Why Do Outhouses Have a Crescent Moon on the Door? (And the Literal Deadliest Flatulence in History)

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In all the years we’ve been answering questions from our abnormally attractive readers, one that has popped up in our inbox and in comment threads more times than any other is some form of the question “What’s the deal with crescent moons on outhouse doors?” Well, after nearly a decade of doing this, we’ve finally decided to look into it. So here we go.
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  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut4 жыл бұрын

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  • @oakley6889

    @oakley6889

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hello there...

  • @thomasfholland

    @thomasfholland

    4 жыл бұрын

    FYI Simon, here in Sweden the absolutely most common image/cutout on the outhouse door is a ❤️!! I’ve gotten the explanation from every single Swede is it’s a heart because you’re so happy you made it to the door.

  • @thomasfholland

    @thomasfholland

    4 жыл бұрын

    BYW In 35 years of living here I still haven’t come across an outhouse door with a moon cutout.

  • @BGPhilbin

    @BGPhilbin

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @TheLoxxxton

    @TheLoxxxton

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah. Right then Dollar shave club? Nah! Expensive tat a bit like those God awful watches that get spouted every so often🙄 As to the heart shape being reminiscent of buttocks over a hole, that would only be the case if you didn't have legs. AHA! NO LEGS like this version of Simon. I prefer the more advanced mobile version displayed on business blaze.

  • @FRISHR
    @FRISHR3 жыл бұрын

    Because if it’s a full moon, it would be a glory hole.

  • @natsudragneel2258

    @natsudragneel2258

    3 жыл бұрын

    If it’s a glory hole than the dudes were either spider man or the were just really tall

  • @samrudhkanjiker9856

    @samrudhkanjiker9856

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂

  • @YouCanNotVoteOutFascism

    @YouCanNotVoteOutFascism

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@natsudragneel2258, a ladder was involved.

  • @justme8159

    @justme8159

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ha! To funny

  • @andresc5915

    @andresc5915

    3 жыл бұрын

    💀💀💀

  • @Wolfpounder
    @Wolfpounder4 жыл бұрын

    i've always heard that the moon on an outhouse, was for the light from your candle or lantern to show "occupied" at night.

  • @BenTvHowman

    @BenTvHowman

    3 жыл бұрын

    That does make sense,

  • @dedpoptart

    @dedpoptart

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same. I'm from Northern Minnesota and outhouses are still in use in some areas

  • @lugia233

    @lugia233

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dedpoptart they are also used in rural areas out west

  • @jaymeanderson5121

    @jaymeanderson5121

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yup! That's what my grandma said.

  • @hannahstahl1857

    @hannahstahl1857

    3 жыл бұрын

    That and so your farts don’t back up and explode due to the candle

  • @LawnBowlerBoof
    @LawnBowlerBoof3 жыл бұрын

    35 years ago as a young lad, I did some casual work on a very large cattle station outside of a town in Australia called Broken Hill. The owner of the station was in his 80's at the time. His grandfather immigrated to Australia in the mid 1800s and did odd jobs in country towns to support himself which included remote stations that included accommodation and food. Every station he worked at, his regular job was digging the long drop and moving the outhouse over the newly created hole - generally every 1-2 months. His 'story' included the history of the crescent moon shaped handle being shifted from the side of the door where we now commonly see door handles to the top third of the door in the middle . The moon shape was the handle to open the door but allowed 'peeping' toms to see within. Moving the moon stopped the peeping eyes but still allowed the use of a handle, vent and night time illumination from the candle to show it was in use. At some stations, there was no crescent shaped handle on the outhouse - but the top of the door was at least 5 inches lower than the top to allow for all the before mentioned. Interestingly, these were quickly adapted when younger, much shorter kids became permanent residents. The addition was a small round hole, approximately the size of a door knob to allow fingers pull to open. The opposite side was the sliding wood latch to keep it locked when in use and to block the view. I've always remembered the story he told from this as he was proud of the empire his grandfather built on the back of digging long drops and moving the outhouse. They called it their shit building empire. True or not, it makes sense and is a great story. Especially if you are proud of your families beginnings.

  • @aaronleverton4221

    @aaronleverton4221

    3 жыл бұрын

    Every outhouse I encountered as a child in Australia had a gap at the top of the door and a gap at the bottom of the door. No cutout of any kind. That was spending the annual holidays of the late-'70s and early/mid-'80s in campgrounds around Victoria.

  • @lucasjohnstone6419

    @lucasjohnstone6419

    2 жыл бұрын

    The small doorknob sized hole is sus

  • @kidsister316

    @kidsister316

    2 жыл бұрын

    an all-important job, nonetheless!!

  • @roonilwazlib3089

    @roonilwazlib3089

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lucasjohnstone6419 🤣

  • @Tysto
    @Tysto2 жыл бұрын

    I’m a local historian in Indiana. We have several pictures of country school houses with outhouses in the background as far back as 1902, and none of them have a sun or moon carved into the door.

  • @arturkarpinski164
    @arturkarpinski1644 жыл бұрын

    This woman farted in my house once, the carbon monoxide detector went off. My cat has never been the same, turned very violent.

  • @MrDeedsly

    @MrDeedsly

    4 жыл бұрын

    That woman was your wife wasn't it?

  • @SmackDab

    @SmackDab

    4 жыл бұрын

    My cat has never been the same 🤣🤣

  • @BeowulfAllraudr

    @BeowulfAllraudr

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm crying

  • @nelidamarshall6826

    @nelidamarshall6826

    4 жыл бұрын

    LMFAO!!!!

  • @jamesd6390

    @jamesd6390

    4 жыл бұрын

    What a woman. She smoke cigars and chug beer too?

  • @jennacrawford7504
    @jennacrawford75044 жыл бұрын

    "The fart that killed..." Ok! I clicked.

  • @kendallrobinson7523

    @kendallrobinson7523

    4 жыл бұрын

    Meto.🤔😖

  • @blimfark875

    @blimfark875

    4 жыл бұрын

    Right? I thought for sure it was click bait, but they delivered. That's quality.

  • @robertspivey46

    @robertspivey46

    4 жыл бұрын

    Makes two of us.

  • @grantramsay1486

    @grantramsay1486

    3 жыл бұрын

    I thought it was guna be a buildup of fart gasses and this particular one last fart sent these gasses into a dangerous level of concentration which killed explosively... or suffocation...

  • @oddballskull1941

    @oddballskull1941

    3 жыл бұрын

    I didn’t even make it to “that” I clicked right at fart. Proud of it too

  • @kinkytheslinky
    @kinkytheslinky3 жыл бұрын

    I was hoping the deadliest fart in history was an outhouse blowing up due to lack of ventilation, and they decided to out cutouts in the door for ventilation

  • @bunnyluver2176

    @bunnyluver2176

    3 жыл бұрын

    This was my theory too lol

  • @aquarius5264

    @aquarius5264

    3 жыл бұрын

    how the fuck would it explode just from shit fumes lmao

  • @GarageGunsmith

    @GarageGunsmith

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aquarius5264 you walk in with a candle and level half of the town

  • @NiffirgkcaJ

    @NiffirgkcaJ

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same LOL~ XD

  • @jongeddes09

    @jongeddes09

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@aquarius5264 methane gas, perhaps? Over here, farmers power their dairy farms off methane gas from stored cow poop

  • @kendallkahl8725
    @kendallkahl87253 жыл бұрын

    When an outhouse is moved because the hole is full its amazing to see what happens if a tree is planted over it. I saw a sequoia that had been planted over on and it was bigger than the ones planted by a lake shore 30 years earlier.

  • @manicmechanic448
    @manicmechanic4484 жыл бұрын

    "I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smellt of elderberries!"

  • @fatherman3488

    @fatherman3488

    4 жыл бұрын

    "Now, piss off or I shall taunt you a second time!"

  • @PMickeyDee

    @PMickeyDee

    4 жыл бұрын

    I love how utilitarian quotes from the Holy Grail are, I'm honestly surprised how sparse memes are.

