Toilets through time (Or, a royal flush)

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  • @jeffchacon5781
    @jeffchacon5781 4 роки тому +14

    Only Lucy Worsley can talk about toilets and still cause me to fall head over heels in love with her !!! She absolutely warms my heart !!!

  • @barbaraaspengen9810
    @barbaraaspengen9810 7 років тому +32

    THANKS FOR THE HISTORY on this subject we take our toilets for granted my grandson will not know what a outhouse was.

    • @scrapperpun5553
      @scrapperpun5553 3 роки тому +1

      We take our toilets for grunted. We are relieved to have them under us. This topic is flush with opportunities for puns.

  • @ohevshalomel
    @ohevshalomel 11 років тому +84

    When I'm at work tomorrow, I'm going to ask my boss for a "Great House of Easement" break....

  • @3636Clarence
    @3636Clarence 12 років тому +46

    It simply boggles the mind that a place such as Versailles was built without toilet facilities.

    • @cmhughes8057
      @cmhughes8057 3 роки тому +1

      From what I understand that was done to keep the nobles in line and humble, or something like that.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad Рік тому

      It was though! 3rd room on the left behind the grandfather clock.

  • @causabon99
    @causabon99 8 років тому +19

    Lucy puts this across brilliantly. Air of a head-girl at a school having to talk about something a bit unmentionable, and the listeners not being quite sure what to expect. Tudor piss indeed! And a slight naughtiness in sitting on the Optimum at the end.

  • @guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248
    @guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 4 роки тому +137

    I'm pretty sure they had better cameras than this back in 2008.

    • @xr6lad
      @xr6lad 4 роки тому +18

      Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch I've seen clearer movies from the 1920's.

    • @guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248
      @guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 4 роки тому +16

      @@xr6lad I've seen better cave drawings.

    • @k.w.churchill4397
      @k.w.churchill4397 4 роки тому +4

      Looked like it was filmed in 1922

    • @iain860
      @iain860 4 роки тому

      Alas, they never had Lucy back then.
      Enjoy the video.... boys?..... hard to tell.

    • @doctorwhofan6340
      @doctorwhofan6340 4 роки тому +1

      I think evan VHS had better quality then this.😂

  • @nickwilliams55
    @nickwilliams55 14 років тому +6

    Brings a whole new meaning to the saying all that glisters is not gold!!

  • @lownleinhigh
    @lownleinhigh 2 роки тому +2

    This video was 13 years ago and I just recently found it. My curiosity about ancient toilet is somewhat solved lol

  • @cificare2184
    @cificare2184 4 роки тому +6

    As a child in the 1950s we had an outhouse. At night we used an enamel pail that my grandmother called a 'slop jar'. If you had to do anything except pee she became really angry. If we stayed the night with her, we learned to do our serious business before dark.

  • @ohevshalomel
    @ohevshalomel 11 років тому +25

    But *I* want decorations on the inside of *my* toilet bowl! Maybe I'll just go up to Wal-Mart and buy some Christmas window decals....

    • @Khloe_dancer_model
      @Khloe_dancer_model 10 років тому +5

      Lol! i know! that bowl was sooo pretty!...to be pooped on!? what a shame :(

    • @ohevshalomel
      @ohevshalomel 10 років тому +7

      Alejandra De Olivera They were royalty...everything had to be pretty for them, even the johns. :D

    • @hollygolightly8048
      @hollygolightly8048 4 роки тому

      Lol...busting a gut here...6 years later

  • @larryruben5681
    @larryruben5681 4 роки тому +5

    I now have a different understanding of the phrase a Royal Flush! lol...lol😁

  • @johncarmichael1892
    @johncarmichael1892 10 років тому +30

    HenryVIII : Enema of the State!!....sorry folks, I just couldn't resist....!!

