I don't know why Westerner didn't use water to clean themselves. Straw, hay or grass? Why so uncomfortable? Is it because it is a cold place? Whatever it's never clean enough 🤭
Modern sanitation is considered to be among the most important advances in all of history for eradicating many epidemic diseases and making large modern cities possible. Far from underrated.
Fun fact: the British term “loo” used to refer to a time when people yelled out “garde l’eau” in French to warn people of bodily fluids coming their way. “Garde l’eau” evolved into “gard ye loo” and then just “loo” to refer to the toilet
@@amberv9424they did have waste pick up though. I'm not sure exactly on the time period, but there were people such as "nightmen" and "gong farmers" that would shovel out cesspits and haul it away. I think that service in cities is a more later history thing, but I believe castles, if the privy did not go straight to the moat, then they would have some sort of pit that gets shoveled out periodically
Toilets like these existed in Hadhramaut until a couple of decades ago. Ashes were placed down at the bottom for several reasons: to prevent the spread of odor, to deter flies from flying up, and to facilitate the cleaning of the area later. The person responsible for the cleaning would scoop out the unclean ash and replace it with new ash. The task of cleaning was assigned to anonymous individuals who would come during the night to do the cleaning. The anonymity was meant to preserve their dignity and honor.
They were called night men. I read a story about the famous Harley Street in London and how the night men came very late at night to remove buckets of human waste from the cellars of those houses where it was stored in buckets with lids awaiting collection.
@@eastboundanddown5872 that’s specifically red moss, to which you must deprive it of certain nutrients to make it so good, it’s very nice to hold, not sure about using it instead of toilet paper though
@@goodelucky toilet paper ia useless if you have the ultimate water gun for your butt, found mostly everywhere in asia Omg really got so many likes😳 Thx a lot mates
People severely take for granted the water at the bottom of the toilet... it's not only to flush away everything, but it acts as a liquid buffer that stops the smell from seeping out behind the loop... without it, you'd basically be living in a citywide outhouse, and that is not fun. Despite the moat in the castle being filled with water... it was full of waste water, but with how Humans used to live next to Cattle, Pigs, and Horses, I imagine they were used to the overwhelming smell of piss and poop...
It was actually common for people to wipe their bum with sheep's wool. The wool would sometimes be dropped down the privy and then the Gong Farmer would collect it, clean it, and sell it to the Spinster who would process it into yarn. She would then sell it to the Weaver who would make it into cloth. Eventually the cloth would be made into clothes. And this is why people were so smelly back then.
I always love the thought that a craftsman from today could actually build flushing toilets and other modern inventions during the medieval age that are in concept pretty basic and not relying on materials not available during those times
Well, to be honest, a modern engineer would probably still prefer to use a similar design, but utilize the feces collected. Medieval times would have had no idea, but human feces are extremely useful material - specifically for gunpowder production. It's a core component into cultivating saltpeter (potassium nitrate). Someone with the modern knowledge could advance warfare to his advantage with poop!
@aohige Actually at certain points in the middle ages you could pay your taxes in urine after this became more well known and gunpowder was more widely adopted in warfare. The "French" method of harvesting sulfates from urine and feces though this was most often applied to animal excrement found in barns or stables.
@@0ldb1llit was Sir John Harington. Then Alexander Cumming improved it and Thomas Crapper made it popular by installing them in the homes of rich and powerful people.
a famous case happened in 1076 when Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine was assassinated while using one of these. the assassin was hiding in all that mess until the duke entered to use the privy, and then he got him with a spear. i don’t even want to imagine what the assassin looked like coming out of there lmao
@@asmerX100 İf that's your opinion of England, then I hope you left - and that you never plan on stepping foot here again for as long as you live! Same goes for everyone who liked your comment.
That comment is definitely one that's open to interpretation, lmao. I certainly would not chuckle at the thought of an invader going up my poop chute 😱
i saw a documentary once about life in that period, and they used the moat water to clean their bedsheets and other clothes...they just filtered the water with a basket and some coal and used that water. Also they cleaned the bedsheets by (no pun intended) beating the shit out of them with a slab of wood atached to some pulleys. The name of the channel is Absolute History
@@totonacapon7375 Tony Robinson should give a demo of the technique! Really it's hard to believe they didn't know that would be bad for you. You can understand using the river, it's washing away, but stagnant moat water... 🤮
You are still using toilet paper, unbelievable? Us Asians just can't understand why you people don't use water and soap to clean yourselves. I guess it's all about keeping a pretty face! but organic fragrance 😂
Most of the English archers at Agincourt had no trousers on because they'd got diarrhoea from the funny foreign food. Edmund Ironside was stabbed up his back end by an assassin in the latrine shaft.
Even now, that's true, toilet paper always misses a spot, a good rinse, even if it gets shit on other areas (which gets washed off anyways) gets a more thorough clean.
Use water? Well....ugh. God seems so messy ! you can't wash off feces with water unless it's with soap I need my TP! Kind of a must-have. I do try to use as little as necessary.