  • @jr2904

    @jr2904

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@PMickeyDee the younger ones need to be exposed to it hahaha. Then again you might just get called a boomer... No matter your generation lol

  • @sardot4960

    @sardot4960

    4 жыл бұрын

    _You small-minded wiper of other people's bottoms._

  • @oracleofdelphi4533

    @oracleofdelphi4533

    4 жыл бұрын

    What my father smelt like is none of your concern! Now I bid you good day Sir!

  • @sethortiger
    @sethortiger4 жыл бұрын

    Never before has the phrase "butt crack" been spoken aloud so majestically, with such prestige.

  • @johnw2026

    @johnw2026

    4 жыл бұрын

    Give Simon the Presidential Medal of Freedom! 😁

  • @liliencalvel6151

    @liliencalvel6151

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes that's it. I caught it too but could not put it into words. Lmbo!

  • @frankboff1260

    @frankboff1260

    4 жыл бұрын

    👍

  • @bernieponcik1351

    @bernieponcik1351

    4 жыл бұрын

    Huzzah!

  • @BadlndsBob

    @BadlndsBob

    4 жыл бұрын

    Would not the term "gluteal cleavage" be more appropriate?

  • @modelrailpreservation
    @modelrailpreservation2 жыл бұрын

    In O gauge model railroading, Plasticville, a product line of plastic buildings, introduced an outhouse in 1950 for model train layouts. It has two stalls, one marked 'His' the other marked "Hers" and both doors do have a crescent moon on the doors.

  • @Waffle_cones
    @Waffle_cones3 жыл бұрын

    My papaw was told to "modernize" his toilet facilities, so he put electric lights in his outhouse...

  • @ronfullerton3162

    @ronfullerton3162

    3 жыл бұрын

    That would of been a great addition! In the 1950's, things were rather dark inside the old privy at the corner of our old farmhouse yard in very rural Iowa. Although reading would not of been a big reason, especially in winter when you could easily see your breath because of the cold. A heater would of been a great option! Oh how happy I am that those years have been "left behind" me. A water closet and water lines were run into that old farmhouse in the late 1950's. WOW, were we ever living it up then! I have to just snicker to myself when anyone tells me how bad the house is that they live in. Most of them haven't seen anything.

  • @haroldarmstrong6288
    @haroldarmstrong62883 жыл бұрын

    My great grandma asked in all seriousness, why is it people want to crap in the house and cook outside now. Seems backwards to me

  • @velvety2006

    @velvety2006

    3 жыл бұрын

    because we don't wanna go to the bathroom outside through bad weather and we don't want cooking smells inside the house?🤷‍♀️

  • @PauaP

    @PauaP

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@velvety2006 Also privacy and common decency. Oh and don't forget to easily discard poop through the sewage system.

  • @DefScream189

    @DefScream189

    3 жыл бұрын

    velvety2006 who doesn't want cooking smells in their house?

  • @PauaP

    @PauaP

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DefScream189 depends on what you're cooking tbh.

  • @velvety2006

    @velvety2006

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DefScream189 Sometimes cooking smells linger too long and mix with other smells and then it does not smell as yummy anymore 🤣

  • @leopolderhardsberger2727
    @leopolderhardsberger27274 жыл бұрын

    So it's one in the morning And I'm listening to a man ramble on about outhouses. I'm doing alright. Edit: so glad I'm not the only one with a fucked up sleep schedule

  • @ductapedudekasza6008

    @ductapedudekasza6008

    4 жыл бұрын

    Somehow same

  • @robbaholic

    @robbaholic

    4 жыл бұрын

    Reading this comment at 12:25am, and I'm just chaucer

  • @uchihaitachi6094

    @uchihaitachi6094

    4 жыл бұрын

    Literally me rn

  • @lilacsandroses51

    @lilacsandroses51

    4 жыл бұрын

    1:30 a.m. I hope it's worth it!

  • @gargwinvinesnake6961

    @gargwinvinesnake6961

    4 жыл бұрын

    7:27pm, for once I'm the most together person!

  • @weewooweewoo906
    @weewooweewoo9063 жыл бұрын

    “many moons have passed since you were here last!” = tons of people have sat their asses (moons) down here and shat (passed) lol

  • @tompayne8863
    @tompayne88633 жыл бұрын

    When growing up in the 50's everyone in my neighborhood (in the country) had outhouses. The old church had one, too. I don't know how old the one at the church was but it was real old. None of these outhouses had moons on them. Our outhouse was the fanciest because it was a 2 holer! I never asked my dad why he made it with 2 holes... That seems weird to me (sorry dad). My mom said it was so my dad and I could do our business together... hahaha!! Oh, we had running water but the well would go dry most summers so we would have to use the outhouse and get our water from a spring.

  • @ghxstie666

    @ghxstie666

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please tell me more about your life in the 50s. Make a video

  • @Labyrinth6000

    @Labyrinth6000

    Жыл бұрын

    It was 2 holes because one was for him and the other was for her.

  • @alexie832
    @alexie8323 жыл бұрын

    "Believe me, Donkey. If it was me, you'd be dead" -Shrek

  • @ballinbalgruuf8198

    @ballinbalgruuf8198

    3 жыл бұрын

    Its brimstone

  • @DamonHowe7

    @DamonHowe7

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ballinbalgruuf8198 we must be getting close.

  • @jacob4920

    @jacob4920

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Shrek! I'm looking down!!"

  • @7Jstamper

    @7Jstamper

    2 жыл бұрын

    My mouth was open and everything

  • @davidwoodard4113
    @davidwoodard41134 жыл бұрын

    When I was a child I asked my great grandmother why her outhouse didn't have a moon in the door and she thought that was a strange thing to ask. She had never heard of anyone actually having one. Her home, by the way, was in Kentucky and had no running water or electricity. When helping to do some repairs we found that the newspaper used as insulation in the wall of the kitchen dated back to 1914.

  • @joemedley195

    @joemedley195

    3 жыл бұрын

    David Woodard The one at my grandparents house in Pennsylvania didn’t have one either.

  • @colemarie9262

    @colemarie9262

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's interesting....guess Simon is right?

  • @wendyhaase4401

    @wendyhaase4401

    3 жыл бұрын

    We used to go up to my great aunt's house 8 hours away from where we live then we drove and this is back in the 60s the only thing between where we lived and getting up to her house a little side drives that where your rest stops and all that was there were outhouses I don't remember any of them ever having any kind of got out of any kind and when you went to use them you made sure that you looked around to make sure there was no animal inside of it or a spider or spiders on the seat and after use the outhouse you had to go around pump water literally pump water so you can wash your hands and get a drink and most of them tasted like they had a mass of iron in them what fun times

  • @Wildflower-xe8sn

    @Wildflower-xe8sn

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thx

  • @suet.r.4815

    @suet.r.4815

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@wendyhaase4401 Similar at my grandparent's house. Latches on the door and on the lids on the 'plank', but you still wanted to look for spiders, snakes and etc before peeling layers. They also had an "axe-handle pump" on the cystern for washing. We hauled water with buckets into the house and heated it on the coal stove for washing. Before I was born, they installed a modern bathroom in the house as a gift for my grandmother, but the toilet was too much of a draw on the cystern so it wasn't used. We used the sink, but no hot water from the taps. (They sold the hot water heater to a neighbor who needed one and had a well.) The bathtub was used as a washtub -we warmed the water on the stove and poured it in and took baths in succession, cleanest to dirtiest.

  • @3mKay
    @3mKay3 жыл бұрын

    Me: farts in the car family: "The fart that killed 10,000 people"

  • @ianchandley

    @ianchandley

    2 жыл бұрын

    On a long country trip with my best friend’s family as a teen, I let one rip just as we approached a sewage treatment plant. Everyone gagged and opened the windows, only to discover we were downwind and the plant was malfunctioning.... I got teased (and cussed) for weeks on end!

