This is a medieval toilet
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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
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
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 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.
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
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.
“Woah what a nice cas-“
*Shit falls out of it*
💀
“Crap castle,” the locals call it. They say the ruler is a despot, but revolts have been unsuccessful; the castle is unassailable…
*until now.* 🚽
Bald kurapika
HahahahHahaha
@@hobomike6935 FOUL😭But nice comentary
makes you appreciate modern day plumbing
@@4345gheethe Romans even had the first firefighters
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...
“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
Woof, no toilet paper--butts were humming
Imaging walking past admiring a castle back then and out of nowhere some shit just come speeding towards your head like it was on a roller coaster 😂
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
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
"luckily for us these toilets haven't seen any action for over a hundred years."
I see this as a challenge
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.
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.
In those days you might have had straw and hay falling out of your trousers instead of the stereotypical depiction of toilet paper dragging out behind your boot!
Those moats must have been disgusting.
Who remembers the books in school that illustrated these toilets and often had people stuck midway through the shaft?
This is the kind of stuff that comes to my mind every time i hear someone say "i wish i was born in the past"
It's not that big of a deal
5000 years back were good times especially in Egypt and India. Some civilizations at that time were way more advanced than medieval times.
Everyone was born in the past
Imagine having a bad case of explosive diarrhea in the middle of the night, the long shaft would amplify the sounds out your arse.
"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.
Imagine you're walking next to a castle and get hit in the head with a medieval poop.
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.
I like to think it goes to the dungeon for "food"
I love when there is a several second delay before you hear it smash into the bottom.
Well, it would suck for whoever walked underneath it while someone was taking a dump in their back then talk about a literal poo to the face
the thumbnail of this video is one of the hardest album covers ive ever seen
The toilet seat breaks and you fall to your death.
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
“Peak world technology”
This is one of the many reasons why moats were an effective deterrent to invaders. Having to fight in sewage soaked armor was, understandably, an unpopular option.
Think you’ll find the armor is the main deterrent there. You think some aristo is gonna care about his peasant army getting a bit stinky?
@@HydroSnips He will, because they won't fight as well.
Same in roman times. Rome has still toilets (or what is left of them) in the walls 3rd century AD.
The Zamunda Kingdom didn’t have to use moss or hay stacks, They clapped their hands and yell wipers! 👏🏼 👏🏼.
imagine sneaking in but someone had beef and rings that day
I learned about this in middle school. There's also a guy called a gong farmer who would collect the waste at night and dump it outside the city.
I bet that stench was awful back then too
@@iwillnotcomplyistandformyf6642 That's why he dumped it outside the city.
@@leaaronsanchez
Yep
@@iwillnotcomplyistandformyf6642 some places took it to the farms to use as fertilizer.
@@iwillnotcomplyistandformyf6642You gotta think in big cities you’d have animals, pigs sheep horses etc shitting everywhere also, it created such bad sanitation for the citizens and disease was rampant.
dude actually imagine cool, damp, clean moss as toilet paper, that sounds kind of nice
Sewers were invented in 1890
People in 1889:
seweres were invented way back in rome
Think fast chuckle nuts! *Gets dumped with feces*
@@web8076 It really depends how we define this stuff. There were flowing water waste systems outside Europe thousands of years prior to this. It's a bit like when was the toilet invented, it's hard to pin down to a specific location and period.
@@web8076 they were invented even further back in ancient Sumer
@@FoolishPrince The MODERN sewer was invented in 1890, but yes, sewers have been with us for most of our history. Although, the funny thing about the modern sewer is that at first they used 2.5" septic pipes to flow into the main lines, but then realized that wasn't big enough for especially large... loads... and that led to clogs. So they switched to 3" and above. But they still had an abundance of 2.5" pipes laying around from preparations to use them, and since England was rebuilding a lot of Greece's infrastructure after centuries of neglectful Ottoman occupation, they just used them to build the modern Greek septic systems. And to this day they have serious septic problems and most people dispose of their TP in bins.
when I went camping the bathrooms were slim rooms with a mock toilet seat that inside led to a deep hole. you’d piss and wouldn’t hear it for a few seconds, it was that deep. even with that being more comfortable that going in bushes, and having toilet paper, it made me REALLY appreciate flush toilets. always appreciate your flush toilet.
Always get scared im gonna have a wild animal gonna spawn in the hole and crawl up my as in an outhouse
@@12978fghdiu23gewsdufIt happens often
They can be real stinky though. Went on one that stank so bad I almost passed out when I left.
@bmona7550 try like a 5 day music festival. There's shit so high like coming out the lid and it's all drug and liquor shits. And puke. And half the people missed. Grossest thing I've ever smelt. I puked everytime i had to use one. Those are porta pottys though. Outhouse though that's some nature shit
"Kept well off the ground so potential invaders couldn't climb up them"
Why didn't they just make them tighter
It’s amazing how much work has been done over the years
We are built on other people's necessity
Never stops working, never clogs, always keeps the smell out. Brilliant. Bring them back! 😂
New fear unlocked .. arrow in the bum
This is why crossbows were created, substituting for the standard very-wide bow.
