This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.

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The Honiton Hot Pennies ceremony is the result of 800 years of tradition: from when rich people would entertain themselves by throwing scalding-hot pennies onto the poor people below. These days, it's a bit less dangerous... but only a bit.
DoP: Dave Mackie davemackie.co.uk
Camera; Jared Zwarts
Editor: Julian Domanski
Thanks to Dave Jacobs for the suggestion
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@TomScottGo 9 месяцев назад

Turns out tiny, unpredictable, fast-moving objects are really difficult to capture on camera! They're a bit more obvious in the later locations, but hopefully the slowed-and-zoomed shots will help...

@PersonalMaster 9 месяцев назад

Hi Tom.

@llma 9 месяцев назад

interesting video!

@frasermcgeough 9 месяцев назад

Hello

@namename3130 9 месяцев назад

@@frasermcgeoughhave you done the knaresborough bed race yet?

@namename3130 9 месяцев назад

@@frasermcgeoughsorry didnt realise that was a reply

@jeremyshafer6720 9 месяцев назад

This feels like a sketch Monty Python would do to make fun of weird British town traditions.

@tjenadonn6158 9 месяцев назад

I half expected a fish-slapping dance to break out.

@quillmaurer6563 9 месяцев назад

Are those sketches, or documentaries?

@blindbrad4719 9 месяцев назад

The tradition is for the peasants you see, our tradition is turning the pennies into molten slag…

@Sam-hk6gr 9 месяцев назад

England isn't real

@dronespace 9 месяцев назад

@@tjenadonn6158😂😂😂😂

@R.J._Lewis 9 месяцев назад

Tom reached peak Englishman the day he was attending a medieval ceremony where the rich vindictively throw money at the poors in a village with more pubs than normal, and upon being struck, reflexively yelled "oh bloody hell!"

@sirBrouwer 9 месяцев назад

he forgot to complain about the weather. (to hot, cold, windy, humid, dry)

@stevepettifer4896 9 месяцев назад

Had. Had more pubs. Sadly, there are now only 6 I think, one of which is a Chavverspoons, and one of which is a total dump. The rest are nice though and one of them does excellent locally sourced food.

@DetroitMicroSound 9 месяцев назад

But the town is small, with a single high street. @@stevepettifer4896

@purplepedantry 9 месяцев назад

@@stevepettifer4896 Feels like the British experience. 'Spoons just keep popping up everywhere like Spirit Halloweens do for the Yanks.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 9 месяцев назад

And shouted "Come on!" upon catching one.

@VadersFortress 9 месяцев назад

As a resident of Honiton, I can confirm it is like a medieval Monty Python sketch. But Tom should definitely check out the FLAMING BARREL RACING ceremony they do in the town next door... That's even more crazy!

@darineyt 9 месяцев назад

Also came here to mention Tar Barrels :D

@btbarr16 9 месяцев назад

So they stick poor people in the barrels and make them race to water so they can put themselves out?

@peppermint9777 9 месяцев назад

Me three!

@MrGreatplum 9 месяцев назад

Yay, Ottery! 😆

@firestar1413 9 месяцев назад

Ayyy! Didn't expect to see you here! Love your videos BTW

@robertwilliams8032 9 месяцев назад

They were actually old pennies in the past, which would have had considerably more thermal inertia than the tiny new pennies they use today. Now if you were hit by an old penny it would have been quite painful as they were quite weighty.

@thedoctor16 9 месяцев назад

Thermal inertia is a material property not affected by geometry. Copper vs copper has the same thermal inertia.

@robertwilliams8032 9 месяцев назад

@@thedoctor16 you are correct but the greater mass of the old penny meant it held more heat so the effect of heating an old penny when compared to a new penny would be exaggerated. Thus taking longer to cool down making them hotter for longer when heated to the same temperature increasing the risk of burning substantially. More fun and opportunity for the wealthy to mock the poor, desperate and unwary. Thanks for your correction

@thedoctor16 9 месяцев назад

@@robertwilliams8032 I get your point. However, if the pennies are the same temperature the burn potential is the same because a burn is due to temperature not heat inventory. If a pauper picked up either penny with two fingers the burn would be the same assuming the pennies were at the same temperature when picked up but the larger penny could burn for longer as you pointed out. As well it could create a larger burn if placed on a larger area of skin.

@robertwilliams8032 9 месяцев назад

@@thedoctor16 Not really, as heat is the total energy and temperature is the average energy. So a high temperature and low heat will cause little damage but a lower temperature and high heat can cause major damage. For example comparing a spark from static electricity and a spilled cup of boiling water. The static electricity has a considerably higher temperature. But I can see that a hot bathtub will contain much more heat than a cup of boiling water, but will not cause the same damage as spilling a single cup of boiling water. So to conclude the temperature defines the threshold but the heat does the damage. Similar to voltage and power.

@Blakeblakeblakeblake 9 месяцев назад

@@robertwilliams8032 im with team robert

@wyattfowler4868 9 месяцев назад

making poor people burn themselves picking up pennies is the most aristocratic activity i can think of

@trappedmoss1172 9 месяцев назад

Most European thing ever

@jonasthemovie 9 месяцев назад

Disproving communism at the same time is a funny addition.

@battmarn 9 месяцев назад

@@jonasthemovieall it proves is that a penny isn't enough money to give to those in need

@jonasthemovie 9 месяцев назад

@@battmarn Yet people think it’s enough to not share with other people after cooling on the ground.