  • @jenknodell
    @jenknodell3 жыл бұрын

    My sister and I made a trip all around West Virginia - mostly remote parts to hunt down ancestors’ graves on my mother’s side. We came across a few 19th century churches (early- to mid-19th I would hazard a guess, based on construction styles) that had outhouses near them, or old abandoned buildings near some of the gravesites. None of them had crescent moons cut out on the doors or sides, and all were in remote enough areas and seemingly forgotten that no one would bother to retrofit them. In case you wanted more confirmation.

  • @MaiSent
    @MaiSent4 жыл бұрын

    "Lol let's try making a video about farts" ~~ *Dollar shaving club running at you full speed* "I WANT TO SPONSOR THIS"

  • @nightmarefanatic1819

    @nightmarefanatic1819

    4 жыл бұрын

    They sponsers Whang! and he talks about some of the nastiest stuff on the internet.

  • @akashanumberfive199

    @akashanumberfive199

    4 жыл бұрын

    And your beard

  • @bachlamtung5131

    @bachlamtung5131

    4 жыл бұрын

    interesting marketing strategies

  • @barnabiswirley2132
    @barnabiswirley21324 жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one who came to find out how a fart killed so many people?

  • @RainbowFlowerCrow

    @RainbowFlowerCrow

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nope

  • @snazz1363

    @snazz1363

    3 жыл бұрын

    that's why literally everyone came

  • @TJ-zl3tx

    @TJ-zl3tx

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ditto

  • @vidard9863

    @vidard9863

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that would be the only reason anyone clicked.

  • @thomashunter7190

    @thomashunter7190

    3 жыл бұрын

    that's the only reason I'm here

  • @codiefitz3876
    @codiefitz38762 жыл бұрын

    “The fart that killed 10,000 people.” Me: “How do I harness this power”

  • @seanA416

    @seanA416

    2 жыл бұрын

    Taco Bell. That or true Indian food

  • @Dr.Monday

    @Dr.Monday

    2 жыл бұрын

    Goals

  • @jonp3890

    @jonp3890

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sauerkraut

  • @R-A-F

    @R-A-F

    2 жыл бұрын

    You sound a bit like Thanus 🤪

  • @roonilwazlib3089

    @roonilwazlib3089

    2 жыл бұрын

    My dog has this power 🤭

  • @johnw2026
    @johnw20263 жыл бұрын

    "men would just do their business in the great outdoors as God intended..." 😆😆😆

  • @seanA416

    @seanA416

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amen haha

  • @alisaurus4224

    @alisaurus4224

    2 жыл бұрын

    Real men shit in the woods like bears

  • @seanA416

    @seanA416

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alisaurus4224 well, sure, haha

  • @johnw2026

    @johnw2026

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alisaurus4224 suit yourself bud! 😁

  • @maccamac9965
    @maccamac99654 жыл бұрын

    In Australia we have a step up from mooning. We spread the cheeks and call it chucking a 'Brown Eye' Yep.... we're all class.

  • @scottdorfler2551

    @scottdorfler2551

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's why it's called down under 🥁🥁💥

  • @grmpEqweer

    @grmpEqweer

    4 жыл бұрын

    I like Australians.😁

  • @matschrepf

    @matschrepf

    4 жыл бұрын

    If the brown eye winks your in for 2weeks of rain

  • @jakethedog4397

    @jakethedog4397

    4 жыл бұрын

    Macca mac lolololol

  • @arepenguinsawesome2279

    @arepenguinsawesome2279

    4 жыл бұрын

    Goatse

  • @dopefunk
    @dopefunk4 жыл бұрын

    7:22 And the earliest recorded mooning involved a dude named Cumanus!?

  • @maem9246

    @maem9246

    4 жыл бұрын

    🚽) " 🤫 " (🚽 LoL 🤣

  • @ChuckH2901

    @ChuckH2901

    4 жыл бұрын

    You were expecting Biggus Dickus?

  • @ChuckH2901

    @ChuckH2901

    4 жыл бұрын

    .... or Incontinentia Buttux?

  • @onlineriku7007

    @onlineriku7007

    4 жыл бұрын

    Assenius buttus analus

  • @smilesfordays

    @smilesfordays

    3 жыл бұрын

    Huge Jainus

  • @gfbooth72
    @gfbooth723 жыл бұрын

    I would like to recommend the book Fifty Yards to the Outhouse by Willie Makeit and illustrated by Betty Wont.

  • @johnalbert5786

    @johnalbert5786

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don’t eat the yellow snow…… by, I P Freely

  • @garypatrick7817

    @garypatrick7817

    2 жыл бұрын

    Then there’s “Revenge of the Tiger” by Claude Balls …..

  • @executioner_ecgbert884

    @executioner_ecgbert884

    2 жыл бұрын

    At least jakes comment was funny

  • @jamesredman1263

    @jamesredman1263

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh if only the last outhouse we had, had been that near. To be below the well, it was out in a pasture. Then the landlord decided to put cows in there... which turned out to be rather territorial.

  • @johnsettembrino4571

    @johnsettembrino4571

    2 жыл бұрын

    What about brown spots on the wall . By who flung poo.

  • @soltvr4215
    @soltvr42153 жыл бұрын

    Lived in Alaska for years, most of my cabins were dry and had an outhouse. Never once did I see a functioning outhouse with ANY opening in the door. I'd guess it would let bugs in, and a cold draft in the winter!

  • @danparish1344
    @danparish13444 жыл бұрын

    How appropriate that I watch this while on the toilet.

  • @evanabbott2737

    @evanabbott2737

    4 жыл бұрын

    That’s what’s UP👍😁

  • @etonbachs4226

    @etonbachs4226

    4 жыл бұрын

    I never believe people when they say they're doing what the video is about. I always call bullshit.

  • @foxvulpes8245

    @foxvulpes8245

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same here... do you ever think about how when you are sitting on the pot, that your butt is technically connected to giant network of other interconnected butts?

  • @MAGGOT_VOMIT

    @MAGGOT_VOMIT

    4 жыл бұрын

    _Doug is the type of person to be alone in the house and on the toilet, fart and say excuse me._

  • @bradpiff6836

    @bradpiff6836

    4 жыл бұрын

    Eton Bachs why not? I’m pooping right now

  • @1FokkerAce
    @1FokkerAce4 жыл бұрын

    NOTHING makes me click faster than a video titled “The Fart that Killed 10,000 People”.

  • @lukeGGlee

    @lukeGGlee

    4 жыл бұрын

    1FokkerAce It’s worse case than corona virus!

  • @harold6522

    @harold6522

    4 жыл бұрын

    Literally this is my first vid on this channel. I read fart that killed. Insta Click

  • @LannasMissingLink

    @LannasMissingLink

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm 9 minutes in and no fart

  • @dubuyajay9964

    @dubuyajay9964

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did he ever cover it?

  • @mckennahovland4668
    @mckennahovland46683 жыл бұрын

    just imagine with me for a moment what his search history must look like.

  • @suet.r.4815

    @suet.r.4815

    3 жыл бұрын

    Probably a lot like mine... any question that pops into my danged head! (We're both on ten watch-lists.)

  • @lucisferre6361
    @lucisferre63613 жыл бұрын

    "Don't go round tonight, it's bound to take your life, there's a bad moon on the rise.." Credence Clearwater Revival

  • @evildead311

    @evildead311

    3 жыл бұрын

    Theres a bathroom on the right. Lol

  • @catchifyoucan232

    @catchifyoucan232

    2 жыл бұрын

    Great, now you’ve cursed me. (Check H3 for reference)

  • @Akhazmat907
    @Akhazmat9073 жыл бұрын

    I grew up with a out house and we didn't have anything cut into the door. Ours have sealed door and insulation in it, with a heater. Cold winters here in Alaska

  • @suet.r.4815

    @suet.r.4815

    3 жыл бұрын

    No holes in the door in the northern contiguous states either. One vent high in the wall on the lea-side. [If it was really cold, we'd put a milk-house heater in there. Otherwise, you just hurried! :-) ]

  • @soltvr4215

    @soltvr4215

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. When I was in a dry cabin in Alaska, you want that outhouse to be sealed up tight. Even with a slab of foam insulation laid down as a toilet seat, using an outhouse in the winter is cold business 🤣

  • @theartofwanderlust

    @theartofwanderlust

    3 жыл бұрын

    The toilet paper was stored in a metal tobacco can, so the mice wouldn't get into it, or get wet

  • @suet.r.4815

    @suet.r.4815

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@theartofwanderlust It was kept in the house, on the porch by the back door... although old newspapers and phone books lay in the outhouse for energencies.

