Why Did Medieval People Cover Themselves In Bloodsucking Leeches? | Worst Jobs In History | Timeline

Some of the least pleasant employment opportunities open to people in the Middle Ages. Tony Robinson discovers how fullers spent their working lives stomping on newly woven cloth in vats of stale urine, while leech collectors risked infection by wading into marshes and letting the bloodsuckers cling to their legs.
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  • @SweetMattieG
    @SweetMattieG4 жыл бұрын

    1:34 Arming Squire 5:18 Archer 6:55 Leech Farmer/Thatcher 12:13 Barber Surgeon 16:22 Wise Woman 22:39 Stone Mason 29:08 Lime Burner 32:20 Treadmill Worker 39:09 Fuller

  • @edsr164

    @edsr164

    4 жыл бұрын

    Matthew Gooding Thank you sir 🙏🏻

  • @SweetMattieG

    @SweetMattieG

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@saj831 I live to serve 👍

  • @DEADMEM3

    @DEADMEM3

    4 жыл бұрын

    legend

  • @aq8048

    @aq8048

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@saj831 same lol

  • @aq8048

    @aq8048

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@SweetMattieG legend

  • @illiminatieoverlordgurglek140
    @illiminatieoverlordgurglek1406 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha, that barber/surgeon guy is a riot! The enthusiasm with which he proclaims 'It didn't work, but they did it anyway!' is beyond hilarious.

  • @firefistx7477

    @firefistx7477

    4 жыл бұрын

    I couldnt watch that bit seeing skin cut is cringey

  • @Adventure_fuel

    @Adventure_fuel

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah people doing meaningless suffering for the sake of suffering and still smiling at you and telling you existing is worth existing.

  • @George_Bland

    @George_Bland

    4 жыл бұрын

    "bet it gave the barber a laugh"

  • @gelbsucht5017

    @gelbsucht5017

    4 жыл бұрын

    LMAOOOOOOOOO

  • @leslietarkin5705
    @leslietarkin57054 жыл бұрын

    Kudos to him for actually trying the jobs instead of just talking about them. Good show👍🏻👍🏽

  • @edsr164

    @edsr164

    4 жыл бұрын

    leslie beddingfield my thoughts exactly

  • @karenax254

    @karenax254

    3 жыл бұрын

    He's a star!!

  • @Browneyedbakedpotato

    @Browneyedbakedpotato

    3 жыл бұрын

    Big same

  • @illusionparagon9006

    @illusionparagon9006

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Savior Flair Whut?

  • @jen_brandon

    @jen_brandon

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Savior FlairHe didn't start off well in TT jumping into Phil's trench without asking! He's another one you don't want to be mean about. I wonder if Tony ever did get *dug in* off camera?

  • @RoseLilyClover
    @RoseLilyClover5 жыл бұрын

    I was dying when he was lying in the bed "I'm so sick. I may even be at Death's door. So I've invested my few coins into this man" and then the camera pans to the barber

  • @Lady_dromeda

    @Lady_dromeda

    5 жыл бұрын

    Chaos Churros do we need to send for the barber surgeon?

  • @jenselinsky6734

    @jenselinsky6734

    4 жыл бұрын

    Theodoric of York, medieval barber!

  • @daviddunn4922

    @daviddunn4922

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@shaggy69001 and went back for seconds.

  • @joekilledyou
    @joekilledyou5 жыл бұрын

    *sips worm stew* ..."I wish I was dead'" LMAO

  • @mickeyj440

    @mickeyj440

    3 жыл бұрын

    LMAO IK I LAUGHED HAAHHA

  • @dmitrishostakovich1447
    @dmitrishostakovich14473 жыл бұрын

    but why aren't we talking about: "What are leeches really?" "Worms with character."

  • @zaexius

    @zaexius

    3 жыл бұрын

    HA

  • @kathryn-anon

    @kathryn-anon

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is my favourite line from the entire episode

  • @Tindometari

    @Tindometari

    2 жыл бұрын

    Dude, your quartets rock!

  • @lucisferre6361
    @lucisferre63613 жыл бұрын

    I am not generally a sadistic individual, however, watching the look of absolute horror cross Tony's face as he sees how he'll have to suffer for historical posterity, is priceless.

  • @sbeckett91
    @sbeckett915 жыл бұрын

    Rowan Atkinson should do an affiliated documentary series where he looks at the best jobs in the Middle Ages.

