He does things on this show I would like some American actors try; in one of these shows he actually shows what a fuller does and this involves unprocessed wool and cold water and urine. The poster for this show shows him in a fuller's costume. My hats off to Mister Robinson.
Thank you for sharing this series. I love this series and Time Team. I love how this series shows us in the modern era that no matter how hard or bad we think we have it our ancestors had it a lot worse. Thank you again.
Exactly what I am thinking. I am going 2 tell my kids & grand kids about this series & insist that they watch it. Hoping they will appreciate life more, instead of just caring about name brands & electronics.
Watching this whole series 2 years later. I love it. Watched every one. Too bad there isn't more. Tony does a great job recreating and explaining history. Thumbs up to all of em
I don't know if they all did, but limelight also blew alcohol into the stream as well as hydrogen and oxygen. In one of the episodes of the original series of Connections, James Burke shows a period limelight and it clearly showed 3 tubes pointing at the lump of lime. I know it screws up the H20 ratio, but he never explains why the alcohol is there. I suppose it slows the reaction a little and makes it more forgiving if the ratio is a little off. Alcohol has an awful lot of energy in it and is probably a lot easier to come by and handle.
There's a bittersweet tragic beauty in those old dolls. To think that they were made to bring happiness and beauty but the kids who made them didn't get it. I'm really moved.
35:32 "It was just for the spoilt......(pause)......rich children". I think she was about to say another word other than "rich". 5 letters rhymes with cats . :D
"I don't want to stain my dress!" 👗 HAHA!! 😂 I love how Tony isn't afraid to get his hands dirty! He just gets right in there, and actually DOES the "Worst Jobs" (or attempts it nonetheless!) There's an American program with a similar kind of idea, and the host just stands back and observes other people do the worst jobs the entire time. That show obviously wasn't nearly as good as this one is!
My Grade 12 teacher lit a hydrogen balloon on fire--she stood by the door, I held the fire extinguisher incase the ceiling started on fire, my class mate had a candle on a meter stick. it was cool
inkadinkadoodle it was to force them to work their shops and keep turning out a profit. The justice of the peace was paid for much in evolving the shop keeps paying their taxes. If they opted to go to church they would be excused from working. So forcing the shops open and the churches closed they made money.
i worked retail on black friday (which is the start of the christmas shopping season)...after watching this, I'm not complaining anymore about that job.
Seen the whole series and I believe they missed one nasty job in the mines. Most of the time in any mine there is the ever-present risk of gas/methane ignition. One of the oldest ways of dealing with that was... Well, igniting it XD In medieval times there was the nasty job called "Pokutnik" in Polish, rough translation "Penant". These people literally crawled around mine tunnels with long sticks and fire are the end and set gas pockets on fire for a living. I'd say those are the first ever minesweepers, only modern minesweepers have the luxury of disarming the bomb, those guys had to explode each one on the spot. Here's a nice salt statue in Polish salt mine Wieliczka: wieliczka.fotopolska.eu/Wieliczka/b82284,Komora_Spalone.html?f=335600-foto
Back in the late 60's, my brother and I would make our Christmas money plucking turkeys at a local farm for Thanksgivings and Christmases. I can tell you that the room was smelly and the work awful. Standing on a concrete floor for hours while your fingers became more sore than you could imagine, while the slaughtering of birds went on around you. Oh, and minimum wage was $1.65/hour back then. I'll let you do the math as to how much Christmas money we were able to make... Definitely one of the worst jobs I every had!
Ah the good ol' Puritans, the original, party poopers of Christmas. They are also the ones who turned Christmas into a Capitalist day by having the shops sell goods on Christmas. Open shops, close churches and they called themselves good Christians.
There use to be a problem with homeless killing swans in San Francisco. They thought they'd have themselves a swan dinner. Very sad. And I doubt they had any idea how to pluck or clean the poor birds. I pondered what they did when faced with the task and no proper tools.
