@@angietyndall7337 You could never find anything like this on tv anymore with the whole dismembering a sheep. They’d probably ban most of the things in this series unless it was made out of foam and clearly just a prop
There was a gunpowder mill outside the town I grew up in. You could occasionally smell it when the wind was just right. We called it the Stink Mill. The smell was indescribably horrible. I can still sort of remember the penetrating stench in the back of my throat. Now I know why. It also blew up every few years... one of my neighbors was killed in an explosion back in the early 1970 s
Anna C nobody was using feces or urine in gun powder after the 1800s, so I get it if the mill had never been cleaned out properly, but that’s not what the smell was coming from during your lifetime. And I’m really sorry about your neighbor.
I used to live in a town in Colorado that was near a beef slaughterhouse, we'd get notifications from an app when the wind came from the east to alert us that it was about to smell really bad.
Yep. Honestly it’s amazing how useful so many natural resources are for things we now use synthetic/artificially made chemicals for. In some cases it’s bc either we use so much of an ingredient it wouldn’t be possible/environmentally friendly to harvest the entire amounts needed OR it’s bc there simply isn’t enough of the environment the natural resource is found in left to produce the quantities needed. But the 3 PRIMARY REASONS the vast majority of companies don’t use natural ingredients is...MONEY , TIME & availability of the natural ingredients in the quantities needed. Which is WHY product which are truly 100% natural costs so much more.😕
I got to be honest I didn’t even know who Tony Robinson was two weeks ago and since then I have binge watched a lot of his specials on history and other things he is one of my favorite TV presenters he tells a story like he is your friend and genuinely really likes the topic he is teaching and learning about really cool guy.
Incredible....... I've done so many jobs in my life, but I realize now I've been spared the truly horrible ones. One of my worst was working in an animal hospital when I was 11 years old, cleaning the cages of the animals being 'wormed', after being given something to purge their bodies. Another was simply cutting up chickens at the local market when I was 15. But it was done in a room where the temperature was lowered very chilly, and soon I lost all my appetite for eating dinner, especially meat. It lasted about 6 days before I walked! Thank you Tony for the education, as well as the entertainment, which is true of course for all your films...... Bravo!
Absolutely fascinating program! Probably should not have decided to enjoy a snack while watching though. Live and learn. Happy to watch all the other episodes! (Sans snacks)
They wouldn't necessarily be ripped but they would be strong asf. Cause yeah the muscles get used to the daily activity and the difficult becomes easy so there's no need to grow any more muscle.
The strongest man in Denmark where I live in 1872 was said to be Henrik Irgaard, a farmer in potatoes he stood five foot nine inches and weight 92 kilos was said to log around bags of potatoes up to a ton a day ..It was recorded in a journal from a states man of Jylland "the largest of the three major isle of Denmark" .
Hail to Sir Tony Robinson, who isn't afraid of toads and even sheep guts. I've enjoyed his part in Time Team immensely, and this is just as interesting.
I'm absolutely in love with those two kittens he's holding. My favorite style is black cats but the favorite for life is calicos because my sweet kitty at home is one.
I find it amazing, you need certain items to make gunpowder, but yet nobody wants it around them... I also enjoy how Tony makes the show interesting to watch... Should show this in schools and watch how interesting history can be!!
I think that's why he was asked to do this series! And he makes an excellent, affable and well informed host. He wasn't just an actor - he's always been a historian.
@@richeharrisonHe is in many history shows because he has a great sense of humor and is also very smart and don't forget, always has a cunning plan, too! :)
My current violin is strung completely in gut, plain for the top strings and one overspun in silver wire for the bottom string. Gut strings have always been made since ancient times and are still available in all forms today. Actually the most important innovation of the Stuart period was the development of overspun strings for better bass notes.
I have to give Tony credit , he is a good sport to even attempt to do these horrible tasks for the camera . Gutting the sheep would do it for me . Even thou I am a violinist I couldn't do that ., no thanks ..
