The Surprisingly Gruesome Life Of The Medieval Barber | Worst Jobs In History 

is that jungwoo hehe

lol

Booom boom boom

Ahead of his time

Any time you see a comment like this, look at the profile picture. You will be unsurprised to learn how original most people are on RU-vid, especially when they are basically the epitome of normal.

My favorite is when the Wise Woman mentioned the nettles, and he simply rolled up his sleeve with a look of "Why aren't you lashing me yet?"

He sounds like a puss but he has balls lol

The leech got me. I hate bugs and you probably couldn't pay me to let a leech bite me on purpose.

I think this guys has actually the worst job because he is doing all the bad jobs

@@perlyax Tony only has to do it foe a short time. There are other videos on here where 3 people lived on a farm and did everything the way they did for the time period they are in. I know Victorian farm is one and I think Edwardian farm is another. They are very good videos

Imagine getting your steps in on some cloth in a bucket of stale urine while also asking pointed bits of info to continue to paint the picture of how this job actually was. "Would we have to do this for eight hours?" "Depends on the size of the cloth." Kind of wonder what kind of banter peeps would engage in to pass the time.

😂

I honestly wonder how we survived for so long , one guy said this once and his comment echoed in my head for so long lately , its just crazy .

@@Grumpycat95 Right? And it wasn't the only dangerous era in human history. Have you, per chance, seen documentaries on the Victorian era? :D Makes me wonder what people in the future will say about our time. Who knows what hidden dangers lurk in our daily lives? Maybe some day surgeon will be seen as a bad job, because they have to stitch wounds together by hand instead of just "phasering" them closed.

Ink Stain Oh yes I’ve seen documentaries on the Victorian era , caged in their own coffin-like houses and they didn’t even know !

Ink Stain I think of that too. In 100-200 years will there be a cure for cancer, will they laugh at our radiation/chemotherapy treatments? Who knows.

Amazing to me that most indigenous peoples know which herbs and barks are effective for cures, but medieval "civilization" was feeding people worms.

Let's be real, being alive before indoor plumbing was the worse.

Yes, but those people who live in the middle ages didn't know, which means they don't feel bad. Five hundreds years from now, people may look back and think our times suck too

Yeah but you got to eat worms

I think of that nearly every time I take a shower. @@ejedwards988

It's true. But it rocks anyway. The cameras used here reminds me of Little Brittain's

True

It's happened in the compression where it has probably been mixed down from 7.1 to 2.1 or plain stereo.

TRUE

i can hear it just fine

What lol She told him beheading the poor eel would remove his wart lol

I try to get my mom to watch these with me.

Person from medieval times: Hold my ale.

@@chocobro3198 I was thinking: Hold my pee...where gonna need that precious commodity lol

@@memerice7609 LOL

@@memerice7609 i bet he was pretty pissed he had to make wool fluffy like THAT

Roe and grills are both rows of fakes

I'm watching this whilst eating, lol

I just finished off my honey bunches of oats and I'm about half way through. :)

Too late

I should have read this

I was ironically eating gummy worms.....it quickly stopped.

But warts...🥴

Don’t be a snowflake

@@luluramirez2920 Wow, used a word snowflake, such intelligence, such superiority! O:

Fish do that. Even after removing their hearts they continue to have muscular activity for some time. So don't worry, it's not alive.

I fish and eat what I catch so...yeah that's how its done. I'm only upset about the waste. Nothing better than some smoked eel😀

Even the romans used urine to clean thier clothes due to the amonia in it, so it must have been something discovered a long time ago. Not just normal urine but STALE urine.

@@theq4602 Basically try everything and see what sticks?

A friend of mine diagnosed her own diabetes. First, she noticed that her urine smelled like Frosted Flakes, then, on a hike, she relieved herself in the bushes and upon return to the place, she saw ants all over the log on which she’d peed. A trip to the doctor and a proper test confirmed the diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes. The doctor herself told her that if she’d tasted her urine, it’d be sweet, but not to try it, for obvious reasons!

Same thing with medical maggots which are used on burn patients and gangrene. They only eat dead flesh and allow new skin growth. Leeces are also used to draw blood into areas that are pre gangrene.

Yeah that condition is called hemochromatosis. People who have it have to get blood taken to reduce the amount of iron. Unfortunately the blood is discarded unless it's treated for high iron amounts. Lot of blood wasted that could be used else where.

Is there no other (civilised) way of reducing his iron level?

