@@angietyndall7337 You could never find anything like this on tv anymore with the whole dismembering a sheep. They’d probably ban most of the things in this series unless it was made out of foam and clearly just a prop
There was a gunpowder mill outside the town I grew up in. You could occasionally smell it when the wind was just right. We called it the Stink Mill. The smell was indescribably horrible. I can still sort of remember the penetrating stench in the back of my throat. Now I know why. It also blew up every few years... one of my neighbors was killed in an explosion back in the early 1970 s
Anna C nobody was using feces or urine in gun powder after the 1800s, so I get it if the mill had never been cleaned out properly, but that’s not what the smell was coming from during your lifetime. And I’m really sorry about your neighbor.
I used to live in a town in Colorado that was near a beef slaughterhouse, we'd get notifications from an app when the wind came from the east to alert us that it was about to smell really bad.
I got to be honest I didn’t even know who Tony Robinson was two weeks ago and since then I have binge watched a lot of his specials on history and other things he is one of my favorite TV presenters he tells a story like he is your friend and genuinely really likes the topic he is teaching and learning about really cool guy.
Yep. Honestly it’s amazing how useful so many natural resources are for things we now use synthetic/artificially made chemicals for. In some cases it’s bc either we use so much of an ingredient it wouldn’t be possible/environmentally friendly to harvest the entire amounts needed OR it’s bc there simply isn’t enough of the environment the natural resource is found in left to produce the quantities needed. But the 3 PRIMARY REASONS the vast majority of companies don’t use natural ingredients is...MONEY , TIME & availability of the natural ingredients in the quantities needed. Which is WHY product which are truly 100% natural costs so much more.😕
Incredible....... I've done so many jobs in my life, but I realize now I've been spared the truly horrible ones. One of my worst was working in an animal hospital when I was 11 years old, cleaning the cages of the animals being 'wormed', after being given something to purge their bodies. Another was simply cutting up chickens at the local market when I was 15. But it was done in a room where the temperature was lowered very chilly, and soon I lost all my appetite for eating dinner, especially meat. It lasted about 6 days before I walked! Thank you Tony for the education, as well as the entertainment, which is true of course for all your films...... Bravo!
I find it amazing, you need certain items to make gunpowder, but yet nobody wants it around them... I also enjoy how Tony makes the show interesting to watch... Should show this in schools and watch how interesting history can be!!
Absolutely fascinating program! Probably should not have decided to enjoy a snack while watching though. Live and learn. Happy to watch all the other episodes! (Sans snacks)
I'm absolutely in love with those two kittens he's holding. My favorite style is black cats but the favorite for life is calicos because my sweet kitty at home is one.
Hail to Sir Tony Robinson, who isn't afraid of toads and even sheep guts. I've enjoyed his part in Time Team immensely, and this is just as interesting.
They wouldn't necessarily be ripped but they would be strong asf. Cause yeah the muscles get used to the daily activity and the difficult becomes easy so there's no need to grow any more muscle.
The strongest man in Denmark where I live in 1872 was said to be Henrik Irgaard, a farmer in potatoes he stood five foot nine inches and weight 92 kilos was said to log around bags of potatoes up to a ton a day ..It was recorded in a journal from a states man of Jylland "the largest of the three major isle of Denmark" .
I have to give Tony credit , he is a good sport to even attempt to do these horrible tasks for the camera . Gutting the sheep would do it for me . Even thou I am a violinist I couldn't do that ., no thanks ..
I raised sheep in a herd and yes, it can be messy. When the ewes give birth, we sometimes had to reach inside into rearrange the baby lamb's legs to pul them out, for example.
Don't forget the poor dogs. If you think about it, it just needs a little push and people would (will) do the same things again. (see Football worldcup for example.)
I absolutely love these worst jobs with Tony, he has far passed my expectations of the kind of man I thought he was! Just because you don't really like someone I think you should nearly always give someone a chance and never judge people or let other people's views and beliefs curupt yours which I am guilty of but people can change, I'm proof of that too. I don't like the animals being killed, nothing will change that!
@@Masterpeace777 I get your point.. I do.. but I also understand the human body needs meat to be at it's best, and 90% of animals in the wild suffer a tragic, violent death at the hands of... another animal. Being torn to bits and eaten alive, always in fear of the predator that will inevitably bring it's demise. After watching a few large beasts be attacked & eaten alive by wild hyena or hogs.. it's a thought that human consumption should be done humanely, where we get food and the animal gets a safe, happy life until the end. Win win. It seems when we think about humans not killing animals for food, we imagine them out frolicking in a field of daisies, living to a ripe old age and dying a peaceful natural death. That's rarely the case.. and I'm the weirdo female that catches spiders, moths, even sugar ants & takes them outside... I feed even the slugs that come onto my porch after a rain lol I love animals more than general humanity.. I just think we could come to a civil agreement.. give the animals a good life until the day comes.. which many times would be longer than they get in the wild.
I was about to make this comment and, Bmansk8, it would be difficult to have hundreds of people shooting at him given angles and the space at the wall. Also, I bet that the four paintball guns have a faster fire rate than 100 muskets.