    • @davidwesley2525
      @davidwesley2525 4 роки тому +4

      I'm glad i wasn't born during the time of HENRY the VIII. I wouldn't want to be the KING's servant helping the king to take a DUMP. L.M.A.O. L.O.L.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @carolfittis7881
      @carolfittis7881 4 роки тому +1

      Poor sir Henry Norris he was the groom of the stool he had to clean Henry’s Ass eek

    • @davidwesley2525
      @davidwesley2525 4 роки тому +2

      @@carolfittis7881 If Henry Norris had the BALLS , he should tell King Henry to wipe your own A$$ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @scrapperpun5553
    @scrapperpun5553 3 роки тому +3

    I'm glad I was privy to this information. This video is flush with opportunities for puns. I was bowled over. People were relieved to have piss pots. The servants had to empty the chamber pot or the loo...it was their doody and was a crappy job. This is a commodius amount of puns.

  • @Caigga900
    @Caigga900 12 років тому +4

    This channel is great. I want to visit and explore the UK.

  • @meadowlane37
    @meadowlane37 12 років тому +7

    she's very knowledgeable,articulate and rather cute.

    • @tomtowb3811
      @tomtowb3811 4 роки тому +2

      She’s Lucy Worsley and she’s totally awesome!

  • @christianvancara8255
    @christianvancara8255 4 роки тому +3

    We do take flushings loos for granted these days...
    If we all had to empty our own loo then we d realise the pong,but sawdust makes a good composting loo...
    When we go camping thats when we realise that running hot/cold water & a flushing loo is a luxury...😜

  • @BBGenelie
    @BBGenelie 15 років тому +8

    oooo thats fancy, the last toilet had pictures on it. it's like your crapping on blue china.

  • @ronaldjohnson7449
    @ronaldjohnson7449 4 роки тому +2

    if any one ever asked if Lucy paid her dues to be where she is now ... this video is proof ... yes ... yes she did

  • @RabbitSlippersBlog
    @RabbitSlippersBlog 11 років тому +8

    This must all have to do with why it is called "the Throne"! LOL

  • @clauview122
    @clauview122 6 років тому +2

    Lucy worsleys audition before tv stardom

  • @chrissheppard5068
    @chrissheppard5068 4 роки тому +1

    I am traumatized I thought Royalty did not have to take a dump. I am now seeing the queen wipe her arse in my minds eye and at her age splattering the pan like a hand grenade. I would imagine Charlie boy has some one to wipe his arse as he does have someone to place toothpaste on his brush. Its those little extras that make you Royal.

    • @davidwesley2525
      @davidwesley2525 4 роки тому

      If i was a servant i would tell the Queen to WIPE YOUR OWN A$$. L.M.A.O. L.O.L.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @richardea4223
    @richardea4223 4 роки тому +2

    Gentlemen, I present you with a Royal Flush. 😎

  • @3636Clarence
    @3636Clarence 12 років тому +1

    Interesting to see such beautifully decorated commodes. Perhaps it was to offset a basically nasty function. But hey, everybody "goes"

  • @dianaAthemiscyra
    @dianaAthemiscyra 9 років тому +27

    Flush toilets were nothing new. The Palace of Knossos on the island of Crete had working flush toilets That was way back in The Bronze Age. The island was also ruled by women. Go figure.

  • @joebozick5053
    @joebozick5053 5 років тому +4

    I’m watching this on the toilet

  • @slessorpr
    @slessorpr 15 років тому

    Brilliant , 'the jacques' became the modern day 'john'. I never knew that humble word had such grand origins! Now I will view 'johns' in a new light...

  • @bb001a
    @bb001a 4 роки тому +3

    I eat only meat, a pure carnivore diet for nearly 2 years now (I'm 52) and have no constipation, full satisfying smooth easements. Much better comfortable movements than when I ate fruit and vegetables as well.

  • @slessorpr
    @slessorpr 15 років тому +4

    Of all Henrys palaces, I wd most like to have seen Nonsuch. Even the name tells you how special it was! What a shame we haven't got it to 'balance' Hampton Court, essentially Wolseys house, I thought...still it didn't save him from the axe. Henry was not grateful for the gift, despite Hampton Crt being the most splendid house/palace in England at the time....

  • @GARRYKINGLIVE
    @GARRYKINGLIVE 13 років тому

    this is fascinating and Lucy is quite charming

  • @pesnevim1626
    @pesnevim1626 4 роки тому

    Lucy saying ...piss pot... in her lovely posh accent is a joy.

  • @heatherbowlan9822
    @heatherbowlan9822 5 років тому +3

    Its a dirty job Lucy ! But someone's got to tell us the dirty history !!!

