I ran across one of these episodes as a related video to some other stuff I was watching. I was instantly addicted. Tony acts posh at times but he's actually pretty tough doing some of the things he does. Like things that involve heights. He admits that he has a fear of heights and yet will walk up the cables on a suspension bridge for inspection. Really cool. Fun and educational. Thank you Mr. Tony Robinson.
Almost every episode they make that poor man climb even though they know he's afraid of heights. The producers are just torturing him for our entertainment.
+Arthur V. Prevatte ". . .even though they know he is afraid of heights". . . . and one of the nation's great acting talents, debuting as a teenager in Oliver, in The West End . . . . . .
I know this is an old comment, but I thought you might find this interesting: A lot of the common phrases we use today are said to come from the navy, things like "by and large", "loose cannon", and "the bitter end". There's a sort of in-joke among language historians that a group of people called the 'Committee for Ascribing a Naval Origin to Everything' (CANOE) is responsible for the seemingly disproportionate number of phrases with roots in the navy.
Mill work provides quite a few, too. Rule of thumb, daily grind, run of the mill, nose to the grind stone, grind to a halt, put your shoulder to the wheel, three sheets to the wind, first come first served, wait your turn, to be put through the mill, show your mettle, chew on this. And several others.
I love that he is so game on for anything. I would have been weeping half way up those ropes. He is right to be proud of over coming his fear of heights.
Hermits ? Taking the Waters ? about as much use as a cat flap in an elephant house. As the immortal Edmund said. But seriously, this was a great series.
Salt pork and hardtack were pretty awful, but "hunger is the best relish." If you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything you can arm-wrestle down your throat.
Life was certainly cheap; especially the life of poor children. Fascinating that we have been able to survive our history. The fact that I'm alive says a hell of a lot about the guts and grit of my forebears, I suppose. Even a century ago, survival was a tough slog - even in so-called industrialized, progressive nations like the UK and USA. Most of our grandparents, great grandparents led hellish lives filled with hardship, insecurity and loss.
jess siegman I don't know why, but every time someone mentions "knighting", I get a flashback of me putting a piece of metal into another person's head in Mount and Blade: Warband. Maybe that's just the "Tetris effect", but it gets me all hot and bothered. I can just imagine Tony and I stripping out of our armor and clothes after a hot, sweaty battle, making blood angels and holding hands while we prance through the corpses on a beautiful, sunny day. And then Patrick Stewart would come by and give us a stern speech about why it's unethical to make sweet, sensual bdsm love to the corpses of your slain enemies.
Regarding the opera: god forbid that men would give a woman an operatic role, to sing those lovely high notes, oh no. And rather than give a woman that job, men cut the balls off of a couple thousand boys a year in the hope of harvesting less than 10 castrati from it. Sure...makes sense to me. o_o
+inkadinkadoodle There seems to be a recurring tendency across many cultures for performing arts to be an exclusively male job. It probably has to do with the fact that acting and performing was always considered low and slightly immoral. This may be owing to the fact that performers were often originally of slave caste. So, naturally, men are regarded as less valuable and more expendable than women and so allowed on the stage. And of course they thought nothing of selling off a son to be castrated. Boys have always been regarded as disposable.
+Beef Chavez thanks for your reply and for the thoroughness of it. :)) i agree, but only up to a point. i think that the value of men, boys, and women depends on the context in which they're placed. boys, for example, are the heirs of thrones and the bearers of family names. no one "gives away" a boy at a wedding or pays off a bride's family with a dowry. on the other hand, you're right about entertainers, the slave trade, and the overall concept of both as "low." and yes, that may be why women were excluded from it, but i'm neither in total agreeance nor disagreeance! there's evidence for and against that one. :)) nevertheless, your comment is well put, and i do appreciate and respect it! thank you. :))
The voice of a castrato was actually considered better than a woman's voice. It was indeed high pitched, but it was different. An adult man has a higher lung capacity than a woman. Those boys were trained more intensively than modern musicians, so it's still not quite the same thing, but on occasion, even nowadays or in the more recent past, some male musician does not go through puberty either. This can happen due to some medical issues even in the absence of some horrific accident. Just not having puberty does not necessarily make the person sick otherwise.