  • @karentucker2161

    @karentucker2161

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'd go for that

  • @oscartravis5740

    @oscartravis5740

    3 жыл бұрын

    Boring. It'd just be kings and queens and the landed gentry

  • @joshhayne

    @joshhayne

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahah

  • @kingofrivia1248

    @kingofrivia1248

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oscar Travis Well best jobs for commoners would still be interesting

  • @Lachausis

    @Lachausis

    3 жыл бұрын

    But wait - I have a better idea!

  • @brenbabe
    @brenbabe5 жыл бұрын

    Awe... it amazes me the lengths tony will go for our entertainment. I just love him!

  • @WillowTDog
    @WillowTDog3 жыл бұрын

    It is so endearing to see Tony get that genuinely excited by splitting that enormous stone block! In a day when too often people feel like they have to be sarcastic or clever about everything, it's great to see someone like this. He does everything, even though he's scared of heights. Other than that scene with the eel, I really like this series.

  • @Thanasis_Koligliatis

    @Thanasis_Koligliatis

    2 жыл бұрын

    Filming the killing and the agony of an animal that is dying is awful. I don't know how they did it, how they don't feel the cruelty in this

  • @commissarvarken7445

    @commissarvarken7445

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Thanasis_Koligliatis Because they live on an island, killing fish is kinda normal.

  • @cronascat4001

    @cronascat4001

    Жыл бұрын

    help its a fish

  • @jimmyormerod4075

    @jimmyormerod4075

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Thanasis_Koligliatis its a god dam fish you snowflake for gods sake sop humenizing it

  • @arcadeninja7383

    @arcadeninja7383

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Thanasis_Koligliatis bruv its a fish, they don't feel pain like that

  • @malongjohnson435
    @malongjohnson4356 жыл бұрын

    The sound editing is from the Middle Ages

  • @spoosh13x13x13

    @spoosh13x13x13

    5 жыл бұрын

    lmao I was just about to say some thing about the sound editing lol.. and your comment is perfect lol still a cool show even with bad sound editing tho...

  • @tubbyidiot8312

    @tubbyidiot8312

    5 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely barbaric

  • @soslothful

    @soslothful

    5 жыл бұрын

    The sound editing, or overlays, makes this intolerable.

  • @rogerjohnson9466

    @rogerjohnson9466

    5 жыл бұрын

    this is too bloody accurate

  • @thesenate5291

    @thesenate5291

    5 жыл бұрын

    Don't you dare blame my precious bauldrick!

  • @pigman4084
    @pigman40845 жыл бұрын

    He’s really in it til the end. I appreciate his commitment for his program.

  • @kevinmorrice

    @kevinmorrice

    4 жыл бұрын

    tony is a trooper, he knows what he needs to do it and even pushes through his own fears a lot of the time, time team is another classic, i miss these quality programs

  • @karenax254

    @karenax254

    3 жыл бұрын

    He's a star!

  • @bunz6268

    @bunz6268

    3 жыл бұрын

    me too. he's so committed he's willing to stand in a bath of stale urine wearing a silly hat. what a man.

  • @lanestovall1715

    @lanestovall1715

    3 жыл бұрын

    He takes the British attitude of "carry on with it" seriously!

  • @jrideout2802
    @jrideout28024 жыл бұрын

    He reacted like a giant kid when he cracked that rock with the sledgehammer. Too cute.

  • @phalenshearouse1686
    @phalenshearouse16866 жыл бұрын

    I love how excited Tony gets when something works.

  • @worldculturalappreciation8894
    @worldculturalappreciation88946 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many people actually think and appreciate what people back them had to do for us to be alive today.

  • @hhairston43
    @hhairston434 жыл бұрын

    My uncle had all 4 fingers of one hand cut off in an accident in the early 1970’s. He had leeches applied to the end of his fingers after they were reattached just as explained in the first part of this show.

  • @Dr_Lad
    @Dr_Lad3 жыл бұрын

    *Brilliant documentary . Not a dull moment, had some laughs and learnt something new!*

  • @dasmole4804
    @dasmole48045 жыл бұрын

    I really like hearing two voices at once because the background wasn't edited out. Makes you really understand what is being said.

  • @ncooty
    @ncooty5 жыл бұрын

    I admire Tony's willingness to experience some of these unpleasantries.

  • @dinoduelist2219
    @dinoduelist22195 жыл бұрын

    I made the horrible mistake of eating a soup when that god awful worm stew came on

  • @OrangeSunnSet

    @OrangeSunnSet

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hope you finished the soup until the part of the golden bathtube!

