The Worst Jobs in History - The Georgian Age - Part 1

[TheDrtomz]

I think I have a CUNNING plan!!! ;)

[Thermionic1]

12 pennies to a shilling. 20 shillings to a pound. A guinea was 21 shillings.

240 pennies to a pound... 252 pennies to a guinea.

Therefore, half a guinea would have been ten shillings sixpence...

this would have been written as 10/6 .

[MasKistershi]

@Thermionic1 wow that is complicated!!!! thank you for the info as i have often wondered about this ratio

[campbpar]

1:28 NOW IT'S A PARTY.

[Varangian1915]

why does every single job involve piss?

[LawlerNichole]

a forrunner of todays VATMAN? is that what he said or did he say Batman or that-man? I didin't quit get it.

[labbyrab]

@LawlerNichole value added tax

[RatkoUSA]

Tony is "Apollo" is "Hercules" lmao

[Walkemor]

What's the name of the painting around 2:17??? woof!

[KingFlairBoy]

The song that plays when Tony beings to explain the Georgian era, is that music written by the show's composer, or an actually song from the Georgian era?

[mechislander]

he is Apollo, he is Hercules, he is... BALDRICK

[DarthLego100]

wow I'm glad i live in the 21st century.

[PollyJuice]

Those art students must be first years...

[PollyJuice]

The cold is one thing, but modelling makes your limbs hurt a lot.

[Jcolinsol]

@PollyJuice

Not for our class. I always make fun of people who do extended periods in life drawing class, to me it would be a big waste of time to sit there working on detailed drawings of a single pose, you tend to learn a lot more by doing a couple quick sketches and moving on.

The best were the rolling poses where the model would slowly move from one position to another acting something out. Excellent gestures that way, and the models have more fun.

[DanRSN]

@Jcolinsol I'm a life model and I start off with some short ones (1 to 5 minutes) and then do some longer ones (10, 20 and 40 usually). Of course the longer one are less dynamic but I can still produce a useful pose. The longest single one I did was 4 and a half hours but some of the art was really good whereas usually I just get a few charcoal/pencil sketches, it's why one of the watercolours from that class is the main "title" picture on my facebook gallery of artistic representations of me.

[Jcolinsol]

@DanRSN

That may be pleasing for the model, to have a nice picture of themselves, but for the artist trying to learn, it's still kind of a waste of time.

[DanRSN]

@Jcolinsol Not really, a longer pose is just more convenient for the people who want to do real painting instead of just charcoal/pencil sketches. Ther'es a difference between life drawing and life art.

[DanRSN]

@Jcolinsol It's all part and parcel of learning to life draw, if with the short ones you have the time to do a few lines, and with the longer ones you have time to combine all the lines of the body into a more comprehensive piece of work. But there's no point telling me it's wrong, tell the tutors.

[Jcolinsol]

@DanRSN

I'm not saying it's wrong, just saying that, for us, it's a waste of time. My animation teacher back in school could do a full gesture sketch of a model in under a second. One line, indicating all the forms, proportion, perspective, composition, and perfect line widths. He didn't need long studies, he'd already internalized what he was seeing.

Now, provided, you might need a longer term pose for a painting, but I wouldn't go over five minutes when practicing.

[DanRSN]

@Jcolinsol I think your animation teacher may have been better than an art student. The short/practice poses are good for me and the students, it loosens up the joints therefore when it come to the longer poses I can produce something that may be little more dynamic. As for the difference between times for paintings and sketches/drawing, you're 100% right, couldn't agree more.

[Ashuiegi]

@Jcolinsol can t see the light and it s effect on the colour on a sketch , that maibe why you need the model,...

[eyadmufti]

plz .. get a pant.

[Jakathera]

O.o! Tony got nekked!

[acerb45666555]

no matter his detractors, i think George Thee 3rd! was a cool dude! the Clock Genius!!

[datalal624]

Here in Canada, we never completely converted when metrication came along. For instance, I weigh myself in lbs., measure my height in ft. and inches, but distance and speed are always in km and km/hr. I cook according to imperial standard measurements in a recipe book, even if the metric is printed too. Most often foods and liquids are packaged in oz. or fl. oz. containers (thanks to our proximity to the U.S.), and then sold here in grams or litres. (Cont'd).

[datalal624]

@datalal624 I know roughly what I weigh in kg, but I haven't a clue how tall I am in cm. And even if set something to cook in the oven at 450F, it's always 20C in the room, and never 72F). But I think of my body temp. as being about 98.6F, as opposed to 37C. *headspins*

[bn1706]

Very nice series. I liked very much

[GaijinGDB]

He should do the show in Baldrick character..... would totally work!

