The Worst Jobs in History - The Middle Ages - Part 3

[BetamaxBabe]

Here in the states, I would watch Worst Jobs every Monday night on History Channel International. Tony was a very good sport to subject himself to these horrors. Thank the stars for Youtube!

[MrOhSchnitzel]

Does anyone know what episode it is that he explained about the Threshing Machine? if yes could you please tell me?

[UglyBetty70]

Tony's a really good sport! he did all of the jobs.

[secretagentmann9]

Medieval Bear Grills

[mat31new]

Tony, i think you have a time machine... no way you could've done those things only if you were used with them.

[EvilCreeps]

Whatever they're paying Tony, it's not enough.

[rosiethebear300]

This guy is brave!

[Reneelwaring]

They felt so strongly about nettles taking away the pain of arthritis that they brought it from England to the US and today it has spread from coast to coast.

[theMetalNerd91]

@Reneelwaring and they still use it for sauna in eastern europe and russia

[Reneelwaring]

Jewel weed takes away the sting of the nettles.

[theperv01]

Medical quackery at its best. Haha niiccee

[786Balucci]

himself has the worst Job

[pippinrocks]

mmm chicken and snot :s

[xraidedlok]

i wish i was dead AHAHAHAHAHAHA

[MyHikky]

I don't know why but when he said that the worm stew tastes like chicken I remembered the lion king when Timon took a worm happily and said it taste like chicken, somebody on disney already eat thaaaaat

[ccipollini1984]

anyone here ever been wacked with a nettle? How bad is it?

[Hinaisthebest]

i dont understand why he had to repeat a stupid medieval task by killing a live eel like that. This is just so wrong.

[shcnoozlebop]

@Hinaisthebest oh harden the fuck up. "this is just so wrong?" you're just so out of touch with reality. ONE eel less in the world and you have a panic attack? just to make you feel better i'll let you know when that eel was killed hundreds of thousands more were born. not to mention back in the middle ages thousands were killed like that. all the best teachers in the world get dirty and show it like it is. get real. seriously.

[Simsker]

@IwillKillYourCereal ya I guess so........lol :)

[Simsker]

Unfortunately the British were not as advanced as the Chinese,Egyptians,and Greeks and Romans at that time :( But at least they built the best places of worship :)

[IwillKillYourCereal]

@Simsker The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans sadly weren't around much during the middle ages lol.

[boiledhooker]

I'd teriyaki the eel and eat it with rice

[mrcuteblackie]

This was life in UK no very long ago. Seeing this, I find n reason th believe in religious books written long before that when man was even more primitive. Please discuss your views. Maybe I am wrong?

[tribbingg]

@mrcuteblackie religious books were 'written" in languages that "primitive" people of the time understood.

keep in mind we could be called primitive few years from now.

[firedup643]

Ewwww!! But didnt these guys in the middle ages look up to the ancient Greeks/Egyptians/Indians who'd invented far better medicinal treatment ages before?

[tribbingg]

@firedup643 and arabs.

[andromidius]

@firedup643 They didn't know about it. Records of the Greeks and Eyptians were lost or fell into the hands of Muslim conquerors. The Christians only gained the knowledge of the Greeks after Spain was reconquered, which was what sparked off the road to the modern era.

[shcnoozlebop]

wow, the poor ate worm stew, had no anaesthetic for operations, they threw their piss and shit out the windows into the streets, and you could be killed for using the few ingredients you had to make a stew to survive on because everyone was suspicious. and the average age to die was almost half the age we die at now.

life like theirs would be just about unbearable for us nowadays.

[royraiden]

I thought Dirty Jobs was bad but this is way worse.

[ACProducti0ns]

Is that Vinnie Jones @ 7:14 ?

[neianna]

Tip for all those stung by nettles, near the nettles you have a plant that grows often near it called plantain, fold it leaf so the juice gets out and rub that over the stung area. It will help...we've been taught so since elementary school

[Mrshadow13371]

the man ate snot

wtf

[RatkoUSA]

These women deserved to be burned at the stake for their awful "cures."

[TheAbruptChin]

LOL, he hated the ell/worm woman :)

[lostcause61]

YAY! butt gravy time... >.>

[Droopydog545]

bread, herbs, water, butter, & worms are all you need to make a delicious pot of worm stew!

Tastes like chicken, same as everything else...

[cudleycamerondudley]

@Droopydog545 and snot

[Droopydog545]

The eel of the head is still wriggling at 0:45! Oh my god that is so cruel. They shoulda killed it first and then cut its head off...

AASN, the "wise woman" doesn't seem very wise.

[akdude182]

@Droopydog545 the eel was dead after he cut the head off and if you ever took the head off a fish you would know that they wriggle long after they are dead.makes it kind of hard to scale them

[ijunkie]

It tastes like phlegm slightly flavored with chicken :)

[Th3Minx]

"It does taste a little like chicken and snot"

Haha. Even witch brews from the middle ages taste like chicken. :)

[nothing980454]

@Th3Minx lol

[ccipollini1984]

Jesus christ, I'd NEVER want to live in the middle ages.

[ycc213]

I would say he has more guts than Bear Grylls

[NiteStarGirl]

I think I'll pass on the worm soup. Yuck!