Henry VIII had a velvet cushioned seat and a servant known as the Gentleman to the Privy Chamber to wipe his bottom. It was a coveted position since the Gentleman to the Privy Chamber had access to the king without interruption or being overheard. These gentlemen could be bribed to make suggestions to the king for favors.
I fail to grasp the image I'm wondering if those are a pair of knees but then that hand would have to be someone else's getting that out of the way it now looks like some weird Kamasutra position upward pointed butt but the hand still does not match
Erfurt Latrine Disaster. On 26 July 1184, at an assembly of various nobles and dignatories of the Holy Roman Empire, the floor collapsed and people fell into the latrine cesspit below, leading to the death of 60 people by drowning, suffocation, or trauma from the fall or collapsing debris.
@@AverageAlien oh come on you know what I’m talking about. Still doesn’t explain your claim that peasants in medieval times were better off than humans today. Unless you’re trolling, then it went way over my head
@@AverageAlien yeah, peasants back then never had to deal with age related sicknesses, probably due to the fact they die early due to treatable infections and stuff
Since i don't work for netflix, im assuming everyone who'd have occupied that castle would have been white. A cousin of mine who is a doctor in the US once said, white people will let absolutely anything touch their arsehole, except maybe some water.
@@ThomasSawyers devout muslims still use ceramic as a way to clean after urination. Go to certain mosques and the washroom may offer you bits of broken pottery and/bricks to daub the last drop of urine from the end of your penis so that it doesn't lahd in your clothing. So, near certain mosque toilets you'll see a table or tray holding pottery shards and a bin to collect the refuse. The men might also squat to urinate. This is however observed only by a tiny fraction of the people. I don't know if women are expected to do this.
The problem is that outside Italy, and some other countries, nobody uses bidet, LOL. P.S. And this, as an italian, causes me a lot of stress when I go on holidays.
There is this castle in Finland "Olavinlinna". The castle almost fully covers the small island it is built on except for one spot. To make it harder to penetrate the castle builders came up with an idea. Toilet seats were built in a tower that was located over that spot. Basically the poop was utilized to make the steep terrain slippery and uncomfortable to climb.
@@Redwan777 There were also regular "dump taking" places in the lower floors. Many slept in those towers and guarded the surrounding terrain at all times.
@@Twink6629-lg3te Typically and in everyway, this is commonly known as your body flushing out dangerous components to save you. So no, that is a taco done extremely wrong. That's half way to an upset stomach.
Actually, the word comes from the Arabic word “Hashashin,” which is in relation to a group of Shia Muslim Ismaili people. They were infamous for committing murder - including for hire - for the sake of political gain during the Middle Ages.
My mom was complaining that she couldn't find a bathroom in the Tower of London, my dad and I asked her if she could use the Norman toilets instead... She declined
@@efisgpr ya, but the sexually transmitted disease was so prevalent that most everyone that lived long enough died of all types of horrific diseases. That’s the truth, kings included.
@@MrSocko-vn7fw death will never be painless🫡 whether you die in a modern world or ancient or even if you have billions.. everyone will have to suffer before death🫢
Sure but is is important to note that that was not unique to the middle ages but basically how things were until WW2 or so. People would take weekly baths and rinse themselves off daily still. They were still human. Noone wants to smell like shit and you don't need a shower for that. @@krazykaye8843
Go back in time and tell them that everytime after you poop you throw a really big bucket of drinking water on your dung. To them you will look as fool as they look nowadays.
Neat fact good to know. That’s probably why one’s clothes are referred to as a wardrobe. Has the etymology basically to some degree and probably stems from this word.
"These chutes haven't seen action for several hundred years" You can't keep me down, museum curators. Where there's business to be done it WILL be done.
@@sal2975 Perhaps the water companies could deflect criticism about the millions of tons of raw sewage they pour into our rivers by saying that they're boosting the historical experience for tourists.
Yeah I don't think a general would be able to convince me to charge across raw sewage to invade a castle. Makes sense why most sieges lasted until the castle just ran out of food/water.
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Dark ages is now regarded as an incorrect term
We Indians use Toilets much older time then Europeans... & our Toilets technique & System Are very advanced., Use water...
I don't know why Westerner didn't use water to clean themselves. Straw, hay or grass? Why so uncomfortable? Is it because it is a cold place?
Whatever it's never clean enough 🤭
Probably because its to bothersome to haul water up those castle stairways.
@My entertainment(my puppies are cute too) westerners?
If your friend takes a while in the bathroom, “did you fall in?” isn’t a joke. It’s a legitimate concern
They were certainly not big enough for a human being.
Thats probably where the saying came from
@@ana419 couldve had weak points to fall apart
I bet SOMEBODY opted to commit suicide by getting in there.
@@ana419r/woooosh
I swear flushing toilets are the most underrated invention ever.
Showers got em beat.
Modern sanitation is considered to be among the most important advances in all of history for eradicating many epidemic diseases and making large modern cities possible. Far from underrated.
