What Hygiene Was Like For Medieval Peasants

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  • Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
  • Although cleanliness in the Middle Ages was primitive compared to what modern people enjoy, it doesn't mean medieval hygiene didn't exist. Despite living in an era long before indoor plumbing, shampoo, and nail salons, people used the best hygiene practices they could. Unfortunately, they didn't have a lot to work with. Peasants had it especially bad and weren't often able to afford luxuries like more than one set of clothing. For the lower classes, personal hygiene in the Middle Ages meant keeping clean however you could, even if it wasn't easy.
    #medieval #peasanthygiene #weirdhistory
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  • @WeirdHistory
    @WeirdHistory  4 роки тому +1889

    What one item would you take back to Medieval Europe?

    • @jasonm97
      @jasonm97 4 роки тому +493

      RTX 2080ti

    • @karlgeli9285
      @karlgeli9285 4 роки тому +586

      gun. so i can rob and be rich

    • @panspotion
      @panspotion 4 роки тому +527

      A fully furnished mansion with plumming, electricity, and heating and cooling

    • @American-Dragon
      @American-Dragon 4 роки тому +47

      Bouquet of flowwrs

    • @goodtitle686
      @goodtitle686 4 роки тому +287

      A coffin.

  • @grandefrppc
    @grandefrppc 3 роки тому +4808

    “babe go take a shower”
    “what!? i just showered last year, ”

    • @FootballAndSuch
      @FootballAndSuch 3 роки тому +154

      Me everytime its January 1st

    • @yourlocalflatiron6124
      @yourlocalflatiron6124 3 роки тому +27

      Lol reminds me of the movie “year one”

    • @gamingwithroy1435
      @gamingwithroy1435 3 роки тому +25

      We bath everyday..as a south asian (Bangladeshi) its daily routine for us

    • @ryanreynolds6704
      @ryanreynolds6704 3 роки тому +105

      @@gamingwithroy1435 Your not special bro everyone does that

    • @gamingwithroy1435
      @gamingwithroy1435 3 роки тому +6

      @@ryanreynolds6704 but i heard people who lives in colder place bath often

  • @ryguyk9375
    @ryguyk9375 4 роки тому +6752

    This video is for all those "I was born in the wrong era" people.

    • @user-wc5kd7ti5u
      @user-wc5kd7ti5u 4 роки тому +582

      Ryan Edwards Excuse me? I *was* born in the wrong era, I miss the days of getting married to your brother at 11, having 3 kids by 15, and dying at childbirth at 16. That is if you didn’t die as a baby or of the plague first. :)
      And public executions and torture were obviously the best entertainment, especially compared to today, where we only have access to virtually all the world’s entertainment with the click of a button. I wish I was born in 1342 😭😭

    • @ryguyk9375
      @ryguyk9375 4 роки тому +69

      @@user-wc5kd7ti5u 😐

    • @user-ox4st4ru7t
      @user-ox4st4ru7t 4 роки тому +134

      복숭아우유 You also forgot reading the Bible with your family :)

    • @user-wc5kd7ti5u
      @user-wc5kd7ti5u 4 роки тому +59

      professionalsimp03 Too expensive. We are surfs.

    • @cicadaknight3048
      @cicadaknight3048 4 роки тому +35

      what that korean username person said, but u n i r o n i c a l l y

  • @ItsRainingHippos
    @ItsRainingHippos 3 роки тому +712

    This is kind of sad, because it seems that peasants knew how to stay clean, and often wanted to, but they were so poor basic hygiene was too expensive.

    • @alexandralaye41
      @alexandralaye41 3 роки тому +6

      😢

    • @narzoggash
      @narzoggash 3 роки тому +44

      All of the shown video is so wrong. And have nothing to do with the modern academical knowledge of the medieval era.

    • @elodin857
      @elodin857 3 роки тому +7

      just bath on a river bro

    • @k.v.7681
      @k.v.7681 3 роки тому +31

      @@elodin857 That's what they did. The video is ridiculous.

    • @-postapokalypso-7289
      @-postapokalypso-7289 3 роки тому +34

      @@narzoggash Yeah Ive heard a lot recently about the supposed "dark" ages not being as dark as often depicted

  • @wtf5749
    @wtf5749 3 роки тому +1466

    Imagine being on your period 😳 that’s horrible

    • @nicolelewis8975
      @nicolelewis8975 3 роки тому +107

      But you’d have stick tampons. Lol

    • @avaemrickmeow
      @avaemrickmeow 3 роки тому +174

      @Demi Guerrero I remember reading it was either just a piece of cloth, sea sponges, or wood wrapped in cloth. And it was considering wrong so women were forced to just deal with that they did. They were silly back then

    • @theoneandonly1158
      @theoneandonly1158 3 роки тому +114

      I could deal... Child birth. Now that's horrible. That's why many women would die giving birth.

    • @kyndall8884
      @kyndall8884 3 роки тому +114

      Most women were probably so malnourished they didn’t get they’re periods at all

    • @vasiaxronidou9120
      @vasiaxronidou9120 3 роки тому +57

      @@theoneandonly1158 I think they worse thing isn't the difficulty of the birth itself, but doing so with very bad hygienic conditions. A woman is very vulnerable to bacteria at this point sooo😬

  • @Trumblebee
    @Trumblebee 4 роки тому +9239

    Took a moment to thank god I was born in the 21st century after watching this

    • @brentbates2503
      @brentbates2503 4 роки тому +523

      Trumblebee even if u were born in the medieval times , it would have been normal to ya.
      People that will be born in 3000 will be glad they werent in 2019 and think we lived like shit, although we're comfortable with it and find it normal.

    • @ilias8972
      @ilias8972 4 роки тому +190

      @@brentbates2503 It's not the same. In first world countries we have incredibly higher quality of life than those 300 years ago, while in 300 years from now quality of life will be slightly increased.

    • @highhope8200
      @highhope8200 4 роки тому +107

      Who knows, in your past life you could have been born as a peasant lol

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 4 роки тому +15

      Trumblebee amen to that.

    • @jojo-eb1ib
      @jojo-eb1ib 4 роки тому +14

      Watch the video from how we are living now, in 400 years

  • @cocraine
    @cocraine 4 роки тому +7214

    Medieval person: **Gets a tiny scrape**
    Doctor: I Diagnose you with *dead*

    • @riverdeep399
      @riverdeep399 4 роки тому +124

      XxCrystal StarlightxX it would be in those days. Just waiting for infection to set in.
      City life was harsh. Country folk had herbs..

    • @anthonyw9129
      @anthonyw9129 4 роки тому +32

      Idk i mean i get cuts all the time working with steel...i don't do anything to them and I'm just fine

    • @quinnrollen
      @quinnrollen 4 роки тому +23

      *Bring our your dead!*

    • @yelw2304
      @yelw2304 4 роки тому +71

      Medieval person: *Gets scratch on arm*
      Doctor: *Cuts off arm*

    • @cocraine
      @cocraine 4 роки тому +22

      DISRESPECT THEM WOMEN SUBJUGATE THOSE HOS. It’s a meme

  • @barnabylowe1239
    @barnabylowe1239 3 роки тому +420

    When you see sex scenes in a medieval era set drama you think of this

    • @dosto_viski8292
      @dosto_viski8292 3 роки тому +28

      *EXACTLY*

    • @missmarshmellowmouth
      @missmarshmellowmouth 3 роки тому +6

      true

    • @k.v.7681
      @k.v.7681 3 роки тому +28

      You souldn't. That video is filled with BS and half-truths. People in the medieval era we see as "dirty peasants" were cleaner than the preppy Marie-Antoinette everybody fawns about as the epitome of historical babes.