@D.H.1082 9 месяцев назад

@@jonasthemovie "Ah yes, this'll show those communists" _hurls scalding hot pennies at the town peasants_ You see the idiocy? I'm against communism, btw.

@aprylemusic 9 месяцев назад

Only in England would people voluntarily go to a place to have pennies thrown at them by rich people.

@TimSheehan 9 месяцев назад

Nah I'd do it, seems like something fun and unique to try at least once

@ventedbus4917 9 месяцев назад

Well it is a tradition from 700 years ago

@theotherohlourdespadua1131 9 месяцев назад

Roman empire during its many heyday periods and every Italian city-state, principality, and kingdom during its pre-unification days: Amateurs...

@Omar_Little 9 месяцев назад

Too right. Monarchists must love it.

@ArifRWinandar 9 месяцев назад

How many places use penny as currency?

@bipbapboop1140 9 месяцев назад

Plenty of traditions have dehumanizing histories, but this one just seems so much less diluted than most. In my area something like this would have evolved into people throwing candy or small pastries out the window.

@Gooner184 8 месяцев назад

It is still very diluted though

@HaHaHaYouFool9439 8 месяцев назад

Mmmm pastries. Go ahead and toss em my way. I’m ready.

@jimjamjams8237 7 месяцев назад

tradition holds history longer than washed history books. In my town, no one remembered the evil villagers kicked out the natives on the other side of the land. they dug a small drain as to draw a line between them. Now, its just a river and not many knows about the abandoned town on the other side of the village. whats left are just grave stones of the people that were once forcibly lived there.

@Hobo_X 9 месяцев назад

After seeing them in Runescape, I can't believe town criers are not only real still but actually dress like that

@user100-yj8xc 8 месяцев назад

@@mrsmith9597ig not everyone lives in Britain

@beth12svist 8 месяцев назад

@@mrsmith9597 I suspect it has more to do with not studying the British present.

@comradewindowsill4253 8 месяцев назад

@@mrsmith9597 "STILL"

@brandonnguyen6718 7 месяцев назад

@@mrsmith9597 The wording of it (are not only real "still") implies that he knew they existed, but not that they still exist.

@idzidz833 7 месяцев назад

@@mrsmith9597 like everyone knows such niche trivia

@EmptyMTYT 9 месяцев назад

I absolutely love when town criers look like fictional town criers

@iPownYouN00B 9 месяцев назад

fictional or historical

@nedks11 9 месяцев назад

Town criers are not fictional ?

@NoNameAtAll2 9 месяцев назад

what doed crier mean?

@feelinghealingfrequences7179 9 месяцев назад

love it when mayors are gorgeous

@chefpisghetti4859 9 месяцев назад

@@NoNameAtAll2 if someone's really sad, they go to the town crier, and the town crier with cry for them. To make them less sad. 😢

@EdmansTube2008 9 месяцев назад

In whatever other country on the world would you expect "throwing scolding hot pennies at desperate, poor peasents" become a 700+ year tradition? xD

@3nertia 9 месяцев назад

Any capitalist nation with a long enough history? :P

@dcarbs2979 9 месяцев назад

@@3nertia No, it sound perculiarly English.

@laurencefraser 9 месяцев назад

@@3nertia Ehh, crop up, sure. Become a multi century tradition? not so much.

@AngryAlfonse 9 месяцев назад

Brits: "Haha I love classism let's throw hot pennies at the poor" Also Brits: "But why are the colonies revolting!?"

@3nertia 9 месяцев назад

@@dcarbs2979 If you say so ...

@wedontexist369 9 месяцев назад

Who else expected to see a tsunami of pennies being thrown at them from large buckets but then quickly realised it would be impossible

@kevinfernandez9999 8 месяцев назад

Why?

@wedontexist369 8 месяцев назад

@@kevinfernandez9999 why would it be impossible or why did my mind think this way?

@kevinfernandez9999 8 месяцев назад

@@wedontexist369 why impossible?

@L.Mandrake 8 месяцев назад

We need to build a bucket-of-pennies-throwing machine

@noesunyoutuber7680 7 месяцев назад

Not really impossible, just requires a lot of manpower - to create a consistent storm of pennies over a small area, you'd need a lot of bucket throwers and a rapidly replenished supply of buckets of change.

@synthetic_creature 4 месяца назад

+FISTFUL OF DOLLAR +ENRAGED +DISRESPECT

@RolandTheJabberwocky 9 месяцев назад

This is like a comedically evil thing the corrupt nobles of a town in D&D would do because the DM wants to goud you into reinacting the french revolution.

@PUDRETE919 9 месяцев назад

Make your players hate the ruling class 101, they throw boiling hot coins and kick puppies as they get on their coaches

@dabbinghitlersmemes1762 9 месяцев назад

Yet it turned out well. What does that tell you foiks? I for one, support our comedically evil overlorsds.

@oakenshadow6763 9 месяцев назад

I will now be keeping this in mind.

@litapd311 9 месяцев назад

it's the kind of thing that sounds too outlandish to be real

@Shinzon23 9 месяцев назад

*goad, reenacting

@titaochen5249 9 месяцев назад

A sadistic, dehumanizing act by the riches to the poor turned into a family friendly ceremony... I would not have believed it.

@soundscape26 9 месяцев назад

This was quite twisted ngl.