[Tareltonlives]

That's more of Baldrick than I ever wanted to see...

[HM3Johnsgirl]

I understand the metric system but learned it as an adult, I guess you would call our system the American system lol we call it the standard system. It's easier I think but not as universal

[Capercaillie100]

Tony ought to know alot about worst jobs; he played a "dogsbody" named Baldrick in the British Blackadder series.

[meenksellaan1]

I think that man who's was telling the story in the end of the video lost his tong!

[Dafidd]

he's the perfect man! just ignore his extra 30 years and his beer belly

[dbrokensha]

the girls in the red shirt and glasses is HOT i wish she was my girlfriend :(

[Isthisthelongestname]

you really need to get laid mate.

[dbrokensha]

hahaha, that was my girlfriend who wrote that with my account because thats actually her like 6 years ago, so cheers for that.

[yiningsu]

I can't believe he didn't mention that the sugar in the tea was planted and cultivated by slaves. Good series, though.

[TalkCreativePlanet]

I think Tony says in a differnt episode that the worst job series implys 'some choice' in what you did, although he also makes a point in saying slaves had it the worst out of anyone.

[Oronare]

Yeah he said being a Slave was a given 'worst job' so that is why he didn't have any in the show.

[paulgeoffreybrown1]

@yiningsu For better, or for worse, this show is about life in Britain. And really. It's not a show about "The Worst Jobs Ever." It's a show meant to illuminate that way that much "orthodox" history misses the point that a great deal of coal, or shit, was shoveled.

Here's another thought. Take the worst job history presents you with. Now. Halve your pay. And add to that the fact you had a 25% chance of dying 9 months after you were raped and impregnated!

[planetofthescums]

@yiningsu Slavery is not a job.

[XxHaveHopexX]

which is more a shilling or half a guinnie??

[TalkCreativePlanet]

I think a shilling is worth more although apparently that was less than a full guinnie which is a bit more than a pound (but of course):P Thankfully Australia ditched miles and pounds in favor of the metric system so I pay for everything in decimals and my car uses kilometers.

[XxHaveHopexX]

oh god i don't think i'd ever understand kilometers. it's a pain at school when we do everything in metric and i'm still using stones and pounds, feet inches and miles. lol.

[loadquicker]

Woohoo Metric system. I like my kilometers and centimeters. The imperial system confuses me, but each to their own.

[budd2nd]

@TalkCreativePlanet

In old money there were 20 shillings in a one pound note and 240 pennies in a pound. A guinea was equal to 1 pound and 1 shilling. Today a shilling would equal about 5 pence. A florin was two shillings and half a crown was two shillings and sixpence.

A guinea is worth 21shillings (old money) or 105pence(new money)

So a bloke got 1 shilling=5 pence(new money) and a lady 1/2guinea = 50 pence(new money) 10 times as much !!!

[benjaminthefox]

@budd2nd Well okay that makes total AAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUGH MY BRAIN!

[penitent2401]

a guinea is 20-30 shillings depending on the value of gold, guinea meant new guinea where most of the gold was mined for it... so said wiki lol

[Pinksugarelephant]

One guinea was 21 shillings (a shilling and a pound), one shilling is 12 pence. I think he got confused when he said that the woman got half a guinea and a man got a shilling. It must have been backwards.

[DanRSN]

@XxHaveHopexX a shilling was worth the equivalent of 5 new pence (100 to the £) and a guinea is worth 21 shillings, although it was officially worth the equaivalent of £1:05. It ceased to be used in 1816, however It is still quoted in the pricing and sale of livestock at auction and racehorses, where the purchaser will pay in guineas but the seller will receive payment in an equal number of pounds. The difference (5p in each guinea) is traditionally the auctioneer's commission.

[aurisaurea]

@XxHaveHopexX 1 shilling=12 pence|pennies and .5 guinea=10.5 shillings in the Georgian Age.

[weaselman24]

@XxHaveHopexX A guinea is 1 pound and 1 shilling. Therefore, Half a Guinea is worth more than 1 Shilling. (or so my research tells me... I too live in a metric world in Australia)

TCP - In Australia we spell it Kilometres :) RE not ER. ER is Yankee :)

[mohamedgna]

@XxHaveHopexX actually a guinea is worth more (nearly 20 shillings)

[boswellchrome]

omg