  • @tartnouveau3652

    @tartnouveau3652

    5 жыл бұрын

    Lol I was eating during the barber surgeon bit

  • @SA-247

    @SA-247

    5 жыл бұрын

    ill yuck

  • @keirytenorio8991

    @keirytenorio8991

    5 жыл бұрын

    What fun

  • @matildajonsson3565
    @matildajonsson35655 жыл бұрын

    "It's the safest one we ever built, but we have only ever built one" 😂

  • @jcspider7259
    @jcspider72596 жыл бұрын

    Makes one wonder in what ways people 500+ years from now will be laughing and shaking their heads when looking back at us today.

  • @soslothful

    @soslothful

    5 жыл бұрын

    Rap, piercing, tattooing.

  • @CatNostril

    @CatNostril

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@soslothful piercing and tattooing is prehistorical though

  • @Vlad2319

    @Vlad2319

    5 жыл бұрын

    Probably synthetic medicine.

  • @eponack

    @eponack

    5 жыл бұрын

    Nuclear power plants on The Ring of Fire.

  • @adamcohill1617

    @adamcohill1617

    5 жыл бұрын

    Antivaxxers

  • @michamaciej9563
    @michamaciej95634 жыл бұрын

    One of the most captivating medieval documentaries I've seen. Incredible presentation, kept my damaged millenial attention span full time. Love the energy of the presenter

  • @luc1fer_r1s1ng4
    @luc1fer_r1s1ng42 жыл бұрын

    Love tony....especially because he tries everything...no one else does that. Thank you for this great documentary Tony Robinson

  • @m.edwards9849
    @m.edwards98494 жыл бұрын

    bruh lemme tell you when i turned this on i wasn't expecting to watch an eel get beheaded

  • @joannawojcik7125

    @joannawojcik7125

    3 жыл бұрын

    that was terrible for me to watch also ....cruelty to animals on TV

  • @odrankeane-teague1601

    @odrankeane-teague1601

    3 жыл бұрын

    It would be animal cruelty if it was done for no reason. They did this to demonstrate what people did in those times to cure their illnesses. These were people from a different time when these sort of animals were a lot more plentiful. If this wasn't something that was historical accurate I doubt he would have done this. He himself was surprised to see they were alive but that's how it was done.

  • @WillowTDog

    @WillowTDog

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@odrankeane-teague1601 Seeing an animal killed slowly is not of any benefit in this situation. You could at least make the argument that some scientific studies might do something like this for a purpose, but almost every situation would be done differently in any study that was associated with any kind of organization. Just about any study can be done with less cruelty, so it isn't going to pass any sort of board. That's the only way to get the funding to run any kind of study. It is absolutely not necessary for a television show on history! Or anything, honestly. It doesn't add anything. It's literally a sign of sociopathy (to use the common term) to torture an animal, and what else is killing something with nerve endings and a brain slowly? Seriously.

  • @seanentzel9616

    @seanentzel9616

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ask nature ( a hawk eating a gerbil for instance) how it feels about an eel being taken out by a superior species feels

  • @lespectator4962

    @lespectator4962

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@joannawojcik7125 How many roaches in your home have you summarily executed? How many stray cats have you ignored in the streets and left to die? Isn't that animal cruelty too? You're cruuuel!

  • @webby37
    @webby372 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU ALL so much for making these freely available. More docs like this should be open to all (even if it’s not immediately after they’re released).

  • @united0019
    @united00195 жыл бұрын

    This is truly one of my favorite documentaries on KZread. I love the medieval times, it is just one of the most interesting things in the world for me.

  • @ederanged7960
    @ederanged79605 жыл бұрын

    *Blackadder* : "We need something to close the threads in this linen." *Baldrick* : "I have a cunning plan, m'lord."

  • @KiaRoane
    @KiaRoane4 жыл бұрын

    I’m so glad I was not alive at this time. Oh goodness.

  • @ChrisTina-qb6kl

    @ChrisTina-qb6kl

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe you are reincarnated 🤣 and you did live back than eating worm soup🍲 and collecting leeches 😬

  • @weebshroom3710

    @weebshroom3710

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ChrisTina-qb6kl yay yummy worms 🙂

  • @katigrace

    @katigrace

    2 жыл бұрын

    Blech! I heard that.

  • @MsJajami
    @MsJajami6 жыл бұрын

    Tony's reaction is priceless for whole 47 minutes 😁

  • @level98bearhuntingarmor
    @level98bearhuntingarmor6 жыл бұрын

    Best line "It must go in six inches."

