stackyFACTSIf you stepped into an early twentieth-century fairground, you were paying to be bullied. The primary attractions of early funhouses involved hidden operators using sudden blasts of compressed air to blow up women's skirts, relying entirely on cheap embarrassment rather than actual mechanical thrills.
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