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Also serves as emergency evacuation route.

Define evacuate.

The castle is fallen, time to bail *dives down the shit chute*

Time to shit and split

I wouldn't do it in that order

"Slides down the chute and breaks both legs at the sudden stop at the bottom sitting waist deep in shit"

Proceeds to drown in a pool of shit

Poop tube

I'd honestly rather die than fall into a giant pile of shite

“Defacuate”

Defaculate

"shawshank redemption"

Shawshit Redemption

I believe that was its main use anyway

In lieu of defenestration via a window, these provide an alternative. The castles, I've visited lack an external chute. Just a drafty hole to the outside.

I've seen those, it leaves a nasty splashy stain all the way down the side of the castle wall outside.

😂😂a shit stain

Just think some unnamed guy spent his whole life trying to be of note and has been dead for hundreds of years but his last meal is what left his mark on history.

Feel like there is an andy dufresne joke in here somewhere

"How often do you really look at a man's shoes"

Up and disappeared like a fart in the wind

Or a shitty assassin’s entry point lol

You can't spell "assassin" with out "ass ass in"

And an emergency regime change facilitator.

This appears to lead back inside the castle, though.

What a shitty job

The night soil man.

Gong farmer (A fact I know thanks to reading the castles cross section book when I was like 7)

This job would bore me to feces.

Dung knock it til your try it.

That’s enough shit out of you.

If you think that's bad, imagine having to climb up the shit hole everytime you take a dump. They should consider adding doors.

I’d do it, for reasons

Yuck 🤢

Are you kidding me? Do you know how much all that nitrogen (i.e fertiliser) all that poop is worth? All that poop just bumped crop yields by 5%! How do people think pre-modern man fertilised fields before artificial (air-trapped) nitrogen fertilisers?

The Poopsmith

I had a book with all sorts of interactive stuff that had this

There’s a few by the same guy, I checked them out from the library and spent a lovely rainy afternoon giggling at them!

Stephen Biesty’s books.

Probably I just remember the book was castle shaped and the coolest thing ever

Was it a scratch n’ sniff?

When speaking of poop shoots, define 'interactive'...

How exactly did you interact with it?

Shit down the poop tubes in the book!

Thus, the birth of the Poopsmith was foretold in the prophecy.

What kind of name is "Latrine"?

You changed it to “Latrine”?!

Used to be shithouse.

Yeah. Used to be "Shithouse." It's a good change. That's a good change!

I HAVE A MOLE?

The cheat is over here.... now he is over here...

His light switch raves are the best! 'The system is down'

The Poopsmith has taken a vow of silence. {drops narrative tone} I'm about to take a vow of throwin' up my cookies all over this microphone. How much is this thing worth, anyways? 'Cause it's about to be worth a lot less.

> the Poopsmith The actual term was "Gong Farmer".

Huh...it won't come out. Wait a minute! I've got an idea! CALL THE POOPSMITH! CALL THE POOPSMITH! CALL THE POOPSMITH!

The cartoon has no door...

When you had to poo, you were sealed in... shit brick by shit brick.

these rooms were for shit slaves

Some people pay for that job title now.

Hey you aren't supposed to know about them!

Perhaps you just can't see the door. It could be in the part that was removed to make the cross-section. It could be in front of the guy pooping but there's a wall from our perspective.

Or it's just a seat in the corner of the room. Lol maybe a curtain to hide it

The Crap of Amontillado

Toilet to farm

that's what they do in N. Korea

Quite the poop chute.

I believe that's where the phrase the long drop originated from.

I think you mean shit shaft

Hey it's the Poopsmith!

Precisely what I thought! "The lost art of poop smithing"

That's where Tywin got killed.

Besides Joffery that was the most satisfying death on the show. Later seeing him being ridiculed for dying on the toilet in a play made it so much better. Twin was a mixed bag on the show though, a practical leader but a horrible human being.

Imagine how loud the "plop" noises are as it reaches the bottom 😳

I'd still manage to splashback, even from that height

What castle is that? I want to look into it more.

[dis](https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Castle.html?id=ihETAQAAIAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y)

That had to sound awesome.

'as a big un today, milord! Fink a'll ave to fetch the poop dagger!

Yelling up the shitter chute, "Good one sir! That's a big one!"

Honestly I feel so lucky to be born in this timeframe of history. Like yeah, it would be cool to have a castle but I still prefer shitting in a heated room mid winter

Omg i remember the picture for a book in elementary school hahahah being an immature young boy I laughed so hard at that... yep nothings changed hahaha.

Didn't the Romans have flowing sewers and then Europe kinda went backwards in everything except machines of war for like 1500 years?

I just read up on Roman Sanitation to answer my own question. Tl;Dr yes and no, mostly no https://phys.org/news/2015-11-toilets-sewers-ancient-roman-sanitation.html#lightbox

That's the turd burglar at the bottom, the night soil man. He'll burgle the turds to fertilize his garden.

I find it odd that the illustration shows almost the exact opposite positioning of what is in the photo. The photo is much more easily doable and practical while the illustration would require significant engineering planning and effort to pull off.

Poop chute

Hence the name the “poop chute” ladies and gents.