  • @stuartdubbs9605

    @stuartdubbs9605

    3 жыл бұрын

    That sounds nice atleast! I grew up on mt land a forest service guy used to build a cabin from job's scrap logs, and that outhouse was about as close to the things in movies

  • @judiesnipes9199
    @judiesnipes91993 жыл бұрын

    My grandparent's called heading to the outhouse "going to Florida". Because when you had to go, it was a long way

  • @btd5ninja64

    @btd5ninja64

    3 жыл бұрын

    huh i would of thought it would of been because crazy shit always happens there

  • @PauaP

    @PauaP

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@btd5ninja64 heh "crazy shit" nice one.

  • @suet.r.4815

    @suet.r.4815

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@btd5ninja64 Lol!

  • @suet.r.4815

    @suet.r.4815

    3 жыл бұрын

    It had to be far away from the house and the well.

  • @HomeDefender30
    @HomeDefender303 жыл бұрын

    Nothing like a guy who doesn’t shave, selling razors... Edit: I get it now..... he shaves his head!

  • @musketbal
    @musketbal3 жыл бұрын

    My grandfather was born in 1893. When we (grandchildren) were little (late 60's to early 70's) we would play in a small wooden shack with two holes inside next to each other. We had a great time climbing through the holes going in and out of the "shack". All we knew was it was a good place to have a great time. Several years later we understood what it was and how it was used. To be honest it didn't really bother us when we found out. It was not too large and as stated earlier, it was a "two hole'er". It did not have any design on the door however it had large cut out areas at the top of two of the walls just under the eve's so the smell could leave as quickly as possible. My grandmother said Pop Pop refused to use the indoor toilet because the outhouse provided a place of piece and quiet. They had 4 children. The house was built in 1932 and had no toilet when it was built. Then in 1969 the back porch was enclosed and converted into a bathroom. It wasn't until my grandfather was very old that he used the indoor outhouse. My grandmother also said how proud he was to have a double holed shitter. Back in the 30's-50's it was not uncommon for my grandfather to be in the middle of taking a crap when someone would open the door, come in and do their business next to him. My grandmother said he enjoyed the company and it never bothered him. One side note, my grandparent's neighbor was jealous of the outhouse so they had one made of brick just to out do them.

  • @josh88113

    @josh88113

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is the first time I’ve actually heard of a brick shit house aside from the saying “built like a brick shit house”

  • @blankspace998
    @blankspace9984 жыл бұрын

    Here in Ukraine and post-soviet states, a lot of outhouses had a heart-shaped cutouts on the doors.

  • @ENZ7Y

    @ENZ7Y

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same here in norway

  • @johnps1670

    @johnps1670

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same in The Netherlands. Must be an American thing.

  • @freerideziege6047

    @freerideziege6047

    4 жыл бұрын

    Same here in Austria.

  • @evanabbott2737

    @evanabbott2737

    4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting.......🤔👍

  • @alfadas666

    @alfadas666

    4 жыл бұрын

    As a german a also only knew of the heart shaped cut out.

  • @yerxiong123
    @yerxiong1234 жыл бұрын

    Why do public restrooms have a gap on the door? People be like " Here's Johnny "

  • @jackpumpkin

    @jackpumpkin

    4 жыл бұрын

    So you don't get too comfy. They want you in and out as quick as possible

  • @althealligator1467

    @althealligator1467

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jackpumpkin Yeah well that's not very efficient when you have a shy bladder and all that jazz, is it?

  • @sallyphilpin1104

    @sallyphilpin1104

    3 жыл бұрын

    They don't have that gap in British, Egyptian or Czech toilets.

  • @Rigiroony

    @Rigiroony

    3 жыл бұрын

    AHHHHH

  • @Harleylovinchelley1

    @Harleylovinchelley1

    3 жыл бұрын

    So the people who sell car warranties can reach you.

  • @theadventuresofjokerandfri3162
    @theadventuresofjokerandfri31623 жыл бұрын

    "This is the deadliest fart in history and we challenge you to beat it" Nikocado avocado: hold my cheetos

  • @Osti67
    @Osti673 жыл бұрын

    In Germany outhouses traditionally had a heart shape outcrop in the door. The light you took to the light house could be stood or hanged in such a way, that the outcrop was illuminated and showed the occupancy of the outhouse....

  • @ryanpenrod1859
    @ryanpenrod18594 жыл бұрын

    "...and spake such words as you might expect upon such a posture." The first time I watched this I thought he just swore at them; just now am I realizing this means he farted directly at them. :D

  • @elleemann

    @elleemann

    3 жыл бұрын

    Curious how many times you watched it 😂

  • @vickisumrall1540

    @vickisumrall1540

    3 жыл бұрын

    Instead of in his "general direction"? (Monty Python, anyone?)

  • @twizz420

    @twizz420

    3 жыл бұрын

    Did you realize yet that the guy he mooned was named "Cumanus"?

  • @carwyn3691
    @carwyn36913 жыл бұрын

    "I fart in your general direction"

  • @erinmcquade4715

    @erinmcquade4715

    3 жыл бұрын

    (A)Monty Python (B) Princess Bride (C) Willow (D) Kids in the Hall

  • @Cacowninja

    @Cacowninja

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@erinmcquade4715 (A)

  • @redguard2529

    @redguard2529

    3 жыл бұрын

    Niiiice.

  • @willl84

    @willl84

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Quentin Shock now go away or I shall taunt you a second time

  • @gabrielkellar1935

    @gabrielkellar1935

    3 жыл бұрын

    *kills 10000 people*

  • @tomastomas4208
    @tomastomas42083 жыл бұрын

    Hello! Here in Czech we have sign of heart on the doors of outhouses :D

  • @MrNside
    @MrNside2 жыл бұрын

    I asked my grandfather about the moon on outhouses back in the 90s, and he said he wasn't sure, but the one he used on the farm was convenient if someone needed to pass a newspaper though, either to read, or to reuse for a more important purpose.

  • @TheCorpsehatch
    @TheCorpsehatch4 жыл бұрын

    "From this day forth all the toilets in the kingdom will be known as...Johns...Take him away."

  • @nomine4027

    @nomine4027

    4 жыл бұрын

    Under appreciated Mel Brooks, for sure.

  • @TheCorpsehatch

    @TheCorpsehatch

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nomine4027 One could argue that Men in Tights is the best Robin Hood movie.

  • @katiekane5247

    @katiekane5247

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheCorpsehatch Mel loved his fart jokes. A great movie maker! Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Mad, Mad World etc.

  • @nomine4027

    @nomine4027

    4 жыл бұрын

    Definitely. That's why I said it was underappreciated.

  • @travissmith2211

    @travissmith2211

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@nomine4027 Mel Brooks will never be under appreciated in my household.

  • @JesibelPerez
    @JesibelPerez3 жыл бұрын

    My grandma still had an old outhouse with a circle cutout on her property in Puerto Rico in the late 90's early 2000's. She did tell me that was to ventilate and cause nobody wants to sh*t in the dark 😂

  • @timothyterrell1658

    @timothyterrell1658

    3 жыл бұрын

    The crescent shape was to make the opening narrower to prevent animals from entering the outhouse. The large narrow crescent shape was to narrow to crawl through. Yet allowed light and air to pass through.