+Sarah Holloway You can get edible bits with just knife and not that much skill but You would waste most of a bird which is a shame. Breasts are not that hard to cut and same with upper part of legs but ancestors of those homeless people would feed four times more people with one swan if they had a chance but swans are never a food for poor folks and I can say that they are not any good. I have eaten one hit by a car and I would rather have a goose or turkey. :-)
I was once bitten by a swan when I was a child. Hurt like holy heck! Even tho they are beautiful, I still first and foremost remember that injury. However, I’m not bitter enough to ever eat one!
I kind of wish we could still celebrate Christmas the Norse way, that just sounds like a kick ass and awesome way to welcome and give a big F.U. to winter
it seems the worst christmas job in england was being an edible animal...first they take out your eye & head(if you are tudor) thenj they pluck your plumes & gut out (if yoy are a victorian animal)...this episode gave me eeeks...:(
There were stables in town for the city residents. They would have sheltered their donkeys and/or cows/nannies for milk and/or burden carrying. The alleged story of Mary and Joseph asking for a room for the night was within the city. Not in an open pasturing area. The inn would have most likely had a stable. And there were no extra rooms because everyone had come into the city to pay taxes and to be counted for the census.
That woman BS'ing about the Yule log being a fertility symbol. Why is it that ethnologists feel compelled to interpret anything that might vaguely resemble a weener or pastrami on rye as fertility symbols? It's incredibly lazy. Also, they burned a green log not because it was full of "vital forces". They did it because green logs take longer to burn, and just like the Roman Saturnalia, during the burning of the Yule log the servants got to take a break. They'd even soak it in water to make it burn longer.
Actually, she is very much correct. Take it from someone who practices Wicca and Paganism. It originated in Viking culture as a symbol of fertility, purification and the return of the Sun/turn of the year. Get the stick out of your arse buddy
Tony got a bit wrong. There were no shelters for the sheep or the Shepherd in that time of Jesus birth so they where outside at night all year in all weathers. There was a pin which was a wall of wood or stone around an area with an opening that could not be closed and it has no roof. The Shepherd had to stay at the opening to keep their sheep from thieves and Predators.
At 44:56 he says Turkeys were brought to Europe by the Spanish but Spain obviously is already in Europe so how can they bring something to where it already is?
+Alex-Zander Browne Phrygian caps. They were a Turkish people who gave their name to the words "friendly", "free" and "freedom", the latter meaning "domain of the free". Eventually they were conquered taken into slavery, and made into clowns, which is why traditional clowns wear the Phrygians' distinctive red hair and pointed cap.
5 sec per ring 2000 rings 10,000 sec. Each day is 86400 sec so 1/8th if a day, or 3 hours to ring in Christma. So in the year 16,000 there wont be enough time in a day to ring in Christmas with this bell.
Uh, just to sound really stupid, but turkeys were in America and I thought the traditional English Christmas dinner or feast was either with pheasant or goose? When did turkey become an English Christmas dinner?
Nah mate you're wrong...I'm double chuffed to have found you..you're hilarious. You really ought to get an agent...no sense sitting in your room, handling yourself is there? :) xx
cleaned puke with undersized rag..quickly wipe hands on jacket..immediately reach for olive and eat it with probably still vomit covered hands.....hope that was fake
I suppose there was a purpose of celebrating Christ's birth in December regardless of whether that was the time or not. After all if you celebrated it during March and April then perhaps it would have collided with Easter, which in many respects is the most important holiday of Christianity. Since the holiday follows the Passover calendar and switches from month to month and day to day people might be celebrating Christmas and Easter at the same time (Christ's birth and resurrection). So there was a sane reason for putting it in December to absorb the other celebrations of the time.
Oliver Cromwell was such a boring old hypocrite. Dissolving the parliment and ruling like a king that he supposedly hated. And even trying to ruin people's fun. I'm not a big fan of Christmas either but I wouldn't try to ruin it for others just because I don't like it.