@@mfjdv2020 nope I work with a guy who has to have this done as well.

@@mfjdv2020 well it works doesn't it?

It looked like his body was genuinely rejecting the ammonia

m Suarez I cannot dispute your findings , nor would I want too . Your statement is very rational . But the idea of extracting teeth without any pain killer is something I would rather not deal with . Maybe a slap up side the head with a mace might’ve helped but I still would rather not deal with it . Although I have to say people in that time were probably more stout than we are today .

@@adorabledeplorable5105 and loo paper.

@@becgould3772 when people ran out of loo roll in out houses in my grand mother's day they would use dock leaves 🤷‍♀️, also good for nettle stings and midge bite.

Thpinal

@@becgould3772 Just find a willing tounge. lmao

Breezy7892 15 that line took me out! 🤣🤣

Don't forget that the squire has to know the proper way to "carve" it, as well. He knows how he likes it. **Lenny face**

Im sure the squires got there asses and throats pumped often.

It's fine! They glued the head back on later👍

As were a few worms

I wish she didn't use a live eel or the live worms. She could have used fake worms for the "necklace" and an already dead eel for the wart cure. Both caused unnecessary suffering. WE don't live in the medieval time period, animals were harmed in the making of this documentary. 😞

Teresa Ellis exactly, I didn’t bother finishing the video. There should have been a huge consequence for that. I hope a lot of people complained and stopped any future animal cruelty. They laughed at the pain they were causing the eel.😢

@Liberal Insanity ""people eats" get out of the comments fuckwit

Bless

Wat music? Dude- I am wearing headphones- and I hear EVERYTHING PERFECTLY!!!

try watching The Worst Jobs in History. (that's what i usually watch; autoplay brought me here).

Get over it

Music was better.

sometimes the original docs were 5.1 surround, when down-mixed to 2ch it may have the effect you're hearing. indeed it sounds better on headphones than speakers, especially if you've got a Dolby plug-in

That always makes me laugh. These days all hell breaks out if a 100 people die of a flu. In the good old days a quarter of the population used to die. SMH

Wateringman LOL.

I am pretty sure "back in the good old days" isn't refering to the Middle Ages.

Witchy Poo if you watched other episodes of this channel, the “good old days” from much closer still had plenty of fucked up things. People love to complain that their times were better, not realizing that everyone before them said the same thing and how, if you add all this up of how “worst” things have become, it simply doesn’t make sense.

@@AnonimusQualquer When people speak of the "good old days" they generally mean "in my childhood when I had no responsibilities", not "back when our ancestors were treading in urine". Besides, it's entirely possible for some things to become better while other things become worse. People are nostalgic for the good stuff, but I don't think anyone wants to give up on the good stuff of today. It'd be great if we could just have the good stuff from all the ages and none of the bad stuff. Negating someone reminiscing about a time when people were kinder and had bigger living spaces by saying that we now have all information at our fingertips and better healthcare is to be completely beside the point and engaging in pointless whataboutism.

Lol lol very funny! Lol

In days of old, When Knights were bold And women weren't invented, Men drilled holes in telegraph poles And they were quite contented..

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@petermitchell6348 wouldn't splinters pose a problem to the knights lol

@@brandil5688 EEK! You are right. I won't do that again :).

He didn’t take one oh no, he went in there TWO times 😭

I love Tony saying "What? Up the ass??" LOL

It's how they checked for diabetes a hundred years ago, if it was sweet then you could be a diabetic

Yeah, I SCREAMED……. 🤯🥵🤢

@@christinawells2024 the way that the bargeon talks about that amputation and medicine up your ass, sounds cheerful, he seems to really enjoy his job/hobby

It's because with piss you can create ammonia once it's fermented. Ammonia is still being used to create soaps, shampoo, detergents... That's why they used peeepeee...

Kindly donated by their production team.. imagine having your feet in your colleague's pee.

@@carlosmarcial6201 It is ironic, creating soap with piss.

Yes that way you can warm your feet for a brief moment. Its just those little things that make a workday worthwhile.

It also means no bathroom breaks :')

When does he hurt his hand 🖐

@@elisabethschepers3398 He was slapped with a bundle of Stinging Nettle.

Wateringman I REALLY ENJOYED THIS PROGRAM. I LEARNED MORE THINGS FROM THIS PROGRAM THAN I EVER DID IN SCHOOL. I WILL HAVE MY NIECES & NEPHEW WATCH THIS SO THEY CAN SEE HOW LIFE WAS BACK THEN.