One would imagine that the rest of the army is doing it's best to force those on the walls to keep their heads down seeing as they would be using weapons that are actually lethal.
Tony Robinson has done so much. He must have learnt so much. Not only documentaries but comedy. A true polymath. Very like Stephen Fry with whom he worked.
I think that's why he was asked to do this series! And he makes an excellent, affable and well informed host. He wasn't just an actor - he's always been a historian.
@@richeharrisonHe is in many history shows because he has a great sense of humor and is also very smart and don't forget, always has a cunning plan, too! :)
Watching all of these documentaries with Tony doing all of these historically bad jobs in the various eras reminds me that he's the ye olden version of the American show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, who does the exact same thing with today's worst jobs.
My current violin is strung completely in gut, plain for the top strings and one overspun in silver wire for the bottom string. Gut strings have always been made since ancient times and are still available in all forms today. Actually the most important innovation of the Stuart period was the development of overspun strings for better bass notes.
James 1st 1603 - 1625 Charles 1st 1625 - 1649 Charles 2nd 1660 - 1685 James 2nd 1685 - 1689 William 3rd and Mary 2nd 1689 - 1702( joint monarchs ) Anne 1702 - 1714
I'm a wheelchair user. I could use some straps like for the sedan chair to make it safer for people (and me) when they need to lift me over stairs or something! I'm always scared they'll injure themselves (never happened yet but there's always a first time). I have been dropped a couple of times though (luckily no bad injuries, touch wood)
To all those people who think they were born in the wrong era, you haven't watched Tony Robinson because THIS is probably what your life would have been like.
History certainly has shown how consistently stupid humans have been and often continue to be, whether it's blaming & killing innocent animals, and now, in China (whose officials knew damn well of this latest virus long before raising the alarm) "authorities" are blaming & punishing infected individuals, or those suspected of being infected, by physically abusing them, or making them "disappear."
Bangs and stinks, the best kind of video! And lots of educational and fun information to boot. Reminds me of the Romans collecting urine for whitening togas. Every fullers establishment had a vat outside for people to pee into. So in ancient Rome, you never had to worry about being short taken 😅
just been looking to see if anyone else noticed this. definitely moved on it's own... just looked into it, apparently Tutbury Castle is known for being haunted.
14:27 The height difference between the two rugby boys and Tony is hilarious, pair that with what he’s saying and I can’t help but laugh. I think I laughed for a good three minutes straight for the entirety of the secment. I can’t help it though. Its just too funny.
I always found it shocking that even as late as the Victorian and sometimes Edwardian age you could use a cat to pay the entrance fee to a zoo, which they'd feed to the captive predators like lions and tigers.
Worst thing is there is still violence against living beings, including cats to this day. I read from a Finnish history magazine an article regarding superstition about cats that apparently even today tens of thousands of black cats are killed in Italy each year. I also have heard that in Spain people hang hunting dogs when they become too old. And of course humans still aren't safe from superstition motivated violence. There is this woman in Nigeria for example called Helen Ukpabio who still believes witches are real and has tortured suspected children. This has even been done inside churches. I don't even want to list all the violence and oppression organized religion still causes generally.
4:07 "once purified, saltpeter needs to be combined with 2 other chemicals to make the black powder"............but you forgot to tell us. Sulphur & Carbon.
Years ago I went to the pharmacy to buy salt peter for tanning a deer pack. As a woman, the pharmacist thought i had some nefarious use in mind. I had no idea of its other uses until he told me. Small-town, I ended up running home and returning with the pelt. You'd have thought I was trying to buy a machine gun.😂
Love that random video cut to the kitty while they're gutting the sheep. The editor was like, "Ugh, this is vile. Here's a pretty kitty to tide you over for two seconds."
Those paintball guns were a lot more accurate and could fire faster than muskets. Now if they forced them to wait between shots that might have been a valid test.
EarlFaulk they would have had hundreds of people shooting arrows and muskets also throwing big stones off the walls. If anything this is an underestimation of the arms they would have dealt with. Granted, both sides would be fighting and like any mission excellent planning and good cover fire was key.
The petard seems much more like a modern breaching charge rather than a hand grenade. As a former combat engineer, grenades were never put forward as a method of door breaching.
Not sure how rickety the scaffolds were for Thornhill. But I’ve seen drawings and explanations of how Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel was painted and he basically had a level floor up there. He wasn’t hanging off of anything. The floor was actually close enough to the ceiling that he could lay on his back. The Sistine Chapel isn’t as high up as St Paul’s and the dome would introduce difficulties but it was also a long time after the Sistine Chapel was painted. Not sure why he’d be hanging off of rickety narrow scaffolds...
Sheep Guts...huh. In Middle School in Eigth Grade Music Class, I was taught that the strings were made out of 🐈's gut. Now this horrified me as I had 🐈🐈🐈 at this time.