+vartotrad i wish to truly thank you for your reply, which was thorough and thoroughly respectful. you're right, and i also thank you for a different perspective!
Despite his most-high status in The Royal Academy, oil painter Sir Joshua Reynolds' pictures were quite infamous for seriously self-destructing in as little as 2 years after completion. Certain inviolable technical procedures for properly crafting an oil painting to ensure longevity were still in force at that time, but Reynolds couldn't have cared less. When collectors / commissions complained, he'd snap back with "Would you rather have the picture look good, or last?" American Painter Alfred Pinkham Ryder was also similarly notorious for disastrously crafted paintings. A virtuoso of atmospheric brushwork and effects, Ryder would literally paint with whatever was at hand in the moment, including wet mouldy coffee grounds, rancid beef stew & etc. But Top Marks must go to Van Gogh, who literally slogged so much thick oil paint onto the canvas-- so he could sculpt and carve the paint using just his palette knife in many cases-- that *the paintings never fully "dried"* (although 'cure' is more accurate). A thick tough skin would develop, but the paint below was still thickly liquid. In time, these paintings would start to internally sag and belly-out at the bottom, like teabags filled with toothpaste. Museum conservators would then have to use specially designed large hypodermic syringes to "lance" the paintings to remove the excess paint. Absolutely the most fun is *always* had Backstage ;)
Pacifico. Co Pty Ltd ... *"Grittings & Salivations!!!"* I appreciate being so consistently read and +1'd-- *so I most sincerely Thank You.* I guess it's pretty obvious that I've been Audience-Testing what I have to say, and how I say it ... and the feedback I've gotten means more to me than even I could have imagined. Sir Alan Turing's Magick Machine & The InterNet Information & Communications Revolution literally is, I sense in my gut, Humanity's last-- yet nevertheless best chance to haul our *OWN* sorry asses out of The Abyss. Gutenberg's movable-type printing press killed the elite's psychosocial stranglehold on literacy, information, learning, knowledge, understanding and transactional dialogic communication ... which inevitably and relentlessly fomented The Reformation & The Enlightenment, and the resultant dust *still* hasn't settled. Western "Civilisation" went positively, progressively and productively *BATSHIT* ... flat-out paradigm-annihilating psychosocial systems disequilibration, which (r)evolutionarily burns out the deadwood as it simultaneously sheds light on the fact that there's now room for something New, and hopefully Better. The Internet is Printing Press Act II, right on cue, globalising open communications and free exchange, powerfully amplified by still images and videoclips in addition to Words. Yeah, sure, you have to shift and sift an average of 3 tons of useless fill for each carat of gem-quality diamond, but that gets easier with dedication and experience-- especially when Sir Alan's Magick Machine auto-enables Like Minds to find each other, banter, bond, and band together *TO FIGHT BACK.* My essential nature is to just run right at Dragons and kick 'em as hard as I can smack in the balls. I simply can't *not* do that, so that's the hand I play. It's what I was dealt. Knowing that I ain't alone ... well, you get it. All I can ever really ask / demand is A Chance to play my part, contribute what I can. So, stay tuned. I'm backstage busily filling up The Creative Flying Monkeys Airborne Wing chock-full of chimichongas, cheap red wine, amanita muscaria and Ex-Lax.
Hi, Paul! You're quite right. I saw one "masterpiece" in the Philadelphia MOA fade and crack so much over a mere few years that it was eventually yanked for restoration. It was Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass", the virtues of which shall, we say, forever escape me (as much as I admire Duchamp).
I consider even the modern attitude of some towards adult film performers to be shameful and hypocritical. So the attitude of Georgians towards models was in my opinion the ultimate example of shameful hypocrisy.