@@onemoremisfit tell that to the teenagers who clog em just for fun lol
I dunno. I rate them pretty highly
Romans had plumbing. Too bad theism had to delete knowledge, for it is "sinful" (amish, Islam, ect)
Every time I watch a video about sanitation back then I feel more and more grateful for modern-day plumbing
More like... you glad Mario bros Existed.
The weird thing is that ancient Rome and Bronze Age civilizations had more advanced plumbing tech than the civilizations in the medieval era
I think the aztecs also had municipal plumbing and sanitation done well at some point
And deodorant
And for those who work in sanitation.
Fun fact: the British term “loo” used to refer to a time when people yelled out “garde l’eau” in French to warn people of bodily fluids coming their way.
“Garde l’eau” evolved into “gard ye loo” and then just “loo” to refer to the toilet
Yes I've heard this before! They would yell "garde l'eau" as they threw the contents of their toilet bucket out the window
I shall the loo with my life if need be, my king
@@amberv9424 wow very clean
@@Ameen_AAA they didn't have anywhere else to put it. No plumbing, no sewers, no garbage dumps, no trash pickup
@@amberv9424they did have waste pick up though. I'm not sure exactly on the time period, but there were people such as "nightmen" and "gong farmers" that would shovel out cesspits and haul it away. I think that service in cities is a more later history thing, but I believe castles, if the privy did not go straight to the moat, then they would have some sort of pit that gets shoveled out periodically
Imagine trying to conceal some bad diarrhea noise as you let out that one fart that echoes through the kingdom
The king on the royal throne
underrated as f
@@Vertig8.Ignichto shutt
I hope this comment reaches the top 😂😂😂
Sonic Boom
Ok gents, we've found a way into the castle, but you're not gonna like it.
Haha!
I wonder if that's where the phrase "head up your ass" got started... 😜
I heard Gaillard Castle was actually taken this way
I heard there's one king assassinated from toilet
The assassin wait and stab the king in you know
@@normaleverydayman7004 lol
Toilets like these existed in Hadhramaut until a couple of decades ago. Ashes were placed down at the bottom for several reasons: to prevent the spread of odor, to deter flies from flying up, and to facilitate the cleaning of the area later. The person responsible for the cleaning would scoop out the unclean ash and replace it with new ash. The task of cleaning was assigned to anonymous individuals who would come during the night to do the cleaning. The anonymity was meant to preserve their dignity and honor.
thank you for this info
They were called night men. I read a story about the famous Harley Street in London and how the night men came very late at night to remove buckets of human waste from the cellars of those houses where it was stored in buckets with lids awaiting collection.
The real pooper scoopers
Basically cat litters for humans 😂
Where was Hadramaut?
That’s the great defense mechanism ever. Just have a moat of poop water around your castle and no one will want to invade
Best comment !
Oh my gosh, you’re so right 🤣🙃🤢!!
Moss was used in medieval Ireland, turns out the moisture and texture of the moss cleaned the arse very well, and moss has antibacterial qualities!
No, no. No. N. O. Absolutely not. We are NOT calling moss nature's flushable wipes. No.
😂😂😂 very true , also used as field dressings in ww1 and great as part of a water filter
@@eastboundanddown5872 that’s specifically red moss, to which you must deprive it of certain nutrients to make it so good, it’s very nice to hold, not sure about using it instead of toilet paper though
A sort of sphincterine.
@@oppionatedindividual8256 that's a wild and specific piece if knowledge. What else do you know???
The flush toilet is the most underrated invention of all time
@@goodelucky broh don't you wash your ass? just wipe?
@@goodelucky toilet paper ia useless if you have the ultimate water gun for your butt, found mostly everywhere in asia
Omg really got so many likes😳
Thx a lot mates
People severely take for granted the water at the bottom of the toilet... it's not only to flush away everything, but it acts as a liquid buffer that stops the smell from seeping out behind the loop... without it, you'd basically be living in a citywide outhouse, and that is not fun. Despite the moat in the castle being filled with water... it was full of waste water, but with how Humans used to live next to Cattle, Pigs, and Horses, I imagine they were used to the overwhelming smell of piss and poop...
@@bonkersbear5347 You would be pretty use to the smell if you grew up in that sort of environment.
@@sadikhasanmubin8882um, do you walk around with wet soggy moist underwear?
Lol, the part of history no one wants to talk about, but everyone is secretly curious about.
Zanlee you made me laugh so hard cause your 💯 % right. Our poor ancestors & what to do with the Pooh.
Moss. Hay and grass.
Well, because most of the stuff you hear about is bs. First rhing: don't call it the fucking dark ages
It was actually common for people to wipe their bum with sheep's wool. The wool would sometimes be dropped down the privy and then the Gong Farmer would collect it, clean it, and sell it to the Spinster who would process it into yarn. She would then sell it to the Weaver who would make it into cloth. Eventually the cloth would be made into clothes. And this is why people were so smelly back then.
@@geigertec5921 omg 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Those moats must have been disgusting.
Exactly! And so smelly. I’m surprised no one mentioned it here yet. Like imagine visiting a castle and get hit by this horrible smell first
Black knight
That moment when you realize your are more priveledged than the kings.
