The Worst Jobs in History - The Dark Age - Part 2

[fearthegeeklord]

Surely one removes ones watch first...

[fauxjewboy2]

So I've just realized that the main guy in this show is Baldrick from Black Adder...

[nodinitiative]

@fauxjewboy2 lol...his voice obviously gave him away for me.

[randallmckay]

this guy is NOT wearing proper clothes for any worst kind of job

[xraidedlok]

@randallmckay who cares? you obviously arent watching them.. if thats what you care about

[randallmckay]

@xraidedlok you did.

[Heyprinny]

The Romans may have been brutal at times to the Britons, but at least they created stone houses that didn't make people deal with shit all day.

[NevaehBeatez]

@FantasyStockings appreciate? Lol, the amount of work u put in, the more u get out of it. Id rather do this work, which a day of work could feed me for half the year than to work for $10 an hour that only gets me a couple meals a week

[NevaehBeatez]

@Rosette2121 poop isn't hygiene, it's a natural fertile for the ground. People back then would have had a feast nearly everyday, at which would probably cost us around $600 today. Dying at age 30 wasn't caused by the house material. It was caused by the physical labour they had to undergo

[Nydracommander]

@NevaehBeatez dyinbg was because of disease, filth, hard labour, war , famine, and the general lack of medical knowledge. These people did not have a feast every day, they would be lucky to have bread and beer. failed harvest would send a region into famine and poverty, there was no reserve. Poop fertilization wasn't nearly as aeffective as fertilizers we have now. Crops didn't yield enough to support enough animals for it either.

[InnannasRainbow]

@NevaehBeatez Where ever did you get the idea that the people ate well? The crops were part of the 'rent' paid for the use of the land. Having to work with poo everyday did not do much for their health and there were a host of other life shortening events facing the common people, such as what Nydracommander has listed.

[CameronWasmund]

"This might look fun" That doesn't look like any sort of fun, I was uncomfortable just sitting here watching it in my cushy chair.

[JuzefaWingedCat]

We had a fence like that build at home, only without the poo. It looked quite nice in the garden

[AllThingsGeek1]

Aww the bulls were cute and fat :3

[hornplayer84]

Building your own shithouse...

[eklera]

There was no corn in England during Saxon times! That was only discovered after North America was visited.

[badgerattoadhall]

@eklera corn non US/CAN =the grain, seeds, or kernels of this plant, used for human food or for fodder

they did not have maize

[AngelusLabyrinth]

I recommend he should use only one oxen to control it better. Then find heavier stuff to attach to the plow, like rocks and tie it there to add weight. He should also have a whip or something.

[vk45de]

should've been called the shittiest job

[DrD0000M]

"How do you know he's a king?"

"He's the only one not covered in shit! "

[PaulkyArcher]

@MikeTMerciless

probably at least 10each, i know by the 1800's 10acre was a very big lot.

[MaximilianMontesa]

What's safer to touch? Human shit or cattle dung?

[VelikyUstyug1]

If making wood fencing is considered a bad job- then most of what we do today would easily make this show's highlights... For fence-making in the quiet of an afternoon sky is infinitely superior to sitting in traffic impatiently while listening to the same old rock tunes from 40 years ago on the way to work in a cubicle on a 7th floor full of farting fellow employees.

[Rosette2121]

@VelikyUstyug1 I think it's the fence making combined with the shit and mud mixture that makes the whole thing a bad job. I don't know about you, but give me sitting in traffic any day!

[VelikyUstyug1]

@Rosette2121 Dear Rosette, I would choose to build a mud and shit fence any day to sitting in traffic.

At least I could listen to the birds and hear the sky think... instead of feeling claustrophobic, anxious, hostile, overly carbon dioxide fumed, and detached by techno-music blaring from the nearby cars.

[Rosette2121]

@VelikyUstyug1 Have fun with the lack of hygiene and dying at 30!

[VelikyUstyug1]

@Rosette2121 Better to die dirty of body at age 30 than live to 78 well showered and repressed working in an office compulsively texting all day breathing the involuntary methane exhalalations of my fellow employees consuming plastic microwaved fast food listening to artificial techno-music dreaming of broads with plastic titties and artificial hair color who have no idea why they are smiling as they wait for their doctors to tell them that they must undergo chemotherapy to live another 3 years.

[VelikyUstyug1]

@naliuj Keep your pity and blame for yourself; you'll need it when you tumble from your own youthful perch.

[naliuj]

@VelikyUstyug1 i removed my last post by mistake

I have pity and blame in excess so i give it freely to myself and others. I also have sympathy and empathy sir, i can conceptualize the kind of life you have said you have led and now that you reach the end (i assume you have cancer) you feel it was a wasted one. I struggled with this throughout my teens, and have come to the conclusion i hold the keys to happiness in my hand. i work for myself i dont have a lifestyle that society says i should...

[naliuj]

@naliuj but i am happy i understand tradegy will befall as it has in the past. i cant control that but i do have control of my actions and the people i surround myself with. I wish to turn this exchange into a positive one what would you have done differently why did you not?

[LadyDeirdre]

@MikeTMerciless A churl's parcel would usually be ten to twelve acres, which is just enough to support a family. Later in the medieval period, peasants were typically granted only six acres to a parcel, as a way of preventing rebellion by keeping potential rebels too busy trying to scrape by to actually do anything else.

[FantasyStockings]

Thank you so much for posting this video. It makes you appreciate your own job better when you see what others did to make a living.

[mechislander]

the wall is full of shit

[longfootbuddy]

what an idiot

[cudleycamerondudley]

@longfootbuddy american r ya?