Hey people fancy a laugh? Watch a video about a guy running for mayor in Middlesbrough called the taxman , he thinks we should let car thiefs get away , beat criminals up never mind a court case or guilt. He doesn't drink or smoke but as you will tell he sniffs Columbia dry of cocaine and takes steroids. Also the police class his hands as leathel weapons , he has earned millions and drives with his crew in a mondeo and he is just a really hard man .......I can't hide my disdain for this guy please out if curiosity take a look the show is by donnel McIntyre called the taxman you can even hear what Donnel thinks by how he tAlks
Some say that Tony is still ringing them bells :)
We love you Tony...... Jolly good series
Starting the count over again....refer to "How To Win an Election )or at least not loose by much))"
This Yank loves this adorable, charming Brit, Tony! He could make watching paint dry interesting. XD
+Eileen D
Yes, this yank also- you see, he "has a cunning plan,..!"
Kind of a "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe, but with a historical British flare to it.
Eileen D yes he’s very gifted and highly entertaining....from Australia.
He does things on this show I would like some American actors try; in one of these shows he actually shows what a fuller does and this involves unprocessed wool and cold water and urine. The poster for this show shows him in a fuller's costume. My hats off to Mister Robinson.
Ah yes, Tony having his hands on an authentic medieval blowtorch
A vomatorium was mainly a hallway in a colluseum that was design to let as many people out asap.
The hallway "vomits"
Thank you for sharing this series. I love this series and Time Team. I love how this series shows us in the modern era that no matter how hard or bad we think we have it our ancestors had it a lot worse. Thank you again.
Exactly what I am thinking. I am going 2 tell my kids & grand kids about this series & insist that they watch it. Hoping they will appreciate life more, instead of just caring about name brands & electronics.
Untrue! Modern life is the most difficult that life has ever been.
"Nope, that's it. You've ruined Christmas."
Clean up puke with hands, wipe hands on coat, eat food with hands....
yes saw that almost made me puke!
TheSewerChewer that wasn't really puke.
i dont think it was quite puke as it is
even if it wasnt. it was in someone's mouth
oh come now. he’s been knee deep in his production teams urine for the show, i think this is the least of his worries
Watching this whole series 2 years later. I love it. Watched every one. Too bad there isn't more. Tony does a great job recreating and explaining history. Thumbs up to all of em
what I would give to set and talk to this man for the evening we all need to learn from history
"Oh it's fatty isn't it?"
"Oh yes it's very rich!"
"NO."
"Fatty, NOT rich."
"Fatty....."
I love how poignantly he made that remark, lmao.
+Boozamn Boozamnin Yeah, and it conveyed the message that it was rather gross.
I don't know if they all did, but limelight also blew alcohol into the stream as well as hydrogen and oxygen. In one of the episodes of the original series of Connections, James Burke shows a period limelight and it clearly showed 3 tubes pointing at the lump of lime. I know it screws up the H20 ratio, but he never explains why the alcohol is there. I suppose it slows the reaction a little and makes it more forgiving if the ratio is a little off. Alcohol has an awful lot of energy in it and is probably a lot easier to come by and handle.
I lost it at 30:23 , "just a weekor two ago, me poor old uncle Phil, wee!"
Aggressively British. :D
There's a bittersweet tragic beauty in those old dolls. To think that they were made to bring happiness and beauty but the kids who made them didn't get it. I'm really moved.
"The epitomy of British humor, is a man in a dress..."
40:35
I'm do immature for giggling when ever he said fagut.
Maybe you're just a closet booty bandit?
35:32 "It was just for the spoilt......(pause)......rich children". I think she was about to say another word other than "rich". 5 letters rhymes with cats . :D
Oh my.
"No that's it. You ruined Christmas." Poor Tony. =D
You know Christmas has been ruined when you mess up the boar's head.
thank you, sonicgamereview for letting us see these programmes. I enjoyed them very much.
"I don't want to stain my dress!" 👗 HAHA!! 😂
I love how Tony isn't afraid to get his hands dirty! He just gets right in there, and actually DOES the "Worst Jobs" (or attempts it nonetheless!)
