Talk:Foot roasting

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Return of the Jedi[edit]

This was also used in Return of the Jedi.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.103.66.134 (talk) January 15, 2007

--- Yeah, very true, I didn't remember —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.131.173.247 (talk) 01:22, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I recall: at the very beginning of the movie, as we enter Jabba's fortress with Luke, we see this torture being applied to a droid (!). The droid, suspended by a device and turned upside down, has red-hot irons pressed to the soles of its feet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.141.194 (talk) 10:23, 11 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Return of the Communists[edit]

"The KGB uses foot-roasting to the current day..blah blah"

Oh, really? Zero Thrust (talk) 22:41, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up[edit]

Did a general clean-up, removing unsourced and tangential material and reining in the chortling tone. I also removed an illustration with an incorrect, speculative caption. Porcsten (talk) 02:24, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Marked some things that failed verification.
  • The cited paper is about sensitivity to vibration, not pain, and under conditions that aren't injurious or torturous.
  • The cited source about Templars doesn't support the riff on other variations.
  • It's speculation that the figure in the illustration is being prepared to have her feet burned rather than other forms of burning; the source of the illustration doesn't mention any specific forms of torture at all. Rather than remove it, I've changed the caption to remove the speculation.
This article had a remarkable gap between what its sources were claimed to say versus what they actually said. The widest of the wide-eyed stuff is now gone, but there's still room for improvement. Porcsten (talk) 13:01, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]