Would you take Roland’s job? 💨👑 Imagine earning an entire manor house and estate—just for farting once a year at the royal court! Sounds easy, right? Yet Roland the Farter’s annual performance was a serious medieval duty, demanding skill, timing, and a strong stomach for courtly humour. In the Middle Ages, jesters weren’t mere fools — they were truth-tellers wrapped in laughter, the only ones who could mock kings without losing their heads. And fart jokes? They weren’t just crude; they were ph