  • @warpath6666

    @warpath6666

    3 жыл бұрын

    My grandparents had an outhouse that had 3 holes. I was always thinking "Why would anybody want people sitting next to them while they poop?" 😄🤣😄🤣

  • @57thorns

    @57thorns

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@warpath6666 Mine too. One of the holes was smaller (children sized) and that outhose had an actual glass window. With quite a lot of people, it was good that the storage capacity was large.

  • @bluelad3506
    @bluelad35062 жыл бұрын

    Just followed this channel and binging now. Wow. Fantastic

  • @Munkruskel
    @Munkruskel3 жыл бұрын

    I love how this guy makes a master thesis out of a rididculus subject and does it amazingly

  • @RM_VFX
    @RM_VFX3 жыл бұрын

    As soon as I hear the words Dollar Shave or Squarespace, I involuntarily hit skip 3 times. Its Pavlovian.

  • @sabbs_

    @sabbs_

    3 жыл бұрын

    tOdAyS sPonSoR iS nOrD vPn

  • @tek512

    @tek512

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sabbs_ Raid: Shadow Legends wants to know your location.

  • @chlorineii

    @chlorineii

    3 жыл бұрын

    Do you want premium quality earbuds for a low price? Raycon-

  • @epicexcalibur6445

    @epicexcalibur6445

    3 жыл бұрын

    You want to not forget your passwords? -dashlane

  • @phantomdragon3893

    @phantomdragon3893

    3 жыл бұрын

    You want to hear how you're not a dish?

  • @likebot.
    @likebot.4 жыл бұрын

    The deadliest fart in history is certainly nothing to sniff at.

  • @hakonsoreide

    @hakonsoreide

    4 жыл бұрын

    Best comment.

  • @adventuresofwillandshelby6013

    @adventuresofwillandshelby6013

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rip

  • @bartudegrey5090

    @bartudegrey5090

    4 жыл бұрын

    That joke was a gas.

  • @kaitlnwhite6809

    @kaitlnwhite6809

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @elijahsydney

    @elijahsydney

    4 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps the first instance of a chemical weapon?

  • @joshchaplin3705
    @joshchaplin37053 жыл бұрын

    I just love that your content has substance. It's not full of filler bullshit like most videos these days. Lucky to have found you! Love the frog men video.

  • @alisontheanimal4009
    @alisontheanimal40092 жыл бұрын

    Best video you've ever done! More like this please!

  • @domonicsdaniel4497
    @domonicsdaniel44974 жыл бұрын

    "Let us offer our own hypotheses" *ad starts for a heart-shaped chocolate for Valentine's day* I. Almost. Died. Laughing.

  • @GrifoStelle

    @GrifoStelle

    4 жыл бұрын

    Actually yes. The commercial heart is supposed to be the shape of a woman's but as she is fully bent over. That's why it has 2 cheeks and fades down... You know rather than having 4 chambers and looking vaguely like a fist

  • @kindlin

    @kindlin

    4 жыл бұрын

    What do you mean, an ad started? Like, in the middle of the video, the stopped and an ad started? I've literally never seen that before. How annoying would that be? I'd probably not watch YT if it did that. I watch hours of YT a day, never once seen an ad interrupt a video. If you think I don't skip the ads that they insert as part of the video, you'd be horribly mistaken as well.

  • @LSSYLondon

    @LSSYLondon

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@kindlin How do you do that on a phone?

  • @kindlin

    @kindlin

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@LSSYLondon Literally never watch youtube on my phone. I browse articles or play minesweeper on my phone, at worst. My phone, unlike some folks I know, takes up but a small fraction of my day. PS: fuck social media, entirely and without lube.

  • @Freekniggers

    @Freekniggers

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@GrifoStelle i laugh every time i see a sign in a neighborhood that reads "drive slow we

  • @shannonrhoads7099
    @shannonrhoads70993 жыл бұрын

    "Brother, you have surrounded your given name with a foul stench! From this day forth, all the toilets in the kingdom shall be known as... johns!" King Richard to Prince John, Robin Hood - Men in Tights

  • @roseychapman8214

    @roseychapman8214

    3 жыл бұрын

    lol Only in a Mel Brooks movie!

  • @FM-xr5nj

    @FM-xr5nj

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lmaoooooo great movie

  • @kerrynicholls6683

    @kerrynicholls6683

    2 жыл бұрын

    Love 💕 that movie 🍿, I repeatedly watched it as a child.

  • @liquidsleepgames3661

    @liquidsleepgames3661

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah and rottingham became a latrine Formerly known as shithouse

  • @michaelsternberg1597

    @michaelsternberg1597

    2 жыл бұрын

    Actually the inventor of the flush toilet was a plumber by the name of John Crapper.

  • @edylcnostrebor9722
    @edylcnostrebor97223 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your experience with us all

  • @markadams4593
    @markadams45933 жыл бұрын

    When I was a child my Grandmother still had a working outhouse in her backyard. It had the crescent moon. I have no idea when it had been built but it appeared quite old-at a guess, knowing how buildings aged in that area, at least 30-40 years. And this was in the 1960's. My earliest memory of it would of been about '62 when I was 4.

  • @mousermind
    @mousermind4 жыл бұрын

    Plus, the crescent moon offers more privacy than a circle, star, diamond, heart, etc., and would look like an actual lit moon in the sky when sitting inside an otherwise unlit tiny wooden box. :D

  • @McWizzill

    @McWizzill

    4 жыл бұрын

    Outhouses don't have lights in them. I like the idea but it sounds like you've never taken a shit in an outhouse, a candle wouldn't be bright enough to make that image

  • @MrMattydavee

    @MrMattydavee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Did you read his comment?

  • @McWizzill

    @McWizzill

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now I did. Moons usually aren't blue but if they are you're probably shitting in an outhouse

  • @PixieLove5

    @PixieLove5

    4 жыл бұрын

    I Am Will wtaf?

  • @battlechris8463

    @battlechris8463

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hes right though. It acts as a peephole and ventilation without being a full on window for privacy and became a traditional way to spot said outhouse. Not all had them, it wasnt that big a deal for poor folk and yes, I'm from Kentucky, I've shit in plenty outhouses.. mostly at the chicken fights.

  • @G0ZERIAN
    @G0ZERIAN4 жыл бұрын

    We already learned the origin of toilets being called "Johns" from the historical documentary Robin Hood Men in Tights.

  • @GreaseMonkey1137

    @GreaseMonkey1137

    3 жыл бұрын

    My favorite movie

  • @beafreeall7953
    @beafreeall79533 жыл бұрын

    congratulations on keeping a straight face thru that whole presentation...:)

  • @ispeaktothedead
    @ispeaktothedead3 жыл бұрын

    That was seriously a well informed video and I found it to be quite entertaining. I grew up in Brooklyn NY in the 60s, but my grandfather lived in upstate New York. Just a few miles from Yasgurs farm. The true site of W Woodstock . I remember a a child watching the Palasades parkway and rout 17N full of hippies trying to hitch rides to the concert. My dad accidently almost ran one over who became a bit too eager to attempt to get into our car. Dad almost killed him until he realized he was so strung out on acid that he thought our car was a stage coach. Well where thus concert (that kept us up for the entire weekend with people walking miles to get to my grandfather's house to beg for food. He was a giant and looked frightening because of his massive muscles from years of laying carpet. They asked to use his bathroom and showers but as gentle of a giant he was, he refused to allow anyone access to his house. He built the house from scratch, but it was a recycled foundation from the 1700s and out back, where the black smiths building was so stood an old out house. He restored it and re-dug the hole about ten feet deep. I remember using it when we didn't want to go inside. If the adults saw us they may have kept us in. So my brother and I would first knick on the back to let any animals escape. A few skunks took up residence one year and skunked his dog until my dad took care of them. Outhouses are dangerous out buildings. Bedside the large creatures who fled when you approached, they were full of creepy crawley and before you sit, it's imperative that you do a detailed search for snakes(we had rattlers and cotton mouths in close proximity to the house. There were also the rest and corn snakes but mostly spiders. This giant yellow field spiders that I've had my share of fun inns with. So my grandfather was frightening to look at but he had the heart of a poet. So he allowed scraglers desperate for a bathroom to use the out house. Once word got out we became the super highway to the needs of desperate people in need of a bathroom. I remember there was no adornment to the doors. No Crescent moon, no sun or heart. But on the top of the walls by the roof were cut outs that had screens and chicken write covering them. He said the original door was built that way, less the screen or chicken wire. The wall had a pill lamp and candle holder and a place for matches. That's how they got light. My gramps ran an electric line the second day and made a makeshift light for the people in need. Years after he passed as we were sorting through his belongings, we find photos of the original out house. This video brings back his memories and the thankful party goers who had to really go lol. When Woodstock was over, he my dad and I moved the building and gramps poured in a few gallons of gas and lit it. It burned for a few hours, then he burned it again. Once the smoke cleared we put the building back in its place. The last time I was in the neck of the woods, I passed by his old house. There was an out house still standing, but the new owners had installed a brand new building. The door adorned with Cresent moon and a lady bug cut out. The owners have no idea the history they lost when they replaced that saving grace of an outhouse fire so many people who witnessed the most iconic concert in the history of forever.