About the castrati; he was explaining how the Church turned 'altar boys' into 'altered boys'. Geez, even the hermit got to keep his 'organ'. Sorry, just couldn't resist that.
I think you mean series two as series one low singing at the end. To be fair series two (the one with queen Elizabeth) was the first in the style we came to love.
on the hermit job, I probably loose track on paying the person or forget that there's hermit on the property if it's on the 7th year and i'm sure people took advantage of him too and I wonder what if something happened to the family/owner would he lose his payment after waiting his ass off for 7 years.
Most didnt make it, either they mentally couldn't handle the seclusion (and if you didn't complete the contract you'd not get a penny); they'd be found breaking the rules -which would void the same contract. Sometimes unscrupulous employers would entrap their hermit on purpose so as to not to have to pay them; OR their living conditions in damp, and with inadequate food, shelter, and clothing (and human contact) contributed to a poor quality of life and then death. 50 pounds at the time, never mind per year, was an unfathomable sum for most people. It was one of those things that sounded good.....but....
I see a lot of expressions comes from the navy: "Lose canon" "Show them the ropes" "Square meal" and a few others not mention on this program like: "Plain sailing" "Panic stations" "Cut and run" "Down the hatches" "Shake a leg"
I think that being a "powder monkey" would be the absolute worst job on the ship. Imagine being an 11 year old boy and your job is to run across a ship that is literally blowing up around you as you carry powder to gunnery crews, and to top it off you didn't even earn a wage but a bit of food and a cot to sleep in.
The worst job in history has got to be the Jizz Monkey's. He's the guy who clean the nudie booth every time a customer shoots a load on the glass walls. I don't know if you know this, but jizz leave streaks if you don't clean it right away. At least that's what it said in "Clerks".
I suspect that the brilliant young Norwegian singer Aksel Rykkvin is a much better example of how the castrati may have sounded than any falsetto countertenor.
And no, young Aksel has not nor will ever be "clipped"; he's probably lost his boy-voice by now, but there are tons of his videos here on UA-cam... (If you want to be sexually mutilated in Scandinavia, apparently Sweden is the more likely locale for undergoing vaginoplasties and addadicktomes.)
It would be far easier to use a broom on the OTHER side of the fucking mule and sweep quickly as the carriage moves forward instead of having to be UNDER the damn thing.
I spent a bunch of time on a brigantine....great times. (i was on the topsail yard brace... when the topsail yard broke....after that learning to skydive was a lark. But....thinking of life aboard back in the 18 century....yikes. Having maggots in your meat and weevils in your bread. Life in a maximum security prison in Texas is way better.
I know tony has a fear of heights. so kudos to Tony. fear of heights- evolution over the millennia selected for the people who were scared standing on the edge of a cliff. The people who werent so scared...tended to fall more than the others. Thus our fear is there for a reason. Its not a bad thing at all.
Aww, u mad. My points was in the first post, the slaves were happy to stay on the ship, despite the shitty conditions, because back home they were a slave too. This slave traders didn't enslave them, the Africans that conquered their territory did.
According to newer historical research, life aboard the Georgian Navy was not actually as bad as it is made out to be. There is a Time Watch here on UA-cam that summs it up pretty well. I advice looking for it, disbanding myths is always good.
Oh, wow, the beetles do sound horrible. But at least you can get protein from insects, can't you? I certainly have a lot of respect for those military personnel who had to eat those every day aboard ship or out on campaign.
weird, it cut my message off. Anyway, the Corsairs were even based on Africa though so technically its accurate to say that no non-African group ever enslaved an African. The reason I point it out, is that history is so very often misrepresented because its apparently not politically correct to point out that it was African's burning villages and chaining up other Africans, and not some foreign military force as is often implied.
Well, fare enough, I did forget about the actions of the Nazis, but in my defense that practice lasted what 10 years tops? Hardly a blip on the radar when it comes to history.
