
Also, I just looked up the Wiki page, and WTF:
In the middle of the first century, the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger reported that a Germanic gladiator died by suicide with a sponge on a stick. According to Seneca, the gladiator hid himself in the latrine of an amphitheatre and pushed the wooden stick deep into his throat.
Gladiator owners often had physicians on-hand, so you'd have to find a private place to kill yourself to guarantee it would work - and they probably wouldn't let you take weapons wherever you wanted. Poor sod.