Were living luxury
Gotta remember to be grateful
It is all a matter of perspective right ?
And we always find something to complain about.😂 We actually have everything.
@@angellight5040 os reis não eram obrigados a trabalhar em empregos inúteis como no capitalismo atual!
Back when explosive diarrhea was part of the castle defenses.
lmao
That’s some pure horror
IBS peasants were on standby. Well paid and VERY well fed.
Slippery tunnel when wet
I would run away in a war after seeing that 💀
Shittin in the winter was probably a cold ass shit
it still is, many summer/winter cabins here use outhouses which are naturally unheated. At -30C using one is a chilling experience.
_Literally_
Only the people in castles had toilets. I think everyone else just went behind a tree
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
You get to watch it steam though. That's pretty cool.
Imagine an intruder climbing up that shaft and suddenly a 💩 falls onto him 😂
Imagine the toilet breaking and you fall 40 feet deep into shit.
Definitely a shitty situation.
Worst way to die for sure (not accounting for painfulness, just how disgusting it would be)
New fear..unlocked?
@@gabrielgamer4458 youd probably get infections from falling ass-first into shit if you didnt die from the fall
Most of the chutes wouldn't be large enough for a human body to fit in, but I'm sure some of them were. What a bloody nightmare that would be.
“These chutes haven’t seen action in several hundred years”
Challenge accepted
Aaaaahahahahaha 😂
My thoughts exactly 😂😂
"Sir please stop fucking the toilets, you know that's not what I meant by action"
Underrated coment
You know some schoolboys on a field trip are going to do it. Or some American tourist with the last name 'Paul'.
Ancient Rome : creates sewer system
*Barbarians do barbarian things and rome falls*
Middle ages: wall shitter
Lol
once the shit goes out the wall it aint my problem anymore
@@jango7889I see that you don’t let shit bother you
Funny enough you'd say that cause the romans had some pretty filthy habits of their own
@@jango7889 no shit. literally
I always love the thought that a craftsman from today could actually build flushing toilets and other modern inventions during the medieval age that are in concept pretty basic and not relying on materials not available during those times
Well, to be honest, a modern engineer would probably still prefer to use a similar design, but utilize the feces collected.
Medieval times would have had no idea, but human feces are extremely useful material - specifically for gunpowder production. It's a core component into cultivating saltpeter (potassium nitrate).
Someone with the modern knowledge could advance warfare to his advantage with poop!
@aohige Actually at certain points in the middle ages you could pay your taxes in urine after this became more well known and gunpowder was more widely adopted in warfare. The "French" method of harvesting sulfates from urine and feces though this was most often applied to animal excrement found in barns or stables.
On London Bridge there were public toilets, rooms that hung over the side of the bridge, so everything went straight into the river.
Yup, and the Thames is biggest sewer. (The great Stink in the early Victorian)
one word: cholera
Since brexit all rivers are contaminated again.
@@inisipisTVis or was?
@@CinderedSilver just stay as far from the 14th century as you can 😂
Medival Castle Painter: "We are painting the castle brown."
Everyone: "Why?"
Medieval Castle Painter: "Trust me."
95 likes and only 1 comment? Let m-
(No I’m not that guy)
Lol
@@SansUndertal3 Lol, I replied that on another vid before this 😛
@@SansUndertal3yes yoo are
They were painting it brown alright
The guy who invented the flushing toilet should've won the noble prize.
It was invented a very long time ago and lost multiple times during history and we don't really know who was the first
Thomas Crapper
@@0ldb1llshit, no way.
@@0ldb1llit was Sir John Harington. Then Alexander Cumming improved it and Thomas Crapper made it popular by installing them in the homes of rich and powerful people.
@@0ldb1llBeavis and Butthead laughter intensifies
“Carrying shit’s hard work, a job for a real man.”
-Henry of Skalitz
Imagine you being a guard and patrolling the castle, only to hear shit fall on your head 💀
You wouldn't be patrolling right up next to the wall though.
@@Webberjoyou would be if you were this comment though
@@Webberjoit leads to the mote
why would you patrol outside the wall in the moat?
London resident pre 1900 lived that life.
Imagine walking past and just seeing a royal turd fall out the wall.
*past
@@rkang6531 Hek is past
@@sub7se7en *walking past
@@rkang6531 faces pass and I'm homebound 🎵 da na na na na na na 🎵
If it's gold in colour, it means a Lannister is in the castle...
Indoor plumbing is criminally underrated
It is. You can thank it for the rise in human life expectancy.
I think he meant *taken for granted* instead of *underrated* but the point still has value.
@@ALLw3rk I mean they’re essentially the exact same thing to anyone who doesn’t have a weird hang-up with words like ‘overrated’ and ‘literally’
One of the dumbest comments ever seen on TH-cam.
I think it was Jordan Peterson that made the point, Plumbers have saved more people than doctors.
"luckily for us these toilets haven't seen any action for over a hundred years."