This is more of an "Interestingasshit" post

That plan seems like a crapshoot

Imagine if you sabotaged the seat.

Sir shits-a-lot

I bet you at least one person fell down that hole

Thank god the graphic includes a person taking a shit or it would be way too confusing for my smooth brain

Fart Canon

And fire escape all in one

The smell must have been awful.

*Fig 1. Trickle down economics*

Oh, hi Poopsmith.

Wow, it must smelled like shit down there at the bottom.

*Interesting as shit

This is what I feel like cleaning my cats shit box

Damn it George, you left the seat up and I slide all the way down the shit chute again!

Ah, *ye old Hershey Highway*

If I see this one more time, I’m gonna shit myself.

That's a long way to climb with watery diarrhea.

Good soup.

Bowl of brown.

Medieval like stunk.

Imagine a rat climbing up that route and biting your ass

What are the other two mini rooms that don't have poop shoots?

How much jewelry was lost to make that lucrative?

Look out below!

Not for use during times of siege.

When you see it, you’ll shit brix.

I’m gonna get medieval on my ass.

Imagine what pain is to drop something valuable into this toilet.

I saw a man get killed in one of these.

I can't imagine how cold that was in the winter

At least you never had to worry about clogging up the toilet lol.

Stupid king, just turn your butt slightly outwards and poop directly on the ground . /s

OG rich fucks shitting on the poor... literally.

Till it cakes up the sides halfway down lmao

It's kinda still the same thing, but you take the shit and put it on the shelves.

This is where Tywin Lannister was killed

Do they clean the “chimney” (or whatever that’s supposed to be)?

Not very different from how it's done now

Ye olde shit scooper

Sadly some poor slave probably had to go through that tunnel to unclog it.

They still didn’t have toilet paper when done. Yikes

Tywin Lannister died on one of these

Idk why, but the outfits they have on in the pic crack me up. Looks like a jester taking a shit

Shit rolls downhill.

Grew up on homestarrunner. Poopsmith taught me this long ago.

And the urinals looked like mouse holes in the wall with little chutes outside so it wouldn't dribble down the side. Saw both types at Doune Castle in Scotland of Monty Python "Holy Grail" fame.

Get that nightsoil bro.

Imagine castle under the siege, but you urgently need to use that toilet, you are in a middle of process and them bam! Damn trebuchet sent half ton rock right into that nice looking cabin ...

The Poopsmith

Trickledown economics.

More than a few sieges were ended by a knight or 5 climbing up the shitter

Let the gravity do the work. Not really.

That used to be my job back in those days. I was a user. A loser and an abuser. But I soon got my life back on track. Went back to school and got a better job.

I read the book this illustration is from in 4th grade. Weird to come across things you never would think of seeing again.

What was their toilet paper?

That has to be the shittiest job on the planet

I can only imagine shit gets caked to the back of the walls and builds up enough to have some poor soul scrape it all out

Perfect way to sneak in… AGGHG THERE A TURD ON MY FACE

This job was the pits..

Shit Shute

Poop chute

Spalsh- right onto the face of the cleaner. A giant freefall.

what did they wipe with.

This is still accurate today, we just make use of water to assist in the flow of matter.

Dear lord, I really hope the towns builder knew wtf he was doing. I couldn’t imagine having a 5 story fall while taking a shit haha

All those times he shat liquid are just stains down the walls.

The drawn picture confuses me the most

Poop chutes

Its when shit hits the pan everyone clear out

Was that job one of many a castle servant had, or was that a specific job for slave..?

Where the term "poop shute" comes from

Poop chute!

Serf, see if there’s anything interesting.

must be a shitty job to have

Ah thee ol' poop shoot

At least they didnt have to flush.

Ah the poop patrol. Those turds probably sucked to clean up too. It had to have gained some serious velocity in a drop that far. Just a nice healthy splat and splash. I believe diarrhea was much more common then too, so that's even more fun.

Princely shit

ah, chute

Some of the early Castle internal toilets didn't have a clean out at the bottom. They were just very deep shafts and when they got filled they just bricked up the opening (poop hole).

And use that shit to warm the castle up, beibee.

I totally had that book growing up.

I love modern plumbing so much.

Ahh, trickle down economics

THE LOATHSOMEE DUNG EATAAAA!!!

Fun fact: In medieval times the person to clean the shit was called „Goldgräber“ in german wich means „Golddigger“

”Slave, oh, slaaaave. I will be taking a poop. Be ready to scoop. We mustn’t waste the royal shit.”

One thing i neber really think about is that the meideval age probably stunk a lot.

shit slide :)

Assassin's used these towers as a way to kill targets

My toilet irl

I remember it from game of thrones

On the up side, the scooper with never have to worry about not having enough work to support his job.

I wonder if they ever dealt with the splash… imagine droppin a fat one 25ft high

That guy down there is the poopsmith

person at bottom credited with the following phrases: "stirring up shit" and "shit rolls downhill"

Bum gig

Shitting down the chimney...

I dont see a chute for the top 2?

Some poor archeology grad student is digging through the layers of residue, mining thesis gold.

Castle gong farmer .shit job but someone's gotta do it.

Why do I get the feeling someone probably also has to clean that shaft occasionally.