Did anyone else see what I just saw?. 👁️ When the lady was just about to pick up the cup with the spoon in it, the spoon just moved to the other side of the cup by its self, like the lady didn't touch the cup yet, see for yourself after #20:36, it's like a ghost or paranormal activity had interfered and been nice to move the spoon to the other side of the cup... Amazing.. 🇮🇪🍀🍀🍀😎..
yeah, cooked frogs/toads are good but i couldnt jsut munch down a whole toad like that. There actually are some toads with antibiotic secretions that were used to preserve milk, so they might help the human immune system as well www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/04/frogs-milk-keep-milk-spoiling-without-refrigeration/
Yeah I believe it was because they have 6 people shooting instead of hundreds on top of a castle. So if anything it’s less than they would really be getting hit
My Boss: what are you doing???? Me: Working of course! Definately not watching a 44 minute video on why the Brits collected their citicens Urin. That would be crazy
Animal Control Officer, when the crematorium is out of service we take deceased to the landfill once a week. I go ahead and volunteer to get my turn out of the way for a few months. Summer is brutal in West Texas. You cannot begin to fathom the smell of a mass grave until you have filled one.
Michael Greenhalgh Humans are still animals. Our body's are quite nasty now from all the fats, chemicals, drugs and hormones we ingest. The dead of that age was the same as any fur-less animals were.
Okay, I can clean fish, no problem. Like eating them so much, plowed through the process. able to examine the food choices. None the less, you have an iron stomach. Whoa.
@8:55 : The Tippmann 98 Custom. An EXCELLENT work horse of a Semi for any Site / Scenario rental, that and the A5 you can't go far wrong with. Easy [comparitively] to strip clean, do field repairs on etc. Parts are very affordable and very available too. These Markers are a great first own [CO2] [these don't suffer near as bad as others from frost seizing as any others if you're trigger happy on CO2] for a Semi option for the wannabe Walk On player on a budget. Get started with one of these and if it turns out you get hooked enough to save up for something special, you'll at least be getting game play and experience whilst you save the mega bucks a full spec tournament Marker's gonna cost you and you'll have the game time in to know which Markers you're being taken out by most so as to make a well educated upgrade purchase that actually suits you. It's an ideal spare Marker to have clean and ready to roll too, should your fancy one go down and need more attention than your turn around time allows [between games]. The Tippmann can get your game played so you can fix your fancy main Marker in less rush. When you get one of these, or a lot of them if you're doing the rentals, learn it, know how to strip clean / service it and carry a few spares, ESPECIALLY O-Rings and ideally springs, you can put your own parts kit together cheaper than buying a kit, which will likely have parts you'll not wear / bugger up in a hurry starting with a new / nicely refurbed Tippmann. As long as you swap out the O-Rings [I suggest swap for Teflon rings where you can, but keeping ]rubbers' is smart since they're much easier in a hurry and can be swapped back when you have unrushed time to get your baby back at it's sexiest] at the slightest sign of wear [nicks, rough spots, slackness], these are the least troublesome starter Marker ever. These Markers will run and run. In fact, I overhauled about a hundred of them for one Operator who hadn't had them strip cleaned for over 6 full punter days play and only about half a dozen of them WOULDN'T have been good to go in the state they were in [albeit not performing best accuracy / range] BEFORE I touched them. I still full serviced the lot and the cost of spares for the whole hundred was negligible really. If you're going to compete, I definitely suggest adding an 'Anti Tamper' on the back of these, when I was Judging, you'd have been chronied on and off and the velocity adjuster would have had to be more than hand tight before I'd have let you on my fields competing with one. Out of the box, you can still lock the velocity acceptably anyway, but I really couldn't count the amount of players I've sent back to tighten those and chronied again. In testing amongst consenting adults, all Pro Judges, Tippmanns will behave fine and without quirks at 360 fps on CO2 at 10°C in Woodland, UK. For educational research only, of course. Expensive Markers, tricked up some, have a lot more going on with them that can go wrong or need regular accurate adjustment and expensive spares, don't always keep players fully 'in game' it must be noted, especially in Winter Woodland play. Useful to keep your Tippmann with you to fall back on when your upgrade is being temperamental. Looked after and in the hands of a decent player, these Tippmanns can be very tasty. It's kinda 'The AK47 Of Paintball Markers', no ?
In Pepys diary he tells how he scolded a house maid by putting her in the basement where the cess pit (an above ground box) was also kept. He was very like his times. But that had to be a very obnoxious cellar to endure. I've noticed when I have to clean the inlet to my septic tank, the amount of water entering does dilute the active ingredients. I use short showers and never tub bathe. There wouldn't have been a lot of water in Pepys pit so there must have been an overpowering ammonia vapor. I think the poor girl could have suffocated. .
Ironically, in killing cats, the English wiped out their first and best line of defense against disease. Cats were the thin blue line in pestilence vs. humanity.
Not only England, in Europe Cats and esp. black Cats were considereed evil and burnt along with the poor women on a stake.. they decimated Cats Who would have Made the Plague less brutal. what goes around Comes around.
Tony Robinson must be the sweetest man you know. He treats the crews amazingly well and is so polite during this show. Kudos to you!
