Smelly Facts About London's The Great Stink of 1858

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  • @WeirdHistory
    @WeirdHistory  4 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    Coming next Sunday - TIMELINE 1980: th-cam.com/video/5adOMpj9KEA/w-d-xo.html

    • @OhItsReo
      @OhItsReo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Thanks for loving my comment! I love this channel so much! It makes history so much more interesting and funny ❤

    • @smallies7154
      @smallies7154 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      u are obsessed with BO and stink

    • @darianthescorpion1132
      @darianthescorpion1132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The worst smell I’ve ever encountered was when my friend’s winter coat got soaked in cat piss. Boyyy, we had so much fun holding back our vomit that day. It was the only coat he had for the frozen weather. We actually agreed on burning his coat when we got back to his house, but on our way back we got some powerful detergent.
      He wasn’t impressed with his cat. I can assure you. LOL

    • @nathanhails5901
      @nathanhails5901 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I once met Donald Trump during a Lunch Meeting... There were lots of McDonald's bags and Diet Coke cans. Mind you that this was before he was President. Now when Trump passes gas, the Secret Service is responsible for clearing the room. I was very unfortunate, it was days before my appetite returned and still nothing tastes quite right.

    • @hugi117
      @hugi117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Can you do a video about being a solder is the Byzantine empire around 900 a.d please. It is my favorite time and I cannot find anything about it.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4457

    Stories like these allow me to express how grateful I am to not have been born during those times.

    • @Oladavol
      @Oladavol 4 ปีที่แล้ว +304

      Crazy to think we wouldn't know any difference though. 200 years people might be saying the same about today haha

    • @franny5295
      @franny5295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +158

      I'm grateful that we can bath. I had no idea how privileged that is.

    • @FeedMeSalt
      @FeedMeSalt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@Oladavol we already do. New York is vile, I puked the first time I visited.
      And nearly any Chinese city is worse then anything humanity has ever built.

    • @luhbot
      @luhbot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      I’m surprised there is no comment saying OmG I sEeE yOu EvErY wHerE

    • @eliasdegele6785
      @eliasdegele6785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Yeah, I thank god to live in the 2020 and being put to jail if I go outside cause there's a deadly virus that is killing thousands of people and destroying our economy.

  • @nextup8598
    @nextup8598 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3316

    Fact that rome had a sewer system a thousand years before London crazy

    • @ihatemanchesterunited44
      @ihatemanchesterunited44 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      civilizations do not follow our concept of time

    • @Tenkai917
      @Tenkai917 4 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      So did India. What happened?

    • @thezombcasthd254
      @thezombcasthd254 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Mike Keller That should be the slogan for all the reasons London modernized quickly.

    • @shebamaree9026
      @shebamaree9026 4 ปีที่แล้ว +225

      When Rome fell it set back the western world a 1000 years

    • @BGdroopy
      @BGdroopy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Niso Stannard worse than Naples?

  • @iamelectric30
    @iamelectric30 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1520

    As a kid I thought Dicken's was exaggerating; as an adult I think he was sugarcoating.

    • @ladyviola2685
      @ladyviola2685 4 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      He was definitely sugarcoating everything here-

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Mmmm, don’t we all love some Great Stinks?

    • @masterrhythm4596
      @masterrhythm4596 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      what did he sugarcoat?

    • @keepgoing1973
      @keepgoing1973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sugarcoating the shit.

    • @darllalett960
      @darllalett960 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too

  • @helvis7336
    @helvis7336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1494

    you know when the romans moved into a new area the first piece of infrastructure they built was sewers and toilets, and this show why..

    • @fallonfireblade4404
      @fallonfireblade4404 4 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      It does make me appreciate the intelligence of the ancient Romans

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@fallonfireblade4404 And Greeks

    • @bradlafferty6076
      @bradlafferty6076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Et Tu Brute....another SHIT today!#### that was a pun

    • @MrCrowebobby
      @MrCrowebobby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@fallonfireblade4404 The heat was an extra incentive.

    • @looweegee252
      @looweegee252 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AverageAlien lol racist

  • @Choppytehbear1337
    @Choppytehbear1337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +393

    Another reason Bazalgette's sewer system is still in use today is because when designing it, he calculated what size it would have to be to service the current population of London, and then doubled it.

    • @joliax1646
      @joliax1646 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      amazing

    • @Casey5693
      @Casey5693 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Bazalgette was a genius.

    • @MarkBrennan
      @MarkBrennan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I read that he made it 10 x the size required at the time as he predicted a huge increase in the population over the years.The authorities resisted but he won the argument.

    • @fireprincekai4065
      @fireprincekai4065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joliax1646 agree

    • @jmack129
      @jmack129 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MarkBrennan thank goodness for those forward thinking people of the past.
      Politicians often impede necessary progress unnecessarily.

  • @Irraanos
    @Irraanos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    Fun fact: When Bazalgette calculated how big the sewers needed to be, he went ahead and made them twice as big.

    • @narishsurajbally1517
      @narishsurajbally1517 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Safety factor of 2

    • @jessica_jam4386
      @jessica_jam4386 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I like his way of thinking. Better safe than sorry

    • @evelynb1325
      @evelynb1325 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yes - and the network is still functional despite population growth, high rise buildings etc ...
      The biggest problems being fatbergs and shaking loose of arch bricks due to juggernaut lorries driving above them ...
      The extension "super sewers" add to Bazalgette's network, providing some safety catchment of excess volume overflow. They don't replace them ...

