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One also advises that “beating should always happen before an audience”, which sounds like the worst TV talent show eVeR!
You´re DEFINITELY not going through to the final!
I thought I was great!
All in all, if you’re given a choice between school now or school then, always choose now.
And don’t forget it.
I didn´t!
Do you ever wish . . . that your parents weren’t so harsh when
it comes to punishing you for being naughty?
OK, so you destroyed the entire school because of tHaT science experiment that went slightly wrong, but did they really have to ground you for a whole weekend?
Think yourself lucky, though. If you were caught doing bad things in a medieval castle you might have ended up in the dungeon . . . or much worse.
Although many castle rooms that were used to hold wrongdoers were usually just cellars rather than actual dungeons, some castles had really unpleasant rooms that were built just for that purpose.
St Andrews Castle in Scotland had a notorious ‘bottle dungeon’, which was a dark, damp and airless hole cut out of solid rock below one of the towers.
Of course, for criminals or people that the king or lord really didn’t like, punishments could be gruesome.
If criminals or enemies were sentenced to be executed, their heads could end up on poles on castle walls or city gates as a warning to others. That sounds quite a bit worse than being grounded.
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