  • @cairnsandy1
    @cairnsandy1 4 роки тому +3

    you've missed out , that from the time of the Normans , unlike the Tower of London , they used multiple cesspits in their Castles , and just maybe , they were using composting toilets . Sometimes i think you Historians/Archaeologists miss the details , perhaps because of the narrow focus of your study , you can't look at these systems in the same way a plumber could.

  • @Gimpygladiator
    @Gimpygladiator 3 роки тому +1

    I'm Deaf, so the captions were a gracious gift (considering the quality)... but, am I correct in saying the camera servos (or whatever they are) that zoom in... makes noise, especially at the end? I could swear I could feel the whirl of the zoom motor in my speakers!

  • @jessicamitchell3190
    @jessicamitchell3190 Рік тому

    I get it a royal flush nice work!!!!!!!

  • @imtoooldforthisstuff
    @imtoooldforthisstuff 4 роки тому +2

    "You are MY SON Tyrion...."

  • @yixnorb5971
    @yixnorb5971 2 роки тому

    Ancient Romans had toilet holes in long benches over running water, those being the first flush toilets, an improvement over what followed later in Victorian London, until Thomas Crapper (no joke) came along.

  • @joyhsiuyinkwa3435
    @joyhsiuyinkwa3435 5 років тому +4

    Dear madam good morning...i think modern time toilets wth flushing system is better then those tuder toilets of the history....

  • @christinewright342
    @christinewright342 3 роки тому

    Toilets absolute bloody luxury when l were a lad .........

  • @melvinhendrikse
    @melvinhendrikse 13 років тому +1

    Well. A houtstand years of lavatorial history in a nutshell, but I get the point. I once read somewhere that they (during the reign of Henry VIII) painted crosses on the wall, to prevent courtiers from pissing against it ;-). I am not sure what the exact source might have been, but I am pretty sure it was included in Alison Weir's Henry VIII King and Court.

  • @SKF358
    @SKF358 3 роки тому +1

    Where does the waste ultimately go?

  • @kitwintour9600
    @kitwintour9600 4 роки тому +1

    Henry sat on a thunder box

  • @fear0but118
    @fear0but118 4 роки тому +2

    Lucy is sooo adorable and soo attractive 🌹

  • @zccreations5761
    @zccreations5761 2 роки тому

    The guy in the background 😂 😂

  • @briankelleher6943
    @briankelleher6943 2 роки тому

    What is your dream gal? One that knows this much about toilets and how people used to take dumps 😂

  • @terisbagsonpurpose3538
    @terisbagsonpurpose3538 2 роки тому +1

    love it

  • @slessorpr
    @slessorpr 15 років тому

    No he was actually Thomas Crapper, I kid you not, and according to Melvyn Bragg in his documentary series, The Adventure of English BBC 2003 this word, the verb 'to crap', came from Europe and actually was in use b4 flush toilets (which TC made bowls for). excellent series by Bragg which is also a book. It needs to be as so many words are explained it is totally enthralling. There are 6 one hr episodes which you can get entire as a Bit Torrent file if you want to download it, as I did. 5 stars!

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    @golgumbazguide...4113 Рік тому

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  • @whitekiltwhitekilt1611
    @whitekiltwhitekilt1611 4 роки тому +6

    Down south, they used “slop jars” up into the 60’s, one in each bedroom. Boy O boy, did they stink. They emptied them in the morning. P U.

    • @sawahtb
      @sawahtb 4 роки тому +1

      My Grandparents has and outhouse that was used up into the 60's as well and the slop jars which were the night time toilet.

    • @whitekiltwhitekilt1611
      @whitekiltwhitekilt1611 4 роки тому +1

      Sarah H hello there. They also had an outhouse, a two seater. Can u imagine. That was down Roanoke Virginia during the 60s.

    • @whitekiltwhitekilt1611
      @whitekiltwhitekilt1611 4 роки тому

      Sarah H hello there. Can u imagine using a corn cob, O my. I’m so thankful for the little things in Life, like Angel Soft tissue.

  • @IamwhoIam333
    @IamwhoIam333 4 роки тому

    How long does it take for all the fectial waste to dry out and what did they find ?