    • @BrownSkinnedDiva95
      @BrownSkinnedDiva95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hes a hero!

    • @harpar1028
      @harpar1028 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      pun pun fun

  • @ginasreview1030
    @ginasreview1030 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1548

    The man that created the sewer system, he would be so beyond proud that it's still used today, even hundreds of years later.

    • @sinenominee1454
      @sinenominee1454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @Darkness Light They are updating most of it now so soon will be closing it alot of it as it still empties into the Thames if it overflows

    • @iFixJunk
      @iFixJunk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      The fact that it would be less than $1-billion today is also remarkable.

    • @liliks14
      @liliks14 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      until a new problem arrives :D

    • @LetsTakeWalk
      @LetsTakeWalk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      He also pretty much the forerunner of all sewage systems in the world, contributing to the world’s hygiene.

    • @logannuts91
      @logannuts91 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      A hundred? You know about Roman sewers right

  • @thalia2906
    @thalia2906 4 ปีที่แล้ว +767

    “Delicious raw sewage” sir I’m gonna have to place you under arrest.

  • @TheDarkever
    @TheDarkever 4 ปีที่แล้ว +836

    Moral of the story: Most governments usually don't do a damn thing to fix the problem until it affects the upper classes or common people get angry enough to revolt (which affects the upper class). Also Engineers at that time already had a solution that had been ready for years and just waiting to be funded.

    • @blessedchildofthemosthighj6702
      @blessedchildofthemosthighj6702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Completely agree💯💯

    • @seanwebb605
      @seanwebb605 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      TheDarkever Moral not morale.

    • @FauZhee
      @FauZhee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      I wonder when will the common people of my country get angry enough to revolt... 😞

    • @grimsonforce7504
      @grimsonforce7504 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I wonder when the citizens in the US will get up and revolt. Probably never.

    • @Psyfonify
      @Psyfonify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@grimsonforce7504 The BLM thing is the start of that, as now it is no longer about race but a movement in response to the COPS' response to the first hints of protest, like "hey wait wtf, cops cant be the strongarm actors of the government, this is supposed to be a democracy not a dystopian oligarchy, and we fund their paychecks with our taxes so wtf"

  • @boowiebear
    @boowiebear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +461

    I am absolutely stunned that this went on so long. I cannot even fathom living around this and drinking water. Reminds me of the Ganges.

    • @teflonkc713
      @teflonkc713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      The Ganges is..there are no words to describe it tbh.

    • @sergeant5848
      @sergeant5848 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The stupidity continues even today. How much rioting in the streets does it take to enact change at government level still!

    • @kanyewest2729
      @kanyewest2729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@sergeant5848 rioting is the stupidest shit ever being honest

    • @treacheroustea926
      @treacheroustea926 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      AyyanOriginal How so? It accomplishes a lot and grabs the attention of officials. It gets the job done instead of acting like there isn’t an issue until there comes to be a point where people are demanding things that should have been enacted a long time ago. So many of your very rights were gotten through riots and protests.

    • @rahulrao567
      @rahulrao567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yes, Ganges is in a very sorry state. But the government is trying it's best to clean up the mess which was the result of the exploitation done by the British as they had left millions of Indians in poverty few decades ago. 😊

  • @jacobbrown5865
    @jacobbrown5865 4 ปีที่แล้ว +461

    Can we all just take a moment to appreciate our sewer systems?

    • @MarianneKat
      @MarianneKat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My civil engineer dad would be proud

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yep

    • @notthisguyagain2269
      @notthisguyagain2269 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You guys are all so cute in your blissful ignorance. Our drinking water is not only filthy but toxic in ways that effect the body that humanity never could have imagined until the last couple generations

    • @jokullah
      @jokullah 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@notthisguyagain2269 not on my island, our water is top notch

    • @sagichdirdochnicht4653
      @sagichdirdochnicht4653 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And also all the folks who keep it working. It may be a dirty and smelly job, but still one of the most important. If those sewers broke/leaked, clogged or what ever the fuck, we'd have some serious trouble.

  • @thoughtfulbobcat1872
    @thoughtfulbobcat1872 4 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    "Yeah your river may have stank but we set ours on fire" - Cleveland

    • @miriambucholtz9315
      @miriambucholtz9315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      We sure did.

    • @AmyAndThePup
      @AmyAndThePup 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What?! How?

    • @kyleshiflet9952
      @kyleshiflet9952 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AmyAndThePup pollution

    • @khanaratsadon
      @khanaratsadon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Imagine your river being so polluted that it caught on fire.

    • @15Anime4Ever15
      @15Anime4Ever15 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      oh my fucking god i looked in the comments section jokingly wondering if anyone was going to mention the cuyahoga and LO AND BEHOLD, I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED

  • @athena8794
    @athena8794 4 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    The worst smell I've ever encountered was when due to miscommunication at work, I wound up drenched in the contents of my ship's Black Water tank, aka several hundred gallons of a mix of toilet contents from ~500 people, plus the runoff of all the ship's sinks... Not a great day. We now use it as a cautionary tale when training new deckhands.

    • @MarloSoBalJr
      @MarloSoBalJr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Must've been a shitty day

    • @ineedanewname6086
      @ineedanewname6086 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@MarloSoBalJr breh

    • @vanessaculater9038
      @vanessaculater9038 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Want in one hand shit in the other takes on a whole new meaning.

