And now for something weird...

spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
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Weirder, from the same paper.

We have gone down the rabbit hole.

In the world of what should be done. "You are a boy. You don't have a period". Followed by a slap to the back of the head. Followed by "and use the bathroom for the parts you were born with". Followed by a another slap to the back of the head.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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https://www.navytimes.com/news/your...-more-confinement-on-bread-and-water-for-you/
When bread and water entered the command disciplinary toolkit remains unclear, but retired Cmdr. David Winkler of the Naval Historical Foundation told Navy Times last year that it likely was enacted in the mid-19th century.

Back then, the sea service was phasing out flogging and might have wanted a replacement, he said.

Winkler recalled checking on a sailor confined on bread and water at the Philadelphia Navy Yard when he was assigned to the ammunition ship Suribachi in the 1980s.

He showed up just as the guards prepared the sailor’s chow.

“It was raisin bread,” Winkler recalled. “The Marine guards were there with tweezers, pulling out the raisins before they served it to the poor prisoner.”
OK, let's go back to 'Keel Hauling.'
 

spinnaker

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nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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As long as it is good bread, I would have no problem with a bread and water diet for 3 days.
I've been a brig cell guard on a person (people within their division are usually assigned this duty) with a bread and water diet punishment. It's surprising how quickly it gets maddening with nothing else to look forward to as your brain relates the taste of bread to prison. This is usually compounded by statements about the condition and possible adulteration of the delivered bread by fellow sailors.

https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-taste-aversion-2794991
 
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