    • @ekkoekko4610
      @ekkoekko4610 3 роки тому

      p

    • @ekkoekko4610
      @ekkoekko4610 3 роки тому

      p

  • @honeymartina8383
    @honeymartina8383 3 роки тому +1162

    2020 doesn't feel that bad after watching this.

    • @ivym3969
      @ivym3969 3 роки тому +28

      Sis who you telling 😳 We are blessed

    • @daniellee8162
      @daniellee8162 3 роки тому +15

      2020: I still have a month and a half left...I'm not finished yet!

    • @charlesbronson240
      @charlesbronson240 3 роки тому +51

      Exactly. Stop fucking complaining about staying inside your heated houses with thousands of hours of entertainment and endless showers.

    • @jaymevosburgh3660
      @jaymevosburgh3660 3 роки тому +5

      So true. The past was so awful.
      I love how angry & oddly offended some people get over some comments. Not sure why they waste the energy to bitch or mock when they should be well aware that nothing will come ov it.

    • @angelafisher5726
      @angelafisher5726 3 роки тому +4

      They didnt know any better.....
      We do....... 2020 sucked.....

  • @GNWP67
    @GNWP67 4 роки тому +3577

    Patient: Doctor I vomit constanly and have terribly painful bowel movement.
    Medieval Doctor: I diagnosed you with *cursed*

    • @oscarmartinez2538
      @oscarmartinez2538 4 роки тому +8

      Tremendous Bloke l😂😂😂

    • @kaileyy2991
      @kaileyy2991 4 роки тому +24

      *it be like that*

    • @itsmeyourfriend
      @itsmeyourfriend 4 роки тому +3

      1,000 person to like 😁

    • @morp9671
      @morp9671 4 роки тому +4

      @@itsmeyourfriend nobody cares

    • @CookingMyWay
      @CookingMyWay 4 роки тому +2

      As a magic Channel... I would cure them and myself with magic 🍀🌞🍁💫🎉

  • @cemetarybug
    @cemetarybug 4 роки тому +2606

    old people: "yall are too spoiled back in the *good* old days-"
    the good old days:

    • @Aliendrone121
      @Aliendrone121 4 роки тому +133

      "Ah sonny when i was your age i wore a potato sack and loved liveing in a glorified haystack"

    • @Sapsche
      @Sapsche 4 роки тому +80

      @@Aliendrone121 "So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time."

    • @thebluewhale8891
      @thebluewhale8891 4 роки тому +40

      @@Sapsche "I don wore a rock for a hat and brushed my teeth with cow manure. "

    • @Mylkies
      @Mylkies 4 роки тому +38

      Phone Phone Oh so you were rich enough to afford cow manure and rock hats? In my day we had, 1 piece of bark and that was lunch for a week

    • @honey_bee65
      @honey_bee65 4 роки тому +7

      Why would the old people be saying they were spoiled "back in the good old days"??? 🤨🤔🙄
      Dude, you need to learn how to use *PUNCTUATION* 😒

  • @JessEllen123
    @JessEllen123 3 роки тому +633

    I wonder how many women died from urinary tract infections every year.

    • @jonesvideo80
      @jonesvideo80 3 роки тому +86

      This comment scares me because of how true it is

    • @MaddyLovesU99
      @MaddyLovesU99 3 роки тому +18

      I always wonder this

    • @jonesvideo80
      @jonesvideo80 3 роки тому +5

      @@MaddyLovesU99 same

    • @johannesscherzer6305
      @johannesscherzer6305 3 роки тому +7

      urinary tract infections nowadays occur mostly as a side effect of the contraceptive pill
      I wouldn‘t generally recommend to discontniue taking it but sadly that‘s the root of this problem a lot of the time

    • @javierschiefelbein4084
      @javierschiefelbein4084 3 роки тому +75

      @@johannesscherzer6305 you better back up those claims cause that is straight up untrue

  • @hernanikins
    @hernanikins 3 роки тому +446

    It’s honestly a miracle that the human race has survived this long

    • @pongers5895
      @pongers5895 3 роки тому +30

      No no no only Europeans didn't bath Mayan, middle easterns and Asians washed daily

    • @officaldutchwowcomunity2730
      @officaldutchwowcomunity2730 3 роки тому +19

      @@pongers5895 Europeans did bathe tho.

    • @ABk-dt8lk
      @ABk-dt8lk 3 роки тому +8

      @@officaldutchwowcomunity2730 in northern europe they bathed one day a week,in saturday I think

    • @TheDoggo07
      @TheDoggo07 3 роки тому +12

      It was only Europe. North Africa and middle east were flourishing

    • @Infinitybein
      @Infinitybein 2 роки тому +3

      Africans bathe 2x per day....made soap

  • @1337fraggzb00N
    @1337fraggzb00N 4 роки тому +3025

    Medieval woman: does not stink because she uses soap and cleans her teeth.
    Medieval crowd:"Burn the witch!"

    • @trueboca3461
      @trueboca3461 4 роки тому +32

      1337fraggzb00N give me my hamster back

    • @1337fraggzb00N
      @1337fraggzb00N 4 роки тому +28

      @@trueboca3461 it is mein hamster now.

    • @1337fraggzb00N
      @1337fraggzb00N 4 роки тому +14

      River Piscean das hamster is mein bitch now.

    • @fortunateloan696
      @fortunateloan696 4 роки тому +7

      1337fraggzb00N your bitch?!

    • @seansswamp
      @seansswamp 4 роки тому +5

      fortunateloan 😂😂

  • @sammistatik
    @sammistatik 4 роки тому +3172

    "If a peasant suffered diarrhea or a painful bm, doctors would think they were cursed."
    To be fair diarrhea does feels like a curse lol

    • @kevincarlson7148
      @kevincarlson7148 3 роки тому +14

      Try having clostridium difficile.They'd call in exorcists.I'm surprised they didn't have a resident plague doctor in the (excellent) hospital I was in .Post covid,maybe they do.

    • @kevincarlson7148
      @kevincarlson7148 3 роки тому +6

      @Layla Forrest Heh,my family called it "their only heirloom".They wore brown pants most of the time.

    • @kevincarlson7148
      @kevincarlson7148 3 роки тому +1

      @CROM Lol,whatever rocks your boat.

    • @apemcrape4050
      @apemcrape4050 3 роки тому +3

      I wish somebody woulda told me this earlier -- I'm already halfway through eating this bowl of diarrhea!