One of the most interesting castrato singers was from the Victorian era (after castration of young boys had been outlawed) and he became a eunuch by pure coincidence. He was a boy in a workhouse who was accidentally castrated in a huge accident in the factory he worked in, and during recovery he would sing in the hospital to make himself feel better (he learned to sing in church). People heard him and he was so good, he was taken out of the child-labor industry to be a proper opera singer, one of the last castratos; he was taught by the best teachers available and made a great name for himself (again, supremely lucky). He died rich, fat and happy.
The choirmasters should have picked only those boys whose voices were really 'a cut above' before administering the 'cut below'. (Ok, i quit. Thats the last bad castrati joke. I don't have the balls to do that to everyone a third time.
BTW, before you answer, just THINK for a minute. What does "reduce to" mean to you? Does that mean to "bring down from something greater"? Such as reducing a freeman into slavery? So again how to you reduce a slave into slavery? Feel stupid?
Still here... Thanks my friend, so many years, watching WELL before all these new links came along. So many years... Thanks so much...
When eating your biscuit, always choose the lesser of two weevils :P
I ran across one of these episodes as a related video to some other stuff I was watching. I was instantly addicted. Tony acts posh at times but he's actually pretty tough doing some of the things he does. Like things that involve heights. He admits that he has a fear of heights and yet will walk up the cables on a suspension bridge for inspection. Really cool. Fun and educational. Thank you Mr. Tony Robinson.
Indeed, Good Onya Sir Baldrick !!
OMG, I can't believe his falsetto. THAT is the voice of an angel.
I wish they'd make more episodes in other places, like the worst jobs of the Vikings, or ancient Greeks etc..
Agreed. We could use more of this interesting series.
think they did a viking one, somewhat anyway
I love this series. Seen it before but well worth watching again. Thanks for the upload Sonic.
"He's got a case of very bad acting." Oh my. That's terminal. He's a goner for sure. LOL
Strangely, many of the worst jobs of the Stuart and Georgian period sound worse to me than those of the Middle Ages.
Hilarious - 'I work really hard' his little face and intonation. Love Tony he's hilarious
Almost every episode they make that poor man climb even though they know he's afraid of heights. The producers are just torturing him for our entertainment.
+Arthur V. Prevatte
". . .even though they know he is afraid of heights". . . . and one of the nation's great acting talents, debuting as a teenager in Oliver, in The West End . . . . . .
Lol and it's great
It's so interesting as well to find out how some of our expressions came to be.
I know this is an old comment, but I thought you might find this interesting:
A lot of the common phrases we use today are said to come from the navy, things like "by and large", "loose cannon", and "the bitter end". There's a sort of in-joke among language historians that a group of people called the 'Committee for Ascribing a Naval Origin to Everything' (CANOE) is responsible for the seemingly disproportionate number of phrases with roots in the navy.
Mill work provides quite a few, too. Rule of thumb, daily grind, run of the mill, nose to the grind stone, grind to a halt, put your shoulder to the wheel, three sheets to the wind, first come first served, wait your turn, to be put through the mill, show your mettle, chew on this. And several others.
"A gravy of human detritus" is possibly the most disgusting description I've ever heard. It puts so many images in my head.
He is Apollo. He is Hercules. Uhhh, no. He's Baldrick.
+Addy Norman he has the voice of an angel that's for sure
Sod off baldrick 😂
Worst job in history is manager of a Footlocker at the poor mall next to the abandoned Casino.
Why is the job so bad? And aren't the jobs of other employees working there even worse than the manager's job?
Tony you are the absolute Best ever, but you in the calico trousers is the ultimate. keep these documentaries coming.
I love that he is so game on for anything. I would have been weeping half way up those ropes. He is right to be proud of over coming his fear of heights.
It is amusing how many phrases we still use today came from this era. "Bite the bullet" and "Show you the ropes" are just 2 examples
LOL! That is some crunchy yet squishy chocolate chips that are in them sea biscuits, eh?