[nightstash1]

I was just about to take a bite of food the minute the poop came on screen. YUCK

[TheIcelandicPatriot]

they are holding on there history and i admire them for it. there are so many people in the world that simply ignores it and thats scares me.

[godawefulll]

May need skills like these if the GOP Republicans win the election in the USA;)Conservative values indeed...Cool show, btw;)

[Frypanfacegook]

the worst job in the middle ages was a dingle berry remover

[jcisL69]

Guy you would definitely starve!

[Tinyoak2]

6:40 = middle ages febreeze

[thedrunkenelf]

What is plowing for?? What is the point of it?

[wwmadi]

@thedrunkenelf

It was to expose the soil to make it easier to sow the crops

[sewagedweller]

@thedrunkenelf for planting seeds , you dont throw them around the field . seriously dont you people know anything ?

[thedrunkenelf]

@sewagedweller thanks for elaborating :) and I didn't know so I asked! Thats how us people learn...

[Bidmartinlo]

Think about this, after the Saxons did this; some bandit (you know and love the vikings) comes around and burn this. No wonder why the Saxons got mad! xD

[Droopydog545]

2:49 Did TONY say that?

[Droopydog545]

2:49 o_o did TONY say that?!

[Kenta19191919]

Can I buy the DVDs?

[datalal624]

The worst job in the Middle Ages? Assembling shrubberies for the Knights Who Say "NIH"! :P

[Kenta19191919]

@datalal624

Err, most foreigners have not seen the Monty Pythons.

[datalal624]

@Kenta19191919 Yes, but some people out there might get it. And I'm Canadian, so technically I'm a "foreigner".

[Kenta19191919]

@datalal624

Canada is very pro-Britain and likes our Emperor a lot, for which all good Japanese extend unlimited gratitude to the people of Canada. When our Emperor paid a state visit in 2007, the reception he got was possibly the highest Canada would ever give after the Queen and Pope. He is a Garter Knight like his father, grand father and great grand father. The Queen is the holder of Japan's highest Order. Very close tie with Britain sort of justifies the reception.

[Kenta19191919]

@Kenta19191919

British sense of humour is the best in the world. It is an excellent mix of insult, arrogance, love and, at times, some hidden respect.

[cbrusharmy]

". . . new picture that recent archaeology has provided of pre-Roman Britain -- not as an untamed wilderness, as was previously believed, but as a populous and highly developed land intensively cultivated with the help of HEAVY PLOWS."

Hollister, C. Warren. The Making of England: 55 B.C. to 1399. 5th ed. Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company, 1988.

So, that would have been several hundred years before the A-S time period wherein we are being showed a VERY LIGHT PLOW in action.

[MrPIROCAS]

this oxen are so smalla nd fat x)

[gobitz]

that's why Brits smells like shit ....

Indeed ancient Egyptians are more intelligent than 10th century ad Brits....

[anotherelvis]

Did a Saxon farmer have soil for more than one day of plowing a year?

[myky999]

What? they didnt have clay to make bricks.

This way of building is lack of mind I think, more than need. Poor stupid bastards, they didnt learn anything from Romans.

[smellincoffee]

It's not as if the Romans were nation-building: they only used the Britons to mine copper, tin, and gold.

[frtw4428]

Oh man! Stomping on a big sticky pile of horse-shit mix and then smearing it on a pile of wood! Yes, I'm grateful to be living now with the creature comforts I have. I know there are places in the world where they still build houses very similar to (if not exactly as) what they show here.

[Triplesod]

The invention and cures for problems people have come up with throughout the ages and using whatever tech they had will never cease to amaze me!

[chevon1920]

eww, your house will smell like poo for a while I'm sure.

[GaijinGDB]

Reminds me of that scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" where Arthur meets the peasants harvesting mud.....not sure if they were going to eat it or make a house out of it? Lots of mud in that movie!

[Hotshotter3000]

And a lot of crap covered peasants. How did they identify King Arthur? "Because he's the only one who hasn't got shit all over him!"

[Alyss93]

@Hotshotter3000 Lol I was thinking the same thing during this...

[GaijinGDB]

We Europeans were gross!

[sturnfield7783]

I am more surprised.....

What my peope had done through the ages!

[KenoshiAkai]

Gross, but better than getting damp and freezing to death, right? It's all very practical, making the best of what materials you have on hand. But with those thatched roofs, those homes must have been terribly flammable.

[Isthisthelongestname]

Europeans? Try Americans....now they are gross - look how fat they are getting!

[ZemplinTemplar]

@GaijinGDB Building techniques in other parts of the world weren't any more varied back then. Wattle and daub walls were common in many parts of Africa and Asia too.

[iggymanoneoone]

That is the soil plastering using animal dirt or feces.

[silumkid]

im building my house out of piss instead of shit

[Milenium412]

I would stay in a bathtub for a week if I was splashing and stomping the crops and wall..

[xhagast]

In Spain they used a lot of brick and stones. There were plenty of stones in the fields. Looked better and was stronger. Plenty of danger and raids in Spain at the time.  But I guess it was colder.

[Lizardruler]

2:55 Two Baldrics hehehe

[bazonics]

Hope he washed his hands in between squashing that horse shit and touching the flour :-/

[GorFrag]

Why Should he? They didn't back then. Man I love indoor plumbing and Soap!!

[KINGROOSTER45]

the worst job in the dark ages was being a welsh cow called Oswin.

[puzokutya]

@KINGROOSTER45 I actually knew a Welsh lass called Oswin, and she really was a bit of a cow. Not as smart though...

[HTTS76]

@KINGROOSTER45 They're oxes xD

[ImperatorZor]

Makes you feel lucky to live in the 21st Century, eh?

[27288]

good vid