    • @cristianbortos7757
      @cristianbortos7757 3 роки тому +3

      Legend says that if you drink a glass of milk and eat grapes, you will be cursed all day 😂

  • @ok757
    @ok757 3 роки тому +408

    *finishes video*
    *hugs toothbrush and tooth paste*
    *hugs shower*
    *hugs my drawers filled with clothes*
    *hugs modern vaccines*

    • @elhale8774
      @elhale8774 3 роки тому +16

      What about the toilet? 🤪

    • @wplains
      @wplains 3 роки тому +18

      Hug the dentist too while you’re at it. 😂😂😂

    • @rainbowkitten8990
      @rainbowkitten8990 3 роки тому +4

      @@wplains Yes 😂

    • @nathanbush6781
      @nathanbush6781 2 місяці тому

      @@wplainsmy dentist’s son who joined the practice is sexy, so I will!

  • @thedriveog
    @thedriveog 3 роки тому +195

    Imagine being a doctor and going back in time, you would be something like a wizard for these people
    And end up on a pile of burning wood

    • @hallucy2215
      @hallucy2215 2 роки тому

      ur mom

    • @emberae
      @emberae Рік тому +2

      Literally the plot of outlander 😂

  • @OctoberRust1973
    @OctoberRust1973 4 роки тому +1907

    I think my roommate thinks he’s from this time.

  • @nopenope273
    @nopenope273 4 роки тому +2121

    twig tampons sound like a living nightmare

    • @kadensmike8190
      @kadensmike8190 4 роки тому +210

      FFS nobody would do that! The video was made by a man, I can't think a woman would have shown rough twigs in a photo. The video maker doesn't know that in medieval England it was considered unnatural for a woman to place any phallic shaped object into her vagina. No doubt woman used homemade tampon based on bud-shaped plugs. C'mon, can you imagine a woman shoving a rough twig into her private parts - complete crap!!

    • @ilovechickenadobo6962
      @ilovechickenadobo6962 4 роки тому +133

      @@kadensmike8190 I once watched a woman insert a wooden table leg into herself.

    • @saragerace2648
      @saragerace2648 4 роки тому +84

      @@ilovechickenadobo6962 do I wanna ask?

    • @NastyAngel
      @NastyAngel 4 роки тому +8

      i'd like to try that!

    • @kenihow
      @kenihow 4 роки тому +117

      @@ilovechickenadobo6962 get off those porn sites.

  • @charlesbronson240
    @charlesbronson240 3 роки тому +122

    I’m grateful of the generation I was born in where I can shower and wash my clothes every day if I want to.

    • @animmv26
      @animmv26 11 місяців тому

      Yeaa lmaoo 😂

    • @Ad-zk8nz
      @Ad-zk8nz Місяць тому

      Reincarnation: Next Level Soul Podcast 🙏

  • @seluita8720
    @seluita8720 3 роки тому +131

    As a medievalist, I’d like to say that all this information is correct at one point or another. However, we need to remember that these things were not actually the truth at all times and in all places, even somewhere as compact as medieval UK. Early medieval period was VERY different than later medieval period, for example. There were also easterners who migrated to the uk with very different styles of cleanliness. Not to mention there were more than just “brits” in medieval UK (Picts, Scandinavians, Celts) whom all had separate ideas about cleanliness. Also I’m curious where you got your information for menstration but the twig thing is not really supported by historians since it’s fair to say that most women would at least have the brains to determine that a stick covered in cloth was painful. Women would more than likely wear a diaper-like wrapping to catch blood and there are fashion historians who have tested it out recently as well. Anyways, there’s a lot more I’d like to say but all in all, pretty much all spot with the actions but the picture is skewed to make it seem like people didn’t evolve and change for nearly 1000 years. The end.

    • @y_fam_goeglyd
      @y_fam_goeglyd Рік тому +1

      Thank you! Saves me mentioning the length of time that age lasted. I'm not a mediaeval expert like you, but I do know that!

  • @LeslieAM32
    @LeslieAM32 4 роки тому +1706

    "Hey, got a tampon?"
    *picks branch off tree* "Sure!"

    • @memyself1176
      @memyself1176 4 роки тому +111

      "hey, got a dildo?"
      Picks up a branch

    • @monicapyle
      @monicapyle 4 роки тому +20

      Their public bathrooms had some weird looking tampon dispensers. Drop a quarter in and you can go out back and pick a twig of your choice and tear off a piece of cloth from your dress and there ya go 👍

    • @amalia2573
      @amalia2573 4 роки тому +13

      oh hell no

    • @JereeAnderson
      @JereeAnderson 4 роки тому +9

      😭

    • @__jolynn__5120
      @__jolynn__5120 4 роки тому +1

      😂😂

  • @anguishios3230
    @anguishios3230 3 роки тому +3368

    In another 5 thousand years they’ll be talking about how bad our hygiene was 😂😂

    • @sweetnsour3693
      @sweetnsour3693 3 роки тому +207

      No, they won’t.

    • @IVANGEBER
      @IVANGEBER 3 роки тому +94

      No, they won’t

    • @Julia-xm4ke
      @Julia-xm4ke 3 роки тому +376

      There is a big possibility that the earth won’t be around for 5 thousand more years

    • @isabelle2940
      @isabelle2940 3 роки тому +65

      @@Dan-zt7uj this is why there's gonna be a hunger games soon, mark my words 🤠

    • @macaryl95
      @macaryl95 3 роки тому +190

      "These mfs didn't even use bidets like can you imagine walking around with a poop crusted ass?"

  • @michaelj6392
    @michaelj6392 3 роки тому +70

    I’m watching this laying in my clean bed in my clean house after taking a shower 😌

  • @lwp1428
    @lwp1428 3 роки тому +79

    I honestly would have tried my luck making a separate homestead in the wilderness on my own instead of living in a village. Sounds like hell to me.

    • @joywairimu2372
      @joywairimu2372 3 роки тому +12

      That would have made you the village wizard😂😂😂😂

    • @rachmawanatmajiperdana8866
      @rachmawanatmajiperdana8866 2 роки тому +18

      bears, tigers, snakes, and other wild animals : hello

    • @puflem
      @puflem 2 роки тому

      The woods almost always belonged to the royalty so they would've found you, and probably executed you.
      Plus, poaching was often prohibited for anyone but the royal hunter and the royals themselves (for sports) so you wouldn't even have been able to eat anything but berries. If they weren't poisonous.

    • @hollybyrd6186
      @hollybyrd6186 Рік тому +8

      Due to feudalism you'd have to have your local Lords permission. Most poor people were serf, and were tied to the land and lord.

    • @animmv26
      @animmv26 11 місяців тому

      army will knock ur door and burn your house like they always do

  • @jackparker4728
    @jackparker4728 4 роки тому +3109

    I feel so clean after watching this video

    • @k3nz1e73
      @k3nz1e73 4 роки тому +49

      I haven’t showered for 6 days...I’m clean right?

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 4 роки тому +53

      @@k3nz1e73 should really take a shower now.

    • @k3nz1e73
      @k3nz1e73 4 роки тому +14

      LudicrousKid I’m gonna take a bath

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 4 роки тому +10

      @@k3nz1e73 Shower, not bath. I just took one as well!