I raised sheep in a herd and yes, it can be messy. When the ewes give birth, we sometimes had to reach inside into rearrange the baby lamb's legs to pul them out, for example.
I was about to make this comment and, Bmansk8, it would be difficult to have hundreds of people shooting at him given angles and the space at the wall. Also, I bet that the four paintball guns have a faster fire rate than 100 muskets.
One would imagine that the rest of the army is doing it's best to force those on the walls to keep their heads down seeing as they would be using weapons that are actually lethal.
Don't forget the poor dogs. If you think about it, it just needs a little push and people would (will) do the same things again. (see Football worldcup for example.)
To all those people who think they were born in the wrong era, you haven't watched Tony Robinson because THIS is probably what your life would have been like.
I absolutely love these worst jobs with Tony, he has far passed my expectations of the kind of man I thought he was! Just because you don't really like someone I think you should nearly always give someone a chance and never judge people or let other people's views and beliefs curupt yours which I am guilty of but people can change, I'm proof of that too. I don't like the animals being killed, nothing will change that!
@@Masterpeace777 I get your point.. I do.. but I also understand the human body needs meat to be at it's best, and 90% of animals in the wild suffer a tragic, violent death at the hands of... another animal. Being torn to bits and eaten alive, always in fear of the predator that will inevitably bring it's demise. After watching a few large beasts be attacked & eaten alive by wild hyena or hogs.. it's a thought that human consumption should be done humanely, where we get food and the animal gets a safe, happy life until the end. Win win. It seems when we think about humans not killing animals for food, we imagine them out frolicking in a field of daisies, living to a ripe old age and dying a peaceful natural death. That's rarely the case.. and I'm the weirdo female that catches spiders, moths, even sugar ants & takes them outside... I feed even the slugs that come onto my porch after a rain lol I love animals more than general humanity.. I just think we could come to a civil agreement.. give the animals a good life until the day comes.. which many times would be longer than they get in the wild.
Tony Robinson has done so much. He must have learnt so much. Not only documentaries but comedy. A true polymath. Very like Stephen Fry with whom he worked.
I'm a wheelchair user. I could use some straps like for the sedan chair to make it safer for people (and me) when they need to lift me over stairs or something! I'm always scared they'll injure themselves (never happened yet but there's always a first time). I have been dropped a couple of times though (luckily no bad injuries, touch wood)
just been looking to see if anyone else noticed this. definitely moved on it's own... just looked into it, apparently Tutbury Castle is known for being haunted.
Watching all of these documentaries with Tony doing all of these historically bad jobs in the various eras reminds me that he's the ye olden version of the American show "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, who does the exact same thing with today's worst jobs.
Bangs and stinks, the best kind of video! And lots of educational and fun information to boot. Reminds me of the Romans collecting urine for whitening togas. Every fullers establishment had a vat outside for people to pee into. So in ancient Rome, you never had to worry about being short taken 😅
History certainly has shown how consistently stupid humans have been and often continue to be, whether it's blaming & killing innocent animals, and now, in China (whose officials knew damn well of this latest virus long before raising the alarm) "authorities" are blaming & punishing infected individuals, or those suspected of being infected, by physically abusing them, or making them "disappear."
14:27 The height difference between the two rugby boys and Tony is hilarious, pair that with what he’s saying and I can’t help but laugh. I think I laughed for a good three minutes straight for the entirety of the secment. I can’t help it though. Its just too funny.
Ironically, in killing cats, the English wiped out their first and best line of defense against disease. Cats were the thin blue line in pestilence vs. humanity.
Not only England, in Europe Cats and esp. black Cats were considereed evil and burnt along with the poor women on a stake.. they decimated Cats Who would have Made the Plague less brutal. what goes around Comes around.