I didn't realise Tony Robinson has such a beautiful singing voice.
I love watching this suffer. His reactions are hilarious!
Hermits ? Taking the Waters ? about as much use as a cat flap in an elephant house. As the immortal Edmund said. But seriously, this was a great series.
River Huntingdon 😂👌
I love this show. So happy you've put it up on YT.
Salt pork and hardtack were pretty awful, but "hunger is the best relish." If you're hungry enough, you'll eat anything you can arm-wrestle down your throat.
Life was certainly cheap; especially the life of poor children. Fascinating that we have been able to survive our history. The fact that I'm alive says a hell of a lot about the guts and grit of my forebears, I suppose. Even a century ago, survival was a tough slog - even in so-called industrialized, progressive nations like the UK and USA. Most of our grandparents, great grandparents led hellish lives filled with hardship, insecurity and loss.
And yet now we have millenials & snow flakes...
It's time Tony received a knighthood, for service to the entertainments,world. Hope you are watching HRH
She must have read your comment and using the royal time machine traveled back to the 14th of June 2013 and placed him on her birthday honours list.
he was knighted
jess siegman
I don't know why, but every time someone mentions "knighting", I get a flashback of me putting a piece of metal into another person's head in Mount and Blade: Warband.
Maybe that's just the "Tetris effect", but it gets me all hot and bothered.
I can just imagine Tony and I stripping out of our armor and clothes after a hot, sweaty battle, making blood angels and holding hands while we prance through the corpses on a beautiful, sunny day.
And then Patrick Stewart would come by and give us a stern speech about why it's unethical to make sweet, sensual bdsm love to the corpses of your slain enemies.
Regarding the opera: god forbid that men would give a woman an operatic role, to sing those lovely high notes, oh no.
And rather than give a woman that job, men cut the balls off of a couple thousand boys a year in the hope of harvesting less than 10 castrati from it.
Sure...makes sense to me. o_o
People get dumber the further back in time you go.
+inkadinkadoodle
There seems to be a recurring tendency across many cultures for performing arts to be an exclusively male job. It probably has to do with the fact that acting and performing was always considered low and slightly immoral. This may be owing to the fact that performers were often originally of slave caste.
So, naturally, men are regarded as less valuable and more expendable than women and so allowed on the stage. And of course they thought nothing of selling off a son to be castrated. Boys have always been regarded as disposable.
+Beef Chavez thanks for your reply and for the thoroughness of it. :)) i agree, but only up to a point.
i think that the value of men, boys, and women depends on the context in which they're placed. boys, for example, are the heirs of thrones and the bearers of family names. no one "gives away" a boy at a wedding or pays off a bride's family with a dowry.
on the other hand, you're right about entertainers, the slave trade, and the overall concept of both as "low." and yes, that may be why women were excluded from it, but i'm neither in total agreeance nor disagreeance! there's evidence for and against that one. :))
nevertheless, your comment is well put, and i do appreciate and respect it! thank you. :))
The voice of a castrato was actually considered better than a woman's voice. It was indeed high pitched, but it was different. An adult man has a higher lung capacity than a woman. Those boys were trained more intensively than modern musicians, so it's still not quite the same thing, but on occasion, even nowadays or in the more recent past, some male musician does not go through puberty either. This can happen due to some medical issues even in the absence of some horrific accident. Just not having puberty does not necessarily make the person sick otherwise.
+vartotrad i wish to truly thank you for your reply, which was thorough and thoroughly respectful. you're right, and i also thank you for a different perspective!
That's amazing that Tony could even climb that ladder. If the captain would've asked me to do that, I would've abandon ship
Despite his most-high status in The Royal Academy, oil painter Sir Joshua Reynolds' pictures were quite infamous for seriously self-destructing in as little as 2 years after completion. Certain inviolable technical procedures for properly crafting an oil painting to ensure longevity were still in force at that time, but Reynolds couldn't have cared less. When collectors / commissions complained, he'd snap back with "Would you rather have the picture look good, or last?"