I see this as a challenge
Imagine shitting, then waiting a couple seconds, and then hearing it splat against the ground
Bruh 💀💀💀
How was the josh!🎉
с такой высоты все должно сгорать в атмосфере.
Funnily enough,I think that would give me great pleasure,yes I know I'm weird
Лучше нет красоты, чем посрать с высоты.
a famous case happened in 1076 when Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine was assassinated while using one of these. the assassin was hiding in all that mess until the duke entered to use the privy, and then he got him with a spear. i don’t even want to imagine what the assassin looked like coming out of there lmao
He looked ✨victorious✨, wdym? 😂
I don't want to imagine what angle he attacked from!
Ouch, I can’t imagine how that must have felt. Your whole butt in vulnerable position and a spear coming right up it 😬
He must have really hated that Duke.
And how did he know he jabbed the right person? I've heard of modern day facial recognition...
@@philiptownsend4026ah yes, this butt is actually washed. Must be royalty
Imagine inviting your friends over and they say. "Cornelius your castle smells like shit."
But the good part was that all of their castles smelled like shit
💀💀💀
nah..it smell like shit all over the country, so they probably wouldnt notice the smell
@@asmerX100
İf that's your opinion of England, then I hope you left - and that you never plan on stepping foot here again for as long as you live! Same goes for everyone who liked your comment.
@@asmerX100 that shit make me so glad I was born in this age
Big Respect for the dude who created toilets ☠️
The thought of an intruder going up the poop chute just makes me chuckle
Johnny English did it 😂
SKIBIDI TOILET
That comment is definitely one that's open to interpretation, lmao.
I certainly would not chuckle at the thought of an invader going up my poop chute 😱
Johnny English
I bet they got pooped on their heads
makes you appreciate modern day plumbing
@@4345gheethe Romans even had the first firefighters
“Why is everyone getting sick?!”
“ What’s That Smell ? “
"What do you mean they entered the castle?"
@@Tom-ul3gb a popular saying for men in the 1700 hitting it from the back.
What would your options be back then?
Maybe the fungi moss they wiped their ass with
the editing, i’m obsessed
“it’s a bird!”
“it’s a plane!”
“it’s a- OH SHI-“
literally 💀
Underrated comment
@@kanox2.071 lmao ty
lmao that got me cackling
😂
Look at that fish in the pic as it opens her mouth waiting for $hit to fall 🤣
The splash back at that height must have been devastatingly powerful.
Absolutely deadly
Fast and furious 😂
Deep Impact
Fatality
@@invader_786 fast and murderous
Imagine thinking you'd found a way in climbing up some chute, and all of a sudden, somebody lays a paté on ya face
😅 A Monty Python moment!
Shit faced on a Friday night 🤣😆
@agik137 imagine being a viking waiting in king Edmund Ironside's toilet to deliver a fatal blow from below
Bro I've never seen a patte that wasn't shaped like a fkn hockey puck, what kinda logs are you cutting out my guy? 😂
@King_WhiteWolf you think people that drank beer for breakfast did anything solid. Bet they all had liquid ass
The most medieval thing here is the picture resolution 😂
The only rule in those restrooms is "don't fall in"
ИХ ПОДНИМУТ СО СЛУГАМИ ХОДЯТ МОЖЕТ НЕДОНЕСУТ ОБДРИЩЕТСЯ ПОТОМ ОТТИРАТСЯ СОЛОМОЙ СЕНОМ ГДЕ ОНИ СЕНО ЗИМОЙ НАЙДУТ НА АЛЬБИОНЕ😢😮😅🎉😂
@user-ry3br5qd2j bro what 💀
@@СергейКалабин-п7и STOP SCREAMING
One more reason not to swim in the moat!
Also made it nasty so no one would go across and invade.
Well they could but they would get covered in shite and grey water lol
Thats why when u were wounded and fell into the moat, ur fate is sealed.
i saw a documentary once about life in that period, and they used the moat water to clean their bedsheets and other clothes...they just filtered the water with a basket and some coal and used that water. Also they cleaned the bedsheets by (no pun intended) beating the shit out of them with a slab of wood atached to some pulleys. The name of the channel is Absolute History
@@totonacapon7375 Tony Robinson should give a demo of the technique! Really it's hard to believe they didn't know that would be bad for you. You can understand using the river, it's washing away, but stagnant moat water... 🤮
Who needs crocodiles. The stench and disease would have been ebough.
Woof, no toilet paper--butts were humming
You are still using toilet paper, unbelievable? Us Asians just can't understand why you people don't use water and soap to clean yourselves. I guess it's all about keeping a pretty face! but organic fragrance 😂
@@MyPakiRandomness Sorry to break it to you, but you have no idea what I use, personally. 🙃🙂 As far as “you people,” well…..
Water and soap are for the poors of the world
Human history is full of dignified moments like this.
Your and my ancestors used to burn their kids so that God will be pleased and he can make rain happen
Most of the English archers at Agincourt had no trousers on because they'd got diarrhoea from the funny foreign food.
Edmund Ironside was stabbed up his back end by an assassin in the latrine shaft.
No 💩.