    • @Harshhaze
      @Harshhaze 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@MarloSoBalJr same shit, different day

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      *i'm guessing it took more than one bath to freshen up to what would be considered even remotely sanitary and close proximity standards*

  • @miriambucholtz9315
    @miriambucholtz9315 4 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    The nastiest odor I've ever endured was from the air in industrial northern New Jersey in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There were, among other things, chemical factories belching pollution into the air constantly. If this stench had a color it would be a bruised grayish-purple surrounded by alternating bands of neon bilious green and diarrhea brown. Whatever was floating in that air caused my nose to swell shut so I couldn't breathe through it. Mouth breathing means that you don't filter out what you draw into your lungs. It also means that you don't smell the odor, you taste it. They're right when they say that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger if I'm still around to complain about it.

    • @shaiaheyes2c41
      @shaiaheyes2c41 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😊❤

    • @niranjandesai6766
      @niranjandesai6766 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      well, at that time you probably smelled nazi camps.

    • @Janoip
      @Janoip 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@niranjandesai6766 nah

    • @darllalett960
      @darllalett960 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That sounds awful.. I'm really sorry

    • @catherinebirch2399
      @catherinebirch2399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I've heard New Jersey is nicknamed the cancer belt.

  • @SeymoreSparda
    @SeymoreSparda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +343

    Ahhh yesss...the exact video to watch whilst I'm eating my dinner.

    • @operator6438
      @operator6438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      LOL

    • @DukeCoffeeXIII
      @DukeCoffeeXIII 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Saem. Lol.

    • @corinaho1
      @corinaho1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It could only be matched by an episode of Kitchen Nightmares

    • @user2144
      @user2144 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Soon after your dinner, your wife may ask you...
      Dear, can you take out the trash?
      (Your reply) YOU cooked it, so YOU take it out!
      That is an old Rodney Dangerfield joke.

    • @Koa808
      @Koa808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dinner where you live at?

  • @davidcorruthers78
    @davidcorruthers78 4 ปีที่แล้ว +523

    So basically up until a century ago Londoners were living in their own filth

    • @teflonkc713
      @teflonkc713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      So much for high IQ

    • @mrx7062
      @mrx7062 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@teflonkc713 what are you talking about?

    • @cyantadeo975
      @cyantadeo975 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Most of Europe did for centuries

    • @iiastridii
      @iiastridii 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Rudolph hess actually europeans were considered quite dirty by pretty much all indigenous groups they encountered. keep in mind, at the time europeans showered rarely

    • @Tomos_J-J
      @Tomos_J-J 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@iiastridii Showers were made in the late 1700s.

  • @seanwilliams3634
    @seanwilliams3634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +785

    it's embarrassing. The Romans had to topped off centuries earlier.

    • @romanromanov6397
      @romanromanov6397 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Christianity had slowed down human development by 2000 years. We could be walking on the Moon by now.

    • @thatsnodildo1974
      @thatsnodildo1974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@romanromanov6397 not really. A lot of scientist were Christians. Most of what slowed down Western European knowledge was the downfall of the Roman empire and how everyone would you know destroy everything during wars. Look at the Mongols and Afghanistan for example. The destruction of the Islamic city set us back thousands of years. And brought a end to the Islamic Golden age

    • @jannadrielcervo7753
      @jannadrielcervo7753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      @@thatsnodildo1974 Rome was destined to fall. Even if Christianity didn't become the dominant religion in the western world, the system of Roman economy is like a ticking time bomb. Plus a lot of variables like the Huns, Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, that is slowly collapsing the empire. The Roman empire has become too overstretched, and became too difficult to manage. The great thing Christianity did is preserving the knowledge, records and history of the Roman Empire throughout the Middle Ages, that helped restart the Renaissance.

    • @seanwilliams3634
      @seanwilliams3634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Find this video on youtube no their not.

    • @azmovement79
      @azmovement79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      humans lost 6 thousand+ years of history, technology & advancements due to the " Roman NWO" ! which started when they stopped the
      clock at 00AD , burnt down libraries, poisoned waters & called all other life "pagan" !
      .. introducing the philosophy of baby talk & terror .. to present day!

  • @DamonNomad82
    @DamonNomad82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    The worst smell I ever encountered occurred when I worked at a Wal-mart more than a decade ago. I was a "Floor Maintenance Associate," which is Wal-mart-ese for "Janitor". One of my duties was to scrub the floors. To do this, the location I worked at had a Zamboni style, drivable scrubbing machine. This was nice, as it gave me a chance to sit down and work hard at the same time. All the undesirable substances the machine scrubbed went into a waste tank, along with the soapy water that had been used in the scrubbing. Every time I used the machine, I carefully drained and rinsed the waste tank, which was unpleasant, but bearable. One week, however, I went on vacation. When I got back, I found that the machine had been used, but the waste tank had not been rinsed, or even drained. I expected it to be bad, but it was orders of magnitude worse than I had anticipated. The stench when I opened the tank of week-old Wal-mart floor waste fit Disraeli's description of the Great Stink perfectly! I had to run from the room to keep my lunch from coming back up. I got the manager on duty and had her come into the room. I didn't have to say a word to make my point!