There's an American program with a similar kind of idea, and the host just stands back and observes other people do the worst jobs the entire time. That show obviously wasn't nearly as good as this one is!
Which one? "Dirty Jobs"? Mike Roe does everything on that show.
That's what I really appreciate, he does at the very least attempt all the jobs, no matter how hard or disgusting.
The music when the geese are walking, lol 38:26
When my parents were in their late teens/early 20s, they used to ring church bells for extra money. It's how they met each other.
Did they shabang in church ?
My Grade 12 teacher lit a hydrogen balloon on fire--she stood by the door, I held the fire extinguisher incase the ceiling started on fire, my class mate had a candle on a meter stick. it was cool
Grade 12? I do pop-tests etc with my year 10 classes....
Wow, you must be even smarter being so advanced!
The Puritans called Xmas a day for heathens and devils, but they shut down the churches?
Huh??
inkadinkadoodle it was to force them to work their shops and keep turning out a profit. The justice of the peace was paid for much in evolving the shop keeps paying their taxes. If they opted to go to church they would be excused from working. So forcing the shops open and the churches closed they made money.
So Puritans actually did have a war on Christmas, and that's the group of people America was founded on. Lovely.
8:32 "My very first..."
The internet has ruined this for me.
i worked retail on black friday (which is the start of the christmas shopping season)...after watching this, I'm not complaining anymore about that job.
Those white hats looks like a smurf hats... weird isn't it
The guy who played baldrick off the Blackadder.
In Norwegian, Danish & Swedish Christmas is actually still called ´´Jul``
"We've all done it before", must be Viking reenactor speak for ,"We're all too smart to volunteer".
Phillip de Franco
To geese: Come now, concentrate. :D
There will come a time when ringing the bell would be a full-time 24/7 job
Thomas Beck during the plague for the first half year. "The bell's were horse with ringing."
I want to see the outtakes!
the dress of a turkey farmer on him was funny, but imagine trying to keep that white clean... that has to be more of a job than anything else.
Seen the whole series and I believe they missed one nasty job in the mines. Most of the time in any mine there is the ever-present risk of gas/methane ignition. One of the oldest ways of dealing with that was... Well, igniting it XD In medieval times there was the nasty job called "Pokutnik" in Polish, rough translation "Penant". These people literally crawled around mine tunnels with long sticks and fire are the end and set gas pockets on fire for a living. I'd say those are the first ever minesweepers, only modern minesweepers have the luxury of disarming the bomb, those guys had to explode each one on the spot. Here's a nice salt statue in Polish salt mine Wieliczka: wieliczka.fotopolska.eu/Wieliczka/b82284,Komora_Spalone.html?f=335600-foto
Galejro I don't think mine has really anything to do with Christmas
Galejro did mines in the industrial episode
Only a Pole would be dumb enough to do that! Lol
penelopepurr what's so bad about that, you get to blow stuff up for a living
@@gargoyles9999 It's bad when you're the one getting blown up.
Back in the late 60's, my brother and I would make our Christmas money plucking turkeys at a local farm for Thanksgivings and Christmases. I can tell you that the room was smelly and the work awful. Standing on a concrete floor for hours while your fingers became more sore than you could imagine, while the slaughtering of birds went on around you. Oh, and minimum wage was $1.65/hour back then. I'll let you do the math as to how much Christmas money we were able to make... Definitely one of the worst jobs I every had!
*Baldric, the turkey farmer's wife!* 😁
37:51 lovely accent really enjoyable. glad I'm watching this clip.
thanks for the beautiful playlist! watched them all :)
Thank you for pos ting this series. I have really enjoyed it.
Love the "medieval" torch.
He always makes me realize that i have a better job than some : )
I once saw a 19th century doll that was modeled on Kaiser Wilhelm II as a baby, one of Victoria's grandchildren. Not a pretty baby at all.
Smurf hats!!!