American Painter Alfred Pinkham Ryder was also similarly notorious for disastrously crafted paintings. A virtuoso of atmospheric brushwork and effects, Ryder would literally paint with whatever was at hand in the moment, including wet mouldy coffee grounds, rancid beef stew & etc.
But Top Marks must go to Van Gogh, who literally slogged so much thick oil paint onto the canvas-- so he could sculpt and carve the paint using just his palette knife in many cases-- that *the paintings never fully "dried"* (although 'cure' is more accurate). A thick tough skin would develop, but the paint below was still thickly liquid. In time, these paintings would start to internally sag and belly-out at the bottom, like teabags filled with toothpaste. Museum conservators would then have to use specially designed large hypodermic syringes to "lance" the paintings to remove the excess paint.
Absolutely the most fun is *always* had Backstage ;)
Pacifico. Co Pty Ltd ... *"Grittings & Salivations!!!"* I appreciate being so consistently read and +1'd-- *so I most sincerely Thank You.* I guess it's pretty obvious that I've been Audience-Testing what I have to say, and how I say it ... and the feedback I've gotten means more to me than even I could have imagined.
Sir Alan Turing's Magick Machine & The InterNet Information & Communications Revolution literally is, I sense in my gut, Humanity's last-- yet nevertheless best chance
to haul our *OWN* sorry asses out of The Abyss. Gutenberg's movable-type printing press killed the elite's psychosocial stranglehold on literacy, information, learning, knowledge, understanding and transactional dialogic communication ... which inevitably and relentlessly fomented The Reformation & The Enlightenment, and the resultant dust *still* hasn't settled. Western "Civilisation" went positively, progressively and productively *BATSHIT* ... flat-out paradigm-annihilating psychosocial systems disequilibration, which (r)evolutionarily burns out the deadwood as it simultaneously sheds light on the fact that there's now room for something New, and hopefully Better.
The Internet is Printing Press Act II, right on cue, globalising open communications and free exchange, powerfully amplified by still images and videoclips in addition to Words. Yeah, sure, you have to shift and sift an average of 3 tons of useless fill for each carat of gem-quality diamond, but that gets easier with dedication and experience-- especially when Sir Alan's Magick Machine auto-enables Like Minds to find each other, banter, bond, and band together *TO FIGHT BACK.*
My essential nature is to just run right at Dragons and kick 'em as hard as I can smack in the balls. I simply can't *not* do that, so that's the hand I play. It's what I was dealt.
Knowing that I ain't alone ... well, you get it. All I can ever really ask / demand is A Chance to play my part, contribute what I can.
So, stay tuned. I'm backstage busily filling up The Creative Flying Monkeys Airborne Wing chock-full of chimichongas, cheap red wine, amanita muscaria and Ex-Lax.
Hi, Paul! You're quite right. I saw one "masterpiece" in the Philadelphia MOA fade and crack so much over a mere few years that it was eventually yanked for restoration. It was Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass", the virtues of which shall, we say, forever escape me (as much as I admire Duchamp).
:) that sick and shaky feeling when he's climbing the rigging is one I remember well!!! Come on, Tony, do it again - you get used to it!
I love this show, I love the way the people will give Tony his assignment.. "here you go Tony, you better hustle."
I'm not about to touch another man's futtocks!
I consider even the modern attitude of some towards adult film performers to be shameful and hypocritical. So the attitude of Georgians towards models was in my opinion the ultimate example of shameful hypocrisy.
The same can be said about models today
Hypocrisy yesterday, hypocrisy today and hypocrisy tomorrow. Some things never change.
"then take a bite and.."
Hope you don't break your teeth on it.
About the castrati; he was explaining how the Church turned 'altar boys' into 'altered boys'. Geez, even the hermit got to keep his 'organ'. Sorry, just couldn't resist that.