[Cytacon]

Tony is such a wimp.......lol

[sarratkami]

ah! the worm stew is disgusting!!!!! i cant see my self eating it.

[sewagedweller]

@sarratkami if you are in a forest starving , survival guides recommends eating earth worms

[TheMedievalMan]

A worm neck tie! HA HA!

[ccipollini1984]

Anything offered by the wise woman was heads and tails above what the medieval doctor was doing. You can find half of her herbs at a "Whole Foods" (if your in the US that is..)

[AahhCheezIt]

WOW! The nettles brought me back to when I lived in England when I was younger...felt the sting of nettles a couple of times.

[thedrunkenelf]

The thing is, we still have amputations, etc. I like to think in a few centuries we'll take a pill and grow a new leg lol.

[agemangirl1919]

We humans have come a long way.

[swollower]

@agemangirl1919 Have we? We still rage war,rape and pilage. Wipe out other species and destroy our planet!

[Kenta19191919]

@swollower

That is very true, some of the basic behavioural patterns have not changed. But you don't resort to these medical methods, do you? Not in Japan.

[swollower]

@Kenta19191919 where did you get the idea that I`m in Japan? I`m english and live in Germany

[Kenta19191919]

@swollower

I am not assuming that you are in Japan. I was only pretending to hold an assumption that you were in some backward country. I was hoping that you would take it as a light humour. If I offended you, I apologise.

[hunnybunch1981]

baldric, i feel for you!

[baigandine]

I wonder how much modern medical science will seem like quackery 500 years hence.

[datalal624]

@baigandine Your comment reminds me of Bones McCoy in Star Trek IV, upon visting a 20th Century hospital. He thinks of "modern medicine" solely in terms of "medievalism" and "the dark ages", which you can't blame him for when he sees people hooked up to dialysis machines, and has to save Chekov from having a hole drilled in his skull. :p So yeah, that's what I imagine 25th century physicians will think of our current medical science---"Those poor bastards, look what they had to live with!"

[datalal624]

@datalal624 Or rather, 26th century physicians. I can't even imagine what kind of medicine we'll have by then...assuming we're still around.

[Herstory4321]

Point to ponder. Traditional medicine is the major source of modern medicines, which are tested by scientific methods and many ,like asperin (willow bark) work.

[MsStormcrow]

@Herstory4321 you are absolutely right, also valerian for anxiety & sleep and st. johns wort for depression. and they do work quite well, better than some commercial meds.

[marklosextremus]

@MsStormcrow valium is made from valerian

[MsStormcrow]

@marklosextremus really, I thought benzodiazepines where made from something else. I knew valerian was a sedative but, i've been on valium and valerian and they're nothing alike, but maybe it's cuz of the process they use to refine it. that makes valium stronger than valerian i guess.

valerian didn't help me sleep at all.

[MsStormcrow]

wise women didn't just boil up gross stuff, they could heal more things with herbs than our modern herbalists can. because a lot of the wisdom was lost during the inquisition. information we are only now figuring out again.

[Klokkeluider]

Tony is a brave man.

[Rockstar333DX]

he actually taste the worm stew !!!! eww........

[Hauntzor]

chicken-flavored phlegm? Ohhhhh gaaaaaagggg DX

[Cosmoline]

There's some truth to the nettle thing.

[smellincoffee]

I had to wince: I once rolled into a patch of nettles while watching clouds in a woodland field. I've read that where nettles are, a plant that counteracts them is nearby.

[354046528335]

@smellincoffee,

The plant that counteracts is Jewel Weed :)

By breaking/mashing the stem it has a cooling watery substance to rub on the sting...

[Isthisthelongestname]

arthritis....on the back of the hand.....hmmm.

[tonydason]

poor eely

[flightsimulatorXpert]

Daniel from y7 in Rygaards school

[spateacher]

This is disgusting, but as a teacher, this is great for class.

[Isthisthelongestname]

Ok, but stop commenting on being a teacher, please.

[xraidedlok]

@spateacher this makes me feel wierd for being 20 and watching this on my own

[sciencealwayswins]

Poor eel.

[MrsNorris55]

ROFL

I don't know what he was paid for this, but it's not nearly enough!

Worm soup ... YUCK

This is an *excellent* series, thanks for uploading!

[dudrhkd7]

well the worms are fresh :D lol

[420Balance]

This is a great series, thanks for uploading.

[kinglewisthe1st]

I think Tony has the worst job in the world. Eating worm soup? nettles? bleh.

[sciencealwayswins]

That's exactly what I was thinking.

[xxstarshine]

"i wish i was dead" AHAHAHAH. i love tony robinson.

[Ponylover115]

I love him too his show is great!!! I think he is really funny. He's got a great since of humor.

[Mike23sv]

nice job dude good vid :)

[cannibalmonkey13]

i need to get a midwife cookbook, i have a cauldron, but rarely have an excuse to use it! :(

[GreenOnix]

my hand still hurt like hell

[electropopprincess]

that poor eel! :(

this series is brlliant tho, thnx 4uploading!

[Vampyro1]

Haha these are great cheers

[pinkxliar]

I would have hated to live in the middle ages!

Thanx for uploading x

[Timic83amv]

ty for uploading!