  • @abdulalshibly3930
    @abdulalshibly3930 4 ปีที่แล้ว +290

    I've never been able to smell a video but there is always a first for everything

    • @emilmathew1104
      @emilmathew1104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Evilpimp cruel

    • @abdulalshibly3930
      @abdulalshibly3930 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Evilpimp The irony is I watched this video directly after showering but still a nice one

  • @sternobum1524
    @sternobum1524 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    The man that created the sewer system for london was ahead of his time, I mean it's just now getting to the point that it needs to be a bit bigger but he built it like 150 years ago and I doubt anyone thought it would have done such a great job at the time of construction

    • @zbychu6392
      @zbychu6392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Romans had sewer systems 2000 years earlier lol

    • @sn5255
      @sn5255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@zbychu6392 lots of older civilizations too

  • @makylesato4004
    @makylesato4004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1096

    I wish schools would teach us these things to make history subjects less boring. (at least for me)

    • @pichuu7036
      @pichuu7036 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @Ma Kyel
      it depends on your teacher, really. Highschool history sucked for me. But i had a minor subject of history in college wherein the professor sticks to the curriculum but would always try to nake it interesting by adding facts like these sometimes or he’d search some movies regarding what we’re about to discuss.
      they need to follow a curriculum/certain topic outline, so i guess least they can do is to present it in such a way that it’s interesting and not just merely reciting the contents of a history book

    • @user-wy1yb7zj1j
      @user-wy1yb7zj1j 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ma Kyel My history teacher makes us watch movies or videos and sometimes talk about stories my classmates think it’s boring but I like History is my best subject

    • @alexanderarkum4793
      @alexanderarkum4793 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Come on now.....our educational system would never take the risk of teaching something interesting or helpful in life

    • @gj9933
      @gj9933 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      True stories about lesser known incidents and everyday life and habits are interesting.

    • @lutello3012
      @lutello3012 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Are there teachers that show channels like this in class? Get kids to watch something besides the smelly shit on trending.

  • @adamwiggins9865
    @adamwiggins9865 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    I actually do sewer and water construction
    ... the worst smell I’ve encountered was tearing out the old sanitary pipes in front of a very old hair salon... all the old hair and whatever else had produced THE worst smell...2nd is digging next to an d cemetery

  • @emems6620
    @emems6620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    Cant believe how distant these things sound but they arent! I'm lucky to be born now for many aspects

    • @LannasMissingLink
      @LannasMissingLink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      This still happens in developing countries today, just because they don't have enough money to create proper sewage systems. We're lucky to be born in the locations we were born too

    • @jerrycrow8153
      @jerrycrow8153 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Imagine the things we do now that people in 100 years are gonna cringe at.

    • @greyriddance64
      @greyriddance64 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, it was quite shitty back then.

    • @belo-zerolt-180
      @belo-zerolt-180 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea no Lie. Ugh That made me sick I would not like by there

    • @nandy1256
      @nandy1256 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe people in the past are luckier because the flooding that they experienced then is no more worse than the worsening floods that we will be experiencing now.

  • @Galen-864
    @Galen-864 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    This is why rebuilding our infrastructure is so critical.

    • @VFatalis
      @VFatalis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Most infrastructures in the world are in bad shape but we're running out of money

    • @reasonablerage4370
      @reasonablerage4370 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@VFatalis more printing 😂

    • @dusk6159
      @dusk6159 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@reasonablerage4370 Hell no, that's exactly ignoring the infrastructure and the method to actually do good and put method.

  • @OhItsReo
    @OhItsReo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3381

    More proof that the government only acts when a situation starts to affect them directly lol
    Edit: Omg 2k likes thank you all for your understanding sense of humor!!! 🥰
    Omg 3k! Nice! Thanks peeps that know a joke ❤❤

    • @chocodawwg
      @chocodawwg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      @Willem Chastity what even is the point of your comment

    • @chrissnyder8415
      @chrissnyder8415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Well yeah, why would they act differently than civilians? You just described how everyone on Earth reacts. Thank you, Captain Obvious.

    • @RSAgility
      @RSAgility 4 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Victor Ponce probably a young 10 year old who doesn’t get enough attention at home, so they look for any type of interaction, but they lack a developed frontal lobe to communicate properly so they get angry instead of learning, so we parents have to teach them patience and knowledge, which they reject because they know everything 😉

    • @ladynikkie
      @ladynikkie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      True

    • @allandavies1642
      @allandavies1642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @Willem Chastity ,idiot !

  • @Fudgeoff6628
    @Fudgeoff6628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I swear this narrator for these videos is an absolute blast.
    Love watching/listening to these videos. ☺️🥰

    • @darllalett960
      @darllalett960 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was thinking the same thing

  • @mikegoodburn2364
    @mikegoodburn2364 4 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    I used to work at an Indian reservation that had over 100 fireworks stands all next to each other. Every one of them had there own portable toilet. During the hot Summer when they came to empty them once a week, the smell it created was pretty epic.

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      epic isn't the word I'd use

    • @motrhead69
      @motrhead69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I'll bet they only sold snakes N sparklers?

    • @mayuksurja8228
      @mayuksurja8228 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Wait Indian, u mean indigeneous indians or ppl from the country of India

    • @Backyardmech1
      @Backyardmech1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Reminds me of when I used to work at a refinery during the summer months. If the refinery didn’t smell bad enough, Wednesday morning’s would be when the portacans plant wide would be cleaned. The honey trucks would empty into a pit that was at a major intersection near the contractor gate. 🤢 For some reason they seemed to be at peak capacity for dumping as everyone was coming through the gates.