Tony tells the story like the viewer is a friend. He is not afraid to laugh at himself, get dirty or dress up according to the occasion. Great guy!!
I like watching this. They don't really do stuff like this in the U.S. anymore, not even on PBS.
@@angietyndall7337 You could never find anything like this on tv anymore with the whole dismembering a sheep. They’d probably ban most of the things in this series unless it was made out of foam and clearly just a prop
He really is a wonderful personality, very informal and friendly. Can just tell he’s a great fun dude
@@skivvy3565 ❤️
Tony has been a staple in my home since I was born 34 years ago, starting with Blackadder, I feel as if he is a friend if not a family member.
"Oh wow! Look at that!" One of the reasons I am a massive fan of Sir Tony is his genuine glee about things.
There was a gunpowder mill outside the town I grew up in. You could occasionally smell it when the wind was just right. We called it the Stink Mill. The smell was indescribably horrible. I can still sort of remember the penetrating stench in the back of my throat. Now I know why. It also blew up every few years... one of my neighbors was killed in an explosion back in the early 1970 s
www.upi.com/Archives/1987/12/16/Explosives-production-halted-after-fatal-blast/8282566629200/
Anna C nobody was using feces or urine in gun powder after the 1800s, so I get it if the mill had never been cleaned out properly, but that’s not what the smell was coming from during your lifetime. And I’m really sorry about your neighbor.
Paper mills smell pretty foul as well... It's safe to say that anything sulfur related is not going to be pleasant.
I used to live in a town in Colorado that was near a beef slaughterhouse, we'd get notifications from an app when the wind came from the east to alert us that it was about to smell really bad.
The one in The Netherlands also blew up semi-regularly.
I got to be honest I didn’t even know who Tony Robinson was two weeks ago and since then I have binge watched a lot of his specials on history and other things he is one of my favorite TV presenters he tells a story like he is your friend and genuinely really likes the topic he is teaching and learning about really cool guy.
Google the series BLACKADDER with Rowan Atkinson and watch him play Baldrick. Very funny stuff.
When you watch all of these episodes the thing that strikes you is how incredibly useful urine has been until very modern times...
Still xomestin hand when mixing up mortar or if you're going to skim a ceiling.
True that, the Romans used it to set dye and paid you in wine.
Yep. Honestly it’s amazing how useful so many natural resources are for things we now use synthetic/artificially made chemicals for. In some cases it’s bc either we use so much of an ingredient it wouldn’t be possible/environmentally friendly to harvest the entire amounts needed OR it’s bc there simply isn’t enough of the environment the natural resource is found in left to produce the quantities needed. But the 3 PRIMARY REASONS the vast majority of companies don’t use natural ingredients is...MONEY , TIME & availability of the natural ingredients in the quantities needed. Which is WHY product which are truly 100% natural costs so much more.😕
Even faeces (not necessarily human!) is quite handy
@@adriennebolles711 and they brushed there teeth in it
I love the host!! Such a good sport!
Tony Robinson
It's all part of his cunning plan
Tony Robinson is my hero
@@mrpooptash isn't it Sir Tony Robinson now?
U mean baldrick
Tony Robinson is an amazing host and presenter! Love this program!
Incredible....... I've done so many jobs in my life, but I realize now I've been spared the truly horrible ones. One of my worst was working in an animal hospital when I was 11 years old, cleaning the cages of the animals being 'wormed', after being given something to purge their bodies. Another was simply cutting up chickens at the local market when I was 15. But it was done in a room where the temperature was lowered very chilly, and soon I lost all my appetite for eating dinner, especially meat. It lasted about 6 days before I walked! Thank you Tony for the education, as well as the entertainment, which is true of course for all your films...... Bravo!
Tony's child like delight at witnessing the car being blown up was absolutely delightful! Love you Sir!👌❤🇳🇿 from Christchurch New Zealand
@21:30 I noticed Tony stayed back to hold the door open for the crew.
2:37 - Was not expecting him to casually drop that in there 😂👏👏👏
Was looking for someone else to think this ! Haha
I find it amazing, you need certain items to make gunpowder, but yet nobody wants it around them... I also enjoy how Tony makes the show interesting to watch... Should show this in schools and watch how interesting history can be!!
Absolutely fascinating program! Probably should not have decided to enjoy a snack while watching though. Live and learn. Happy to watch all the other episodes! (Sans snacks)
Definitely put you off your food .
I keep not learning this lesson. I like food, but also I like history...
I'm absolutely in love with those two kittens he's holding. My favorite style is black cats but the favorite for life is calicos because my sweet kitty at home is one.
Tony is a consummate entertainer. His narrative is informative and he always makes me laugh.
Yes. Dear Baldrick. That's where he must have gotten the idea to research worst jobs ever
Man, I really wanted to see the rest of the process of making the violin string.
