The Victorian Jobs That Made You A Social Outcast The Worst Jobs In History Timeline
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Tim
Swooping for dog ends on the street (not pub) is the main way a lot of homeless people get their tobacco. When I first came to London (early 80's, homeless for a while, I was hanging around with street people. One told me, begging you might not get much money, but if you ask for a cigarette you'll always get one. Not anymore, apparently. People have become more cynical and less sympathetic. So glad I don't smoke.
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Swooping for dog ends on the street (not pub) is the main way a lot of homeless people get their tobacco. When I first came to London (early 80's, homeless for a while, I was hanging around with street people. One told me, begging you might not get much money, but if you ask for a cigarette you'll always get one. Not anymore, apparently. People have become more cynical and less sympathetic. So glad I don't smoke.
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timeline
Tony Robinson and Mike Rowe need to team up and do a historical vs modern day worst jobs ever show. I saw Mike Rowe go down with some modern day sewer workers. They basically had to clean the machinery that keeps a city sewer system functioning. It was absolutely horrible work! Some things have not evolved much at all. That would be a great show with their two zany personalities.
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Tony Robinson and Mike Rowe need to team up and do a historical vs modern day worst jobs ever show. I saw Mike Rowe go down with some modern day sewer workers. They basically had to clean the machinery that keeps a city sewer system functioning. It was absolutely horrible work! Some things have not evolved much at all. That would be a great show with their two zany personalities.
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Tim
Swing that hammer Tony. Let the weight do the work. Surprising how many people don't know how to swing a hammer or a pick. In Slovakia I once saw a guy on a building site trying to dig out a trench using a pick to chip at it (clueless gypsy labourer employed by a cowboy builder who was ripping off the client. How can anyone not know how to swing a hammer or a pick!
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Swing that hammer Tony. Let the weight do the work. Surprising how many people don't know how to swing a hammer or a pick. In Slovakia I once saw a guy on a building site trying to dig out a trench using a pick to chip at it (clueless gypsy labourer employed by a cowboy builder who was ripping off the client. How can anyone not know how to swing a hammer or a pick!
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Tim
Oakum is used to caulk the hull of wooden ships. The expert dumbed down his explanation of it's use that wasn't necessary. Seafaring nation and an educated population. Everybody learned stuff like this at school, (if they were paying attention) even before Horrible Histories.
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Oakum is used to caulk the hull of wooden ships. The expert dumbed down his explanation of it's use that wasn't necessary. Seafaring nation and an educated population. Everybody learned stuff like this at school, (if they were paying attention) even before Horrible Histories.
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Robert
Kids sweeping chimneys. positively outrageous and abusive. complain all you want about OSHA and safety laws and work regulations for minors but Lord knows there's a reason for all of it.
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Kids sweeping chimneys. positively outrageous and abusive. complain all you want about OSHA and safety laws and work regulations for minors but Lord knows there's a reason for all of it.
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Billy
I layed asphalt for two seasons. They have all the big equipment for the people doing whole roads, but I was on a patch crew. A busy day for us was 24-32 tons shoveled and raked by hand.
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I layed asphalt for two seasons. They have all the big equipment for the people doing whole roads, but I was on a patch crew. A busy day for us was 24-32 tons shoveled and raked by hand.
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Jim
Rat catcher was very profitable. They paid you to catch rats and you kept them. After you cleaned and deep fried the rats they were sold as fried chicken bits or fish and chips.
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Rat catcher was very profitable. They paid you to catch rats and you kept them. After you cleaned and deep fried the rats they were sold as fried chicken bits or fish and chips.
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Caiyde
I thought he was going to say One for the rock, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow was an old saying Victorians had about their kids, not about their crops
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I thought he was going to say One for the rock, one for the crow, one to rot and one to grow was an old saying Victorians had about their kids, not about their crops
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DreamBelief
Please expand this series to other time periods (ancient, bronze age etc) and cultures (jobs, technology and the way things were done differed a lot)
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Please expand this series to other time periods (ancient, bronze age etc) and cultures (jobs, technology and the way things were done differed a lot)
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BTF
Why did the Victorian tanners manufactured leather in such a horrid manner?
All sorts of peoples all the way back to the Romans had several alternatives
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Why did the Victorian tanners manufactured leather in such a horrid manner?
All sorts of peoples all the way back to the Romans had several alternatives
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Paul
Those were the same kids the UK called on to fight WW1 shame on them for treating them that way and then thrust the weight of the world on their shoulders
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Those were the same kids the UK called on to fight WW1 shame on them for treating them that way and then thrust the weight of the world on their shoulders
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professornuke
Twas Christmas Day in the Workhouse.
The Master called down the halls
Do you like your Christmas Dinner?
The inmates answered BALLS!
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Twas Christmas Day in the Workhouse.
The Master called down the halls
Do you like your Christmas Dinner?
The inmates answered BALLS!
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DreamBelief
Not sure why they specifically spoke about boys being chimney sweeps. We know very well that girls did it too, albeit in lower numbers.
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Not sure why they specifically spoke about boys being chimney sweeps. We know very well that girls did it too, albeit in lower numbers.
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Johnathan
Did anybody else feel a little uncomfortable when she said a jolly good bang there wasn't it? LOL. I guess I have a dirty mind.
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Did anybody else feel a little uncomfortable when she said a jolly good bang there wasn't it? LOL. I guess I have a dirty mind.
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DJSCOAH
Screaming lefty but a fabulous presenter whos not afraid of getting stuck in and who did his history research - fair play to him
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Screaming lefty but a fabulous presenter whos not afraid of getting stuck in and who did his history research - fair play to him
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Zoe
Do you notice the smell anymore?
Tanner: I dont but my wife does when I come home
Tony: Im surprised shes still there!
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Do you notice the smell anymore?
Tanner: I dont but my wife does when I come home
Tony: Im surprised shes still there!
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Tw1zzl3rs
If I had a boss like the train conductor I'd happily clean that ash pan and firebox lol he seems like a jolly fellow
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If I had a boss like the train conductor I'd happily clean that ash pan and firebox lol he seems like a jolly fellow
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Danger
Nope. I'm far to claustrophobic to be crawling inside fire boxes. Hats off to you sir.
Dirty Jobs: Victorian era.
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Nope. I'm far to claustrophobic to be crawling inside fire boxes. Hats off to you sir.
Dirty Jobs: Victorian era.
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timeline
Watching this makes you realize some of the reasons why life spans were considerably shorter in the 19th century.
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Watching this makes you realize some of the reasons why life spans were considerably shorter in the 19th century.
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alnot01
My oldest ancestor with a known profession other than yeoman farmer, was a. tanner in a small French town in 1784.
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My oldest ancestor with a known profession other than yeoman farmer, was a. tanner in a small French town in 1784.
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