  • @zimnaya
    @zimnaya 13 років тому +5

    Lavatory, please...not and never 'toilet'. Oddly, at my school the lavatories were called 'jakes' as at Hampton Court Palace. After we had been caned (a gruesome, vicious procedure) we would run down the stairs from the Housemaster's office, into the jakes, sit down and pull the flush. The cold air rising from the water gave a very little relief from the agony of the beating we had just received.

  • @madisonelectronic
    @madisonelectronic 9 років тому +4

    Good Housekeeping Seal of Disaproval

  • @izzyanddennyfan
    @izzyanddennyfan 14 років тому

    Slessorpr.....After Nonsuch Palace was built, Henry only visited it once and after he died,it was eventually torn down because it was costing too much to keep up

  • @dxmxo9427
    @dxmxo9427 7 років тому +1

    This must be a very old clip of Lucy, before her BBC contract

  • @nickwilliams55
    @nickwilliams55 11 років тому

    Actually that's the modern version I was thinking of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice speech
    "All that glisters is not gold;
    Often have you heard that told:
    Many a man his life hath sold
    But my outside to behold:
    Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
    Had you been as wise as bold,
    Young in limbs, in judgement old
    Your answer had not been inscroll'd
    Fare you well, your suit is cold".

  • @cabzillah
    @cabzillah 9 років тому +2

    Lucy is quite funny

  • @stanloona257
    @stanloona257 4 роки тому +2

    But a pair doesn't beat a royal flush -six

    • @AAAAA_9872
      @AAAAA_9872 4 роки тому +1

      OMG! I was just thinking that😂

  • @Dav123xyz
    @Dav123xyz 11 років тому

    What are you doing on you tube???!!
    Don't think I'd hve sat on that last one but it's over to you.

  • @edsoderlind7568
    @edsoderlind7568 3 роки тому

    redo this take
    she 'nailed it'

  • @3636Clarence
    @3636Clarence 11 років тому +2

    Have read where the loos where the waste fell down the walls had be barred off. Attackers could & would gain entry through these openings. A little slippy/ slidy/ sloppy one may imagine....

    • @kpadmirer
      @kpadmirer 7 років тому +1

      The poor slave whose job it was to clean up the "deposits" was known as a "gong farmer".

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 5 років тому

      kpadmirer Not quite. It was gong fermor, and they had to empty cess pits. They weren't slaves, they earned about 4 pence a day, a good sum then. There is a story about Richard the Raker, who fell into his own cess pit and drowned horribly.

  • @itsjustme2919
    @itsjustme2919 13 років тому +1

    So sometimes the King literally shit on his people, sit on the hole and bombs away...

  • @TMPreRaff
    @TMPreRaff 4 роки тому +1

    What is this - a home movie?

  • @kahnadah
    @kahnadah 5 років тому +1

    240p? Really? Which pixel is Lucy?

  • @AG-zg7tx
    @AG-zg7tx 7 років тому +1

    how did i get here

  • @florenna
    @florenna 4 роки тому +1

    Actually, meat doesn't cause constipation, it's the grains & other carbs that do, so meat wouldn't have been the cause for Henry VIII's enemas ;D

  • @kerronmcsween6095
    @kerronmcsween6095 4 роки тому

    here is a silly question, will that still be unsanitary after abandon for 1000 years?

  • @madisonelectronic
    @madisonelectronic 14 років тому

    1:20 I wouldn't touch much of anything up there, just in case. And at 1:14 that crappy (sorry) bit of wire will not keep anyone from taking a dump (sorry again) down that hole.

  • @ChrisGWGreen
    @ChrisGWGreen 3 роки тому

    I used to hate history... I can credit my interest to the lovely Dr Lucy & Suzannah Lipscomb... I'd include Dan Snow if he weren't in all the piggin adverts...and he's not as lovely :p

  • @wildbill118
    @wildbill118 15 років тому

    Well done! This made I larrf

  • @michaelcoffey7362
    @michaelcoffey7362 2 роки тому

    Cool 😀

  • @wheelieblind
    @wheelieblind 2 роки тому

    Man if this video was in 480p I would of been ok with it but dang this is some bad picture quality lol. ooh this video is from 08 LOL

  • @jigoku66
    @jigoku66 11 років тому +5

    shitter was full

  • @vgovger4373
    @vgovger4373 4 роки тому

    Okay, so it streaked down the side of the white castle walls....then what?......turned into a giant hill?