@josephkolodziejski6882 9 месяцев назад

Welcome to England

@generalgrievous92 9 месяцев назад

@@josephkolodziejski6882 welcome to the human race

@Troggie42 9 месяцев назад

That's England for you

@porkybitz 9 месяцев назад

I understand History dilutes through time, but I agree... this seems like a horrible tradition to keep alive.

@MrJTheNobody 7 месяцев назад

"It's one penny, but I'm really proud of the penny" is the cutest thing I've heard all day 🤣

@jakereich 9 месяцев назад

This also happens at Lincoln College, Oxford, where I did my undergrad. Students throw (no longer hot) pennies from the tower over the main gate down in to th front quad where local primary school children collect them. This happens on accession day. The pennies used to be hot, to teach the children about greed. They aren't hot anymore, so the lesson may have been reversed!

@WillN2Go1 9 месяцев назад

It's like a Monty Python skit about a demented town: "We heat up pennies left by alcoholics and throw them at any poor bugger wishing to declare their humiliating obeisance to our proud tradition of gross inequality."

@deathcap. 9 месяцев назад

I think that hits the peasant on the head, too accurate

@arlin5999 9 месяцев назад

That sums it up perfectly

@lowfuel6089 9 месяцев назад

Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!

@N3gr0bitch 9 месяцев назад

right on the spot, top of the world, notch, scalp, what have you! @@deathcap.

@teipi6020 9 месяцев назад

Including a mayor in a silly costume who pretends it's a normal thing for a mayor to do and a town crier who apparently still exists and has been doing this for 27 years. I know Tom Scott wouldn't do hoax videos for fun, but this would be an excellent one.

@morganbass3231 9 месяцев назад

Leave it to the British to turn making fun of poor people into a tradition.

@davidioanhedges 9 месяцев назад

It's called keeping history alive, so it's not repeated ...

@newp0rt 9 месяцев назад

@@davidioanhedges you did not just say this... lmao so we dont repeat throwing boiling hot coins at poor people? really?

@teslatang4941 9 месяцев назад

😂

@staticfanatic 9 месяцев назад

@@newp0rt tell me elon hasn't at least considered it

@jessicafrost7579 9 месяцев назад

@@davidioanhedges So have you never heard of writing history down in books, or....?

@Jekotia 9 месяцев назад

I fell asleep watching this and it caused the most peculiar dream... I was with Tom Scott, and we were at this town. Making eye contact with me the entire time, he recites his opener until "my script ends here", which is surreal because it feels like he's making a video just for me. Then it turns into a nightmare as molten pennies are thrown at people as they try to escape the town xD

@Blazer-bn9ev 8 месяцев назад

Damn😂😂😂

@AlmightyDoubleHelix 9 месяцев назад

I'm not sure, "our wealthy people used to heat up coins and throw them at poor people so they would burn themselves," is the kind of rich cultural history I'd want to advertise if it were my town.

@jellybeansi 9 месяцев назад

Agreed. This would only be fun if the participants aren't actually poor. I can't see someone who is insolvent or otherwise well-off enjoying this, at all.

@lordthor5951 9 месяцев назад

You say that but but Denmark have this whole thing with vikings where we actively went out to kill and enslave people and people seems to love them for some reason.

@ZephrymWOW 9 месяцев назад

Because it is part of history, we don't need to white wash everything into peaches and roses. "I am not sure if kids should learn about important massacres in school, its inapropriate!!!!" They clearly don't agree with the original practice anymore.

@debbiemcpherson2426 9 месяцев назад

Hey come to my town we're evil

@atodaso1668 9 месяцев назад

Not everyone is as sensitive as you, some like a laugh.

@Henry_Jr_Watsson 8 месяцев назад

It is good to remember the suffering the masses have gone through. Not doing this will cause the citizens to outright forget it. After a long enough time, none of the citizens will ever believe such a thing has had happened nor can they imagine it. So yes, remembering this act, in a safe way, is good. We've come a long way people ;)

@baashasucks 8 месяцев назад

Nah, we really haven't. It's just that us poor have electricity, now. Sometimes.

@dancinglight8411 8 месяцев назад

No. This is easy to imagine. Far worse still happening every day.

@ZaeOSWS 8 месяцев назад

@@dancinglight8411exactly like why are people commenting like this was a holocaust part 2?? Just the rich doing what the rich do in todays day; flex. I bet if it were their favorite social media people being posted they’d be quick to defend🤣

@AdmiralWinfrey 7 месяцев назад

Did you know that we can learn about past events *without* recreating them? Also, making a fun party out of a dehumanizing ritual is messed up and trivializes peoples' suffering.

@Kai-no9os 3 месяца назад

@@AdmiralWinfrey You sound very american

@JeffreyWuFilm 9 месяцев назад

This is exactly what I thought a town crier and mace bearer would look like. Amazing.

@raashidabdullah8941 9 месяцев назад

“And sometimes, I have to wing it” *Proceeds to explain everything*

@Twitchi 9 месяцев назад

"And my script ends here!" Explains some more...

@memethanYT 9 месяцев назад

@@ChadAusteenFound the teenager

@alexgoff309 9 месяцев назад

This is my town and I was so nervous to say hello to Tom when I met him filming. Absolutely bizarre that he was there!

@h.a.9880 9 месяцев назад

Your town has a really cool custom! But of course, I gotta ask, do you know someone with a Penny-shaped burn scar?

@Immadeus 9 месяцев назад

He visited my town too! I wasn't able to meet him though...

@DetroitMicroSound 9 месяцев назад

How is it bizarre that a man from England, is in England?