    • @k3nz1e73
      @k3nz1e73 4 роки тому +5

      LudicrousKid I showered this morning

  • @darrenfreyauthor
    @darrenfreyauthor 4 роки тому +1838

    "He must be a king"
    "Why?"
    "He hasn't got shit all over him"

    • @Tiger42s
      @Tiger42s 4 роки тому +14

      LMAO!!! GOLD

    • @pseudoillusion2556
      @pseudoillusion2556 4 роки тому +32

      Monty Python 😂.

    • @kentuckycrittercamera9407
      @kentuckycrittercamera9407 4 роки тому +25

      Help I’m being oppressed!

    • @darrenfreyauthor
      @darrenfreyauthor 4 роки тому +46

      A strange lady distributing swords is no system of government! You can't wield extreme executive power, just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!

    • @Little_Lotta
      @Little_Lotta 4 роки тому +16

      Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

  • @leslybravo4100
    @leslybravo4100 3 роки тому +430

    The Mayans and Aztecs could never. They had plumming and everything, worked as a community. they were known to be the cleanest and most self sufficient.

    • @classicarah
      @classicarah 3 роки тому +1

      Yup

    • @RedVelvetBlackleather
      @RedVelvetBlackleather 3 роки тому +79

      Yeah, but solely the Aztecs, and primarily due to their proximity to water. That’s a single Central American tribe out of hundreds of tribes in North America. I don’t appreciate how non whites try to make other cultures seem as if they’re so much more clean than Europeans.

    • @Tiffany-mw1du
      @Tiffany-mw1du 3 роки тому +31

      @Ooki Cooki the flavour

    • @ilovelobstas9393
      @ilovelobstas9393 3 роки тому +45

      @@RedVelvetBlackleather it wasn’t very hard to be cleaner than the europeans

    • @RedVelvetBlackleather
      @RedVelvetBlackleather 3 роки тому +13

      @@ilovelobstas9393
      It isn’t much harder to be better than Hispanics.

  • @albertfeibstein8787
    @albertfeibstein8787 3 роки тому +32

    This video just made me want to take a shower and appreciate the cheap soap and shampoo i have. Thanks for making feel better weird history

  • @topxramn
    @topxramn 4 роки тому +2031

    During this era, Japan was bathing in hot springs.

    • @laurenson455
      @laurenson455 4 роки тому +21

      Lol

    • @shawnmcdoge2215
      @shawnmcdoge2215 4 роки тому +380

      Helps to have hot springs in the environment lol

    • @plotTWiSt2024
      @plotTWiSt2024 4 роки тому +111

      Well that's oof to europeans-

    • @Pakicetus_
      @Pakicetus_ 4 роки тому +358

      And 1000 years before that there were Roman baths with hot water all over Europe but then the G*rmans came...and BAAAAM medieval times bois!

    • @mohamedgoogle8401
      @mohamedgoogle8401 4 роки тому +243

      The Arabian doctors brought a lot of health care to the world. In the era still was in the dark ages. The Arabians brought a lot of wisdom in astrology, healthcare and science in that time.

  • @mr.personhumanson6871
    @mr.personhumanson6871 4 роки тому +2779

    How medievla folks deal with hygiene: If everyone is stinky then nobody is stinky, problem solved!

    • @mistylavae2433
      @mistylavae2433 4 роки тому +14

      Mr. Person Humanson 😂

    • @jojo-eb1ib
      @jojo-eb1ib 4 роки тому +63

      There is definitely different levels to the funk

    • @curtisharrell
      @curtisharrell 4 роки тому +57

      The few people who didn't stink smelled 'funny' and were often ridiculed and pelted with fresh cabbage.

    • @mignonthon
      @mignonthon 4 роки тому +12

      there is always stinkier, believe me.

    • @anthonyszarek6905
      @anthonyszarek6905 4 роки тому +3

      😂🤣😂

  • @bettinakatze1
    @bettinakatze1 3 роки тому +270

    I guess, women in medieval times had their menstruation only once or twice in a lifetime,
    cause thy had to marry early and were constantly pregnant! :-(

  • @mknewlan67
    @mknewlan67 3 роки тому +13

    I suffer from chronic kidney stones, I cannot imagine going through this in medieval ages. Must of been a painful death.

  • @raine-time
    @raine-time 4 роки тому +952

    "Hallo doctor, ive been getting headaches"
    "Hmm, let me take a look at you. I see.. I must amputate this arm"

    • @The_Butler_Did_It
      @The_Butler_Did_It 4 роки тому +13

      "Hello doctor, my arm aches"
      "Hmm, let me take a look...you're not going like this"

    • @mr.kingofphenomenal4629
      @mr.kingofphenomenal4629 4 роки тому +8

      No just eat these magical berries, I got from random forest that can make it go away.

    • @jonathanlund6708
      @jonathanlund6708 4 роки тому

      Here try these leeches

    • @emeukal7683
      @emeukal7683 4 роки тому

      Doctor my knee hurts. Lets put fluid into it that has no proven long term effects in it using a big needle.

    • @GeneralLocooo
      @GeneralLocooo 4 роки тому

      RussRedCloud hgfghh

  • @annehenry6243
    @annehenry6243 4 роки тому +1258

    Man: brushing teeth with twig
    Woman: hey, honey, have you seen my twig? It's that time again.

  • @srlossnosa4156
    @srlossnosa4156 3 роки тому +54

    Maybe next generation is going to talk about how much chemical poisoning on our food air water and everything else around us.👁️👁️

    • @someonez
      @someonez 3 роки тому +3

      Hope so... The other option is them talking about how clean was everything in our lifetime compared to theirs

    • @wenwentran9403
      @wenwentran9403 2 роки тому +1

      That would br utopia. Dystopia is they dicuss how life was on earth when they moved to mars

    • @TheGreatCookie1718
      @TheGreatCookie1718 Рік тому +1

      And how we used radiation to treat cancer

  • @zek7353
    @zek7353 3 роки тому +18

    I'm watching this before taking a 1hour shower and feeling very appreciative of my water heater, shampoo, conditioner, cleansing cream, facial wash and facial scrub.
    - Peasant, 2021

  • @CsubAzUrmedve
    @CsubAzUrmedve 4 роки тому +1619

    I really want to see a medieval person's reaction on present times.

    • @Whiskerybeast
      @Whiskerybeast 4 роки тому +128

      Me too! I think they would be blown away by just how we use the bathroom or wash ourselves.

    • @BlazeDupree1525
      @BlazeDupree1525 4 роки тому +305

      They would probably accuse us of witch craft and try to burn and cleanse our impurities...

    • @Adrien_broner
      @Adrien_broner 4 роки тому +22

      Watch the Black Knight.

    • @ChickenPermission617
      @ChickenPermission617 4 роки тому +81

      I thought this same thing! Something tells me they’d think most, if not all, of our hygiene practices are borderline ridiculous to the point of like witchcraft or something lol

    • @aninterestingconcept5193
      @aninterestingconcept5193 4 роки тому +42

      theyd probably think its witchcraft or think weve gone mad

  • @Mxun
    @Mxun 4 роки тому +2097

    Imagine how much women had yeast infections 😷

    • @mitchk.1973
      @mitchk.1973 4 роки тому +55

      Haha grosss

    • @tinaw.5538
      @tinaw.5538 4 роки тому +319

      I should think bacterial vaginosis, and UTI would actually be more common.