    • @GodOfDragonBallZ
      @GodOfDragonBallZ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Okay, this is epic.

  • @harryg1926
    @harryg1926 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love this channel. Your videos just happen to show up right when I am about to go to sleep, which I have no problem with. It's like listening to your grandma reading books for you again.

  • @SkyVettel
    @SkyVettel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    "The British sure know how to beautifully articulate something that smells terrible" - immediately follows up with "the river was clogged with lots of bad stuff" XD great contrast there.

    • @djscottdog1
      @djscottdog1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The video maker isnt British lol

  • @-.Germanicus.-
    @-.Germanicus.- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    The whole ground was saturated in London.....try to imagine how london cemeteries were like 🤮

    • @Personthatlikestodraw1
      @Personthatlikestodraw1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Buried in poop? The ground basically is already poop, but like from a lot of organisms. In this case it's just human waste. So its the remainder of a human buried in the trash of human. Noice.

  • @jayzoayo415
    @jayzoayo415 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

    Can you imagine if weird history existed in 1858 and someone in London was just drinking some water then watched this

    • @MarloSoBalJr
      @MarloSoBalJr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ask Flint, Michigan

    • @terranceaddison4599
      @terranceaddison4599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MarloSoBalJr or any heavy industrial city?..

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *slice me off a glass of fresh(ish) water, if you'd be so kind*

    • @Ndstars1
      @Ndstars1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @chico Beer was definitely safer to drink than the water.

  • @Soturi92
    @Soturi92 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Worst smell I’ve ever encountered was when I went to my church’s day camp. My stepdad was a janitor for a pretty large church. Basically on the first day of the day camp, they were told to clear out the kitchen for lunch. Unknowingly, they opened the fridge which erupted the most horrible rotting flesh smell I have ever smelled. Turns out, it was old turkey leftover from the Christmas production the year before. They turn the power off to that part of the building each winter until summer camp begins the next year. It had been rotting for a solid 6 months. Fyi this takes place in Alabama. Just imagine the heat and stench coming from that entire wing of the church. I’m gagging just thinking about it.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    They had some real hard Thames.
    As in 'solid waste'.

  • @atompunk456
    @atompunk456 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    You know it's bad when people are literally throwing up on sidewalks

  • @justdeidra13
    @justdeidra13 4 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    I think London's sewer system is probably due for another upgrade/repairs now....

    • @salsylexhagen7423
      @salsylexhagen7423 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      It's getting upgrades now. Parts of it leak into the Thames because it still overflows every now and then. Yuk!

    • @stinkydill9511
      @stinkydill9511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Too much Curry and Chips

    • @aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418
      @aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think America's sewer systems are too! Too much cheeseburgers and beer 🤣

    • @chilliecheesecake
      @chilliecheesecake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418 I can assure you that's not the case lmao.

    • @chrisandthemike9020
      @chrisandthemike9020 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens. Actually not the case at all👋🏾 stay blessed

  • @johndettra8958
    @johndettra8958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    This is where the term, "making a big stink" about something started.

    • @midgie4410
      @midgie4410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I bet so

    • @darllalett960
      @darllalett960 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      My daughter said Louisiana in summer smelled worse than the Thames in London. A hundred times worse. I've never smelled either.

  • @anonymussmith2899
    @anonymussmith2899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Breakfast is tasting really good now

    • @ekehernandez
      @ekehernandez 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Was looking for a video to go with my lunch -- 'hey weird history has a new video up!'

    • @MarianneKat
      @MarianneKat 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Obviously not a nurse

  • @justinpolanco5046
    @justinpolanco5046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    This just shows that when you want something done then all you have to do is make it a nuisance to the rich and powerful.

  • @moonwind6886
    @moonwind6886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I can’t stop laughing cause all I can picture is someone just walking by minding their business until all of a sudden theres a slight shift in the wind and bam they’re seeing their lunch again!!! 😂😂😂😂

  • @andyrickert1
    @andyrickert1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Worst stink I've ever smelled by far was an old fry grease trap in a building my company was demoing. God knows how long it had been there. The thing broke when we were trying to get it out, letting the ooze out. Smelled like vomit in concentrated form.

  • @LS-cq3qy
    @LS-cq3qy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    "Ignoring the dire warnings of a panicked scientist, seldom leads to anything good." 5:43

  • @ReannaPeters12
    @ReannaPeters12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I remember when I was a child my friend told me England had a clouds that smelt like farts over it's country and I think she meant this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @miomimomiro
    @miomimomiro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    This was interesting. Can't wait to talk about this with my co-workers at the office or with my family when we go through our day during supper. :D

  • @sierratree93
    @sierratree93 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    The worst smell I've ever encountered was when a patients ostemy bag was leaking all over our lobby at work. Probably what the river smelled like during the Great Stink tbh. ☠️

    • @SuperDjdil
      @SuperDjdil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      I empathize. One of my patients vomited faeces because of a bowel obstruction. The smell haunts me still

    • @christycullen2355
      @christycullen2355 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@SuperDjdil wow, that's insane I didnt realise your body could even do that

    • @sandyworkman3025
      @sandyworkman3025 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@SuperDjdil I just threw up in my mouth a little. 😨

    • @anupama2620
      @anupama2620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@SuperDjdil ....omg i was thinking of the patient..how utterly horrible it must be !