@ashrunsaway1134 9 месяцев назад

@@DetroitMicroSound England is, despite it's appearance on a map, rather large and there are 1000s (maybe even more idk) of towns he could be visiting, so it would be quite the surprise. Edit: I'm not saying it's the same size as the US, for example, just that it's not like we all live next door to each other.

@krtirtho 9 месяцев назад

Sorry for the really bad history

@-YELDAH 9 месяцев назад

Thanks Tom, not many risk their lives for journalism like this

@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis 9 месяцев назад

Should’ve worn a “PRESS” vest and a helmet

@frankie._.4167 9 месяцев назад

@@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis Imagine 😂

@GodIsInTheTv 9 месяцев назад

Journalism like what?

@-YELDAH 9 месяцев назад

@@GodIsInTheTv Even as a Brit myself, if it were not for Tom I wouldn't be aware of the delightful ways of which Honiton tortures the commonwealth, such a shame his cameraman got caught in the crossfire, but it was worth the risk if we are to keep these traditions alive!

@RaelgunXIII 8 месяцев назад

Florida journalists: “…yea, ok pal”

@solehsolehsoleh 9 месяцев назад

I love the British rhotic accent of the Town Crier. I hope more younger people in that region preserve their old accent/dialect.

@theFrozenLiquid7 9 месяцев назад

This is without a doubt the most british thing anyone has ever seen

@kairon156 9 месяцев назад

Props to any camera person who's been willing to follow Tom around on his adventures.

@kiradotee 9 месяцев назад

@@ryanberry1why is that disappointing?

@gayatriunni549 9 месяцев назад

@@ryanberry1what..

@MaxLennon 9 месяцев назад

@@ryanberry1I think it probably wasn't too hard for them to type. Keep practicing and typing will get easier for you as well!

@TRDiscordian 9 месяцев назад

@@ryanberry1you’re somehow offended they took 0.2s out of their day to write a longer word?

@ryanberry1 9 месяцев назад

It's the fact they bothered change the word@@TRDiscordian

@JoeBurridge 9 месяцев назад

I lived near Honiton my whole life and never knew about this tradition. As always, thanks Tom!

@dewetskywalker 9 месяцев назад

"So what are you doing today?" "Getting slightly warm pennies thrown at me"

@samanthaw.861 9 месяцев назад

I’m glad how a tradition with such a dehumanizing backstory became something joyful and fun.

@BR1GADIER 9 месяцев назад

Like Guy Fawkes!

@oakenshadow6763 9 месяцев назад

Same. Maintaining hystory without the harm.

@tamhuy10 9 месяцев назад

its a nice way to look at it

@LTPottenger 9 месяцев назад

It was always joyful and fun. For some.

@Alex-cw3rz 9 месяцев назад

@@oakenshadow6763 unless it takes one of your eyes out

@rushi5638 9 месяцев назад

The Town Crier looks he stepped through a portal from 600 years ago.

@I_have_some_serious_problems 9 месяцев назад

Not really, his outfit looks more like something from the late 18th century to me, 200 - 250 years ago at most.

@kieranchurchill4194 9 месяцев назад

He's my uncle, very nice guy he is!

@loddude5706 9 месяцев назад

@@I_have_some_serious_problems Oh come on - it's obviously from the 1826 Spring collection - dear oh dear . . . some people, honestly!

@I_have_some_serious_problems 9 месяцев назад

@@loddude5706 Well, he is wearing a tricorn, a type of hat that quickly fell out of fashion during the 1800s, so I guess 1826 wouldn't quite fit the fashion worn here :)

@vlim5601 9 месяцев назад

@@kieranchurchill4194 Is the outfit just for the ceremony here or is that his normal work uniform?

@llawliet1522 8 месяцев назад

ultrakill player's paradise

@jasonvo2620 8 месяцев назад

All fun and games til the blue robot nikon shows up

@thetimeisrite 9 месяцев назад

I had no idea what a Town Crier was, but Dave is exactly what I had pictured in my head.

@InternetEntity 9 месяцев назад

Does what they say on the tin: yells official announcements to the people of the town. Think ringing a bell and shouting "Hear yea, hear yea!"

@sirBrouwer 9 месяцев назад

they are a walking newsbulletin. both for news from (local) government, events, companies or even general people. very similar how a newspaper works.

@martin0499 9 месяцев назад

imagine the guy from runescape standing outside the banks shouting about the latest updates, but in real life

@axelanderson2030 9 месяцев назад

@@martin0499lmao that was exactly what I was thinking of.

@Jayfive276 9 месяцев назад

Plot twist: The richest family in Honiton for centuries were the family that made and sold gloves.

@dcarbs2979 9 месяцев назад

Honiton is known for lace, so while not the ideal fabric for gloves (certainly not those that would protect from heat), it's entirely possible.

@Jayfive276 9 месяцев назад

@@dcarbs2979 I was just making with jokey-jokes, it’s nice to know there might be an element of truth in it 😁

@ZakLeek 9 месяцев назад

It's nice that they've made the tradition safer but still kept it alive, thanks for sharing this Tom! 💙

@spyczech 5 месяцев назад

How is it all that much safer, they are warmed instead of hot?

@bellidrael7457 5 месяцев назад

@@spyczech Going to guess you didn't even watch the video. They are 'warmed in the sun' at most, rather than literally burning hot, and they are scattered by the handfulls rather than actively thrown at people.

@Wilfoe 9 месяцев назад

This was certainly an interesting tradition to learn about. Thanks for sharing!