    • @mirta000
      @mirta000 4 роки тому +106

      likely rarer than now. It's very common to get one from washing out your bacteria.

    • @remhawk73
      @remhawk73 4 роки тому +314

      She probably would later use it to make bread.

    • @katherinesawler1174
      @katherinesawler1174 4 роки тому +110

      @@remhawk73 OMG 🤮

  • @yanyflores9383
    @yanyflores9383 3 роки тому +85

    But Egyptians knew that the lack of hygiene causes diseases, so they bathed everyday.

  • @noblepolygon5109
    @noblepolygon5109 3 роки тому +50

    "Instead of toilet paper,medieval peasants used straw, grass, moss or hay".
    My anus literally puckered when I heard that.

  • @cookiewoke1899
    @cookiewoke1899 4 роки тому +1042

    I'm gonna go out on a limb and say not great.

  • @clare5687
    @clare5687 4 роки тому +2423

    Y’all we are so damn blessed.

    • @TheMaybach1984
      @TheMaybach1984 4 роки тому +27

      Blessed? Due to choosing to wash our asses? That's not a blessing, that's common sense.

    • @deeliciousgrapes
      @deeliciousgrapes 3 роки тому +209

      @@TheMaybach1984 you knew exactly what she meant

    • @parishjackson4029
      @parishjackson4029 3 роки тому +11

      Are you single though

    • @jwalls2002
      @jwalls2002 3 роки тому +72

      @@parishjackson4029 you already missed your shot before even shootin

    • @apemcrape4050
      @apemcrape4050 3 роки тому +15

      @@TheMaybach1984 So _you're_ the worst human on Earth

  • @ousamadearu5960
    @ousamadearu5960 3 роки тому +32

    This should be:
    "The most stereotypical video about peasants that happens in major cities"

  • @alexchrist2809
    @alexchrist2809 3 роки тому +16

    I don’t think a single person from a modern first world country could stand living in the Middle Ages for more than a day

  • @nikkiyoung89
    @nikkiyoung89 4 роки тому +447

    “Excuse me, is there a pit or river near by? It is that time of the month and I need to change my twig.”

    • @crystalankeny4090
      @crystalankeny4090 4 роки тому +5

      This just made me laugh so hard 😂😂 probably because I'm on mine

    • @JLBREMER
      @JLBREMER 4 роки тому +6

      😂😂😂😂 I laughed out loud. My neighbor is probably wondering what’s wrong with me. Can you imagine the UTI’s that they must of had from the twigs.

  • @mn_twisted4319
    @mn_twisted4319 4 роки тому +963

    Luke warm baths in dirty small amounts of water is my favorite pastime

    • @Kajira26
      @Kajira26 4 роки тому +4

      MN_Twisted 🤣

    • @oliviadavis9639
      @oliviadavis9639 4 роки тому +3

      BRUH

    • @anthonyszarek6905
      @anthonyszarek6905 4 роки тому +3

      😂🤣😂

    • @mrspook7393
      @mrspook7393 4 роки тому

      And you know this...

    • @UnknownUnknown-yl1lt
      @UnknownUnknown-yl1lt 4 роки тому +2

      I would have been one of those peasants that just didnt try to bathe at all..I would have just said fuck it. It's no point. Embrace the funk.

  • @carlosbraga6494
    @carlosbraga6494 3 роки тому +11

    I like the "old footage" style video lol. Feels like it's somehow the real stuff.

  • @yokiryuchan7655
    @yokiryuchan7655 Рік тому +4

    No wonder the life expectancy was like 30.

  • @ashtheprofessor
    @ashtheprofessor 4 роки тому +2320

    does this count as studying

    • @jeffthegangster6065
      @jeffthegangster6065 4 роки тому +67

      Yes along as you repeat it 2times

    • @deeds517
      @deeds517 4 роки тому +23

      You passed

    • @krokodil191
      @krokodil191 4 роки тому +37

      Everything new you learn can be called studying

    • @AHJ789
      @AHJ789 4 роки тому +7

      If it’s relevant to what you’re learning yes I used UA-cam video a fair amount during my exams as a different way of learning
      To be honest anything new to you is learning so the simple answer yes 😂😂

    • @ReasonAboveEverything
      @ReasonAboveEverything 4 роки тому +5

      Why yes it does.

  • @shellsbignumber2
    @shellsbignumber2 4 роки тому +659

    Lets all take a moment to count our lucky stars we did not live in the medieval period.

    • @kadensmike8190
      @kadensmike8190 4 роки тому +1

      Why?

    • @ArizonaWillful
      @ArizonaWillful 4 роки тому +4

      Maybe you did. Ever had regression therapy to a past life?

    • @ArizonaWillful
      @ArizonaWillful 4 роки тому +17

      @@kadensmike8190 Watch the video.

    • @cyberkkult
      @cyberkkult 4 роки тому +1

      ArizonaWillful that’s if we even have past lives

    • @scottmartin9175
      @scottmartin9175 4 роки тому +2

      We might have.-past life-

  • @ruthiemay4799
    @ruthiemay4799 3 роки тому +1

    I am really enjoying your videos. Your voice is relaxing and your soundtrack is not obtrusive as so many UA-camrs have done.
    Your content is amazing and we'll researched. THANK YOU! You are my new guilty pleasure.

  • @rustyshackleford2605
    @rustyshackleford2605 3 роки тому +16

    Using twigs to brush teeth is actually not as bad as you might imagine. If you get a fresh twig that's not completely dry, peel the outer hard layer and chew the inner part, it forms a nice soft brush.

  • @shesaknitter
    @shesaknitter 4 роки тому +643

    Women of that time were often pregnant so fewer periods for that reason, too.

    • @jumpinglizards69
      @jumpinglizards69 4 роки тому +9

      Free labor

    • @lalakuma9
      @lalakuma9 4 роки тому +30

      But also more dead bodies of women and babies dying during childbirth. So period blood or corpse, take your pick.

    • @Snorklaren0
      @Snorklaren0 4 роки тому +1

      @@Victorcr1000 Well that is a lie

    • @ScourgeMonastik-oj1uo
      @ScourgeMonastik-oj1uo 4 роки тому +2

      im slim and i get a normal cycle and i have a limited diet but thats also the pill at work lol

    • @cassandramayrick9586
      @cassandramayrick9586 4 роки тому +1

      @@jumpinglizards69 😂

  • @user-ys7vg2xh2k
    @user-ys7vg2xh2k 4 роки тому +904

    Everyone, this is literally the *BEST* era to be living in right now. The world is never perfect, but it sure is better than it was hundreds and thousands of years ago.

    • @Theorangecrushgamer
      @Theorangecrushgamer 4 роки тому +2

      Not everyone but ok.

    • @williammickelson403
      @williammickelson403 4 роки тому +14

      People don’t appreciate the day we live in enough

    • @SerebiiWarrior
      @SerebiiWarrior 4 роки тому +14

      Also, to us moderns the lives of medieval people look pretty hellish compared to now since we're so used to modern conveniences. But they didn't have or know about modern conveniences back then. To a modern person it would be a huge shock to go back in time and live like a medieval peasant, but to them it was just the way life was.