  • @alexkrieger3263

    @alexkrieger3263

    6 жыл бұрын

    The Holy Roman Empire Of The German Nation I think this empire was better

  • @Rael14

    @Rael14

    6 жыл бұрын

    No the best is : "i wish i was dead" LOL

  • @markrutledge2593

    @markrutledge2593

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's what SHE said!

  • @schiz0phren1c

    @schiz0phren1c

    6 жыл бұрын

    "That'd make your eyes water"

  • @Docmain3

    @Docmain3

    6 жыл бұрын

    69th like

  • @Nonpartisanmusic
    @Nonpartisanmusic3 жыл бұрын

    When feeling down, watch this and feel lucky you live in the 21st century...

  • @ukrulesall1
    @ukrulesall16 жыл бұрын

    I believe we need more commercials. One every 6 minutes just isn’t enough.

  • @hrush437

    @hrush437

    5 жыл бұрын

    LMFAOOO

  • @irnomo9784

    @irnomo9784

    5 жыл бұрын

    i believe you need more adblock ^^

  • @mikkelnpetersen

    @mikkelnpetersen

    5 жыл бұрын

    If it were up to youtube, 1 ad pr 10 seconds.

  • @Klaproossje

    @Klaproossje

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank God door addblockers

  • @laceylewis8302

    @laceylewis8302

    5 жыл бұрын

    😄 😄 😄

  • @priscillazuniga1273
    @priscillazuniga12736 жыл бұрын

    Yay!! More medieval documentaries if possible please

  • @ddc4531

    @ddc4531

    6 жыл бұрын

    You are so beautiful.......to me...........

  • @priscillazuniga1273

    @priscillazuniga1273

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well. Lolol

  • @arthas640

    @arthas640

    6 жыл бұрын

    This is a whole series if your interested, he did another episode on the Dark Ages and similar time periods.

  • @MukoroJr

    @MukoroJr

    6 жыл бұрын

    Priscilla Davila Ok Madam its on its way

  • @illusionparagon9006

    @illusionparagon9006

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ddc4531 The frick dude

  • @jo-annbastings
    @jo-annbastings5 жыл бұрын

    I really, really hope mister Robinson is well payed for all the pains and efforts he had to pass through, in order to show us how difficult life was in those days. We take for granted all we have today ignoring the struggles of the people in those times. Very interesting video.

  • @guyfaulkes3035
    @guyfaulkes30356 жыл бұрын

    The audio mixing is horrible. Whenever the music swells, the narration gets buried and is inaudible.

  • @markdoldon8852

    @markdoldon8852

    6 жыл бұрын

    Guy Faulkes I have no problem whatsoever. Is it possible that the problem is on your end?

  • @josee-annejoly6896

    @josee-annejoly6896

    6 жыл бұрын

    My thoughts exactly! That music is way too loud, I can't hear anything they say when the music gets louder

  • @jcspider7259

    @jcspider7259

    6 жыл бұрын

    Guy Faulkes Indeed! I turned down the audio and turned on closed captioning, the latter being rather humorous - whatever program was used did not always understand what was being said!

  • @ZanderSwart

    @ZanderSwart

    5 жыл бұрын

    no way.

  • @steve1978ger

    @steve1978ger

    5 жыл бұрын

    sounds like they ineptly pulled it from surround to stereo

  • @ShredTraining
    @ShredTraining2 жыл бұрын

    It's great to see Timeline paying homage to Tony Robinsons past career by getting Baldrick to be a sound engineer for every episode.

  • @MukoroJr
    @MukoroJr6 жыл бұрын

    The Cathedrals were a work of genius despite their rudermentary practices in other areas

  • @gregkral4467
    @gregkral44675 жыл бұрын

    HEHEHE, we love you TONY. thanks a lot for your work on these series, so much fun and so interesting with you as our host. UK's dirty jobs for sure, but in so many ways we always thought about in the past. What was it really like. your daily life sort of series on these time periods is quite wonderful. I love this series. Cheers, Tony! Thanks.

  • @vardamax5610
    @vardamax56105 жыл бұрын

    that eel part was genuinely distressing

  • @daniellemurphy9755

    @daniellemurphy9755

    5 жыл бұрын

    I couldn't watch it 🙁😞

  • @katiecompton6177

    @katiecompton6177

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awful and should not have been allowed

  • @nodigBKMiche

    @nodigBKMiche

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nichola Scage but the worms were ok? What about the blind ppl in the wheel? Thank god, we are no longer in this erra...oh, the urine vats😖

  • @secretunknown253

    @secretunknown253

    3 жыл бұрын

    Katie Compton go cry over a river. They probably eat them afterwards

  • @markgerhard1362
    @markgerhard13625 жыл бұрын

    He understands that the human would be in pain having his hand cut off without anaesthetic...but is incapable of understanding that the eel would be in equal pain having his head cut off.