@mbrannon 6 месяцев назад

This is the most dystopian tradition I have ever seen.

@ooommm4024 9 месяцев назад

I can remember a school bully throwing quarters at me and how annoying it was. Needless to say, he was furious that I kept the $10 of quarters that he pelted me with in addition to getting detention for a few days. 😂

@3nertia 9 месяцев назад

If only something similar would've happened to the rich people then maybe we could put evil traditions like this one behind us heh

@Wingedmagician 9 месяцев назад

That many hits is not worth $10 tho😑

@CptJistuce 9 месяцев назад

@@WingedmagicianBetter than getting hit and not getting anything out of it. If you're getting pelted with quarters ANYWAYS, no sense letting the bully have them back.

@MiishaKorvian 9 месяцев назад

While in middle school 6-7th grades (K-12) some of the kids thought it was funny that I would chase coins and pick up loose change. I made a fair amount of money off those idiots. A solid $70 in loose change in a over a few months.

@ForeverFree2Play 9 месяцев назад

In fourth grade this kid threw a crayon at my head. I kinda knew him and probably should have reacted, but I didn't actually need to because the crayon ricocheted off my skull and went right into his eye😂 I think even the god of karma would have been impressed with how fast karma was acted out.

@TecSanento 9 месяцев назад

It's too sad knowing that this series is going to come to an end Tom - but at least I thank you for the random stories and special places you brought us to :)

@CarbonDioxide. 9 месяцев назад

I'm sad two

@swiper1131 9 месяцев назад

I think when it ends... I might make a tradition to just go back starting at #1 and watch a video a week 😂

@Peterviegal 9 месяцев назад

How do you know that? Where has he mentioned that?

@robertveith6383 9 месяцев назад

* too sad

@Destinesian 9 месяцев назад

@@Peterviegalabout a month ago he released a video saying he was going to be taking a break at the end of the year and the series would bo longer be weekly

@ReticularTunic7 9 месяцев назад

ULTRAKILL Marksman in a nutshell

@RoxanneClimber 9 месяцев назад

+fistful of dollar

@Camaika1997 9 месяцев назад

This is such a quaint bit of tradition. I love it so much!

@davidarthurcole 9 месяцев назад

Why am I not surprised that Tom Scott is about to get pelted with warm coins

@myladycasagrande863 9 месяцев назад

Seriously, it like he just got bored on a Tuesday! 😂

@RJ-vy9ch 9 месяцев назад

They are NPCs, they don’t question anything they would literally rather get pennies thrown in their face from a tall building than question what they’re doing or why. 100% all these bots are vaxxed

@zacharyparker995 9 месяцев назад

If I was told about this ceremony before witnessing it I'd have assumed this was just someone trolling me.

@steemlenn8797 9 месяцев назад

No, it's too strange to be trolling. That's the same reason why you don't find those things in (story) books. Even if the author invented them, he would be told by the editor that no one would believe that's possible and he should put a sensible tradition in there. Like carrying a pigs head through the town, followed by a mile long sausage. Or rolling cheese wheels down a hill.

@JonahHitchens 9 месяцев назад

Been a fan of yours for years and I also grew up in Honiton! Was amazed to see this video!

@aryasaktiflister_aw 9 месяцев назад

This is so fascinating, how did it take 23 years of my life, even with cable subscription and natgeo documentaries, to only find out about this now?? Truly an ambassador of interesting things you are, Tom

@nataliewhittle9299 9 месяцев назад

The town crier is a joy!

@advanceringnewholder 9 месяцев назад

Sadly there's no pirates

@pranavps851 9 месяцев назад

I expected some crying

@mejhdhhicbfshihids652 9 месяцев назад

The crier, the mayor, and this whole ceremony is like every American stereotype of what rural England is like

@matthewwalker5430 9 месяцев назад

"World War Whatever"

@MesaperProductions 9 месяцев назад

MUTTONCHOPS OF DESTINY!

@Tornroot 9 месяцев назад

Devon is full of weird traditions, the Ottery Saint Mary tar barrels on bonfire night is a great example. Mad, chaotic, dangerous, but ridiculously fun (in my opinion).

@joshuataylor3550 9 месяцев назад

Plus cheese rolling

@Alex-cw3rz 9 месяцев назад

It must be something in the water as Southerners seem to love having really weird traditions

@adrianbaev5277 9 месяцев назад

Ottery Saint Catchpole

@xypysvyl 9 месяцев назад

God the tar barrels are cool but so scary

@jak0995 9 месяцев назад

tar barrels is the best fun on bonfire night. so surreal

@fwogyt3686 4 месяца назад

Great video, I'll look forward to what you do in the future now.

@jimlong8077 9 месяцев назад

My friend who worked at Chuck E Cheese's said he ran game tokens through the pizza oven and tossed them on the ground for kids to find. Hes an out of work construction worker now.

@paulkurilecz4209 9 месяцев назад

I am always impressed by the regalia of local town officials in England.

@SophieApparently 9 месяцев назад

I really want to say “I can’t believe Britain is a real place”, but then again, small American towns have traditions just as weird. People love to pick a single bizarre thing and just do it forever

@jayswizzle57 9 месяцев назад

What’s an American tradition that is as weird as this?

@krashd 9 месяцев назад

@@jayswizzle57 Pick any US town with less than 10,000 population and read up on it's annual events. One town in the US has a frozen dead guy kept in a shed and once a year people come from all over to look at him and attend a feast in his honour. Small towns (anywhere in the world) will always have nutty traditions, it's human nature to find something that sets your town apart from everyone else's.