    • @oddacity5883
      @oddacity5883 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @shani perera Dear Jesus that is horrid

  • @bioticjedi3864
    @bioticjedi3864 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The Thames in London still smells in the summer, and is still pretty polluted and murky; but I can only imagine how much worse it must've been back then o.0

  • @macrent2
    @macrent2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The worst smell that I have ever encountered was when I helped clean out the house of a hoarder. The smell of decay, carcases of dead animals, food rot, faeces, stale cigarettes, and ammonia was so horrific that I could only remain in the home for very brief segments of time!

    • @catherinebirch2399
      @catherinebirch2399 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      People like that are disgusting!

    • @TheCowboy4000
      @TheCowboy4000 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's when you just burn it to the ground instead 😂😂😂

  • @sussekind9717
    @sussekind9717 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    I once spent an entire evening in a Gasthaus in Germany, drinking aged German dark beer, while eating one pickled egg, after another.
    After I Eventually returned home, I was craving something sweet and the only thing that we had was a plum pie.
    I ate half of it.
    The next morning when I got up, I went into the kitchen, sat down and let out a fart so abominably rancid, that it would have ran rats off of a garbage barge.
    My wife actually threw up on the spot, right into a sink full of freshly cleaned dishes. Epic.

    • @bretthess6376
      @bretthess6376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Outstandingly gross. Ain't life grand?

    • @chilliecheesecake
      @chilliecheesecake 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That's one for the books my friend

    • @VFatalis
      @VFatalis 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh I see what you did here, Patrick

    • @syntax2004
      @syntax2004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Imagine the combustion from this grand fart

    • @dukes1993724
      @dukes1993724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for sharing that.

  • @magsvots783
    @magsvots783 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like how this channel has similar videos that work off each other to understand ALL of history! Keep up the awesome work

  • @bba935
    @bba935 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Tokyo's current sewage system vents at street level. In the summer the city in dense places smells like just what it is, 38 million people's turds intermingling.

    • @luthaeris1
      @luthaeris1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      😂😂 its a common issue with densed cities

    • @deadpoolisdead0217
      @deadpoolisdead0217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@luthaeris1 Its really not alot of major cities have very effective systems and or possessing plants

    • @MrShitthead
      @MrShitthead 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@luthaeris1 I've been to some pretty dense cities and have never smell that... although I will admit that I've heard people say that about Paris but that's one I've never been to.

    • @yveltalsea
      @yveltalsea 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Peach Macabre mostly cause some guys there literally just pee in the street 😔

  • @JoseCorrea
    @JoseCorrea 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hygiene, healthand daily life issues are my top favorite topics from your videos guys!

  • @danielleonfirehernandez5150
    @danielleonfirehernandez5150 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I love waking up to watching weird stinky stuff! Hahahaha.

  • @Mechelle6564
    @Mechelle6564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have recently started watching your incredibly informative and entertaining videos. Please continue with these riveting addictive subjects, I’m hooked!

  • @heyheytaytay
    @heyheytaytay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    If you cringed at least once through this you lost.
    I lost many times.

    • @Loopyschwoopy
      @Loopyschwoopy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Watching this while having lunch at work.
      So far so good

    • @MrShitthead
      @MrShitthead 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I just lost again reading your comment.

    • @cassidymiller6677
      @cassidymiller6677 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like 2 minutes in I was fainting from cringing of the pictures of wasting systems

    • @JesusIsAlphaOmega001
      @JesusIsAlphaOmega001 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you know Jesus Christ died for your sins?

    • @SuperTweezy5
      @SuperTweezy5 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was cringing while watching this, my husband saw me and asked what the hell was I watching, lol!!

  • @medmans3667
    @medmans3667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I listened more than I watched your videos...... You're the best narrator I have met 🤘👌 I am a fan.

  • @UnorthodoxGaming007
    @UnorthodoxGaming007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I don't know why but I imagine someone shouting in their era so loudly saying:
    "EVERYONE, STOP POOPING OR WE ALL DIE!!!!"

  • @dorseyann2611
    @dorseyann2611 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Lord do I appreciate modern sewage systems.

  • @shayZero
    @shayZero 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Worst smell definitely when my brother and I were walking along a disused train track and found a suitcase laying on the track.
    We laughed about and kicked it abit till my brother went to click it open.
    As soon as it opened a bunch of flies buzzed out and the smell of the dead dog inside it hit us and we both vommed. We legged it home and told our mum who told us not to go back there. I can still smell it now in the nose memory. Foul.

    • @nighttadeo6812
      @nighttadeo6812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Poor dog 🥺

    • @izzbambii2086
      @izzbambii2086 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nighttadeo6812 ik bruh, poor suitcase dog

  • @SuperMissblueeyes
    @SuperMissblueeyes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Having been in the countryside of Eastern Europe in the 90s & encountered latrines for myself, I have plenty of sympathy for what Londoners went through! I smelt one latrine at a time & that was bad enough, but a whole city's worth of sewage, oh my word! So glad & grateful that I live in a country with clean water & sanitation!

    • @danettewelborn5577
      @danettewelborn5577 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Smelled

    • @SuperMissblueeyes
      @SuperMissblueeyes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@danettewelborn5577 I'm a qualified proofreader. "Smelt" is perfectly acceptable in informal settings.

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    There goes my breakfast....
    We should all breathe a collective sigh of relief that we don't live like that now.

