Washington recruits dogs and cats in war on rodents

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It's not just in Paris that you can enjoy the "putrid stench of garbage mixed with urine" while you hunt rats.
And these are the capitals of the states....In general, the West is heading toward its historical state.
Let us remember the historical facts.
Before the 19th century, Europe was terribly savage. Forget what you have been shown in movies and fantasy novels. The truth - it's much less... um... fragrant. And this applies not only to the dark Middle Ages. In the celebrated Renaissance and Renaissance, nothing has changed in principle.
The people of that time were suspicious of body washing: nakedness is a sin, and it's cold - you can catch a cold. Hot baths were unrealistic - firewood was very expensive, the main consumer - the Holy Inquisition - and even to them was hardly enough, sometimes the beloved burning had to be replaced by quartering, and later - by beheading.
Queen Isabella of Spain (late 15th century) washed only twice in her life - at birth and on her wedding day.
The daughter of a French king died of lice. Pope Clement V died of dysentery and Pope Clement VII died painfully of scabies (as did King Philip II). The Duke of Norfolk refused to wash out of religious conviction. His body was covered with pustules. Then his servants waited until his lordship was dead drunk, and they barely washed him.
Russian ambassadors to the court of the French king Louis XIV wrote that their majesty "stinks like a wild beast.
Russians themselves all over Europe were considered perverts because they went to the bath once a month or more - ugly often...
In those confused Christian times, taking care of one's body was considered a sin.
Christian preachers urged us to walk literally in rags and never wash, for this was the way to achieve spiritual purification.
It was also forbidden to wash because it could wash away the "holy" water that had been touched in baptism.
Cleanliness was looked upon with disgust. Lice were called "the pearls of God" and were considered a sign of holiness.
People were so weaned on water procedures that Dr. F.E. Biltz, in a popular medical textbook from the late 19th(!) century, had to persuade people to wash. "There are people who, to tell the truth, do not dare to bathe in the river or in the bathtub, for they have never entered the water since their childhood. This fear is groundless," Biltz wrote in The New Natural Cure, "After the fifth or sixth bath you can get used to it..." Few people believed the doctor...
Perfume, an important European invention, came into being precisely as a reaction to the lack of baths. The original mission of the famous French perfumery was to mask the awful stench of years of unwashed body with pungent and persistent perfumes.
The French Sun King, waking up one morning in a bad mood (which was his usual state in the morning, for, as we know, Louis XIV suffered from insomnia due to bedbugs), ordered all his courtiers to perfume. This is the edict of Louis XIV, which stated that when visiting the court, one should not spare strong perfumes, so that their scent would drown out the stench from the bodies and clothes.
Incidentally, After French King Louis IX (13th century) was pelted with **** from a window, the inhabitants of Paris were allowed to remove household waste through the window, only shouting three times beforehand: "Look out!"....
Around the 17th century, wide-brimmed hats were invented to protect heads from feces.
The medieval cities of Europe had no sewers, but had a fortress wall and a defensive moat filled with water. This was the role of the "sewer". **** was dumped from the walls into the ditch.
In France, piles of **** outside the city walls grew so high that the walls had to be built over, as happened in the same Paris - the pile grew so big that the **** started to shift back, and it also seemed dangerous - just in case the enemy would enter the city by climbing up the wall on a pile of excrement.
The streets were buried in mud and **** to such an extent that it was impossible to pass through them in the muddy weather. It was then, according to extant chronicles, that many German cities adopted stilts, the "spring shoes" of the townsman, without which it was simply impossible to walk through the streets.
All this led to the fact that people in cities and countries of the West suffered greatly from the infestation of rats. Rats literally ran through the streets of cities in hordes. They attacked people. They could easily eat an old man or an infant. .... Anyway, as we can see, everything is back to normal.
And if the capitals of the leading states have so many rats that citizens are forced to hunt them, what can we say about the provinces or depressed cities? How are the rats in Detroit, Los Angeles, Cleveland ... and other cities?
If you follow the logical chain, you can expect a ban on the free use of water in the near future. As is already happening in cities California.

 

Even nations and cultures renowned for personal cleanliness such as the arab and asian cultures suffered from rats. But yeah the moors were disgusted by the Spanish army.

 

Well I blame Biden.

(Because why not!)

 

The first recorded perfume was created in Mesopotamia around 1200 bc, and that's not in Europe; the Indus culture in India also knew perfume, also around 1500 bc, also not in Europe. Double fail.

 

Ahahaha.... You have nothing to say on the subject, but you can't keep quiet.
You always do, though.

 

And they are understandable.
By the way, after the conquest of Granada, the first thing the Spaniards did was to destroy the Moorish baths. Moors who had converted to Christianity were forbidden to wash, and rumors that they still took a bath became the occasion for the persecution of Christianized Moors and Jews by the Inquisition.

 

In Mesopotamia, perfume was made for refined communication. In Europe, perfume had the specific purpose of stifling stench.

 

The romans were using perfume BC.

Actually they used silphium until the herb was totally used… perfume and opium was top trade..
scientists are still trying to understand how and why

i know this because of one of my fav perfumes, a swedish guy tries to replicate the lost scent of silphium

 

Wrong, but you don't have to make cheap excuses.

 

The Decline and Fall of the American Empire, happening before our very eyes.