Part 2 of the Ghastly Truth About Life in the Middle Ages

[posyanne64]

Before the days of rubber gloves too !!!

[DarkSecret48]

LMAO this comment page is funny!!!! :D

[RandyAKing]

wipe him??? omg



[SolidSnake3131]

Could someone wipe my royal regions?

[QueenWaterLily]

Thanks fucking god for colgate and modern day dentistry

[MsNightwatch7]

I will always brush my teeth. I feel so lucky having toothbrush and THOOTHPASTE which includes lovely natrium

[binkyawesome]

well then....

[HistoryBuff75]

I remember one episode where a towel boy had to kneel down before King Henry while he wanked.

[lordhighexecutioner]

It's not really the Middle Ages... but as for the barbers that practice kept going for many centuries. Bloodletting and leeches were medicine for several hundred years, that and laudinum.

[DSMScharlestondance]

this is actually the renaissance, not the middle ages.

[Jcolinsol]

What a load of old bollocks.

[shortypingi]

lol! got to love random gruesome bits in history...

[cdlsd]

23 people has surgeons and dentists who don't give them anesthesia.

[cdlsd]

23 people had surgery without anesthetics.

[bluenail90]

HITSVILLE HIT UK OH JOY : )  NOT ALONE

[cdlsd]

Surgery without anesthetics? That must've been CRAZY painful. Didn't they have a poor understanding of the human body, back then?

[nextstep333]

@cdlsd It was a period of Ignorance, if you bathe too much, you would get sick.

[Zamolxes77]

@cdlsd I think they had NO understanding whatsoever. Romans were a quantum leap ahead in medicine, some of their surgeries havent been equaled until 20th century. Look up Galen.

[YWKMNITLWILMVAT]

There is evidence that anesthetics WERE being used in the middle ages, and much of the medicine was being practiced by the church. When you think of Catholic hospitals like Mercy....well....they had em back then too. What they are talking about are local "convenience" medics who deal with people who can't wait for a hospital trip or stuff that's not serious. For serious stuff, they had dedicated facilities with trained and effective professionals.

[bluenail90]

Fox hunting .....Civilized?  Nope.

[PuffyAmiYumi]

@bluenail90 Agreed!

[singingcanoe]

Why don't they call it "The Ghastly Truth About Life in Tutor England"? The Tudors were not medieval rulers.

[63gstone]

Was the time of the Tudors considered the middle ages? I thought the middle ages were from around 500 to 1100 or 1200.

[singingcanoe]

@63gstone The Middle Ages is roughly considered to be between 500-1500, so no the title of the video is incorrect.

[kghsbassboy]

you said, now off with your bloody peasant head!.... right after you get done, (more opera like) wiping my AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS­SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!­!!!!!!!! that would be a nice song right there for a play and took me a total of less than 10 minutes to write, it also sounds like it took less than 10 lmao!

[kghsbassboy]

king: yea and go, GO FOR YOUR KING AND FETCH THE REGAL GOLD LEAF ASS WIPING PAPER! servant:TALLY HO! king: COMMENCE TO WIPING! AND SING A SONG FOR YOUR KING WHILST WIPING HIS REGAL ASS!

servant: (commences to wiping ass) i have a position that for which many men would have slayed, now come to think of it it sucks im not payed, to wipe, his majestys royal ass clean, and now come to think of it, i wonder if i thought at all, i think now id rather get the guillotine, king: fine it will be just...

[christo930]

opium was known at that time, I don't see why they didn't have any analgesics.

[christo930]

I ain't buying the whole red and white barber pole thing.

[MissYummyCake101]

wow we are LUCKY

[russalot]

well.... atleast it was wiped

[TEXASMADExxxx]

I LIKE THIS COOL INFO..

[spurcross]

Were sexual acts a recognized service provided by these attendants?

[24Abstract]

Some of the servants in court were from the noble families.

[Droopydog545]

0:16 seemed a little graphic... I was hoping they would pull a curtain over and just show the shadow.

[BaronBanahaw]

poor maid at the end

[PhillAlexandros]

So if you wiped the king's ass harshly were you a royal pain in the ass? Haha...I'm here all week.!

[aspraker1991]

i would feel honored to wipe a king's ass

[Darrci]

wow the uk has a cool history aye!?

[Janusha]

How is the Tudor England the same as middle ages ? its like.. 4-500 years too late to be called the middle ages.

Middle ages ended with the introdction of the gothic era. Followed by the Renaissance, then.. tudor england.

[lorrr55]

no... gothic art is a part of the late middle ages.

[Janusha]

MIddle ages signifies the time when nothing happened. The dark ages, the big nothing. People werent supposed to invent or think. Rome had fallen and christianity told people that the old civilizitions crumbled because their new fancy technology went against god. Then in the gothic era people again started to think for themselves, build architecture and art no longer had to have a religious motive. It was an awakening from darkness. However it didnt happen all at once. There is overlapping.