    • @Adventure_fuel
      @Adventure_fuel 4 роки тому +1

      Out ancestors where born in to there circumstances of which the acclimated or stopped existing.

    • @maryanamendes837
      @maryanamendes837 4 роки тому +2

      2005 was pretty good for me

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner 7 місяців тому

    A+ video!
    LOVE IT! That is something I will probably constantly think about for a week at least.

  • @buhlenkosi3840
    @buhlenkosi3840 3 роки тому +9

    All I can say is I’m ever so grateful for life today

  • @2BachShakur
    @2BachShakur 4 роки тому +1104

    Their hygiene was about the same as a modern college student.

    • @farcrazy99
      @farcrazy99 4 роки тому +69

      10 David did you not wash while you were in college, David?

    • @farcrazy99
      @farcrazy99 4 роки тому +8

      Rahh Calm down calm down ⬇️⬇️⬇️

    • @farcrazy99
      @farcrazy99 4 роки тому +18

      U bouta catch these hands David

    • @elisejackson2854
      @elisejackson2854 4 роки тому +12

      um eww.

    • @Mauzipan
      @Mauzipan 4 роки тому +5

      True college forms are a disaster trielt disgusting

  • @sanjuanagasca4124
    @sanjuanagasca4124 4 роки тому +801

    I guess what the Aztecs said about the spanish Conquistadores was true they did not bath and reeked.

    • @lisalozano1408
      @lisalozano1408 4 роки тому +6

      SanJuana Gasca yup!!!!

    • @BrandyTexas214
      @BrandyTexas214 4 роки тому +21

      I don’t think that’s the middle ages dude

    • @jorgec.a3123
      @jorgec.a3123 4 роки тому +42

      It's not like there where that many options for bathing or hygiene in the middle of the jungle fighting natives, wild animals and disease

    • @urmomsdesigner1651
      @urmomsdesigner1651 4 роки тому +11

      Jorge C.A I think they had rivers and also had merchants that would fetch exotic products. I read they had markets and each villager had a rank and task that helped the place thrive

    • @jorgec.a3123
      @jorgec.a3123 4 роки тому

      @@urmomsdesigner1651 not that many rivers, even less revers if you want to pick the safe ones, not that much time for bathing, most likely no soap and definitely no peasants or merchants with the conquistadors

  • @nancymartinez6872
    @nancymartinez6872 3 роки тому +6

    Well. I hear lots of people say they wished they lived in that time because it was so fascinating, but me, I sure am greatful to have been born on this time!

  • @gregkral4467
    @gregkral4467 Рік тому

    I love these presentations, thank you.

  • @carpii
    @carpii 3 роки тому +470

    I’m having a de-lousing party at the weekend if anyone wants to come

    • @briannaphillips853
      @briannaphillips853 3 роки тому +8

      Okay but we aint peasants so are we wearing masks 😂

    • @carpii
      @carpii 3 роки тому +26

      @@briannaphillips853 Yes please. Masks are required, must be calfs leather and tightly stitched.
      To protect our fellow villagers from the recent plague, you must also wear a cloth soaked in vinegar, or an orange studded with cloves.

    • @ekdaufin1485
      @ekdaufin1485 3 роки тому +1

      🤣

    • @rezandrarizkyirianto-1933
      @rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 3 роки тому +3

      @@carpii Hm, how about my Plague Doctor suit? Oh, and don't worry about hand sanitizers, I'm sure that holy symbols of God would suffice

    • @alicer9390
      @alicer9390 3 роки тому +1

      Elementary school lice break outs!

  • @doingtime20
    @doingtime20 4 роки тому +178

    I now think that living short lives was a blessing and not a curse in past times.

    • @herodotus945
      @herodotus945 4 роки тому +5

      Depending on circumstances people back then could live up to 70 years, if they had food, little to no wars and epidemics.

    • @thegigadykid1
      @thegigadykid1 4 роки тому

      Right

    • @-Gous-
      @-Gous- 4 роки тому

      If I could bang woman everyday, I would not have cared for a short living ^^

  • @JohnWest-zq5gs
    @JohnWest-zq5gs 10 місяців тому +2

    all they needed was a couple gallons of water bar soap and washcloth

  • @felicitydolbear911
    @felicitydolbear911 3 роки тому +49

    Ok some "facts" are just wrong, they definitely didn't eat with their hands, they had knives for stabbing food and spoons for scooping. I can't be bothered with the rest right now

    • @jonajo9757
      @jonajo9757 3 роки тому +1

      That depends. They didn't use forks as much, but they certainlly used spoons and knives. Also eating with hands kind of depended.

    • @jonajo9757
      @jonajo9757 3 роки тому

      Oh you didn't mention forks.

  • @BSKX17
    @BSKX17 4 роки тому +457

    medieval peasant gets a scratch on his finger.
    "that's it. i'm dead."

    • @ArizonaWillful
      @ArizonaWillful 4 роки тому +30

      Actually, you are right. I used to get ear infections from swimming a lot. One time I asked my doctor what happened to people with ear infections before antibiotics. He said that often the infection would spread throughout the body and KILL the person. Something we just consider an annoyance now was once a cause of death!

    • @dadrising6464
      @dadrising6464 4 роки тому +14

      @@ArizonaWillful well, what those doctors tend to forget, is that people that time probably had a way better trained immune system. Its hard to compare.

    • @averagechannel4210
      @averagechannel4210 4 роки тому +5

      Even a rotten tooth could lead to death. And weakened immune systems ( a result of malnutrition and horrible life conditions ) didn't help.

    • @physhgyrl76hengesbach18
      @physhgyrl76hengesbach18 4 роки тому +10

      @@dadrising6464 I have a great great great aunt who died from an ear infection. Antibiotics truly changed things. People dropped like flies. Look at Victorian times. They were so inured to death that kids used to play "cemetary " and would pretend it was their burial day. Death everywhere

    • @Nik.No.K
      @Nik.No.K 4 роки тому +2

      He was 28, lived a good long life

  • @SimGirl00
    @SimGirl00 4 роки тому +307

    It’s amazing that we are alive today it means our ancestors survived all these things and other stuff. We are so lucky and don’t realise it sometimes.

    • @margomazzeo1680
      @margomazzeo1680 4 роки тому +4

      @@justinwayne445 stfu..ya sick troll..

    • @cristianvillanueva8782
      @cristianvillanueva8782 4 роки тому

      @@bajdb8062 for real

    • @sharkie9975
      @sharkie9975 4 роки тому +13

      Justin where did that come from? Calm tf down

    • @TheMaybach1984
      @TheMaybach1984 4 роки тому +3

      It's called fucking and having children before dying and so on.

    • @SeFu2006
      @SeFu2006 4 роки тому +2

      Some people still don’t stay clean despite the tools available

  • @sageskywatcher9890
    @sageskywatcher9890 3 роки тому

    Thank you for covering hygenic needs specific to women with such forwardness and clarity. You have my respect.

    • @makaelaischillin
      @makaelaischillin 3 роки тому

      I don’t get it? It’s a hygiene video odvi periods are going to be covered. No hate though 😅

  • @jordanenogue-ouellette6852
    @jordanenogue-ouellette6852 3 роки тому +4

    That's an interesting video, thanks,I enjoyed it! However I do wish you'd include references and, if possible, dates or contexts to support some of those claims, as it's always interesting to see when and why a certain practice might have started, transformed or stopped, due to events happening within that time period, a belief, a new invention, etc.
    Cheers!