*european history
@@Big-BossX Yes, because everywhere else had modern plumbing since the dawn of time
“Ah shit, jimmy’s fell down the toilet again”
Holy shit Jimmy!
Jimny: AHHH this place stinks!
JIIMMEHHHHH!
😂😂😂😂
"That's a shitty move, jimmy."
Use Toilet paper ❌
Use Water ✅
Even now, that's true, toilet paper always misses a spot, a good rinse, even if it gets shit on other areas (which gets washed off anyways) gets a more thorough clean.
@@MHShah17I don't have a bidet installed (I bought one a while back) so I use baby wipes
Use water? Well....ugh. God seems so messy ! you can't wash off feces with water unless it's with soap
I need my TP! Kind of a must-have. I do try to use as little as necessary.
I use to feel the same way until I got my first bidet...
@@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999
How about you use both?
My history teacher in high school once explained the history of the toilet...best 2 hours of my life!
just remember, that hundreds of years ago roman empire already had an canalisation system in their cities
And look how that turned out
and at the same time africans were still living in mud huts
Yeah in their biggest City thanks to slaves. And the medieval society needed that shit to fertilize the fields.
@@banalebanane8792tell me a city without slaves back then including africa middle east asia america
Bare in mind the early middle ages were feudal times ,castles and keeps were constantly attacked and destroyed...so why put in the extra effort?
Fun fact. The medieval toilets was the inspiration for the layout of New Jersey centuries later.
Hey! As a new jersian I resent that! We are a different breed tho lol
@@Bluemudphoenix nah he’s right. i got a front row seat.
Fun fact: I'm sitting on a toilet right now
😅 Thousands of years before European dark age, India had the most complex sewage system.😅
@@1TrueGod i think he’s calling new jersey a medieval toilet. not giving them credit for anything lmao
so basically you needed to own a castle. got it!
Yup pooping without a castle was illegal
@@trogdor8764 no wonder life expectancy was so short!
@@trogdor8764 It was in London.
Which unleashed the plague... 8[
I mean they probably went in outhouses or just behind a tree or bush, maybe in a latrine or wherever you can find privacy when nature calls.
oathouses
The sound of a turd hitting the bottom of that shift at terminal velocity must have been great.
Moss actually makes phenomenal toilet paper. Obviously not when it's dry, but fresh moss is like luxury toilet paper.
You should use it
I only use dry, better purchase and less insects
I never used moss as TP but I can tell it's a bad idea just like I can tell using a sponge as tp is a bad idea, the shape is just all wrong.
Ok moss shitter
Nothing beats water. Even today
Imagine just minding your own business near the castle walls and someone's shit falls on your head💀💀
😂
Man the outside of the castle must have stank like he*l at least occasionally 😅
ayyy same pfp
@@YourEverydayGuy2 my brother
They knew better. Some young guy's job must have been to bury it occasionally.
Henry VIII had a velvet cushioned seat and a servant known as the Gentleman to the Privy Chamber to wipe his bottom. It was a coveted position since the Gentleman to the Privy Chamber had access to the king without interruption or being overheard. These gentlemen could be bribed to make suggestions to the king for favors.
It was a coveted position??? "Mom said it's my turn to wipe the kings ass, let me have a turn!" 💀💀💀
@@justmike9556 , I know. It's amazing what people will do to gather favors.
The og toilet talk
Imagine you grab a bit of toilet paper and it starts suggesting socioeconomic reforms
Nah, I’ll pass on that job. 🙅🏽♀️
This is somehow comforting to me, just look at it. I like the way it looks.
I guess that's where the phrase "dropping a shit" came from
No matter how you shit it drops dumb ads.
@@Mvdgh *Wow, no shit.*
@@Mvdghnot if you lie facedown on the floor
@@RichieKrol 💀 then its flying rather than dropping
@@Mvdgh you’re shitting me? 😊
The fact that some random guy painted someone's ass is wonderful
You would love Christian paintings or Roman statues
LOL
and the finger gun too
I fail to grasp the image I'm wondering if those are a pair of knees but then that hand would have to be someone else's getting that out of the way it now looks like some weird Kamasutra position upward pointed butt but the hand still does not match
If you look closer it seems there are two asses
Bro how you die?
"I die falling in the toilet"
It's surprisingly common to die from a cracked water closet cutting up your leg arteries, actually.
Bro pooped himself put
Lol falling six stories
Erfurt Latrine Disaster.
On 26 July 1184, at an assembly of various nobles and dignatories of the Holy Roman Empire, the floor collapsed and people fell into the latrine cesspit below, leading to the death of 60 people by drowning, suffocation, or trauma from the fall or collapsing debris.
@@BoxStudioExecutive I've never been so horrified and amused before. That REALLY must have been a sight. Imagine the clean up
That poot sound effect sent me rolling 😂
I will never bitch about my tiny bathroom again.
You and me both, buddy
The average modern human lives better than the kings at that time
the average peasant back then was wealthier and had more freedom than average middle class today
@@AverageAlien ?? we’re talking about peasants during the dark ages??