[lorrr55]

@Janusha the time you're referring to sounds awfully like renaissance.

[Janusha]

@lorrr55

The gothic era went into renaissance.

[krispykringles]

HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!

[henrik998]

lol the sound on my pc dosen't work so i first thought he was sucking hes dick! loool xD

[Hotshotter3000]

umm, the groom of the stool (the guy who wiped the kings ass after he finished his business) was NOT a common servant. As hard to believe as it may, it was actually a very coveted position (because you get to be alone with the king for a while, something few people were able to do) and in order to get the position, you had to be a nobleman in order to be considered, not some commoner.

[Lonsoleil]

Wait a minute . . .

So you mean to tell me that noblemen were literally waiting in line for the "honor" of getting to wipe the king's ass every day? You've got to be friggin kidding me?!

I really LOVE Tudor history, but honestly, to have been such a "civilized" society, those people participated in some rather tasteless (to say the least) practices back then.

[MYEYESONECONOMY]

idd xD

[Shangas]

The title was indeed the "groom of the stool" (the 'stool' being the toilet, as well as the thiing that ended up in the toilet). Only the highest of noblemen were given this...job. It was considered the highest position in the royal household, apart from that of the king himself. Don't forget...they could be doing a lot worse jobs. Gong-scourer is one of them...

[catchersmitt0]

A monarch was more important back then.

[christain273]

@Hotshotter3000 your kidding! ewe ewe ewe

[Hotshotter3000]

@christain273 Not in any shape or form. First of all, when you were wiping the king's ass, you were alone, and he had his back to you. This meant that if they let any common buffoon get the job, the king could be very easily assassinated. The person had to be proven absolutely loyal to the king in order to prevent any mishaps, if you know what I mean.

[Droopydog545]

@Hotshotter3000 You must've watched the Worst Jobs in History then! :D

[Hotshotter3000]

@Droopydog545 Actually I knew about it before that. Heck, the BBC had a webpage detailing what they thought what the worst jobs are for years before the show came out.

[emilshere]

Yes, the groom of the stool was like the highest position in court other than the king

[firegoat]

@Hotshotter3000

jesus...

[Strefanash]

@Hotshotter3000

yes, quite right. A remarkable crowd, the Tudors!!

[Lagolop]

@Hotshotter3000

Oh boy, terrific ;)

[Fetch26291]

@Hotshotter3000 They described that detail on 'The Worst Jobs in History'. A commoner touching the King? UNTHINKABLE! Even for a noble, actually touching royalty was just not usually done. So the Groom of the Stool got a VERY big honor. Even if his job did stink a bit.

[Aleksei5055]

@Hotshotter3000 still equally gross!

[SeekingHonor]

Maybe I do like technology and the advancement of mankind. Still hate guns though.

[nexivdr]

you hate freedom? or maybe you fear it.

[SeekingHonor]

What do you mean I hate freedom and fear it?

[CommanderUTube]

Gavin Menzies's book "1421" suggests the East Asia giant,the Chinese Ming Empire,had the most advance administration. Well, that was true before it collapsed - due to its inability to control inflation,corruption and an exploding population pressure on resources. Maybe that's why some present policy think-tanks are for 80% world depopulation under the N WO!

[3uicider]

hahahhaha

[GDR352]

Imagine having that on your resume: ROYAL ASS-WIPER TO THE KING OF ENGLAND

[dawagget]

thats fucking disgusting fuck that

[nychic317]

the title was called 'groom of the stool' and it was considered a prized position as they would have unobstructed access to the King's attention. it was given to sons of nobles or important members of the gentry. eventually the groom of the stool would act as virtual personal secretaries to the King, carrying out a variety of administrative tasks within his private rooms.

[DuttyGyal718]

Thank god for toilets, toilet paper, and bathrooms with locked doors eh?

[aleluzmi]

jajajaja u r right

[uching]

@DuttyGyal718 if they didn't have a servant to wipe their bottoms for them they would just drop their pants and do their business in a corner of the bed room or dining hall on the rushes and the servants of the dining hall had to pick it up and put more rushes on the floor, thats why they used rushes, to make cleaning up food scraps and the poop of the nobles easier.

[Famadeus101]

@DuttyGyal718 yeah hehehe and so lovely this sophisticated society will get that we will start getting taxted everytime we shit. And we'll be fined $500 for every fart/fatulence that pollutes the air.

[GvaethOll]

What does this have to do with the Middle Ages? The Tudors were Renaissance.

[mojave19]

Say What?? Fox hunting is a civilized sport? That ridiculous remark stopped me in my tracks.

[dawagget]

basebal bat fight are even better

[CommanderUTube]

It was a miracle that out of all those dark practices emerged the modern system of governance and semblance of democracy.

Britain avoided lasting catastrophic civil war and revolutions that stunted its national destiny while Russia suffered. France too. China made the mistake of copying the West and ended up with years of disunity and havoc during which it was nearly swallowed up by Japan. Korea became a battlefield and still divided. Vietnam only came together in recent history.

