Franz Schmidt

You're in the club there for all the rants.

But, so somebody showed up, and, uh, dude showed up, and I-- it's difficult to tell exactly how old this character was.

Uh, like I was neck-deep in working, so I was gone from the chat.

I didn't see what was going on for like a day and a half, and I got back, and it was mayhem, utter mayhem.

So this poor dude, this guy gets on there, and he's talking, and it's not totally clear whether he's our guy.

I don't know from whence he came or how he arrived.

But dudes are talking in there, and this guy drops like a picture of some girl, and I don't know, you know, I don't know what is this.

You know, she's like, I, I don't know, somewhere between like 18 and 24, something like this, right? And she's got like a little hat and little Hello Kitty stickers on her face or some kind of thing.

Likewise, an executioner operating in England some two centuries later in the 1400s could reportedly earn a fee of 10 shillings per execution, or roughly 16 times the amount of a skilled tradesman could earn in a single day.

Granted, as you might have deduced from the aforementioned case of Franz Schmidt, only executing about 400 people and flogging a similar number in his near-five decades on the job, nobody was getting rich doing this by itself.

It at least wasn't bad pay per hour of work.

Finally, we'd be remiss in any discussion of medieval executioners to not point out that the idea of executioners wearing masks to hide who they were does not appear to have actually been much of a thing.

Likewise, an executioner operating in England some two centuries later in the 1400s could reportedly earn a fee of 10 shillings per execution, or roughly 16 times the amount of a skilled tradesman could earn in a single day.

Granted, as you might have deduced from the aforementioned case of Franz Schmidt only executing about 400 people and flogging a similar number in his near-five decades on the job, nobody was getting rich doing this by itself.

It at least wasn't bad pay per hour of work.

Finally, we'd be remiss in any discussion of medieval executioners to not point out that the idea of executioners wearing masks to hide who they were does not appear to have actually been much of a thing.