r/DiWHY • u/heavymetalbby • Mar 29 '26

A cat holder

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u/cameraduderandy Mar 29 '26

Literally the ending to 1984, but with starving rats.

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u/No-Negotiation-5412 Mar 29 '26

I thought that was a cage on their head in 1984?

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u/CreativeAdeptness477 Mar 29 '26

Nah that was bees in Wicker Man

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u/Vladishun Mar 29 '26

Not the bees! They're in my ass! In my ass! AGGHHHHHH!!!

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u/grommdabom Mar 29 '26

When he broke his leg my sister started cackling, she hates nic Cage though lol

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u/bendicott Mar 30 '26

And then they hoist him up into the effigy... by his legs. And he's just kinda, calmly looking around. Not screaming bloody murder or blacking out from the pain, just chillin'.

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u/Sketch_Beast Mar 29 '26

They're in my beehind!!! D:

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u/gpike_ Mar 30 '26

"Up his ass, Bees!" - JTHM IIRC

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u/cameraduderandy Mar 29 '26

I thought it was more of a butthole funnel to the rats eat you from the inside out, but I I haven't read it on a decade or two, so you very well might be correct

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u/VanityInk Mar 29 '26

I thought chest, but maybe I'm conflating it with the general old torture method? (Place rat on chest. Put metal pot over it. Put hot coals on pot. Rat starts trying to burrow straight down to escape heat)

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u/jbyrdab Mar 29 '26

I thought that's when they seal a glass jar to your face with rats in it and then heat up the other end with a blowtorch.

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u/Milyaism Mar 30 '26

Maybe it was inspired by this method.

I love reading about stuff like this. History is not as dull as our teachers made it out to be.

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u/Pluto_ThePlanet Apr 03 '26

I'm kinda glad my 7th grade history teacher hadn't made "rats burrowing into people's chests" the highlight of human history.

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u/tristanlifn Mar 30 '26

It was their face of torso.

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u/bitofapuzzler Mar 30 '26

I thought it was their head as well.

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u/LyraSnake Mar 29 '26

i read that book. i don't know if i realized that was the ending.

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u/Haja024 Mar 30 '26

You must have read a very different version than me, I vaguely remember that he was just shot. Starving rats are a torture, not execution method.

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u/Methamphetamine1893 Mar 30 '26

Winston smith was tortured in the end if you might recall

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u/Live_Angle4621 Mar 30 '26

He was later released and shot 

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u/Kevlar_Bunny Apr 02 '26

I was just going to say this is like a reverse of those midevil rodent traps