The Ghastly Truth About Life in the Middle Ages

[middleagestoday]

Look here!

middleagestoday. com

[Aleksei5055]

haha the soccer match makes perfect since haha

[lizzbelle4]

alguien podria decirme lo k dice el video??? no hablo ingles

[Dessun]

"mmMM I hate myself..." *cries*

[gangurobitch]

The 16th century ain't in the Middle Ages.

[DemonicMonkey666]

=o

[emmthreejonny]

The Earl of Oxford. What gentleman.

[rgrggfdgfgr]

So they couldn't fart in public but it was most commen to through your tolietries and

feces out you're window into the streets.

[Rcpengy123]

@rgrggfdgfgr yep pretty much :)

[rgrggfdgfgr]

@Rcpengy123 Yea this video is bullshit.

[Rcpengy123]

@rgrggfdgfgr i know that, it say at the end its for a tv show.

[ElizaKW]

@MrThomasKeep Yes, Tudor England is the Renaissance, and Showtime is mistaken about that.... but seriously. Look at the whole series. Not exactly historically accurate in the least. It's probably one of the worst portrayals of Henry VIII's life that I've ever seen put on film or television.

[ElizaKW]

@ElizaKW And also, as far as this video is concerned. The Earl of Oxford certainly did not exile himself for seven years because he accidentally farted in the Queen's presence. That's total bullshit.

[cimoirine]

LOL!!!! "Awww I hate myself!" LOL!!!!!

[TheFlicka28]

Brilliant!

[bjggjb]

Considering how filthy people were back then (one queen bragged that she bathed twice in her life, once when she was born and once when she was married) I'm surprised that a fart was considered a big deal (people's breath must have smelled as bad as their asses.)

[Ambicatus]

Not the Middle Ages, technically, but close enough.

[cdlsd]

What if the QUEEN farted?

[Constantia1000]

Shame was exposed, but there was an awareness of DARKNESS it was seen in the daylight as poverty and public DERAILURE.

It was a miserable race to press for *education how ever one could get their family to better ground. The poor were kept feeble many times but that was one track, another was racing to educate whom ever showed respect and promise or Fidelity. (a fidelity that still made mistakes mind you but the beginnings of loyalty were continually rebounding by the excellent crafting.

[DJstoopnig]

I'd fart on Obama.

[oOJoeCoolOo]

@DJstoopnig I wouldn't. I wouldn't stop to pee on him if he was on fire in the ditch.

[ProphetLuong]

Is this all one big joke? None of these are true, are they? LOL!!!

[xabamsar]

Sometimes I get so embarrassed I want to go into exile too

[singingcanoe]

This title is incorrect.  The Tudors didn't reign in the Middle Ages.

[singingcanoe]

The Tudors didn't reign in the Middle Ages.

[AeroPolice]

To think again they wasn't that civilized after all.

[redrudra]

Tudor England is not the Middle Ages (1066 - 1485 ) Henry the VIII ruled 1509 to 1547.

[TEXASMADExxxx]

thats crazy but cool to find out..

[audgeyp]

The cook on the street @ 1:25 looks like the same cook that got boiled alive. Same lady, too.

[Droopydog545]

0:20 lol "NOT COOL!" takes out knife and stabs him. XD

[Droopydog545]

1:47 "I hate myself..." LOL But really it's weird how its acceptable to throw you crap on the street but not appropriate to fart... but then that was just a few hundred years later so I guess rules have changed. Did anyone every die playing 16th century football?

[TheLol2020202]

@Droopydog545 Obviously absolutely LOADS

[datalal624]

The last part with the poor Earl of Oxford and his flatulence just made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes! XD

[jokerscommander]

HAAAAAAAAAA the medieval times :D

good times indeed

[leoca]

Tudors WIN. lmfao

[kellefaery]

"The Tudors" dispensing historical tidbits? Now that's amusing.

[thenameaintjim]

omg what a time to be alive..!

[BLOODYDEATHKNIGHT]

fail...

[xxblodlustxx]

lol "i hate myself" hahahah

[eminatic]

LOL poison you son of a bitch!

[catchersmitt0]

The Tudors were renaissance, not middle ages.

[ivanlagrossemoule]

I once heard of a story of someone being boiled alive. When he was put in the water he said it was cold, and the guy who had sentenced him to it put his hand in the water to see if it was really cold and got burned. Don't know if it's true but if anyone could find some info on it, it would be nice. I think it was in some muslim country at the time but not sure at all.

[ECAPBCJFM]

The Tudors come AFTER the Middle Ages, so the title is somewhat misleading. Since the Middle Ages covers such a long stretch of time, customes and manners were not the same throughout, the information given has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

[pceluvNdorkyness]

LOLwow the middle ages were weird!

