@@helios8369 No-Sir Tony is well respected has a great sense of humor. It was all meant in good fun and for effect, to play up the awfulness of a task in an episode of the "Worst Jobs in History." Plus she explained that in olden times, water schleppers could have their pay docked for all manner of unfair reasons-she was calling out things for which he would be fined (and possibly tossing a few absurd ones in for a laugh). She did have a very deadpan delivery that sounded stern, though. I can see how it might come across as cruel, but the producers of the show would never allow Tony to be humiliated in such a manner, nor would he stand for it.
@@annika_panicka oh that's nice to know because I hate hearing my accent on TV 😂 although to be fair the area of Scotland I'm from people can have a particularly strong accent compared to further down the country. Also I think your totally right about the producers not letting her be nasty, I'd say they probably asked her to ham it up a little, I've seen other episodes where you can tell the same thing. She really did play the part well though haha
I love Tony Robinson’s stamina. He is admittedly terrified of heights yet he takes on these projects. He must have a wish to beat his fears , yet through it all you can hear the caution in his voice. For an actor , Tony has more guts than most stunt men.
@@stevenwebb3634lol that doesnt work in the slightest. You cant just throw any phrase anywhere! Yours faithfully, The Society For Responsible Catch-Phrase Use .
Poor Tony! He really is a champion for doing and trying all these absolutely nightmarish jobs! I was in pain just watching! I Love Tony! Hes definitely one of my favorites! 🙏👏🙌
Tony is a beast to be honest, I have seen alot of shows where they only talk about it, he actually do it even if it is "secured" by modern technology , it is still quite dangerous.
You could make me do All the sick work. But i would never want to go Up if the foundation was not so solid i could sleep on it with out Falling down. Update i got a scafolding lisens, and i have to use it as an elektrisian, why are lamps mountet to the celing?
My old man was born in Leith (port of/near Edinburgh) in 1919. He delivered meat from the butcher to his customers (no fridges) before and after school as a boy, by bike and on foot.
@@lolirot93 A thought…in previous centuries people were lucky to make it to 50, but considering the lack of modern technology and medical knowledge a few centuries ago it’s a wonder we made it to the 20th century.
Should see the older folks in Korea. You go up a mountain a few miles and there's already many seniors up there. I used the mountain on weekends to strengthen my leg bones. Worked, but their seniors hike mountains for recreation no problem.
I like that tony is physically representative for our age, when we mostly do non-physical jobs. It shows how really exhausting and physically challenging these jobs where
As a retired Firefighter/EMS First Responder with over 27yrs service, I started out as a Smoke Eater. We only had 2 total SCBA's for a 35 member Fire Company w/5 Apparatus. Now our Company carries 6-8 SCBA's per each Rig. Per NFPA Standards, your only on the fire ground with it on...full stop!!
I can't stop watching him. I have never been interested in history until now. He makes it interesting and talks about normal people's lives and actually goes in and does it all. Love him.
I love that picture at 3:50. That water carrying system is simple but yet so elegant and practical. She isn't using her arm strength at all, she's just using her arm tension and that big hola-hoop to keep the bucket away from her leg, allowing for easy movement. The only muscles she have to flex are in her back and her hands
thats not true there were tons pf obese rich and royal folk lmao. thats why they get depicted that way in political cartoons (they being politics/ companies portrayed as a person ect)
Having done a fair bit of welding I can say that leather really holds heat. The best thing to do if you find yourself getting burnt is to throw your gloves off as quickly as possible, just letting go of the metal won't help you. So, those slippers would be pretty useless.
the avg life expectancy was only low due to high infant or childhood mortality because health reasons. generally if you lived to 20 you would probably make it to your 70s or so@@HurtsEnd
Tony Robinson is a truly a working man's celebrity. He went through quite the ordeal to make this show. If I was the director I'd be worried about Tony getting injured during some of these more laborious exhibitions.
I don't think people are meaning this far back when referring to the "good old days." Maybe just a couple decades.. Things really were better in the 90s for example.
polifatts why? Because you were younger in the 90s, perhaps? What a subjective perspective on an entire decade. I’m sure the 90s were awful for many other people for a large variety of reasons.
That ladder is very cool. When I was in fire academy here in the States we got the chance to use one. We had to wear harnesses too which the first firefighters that had to use these ladders did not have the privilege of.
I absolutely love this series and the details and all the re-enactments. I love seeing old equipment used and how Tony does show us how bad these jobs were by doing them and not just talking about them from inside a cozy library with a fireplace in the background. But whoever did the sound editing was an absolute muppet! You can't have a voiceover over people talking. You can't have loud background music while someone is talking. Surely they could have gotten a better sound man. England is known for it's excellent quality documentaries, so I have no idea who looked at the unprofessional sound editing and said: "This is ok!"
It was driving me mad too! I don't think it's on all the episodes in this series, just some of them. I'm guessing somethign went wrong in the transfer to RU-vid.
I've watched these documentaries when they first aired and when they've been repeated on TV, the sound is fine. It's only on RU-vid that the sound becomes abysmal.
I've been watching this series, and always wondered why the presenter looked and sounded familiar. Today, it dawned on me....it's the guy who acted as Baldrick from Black Adder!
Siddharth Naidu Tony also hosted the Time Team series for many years , I think he is an armchair historian also. It seems to be his interest. Excellent as always.Tony seems to be curious as to the how history happened, what it took to live for all classes.