What about traveling to America by boat? It took months to travel to America on a boat. I am not sure if the food was good either.
I was always wondering who sung the Blackadder theme at the end of season one, and he still has his testicles.
In that one, Baldrick was the smart one and Edmund was the idiot.
I think you mean series two as series one low singing at the end. To be fair series two (the one with queen Elizabeth) was the first in the style we came to love.
edbadyt That was partly due to budget reasons.
on the hermit job, I probably loose track on paying the person or forget that there's hermit on the property if it's on the 7th year and i'm sure people took advantage of him too and I wonder what if something happened to the family/owner would he lose his payment after waiting his ass off for 7 years.
Most didnt make it, either they mentally couldn't handle the seclusion (and if you didn't complete the contract you'd not get a penny); they'd be found breaking the rules -which would void the same contract. Sometimes unscrupulous employers would entrap their hermit on purpose so as to not to have to pay them; OR their living conditions in damp, and with inadequate food, shelter, and clothing (and human contact) contributed to a poor quality of life and then death. 50 pounds at the time, never mind per year, was an unfathomable sum for most people. It was one of those things that sounded good.....but....
Somebody get that "Bizarre Bodies" link off the sidebar!!!!!!!!!! *shudders*
Very Interesting indeed. Great documentary
"oh yeah, im a landsman!" LOL!!!!! str8 upp
@2:06 “That’s what peak performance looks like”
I see a lot of expressions comes from the navy: "Lose canon" "Show them the ropes" "Square meal" and a few others not mention on this program like: "Plain sailing" "Panic stations" "Cut and run" "Down the hatches" "Shake a leg"
I think that being a "powder monkey" would be the absolute worst job on the ship. Imagine being an 11 year old boy and your job is to run across a ship that is literally blowing up around you as you carry powder to gunnery crews, and to top it off you didn't even earn a wage but a bit of food and a cot to sleep in.
The worst job in history has got to be the Jizz Monkey's. He's the guy who clean the nudie booth every time a customer shoots a load on the glass walls. I don't know if you know this, but jizz leave streaks if you don't clean it right away. At least that's what it said in "Clerks".
You go mate!! Modeling buff for lady artists!
Okay I can only hope there is a hell for all those bastards that tortured children like that.
01:28
0_o *eyes melt out of head* mommy... Help me... *dies*
Not exactly a tough looking guy but Tony Robinson has some balls to do some of the things on the show..
I suspect that the brilliant young Norwegian singer Aksel Rykkvin is a much better example of how the castrati may have sounded than any falsetto countertenor.
And no, young Aksel has not nor will ever be "clipped"; he's probably lost his boy-voice by now, but there are tons of his videos here on UA-cam... (If you want to be sexually mutilated in Scandinavia, apparently Sweden is the more likely locale for undergoing vaginoplasties and addadicktomes.)
Gee you would have needed an extra piece of charcoal to sketch Robinson!
It would be far easier to use a broom on the OTHER side of the fucking mule and sweep quickly as the carriage moves forward instead of having to be UNDER the damn thing.
Tony isn't a shy man, I'll give him that, lol.
*whoops looks like I’m standing here for hours at a time*
Caps lock makes you seem extraordinarily intelligent!
Gotta love Georgian History!
Love this show
I spent a bunch of time on a brigantine....great times.
(i was on the topsail yard brace... when the topsail yard broke....after that learning to skydive was a lark.
But....thinking of life aboard back in the 18 century....yikes.
Having maggots in your meat and weevils in your bread.
Life in a maximum security prison in Texas is way better.
I know tony has a fear of heights. so kudos to Tony.
fear of heights- evolution over the millennia selected for the people who were scared standing on the edge of a cliff. The people who werent so scared...tended to fall more than the others.
Thus our fear is there for a reason. Its not a bad thing at all.
4:19: Half a guinea is 10 shillings, and six pence - just over 10 times what the male model would earn, by comparison.
i think i lost a tooth with the bread !!