  • @SK22000
    @SK22000 4 роки тому +395

    Relationship goals: delousing your spouse

  • @serenedoge9920
    @serenedoge9920 4 роки тому +609

    Peasant: “Doctor, something is wrong with my stomach!”
    Doctor: *“Release thy hold of this man’s bowels, SATAN!”*
    Proceeds to throw leeches everywhere.

  • @edstahl9802
    @edstahl9802 7 місяців тому

    Very interesting. Thank you, Weird History.

  • @studiosandi
    @studiosandi 3 роки тому +1

    These videos are key to being grateful for what we have.

  • @sofiao1652
    @sofiao1652 4 роки тому +355

    There’s still people in the world with no running water :(

    • @kadensmike8190
      @kadensmike8190 4 роки тому +5

      You can have a good life without running water.

    • @ratadedospatas1
      @ratadedospatas1 4 роки тому +47

      Kaden Smike but you can’t live a long life without clean water

    • @cyancyborg1477
      @cyancyborg1477 4 роки тому +5

      @@ratadedospatas1 Ah, an apt distinction.

    • @rvril
      @rvril 4 роки тому

      good

    • @stephaniemomma
      @stephaniemomma 4 роки тому +9

      There’s still people in America without running water. Like 1/3 of the Navajo nation

  • @jamesmack3314
    @jamesmack3314 4 роки тому +295

    Whoever invented toilet paper should have been awarded the Nobel prize....or more likely made king/queen

    • @RobertLoves
      @RobertLoves 4 роки тому +8

      @@rayna5561 This is why I wet the TP 😂

    • @FreedomNurse
      @FreedomNurse 4 роки тому +10

      I have a biddet. Best thing ever

    • @fauzirahimpohan3130
      @fauzirahimpohan3130 4 роки тому +11

      Lol even you have biddet your ass will still stink 🤣 Well in my country we handwash it with soap. It might sound wierd but when you get used to it, you'll realize it's way cleaner cause you're using soap. It makes sure you won't have dinggle berries yikes 🤢

    • @notafuckinpplperson8233
      @notafuckinpplperson8233 4 роки тому +6

      Fauzi Rahim Pohan bro, they have flushable wipes now lol.

    • @Bkowp
      @Bkowp 4 роки тому +11

      Pfft. You guys are amateurs. I rub soap on my anus and then rinse it off with the the detachable shower 🚿

  • @ejlabbe5632
    @ejlabbe5632 3 роки тому

    Can you make a video on how common (or otherwise) people use to do their hair? Wash, cut, style, throughout the ages. I study hair and history (not together. Weird, but everyone has their kinks..) and I'd personally love to listen to that. I usually listen to weird history videos while I'm cooking, driving, or drinking. And i am never disappointed. Anyway- thanks for the random history knowledge. Means a lot to me! Lol

  • @labitcoineragt3596
    @labitcoineragt3596 Рік тому

    I really enjoy your videos. You have a hilarious way to tell history 😂

  • @jacobt1045
    @jacobt1045 4 роки тому +655

    This is a horror documentary for people that are watching this during the coronavirus pandemic.

    • @abs8838
      @abs8838 4 роки тому +5

      Ikr right? wtf the fuck.

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 4 роки тому +2

      lol

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 3 роки тому +3

      Layla Forrest no they didn’t. They had shorter lifespans. Going back further in time for humans only displays how vulnerable they were because of lack of basic cleaning methods like today and medical care such as antibiotics and weak to the flue which these things along killed a lot of people just 50 years ago.

    • @orencio1969
      @orencio1969 3 роки тому +1

      LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @barnabylowe1239
      @barnabylowe1239 3 роки тому +3

      Promotes bulk buying of loo roll

  • @wagecuck2073
    @wagecuck2073 4 роки тому +277

    To think you have ancestors from this time period. I'd like to have a chat in the afterlife.

    • @itsaaronlolz
      @itsaaronlolz 4 роки тому +1

      I have Native American which bathed regularly and Spanish DNA. So I’m in the middle 😩

    • @clownlivesmatter7925
      @clownlivesmatter7925 4 роки тому +7

      @@itsaaronlolz you dont have native american. That is a lie white people use to seem less evil

    • @stormer9952
      @stormer9952 4 роки тому

      They were ahead of thier time 😂

    • @stormer9952
      @stormer9952 4 роки тому +3

      @@clownlivesmatter7925 your evil

    • @kimberleysmith818
      @kimberleysmith818 4 роки тому +2

      I got a degree in history. I spent a lot of time thinking ‘wow I need a chat with my ancestors’
      But things were different and they’d probably think me not being slightly religious is enough for a serious chat.

  • @catrathat08
    @catrathat08 2 роки тому +1

    This was informative. A great lesson of compare and contrast would be to compare the hygiene of medieval times with that of Egyptians.

  • @Sage-kj1ik
    @Sage-kj1ik 3 роки тому

    I took a shower just because I watched this video. Really put things in perspective, I'm glad I'm this era.

  • @strayjones458
    @strayjones458 4 роки тому +145

    I chose the right thing to watch while I'm eating lunch

    • @alizain5420
      @alizain5420 4 роки тому +1

      same

    • @cristianvillanueva8782
      @cristianvillanueva8782 4 роки тому +1

      Fucking same, the worm hanging out of the leg almost made throw up my sandwich

    • @clarawonders4812
      @clarawonders4812 4 роки тому

      I would throw up, eating or not.

    • @ani_n01
      @ani_n01 4 роки тому +2

      So that's the secret of skinny legends

    • @SauveDraco
      @SauveDraco 4 роки тому

      @@ani_n01 no. The secert is to breathe air and drink water

  • @Johankenzeler
    @Johankenzeler 4 роки тому +147

    Sounds like your average festival camp after the 2nd day.

    • @HVLLOWS1999
      @HVLLOWS1999 4 роки тому +1

      Eeew really

    • @saturn2663
      @saturn2663 4 роки тому

      @@Fcksummerandmosquitos you bleed for 7 days straight? Wtf. That must be horrible.

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 роки тому

      you mean Burning Man?

    • @ThatDudeJCrash
      @ThatDudeJCrash 4 роки тому

      @@Fcksummerandmosquitos what do you do now?

    • @ThatDudeJCrash
      @ThatDudeJCrash 4 роки тому

      @@Fcksummerandmosquitos Like ever since you stopped doing festival camp outs. Do you still go to events? or stopped completely?

  • @DennisBTV
    @DennisBTV Рік тому

    9:22 😂😂the way you said “HOMES” and the chuckle when saying 9:28

  • @monicakelly6273
    @monicakelly6273 3 роки тому +1

    I just showered and was perturbed how chilly it was in my bedroom. I will never complain again

  • @raphythemighty2613
    @raphythemighty2613 4 роки тому +345

    its crazy to think that genetically there really isnt that big of a difference between us then n now. These people felt and thought as much as we do, although they lived a life of pure hell compared to now.