DID THE English upper -classes Ever clean up after themselves ?? Everything I have read and seen seems to indicate that they just chucked it to the ground when they were done and the poor cleaned it up for pennies to feed their families. If not for the needs of the poor to support themselves , England would have been the dirtiest country in the world. AND THE ENGLISH WANT THE WORLD TO BELIEVE THEIR MANNERS ARE THE BEST. More BS to the public. No wonder the peasants revolted so often.
I've had 3 of top ten deadliest jobs.. One was putting anchor bolts at tops of Honolulu skyscrapers for fall protection for skyrise window cleaners. If we're installing fall protection it means that bldg. has none for us installing..out on ledges inspecting structural integrity of proposed anchor bolt locations I had to balance without being tied off holding a 65 Hilti concrete drill. Being a struct eng I would sometimes be dressed up like one on the outsides of buildings in extremely dangerous situations and I had the suicide team get called out on me twice .. People thought I was a jumper !! Lol being in prof attire out on ledges 40-60 stories up.. Lol
I've always loved Tony, grew up watching him on time team and before that maid marrion and her merry men. He is a legend 🙌 he gives 100 percent effort and forged my love of history.
I dropped history in year 9 and was glad to be rid of it. None of the people I had to study seemed remotely real and I couldn't have been less interested. Now I'm binge watching these for pure enjoyment.
Here's another thing that I just learned from looking up link-boys: utilizing one wasn't exactly sunshine and roses for the patron. The link-boy might, for example, be in the employ (willingly or unwillingly) of gangs and charged with bringing them targets.
Tony was My Hero BEFORE this episode. That fire tower training?! Watching it, I thought I was going to have a heart attack- sitting here in my living room. Sympathy terror.
I think it's weirdly sweet that the Italians who spent their regular time walking on hot surfaces sold ice cream in their extra time. It's a nice balance.
This is very easily one of the best modern documentaries regarding real life in ages past. Not only did I see how the logic of moving materials and supplies to keep cities alive, clean, and building, but I also saw the entertainment sector, with the presenter actually trying it.
I think you should rephrase that to: 'I love how sometimes europeans wouldn't have running water or sewers and the sometimes the romans wouldn't either'. The classes of people with or without running water and sewers in both times were the same.
This lack of knowledge is what happened during the "Dark Ages"(or the age of non writing) so stuff was forgotten in 1000 years and had to be relearned. Also Christianity was taking hold and a Lot of book burning happened (so recorded knowledge was gone) so blame religion for that. Yes lead pipe was not the best, but it did not kill you immediately. Much of the lead was made into wine cups. The poor got the clay cups, the really poor - in their hands. So the hollow pipe had to be reinvented. Clay pipes for sewage only work if it is washed away by water. In the meantime the outhouse made a comeback...and showers in the rain, I mean after they invented soap AGAIN
Being someone who works in a lumber yard, I do not take our hilos for granted. I can only slightly relate to the dock workers, sometimes I have to carry up to 450lbs (mainly because I can't physically carry any more, 450 is pushing it already) for ~100ft max, and let me tell you, having a couple 24ft LVLs on your shoulder while running amuck, not fun
Regarding the crossing sweeper, there is good evidence that if you had a severe mental illness or intellectual disability, in some ways you were better off in pre-industrial societies than today due to the jobs. While in village culture being a street sweeper, a fire-wood gatherer, etc. were valuable services they could do, in modern cultures “entry” level jobs (like working at a fast food drive thru) are way too difficult, which coupled with changing beliefs, meant that those with severe mental or intellectual disabilities are actually more disenfranchised today.
So, it appears that most of the Worst Jobs were simply a matter of doing jobs that the middle and upper classes were too lazy to do for themselves. They simply starved the poor into being slave labor for them.
I mean, I watched Black Adder, so yeah? Sort of? :D Seriously, tho, I can't imagine ANYONE living in some of these times. How people managed was practically a miracle.
Tony should have been a history teacher. I've learnt more from this channel than I ever have in school. Not to say that our teachers weren't good teachers (they did the best they could with some ungodly and unruly unappreciative children and Karen-like parents) but by-god, they were just boring.
nah this is better imo teaching without the extreme constraints of school guidelines and trying to shove a whole history into a class that is repeated year after year
Wow you’re so brave and stronger then some youngsters I know go you!!!! And also now I know what older people mean when they say that we got it easy these days...lol 😂🤦♀️super interesting and fascinating!!!
Tony Robinson's show is always funny, intelligent and historical. I'm so glad its on youtube because I have no cable. Its better than American tv by far. Also love Monty Don the gardener Ent.
To think maybe my grandpa or great grandpa or one of their brother could of sawed or chopped one of those planks the old gent carried as a young man. Thats atleast where they were told the planks were going, "england".
To be fair, people back then were more used to carrying things around and were more physically active. We're just slowing evolving to being tubs of goo.
do you really think 200 years is enough time for evolution to change our physiology that much that we can't carry heavy objects? He clearly isn't a laborer and neither are you if you think we can't carry heavy things anymore.
Tony, after a few days as a water caddy it would be so bad. I was able to carry a 50 lb bale of hay in each hand by the time was 11 years old. Growing up on a farm!
You're getting amazing FREE content. If you don't like it get RU-vid Prime. Otherwise, just be grateful, they have to make a revenue or there wouldn't be any point in uploading the documentaries. At least you can skip most of the ads. You can change the speed you watch at, pause, save, rewind, all for free without downloading. I don't see much to complain about.
No I disagree, who ever uploaded these documentaries, didn't obviously make them. There is a ridiculous amount of ads too. And people shouldn't have to pay to use RU-vid just because they bombard you with ads.