  • @virginiastirnweis5214
    @virginiastirnweis5214 3 роки тому

    I thought QE I had a plumbed toilet but got rid of it because of the smell, maybe because it didn’t have the modern day equivalent of a pea trap?

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 3 роки тому

      Her Godson, Sir John Harrington, designed one, but it didn't really take off

  • @pearlas_hiyas
    @pearlas_hiyas 3 роки тому

    I wish this could be fix..its not suitable for HD vids

  • @davidfleming5112
    @davidfleming5112 3 роки тому

    They should never broadcast this unless it was fully restored you give the film companies the bad raputation

  • @DavidFleming-xk1ur
    @DavidFleming-xk1ur Рік тому

    I see you still have cleaned up this video i saw it once before and it was clear as day so with your high tech can't you fin this video?

  • @davidfleming5112
    @davidfleming5112 3 роки тому

    This has been dubbed so many times you can no longer see anything from it

  • @clintmacarthur7895
    @clintmacarthur7895 4 роки тому +1

    “Piss pot” xD

  • @stumulne9542
    @stumulne9542 10 років тому +10

    Probably was filmed by a potato.... But Lucy's so cute, who cares?

    • @Alexroberts666
      @Alexroberts666 7 років тому +2

      appropriately, the quality is just as shitty as the subject matter of the video

  • @Jungleland33
    @Jungleland33 4 роки тому

    I saw more toilets than pixels.

  • @wardenphil
    @wardenphil 12 років тому +2

    I like Lucy's presentation, but I fail to understand her fascination with the fact that the chamber pot contained residue of tudor urine. That is too much.

  • @georgiasmith64
    @georgiasmith64 4 роки тому

    The TMI channel

  • @savedbygodsgrace.9058
    @savedbygodsgrace.9058 4 роки тому

    I'll stick with B&Q bathrooms.

  • @themadplotter
    @themadplotter 2 роки тому

    Historical 240p

  • @Baskerville22
    @Baskerville22 12 років тому +2

    Toilet paper ? Sponges I think...

  • @steveepsilon6639
    @steveepsilon6639 4 роки тому

    She is lovely

  • @meirsolomon5626
    @meirsolomon5626 4 роки тому +1

    Please focus.

  • @vicshere99
    @vicshere99 10 років тому +1

    I want to run away with Lucy and then . . . then . . . protect her. From something. But she probably doesn't need protecting. In summing up, I nevertheless still want to run away with her and protect her.

  • @Ryan-kn6xd
    @Ryan-kn6xd 4 роки тому

    This looks like some kind of audition video due to the poor camera quality no microphones lighting and no background music

  • @fredwilson8326
    @fredwilson8326 5 років тому +1

    its a very blurred video ut needs culling

  • @elphaba4674
    @elphaba4674 4 роки тому

    Real Tudor Piss!
    🤣

  • @rbsmith3365
    @rbsmith3365 5 років тому +2

    This video is out of focus.

  • @mmedefarge
    @mmedefarge 15 років тому

    Hmm. I had thought that the name "John" came from the inventor of the flush toilet, John Crapper (no pun intended).

  • @atelectro1
    @atelectro1 4 роки тому

    Apparently the camera they are using lacked innovation.

  • @nurim.4439
    @nurim.4439 3 роки тому

    I think was much cleaner for humans to do like the cats, make pu and bury it.

  • @mscott3918
    @mscott3918 3 роки тому

    So not the completely white tower

  • @AyubGuruhIzzulhaq
    @AyubGuruhIzzulhaq 4 роки тому

    Ok

  • @jasmijnariel
    @jasmijnariel Рік тому

    Sadly the quality of the footage is sooo bad😢😢

  • @merlemorrison482
    @merlemorrison482 4 роки тому

    thumbs down - vid quality so bad I can't tell what is going on.....

  • @mitzinicoleritter211
    @mitzinicoleritter211 4 роки тому +1

    Good grief