    • @cian5060
      @cian5060 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Many places in the world still live under such poor conditions, if not worse. All those that have access to clean, fresh water really are very fortunate.

    • @VFatalis
      @VFatalis 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your sigh of relief isn't anticipating the fact we're about to reverse to that kind of precarious life... If you don't understand that, you definitely will in a few years.

  • @doowokka
    @doowokka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    If London’s Houses of Parliament hadn’t been directly ON the Thames, nothing would ever have changed. 😅

    • @sgt_08x
      @sgt_08x 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wdym-

    • @Melleoish
      @Melleoish 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sgt_08x it was made because the house was on Thames, it's to stinky and nothing works to make it not stinky so at the end make a new sewer ig, it succeeded. sorry for my bad grammar.

    • @darllalett960
      @darllalett960 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sgt_08x that when it only affected the poor people they didn't care I think

  • @smashchamp117
    @smashchamp117 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    18 days to solve a problem that people warned about years and years before. SMH.

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      sounds like climate change

    • @Americandude-de6zd
      @Americandude-de6zd 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ climate change is BS

    • @heartsDmise
      @heartsDmise 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Americandude0576 Bruh you need to take environmental classes and actually read. You’re part of the problem 🙄 Also even if you dont believe it, a smart person would take preventative measures in the case they are wrong, solely because smart people preplan and smart people dont always think their opinions are utterly correct.

    • @fawnieee
      @fawnieee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Americandude-de6zd uh huh, we'll see how you feel in a few decades when resources are sparse.

    • @fawnieee
      @fawnieee 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Americandude-de6zd uh huh, we'll see how you feel in a few decades when resources are sparse.

  • @lidascarbro1773
    @lidascarbro1773 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just found this channel. I subscribed after viewing this. I am excited to view previous and new ones.

  • @IdarkphoenixI
    @IdarkphoenixI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Not mentioned here but when Joseph was designing his new sewers he actually made them far larger than anyone else said they needed to be, large enough to fit a population many dozens of times more than Londons current population. Why? because he forsaw London would undergo an enormouse population boom in the coming decades and centuries. This is why it's still in use to this day. There are not many who would have that kind of foresight back in those days/

  • @jayh8200
    @jayh8200 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Im loving all the hard work you are putting into producing the vids big thumbs up 👍👍. Would really like to see something from my small but great nation NZ. From our late discovery 250 years ago roundabout, to the signing of the treaty to how we as a nation started. ( Rugby) lol big one, plus or work to protect the southern sea, an just everything u can find out to brake it down. Thanks bro!!

  • @blobsDOTau
    @blobsDOTau 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I find it mindboggling that nobody thought dumping sewage into the water you drink was a bad idea. Why not just drink your sewage then?

  • @gavintodd2
    @gavintodd2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i love watching this video and getting an Air wick ad. Truly amazing

  • @AG-ng8gt
    @AG-ng8gt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The worst smell I can remember was when I traveled to India. I was walking through the streets in New Delhi; that oppressive heat and humidity, with piles of garbage and raw sewage around us, was awful. It's the only time I have ever come close to throwing up because of a smell.

  • @nickbloom6861
    @nickbloom6861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I am from mountains in the northwest of the United States. I traveled the country only one time and I never took for granted our crystal clear rivers (and even some lakes). Some places the rivers look so disgusting that I couldn't imagine touching them let alone eating or drinking anything from them...

  • @SpaceEnthusiast548
    @SpaceEnthusiast548 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    That drawing of Bazelgette looks like the polluted water spirit in spirited away

  • @lavaflow1625
    @lavaflow1625 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been watching y'alls content for some time now. Thank you for the videos ✌🏼

  • @janssengeyrozaga9710
    @janssengeyrozaga9710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    Man, it stinks here.
    Weird History: Not like in London 1858

  • @Scorch1028
    @Scorch1028 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The Great Stink inspired “The Bog of Eternal Stench” in the movie Labyrinth. 😆

  • @DerAykac
    @DerAykac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Visited London one time, dirtiest river i have ever seen. Now i am afraid to go to NY and whitnes the hudson river

    • @worldeater1498
      @worldeater1498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      There are at least fish able to live in the Hudson. The Thames is uninhabitable

    • @gregorygherkins1884
      @gregorygherkins1884 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      It's only full of centuries of accumulated feces, corpses and sludge, what's not to love. Makes me thirsty just typing this

    • @sinenominee1454
      @sinenominee1454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @World Eater There have been fish and dolphins sighted in the Thames

    • @tree427
      @tree427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the river is just muddy

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sinenominee1454 i thought that to people have videos of things being in there i am sure nothing stays there long though.

  • @aztecklover69
    @aztecklover69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    tx for the laughter!! really needed one:)

  • @Admmkh
    @Admmkh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    It's amazing we survived as a species. Imagine having to do the nasty with someone that hasn't bathed in forever. Just.. oh god

    • @darllalett960
      @darllalett960 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When I was married or the few relationships I have been in I insisted the person bathe before any intimacy.

  • @Megadextrious
    @Megadextrious 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for another good one, Stank History!

  • @themoofs6925
    @themoofs6925 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This just made me think that living in a big city would have basically been awful until the 20th century.

    • @oldman4353
      @oldman4353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Especially when you consider that on top of the sewage problem there would have been the problem of all the manure from all the horses being used at the time.

    • @darllalett960
      @darllalett960 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I DETEST big cities now. Then I would have been living alone in a cave

  • @RIFLQ
    @RIFLQ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Now imagine the pollution done in the colonies..