  • @suzannebonner3477

    @suzannebonner3477

    Жыл бұрын

    Watching that creature writhing in agony and suffering like that and to hear 'he will struggle' was one of the most disturbing things I have ever seen on KZread and I love these videos and Tony Robinson. Not this one.

  • @saragrant9749

    @saragrant9749

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s a part of our history. Not much of history is very enjoyable, especially when you look into rural history in the Middle Ages.

  • @pmmd86
    @pmmd863 жыл бұрын

    the commitment of this guy is amazing. when he get into a bowl of urine i thought to myself: "Do you really need to do it? If you did not do it, and just told that this is how they did it, i would still think it's a great show!". but i guess he wants it to be as realistic as possible. i wonder whether he was happy when his producer said: "And in the next episode, we will film you walking in 20L of urine that me and the rest will produce!".

  • @nixx5179
    @nixx51796 жыл бұрын

    These documentaries are like visual heroin..

  • @tehjamerz

    @tehjamerz

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nicole X and audibly they are like drowning

  • @nixx5179

    @nixx5179

    6 жыл бұрын

    tehjamez Lol, sad but true!! Some of the audio is awful :[

  • @pointlessopinion611

    @pointlessopinion611

    6 жыл бұрын

    tehjamez , in space.

  • @michaelcaplin8969

    @michaelcaplin8969

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's really weird, but I just cannot stop watching!!

  • @noahlee6292

    @noahlee6292

    5 жыл бұрын

    heroins a lot better than this utter travesty

  • @GentTX
    @GentTX6 жыл бұрын

    how appropriate that Baldrick would be doing this documentary

  • @davehallett3128

    @davehallett3128

    6 жыл бұрын

    JJanse10 i believe they considered that when they made the program captain obvious

  • @illiminatieoverlordgurglek140

    @illiminatieoverlordgurglek140

    6 жыл бұрын

    Tony Robinson is also a historian. So that probably made the choice even easier.

  • @Andre-fq6xg

    @Andre-fq6xg

    5 жыл бұрын

    LOL I was just thinking I knew this guys voice from somewhere.

  • @lordeden1475

    @lordeden1475

    5 жыл бұрын

    WRONG HIS IS NOT A HISTORIAN AND HAS NEVER BEEN ONE! All he has been is a PRESENTER ON HISTORY PROGRAMES !

  • @Montina_Paullin

    @Montina_Paullin

    5 жыл бұрын

    Oh my gosh! Thank you. I knew he looked familiar! Dang it.. I just binged on B.A. over the summer too..

  • @deadlocker1420
    @deadlocker14203 жыл бұрын

    1:34 - Arming Squire 5:18 - Archer 6:55 - Leech Farmer / Thatcher 12:13 - Barber Surgeon 16:22 - Wise Woman 22:39 - Stone Mason 29:08 - Lime Burner 32:20 - Treadmill Worker 39:09 - Fuller

  • @licklebee
    @licklebee6 жыл бұрын

    My favorite presenter on one of my favorite shows ever thank you!!!

  • @planescaped
    @planescaped4 жыл бұрын

    I remember finding a leech on my leg once when I got home when I was 6 or so. Freaked me the f*** out when I peeled it off in confusion and blood just started pouring everywhere! I didn't feel it and it had clearly been there awhile... No idea where I got it.

  • @pissinmyeyes2997
    @pissinmyeyes29976 жыл бұрын

    Tony should be on all the videos of documentaries!

  • @Colaglass
    @Colaglass6 жыл бұрын

    Such a refreshing professionally made documentary. Most of the medical stuff was just hoaxers exploiting people's fear, though.

  • @royalnovember66
    @royalnovember666 жыл бұрын

    That worm stew. I think I now know why a fear of doctors seems to be a collective fear...

  • @julienbelair6524

    @julienbelair6524

    5 жыл бұрын

    probably would have been better with mushrooms and onion

  • @edsr164

    @edsr164

    4 жыл бұрын

    I heard of fear of dentists not doctors

  • @bcaye

    @bcaye

    3 жыл бұрын

    Speak for yourself.

  • @Bluestar-qy4gv
    @Bluestar-qy4gv5 жыл бұрын

    "he had to learn how to carve my meat", "I beg your pardon". ROFL

  • @Alex-hb8cn
    @Alex-hb8cn6 жыл бұрын

    Wow. Baldrick is a lot more knowledgeable than most people give him credit for.