Check out 2set violin they have videos about violin making
@@IreneWY nah I don't think they have footage of cutting open a recently dead sheep, pulling its guts out and drain the content
Too true, gonna pause from binge watching this series for a sec to find some videos showing the rest of that process
@@hieu-headless They also wouldn't have Tony Robinson's style of storytelling either
Hail to Sir Tony Robinson, who isn't afraid of toads and even sheep guts. I've enjoyed his part in Time Team immensely, and this is just as interesting.
Seriously, my new favorite to watch!.... Thank you for your insanely awesome passion to give us truth
Tony Robinson is great whatever he’s doing.
And he can be hilarious at times too. I still remember him being Black Adder's Dogsbody and he was a hoot.
agreed
I need Tony and Mike Rowe to do a series together
Conclusion: A lot of people in the old times were ripped cause you need muscles to do that kind of work.
Actually it depends your muscles can get used to the work and then just not respond to the daily activity
They wouldn't necessarily be ripped but they would be strong asf. Cause yeah the muscles get used to the daily activity and the difficult becomes easy so there's no need to grow any more muscle.
Not necessarily. The right kind of food is important, and good meds when you’re sick, and time off.
Ikr alot of physical labour
The strongest man in Denmark where I live in 1872 was said to be Henrik Irgaard, a farmer in potatoes he stood five foot nine inches and weight 92 kilos was said to log around bags of potatoes up to a ton a day ..It was recorded in a journal from a states man of Jylland "the largest of the three major isle of Denmark" .
I have to give Tony credit , he is a good sport to even attempt to do these horrible tasks for the camera . Gutting the sheep would do it for me . Even thou I am a violinist I couldn't do that ., no thanks ..
Sandy Wilson Did you send this message via Morse Code first?
my space bar is broken
Sandy Wilson
Hypocrite.
I raised sheep in a herd and yes, it can be messy. When the ewes give birth, we sometimes had to reach inside into rearrange the baby lamb's legs to pul them out, for example.
What a wonderful man, and truly a good person to be around
So... who's the guy that thought "Hey, i can take this bit of horse hair, sheep bladder and made a musical instrument?"
some old school Asians
Like the first person who milked a cow, they probably doing other sketchy stuff.
Steven Webb the milking of cows probably came from people watching a calf doing what it does. When your thirsty, you’ll go for anything.
@@stevenwebb3634 Also the one to eat the first potato.
Someone missed the joke 😆🤣
Poor kitties. :(
Don't forget the poor dogs. If you think about it, it just needs a little push and people would (will) do the same things again.
(see Football worldcup for example.)
karben poor toads, lol
And they would have helped too!
@@nealsterling8151 what about the football World Cup??
I absolutely love these worst jobs with Tony, he has far passed my expectations of the kind of man I thought he was! Just because you don't really like someone I think you should nearly always give someone a chance and never judge people or let other people's views and beliefs curupt yours which I am guilty of but people can change, I'm proof of that too. I don't like the animals being killed, nothing will change that!
Coming from a 4 yr vegan who finally realized how much blood was on my hands.
@@Masterpeace777 I get your point.. I do.. but I also understand the human body needs meat to be at it's best, and 90% of animals in the wild suffer a tragic, violent death at the hands of... another animal. Being torn to bits and eaten alive, always in fear of the predator that will inevitably bring it's demise. After watching a few large beasts be attacked & eaten alive by wild hyena or hogs.. it's a thought that human consumption should be done humanely, where we get food and the animal gets a safe, happy life until the end. Win win. It seems when we think about humans not killing animals for food, we imagine them out frolicking in a field of daisies, living to a ripe old age and dying a peaceful natural death. That's rarely the case.. and I'm the weirdo female that catches spiders, moths, even sugar ants & takes them outside... I feed even the slugs that come onto my porch after a rain lol I love animals more than general humanity.. I just think we could come to a civil agreement.. give the animals a good life until the day comes.. which many times would be longer than they get in the wild.
@@Mandy-nt2cs I agree... I don't think you did get my point. I am on your side lol.
@@Masterpeace777Massive respect to you
@@Masterpeace777 So you wanted an increased amount of blood?
Muskets have a much lower rate of fire than semi automatic paintball guns.
but there would be more than 4 prob hundreds of people shooting
lol I just made this comment.
I was about to make this comment and, Bmansk8, it would be difficult to have hundreds of people shooting at him given angles and the space at the wall. Also, I bet that the four paintball guns have a faster fire rate than 100 muskets.
unless they had m16's in them times.
One would imagine that the rest of the army is doing it's best to force those on the walls to keep their heads down seeing as they would be using weapons that are actually lethal.
Crikey, I was gagging along with Tony on that frog eating part
Tony Robinson has done so much. He must have learnt so much. Not only documentaries but comedy. A true polymath. Very like Stephen Fry with whom he worked.
14:38 "Have you got your strap-on Andrew?" Why, what are they up to!?
Not pegging as he has the required equipment that makes a strap on superfluous 😂
Phrasing
Context👏is👏important👏
Fellow Sinner
Ugh the clapping is cringe.
@ 25mimits
I can't be the only one hearing Eric Idle's voice. "Bring out your dead!".
Ambient sound of cats being used to clean dust out of a rug in the background
"You have your strap on Andrew", haha ha. Well done Tony.
