jesters were the only people who got to talk shit about the king directly to his face and not be put to death, it was honestly the best medieval job around
My brother told me about this time where a jester insulted the king's wife. So he sent him to execution. But the king liked the jester so much that he let the jester choose what form of death he wanted. And he chose old age, and the king laughed so much at that, that he just banished him.
My favorite thing about mbmbam bits on RU-vid is looking at the comments and seeing how many people get upset that the brothers aren't experts on whatever they're joking about.
I would love to know how many people are like “why do they keep talking about bean bags” cause they don’t have the context of the full episode. I however, could never forget my favorite bit.
an Actual Answer to a deeply stupid question-- the concept of 'teenagers' is a relatively young one, spawned (as far as i can remember) in the mid 1900s. before then, you went directly from child (no responsibilities, property of parents) to adult (responsibilities, jobs)
Not entirely true, you still gained more responsability as you aged, and there was some recognition that a 17 and 7 year old were different in maturity. There just wasn’t a culture or market around being a teen
I love it when people in the comments of these clips get serious and talk about things the brothers got wrong Bc like. Yo that’s a thing you’re passionate about so you just *gotta* infodump right in the comments, and that’s the most valid shit, or you just take a lot of jokes seriously and like, big mood me fuckin too. On the other hand, if you’re just correcting to show off, chill dude. The bros prob ain’t gone see it.
I love me some brothers, but I have just got to rant real quick because I see so many people make this mistake. Life expectancy of 25 doesn't mean that most people died at 25. If you lived past childhood it was pretty likely that you would make it to old age. The number is so low due to the massive number of children that died (mostly at birth or of childhood sicknesses). If you lived in a village of 500 people over the age of 15, but out of every 30 births only 1 child lived to adulthood, you get an incredibly low average life expectancy.
SuperKittenPalooza while it is true that the life expectancy of 25 would take in child mortality rates, one would not usually have lived to "old age" if they made it past childhood. They would have lived to middle ages (no pun intended). If you made it out of childhood it was common to live to your 50's or sometimes 60's depending on time period, location, and other factors.
FYI, threshers were invented in the 18th Century and tobacco only existed in the Americas (where it was generally used for religious or medicinal rather than recreational purposes) prior to the 16th Century