  • @TheSamMarsden
    @TheSamMarsden6 жыл бұрын

    Must... Resist... Temptation... To... Call... Baldrick...

  • @jmichelleb02

    @jmichelleb02

    6 жыл бұрын

    TheSamMarsden doooo ittt!

  • @needhelpinwow

    @needhelpinwow

    6 жыл бұрын

    Well so long as you don't have a cunning plan. A plan more cunning than a fox that's just been appointed professor of cunning at Oxford University. I think Tony will let it go.

  • @davehallett3128

    @davehallett3128

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nick Maloney nice one. Write on

  • @Patrick_The_Pure

    @Patrick_The_Pure

    6 жыл бұрын

    MY NAME, IS NOT.... RIIIIIICK!!!!!

  • @RyllenKriel
    @RyllenKriel5 жыл бұрын

    "Oh no...come on. This is the safest machine we have ever made. But we made only one!" Hahaha, great words of encouragement there from the wheel crane gentleman.

  • @user-nh2in8co5k
    @user-nh2in8co5k4 жыл бұрын

    3:53 Him aggressively: "He has to CARVE my MEAT as well" The host: "Beg your pardon??" Lol

  • @luc1fer_r1s1ng4
    @luc1fer_r1s1ng42 жыл бұрын

    Tony Robinson is amazing....very well done...I've watched all of these many times. 👏

  • @MikeJones__Who
    @MikeJones__Who4 жыл бұрын

    45:08 Woman: "It gets your toenails very clean" Narrator: "I'm losing the will to live" Lmfao

  • @beebo-cat

    @beebo-cat

    Ай бұрын

    definitely got a chuckle outta me xD

  • @emilykhine3743
    @emilykhine37435 жыл бұрын

    “I wish I was dead”.....😂😂🤣🤣 I’d feel the same if I was tasting worm stew. It is surprising that worms taste like chicken!

  • @flashtango3643
    @flashtango36434 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant sound quality, excellent narration which you can hear perfectly and no adverts. Brilliant

  • @coppertopv365
    @coppertopv3652 жыл бұрын

    Thank You Sir Tony for all you've done. You have brought an Enlightening historical perspective, this is good.. well done.

  • @vermin1970
    @vermin19706 жыл бұрын

    "so. how did your day go?" "Well, I went to the barber and got both my arms amputated!" o_0

  • @2HRTS1LOVE
    @2HRTS1LOVE6 жыл бұрын

    I love how the word "delving" has stuck around, coming from the medieval quarries where it meant getting into the deeper part of the stone until now where it means digging deeper into any subject, e.g. "Let's delve into this area a bit deeper and try to understand." I'm a bit of a word nerd, so things like that always fascinate me. Look up the story of flipping someone the middle finger and saying "F you" for a very good tale!

  • @shannybabes96

    @shannybabes96

    6 жыл бұрын

    Interesting. Do you perhaps know where the term "shut up" comes from? I was watching their documentary on the Great Plague and it was stated that people who showed signs of the plague were "shut up" in their houses (along with any family members, plague-ridden or not, I might add). Someone hypothesised that this may be the origin of shut up as a derogatory term. So, I'm curious. (And too lazy to look things up apparently).

  • @Yotrymp

    @Yotrymp

    6 жыл бұрын

    Shannon Jordan That sounds more like "shut in" as a noun. I've never heard someone get called a "shut up".

  • @empathytobacco2008

    @empathytobacco2008

    6 жыл бұрын

    Interesting!! I'll look it up for sure, thx man

  • @elsnariano3081

    @elsnariano3081

    5 жыл бұрын

    I like this comment.

  • @margaretmason9988
    @margaretmason99883 жыл бұрын

    Tony Robinson, you are a brave man, and my admiration for you is boundless. Thank you for trying everything, including worms and fulling!

  • @janethagaman394
    @janethagaman3946 жыл бұрын

    Love Tony! I love learning about history in the trenches, the real people who worked in horrible/dangerous jobs to feed their family, that is if they even got paid, usually only a few coppers a day. I'll never complain again if I have to pick up dog poo.

  • @KELLYHLH
    @KELLYHLH4 жыл бұрын

    Tony is so cool! Love this show. And I learn some British lingo.

  • @kyleziggy3203
    @kyleziggy32035 жыл бұрын

    Sound issues aside, I give props to this dude for subjecting himself to leaches, nettles and worm stew

  • @blackhatfreak
    @blackhatfreak5 жыл бұрын

    I see Baldrick was in charge of the sound.