[clottecta]

omfg, it's adorable :)

[heatedfrost]

roflrofl stabbing was commonly frowned upon

[gtypetroop]

look into your history deeper than the romanticized tv shows and movies and U will find that the european caucasion was the imbodiment of filth...read

[scurvywombat]

People at that time from all around the world were pretty awful by our standards.

[econchick]

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

[foofwolf22]

BOILED ALIVE?! Punishment didn't fit the crime.

[orkasteez]

i would have farted in the queens mouth...she would have loved it, i would have told her god commanded it

[iorixs]

nonsense horrible

[alieales]

The clip shows a picture of a book stating "Tudors on Corporal punishment" then illustrates a story where the protagonist is executed, that is Capital punishment. Makes me wonder, what else is inaccurate?

[Tsutomo392]

Lol! Today, farting is still considered rude in public. But it isn't a crime!

[fromaworldcorrupted]

yes, it is haha. it's pretty much suicide.

[boxabirds]

This is utter rubbish.

[kreitgips]

bad bad bad !

[missvc77]

Well, that was different.

[Gvanillavodka]

wow farting...

[Patrick3183]

The Tudors weren't the middle ages it was the Renaissance.

[fromaworldcorrupted]

i know, thats what i thought. the whole thing just didnt seem right. i guess it could be considered late middle ages though. C16th saw the end of the middle ages.

[vyanez08]

that is some crazy shit

[Verfallsdatum]

The thing about football doesn't seem so different from today.

[Evanh52]

terrible

[VERYWEIRDPERSONYAY]

you're disgusting and what exactly does best friend mean to you

[VERYWEIRDPERSONYAY]

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lilArabWarrior

[LotharStudios]

rofl your comment made my day

[scarletteember]

VOLUNTARY exile for 7 years...that must've been some serious gas there ;D

[blackwhimsy]

Even funnier:I believe when he did show up again at court,some 7 yrs later,Elizabeth couldn't resist getting the dig in,saying something to the effect of,"I hope you're not going to fart in front of me again."

LOL!

[scarletteember]

and then he goes into another 3 years...haha

[Shangas]

Such a thing DID happen, actually. The earl showed up again after his 7-year 'holiday' and begged forgiveness from the queen. If I remember rightly, Elizabeth said words to the effect of: "I'd quite forgotten the fart" (unil he'd brought it up again!), and promptly forgave him for his faux-pas.

[Existantia]

Really? WOW!! Where did you read that?? So funny! You never read about that in the history books!

[SkyRiverSpiritPack]

@scarletteember

Maybe it stunk really bad. xD

[Zamolxes77]

@scarletteember Modern scholars theorize the gas was so serious it shifted planet's poles ;)

[AndromedaMariaCarmen]

I would love to have lived in the Middle Ages

[biatchvendetta]

Im just makin you a nice, nice gruel here... with a little bit of POISON you son of a bitch.

Classic XD

[sweetessence318]

awesome!

[Mrmoc7]

Fascinating!

[sexyjulie17]

verrry funny

[jhardercattell]

is that not hiilarious!?

LOL @ "just making a nice...nice gruel here with a little bit of...POISON you son of a bitch!"

[SoSoChan09]

@jhardercattell LMAAO!!!

[painsterx]

lol...fact 2 seems reasonable to me

[Jianju69]

"I *hate* myself..." LOL!

[tigerhealion]

i just got a part as an extra in the next series of tudors! woop woop

[eyeliner0002]

much violence.

[myrrhis01]

Ok, we didn't expect thorough dramaturgy from Showtime, come on, people.

One thing that is interesting: the soundtrack for this particular muddle is "Pastime with Good Company", not only a true Renaissance ditty, but composed by Henry VIII. Wewt!

[myrrhis01]

. . but they switch it up. The tune at the end is "Lullay, Thou Tiny Child", a Christmas carol.

[eggbertsmith]

Now pay attention, filthy little piglettes...let us all learn from myrrhis01!

Why cant all comments be this nice? Why must we wade through a sea of: 'LOL', 'ur gay', ect ect. This learned individual not only knew the songs in the soundtrack, but also history of those songs! That is not only highly remarkable, but also...

..lol, so gay! (j/k)

Wait no...not j/k.

ok yes, I was j/k.

[reapercussions]

Why the heck are they calling it the Middle Ages? Tudor England is Renaissance era, post-middle ages ...

[blindman789]

do americans learn about this at school?

[eggbertsmith]

your mom learned about this....in school.

[rockeramazon]

lol! the farting!

[BishopFisher21]

Was that Bishop John Fisher that was poisined?

[Dawuta]

lol!!!! hilarious!!

[anakangeek]

i wish they would make more of those those are interesting

[audie83]

So those are the 'facts' about Tudor England! Painful! But interesting. :)

[Sublex]

Boiled alive? Ouch.

[mwild91]

LOL

[johnjohn0701]

the salt was nice