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One of the best photos Lego has ever created. Just a chill cozy woman smiling and staring at her Joker artwork Lego set as she holds it.
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![A drunkard's cloak was a type of pillory used in various jurisdictions to punish miscreants.
Description
The drunkard's cloak was actually a barrel, into the top of which a hole was made for the head to pass through. Two smaller holes in the sides were cut for the arms. Once suitably attired, the miscreant was paraded through the town, effectively pilloried.[1]
Offences
Drunkenness was first made a civil offence in England by the Ale Houses Act 1551, or "An Act for Keepers of Ale-houses to be bound by Recognisances".[nb 1] According to Ian Hornsey, the drunkard's cloak, sometimes called the "Newcastle cloak",[3] became a common method of punishing recidivists, [1] especially during the Commonwealth of England. From 1655 Oliver Cromwell suppressed many of England's alehouses, particularly in Royalist areas, and the authorities made regular use of the cloak.[4]
beside is an 18th century woodcut of a man in a tricorn hat, stockings, and buckled shoes walking around in a giant barrel from his neck to his knees, hands flopping limply out of little holes in the side as fellow townsfolk watch him](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ttxxnn4i6efjj5ntpynaby3o/bafkreibknygpi45m5cihjpaksq6cwkkcyh2civaywnauycva6wxop7ldci)
![Who, Me? was a top secret, sulfurous, non-lethal chemical weapon developed by MIT-graduate Ernest Crocker for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services during World War II.[1][2] Who, Me? smelled strongly of fecal matter, and was issued in pocket atomizers intended to be unobtrusively sprayed on a German officer to humiliate him and, by extension, demoralize the occupying German forces.[3]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreig5a4qwpgntp5yvblqc35c35h7gu3eq25yb4shbv57dbuvnxxfuwq)
![Who, Me? had a high concentration of extremely volatile sulfur compounds that were very difficult to control: more often than not, the person who did the spraying also ended up smelling as bad as the one targeted.[4] After two weeks, it was concluded that Who, Me? was a failure.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreibih3uoda66lpsf4t3oksxyr4e5ppkiu7n6zxp7pzdlfqbp6grehm)