I think it's fun that "Baldrick" is hosting a series about "History's Worst Jobs". It's sooooo in character!
I think that's why he was asked to do this series! And he makes an excellent, affable and well informed host. He wasn't just an actor - he's always been a historian.
@@richeharrisonHe is in many history shows because he has a great sense of humor and is also very smart and don't forget, always has a cunning plan, too! :)
Watching all of these documentaries with Tony doing all of these historically bad jobs in the various eras reminds me that he's the ye olden version of the American show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, who does the exact same thing with today's worst jobs.
"This is digusting, Whats next? the urine, ofcourse it is"
My current violin is strung completely in gut, plain for the top strings and one overspun in silver wire for the bottom string. Gut strings have always been made since ancient times and are still available in all forms today. Actually the most important innovation of the Stuart period was the development of overspun strings for better bass notes.
Sure, but there're alternatives available now. There weren't back then.
Are they more expensive than synthetic strong violins? Is there a difference in sound? I've never had the chance to ask anyone
James 1st 1603 - 1625
Charles 1st 1625 - 1649
Charles 2nd 1660 - 1685
James 2nd 1685 - 1689
William 3rd and Mary 2nd 1689 - 1702( joint monarchs )
Anne 1702 - 1714
This is when you're happy about your previous video selections. I would not have picked this if not for the YT algos.
I'm a wheelchair user. I could use some straps like for the sedan chair to make it safer for people (and me) when they need to lift me over stairs or something! I'm always scared they'll injure themselves (never happened yet but there's always a first time). I have been dropped a couple of times though (luckily no bad injuries, touch wood)
Good thought!
I’m sure I was hoisted by my own petard in a past life
Kitana Kojima Just what I was thinking. X
No,I was a princess.
To all those people who think they were born in the wrong era, you haven't watched Tony Robinson because THIS is probably what your life would have been like.
Killing the cats and dogs made the plague burst fourth to spread unhindered. Ferrets and other weasels were offten killed too.
I am just a mom doing the best I can
Shows just how stupid humans can be. So blood thirsty to kiII kiII kiII. : /
History certainly has shown how consistently stupid humans have been and often continue to be, whether it's blaming & killing innocent animals, and now, in China (whose officials knew damn well of this latest virus long before raising the alarm) "authorities" are blaming & punishing infected individuals, or those suspected of being infected, by physically abusing them, or making them "disappear."
Gerbils spread the plague fleas, not rats.
You reap what you sow.
@@morrigan191 That is one but *one theory*
I love this series thank you for uploading.
I like Tony Robinson. He is funny and brave, the show is really cool.
One thing puzzles me Tony, how did you manage to get so much custard out of such a small cat?
Bangs and stinks, the best kind of video! And lots of educational and fun information to boot.
Reminds me of the Romans collecting urine for whitening togas. Every fullers establishment had a vat outside for people to pee into. So in ancient Rome, you never had to worry about being short taken 😅
🔔🔔Bring out your dead! 🔔🔔
Jenny von Henkelmann “he’s not dead” “yea well he’s not far off, can’t you just take him?”
@@bananapeaches6370 "I'm feeling better!"
Scottie Johnson ... no you’re not, you’ll be stone dead in a moment!
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@@charlessmith4333 What's your favorite colour?
20:43 that spoon moved on its own!
just been looking to see if anyone else noticed this. definitely moved on it's own... just looked into it, apparently Tutbury Castle is known for being haunted.
she just knocked against it with her hand..
14:27 The height difference between the two rugby boys and Tony is hilarious, pair that with what he’s saying and I can’t help but laugh.
I think I laughed for a good three minutes straight for the entirety of the secment. I can’t help it though. Its just too funny.
About 245 and 230 lbs., respectively. They were two big lads.
The Petard anticipated the 'shaped charge', it seems.
This series is highly addictive. Love it.
6:54 it's the world's first shape charge. Brilliant engineering... though super rudimentary in it's deployment
Yay, more Baldrick!
The Original Gamer F.
Sod off
Catherine Brower “None of my business, really.”
More cunning plans.
The poor cats though :(
one of those things in history that reminds us not to mess with nature's balance
I always found it shocking that even as late as the Victorian and sometimes Edwardian age you could use a cat to pay the entrance fee to a zoo, which they'd feed to the captive predators like lions and tigers.
@@arthas640 I didn't know that. Now I feel sick to my stomach.
Worst thing is there is still violence against living beings, including cats to this day. I read from a Finnish history magazine an article regarding superstition about cats that apparently even today tens of thousands of black cats are killed in Italy each year.
I also have heard that in Spain people hang hunting dogs when they become too old.
And of course humans still aren't safe from superstition motivated violence. There is this woman in Nigeria for example called Helen Ukpabio who still believes witches are real and has tortured suspected children. This has even been done inside churches.
I don't even want to list all the violence and oppression organized religion still causes generally.
Human beings being horrible and profoundly stupid as usual.