Destiny!

[immagonnarockayoua]

The type of governments Asia had before "copying" the West was far worse then the West.

[BrionyCoote]

Hee, hee, hee ... the video didn't even get onto the really horrible stuff, such as the brutality of Tudor justice, the cruelty to animals in Tudor sports, the severity of Tudor upbringing and the constant threat of plagues - and some people are grossed out already with this video?

[ColdChicago]

tudor life had its charm

and the state did less harm

[speedrack]

wait till royal taintcleaner and rimmer is in position and drop a big browntrout on head.

[speedrack]

he was the victim of many dutch ovens.

[jsmith0433]

here is something interesting

the royal ass wiper wasn't a commoner common people were not good enough to be the groom of the stool as the job was called they were often high lords

all hail lord wiper..lol

[ilducedevenezia]

The Middle Ages were the height of human civilization. Although I think I might call Tudor England Early-Modern rather than Medieval.

[Proctor1992]

huh? please explain!

[ilducedevenezia]

I'm a Medievalist and am therefore grossly biased in favor of that period.

[Raffzeee]

foxhunting civilised?

[jezzabellesauce]

Does being a royal ass-wiper has good health care coverage?...LOL!

[1sarahsman3]

... The kings royal regions. XD I'm not sure if that's right or not, but that sure is... disgustingly funny.

[hellois5letters]

The modern toothpaste is just as much of BS, you do not need all the sugar and fluoride which does not absorb in 2 min. Ultimate fighting champions is where you can beat the blood and crap out of another. etc.

[quaheedus]

What toothpaste contains sugar?Go check your tooth paste label..it most likely contains Saccharin, but for a fact, it does not contain sugar. No toothpaste contains sugar.Just because it tastes sweet does not mean there is sugar in it..if it tasted like Cod liver, who the hell would use toothpaste.

[hellois5letters]

I was referring to the sweet taste not necessarily just sugar or glucose, sucrose, dextrose or any other substance. Some toothpaste do not sweeteners. Who said any toothpaste should taste like cod liver?

[leidbag]

n00b.

[hellois5letters]

What is n00b?

[sakudi2]

a noob is someone who is a beginer in something = the new guy

[hellois5letters]

And why would you reply to my comment with it?

[Giraffepotamus]

godamn youre a noob

[hellois5letters]

Being a noob beats being a little cunt like you.

[sakudi2]

because u asked what a noob is duh check ur comments man

[myrrhis01]

OMG! They took the graphics for the "cudgel play" fromt he Bayeaux tapestry. Can you say 1066 and all that?? OMG. LOL.

[blindman789]

this is inaccurate and some is completely fictisious

[nexicidious]

Such as? A flat denial without a explanation isn't very convincing and should just be ignored. It helps if you point out exactly what you think is misleading and why.

[Teutonic1250]

lol cudgel play....

[tobasco123456]

my thoughts exactly...

haha

[Teutonic1250]

that was the rennescance...

[BloodBorneVirus]

wouldn't it be awesome to have a servant to wipe your ass?

[audie83]

This is great! Love it! Terrific Tudor 'facts'. Thanks for posting. :)

[Areio]

How is foxhunting civilized again?

[parkerPosee]

and these were the "civilized" kind....

[Camilo83]

Cudgel play was pretty cool!

[justlooking213]

& Henry Norris the schmuck who's job it was to wipe Henry VIII's royal butt & was executed with Anne on false charges of Adultery Poor guy he spent his life between Henry's buttcheeks who's diet consisted mainly of red meat mind you & then he gets his head cut off & he didnt even get the pleasure of committing the crime on which he was convicted

[ShotsloppyD]

Is that why Chuck Norris is always pissed off? Maybe that's why he KICKS ass- because his real lineage is to wipe it?

I wonder if Henry Norris wiped his own ass? Kinda like a blackjack dealer playing cards after work... "Ah, I'll just let it crust over."

[heywoodjablohme]

...paging Donald Rumsfeld...

[boot17]

WHOA! GRoss.

[BeatBuddy]

Barbaric

[speedyrim2]

I hate sHOWtime.

[saigonpunkid]

wtf>

[Rachulie]

man i wish i had showtime. wonder if that teeth "cleaner" actually did anything. you never hear about that in school. ha.

[SuperGirlJB]

So, he was incapable on wiping himself? lol.

[FireAngel4536]

okay....

[heathey2]

Well that was very graphic lol

[moonlady3000]

how come your reply is rated good and 20000007home's very same reply is rated down so low you can't see it without clicking??

[ccf1971]

"The Jesuits have done more moral harm in this world than all the fiendish armies of the mythical Satan." - Madame Helena Blavatsky

[abbz4u]

hahaha mad shit

[lisamariefan]

Royal regions? Oh dear.

[Perico429]

Can't wait for the next season to start...

[imlover14]

Funny! :)

[mrtvman]

cool