Henry Ford's right hand man had uneven steps in his home as a defense mechanism. he fell down them and died while drunk (apparently this is urban legend)

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think they do that in castles steps as well. To slow down invading.

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 months ago

I enjoy the idea that some shitass mason hated whatever king hired him, built all the stairs as quickly and poorly as possible, and then to save his ass later had to be all "oh hmm yes the stairs? That's a feature actually" and somehow it winds up catching on

[–] wischi@programming.dev 19 points 5 months ago

I think they did that in castles, because it's generally pretty hard to build castles. If the enemy is inside the walls you are practically done anyway.

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