@uzaidgurjee4798 9 месяцев назад

@@jayswizzle57if you look for it, you’ll find things 10x more stranger than this

@AtlasJotun 9 месяцев назад

@@krashd Frozen Dead Guy Days! That festival has been going for 20+ years; I never knew my fellow Coloradans were quite _that_ weird beforehand.

@mavlnt 9 месяцев назад

@@jayswizzle57 There's a tradition in my town where each year you can enter any non-motorized "vehicle", custom built or off the shelf, to get the fastest time possible while racing down a hill. Most of the vehicles reach AT LEAST 50-60 mph (80-100 kph), often being piloted by children no older than 10-12. It's super dangerous, and there's usually at least one serious injury or death per year, but we do it anyways. I've done it five or six times. The fastest speed I ever reached while participating was 87 mph (140 kmh), and this was in something I built using parts from the local hardware store.

@ramstarskate 8 месяцев назад

did it when i was younger with my gran-ma, i was maybe 4 or 5 and it was amazing. there was a lot going on and its one of my fondest memory's whilst spending the week at my gran-mas

@LordNatbob 9 месяцев назад

This is just round the corner from where I live - rather surreal to see Honiton on a Tom Scott video!

@pallaviprasad 9 месяцев назад

Ah, one of those rare places where souvenirs can be won in competition rather than buying. And also great to see people turned something awful into joyful.

@ultraviolet7838 9 месяцев назад

Orphan crushing machine

@gratox1730 9 месяцев назад

@@ultraviolet7838 I mean it's more like "We've decommissioned the orphan crushing machine and now have a yearly tradition where some people choose to get inside to be only mildly squished"

@NedInYaHead 9 месяцев назад

@@gratox1730 I wanna be squished now! :3

@cheddarsunchipsyes8144 9 месяцев назад

@@gratox1730loll

@slashshot_yt1880 9 месяцев назад

is this true?@@gratox1730

@charliedobbie8916 9 месяцев назад

You've reminded me that back in the nineties I knew some people in banking and they confirmed that whenever there was a protest or a parade passing through the City it was definitely a thing for bankers to stand on balconies and lob pound coins at the poor people. They didn't to my knowledge heat them up though, so maybe as a society we've gained some compassion over the last 800 years.

@LMixir 9 месяцев назад

Possibly. On the other hand, there's a lot of money to be saved by not heating the pennies... just saying.

@ironhorse3497 9 месяцев назад

Bankers lobbed coins at poor people in the 90's? What even are you talking about?

@Blitterbug 9 месяцев назад

Hmm... Pound coins have only been around 40 years, so I think there'd be a lot of bankers cooling their heels in police cells while assault charges are filed...

@tgypoi 8 месяцев назад

I've super glued coins to the ground to watch people try to pick them up, but this is another level.

@psychologicalpotatoe 9 месяцев назад

You are probably one of my top 3 favorite youtubers rn

@MartilloWorkshop 9 месяцев назад

In Denmark, we do this on the last day of school as tradition, except, it's caramel toffees. And they're sometimes frozen in order to hit harder. The graduating class will do the throwing (And they'll be dressed up in costumes, as if it's Halloween), and everyone else gather below trying to catch as much as possible. I have no clue where this started.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 9 месяцев назад

Ah, that tradition started in the great pinata shortage of 350 AD.

@FaaaaaaaQ2 9 месяцев назад

This seems like a celebration of how sadistic human beings can be.

@DoragonShinzui 9 месяцев назад

That's England for you.

@anusername8350 9 месяцев назад

@@DoragonShinzuiI “love” my country

@Boodoo4You 9 месяцев назад

Honestly it seems extremely tame. Everybody is there of their own accord. Just a bit of fun.

@fahrenheit2101 9 месяцев назад

No, thats the origin. If anything they're claiming it as their own, and none of the past sadism is left.

@deeznoots6241 9 месяцев назад

@@DoragonShinzuileast cruel English tradition

@dylansteed1270 18 дней назад

The mayor still does this every year at Reach Fair in Cambridgeshire as well

@jaybehkay2438 9 месяцев назад

This is such a weird tradition and I love it

@ImNotJoeKingBro 9 месяцев назад

imagine willingly going to a place to have coins tossed at you, its like scottish referee simulator

@arthurcuesta6041 9 месяцев назад

LMAO

@tjenadonn6158 9 месяцев назад

You wouldn't think words like "quaint" and "genteel" could be applied to a raging public humiliation fetish.

@prfit 9 месяцев назад

Tom, I know you're retiring but I would love if you would still occasionally do these videos on all the weird British town customs that still exist.

@imnotamechanic3491 9 месяцев назад

I don't think he 'retiring', just this series, in its current format (EVERY week), is coming to an end. He wont stop entirely. But I agree, a series on british town customs would be awesome!

@Simple_City 9 месяцев назад

Jesus the guy said he's going to take a break from this ONE thing he does and people think he's retiring lmao. There is a very good chance that he will start making these videos again a few years down the road, or even sooner! Just not every single week, because there is an insane amount of work that goes into these short videos.

@geraldhenrickson7472 9 месяцев назад

@@Simple_City Wait, what? Jesus is involved? Well I'll be darned.

@WyvernYT 9 месяцев назад

I've read of this. Apparently the tradition in Oxford was to heat HALF of the pennies (over a fire, so really "proper hot"), then watch the children scramble for them. It was said to illustrate the struggle between greed and caution.