I also learned more here than at school. Mr. Robinson is a very BRAVE man indeed.

Have you figured out that TR is not posting these videos on RU-vid?

Completely unnecessary! A simple explanation could’ve gotten the point across.

I stopped the video because of it. 😓

🙄

Was no one else: rally with me to be mad ppl

@@HonkeyKong54 i couldn't care less about the eel

Make a firepit using chalk rocks, pour water on it for one reason or another, and people probably figured it out pretty quickly.

The sound in general is pretty bad :(

WHAT?

Bad sound engineering and mixing has been a common problem in recent years. I get the idea that a generation of sound engineers & editors retired and their jobs were filled by slacker newbies. Hopefully, this garbage sound production problem is winding down as the newbies learn the ropes, like it or not.

@@zunipus Watching this on tv it wasn't half as bad, wondering if the uploader on here did something funky with it.

sounds like the whole video was filmed in a tiny cement tunnel. someone forgot to line up two audio tracks...

and writhing in agony

But they yummy tho

Hope they grilled the rest at least and eaten so that it's not wasted

I am sure it was eaten later on, no sense in wasting it.

It was going to die anyway lol

Same ahahahah

Yep. COVID back then would’ve wiped out a huge percentage of the population.

This ain't even that bad. -Me, 2 years of quarantines later

Everything's fine 🐶🔥☕

Dangit somebody already made the comment I made XD I didn't realize it until after I commented

Definitely

For sure

1:27 in and i stopped watching

Yeah

That’s a little harsh

Eel pie is never eaten in the US. Are we missing anything?

I don't think it's alive. It's just nerves still functioning after decapitation.

@@alexgade4512 They bite your finger and their eyes move and they try and wriggle away, it's not a twitch like with nerves.

@@VladTheImpalerDracul I'm pretty sure the decapitation would have to be a clean cut + quick. Like with a swift chop with a cleaver. Most instances of life after decapitation are reported after sudden trauma to the head during car accidents or let's say beheading a chicken. Hence why Mike the chicken survived. Slowly sawing through would do more tissue damage imo.

@@alexgade4512 Mike the chicken only survived being decapitated because 1. his brain stem was still intact, so basic unconscious bodily functions, like breathing, continued. And 2. He developed a blood clot that stopped him from bleeding out.

I went through that. Fairy tales really clean up the look of the era and misrepresent how people lived, not depicting the widespread suffering and filth, not to mention oppression of the church, monarchs, nobles and town officials. And in school, we were left with the impression that everyone had a small, local business, a craft and a pretty decent living in a wholesome, Christian environment. Now, we know it was completely opposite that. Our schools whitewashed this - arguably the lowest point in western civilization.

@@gaslitworldf.melissab2897 Yes, very true. In addition to that ... people, generally speaking, tend to overestimate themselves and their luck in life. They have the idea that if they were born hundreds of years ago, they would be born into a royal family and they themselves will live like kings or queens. They do not know they are most likely to be born to peasants or even worse.

yeah, being killed on a battlefield and dying a slow death .. children dying of malnutrition .. thank god thats all in the miserable past . right .

@@shiitakestick Throwing out your piss and turds onto the street from a third-story window is certainly not commonplace by today’s standards. Weirdo, you can’t cherry pick all the similarities with today’s social/political climate and deduce that people want to live in older times to experience *the same exact bad things* - they’re obviously romanticizing the Middle Ages because they’re not taking into consideration how practical it is to live your everyday life in the current era compared to the older times. *Sigh* you need to either watch or re-watch this documentary, ‘cause you’re missing the point altogether.

g5naim - isn’t it funny how people transfer and project their own inadequacies onto others . Seems you missed a point yourself there , big feller. Then again , genocide, murder , and eco-destruction is soo practical. Isn’t it ?

T Stelle we barely did survive!

Absolutely agree!

I guess you never saw people kill a fish before? You don't exactly "mercy kill" a fish. You can briefly shock it but that's it. Or use the japanese method to paralyse it by wrecking the connections to the spine with a needle, but you still gotta cut through first anyway.

@@alexgade4512 But surely you could do it much faster than he did with that particular tool? He slowly sawed his way through it, could he not have just chopped the head off, even if he needed a different tool for it? I've never killed a fish or seen a fish killed before, I'm just thinking out loud really, it seems barbaric.

