OMFG !! How much truth is there to this ?

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Bethlehem Royal Hospital (Bedlam), a palatial asylum for lunatics in Finsbury Square, was open to the public until 1770 as a sort of human zoo. Visitors could pay a few pence to enter and gawk at the inmates for as long as they liked. Thousands of sightseers came each year, wandering through the wards and brutally teasing the patients in order to heighten the fun. At one point, Bedlam's governors felt that the sightseers were behaving so badly, they decreed "the doors be locked on public holidays against all visitors."

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Some prisoners "stood mute," refusing to answer "guilty" or "not guilty" to the charges against them. In such cases, they would be stretched out on the ground and pressed with crushing lead weights until they spoke. Sometimes they died in the process.

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An amazing variety of filth slopped down London's cobblestone streets. Along with dirt, dust and animal manure, there was the ever-falling London rain to add to the mess. Cesspools of human waste collected in puddles everywhere. Dead animals (dogs, cats, rodents, even horses) were left to decay in the streets. In darker corners of the city, an occasional human corpse might even be found.

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"With public executions and public exhibitions of heads and quarters as well as bodies hung in irons, it is clear that the eighteenth century confronted its mortality in a way that is both intense and direct."
- Richard B. Schwartz, Daily Life in Johnson's London

@sTreetAngeL Said

Dreadful. Just dreadful.

@LovetheProcess Said

Unfortunately everyone in this post has failed to notice that in it's own way we do that today all over the world. Children in the black market, killing for body parts, war, prisoners of war in many different countries are abused daily. We watch television shows of countries far from the one's we know and to do that we invade their space to make a dollar. We know there is a market selling sex from children in not just one but many countries and we have documentaries to prove it yet nothing is done. These thing are not out in public view for all to see but we know they are there we have a show here and a report there but we pretend that is a one time thing or that there is nothing we can do...

@LovetheProcess Said

Unfortunately everyone in this post has failed to notice that in it's own way we do that today all over the world. Children in the black market, killing for body parts, war, prisoners of war in many different countries are abused daily. We watch television shows of countries far from the one's we know and to do that we invade their space to make a dollar. We know there is a market selling sex from children in not just one but many countries and we have documentaries to prove it yet nothing is done. These thing are not out in public view for all to see but we know they are there we have a show here and a report there but we pretend that is a one time thing or that there is nothing we can do...

@Wellard Said


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An amazing variety of filth slopped down London's cobblestone streets. Along with dirt, dust and animal manure, there was the ever-falling London rain to add to the mess. Cesspools of human waste collected in puddles everywhere. Dead animals (dogs, cats, rodents, even horses) were left to decay in the streets. In darker corners of the city, an occasional human corpse might even be found.

Not that much of a difference from 2011

@white_swan53 Said

You can't be serious.