Ah the good ol' Puritans, the original, party poopers of Christmas. They are also the ones who turned Christmas into a Capitalist day by having the shops sell goods on Christmas. Open shops, close churches and they called themselves good Christians.
There use to be a problem with homeless killing swans in San Francisco. They thought they'd have themselves a swan dinner. Very sad. And I doubt they had any idea how to pluck or clean the poor birds. I pondered what they did when faced with the task and no proper tools.
+Sarah Holloway You can get edible bits with just knife and not that much skill but You would waste most of a bird which is a shame. Breasts are not that hard to cut and same with upper part of legs but ancestors of those homeless people would feed four times more people with one swan if they had a chance but swans are never a food for poor folks and I can say that they are not any good. I have eaten one hit by a car and I would rather have a goose or turkey. :-)
I was once bitten by a swan when I was a child. Hurt like holy heck! Even tho they are beautiful, I still first and foremost remember that injury. However, I’m not bitter enough to ever eat one!
I kind of wish we could still celebrate Christmas the Norse way, that just sounds like a kick ass and awesome way to welcome and give a big F.U. to winter
lime lighting like a spot light
That dear stew must have been very good for them since they rarely got enough iron and fatty acids during the rest of the year.
(The turkey part) "It was literally plucking hell"
i've done slip casting with clay but never wax
it seems the worst christmas job in england was being an edible animal...first they take out your eye & head(if you are tudor) thenj they pluck your plumes & gut out (if yoy are a victorian animal)...this episode gave me eeeks...:(
ipsygypsy16 well at least dead first. Unlike much done in China for the meat festival.
Every time he puts on a dress I just smile so much. xD
There were stables in town for the city residents. They would have sheltered their donkeys and/or cows/nannies for milk and/or burden carrying. The alleged story of Mary and Joseph asking for a room for the night was within the city. Not in an open pasturing area. The inn would have most likely had a stable. And there were no extra rooms because everyone had come into the city to pay taxes and to be counted for the census.
I am loving this guy, I don't want these worst jobs to finish.
Tony Robinson also does time team and God's and Monsters
Uggghhh..... NOT a smart move watching this while I was eating my dinner...!
plucking turkeys help if you dunk the turkey in boiling water
That woman BS'ing about the Yule log being a fertility symbol. Why is it that ethnologists feel compelled to interpret anything that might vaguely resemble a weener or pastrami on rye as fertility symbols? It's incredibly lazy.
Also, they burned a green log not because it was full of "vital forces". They did it because green logs take longer to burn, and just like the Roman Saturnalia, during the burning of the Yule log the servants got to take a break. They'd even soak it in water to make it burn longer.
Actually, she is very much correct. Take it from someone who practices Wicca and Paganism. It originated in Viking culture as a symbol of fertility, purification and the return of the Sun/turn of the year.
Get the stick out of your arse buddy
Wishing you a happy Christmas Tony
It's a twig that likes other twigs
Tony got a bit wrong. There were no shelters for the sheep or the Shepherd in that time of Jesus birth so they where outside at night all year in all weathers. There was a pin which was a wall of wood or stone around an area with an opening that could not be closed and it has no roof. The Shepherd had to stay at the opening to keep their sheep from thieves and Predators.
I love this programme, but can't watch it while eatin' my tea :)
I've never seen it before, but Panto looks fucking weird
so that's where we get the term lime light from
thank you for posting that...i feel better not being the only one.
Cleans up puke and then eats an olive with, puke scented hand eeerrrrgg!!
At 44:56 he says Turkeys were brought to Europe by the Spanish but Spain obviously is already in Europe so how can they bring something to where it already is?
The Frisch cap looks like a Smurf hat.
+Alex-Zander Browne
Phrygian caps. They were a Turkish people who gave their name to the words "friendly", "free" and "freedom", the latter meaning "domain of the free".
Eventually they were conquered taken into slavery, and made into clowns, which is why traditional clowns wear the Phrygians' distinctive red hair and pointed cap.