  • @HarryGuit
    @HarryGuit4 жыл бұрын

    In Bavaria (Southeast Germany), too, the heart shaped cutout is the standard; never seen a different one. So the crescent moon seems to not be ‚continental‘.

  • @Seredetia
    @Seredetia4 жыл бұрын

    “You have offended me, and now I shall fart in your general direction.” - people of antiquity. To be honest, this would be more offensive than the middle finger. And longer lasting. And probably more well remembered. Yikes.

  • @richardlahan7068

    @richardlahan7068

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a Monty Python skit.

  • @aprilmoore2917

    @aprilmoore2917

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm not bragging... but on occasion, I can muster a silent but deadly rip....

  • @Seredetia

    @Seredetia

    4 жыл бұрын

    April Moore Females have the silent but deadly advantage for some reason. 😏 I blame them on the guinea pig...

  • @aprilmoore2917

    @aprilmoore2917

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Seredetia lol! Yes!!! I'm not bragging - well, maybe tooting my own horn just a tad... lol!!

  • @Seredetia

    @Seredetia

    4 жыл бұрын

    J Dial She’s married. She should at LEAST blame them on you. 🤪

  • @janetwalton1321
    @janetwalton13213 жыл бұрын

    My husband fumigated a crowded elevator in the office building. It stunk so bad, one of managers from an upper floor got out and took a different elevator to go the rest of the way up. Priceless.

  • @JessWLStuart
    @JessWLStuart3 жыл бұрын

    I'm *very* impressed Simon states this talk with a straight face!

  • @hahahahahaha9026
    @hahahahahaha90264 жыл бұрын

    "Abnormally attractive".... I hope he talks about his wife like that 😂

  • @lindah3879

    @lindah3879

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agreed!

  • @joeh470

    @joeh470

    4 жыл бұрын

    Could be husband these days... Js

  • @cooliipie

    @cooliipie

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joeh470 He has a normal voice

  • @CCRLH85

    @CCRLH85

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joeh470 in a Business Blaze video Simon mentions his wife.

  • @jr2904

    @jr2904

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@cooliipie that doesn't always tell if they're gay or not

  • @66block84
    @66block844 жыл бұрын

    Back in 1975, I was camping at a Canadian campground somewhere on the Eastern side of Lake Nipigon & carved into the wood wall of one of the outhouses was "Don't wait for me. Godot".

  • @NickBrennanA
    @NickBrennanA3 жыл бұрын

    The way he emphasizes _"buttcrack"_ is the best thing I've seen all week! It's also nearly 1am and I'm losing my mind

  • @shala_shashka
    @shala_shashka3 жыл бұрын

    7:00 I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if someone just started carving out a moon for the sake of a physically told pun

  • @Anathemata
    @Anathemata4 жыл бұрын

    A fart caused a riot? This might be the greatest thing I've ever heard.

  • @Mortablunt

    @Mortablunt

    4 жыл бұрын

    New bucket list item acquired.

  • @cyborghampster1633

    @cyborghampster1633

    4 жыл бұрын

    The fart heard around the world 😝

  • @-TheDude-

    @-TheDude-

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ive seen a similar thing happen while incarcerated. Not really a riot, but violence ensued and multiple people took part. On account of the cramped quarters and horrific smell it was almost justified. Sometimes its good to give a warning or excuse yourself from the company of others if possible. Crop dusting, while funny at times, isnt a good idea in certain situations either.

  • @pierrecurie

    @pierrecurie

    4 жыл бұрын

    Less a riot, and more a panic.

  • @Anathemata

    @Anathemata

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@-TheDude- That's why in prison and in jail you do what's called a courtesy flush, repeatedly. You never leave your shit in the toilet even while your sitting on it. You flush it if you're shitting or farting. Not doing this can quickly result in your ass getting beat down. I can speak from authority on this matter.

  • @chrisstyles8139
    @chrisstyles81394 жыл бұрын

    I’ve always just assumed the moon was for moonlight. Dark in there otherwise.

  • @EXP0SING

    @EXP0SING

    3 жыл бұрын

    well why the hell is it a moon though? why not a heart? doesn't answer my question if they specifically made it for the moonlight it would be better designed btw.

  • @tiredofliars
    @tiredofliars3 жыл бұрын

    Back in 1971 I was twelve years old, and we were living on 580 acres in Prunedale California. It is a neighbor of Salinas just in the foothills. I am the 11th of 12 children, and there were still six of us living at home. On of my chores was to ride my horse around the perimeter of the property and repair fences. One of the fences actually ran close to the house. The house had eight or nine bedrooms, it was the first time in my life I had my own bedroom! Every bedroom had a door going outside the house, which had been built in 1896. The fence that was close to the house was positioned about a quarter mile away, just the other side of a huge wash channel below the house. This wash had such deep sides, that my little sister and I would slide down the banks on cardboard box panels. One day as we were playing, I found a piece of wood with a large patch of leather nailed into it. It was strange, because the wash was from the heavy rains that would occur every ten or so years, and there was very little debris that was man-made in the wash. Also the nails had square heads on them. I showed my father, and he told me the story of the house, it was an old speakeasy from the 1920s and 1930s when alcohol was illegal in California. He told me about the big drinking parties that used to occur at the house, it was apparently a very famous house in its day. So, he told me what I had found was the door of the original outhouse. The house had electricity and plumbing, but it was all installed on top of the walls, many years after the house had been built, so it was all exposed everywhere. Water came from a natural spring up the hill from the house about a half mile. Think of Green Acres, but the baths were inside, but that would be about the only difference, we used a wood burning stove for heating the house in the living room and a wood burning stove for cooking in the kitchen. So, he told me that if I went back to where I had found the HINGE of the door, and started digging that I would find some glass bottles. So I did, and I DID! People would go to the house to drink, and the bottles, which were evidence of the illicit drink, were conveniently deposited in the one place no one was likely to look, the bottom of the Outhouse. I found other parts of the door, but it was very decomposed from years in the dirt (crap and dirt) but never found any indication of a moon shape. But we did find bottles, hundreds and hundreds of glass bottles, three form, hand blown, blues and greens, and yellows from age, bubbles in the glass. Lots and lots of curved whiskey glass bottles that were curved to match the shape of the human leg, so a person carrying the bottle in loose pants would not show with sharp corners and flat planes. By the time we moved from there to Fresno, California a year later we had brought up over seven hundred bottles each worth $3 to $7 at the time. Not long after we moved out of that house, my oldest sister (16 years my senior) purchased it and the fifteen acres including the old outhouse site. The rest of the land was cut up and developed into acre and half acre lots. She stayed in that house until 2002 when she finally sold it and the land and moved to Redding, California. Before she did, she had recovered over 7000 bottles. I returned to that house and spent the summer with her when I was fourteen. She had the roof covered in bottles, getting them to change color in the sun, as the old glass will do when exposed to ultraviolet light. Ten years ago I was talking with my little sister, and I told her I never got a single one of those bottles, she sent me one, and intended on sending me more, but she sadly passed after packing them and one of her friends tried to scam me into sending money to have the box shipped to me, but I offered to make the payment to the shipper directly and never got the others. I do have one whiskey flask though from that dig. I suppose in a way that it should have been turned over to archeologists to excavate for historical significance, but hey, it was the 1970's after all.