Bro took
"That is some antique sh*t right there"
to a different level
True af!
"havent seen action in several hundred years" is that a challenge i hear
Imagine dropping your phone down one of those toilets
I don't think they had phones back then
@@itsmatt517🤓
@@itsmatt517then how did they film this video
@@JoshusBarber Pretty sure that toilet was out of use when this video was shot. I guess they could have reinstated the toilet and dropped their phone down after it to find out what would happen though?
And these were the people who had the nerve to go to other continents and call those people dirty and backwards
“Carrying shit’s hard work, a job for a real man.”
-Henry of Skalitz
Imagine being the one to clean it up, every single day. Day and night...
I'm kinda surprised theres no gutter system to pull in rainwater in to flush the lower portion of the exit.
Mr. Bean: *FLASHBACK*
Imagine the cold wind whistling up that chute in winter
Imagine the stench of that moat.
Royal wooden seats had the luxury of being sanded for a smooth and comfy feel!
The park around that castle in colchester is amazing. The squirrels aren't scared of people. They get fed nuts and seeds so often they come up and expect it. Makes for some great photography.
did the squirrels feed on the seeds and nuts in the feces of the middle age people?
Toilets are the epitome of modern civilization
"The poopsmith's job is obvious"
What is your job?
Royal Moat Shoveler.
I bet moss feels nicer than toilet paper and wet wipes
Idk, any biological material would be weird to me. I'd feel like bits of it would stick to me and start growing on (or in) me
@@_Stormfather toilet paper and wet wipes are biological they come trees and so does moss. Thinks of moss as like using a sponge but fluffy.
@@Alfred_Leonhart ok but moss is alive. Toilet paper isn't. You don't have to worry about anything growing in your toilet paper
Takes me back to lord of the rings where goblins came through the toilet.
Imagine you roll up to your liege’s tower for a party and he’s home alone, and you see a pudding log fly down the wall. Gonna be an awkward soiree
“A room the size of a closet with a hole that goes outside”
Modern toilets are literally the same thing but with water
Not really...today's waste ends up in treatment plants, or underground septic tanks. All self-contained. Never to see the light of day.
In the ages of castles....crap was streaked all down the sides of the castle wall where the hole was. And it stank up the ground, or the moat--where it collected, for all to see--and smell.
@@dragonfly9209don’t forget turning the moat into an effective bio weapon. Lord forbid you fall in there and it’s deep enough to reach an orifice, or you have cuts/open wounds.
@@dragonfly9209 yeah but for inside the house? It's the same deal. Also unless you go up to that section of the wall outdoors you wont see it anyway
From the title I was expecting it was the San Francisco News.
A wooden seat would be a priority installation, imagine sitting on stone in an UK winter.
You don’t need toilet paper, just use water
Malbork Castle has some well preserved examples including stone goblins in the hallways pointing you towards the next privy.
Big Respect for the dude who created toilets ☠️
Imagine the cold seat on a breezy winter night.
So basically an outhouse but it’s attached to the house.
And this is where the term "dropping a deuce" originated
Crazy how it took us so long to realize that pooping in our water sources was not a very good thing for our health
lmao Where you do think companies dump untreated sewage today? Where do countries dump harmful chemicals that are expensive to treat? Where do toxic rivers filled with heavy metals from mining or smelting or other industry goes? River -> Sea.
@@HydroSnips cool bro
Imagine breaking in and someone started their period lmao
"excuse me, can you point me to the toilets here? " 💀💀💀
I look at that and think of how cool it would sound from exit to landing and then I also think how lucky we are
Why does wiping your butt with moss actually sound nice?
Those walls would talk a lot of shit...
Imagine waking up at 2 a.m. and enjoying 8°C wind on your bottom
Imagine standing beside a castle with your friend and poop splats on his head
At least in the dark ages you didn’t have to worry about toilet water splashing up on to your bump if it’s high up!
Imagine casually taking a toilet break thinking I hate my Job and someone comes along and hits you in the ass 😂
Forgot to put the toilet seat down, whoops.
the thrust is probably such in such a pipe that it throws up on a chair.
Yeah this an example of “time flies”
Water does they use water i think we try to forget that old practice
that's where "assassin" come from
Better than blindly finding your way to the "outhouse!!"
The most medieval thing here is the picture resolution 😂
Those front gate meetings in movies must have been a much different experience
Thank you lord for toilet paper 🤣
Well, the Rapunzel fairytale would be different. If it was based around a medieval privy. She would instead be known, for laying the longest cables in the land
The "ÆÆÆÆÆÆ" got me😂💀
New fear unlocked: falling into a medieval toilet
Read up on the Erfurt latrine disaster
@@alphavitesse2652 I will with much apprehension
The guy at the bottom: it’s a shit job, but it’s my job
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
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.
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)
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
Imagine dropping your medieval phone. 💀
😭😭😭😭
Crap--literally! I hope that insurance policy covers this!
is naw
On fonem grave, that would not be very skibidi.
Right ! Cause those soldiers were trained not to drop their cell phones .