    • @outsidechambaz
      @outsidechambaz 4 роки тому +10

      Raphy TheMighty I’m sure life wasn’t pure hell as we think it was, life was still probably enjoyable

    • @JasmyneTheodora
      @JasmyneTheodora 4 роки тому +20

      Are you dumb? Do you think they were homo habilis or something? There’s no genetic difference. They were homo sapiens, we are homo sapiens. 😂

    • @raphythemighty2613
      @raphythemighty2613 4 роки тому +18

      @@JasmyneTheodora i meant in the sense that nowadays we are way more genetically diverse due to immigration/migration asshole. It was harder to travel back then so people from the same area were a hell lot more genetically similar compared to today

    • @raphythemighty2613
      @raphythemighty2613 4 роки тому +1

      @@outsidechambaz If you were a peasant it was prob real hard man. Ofc people have always found a way to have fun, but how enjoyable can it be compared to today?

    • @YourBlackLocal
      @YourBlackLocal 4 роки тому +8

      Raphy TheMighty Genetic diversity doesn’t change the way you’d think about things. You’re acting as if back then they were Cavemen or something. There are still people today who are as white as they were and as black as medieval Africa.

  • @DanMcLeodNeptuneUK
    @DanMcLeodNeptuneUK 4 роки тому +203

    When the weird history channel is much more normal than the actual history channel...

    • @brickstitch435
      @brickstitch435 4 роки тому +3

      Yep. I learned alot of history from Horrible Histories😭

    • @DanMcLeodNeptuneUK
      @DanMcLeodNeptuneUK 4 роки тому +1

      @@brickstitch435 Myself included.

    • @coxson
      @coxson 4 роки тому

      Dan McLeod for a start they actually talk about history

  • @asandayoung8085
    @asandayoung8085 3 роки тому +1

    Damn this makes me so grateful

  • @tinyGrim1
    @tinyGrim1 2 роки тому

    you sound like johnny carson...and especially when ypo did your voice nasal like !! cool. xxoo

  • @thatsuaveraptor4297
    @thatsuaveraptor4297 4 роки тому +232

    "To remove ear worms"
    WHAT THE FU-
    "Which didn't exist"
    Oh thank god

    • @CallumSk8er
      @CallumSk8er 4 роки тому +6

      you can still get worms elsewhere in your body, including your brain :)

    • @jesuskistus3555
      @jesuskistus3555 4 роки тому

      ThatSuaveRaptor If you translate word to word there is the German word ear worm which is just a song stuck in your head

  • @aisuru6273
    @aisuru6273 4 роки тому +182

    "Bacteria was *everywhere* for medieval peasants"
    ya don't say

    • @nmuGame
      @nmuGame 4 роки тому

      Umm doctor doggo there a bacterias on me and now I got pills you gave me and there where dog treats but they were good

  • @tinyGrim1
    @tinyGrim1 3 роки тому

    Hahahaha, you do a good voice of Johnny Carson in some of his skits. The original late night guy,

  • @Shuhua1999
    @Shuhua1999 3 роки тому +1

    To think they make movies showing these times and everyone walked around so nice and clean.

  • @MurrayHerts
    @MurrayHerts 4 роки тому +238

    There's still situations like this going on in the modern world, to our shame.

    • @Danuxsy
      @Danuxsy 4 роки тому +13

      our shame? who are you refering to? It's a shame for the people that can't get themselves out of it like everyone else, yeah I agree. Is it a shame for modern countries that made their way forward? No.

    • @reeznevhater
      @reeznevhater 4 роки тому +52

      @@Danuxsy
      That's like saying if you're homeless, to just buy a house.

    • @omoikane8961
      @omoikane8961 3 роки тому +6

      @@Danuxsy Your modern countries put many countries in poverty which have no solution but to flee from their country and live in the modern one.

    • @sn-ohslitzl2288
      @sn-ohslitzl2288 3 роки тому +13

      XIAO uH whY cAnT pEoPlE jUsT hAvE MoENy

    • @yulianaalexandra2385
      @yulianaalexandra2385 3 роки тому +9

      @@Danuxsy lucky you! Speaking of a situation you haven't even experience. Usually the wealthy countries are the parasites of emerging countries. That eurocentric mindset won't take you anywhere.

  • @user-xj4ef5pv2d
    @user-xj4ef5pv2d 4 роки тому +313

    Imagine having OCD

    • @anae7135
      @anae7135 4 роки тому +32

      -- sounds like pure hell

    • @FLYIN_DAGGERZ
      @FLYIN_DAGGERZ 4 роки тому +21

      I think OCD is a modern thing ....I could be wrong

    • @viviana8368
      @viviana8368 4 роки тому +41

      ocd isn’t always a hygeine thing, theres different subtypes and that’s the contamination subtype

    • @daisydove3336
      @daisydove3336 4 роки тому +25

      I dont think they have the luxury to develop ocd

    • @darylparker625
      @darylparker625 4 роки тому +15

      I imagine it would still be around but relative to the hygiene standards of the time, since they wouldn't know any better.

  • @JaneDoe87110
    @JaneDoe87110 3 роки тому

    I've always wondered about this!

  • @tatiaromero
    @tatiaromero 3 роки тому

    I'm so glad my 2021 self has access to indoor plumbing and everyday change of clothes.

  • @tomiko2683
    @tomiko2683 4 роки тому +162

    It's a wonder there was any reproduction...I cant even imagine intimacy in that time ewwwwww

    • @Deadsea_1993
      @Deadsea_1993 4 роки тому +14

      There are still stinky people today. Usually large amounts of alcohol and holding your nose does the trick 😂

    • @Chief2Moon
      @Chief2Moon 4 роки тому

      To Miko I understand that after marriage. Many women also can't imagine intimacy anymore...at least not with their husbands.😄😂🤣

    • @obiwankenobi1685
      @obiwankenobi1685 4 роки тому +7

      Imagine about to have sex but you spend 15 minutes un buckling buttons and clothing just to find a coochie that hasn’t been washed since last months river bath

    • @obiwankenobi1685
      @obiwankenobi1685 4 роки тому +1

      Handsome Squidward it would stink so bad and probably give you a oral yeast infection

  • @patrickpetrowsky8136
    @patrickpetrowsky8136 4 роки тому +74

    My hot water heater went out so I had to medieval it for a week.

    • @monicapyle
      @monicapyle 4 роки тому +9

      Good thing you weren't a female surfing the crimson waves. Although regardless of where you live, I'm sure you could have found a twig somewhere

    • @patrickpetrowsky8136
      @patrickpetrowsky8136 4 роки тому +2

      @@monicapyle 😂😂

    • @Deadsea_1993
      @Deadsea_1993 4 роки тому +4

      I once lived in a camper that had a busted water heater. In the summer, I'd take quick cold showers. In the winter, I'd go to a local fitness center to take a shower there cause they supplied you with a wash cloth and a towel and hot water showers. I don't miss that stuff at all.

    • @joshuaferguson698
      @joshuaferguson698 4 роки тому

      U ok hun? :( dm me xx

  • @TrevTheGinger
    @TrevTheGinger 3 роки тому +1

    my biggest question was about cavities and i’m glad this video covered that topic