  • @danceswith7wolves
    @danceswith7wolves4 жыл бұрын

    Knight: He has to clean my meat! Tony: pardon?

  • @George_Bland

    @George_Bland

    4 жыл бұрын

    cut

  • @MontyCantsin5

    @MontyCantsin5

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@George_Bland: Carve.

  • @bunzeebear2973

    @bunzeebear2973

    3 жыл бұрын

    cleave

  • @mayal5206
    @mayal52066 жыл бұрын

    This video has some of the worst sound editing ever.

  • @tehjamerz

    @tehjamerz

    6 жыл бұрын

    WHAT'S THAT?! I CANT HEAR YOU! OVER THE HORNS! YEAH ITS LOUD!

  • @gregorymacdonnell7914

    @gregorymacdonnell7914

    6 жыл бұрын

    This sound is bad, but believe it or not I have heard worse! Why?? thats what I wanna know!!!!

  • @smplyjenn

    @smplyjenn

    6 жыл бұрын

    It should be in the background not the foreground. 👎🏻

  • @tehjamerz

    @tehjamerz

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jennifer LeBlanc you should be in my foreground 😍

  • @mayal5206

    @mayal5206

    6 жыл бұрын

    I watched it because the subject matter interests me but the dismal sound editing made it difficult to hear what the narrator was saying. There's nothing wrong with pointing that out. One should expect better from a professionally-produced and televised documentary.

  • @PookNSaav11
    @PookNSaav116 жыл бұрын

    Yuuuuuuuuuuck!!! Glad I lived in the 20th century and now in the 21st. It's amazing how people survived back then!

  • @32inzane
    @32inzane2 жыл бұрын

    Im always learning something from you Tony. Your shows are absolutely brilliant , cheers mate! 16:00

  • 3 жыл бұрын

    Hats off! This is a seriously well done documentary.

  • @transemorat6457
    @transemorat64576 жыл бұрын

    Do more WWll videos please! It's my favorite subject to learn about

  • @SpicyRikers
    @SpicyRikers6 жыл бұрын

    It feels like tony is trying to talk to me in a nightclub

  • @TimTinhTran

    @TimTinhTran

    5 жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @zimrianispresent8123

    @zimrianispresent8123

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hahahahaha the audio is so bad 🤣🤣🤣

  • @beverlyrobidoux7715
    @beverlyrobidoux77153 жыл бұрын

    How interesting! I thoroughly enjoyed this program.

  • @redheadphones6
    @redheadphones66 жыл бұрын

    This is fascinating. Great upload.

  • @Inthedarkzone01
    @Inthedarkzone016 жыл бұрын

    Its the safest Machine we ever made! But we made only one! 38:57

  • @ontheroadtruckin4618
    @ontheroadtruckin46185 жыл бұрын

    I hope that guy gets hella warts now. R.i.p. Eel

  • @myserinity4779
    @myserinity47795 жыл бұрын

    Besides the few parts of audio this is great and very interesting to watch. It made me laugh seeing his reactions and the urine part cracked me up. Loved that he tried everything instead of just talking about it.

  • @nagamata
    @nagamata3 жыл бұрын

    Dude Tony has become my favorite in the Timeline series, what a guy.

  • @there_is_nothing_here
    @there_is_nothing_here6 жыл бұрын

    I got to the mashing of wool and urine and had to stop.

  • @tehjamerz

    @tehjamerz

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's where I came, too

  • @pirateslifeb
    @pirateslifeb6 жыл бұрын

    I mostly heard the background music....maybe you guys should edit that?

  • @brukernavn3409

    @brukernavn3409

    4 жыл бұрын

    You mean the foreground music?

  • @thomasandersen2534
    @thomasandersen25343 жыл бұрын

    I’m waiting for Tony to yell Mick ! Phil ? ! 😆 love Tony he embodies the Everyman in all of us. I really enjoy his enthusiasm.

  • @Rennisfun
    @Rennisfun6 жыл бұрын

    Very interesting, enjoyed learning about those times and the jobs people had to endure.

  • @lezzman
    @lezzman6 жыл бұрын

    Okay, granted the ammonia from stale urine made the woolen cloth softer and finer, but just who was it in history who was one day wearing a piece of rough cloth and thought "Hang on, I wonder what would happen if I trod some stale pee into this for several hours?"

  • @morescodesup2087
    @morescodesup20876 жыл бұрын

    The Aztecs had better living conditions than dark age Britain

  • @kimberlyfigueroa2291

    @kimberlyfigueroa2291

    5 жыл бұрын

    Even so, Muslims were way more hygienic than dark age Britains.