4:07 "once purified, saltpeter needs to be combined with 2 other chemicals to make the black powder"............but you forgot to tell us. Sulphur & Carbon.
Yeah there’s silly strict rules about ‘teaching’ people how to make it instead of informing about... as if people can’t google or don’t already know
I always wondered, could't they have boiled the wig before going thru it with a nit-comb and lavender oil?
They were trying to preserve color and style. Sadly powdered wigs were a thing too.
Years ago I went to the pharmacy to buy salt peter for tanning a deer pack. As a woman, the pharmacist thought i had some nefarious use in mind. I had no idea of its other uses until he told me. Small-town, I ended up running home and returning with the pelt. You'd have thought I was trying to buy a machine gun.😂
Love that random video cut to the kitty while they're gutting the sheep. The editor was like, "Ugh, this is vile. Here's a pretty kitty to tide you over for two seconds."
Those paintball guns were a lot more accurate and could fire faster than muskets. Now if they forced them to wait between shots that might have been a valid test.
EarlFaulk they would have had hundreds of people shooting arrows and muskets also throwing big stones off the walls. If anything this is an underestimation of the arms they would have dealt with. Granted, both sides would be fighting and like any mission excellent planning and good cover fire was key.
20:43 The force is strong with her
27:42 and thats when PETA was born.
20:43 what happened to that spoon? It’s possessed!
The petard seems much more like a modern breaching charge rather than a hand grenade. As a former combat engineer, grenades were never put forward as a method of door breaching.
Grenadiers in the late 17th to early 18th centuries did use them to break smaller doors.
Not sure how rickety the scaffolds were for Thornhill. But I’ve seen drawings and explanations of how Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel was painted and he basically had a level floor up there. He wasn’t hanging off of anything. The floor was actually close enough to the ceiling that he could lay on his back. The Sistine Chapel isn’t as high up as St Paul’s and the dome would introduce difficulties but it was also a long time after the Sistine Chapel was painted. Not sure why he’d be hanging off of rickety narrow scaffolds...
Also the artist painting something like that is a valuable commodity. He isn’t some common laborer. You don’t want him falling off and dying..
Catholic Church might have had more money, or devoted more to it.
Sheep Guts...huh. In Middle School in Eigth Grade Music Class, I was taught that the strings were made out of 🐈's gut. Now this horrified me as I had 🐈🐈🐈 at this time.
Did anyone else see what I just saw?. 👁️ When the lady was just about to pick up the cup with the spoon in it, the spoon just moved to the other side of the cup by its self, like the lady didn't touch the cup yet, see for yourself after #20:36, it's like a ghost or paranormal activity had interfered and been nice to move the spoon to the other side of the cup... Amazing.. 🇮🇪🍀🍀🍀😎..
Yes! Several people did see it! Creepy!
she just hit her hand against the spoon.get over it.
I love this show.Thank you.
the frog thing was really disgusting lol
I know it’s wrong but doesn’t it seem like toads are just really old frogs.
It's fake. There's no way they would let him eat a real one even if he wanted to, and the way it breaks up in his mouth is totally wrong.
yeah, cooked frogs/toads are good but i couldnt jsut munch down a whole toad like that. There actually are some toads with antibiotic secretions that were used to preserve milk, so they might help the human immune system as well www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/04/frogs-milk-keep-milk-spoiling-without-refrigeration/
Anne Haight well... he cut off a live eels head which was just cruel, so I‘m not quite sure
I'm pretty sure it's not real, I think most frogs can be poisonous if you eat them raw.
One of your BEST! Good form Tony!
If I lived in these times, I would have died of the smells
Given the dirt and grime I’d have died inside long before that haha
My dude was burning sulfur dioxide 😳😩🤣
Truly willing to risk it all for the show 🤣😉❤️
Documentaries and edutainment are never better than when the entire film crew needs to evacuate a room for personal safety.
The paintball rate of fire seems way to fast for the time..
the amount of soldiers (5 or 6) is way too small for the time so they balance out.
Yeah I believe it was because they have 6 people shooting instead of hundreds on top of a castle. So if anything it’s less than they would really be getting hit
Like for the year of his life that Tony gave up to teach us about Stuart period bug control.
Ah, that was Lesley Smith from "Most Haunted"! Poor Tony DOES get stuck with the "worst jobs"!
Prophetic really watching this in the UK in week one of the covid-19 lockdown.
0:50 am I the only one who got extremely nervous about how close that car got to collision?
My Boss: what are you doing????
Me: Working of course! Definately not watching a 44 minute video on why the Brits collected their citicens Urin.
That would be crazy
Omg, Baldrick is actually gathering dung...
"Imagine handling rotting bodies", yes, I did that this morning.
I, too, am curious.
Animal Control Officer, when the crematorium is out of service we take deceased to the landfill once a week. I go ahead and volunteer to get my turn out of the way for a few months. Summer is brutal in West Texas. You cannot begin to fathom the smell of a mass grave until you have filled one.
John McPherson somehow, I think it’s different handling rotting human bodies.... just a theory
Michael Greenhalgh Actually, there’s a “farm” for rotting corpses. It’s used for forensic studies.