  • @Frawracopter
    @Frawracopter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I would like to hear a weird history about robots and AI.
    If there is enough history.

  • @antwaunwilliams6053
    @antwaunwilliams6053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The fact that this happened only 142 years before I was born is scary

  • @greygray6230
    @greygray6230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This must be embarrassing for people from UK. It’s crazy this happened not that long ago.

  • @amyfisher6380
    @amyfisher6380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The worst smell I ever encountered was my niece’s first poopy diaper right after she started on solid foods. I refused to change her diapers after that. Let the parents do it!

  • @janierios1194
    @janierios1194 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    EXTREMELY INTERESTING AND WELL DONE VIDEOS.

  • @anonemous1046
    @anonemous1046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Have to say, rotten wet cat food is about the worst thing I've ever smelled. Previously frozen fish meat in a hot trash can sitting stagnet for a few days kinda tied with the cat food. Durian fruit smells real bad, too, but it's bearable.

  • @richardsawyer5428
    @richardsawyer5428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The system is creeking now but that doesn't detract from Bazalgette's achievement. The UK regularly has sewage entering it's rivers and coastline. The sewage works at Erith were one of the first places that we had to visit during college.

  • @saltymisfit6566
    @saltymisfit6566 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I smelled this video coming from miles away 🤣

  • @boldvankaalen3896
    @boldvankaalen3896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Quite clear where Terry Pratchett got his inspiration for Ankh-Morpork.

    • @AmyAndThePup
      @AmyAndThePup 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was thinking about that! Ugh. Gross.
      On Discworld MUD, you can actually walk on parts of the "hard" river. (shudders in some kind of horror).

  • @biscuits2463
    @biscuits2463 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    the worst thing i’ve ever smelled are my school’s bathrooms. they literally never get cleaned. they probably do, but only around once every 2 months or so. every time i used it, it had the same smell it always had. wet shit.

  • @victoriachapman5674
    @victoriachapman5674 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The worst smell I have ever encountered was people smelling like they haven’t showered for days. I work at a grocery store and have had customers coming in smelling like BO it is disgusting! I definitely don’t think I could live in the 1800s are used to think I wanted to but after seeing how they live I don’t think I would ever want to! It makes me definitely appreciate the era that I live in.

    • @da3musceteers
      @da3musceteers ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah same. That was one of the reasons I switched jobs as soon as I could.

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Oh man, I feel like it's a follow up of the Victorian era of hygiene.

  • @shelbyb4089
    @shelbyb4089 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    All of these videos are awesome.!

  • @RedditSupport
    @RedditSupport 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Hold up, so he came up with an all new sewage system, but then it still just ultimately gets dumped into the ocean? Wouldn’t that become a new problem at some point in the future?

    • @ciera5235
      @ciera5235 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Back then.. No one cared about or even thought about the future..lol

    • @shreyaadahall
      @shreyaadahall 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bruh shit gets decomposed anyway

  • @ThatOddChickenHippie
    @ThatOddChickenHippie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Our local landfill also has a massive compost area for large amounts of food and plant waste. One summer, I was heading home from work, which takes me near the area of the land fill, but I'm still at least 2 miles away as the crow flies. The stench was so horrid I started gagging and nearly had to stop in the middle of the off ramp to puke. The only thing that stopped me was that I didn't want to breathe in anymore of the foul air. Thankfully, now I have a mask that I can put a filter in, and I plan on stuffing a sachet of ground up wax melts into it this summer.

  • @nlakidzichilisa5927
    @nlakidzichilisa5927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Me: tap water is not safe.
    Me after watching this video: never touch the tap again

    • @SilverBlueluna22
      @SilverBlueluna22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Tap water has more checks by government than bottle water.

    • @allangibson8494
      @allangibson8494 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Bottled water is frequently just tap water with salt added. Dasani being one example...

    • @LannasMissingLink
      @LannasMissingLink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tap water in Europe is probably the safest in the world nowadays. Of course, check where you are. But for the most part it's really good

    • @ryancorrigan4149
      @ryancorrigan4149 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bottled water is literally just some factory's tap water.

    • @PurplePinkRed
      @PurplePinkRed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've always drunk tap water and never had an issue. Can't stand the chemical taste of bottled water. I am in Australia though, and our water treatment facilities are very good.

  • @c00mgoblin
    @c00mgoblin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When I visited London as a child and they told my the Thames was toxic I was sad and didn’t understand how it could still be poisonous. Now that I’m older… I shudder since I’m pretty sure this is one of the worst biologically man made disasters (ie no oil spills or chemical disasters) in history.

  • @ChickenPermission617
    @ChickenPermission617 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    🎵“I passed along the river Thames, it’s waters did they wreak..”🎶 A Knight’s Tale anyone?

  • @johndettra8958
    @johndettra8958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up in Woodbury NJ. Around 1965 the Woodbury creek got pretty putrid for a while there. At one point a whole gang of fish all died, and piled up for us to see and smell. They must have taken care of it, because after that, it was never that bad again.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I gotta give those brits for having strong nasal resistance to stinkiness in the Victorian era

  • @sarahkorver2439
    @sarahkorver2439 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The first time I EVER heard of the Great stink was on the 5 million pound super sewer 3 part programe that was shown about 2 years ago and wanted more in depth detail, this has covered all areas, thank you