  • @johnw2026
    @johnw20263 жыл бұрын

    Simon here's an idea for you: history of the modern bathtub and shower. I've heard the old folks talk about having a #2 washtub, having to fill it half full of cold water, then heat up more water over the fire to heat it up for their weekly (yes weekly!) bath. Makes me thankful I have a shower I can use every day. But how did we get here?

  • @davidtrindle6473

    @davidtrindle6473

    Жыл бұрын

    Daily showers are unhealthy for your skin and hair.

  • @Mr_Right
    @Mr_Right4 жыл бұрын

    The cutout is an emergency exit for the flies, when You really mean business...

  • @judahtribe7

    @judahtribe7

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @renferal3774

    @renferal3774

    4 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @PANTHEON71
    @PANTHEON713 жыл бұрын

    The crescent Moon cutout is similar to the Vikings having horns on their helmets simply was not true

  • @kowhaijack6033

    @kowhaijack6033

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yea na they had horns in their pants

  • @jackwebster6802

    @jackwebster6802

    3 жыл бұрын

    Minnesota Vikings have horns on their helmets

  • @ohsuzeyq_
    @ohsuzeyq_3 жыл бұрын

    I love how serious he is regarding of the topic

  • @johnscott8955
    @johnscott89552 жыл бұрын

    Where I grew up we had an outside toilet, had a hole in the door about 15cm round. I was always thankful for the breath of fresh air and ray of light.

  • @robertmarra1341
    @robertmarra13413 жыл бұрын

    When I was a kid (1960's) I wrote to the New York Times research department and asked them this very question (you could do that back then). They wrote me back to say they were essentially stumped!

  • @christopherpardell4418
    @christopherpardell44184 жыл бұрын

    Okay- here’s the actual origin of the moon shaped cutout. When building an outhouse, the door is made of several planks of wood arranged vertically. To make a simple opening to act as a handle, you would naturally cut the simplest shape you could, so you would take ONE plank and, using a coping saw, cut a chunk out of one side of it roughly large enough to stick four fingers thru. This cutout would be a simple curving line like the second stroke in drawing a letter D. You would then lay this plank adjacent to an uncut plank in nailing the door together, leaving a simple hand hold in the shape of a capital D. City folk with indoor plumbing, who don’t build things out of wood, while visiting the country and seeing such a shape in an outhouse door might draw the association with a HALF MOON. When those same city folk decide to lampoon rural hicks thru cartoon depictions of an outhouse, they might well draw a somewhat more exaggerated image of a moon on the door simply because they had no understanding of why the hole in the door might look like a moon. This became a trope, and folks started thinking the hole was intended to depict the moon, and so it became more crescent shaped. An expedient and low cost solution to a door handle got mis-interpreted as an intentional graphic embellishment and was assigned the to the closest pattern that matched in the imagination of folks who could fathom no other reason for it being there.

  • @raylovelace8588

    @raylovelace8588

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cool. And, good thinking!

  • @christopherpardell4418

    @christopherpardell4418

    4 жыл бұрын

    PS- and 1 other reason why you cut a hole in the door, rather than mount a door handle. The hole in the door is around eye height for anyone sitting inside the outhouse and this allows anyone using the outhouse to SEE someone approaching the outhouse, so they can call out that it’s occupied before that person yanks the door open and embarrasses them.

  • @michaellooney7330

    @michaellooney7330

    4 жыл бұрын

    Makes perfect sense.

  • @joycelinlgbtq

    @joycelinlgbtq

    4 жыл бұрын

    This is a very plausible story, but have you any references or evidence?

  • @christopherpardell4418

    @christopherpardell4418

    4 жыл бұрын

    Joycelin lgbtQ - my reference would be Occam’s razor. Since there is NO documentary evidence whatsoever to support the notion of an origin of Moon shapes cut in outhouses to intentionally represent the moon, then the most likely scenario is that the shape cut in an outhouse door was Mistaken for a moon by someone because of human pareidolia. Someone describes to someone else that outhouses in rural areas have Half Moon shapes cut in their doors... in a game of telephone that person doesn’t understand that it’s just a half moon “shape” and tells someone else outhouses have half moons cut in the door. In cartooning an outhouse, drawing a half moon looks to the artist like someone might take it for a letter D in a graphic, and so to make it more clearly a moon draws it as a crescent. And so, as a person who builds things out of wood, I ask myself, WHY would the hole cut in the door as a handle and peephole be that shape? It’s because any other shape would be more time consuming and difficult to cut. If it had originated as a representation of a moon, then there would be stories about that. Failing that... its most likely from folks seeing stuff that isn’t actually there. It then becomes a meme, and now folks building outhouse purposely put crescent moons in the doors because they have been told they’re supposed to be there. Another example of this telephone drift from simple origins is the idiom “spittin’ image”- I have seen overcomplicated videos explaining how it originated from some greek story of a god literally spitting out their son... But in fact it’s much simpler. It’s a lazy mispronunciation of the phrase “spirit and image” - as in, ‘you are the spirit and image of your mother.’ Meaning you both look like and behave like them. This got slurred into spirit’n’image... and thence Spirt’n image... which children misheard as spittin image and grew up saying that without understanding what spit had to do with its meaning. When you hear the explanation that makes human sense... it has the ring of truth. And BTW- the idiom ‘ring of truth’ originated in the stone quarries, where artists and masons wanted to determine which stones were worth buying. If you strike a stone with a hammer and it returns a dull thud sound- then it has a fracture hidden somewhere inside- it will break when you carve it, or under load. However, if the stone is ‘true’- without flaw, it will literally ring like a bell. Doing this is called ‘sounding’ the stone and stones that are worth their cost will Ring True. Even though you can not see thru the stone... you can KNOW it is true. Hence the modern meaning of something that ‘rings true’, and a ‘Sound investment.’

  • @dongreer
    @dongreer Жыл бұрын

    One small point: holes in the door (and possibly side walls) serve two more useful purposes: Where bears and moose are a thing, it allows you to look out to make sure you don't have any large, furry admirers waiting for you on the path back to the house, AND where it gets very cold, light through the holes would indicate the facilities are occupied, so you don't walk out in the dead of winter only to be stuck outside waiting for your sister or dad to finish their business while you slowly freeze to death in your night clothes. I've heard both from people who actually used these things on a daily basis.

  • @Morrov
    @Morrov2 жыл бұрын

    I've not used an outhouse for over a decade, and last time I have it wasn't in my own country, but a quick Google shows me that a majority of Polish outhouses have a little heart cut out, alternatively just a circle. Hard to find any with a moon, which is interesting.

  • @williamwatts5687
    @williamwatts56874 жыл бұрын

    My grandfathers outhouse when I was a young lad had two crescent moon shapes one on each side of the outhouse. I watched them move it by placing large wench like hooks in the holes to lift the house on a pulley tied to a tripod, while sliding logs to roll the house to its new location. Never seen one on a door or located anywhere else but the upper sides. But then never thought it was moon shaped but shaped so the hook would fit and hook without slipping out.

  • @scottwales5966
    @scottwales59663 жыл бұрын

    "The fart that killed everyone" "The fart that killed everyone part 2" "The fart that killed 10,000 people"

  • @ninjabaiano6092

    @ninjabaiano6092

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is a prequel.