@@violettiger21 with a meat cleaver, maybe. I've only used regular knives to kill fish and it's not as easy as it looks honestly. The bones can be tough, so is the muscle, especially in eels.

@@alexgade4512 Yes I can imagine it's not easy. A good heavy meat cleaver would have been kinder (if not as historically accurate perhaps).

Yeah must have been great having to saw someone a rotting leg off while the person is alive and screaming in agony. And tasting the morning-pee of somebody - Yummi ;-) And I wonder what smell people give off, when they havent bathed for month and in the absence of toilets and toiletpaper or clean clothes. You are supposed to heal those poor devils and you dont even have fresh water, aseptic tools, painkiller or even knowledge of anatomy or processes in the human body. Not even a hot nurse ;-) I think that must be frustating when most of your patients die. Not despite the treatment, but because of the treatment ;-)

@@Preussengeneral I think they were referring to the wise woman but I could be mistaken.

And the eels!

metacarpitan 😂

@@Preussengeneral I think they ment the wise woman job although that itself was very risky because they were running the risk of been accused and trialled as a witch

Same here. Some dude said to “stop tree hugging snowflake” because people felt bad for it. Some people just dont get it when others feel bad for things they dont care about

Probably ate it

thats showbiz

Would you eat him?

00SynchronFan00 mmmmmmm eels are very nutritious and very very tasty, so I would think that someone enjoyed either eel pie or jellied eels

@@garycox8107 What do eels taste like?

I would have doused the house in bleach. If that didnt work, drink the bleach afterwards

Yuck

@Celto Loco But quite a few tv shows have RU-vid channels. Some for entire tv channels! Like SCI channel. That's where to watch How It's Made if you don't have cable, like me.

Both? Both sounds right

Badum tss

Back in Medieval times people used to burn cats alive and torment chained bears just for fun, I don't think they would have given any thought to the suffering of eels

@@doobiesmoke15 One, not everyone alive at the time participated in or even approved of those practices. (Granted when the church endorsed killing cats, most people concluded it was okay, but not everyone defaulted to burning them alive.) And two, it'd be a lot easier to try and chop through the eel in one blow, or kill it and then cut it because a live conscious eel is going to fight back with everything its got, and they are very slimy and hard to hold onto. And three, even if the practice specifically stated that the eel HAD to be sawed through while alive for it to work, they could have just SAID THAT instead of actually DOING it, and used a dead eel. Edit: Also, while it did occur in Medieval times, bear baiting wasn't all that popular until the Renaissance

@@Amy_the_Lizard the people that do these things are reinactors and with that they need to be historically accurate and do everything the same way that it would have been done back in the day. If they altered techniques and processes to suit modern day it will deviate more and more from that time resulting in something that's historically inaccurate and inauthentic

@@Nekogal21 No offense, but I'd much rather have that than what we got. As I say again, they could have just SAID that it normally would have used a live eel. Other historical reinactors do it all the time when something isn't exactly right. People that do armor tests include a disclaimer if their armor is of uniform thickness (which isn't historically accurate,) clothing reconstructers include a disclaimer if they have to use a wool/polymer blend fabric due to costs, or if their doing Victorian era clothing mention that they used synthetic whalebone for their corset because whale baleen isn't something you can just go out and buy - and since most baleen whales don't have very large populations, buying actual baleen that a whale had to die for just so you can make a 100% accurate corset would be pretty immoral.

@@Amy_the_Lizard with corsets there are other options like Reed, feather boning and steel so you don't have to use whale bone or the synthetic version which people who are environmentally conscious hate because it's plastic. With medical treatments with the exception of amputations without anesthetic and with unsanitary tools because that's illegal it is best to show the actual processes for true representation. I do this kind of thing in my free time when I'm not working at a 17th century style village and they are strict on getting things right and if it's not authentic we get in trouble and I also feel guilt for it as I do want to show people what stuff was like in that period and it's a form of experimental archaeology after all (something that the public actually like seeing). Saying that you think something is wrong and shouldn't be done to someone to takes massive pride in what they do and in educating the community would be severely hurtful, maybe the people who run the site where this woman does her stuff tells her that it needs to do it that way and relayed that to Tony who is a massive fan of doing experimental archaeology and using old techniques because he loves history and such. They aren't nasty people by any means just doing historically accurate things on a site where the people who run it tell these reinactors and interpreters how they want it to be done