  • @fisebilillah4406

    @fisebilillah4406

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jploeg8862 Someone's jelaous. No they weren't. They were caused by Fall of Roman Empire. The Fall of Constantinopole happened long after the start of Dark Age. No one can help you that you were literally destroying the good things the Romans gave you, while Muslims were gathering any knowledge they could get and using them for inventions that form the base of modern technology.

  • @justiniand6a788

    @justiniand6a788

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@fisebilillah4406 , Constantinople fell at the END of the Middle Ages (1453 to be exact, meaning the Roman Empire survived for another 1000 YEARS) because of...... MUSLIIIIIIMMMSSSS!!!!!, what's more, Europeans also preserved Greco-Roman knowledge during the Middlw Ages in Monasteries and Universities funded by the Church. Muslims didn't preserve them because they were Muslims, they probably just stumbled on it while trying to conquer what's left of the Roman (inaccurately called Byzantine) Empire and then preserved it while trying to destroy the civilization that made them. Europeans began to preserve them probably before Charlemagne. What's more, the Roman Empire was still there (The West just hated them when a woman ruled the Romans so they made their rip-off) so there was nothing to preserve in the first place (except for some reason we did).

  • @mikec8086

    @mikec8086

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@jploeg8862 while Muslims did attack, the west church and ottamans were at war for centuries. The dark age britons focused their technological advancements on different areas than say Aztecs or Ottomans. In reality, during wartime, the church and Ottomans behaved very similarly, except that the church really didn't take slaves while the ottamans would. Ancient warfare is very interesting as the base human interest are often more bare than modern days. Back then, they fought for money,land or status which we Now still do but hidden behind a " righteous" purpose.

  • @edylcnostrebor9722
    @edylcnostrebor97223 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your experience with us

  • @Mandy-nt2cs
    @Mandy-nt2cs Жыл бұрын

    So happy to know Tony is still kicking, enjoying a long, hopefully happy life!

  • @Raz.C
    @Raz.C6 жыл бұрын

    Jobs would still be that bad, but for those noble pioneers and their cunning plans... (I'm depressed at how few people are likely to get that reference)

  • @LindaB651
    @LindaB6516 жыл бұрын

    Tony (Baldrick)- I adore you! So nice to see you again on the screen!

  • @lisaa6099
    @lisaa60995 жыл бұрын

    Love this series. Thanks. Thumbs up from me

  • @joools1953
    @joools19536 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating. Thank you

  • @KneeStrikes
    @KneeStrikes6 жыл бұрын

    poor eel..

  • @CashelOConnolly

    @CashelOConnolly

    6 жыл бұрын

    KneeStrikes it want have a sophisticated nervous system so it’s very unlikely to feel pain

  • @fos4ikancer

    @fos4ikancer

    6 жыл бұрын

    i woulda eaten that eel ! mmm unagi

  • @larrydouglas2820

    @larrydouglas2820

    6 жыл бұрын

    I think your claim is fairly baseless, they have brains. When you poke them in the brain enough (or cut off their head) the eel stops exhibiting behavior. This seems to reason to me that some form of control of the behavior of the organism is centralized in their as evolved as our species' counterpart, yet far less complex central nervous system. Because we don't understand enough about how something like an experience is produced, I would not preclude the possibility that eels may suffer.

  • @midwest4416

    @midwest4416

    6 жыл бұрын

    You would think if something squirms when it is cut that it feels.

  • @biglittle4883

    @biglittle4883

    6 жыл бұрын

    The entire wisewoman segment was repulsive. The lady was so baseless and rude.

  • @emilykhine3743
    @emilykhine37435 жыл бұрын

    Hahahaha...”I wish I was dead”..... *after drinking the worm stew*...... 😂

  • @ryans1187
    @ryans11876 жыл бұрын

    Love these documentaries.

  • @jesbsnrn
    @jesbsnrn6 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thanks so much.

  • @EnglishInfidel
    @EnglishInfidel6 жыл бұрын

    Terrible sound editing and cameramen with an obsession for zooming in too far on everything.

  • @robertoallanocafe
    @robertoallanocafe5 жыл бұрын

    Silence, baldrick.

  • @iamyou5299
    @iamyou52996 жыл бұрын

    This was very entertaining thank you

  • @carriebirkett1982
    @carriebirkett19824 жыл бұрын

    I just started watching these videos a couple days ago and I really like them! Very informative but not boring