Michael Greenhalgh Humans are still animals. Our body's are quite nasty now from all the fats, chemicals, drugs and hormones we ingest. The dead of that age was the same as any fur-less animals were.
I admire him hugely doing this without latex gloves "the anatomist's friend".
I love his documentaries so much! But is it bad I can only see him as Baldrick?
11:30 they should ave the defenders firing much, much slower. Muskets at that time weren't firing at the speed of semi-auto paintball guns.
But more defenders
You think 4 musket men would fire at the suicide bombers?
Really enjoyed all of these don't know how we dare moan now lol
As late as Victorian times, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's favorite mode of transprt was the sedan chair.
Okay, I can clean fish, no problem. Like eating them so much, plowed through the process. able to examine the food choices. None the less, you have an iron stomach. Whoa.
@8:55 :
The Tippmann 98 Custom. An EXCELLENT work horse of a Semi for any Site / Scenario rental, that and the A5 you can't go far wrong with. Easy [comparitively] to strip clean, do field repairs on etc. Parts are very affordable and very available too.
These Markers are a great first own [CO2] [these don't suffer near as bad as others from frost seizing as any others if you're trigger happy on CO2] for a Semi option for the wannabe Walk On player on a budget. Get started with one of these and if it turns out you get hooked enough to save up for something special, you'll at least be getting game play and experience whilst you save the mega bucks a full spec tournament Marker's gonna cost you and you'll have the game time in to know which Markers you're being taken out by most so as to make a well educated upgrade purchase that actually suits you.
It's an ideal spare Marker to have clean and ready to roll too, should your fancy one go down and need more attention than your turn around time allows [between games]. The Tippmann can get your game played so you can fix your fancy main Marker in less rush.
When you get one of these, or a lot of them if you're doing the rentals, learn it, know how to strip clean / service it and carry a few spares, ESPECIALLY O-Rings and ideally springs, you can put your own parts kit together cheaper than buying a kit, which will likely have parts you'll not wear / bugger up in a hurry starting with a new / nicely refurbed Tippmann.
As long as you swap out the O-Rings [I suggest swap for Teflon rings where you can, but keeping ]rubbers' is smart since they're much easier in a hurry and can be swapped back when you have unrushed time to get your baby back at it's sexiest] at the slightest sign of wear [nicks, rough spots, slackness], these are the least troublesome starter Marker ever.
These Markers will run and run. In fact, I overhauled about a hundred of them for one Operator who hadn't had them strip cleaned for over 6 full punter days play and only about half a dozen of them WOULDN'T have been good to go in the state they were in [albeit not performing best accuracy / range] BEFORE I touched them. I still full serviced the lot and the cost of spares for the whole hundred was negligible really.
If you're going to compete, I definitely suggest adding an 'Anti Tamper' on the back of these, when I was Judging, you'd have been chronied on and off and the velocity adjuster would have had to be more than hand tight before I'd have let you on my fields competing with one. Out of the box, you can still lock the velocity acceptably anyway, but I really couldn't count the amount of players I've sent back to tighten those and chronied again.
In testing amongst consenting adults, all Pro Judges, Tippmanns will behave fine and without quirks at 360 fps on CO2 at 10°C in Woodland, UK. For educational research only, of course.
Expensive Markers, tricked up some, have a lot more going on with them that can go wrong or need regular accurate adjustment and expensive spares, don't always keep players fully 'in game' it must be noted, especially in Winter Woodland play. Useful to keep your Tippmann with you to fall back on when your upgrade is being temperamental.
Looked after and in the hands of a decent player, these Tippmanns can be very tasty.
It's kinda 'The AK47 Of Paintball Markers', no ?
That blowed up real good.
poor sheep, that was too much for me
Lau Fer
Ditto.
"You got your strap-on Andrew?" XD
Never thought he would have gutted that sheep
amazing rate of fire for "musketeers" they forgot the reloading time
In Pepys diary he tells how he scolded a house maid by putting her in the basement where the cess pit (an above ground box) was also kept. He was very like his times. But that had to be a very obnoxious cellar to endure. I've noticed when I have to clean the inlet to my septic tank, the amount of water entering does dilute the active ingredients. I use short showers and never tub bathe. There wouldn't have been a lot of water in Pepys pit so there must have been an overpowering ammonia vapor. I think the poor girl could have suffocated. .
Ironically, in killing cats, the English wiped out their first and best line of defense against disease. Cats were the thin blue line in pestilence vs. humanity.
Not only England, in Europe Cats and esp. black Cats were considereed evil and burnt along with the poor women on a stake.. they decimated Cats Who would have Made the Plague less brutal. what goes around Comes around.
20:45 how did the spoon move 😱
Very spooky and ghost like!
20:42
OMG! What in the world?! Good eye!!
I did see that also!
Petardiers' would be an awesome Total War Unit.
The music in this series is great
Timeless Tony
This is a historical version of "Dirty Jobs"......& is also FAR better! 🥰
Imagine the saltpetre man tripping over?