@@sircharlesross537 no such thing as the "dark ages" bud
@@AverageAlien oh come on you know what I’m talking about.
Still doesn’t explain your claim that peasants in medieval times were better off than humans today.
Unless you’re trolling, then it went way over my head
@@AverageAlien yeah, peasants back then never had to deal with age related sicknesses, probably due to the fact they die early due to treatable infections and stuff
These must have had amazing acoustics.
🤣
Many a rousing tune been heard down below.
Lol at the fish with its tongue out waiting for the turd to drop.
...
Hearing the echo of farts while passing by 💀
I'd be super extra about it. "Hear the thunderous wrath of the pagan god Zeus" RRIP.
that call echonomical
Imagine hearing a loud scream from inside the castle, then diarrhea shoots out of that hole
😋😋😋😋😋 yummy, hope I can catch it.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar wtf
Hahahahahahahahahaha wtf
Loud scream?
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmarbruh
Also used were scrap cloths and strips of linen (not soft enough for clothing, so used for wiping and menstrual pads).
Cheers!
I also remember something about moss being used and water to clean the bum
Since i don't work for netflix, im assuming everyone who'd have occupied that castle would have been white.
A cousin of mine who is a doctor in the US once said, white people will let absolutely anything touch their arsehole, except maybe some water.
Also ceramic! Literally beads of recycled ceramic, idk how that would have felt but apparently using sand and gravel was common in history as well
@@ThomasSawyers devout muslims still use ceramic as a way to clean after urination.
Go to certain mosques and the washroom may offer you bits of broken pottery and/bricks to daub the last drop of urine from the end of your penis so that it doesn't lahd in your clothing. So, near certain mosque toilets you'll see a table or tray holding pottery shards and a bin to collect the refuse. The men might also squat to urinate. This is however observed only by a tiny fraction of the people.
I don't know if women are expected to do this.
Don’t really understand why people just don’t use water to clean. Such a basic human instinct yet somehow people still used all those weird things.
Moss, grass, pinecones, small rocks, twogs etc ain't terrible. I use that weekly on camping trips
That painting of the arse just hanging out the wall killed me, LOL.
LOL 😆 🤣 😂!! I Thought That Looked Like An Arse, Butt I Wasn't Sure!!😂
i think thats two arses
I thought that was a Knee.
Ass not arse
@@GoodLookingGentlemen....two knees
I just realized that flush toilets, bidet and toilet papers are golden inventions ❤
Unless you were born post covid you did not just discover that
@@CrunchyTire These people don't actually ever study anything about history or else they would know better.
The problem is that outside Italy, and some other countries, nobody uses bidet, LOL.
P.S. And this, as an italian, causes me a lot of stress when I go on holidays.
You just acknowledged*
Biden*
There is this castle in Finland "Olavinlinna". The castle almost fully covers the small island it is built on except for one spot. To make it harder to penetrate the castle builders came up with an idea. Toilet seats were built in a tower that was located over that spot. Basically the poop was utilized to make the steep terrain slippery and uncomfortable to climb.
Wow😯
Now imagine climbing the stairs to that tall tower when you are in a hurry.
@@Redwan777 There were also regular "dump taking" places in the lower floors. Many slept in those towers and guarded the surrounding terrain at all times.
@@Redwan777 maybe constipated people could use that one. A bit of heavy leg exercise might work it loose.
The stench is enough to change the mind about invading the castle.
0:10 Who thought it would be a good idea to have that chute almost directly above a door?
That door doesn't look fortified. It may have been added centuries later.
@@olmostgudinaf8100 That's a fair point.
Apparently plumbing and plumbers have saved more lives that doctors and modern medicine.
And they don't get much credit do they? It is seen as a lowly profession.
Thanks Jordan Peterson
Plumbing is a real profession that pays almost 100k a year. It’s a very respectable profession.
Imagine standing outside the castle wall and hearing someone absolutely just rip one like it's the morning after Taco Tuesday
Not Wednesday Wet Ones 😮
I will never understand all these taco jokes
@@Allyfynsame. I get it's a joke, but tacos have never given me "the sh*ts". I don't get it either.
@@iowafarmboyyou ain’t had tacos done right then bro
@@Twink6629-lg3te Typically and in everyway, this is commonly known as your body flushing out dangerous components to save you. So no, that is a taco done extremely wrong. That's half way to an upset stomach.
I think this is where the word “Ass-ass-in” came from. 😂😂😂
Glad I’m not the only one that thought that😂 Ezio really grips onto those with his bare hands 😭🤢
Holy shit you nailed it.
No pun intended.
Actually, the word comes from the Arabic word “Hashashin,” which is in relation to a group of Shia Muslim Ismaili people. They were infamous for committing murder - including for hire - for the sake of political gain during the Middle Ages.
@@civilwildmanyou know that was a joke right? No one cares about how smart you are trying to look. 😂
@@civilwildmanI know i usually appreciate these corrections but why did you have to ruin the joke 💀
Right On!!! People used to clime up those on the inside to kill the person taking a shhhhht.