  • @scottwales5966

    @scottwales5966

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ninjabaiano6092 the Saga expands, I for one welcome an expanded Universe

  • @silvussol8966

    @silvussol8966

    3 жыл бұрын

    And the modern prequel reboot: “The Fart”

  • @jerrywhidby.
    @jerrywhidby.3 жыл бұрын

    3:20 Taking the expression "Built like a brick sh¡t house" to the extreme.

  • @escape_to_entertain

    @escape_to_entertain

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was cleaning my screen for 1 min. Just bc of ur profile pic . No😂😂😂😂 I thought it's hair on my screen 😅😅🤦

  • @andrew_cunningham

    @andrew_cunningham

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm curious what the logic of that funny "i" is. Is it just ironically ineffective censorship or do you share my hunch that youtube tends to shadowban comments with profane words?

  • @jerrywhidby.

    @jerrywhidby.

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@andrew_cunningham I think, scratch that, I know KZread shadowbans comments. I've even had my comment alert mysteriously get turned off. Sometimes the algorithm doesn't like a certain combination of words. I've learned to replace words like homicide with ghosting, because KZread hates FBI statistics apparently.

  • @shermana1g46db3
    @shermana1g46db33 жыл бұрын

    I never knew i needed this question answered but im glad

  • @stephanieh.777
    @stephanieh.7774 жыл бұрын

    Another example of historical retrofitting: Horns on Viking helmets.

  • @chadfalardeau9162

    @chadfalardeau9162

    4 жыл бұрын

    I though the horns were there to differentiate the Viking from other soldiers in Operas

  • @Markle2k

    @Markle2k

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes and no. Horned warriors are depicted on the Sutton Hoo helmet which predates the Viking era. There are also examples of actual horned helmets from the bronze age into medieval times in Danish artwork. But these are ceremonial depictions. There is no evidence of actual battle helmets having horns.

  • @rhondabonner9856

    @rhondabonner9856

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Markle2k would have been a good weapon though,for headbutting your opponent

  • @DirtyBird
    @DirtyBird4 жыл бұрын

    "The Deadliest Fart In History" should be a stand-alone short! 🤣

  • @suet.r.4815

    @suet.r.4815

    3 жыл бұрын

    Right?!

  • @buddyclem7328
    @buddyclem73282 жыл бұрын

    Little did John know, that centuries later, that a popular animated character would ask the question, "Is this John occupied? ¿Este el Juan occupido?"

  • @mtevilone
    @mtevilone2 жыл бұрын

    There is a historic town in Montana called Nevada City. Some of the buildings have been there since the gold rush days. The rest were brought in from all over the state, and the town was used for parts of a movie called, The Missouri Breaks. Quite the all star lineup in that one. The old Nevada City Hotel has a two story outhouse. No crescent moon on either door. I can just image the horror of using the bottom one, while someone upstairs was having a case of Montezuma's Revenge!

  • @frankmueller2781
    @frankmueller27814 жыл бұрын

    I'm nearing 60 and during.many of my early years had to make use of outhouses in places without running water (even businesses) and can't remember a single outhouse with a moon cutout. Most cutouts just had 1" holes across the top.

  • @clubsport9334

    @clubsport9334

    4 жыл бұрын

    Outhouses in Australia were spider motels. Remember being so scared just have to doing a night visit to one as a kid. Horrific.

  • @mycatiswaysmarterthanmosto8500

    @mycatiswaysmarterthanmosto8500

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agreed. I've used many and never seen the crescent moon. My family still had one for nostalgia at our summer house in Vermont. Never a moon. Lol

  • @rogersmith4042

    @rogersmith4042

    4 жыл бұрын

    All outhouses in America had them...

  • @diegodonjuan

    @diegodonjuan

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rogersmith4042 this is 100% untrue. Like the original poster said, I too have seen and used many outhouses and I've never seen a moon on one. I think this question came from idiots memories blurring with cartoons. I actually take photos of out houses often. Never a moon. People are stupid and have false memories If you used an outhouse with a moon on it, you were probably entertaining the creep that cut it.

  • @Hogscraper

    @Hogscraper

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@diegodonjuan Growing up in Kentucky I used a few of them and zero had moons. The most common vent I saw was a circular hole with a piece of screen stapled over it. And yes, spiders absolutely loved to come say hello once the door shut.

  • @wackowacko8931
    @wackowacko89314 жыл бұрын

    The extremely popular comic strip (at the time) "Lil Abner" had crescent moons carved into their outhouse doors. They were a farcical depiction of "hillbilly life". It ran from August 1934 to November of 1977. This is largely where the idea of crescent moons carved into outhouse doors came from.

  • @vaughnslavin9784
    @vaughnslavin97843 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. This has been troubling me greatly. 😁

  • @melanezoe
    @melanezoe3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed, trivia is interesting, especially backed by good research.

  • @myscreen2urs
    @myscreen2urs4 жыл бұрын

    7:47 His name was cumanus??😂 Sorry, I'll grow up now.

  • @ThatOneGuy-iv9sn

    @ThatOneGuy-iv9sn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wait a minute omg

  • @victorcharlie6384

    @victorcharlie6384

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol

  • @bradgriffiths3370

    @bradgriffiths3370

    4 жыл бұрын

    I LOL'd too

  • @myscreen2urs

    @myscreen2urs

    4 жыл бұрын

    I shit you not, that was his name.🥁

  • @myscreen2urs

    @myscreen2urs

    4 жыл бұрын

    Cumanus was like, "Come on Jews. Come at us. You comin' us?"😏

  • @Odin029
    @Odin0294 жыл бұрын

    I'm about to watch a 13 min video on outhouses... I'm rethinking the life choices that have lead me here... oh well, on with the video

  • @stuartscott9646

    @stuartscott9646

    4 жыл бұрын

    Especially when conducted by a guy with full beard and mustache sponsored by Dollar Shave Club.

  • @daleanolan1464

    @daleanolan1464

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm here for the fart soooo.....

  • @AldoSchmedack
    @AldoSchmedack2 жыл бұрын

    Grandpa: Back in my day we only had one house and it was an outhouse! Grandkids: ***gasp*** Everyone: No $#!+?

  • @alwynemcintyre2184
    @alwynemcintyre21849 ай бұрын

    My grandmother had an outhouse until the 1980's, here in South Australia it had no cutouts on the door.

  • @richardbidinger2577
    @richardbidinger25774 жыл бұрын

    Crescent moon on the outside, full moon on the inside.

  • @yeahwhatever1184
    @yeahwhatever11844 жыл бұрын

    I used to have an outhouse in my backyard when I was a kid, and I used it quite frequently when I was playing outside and didn’t wanna walk back to the house.But I live in the south, so that pretty much explains that lol

  • @bb5242

    @bb5242

    4 жыл бұрын

    Our property was also duly equipped with a 2-holer, but it was long ago relegated to storing outdoor toys and a few tools. That didn't prevent us kids from peeing in there quite often because what else would kids do?

  • @zacharymcmillan2788

    @zacharymcmillan2788

    4 жыл бұрын

    We have one in the yard where we live,and I live in the south too! 😂😂😂

  • @johnharris7751

    @johnharris7751

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm from the Adirondacks and my first memories has outhouses in them. My grandma still had one late as 1964 as she never had indoor plumbing until after the North way took her house. And the magazines wasn't in there for reading. Years later my uncle George would hold himself until he came into town and stopped where I worked at to use our outhouse. When I asked him why, he told me it was peaceful and reminded him of home when he was in there.

  • @5roundsrapid263

    @5roundsrapid263

    4 жыл бұрын

    My great uncle lived on a river and had a lot of land. He had an outhouse on his land near the beach. His house was about a mile away. This was in the South, too.

  • @catladylayne3285

    @catladylayne3285

    4 жыл бұрын

    We had a two seater also. Behind the coal shed right before the burn pile. I'm from east Kentucky. Fun times. Lol

  • @B0risTheBlade
    @B0risTheBlade3 жыл бұрын

    This is the reason we have Buisiness Blaze. Simon needs to release the beast after episodes like this