@rosieHolliday5887 9 месяцев назад

I love old town traditions like this. I really hope they continue forever

@BD-lq4id 9 месяцев назад

what a quaint story of the rich mocking and physically branding/scarring the poor with hot metal. such a lovely tradition to keep!

@plica06 9 месяцев назад

I'm sure there were injuries but I presume the poor used gloves, socks etc on their hands to protect themselves. Probably injuries were always superficial and rare.

@Blitterbug 9 месяцев назад

Yes. Yes, it is.

@Krytern 9 месяцев назад

@@plica06Like they could afford to burn their socks if they had to pick up scolding hot pennies for money

@kkobayashi1 9 месяцев назад

@@Kryternthey probably couldn't afford to injure their hands either.

@soundscape26 9 месяцев назад

It's a bit bizarre yes.

@FunkyM217 9 месяцев назад

I am going to miss these videos, once this year is up. They've always been so very enlightening.

@sirBrouwer 9 месяцев назад

there will still be the podcast until at least the summer of 2024. Also it's still likely that he will continue doing something online. just not every week.

@AlexDaeling 9 месяцев назад

tom i love when you use your matter of fact presentation to deliver a hilarious deadpan title

@MaxLennon 9 месяцев назад

The balcony POV shot at 1:36 is fun, like a little game of Where's Waldo/Wally where you look for Tom's red shirt in the crowd.

@allecio 9 месяцев назад

These people definitely look like they toss pennies at people.

@bbbnuy3945 9 месяцев назад

thats why they are called tossers

@N3gr0bitch 9 месяцев назад

Well, it's because its on video.

@chrisfroehling 9 месяцев назад

Tom: "I've only just thought of bringing something to catch the pennies and it's far too late now." *Cut to the poor dude one row behind him holding an entire family's worth of beverages.*

@blindbrad4719 9 месяцев назад

Holding a tray of drinks is just begging to be a target… 😂

@Thraiel 8 месяцев назад

Ultrakill fans when someone slightly inconveniences them:

@ljphoenix4341 9 месяцев назад

Jared Zwarts is a great camera operator, for the fact that he was willing to stand in a crowd filming Tom try to catch pennies

@scareddoge9942 9 месяцев назад

It’s always Tom that finds places like these lol Where else can you get pelted with pennies?

@ethanhayes9989 9 месяцев назад

They also do this in the town of Beaumaris in North Wales on New year's day.

@marklastname1993 9 месяцев назад

I've seen fellas throw pennies at buses when they don't stop, maybe try that?

@benjaminclehmann 9 месяцев назад

A bad stripclub I suppose?

@Nadia1989 9 месяцев назад

Trump tower?

@SamAronow 9 месяцев назад

The Stratford Festival during the start of the school year, according to _Slings & Arrows._

@charlottelanvin7095 9 месяцев назад

Pennies in pre-decimalisation days were larger coins than today: 31mm diameter and 9 grammes of Bronze. New pennies are 20mm and 3.6 grammes. It might have been more fun to throw halfpennies at the yokels: they were 1" in diameter (25.5mm) but lighter at nearly 6 grammes.

@williamstrachan 9 месяцев назад

They probably fly quite nice with a bit of spin

@blindbrad4719 9 месяцев назад

Let me give you this hot frisbee peasant!

@munjee2 9 месяцев назад

It's seems like the middle denominations coins tend to be larger than the largest one, when it's always proportional to the value with notes, I wonder if it's because they were the ones not likely to be used so they are the easiest to take out

@Haseri8 8 месяцев назад

That is exactly what a town crier and mace bearer should look like, thank you for finding him

@CreepersNeedHugs 3 месяца назад

1:12 the way this man dresses says he thinks he’s waaaaaay more important than he really is

@PiersLawsonBrown1972 9 месяцев назад

Thank you Tom for bringing this to the attention of the Heath and Safety Executive

@dvdvnr 9 месяцев назад

I can just imagine the headline: "Heath and Safety Executive Officer Found Hanging by his Toes from a Tree just Outside Honiton!"

@inconnu4961 9 месяцев назад

Arent they all on holiday?

@blindbrad4719 9 месяцев назад

Brexit baby! We can do what we want now…

@dominov 9 месяцев назад

@@blindbrad4719so health and safety left with the EU? That's quite scary.

@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow. 9 месяцев назад

@@blindbrad4719 You are aware that the UK government has health and safety laws independent of the EU right? Lmao

@NotParticularlyWitty 9 месяцев назад

That's Devon for you. If it's not rich people throwing pocket change at you it's carrying flaming barrels.

@megasocky 5 месяцев назад

Is this what the kids are calling ultrakill

@Lindsay423 9 месяцев назад

Wow, this is wild! Thanks for checking it out for us. :)

@antimonyaggregator9869 9 месяцев назад

1 penny was a full day's pay for a sailor in the year 1189ce... So it's a bit more like throwing £100 notes than £1 coins! Love your work Tom, just couldn't resist bringing out one of my mediaeval sailing facts from the Rolls of the Exchequer!

@SmokingLaddy 9 месяцев назад

According to the Bank of England when Hot Pennies started in 1221 a penny would have been equivalent to £12.30 today.