“ ah shit, I dropped my phone”
Literally
💩 SpLaT🤢
Those weren’t invented until around the final quarter of the 20th century.
@@rykiafredrick1320 Really?????
@@rykiafredrick1320its. a. joke
The stench in the castle must be something else.
You get used to it. I keep jugs of poo and pee in my room during long video game sessions and it doesn’t bother me anymore
@@Stranger_In_The_Alps bro what the fuck
@@buak809 I can’t let my team down during a raid. A bathroom break means crushing defeat
@@Stranger_In_The_Alpsyour lucky TH-cam is sensitive
@@daveeaster1061yes they are 😒
I love when there is a several second delay before you hear it smash into the bottom.
"Kept well off the ground so potential invaders couldn't climb up them"
Why didn't they just make them tighter
My mom was complaining that she couldn't find a bathroom in the Tower of London, my dad and I asked her if she could use the Norman toilets instead... She declined
😂😂😂
The dude screaming after the toilet paper part had me CRYING😂😂
i thought i was the only one 😂
😂😂
After toilet grass
он радуется сухому хворосту
I always go back and revisit this video for this part😂
You are better off in a two bedroom modern apartment than a king in any castle pre 20th century.
Not if you want tons of food and lovers.....
@@efisgpr ya, but the sexually transmitted disease was so prevalent that most everyone that lived long enough died of all types of horrific diseases. That’s the truth, kings included.
@@efisgpr or you could die of diarrhoea like George I and many others of wealth
@@MrSocko-vn7fw death will never be painless🫡 whether you die in a modern world or ancient or even if you have billions.. everyone will have to suffer before death🫢
I'll swap
to see how far down it was you'd have to drop down a load and then listen to see how long it took
Everybody back then just walking around with shit in their crack
Must have been a trade-off between that and mutilating your butt bole with dry reeds😂😂
Hence the "dark ages"
People still cleaned themselves... Honestly what people think about people back in the day is ridiculous.
@@XMysticHeroxthey didn't get to clean or take baths as often as some of us do today so they weren't exactly smelling like roses either.
Sure but is is important to note that that was not unique to the middle ages but basically how things were until WW2 or so. People would take weekly baths and rinse themselves off daily still.
They were still human. Noone wants to smell like shit and you don't need a shower for that. @@krazykaye8843
The updraft must have been hell on so many levels. 😳
Imagine the arrows
Knats would be swarming up so much.
😂😂😂
@@AJ-kv1po imagine having to schoot one while someone was doing their thing
People smelled like ass back then, not even toilet paper. dookie all under the finger nails haha
the invention of the bathroom is underrated
Go back in time and tell them that everytime after you poop you throw a really big bucket of drinking water on your dung. To them you will look as fool as they look nowadays.
Amen!
Good ol water closet.
And these were the people who had the nerve to go to other continents and call those people dirty and backwards
Those little rooms were called "garderobes", because clothes were stored in there to protect them from moths. Because moths hated the smell in there.
Neat fact good to know.
That’s probably why one’s clothes are referred to as a wardrobe.
Has the etymology basically to some degree and probably stems from this word.
Indeed to this day, ammonia pellets are used to keep pests at bay
Source?
@H K C yep, nobody used anything that smelled good ever before the Arabs
@@lightgrove7751 source: trust me
"These chutes haven't seen action for several hundred years"
You can't keep me down, museum curators. Where there's business to be done it WILL be done.
That's exactly what I told the lady at Lowe's.
“These chutes haven’t seen any action for a couple hundred years”
I take that as a challenge.
I’m sad I went swimming in that moat that one time now.
the thumbnail of this video is one of the hardest album covers ive ever seen
"haven't seen any action in several hundred years".
UNTIL TODAY.
"TODAY, HISTORY WILL COME BACK TO LIFE!"
This changes my whole perception concerning how impenetrable the castle moat was.
It was literally sh*t and piss stew. Imagine in the summer.
@@sal2975 oh my.
@@sal2975 Perhaps the water companies could deflect criticism about the millions of tons of raw sewage they pour into our rivers by saying that they're boosting the historical experience for tourists.
Yeah I don't think a general would be able to convince me to charge across raw sewage to invade a castle. Makes sense why most sieges lasted until the castle just ran out of food/water.
@@setcheck67 indeed!
I would love to get a chance to use one of these! 🙏
Knight: Your majesty, we're being invaded.
King: Summon my son, tell him to start shitting.
brooo I'm wheezing so hard at this🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂
😂😂😂💀
Time to eat medieval Taco Bell
Imagine trying to climb one of those shafts to get into the castle and someone needs to use the bathroom and you literally get crapped on
Remember Jonny English u get idea from it lol😅
Imagine walking and a piece of sh¡t just falls on your head💀💀
Lolololo😂
That happened to me before 😭
Pov: American Urbanization during the 1800's
@@derricklangford4725. That's traumatic
Happened to me at the beach. Freaking seagulls have no manners. 😂
There's an excellent rendition of this in the Lego Lion Knights Castle using a brown frog piece at the bottom as the "business".