Years ago I went to the pharmacy to buy salt peter for tanning a deer pack. As a woman, the pharmacist thought i had some nefarious use in mind. I had no idea of its other uses until he told me. Small-town, I ended up running home and returning with the pelt. You'd have thought I was trying to buy a machine gun.😂
Yeah I believe it was because they have 6 people shooting instead of hundreds on top of a castle. So if anything it’s less than they would really be getting hit
Did anyone else see what I just saw?. 👁️ When the lady was just about to pick up the cup with the spoon in it, the spoon just moved to the other side of the cup by its self, like the lady didn't touch the cup yet, see for yourself after #20:36, it's like a ghost or paranormal activity had interfered and been nice to move the spoon to the other side of the cup... Amazing.. 🇮🇪🍀🍀🍀😎..
Those paintball guns were a lot more accurate and could fire faster than muskets. Now if they forced them to wait between shots that might have been a valid test.
EarlFaulk they would have had hundreds of people shooting arrows and muskets also throwing big stones off the walls. If anything this is an underestimation of the arms they would have dealt with. Granted, both sides would be fighting and like any mission excellent planning and good cover fire was key.
Not sure how rickety the scaffolds were for Thornhill. But I’ve seen drawings and explanations of how Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel was painted and he basically had a level floor up there. He wasn’t hanging off of anything. The floor was actually close enough to the ceiling that he could lay on his back. The Sistine Chapel isn’t as high up as St Paul’s and the dome would introduce difficulties but it was also a long time after the Sistine Chapel was painted. Not sure why he’d be hanging off of rickety narrow scaffolds...
I always found it shocking that even as late as the Victorian and sometimes Edwardian age you could use a cat to pay the entrance fee to a zoo, which they'd feed to the captive predators like lions and tigers.
Worst thing is there is still violence against living beings, including cats to this day. I read from a Finnish history magazine an article regarding superstition about cats that apparently even today tens of thousands of black cats are killed in Italy each year. I also have heard that in Spain people hang hunting dogs when they become too old. And of course humans still aren't safe from superstition motivated violence. There is this woman in Nigeria for example called Helen Ukpabio who still believes witches are real and has tortured suspected children. This has even been done inside churches. I don't even want to list all the violence and oppression organized religion still causes generally.
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4:07 "once purified, saltpeter needs to be combined with 2 other chemicals to make the black powder"............but you forgot to tell us. Sulphur & Carbon.
My Boss: what are you doing???? Me: Working of course! Definately not watching a 44 minute video on why the Brits collected their citicens Urin. That would be crazy
Love that random video cut to the kitty while they're gutting the sheep. The editor was like, "Ugh, this is vile. Here's a pretty kitty to tide you over for two seconds."
yeah, cooked frogs/toads are good but i couldnt jsut munch down a whole toad like that. There actually are some toads with antibiotic secretions that were used to preserve milk, so they might help the human immune system as well www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/04/frogs-milk-keep-milk-spoiling-without-refrigeration/
The petard seems much more like a modern breaching charge rather than a hand grenade. As a former combat engineer, grenades were never put forward as a method of door breaching.
Sheep Guts...huh. In Middle School in Eigth Grade Music Class, I was taught that the strings were made out of 🐈's gut. Now this horrified me as I had 🐈🐈🐈 at this time.
Animal Control Officer, when the crematorium is out of service we take deceased to the landfill once a week. I go ahead and volunteer to get my turn out of the way for a few months. Summer is brutal in West Texas. You cannot begin to fathom the smell of a mass grave until you have filled one.
Michael Greenhalgh Humans are still animals. Our body's are quite nasty now from all the fats, chemicals, drugs and hormones we ingest. The dead of that age was the same as any fur-less animals were.
All these series are good, and very informative; however the audio editing makes it unwatchable. The voice to music/background noise ratio is unbearable. I’m honestly shocked you spent this much to produce these and then didn’t polish the audio
Okay, I can clean fish, no problem. Like eating them so much, plowed through the process. able to examine the food choices. None the less, you have an iron stomach. Whoa.
Insurgents still use very similar design to the petard for making improvised directional explosives. Never understood why sedans dont just have wheels.
