Toilets through time (Or, a royal flush)

[zimnaya]

Lavatory, please...not and never 'toilet'. Oddly, at my school the lavatories were called 'jakes' as at Hampton Court Palace. After we had been caned (a gruesome, vicious procedure) we would run down the stairs from the Housemaster's office, into the jakes, sit down and pull the flush. The cold air rising from the water gave a very little relief from the agony of the beating we had just received.

[audgeyp]

I love how she says 'histowic royal palaces'.

[itsjustme2919]

So sometimes the King literally shit on his people, sit on the hole and bombs away...

[dieselscience]

OOOMMYGOD! Amway company sells a brand of toothpaste called "Glister."

No shit, look it up....

[GARRYKINGLIVE]

this is fascinating and Lucy is quite charming

[reevedavey]

to@badmichelle1978.you silver tongued rascal.i can picture hordes of the fair sex beating a well worn path to your door to be entwrtained with such gay badinage and rapier wit.back on planet earth i find your posting disgusting and offensive; obviously from the brain(i use that term loosely) of an ignorant,foul mouthed pig.

[melvinhendrikse]

Well. A houtstand years of lavatorial history in a nutshell, but I get the point. I once read somewhere that they (during the reign of Henry VIII) painted crosses on the wall, to prevent courtiers from pissing against it ;-). I am not sure what the exact source might have been, but I am pretty sure it was included in Alison Weir's Henry VIII King and Court.

[itachiitachi1946]

first toilet that was ever created was found in crete island and its age is 2800 years BC.

[pianor91]

@badmichelle1978 If you hate both of these very accomplished historian who have most likely made more of their lives than you have, then why are you watching videos of them?

[madisonelectronic]

1:20 I wouldn't touch much of anything up there, just in case. And at 1:14 that crappy (sorry) bit of wire will not keep anyone from taking a dump (sorry again) down that hole.

[ekateri28]

is she annoying or is it me?

[streetwhereulive]

@ekateri28 It's not just you. I wondered the same thing.

[DanielR305]

I would love too go into the tower of london but access is not very good so because of my mobility not being great so I can't as access I have been told is not great at all at tower of London sadly but would loved to have gone though never mind

[thecherylmay]

enjoyed watching this upload.

[musicalprodigy7]

I LOVE England <3 I love the Middle Ages and Tudor England.

[nickwilliams55]

Brings a whole new meaning to the saying all that glisters is not gold!!

[streetwhereulive]

@nickwilliams55 LOL!

[izzyanddennyfan]

Slessorpr.....After Nonsuch Palace was built, Henry only visited it once and after he died,it was eventually torn down because it was costing too much to keep up

[BBGenelie]

oooo thats fancy, the last toilet had pictures on it. it's like your crapping on blue china.

[TachieBillano]

@BBGenelie: Essentially, yeah.  LOL. I guess it could be said that the ultimate statement of wealth back then was...being able to crap on ornate blue china. I'd hate to be the artist / china craftsman who actually painted the designs on. All that work for...crap. LOL.

[slessorpr]

A real Tudor pisspot! I am deeply impressed. How they know that is what this type of pot is for is why ppl go to university to become archaeologists. They find pisspots a lot only usually they're boring academic ones... but that's another story.

[slessorpr]

Of all Henrys palaces, I wd most like to have seen Nonsuch. Even the name tells you how special it was! What a shame we haven't got it to 'balance' Hampton Court, essentially Wolseys house, I thought...still it didn't save him from the axe. Henry was not grateful for the gift, despite Hampton Crt being the most splendid house/palace in England at the time....

[TheMrGobble]

Hampton is essentially Henry's as Wolsey's palace was pretty much re-built by Henry after he acquired it, Henry turned it from the medieval building which Wolsey converted into the palace we see today.

[slessorpr]

Brilliant , 'the jacques' became the modern day 'john'. I never knew that humble word had such grand origins! Now I will view 'johns' in a new light...

[mmedefarge]

Hmm. I had thought that the name "John" came from the inventor of the flush toilet, John Crapper (no pun intended).

[slessorpr]

No he was actually Thomas Crapper, I kid you not, and according to Melvyn Bragg in his documentary series, The Adventure of English BBC 2003 this word, the verb 'to crap', came from Europe and actually was in use b4 flush toilets (which TC made bowls for). excellent series by Bragg which is also a book. It needs to be as so many words are explained it is totally enthralling. There are 6 one hr episodes which you can get entire as a Bit Torrent file if you want to download it, as I did. 5 stars!

[wildbill118]

Well done! This made I larrf

[hutman898]

hilarious.

[AZYRIELLAVESTA]

LOL!! I've always wondered how the Tudors went potty

[y78ejgh]

Jolly good.