Surprised they didnt bring up the Nuckelavee
Not just 1 turkey, 500 turkeys in just two, three days.
5 sec per ring 2000 rings 10,000 sec. Each day is 86400 sec so 1/8th if a day, or 3 hours to ring in Christma. So in the year 16,000 there wont be enough time in a day to ring in Christmas with this bell.
32:43 Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Panto actors who specialized in animal performances and costumes were fursuiting furries.
The humble pie looks like it might be tasty!
I Don't know if You're being sarcastic, but I love this series and I just ignore the idiots
Please be careful of sweating in the cold. I would hate to hear you or your folk were sickened or struck with hypothermia.
Mike Rowe saw this an immediately wrote a Black Adder spec script with him playing Baldrick.
Uh, just to sound really stupid, but turkeys were in America and I thought the traditional English Christmas dinner or feast was either with pheasant or goose? When did turkey become an English Christmas dinner?
Lol, lmgtfy....
Well, that’s not my Christmas.
Then you might be doing Christmas incorrectly... or right, if these jobs are to be believed.
Nah mate you're wrong...I'm double chuffed to have found you..you're hilarious. You really ought to get an agent...no sense sitting in your room, handling yourself is there?
:) xx
ew pick up someones puke, I be like you pick it up you filthy drunk, your mess you clean, well I wouldn't really be saying, but I be thinking it. lol
Jesus was born in a manger because all the motels were booked out for Xmas.
They say it's an "inside job".
The song Good King Wenceslas was written in the Victorian era. Gene Wolfe's novel, The Devil in a Forest is based on the song.
cleaned puke with undersized rag..quickly wipe hands on jacket..immediately reach for olive and eat it with probably still vomit covered hands.....hope that was fake
Long live christmas!
I suppose there was a purpose of celebrating Christ's birth in December regardless of whether that was the time or not. After all if you celebrated it during March and April then perhaps it would have collided with Easter, which in many respects is the most important holiday of Christianity. Since the holiday follows the Passover calendar and switches from month to month and day to day people might be celebrating Christmas and Easter at the same time (Christ's birth and resurrection). So there was a sane reason for putting it in December to absorb the other celebrations of the time.
Also, Christmas is the winter solstice, and Easter is the spring equinox. Christianity is nothing but camouflaged sun worship, aka paganism.
What can you make with turkey guts? A soup maybe?
+Alex-Zander Browne
Giblet gravy, mm mmm.
Yes!
+Alex-Zander Browne Maybe another version of humble pie ?
Giblet gravy is wonderful when cooked properly.
Feed it to the pigs...so you can have ham for New Year!
Oliver Cromwell was such a boring old hypocrite. Dissolving the parliment and ruling like a king that he supposedly hated. And even trying to ruin people's fun. I'm not a big fan of Christmas either but I wouldn't try to ruin it for others just because I don't like it.
Hey people fancy a laugh? Watch a video about a guy running for mayor in Middlesbrough called the taxman , he thinks we should let car thiefs get away , beat criminals up never mind a court case or guilt. He doesn't drink or smoke but as you will tell he sniffs Columbia dry of cocaine and takes steroids. Also the police class his hands as leathel weapons , he has earned millions and drives with his crew in a mondeo and he is just a really hard man .......I can't hide my disdain for this guy please out if curiosity take a look the show is by donnel McIntyre called the taxman you can even hear what Donnel thinks by how he tAlks
Right, I presume you came to this conclusion after years of research? If so could you share your sources with the rest of the class.
Puck collecter is the worst of the lot.
Where's the gio-phizz?
dude wear some gloves
Richard Sanchez they didn't have gloves in the times he's recreating. Only in the snow dose he use "gloves" or oil cloth coverings.
3:50 smurf party
3:51 he asks if woman wear them too lol
we call him svatý václav. his patron of bohemia. not much about charity though.
Blame false Christians...
God never commanded it , only keep communion.
28:05 OH GOD FURRIES
im going to celebrate ?saturnaes? this year...
Saturnalia
i love a man in a dress lol