@haltendehand1 9 месяцев назад

Really depends on how you measure it - inflation probably isn't a good measure because people were MUCH poorer than today. Your average labourer earned around 400 pence (!) a year. So it would be around 1/400th of annual income - the equivalent, for today's minimum wage earner, of maybe £80

@joshuaharper372 9 месяцев назад

It is difficult to "translate" the value into today's money. The rate of pay is one valid comparison, but so is purchasing power. 700 years ago a much greater proportion of a peasant's income went to buy food than is true today for the average worker. So I would believe that depending on the benchmark, a penny in the 1300s might be estimated both around £12.50 and £100.

@SmokingLaddy 9 месяцев назад

@@joshuaharper372 It is difficult hence why I looked at information provided by academics. No single price index exists hence the ONS use price data linked together from several different published sources with the statistics used being made using the cost of living index created by Professor Greg Clark, B.A. in economics and philosophy at King's College, Cambridge and a PhD at Harvard University. Inflation is also accounted for.

@hermand 9 месяцев назад

@SmokingLaddy What a snarky response, given you've clearly misinterpreted his point. Nobody is disputing your calculation, the point is pure purchasing power (inflation) is only one way of looking at the equivalence. Comparison with incomes is also a valid way to view it.

@MellowGaming 9 месяцев назад

I used to live there. What I remember as a kid was we'd have floats going down the road with buckets and troughs on the side and everyone would be throwing coins into them rather than at the people. There was always people throwing them from the balconies though. I knew of the hot pennies part of the tradition and my friends these days think I'm making it up. It is the most British thing ever though. A tradition built around rich people getting a laugh out of hurting the poor.

@girafeman4546 9 месяцев назад

In France, near the Belgian border, we got a town that throws wooden hand-carved laddles at people during a festvial. It really ought to hurt more

@SharpblueCreative 8 месяцев назад

Been there when they do that. Love the town. Used to spend a lot of time in that part of Devon.

@alexbaker4051 9 месяцев назад

A celebration of the historical cruelty of the rich, made safe(r) as a tradition. It is interesting

@RadeticDaniel 9 месяцев назад

Good side of keeping it alive is we don't forget history. Good side of safety improvements and staying with the penny is tgat no one will hurt from catching it or risk too much to get it

@perpetual_bias 9 месяцев назад

safer until a penny takes your eye out. this is the stupidest thing i've seen from tom

@zeropoint703 9 месяцев назад

@@perpetual_bias agreed. i did not expect him to cover something like this /negative

@themetalhead1463 9 месяцев назад

@@perpetual_biasStop being a baby. That’s why we were given two eyes. “Boo hoo, my eye.” Oh the horror of it! Get a life

@MrLego3160 9 месяцев назад

@exoo-2801 ...yes. it's clearly a joke. good job on noticing.

@panda4247 9 месяцев назад

I am more surprised that the function of Town Crier still exists (what is the purpose these days? apart from organizing this traditional event) than by the fact that people were throwing hot coins at poor people and watched them burn their hands. Also, the Crier's beard and costume look like he could be a character from a movie like Stardust. Also also, I am surprised how many (vast majority of) people were there without any eye-protection

@elio7610 9 месяцев назад

It is just tradition, no practical purpose.

@Cyberguy42 9 месяцев назад

I was also surprised by the lack of safety googles, especially by Tom.

@throughrockmetal6935 9 месяцев назад

Areas that still employ town criers will do it only part time, for certain historical events and for ceremonial purposes.

@johnd6487 9 месяцев назад

Doesn't Chester still have a regular town crier? I remember going somewhere to watch him as 'tourist attraction' being part of a day trip there when I was a kid.. but then I guess that would be around 40 years ago now 😂

@sirBrouwer 9 месяцев назад

@@throughrockmetal6935 in addition to that. Also for tourists. they stick out so people seeing them might go to them if they want to know where to find X. or the likes. they are both a (minor) attraction themselves as a bit of a guide.

@Grimmers 6 месяцев назад

I'm amazed at the lack of eye protection.

@Mackinstyle 6 месяцев назад

I love and cherish this. It's just the most Tom Scott video title ever. You'd swear it was just randomly generated, but no, our species is just this wacky.

@EdFortune 9 месяцев назад

This does feel very 'know your place peasants', even now.

@KC-rd3gw 9 месяцев назад

Why do you have to make such great videos? There's a part of me that doesn't want to watch them because they sound boring but they absolutely never are

@ironhorse3497 9 месяцев назад

??????

@herpderpy9445 9 месяцев назад

You should appreciate and watch as much as you can now since he's taking a break soon

@WillowsPeak77 9 месяцев назад

Reminds me of The Simpsons Episode when Mr. Burns threw pennies from a building with Homer just to look generous. In the end everyone just go hurt from the terminal velocity of the pennies.

@progmetalfan4270 7 месяцев назад

As Ghost sang: “In the twenties, we’ll be singing in a rain of pennies”

@sovietmoose5624 9 месяцев назад

Until the 60's they were still made hot enough to burn? That made me go from "Oh i guess they reclaimed what really was public humiliation and needless suffering" into "This feels like its done in very bad faith"

@MiseFreisin 9 месяцев назад

finding out the mayor is a tory makes a lot of sense actually

@plutonicattic7995 9 месяцев назад

Especially how some of the people in charge were defo alive at the time. Europe is weird sometimes

@Cooldrew100 9 месяцев назад

@@MiseFreisinlmfao of course

@woozybydefault 9 месяцев назад

I don't think every penny thrown is from the same centralized organization. You could have kids join in uninvited and throw really hot pennies, while the main organization is dealing with lukewarm pennies.