I wouldn't mind working as a garden hermit.
Tony is the man
I agree
I hope they are paying him well, because he really does these terrible jobs, he should be made a Lord, are you listening Maj
I still can't figure out what was wrong with that hermit job.
Aww, u mad.
My points was in the first post, the slaves were happy to stay on the ship, despite the shitty conditions, because back home they were a slave too. This slave traders didn't enslave them, the Africans that conquered their territory did.
According to newer historical research, life aboard the Georgian Navy was not actually as bad as it is made out to be. There is a Time Watch here on UA-cam that summs it up pretty well. I advice looking for it, disbanding myths is always good.
See mom. Splinters are the real danger. I'm not being a baby about it
agree, some of his tasks need guts :)
I worked as a model, in my country it is still one of the worst jobs... painful and poorly payed, no medical insurance. But it was interesting
Empty Bomb come to India. Ull b a millionaire
what a good sport tony is
29:20 perhaps Baldrick has a slight case of acrophobia? (I've seen him endure far more with less trauma.)
unfortunately, most of the music in this episode and the previous two, I think, drowns out the talking, shame, very hard to hear
I'm glad he has a safety line.
Hard to believe this is the time of Jane Asten.
maybe the sweeping brush was invented around this time.. as opposed to the broom...
i would like to know whats the difference between slavery and being press-ganged into serving on a ship?
are yu oyay with the bullet in your back????? i imagine the pain !!
Oh, wow, the beetles do sound horrible. But at least you can get protein from insects, can't you? I certainly have a lot of respect for those military personnel who had to eat those every day aboard ship or out on campaign.
...you dont have to be a boy to realize the immense pain the poor constrato boys suffered
Makes you sad how contemptuous of human life people used to be. And technically still are.
Sod off baldrick 😂
weird, it cut my message off. Anyway, the Corsairs were even based on Africa though so technically its accurate to say that no non-African group ever enslaved an African.
The reason I point it out, is that history is so very often misrepresented because its apparently not politically correct to point out that it was African's burning villages and chaining up other Africans, and not some foreign military force as is often implied.
30:00 Any Guillemot eggs up there?
I'll trust Blackadder's dogsbody to know a thing or two about the worst jobs in history!
Well, fare enough, I did forget about the actions of the Nazis, but in my defense that practice lasted what 10 years tops? Hardly a blip on the radar when it comes to history.
One of the most interesting castrato singers was from the Victorian era (after castration of young boys had been outlawed) and he became a eunuch by pure coincidence. He was a boy in a workhouse who was accidentally castrated in a huge accident in the factory he worked in, and during recovery he would sing in the hospital to make himself feel better (he learned to sing in church). People heard him and he was so good, he was taken out of the child-labor industry to be a proper opera singer, one of the last castratos; he was taught by the best teachers available and made a great name for himself (again, supremely lucky). He died rich, fat and happy.
This series makes me wonder what genetic damage our ancestors may have done to themselves, without knowing it.
i think this guy is afraid of hight
"Why did they castrate those boys?"
The choirmasters should have picked only those boys whose voices were really 'a cut above' before administering the 'cut below'. (Ok, i quit. Thats the last bad castrati joke. I don't have the balls to do that to everyone a third time.
Yeah "Just Jolly Good Fun" isn't it
Don't worry, I have a cunning plan...
I hate to have the last job
I think some of you are off topic. The video is about worst jobs in the Georgian period, not Hitler's relationship with the Christian Church.
BTW, before you answer, just THINK for a minute. What does "reduce to" mean to you? Does that mean to "bring down from something greater"? Such as reducing a freeman into slavery? So again how to you reduce a slave into slavery? Feel stupid?
What about being a prince's Whipping boy?
caps lock is cruise control for cool.
in the georgian they ran with powder !!terrible time for kids !!
Am I the only one feeling pain in my testicles hearing about castration?
Baldrick!!!
Baldrick !