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Why Was Violin Making The Worst Stuart Era Job? Worst Jobs In History Timeline

Why Was Violin Making The Worst Stuart Era Job? Worst Jobs In History Timeline

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Tony Robinson examines disgusting occupations from Stuart times, including saltpetre men who collected urine and dug up latrines to gather the gunpowder ingredient potassium nitrate. He also looks at the petardier's assistant, who had to blow the gates off besieged castles, and discovers the modern violin was only made possible because string-makers rummaged for their raw materials in the guts of dead sheep
Date: 2022-07-19

Comments and reviews: 20


A petard is a type of breaching charge? How exactly does one become hoisted by a petard? Is that like rocket jumping? lol
14: 18 Two big strong young lads walk on stage with cocky grins on their faces, and our host straps himself in.
The nitpicker is one humanity's oldest jobs lol, it predates cooking
: ( What a horrible time to be alive. To be forced to resort to mass killing your own pets out of fear of their sanitariness. I dunno if it really was entirely unfounded though. Yes cats can keep the rat population down, but they pick up fleas from the rats they kill very regularly. For all we know, those people's pets were jumping with fleas and other bugs: ( Burning the bodies was probably important

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Incredible. I've done so many jobs in my life, but I realize now I've been spared the truly horrible ones. One of my worst was working in an animal hospital when I was 11 years old, cleaning the cages of the animals being 'wormed', after being given something to purge their bodies. Another was simply cutting up chickens at the local market when I was 15. But it was done in a room where the temperature was lowered very chilly, and soon I lost all my appetite for eating dinner, especially meat. It lasted about 6 days before I walked! Thank you Tony for the education, as well as the entertainment, which is true of course for all your films. Bravo!
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Not sure how rickety the scaffolds were for Thornhill. But Ive seen drawings and explanations of how Michelangelos Sistine Chapel was painted and he basically had a level floor up there. He wasnt hanging off of anything. The floor was actually close enough to the ceiling that he could lay on his back. The Sistine Chapel isnt as high up as St Pauls and the dome would introduce difficulties but it was also a long time after the Sistine Chapel was painted. Not sure why hed be hanging off of rickety narrow scaffolds.
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I love this series but the sheep part has to be non sense. Firstly it would make no sense to slaughter the animal like this (you start from the hind legs and then push/pull the skin off) then taking the inners out is as simple as a few cuts and they fall out themselves. Secondly, pulling your knife through the sheep fur like that would ruin the knife instantly.
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I'm a wheelchair user. I could use some straps like for the sedan chair to make it safer for people (and me) when they need to lift me over stairs or something! I'm always scared they'll injure themselves (never happened yet but there's always a first time. I have been dropped a couple of times though (luckily no bad injuries, touch wood)
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Please tell me one did not start one's day doing this fun stuff without a cup of tea! At what date did the British have tea for the poor to drink? So far I've heard folks drank up to a gallon of beer. I refuse to adult without two cups of coffee. This is why they call the back end of Cows and Horses the Business end.
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Years ago I went to the pharmacy to buy salt peter for tanning a deer pack. As a woman, the pharmacist thought i had some nefarious use in mind. I had no idea of its other uses until he told me. Small-town, I ended up running home and returning with the pelt. You'd have thought I was trying to buy a machine gun.
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Problem is killing the rats wouldn't exactly cure the issue. Killing the cats may have gotten rid of the ability to kill rats. But it also stopped the fleas from jumping from rat to cat. The fleas wouldn't just sit their, as the rat was attacked they'd jump to the cat making it as dangerous as the rat once was.
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Watching all of these documentaries with Tony doing all of these historically bad jobs in the various eras reminds me that he's the ye olden version of the American show Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, who does the exact same thing with today's worst jobs.
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So we now know what happened to Tony's ex wife, a haysledge, a limepit and a moonlit night, followed by lots of shovelling.
Disgraceful that they murdered Cats & Dogs, evil B'stards. They deserve to eat Baldrick's Rat Fricassee!

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You couldn't get me to be a dog and cat killer for the end of the world. Especially considering I'm the parent/charge of a service dog. Shadow owns me as much as I own him, so I hear yeah!
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Tony kind of annoys me. The prancing around, flourishing his hands everywhere, and playing up that something's so incredibly difficult. All for the cameras, and seems unauthentic.
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The petard seems much more like a modern breaching charge rather than a hand grenade. As a former combat engineer, grenades were never put forward as a method of door breaching.
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The Jobs are disgusting, the Cathedral gave me the creeps an the Sheep gutting was awful, but Tony went at all of them all credit to him. Just hope he never munched that Toad.
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Love that random video cut to the kitty while they're gutting the sheep. The editor was like, Ugh, this is vile. Here's a pretty kitty to tide you over for two seconds.
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My Boss: what are you doing?
Me: Working of course! Definately not watching a 44 minute video on why the Brits collected their citicens Urin.
That would be crazy

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DID anyone notice the tattoo on the left side of the blonde woman's face? It was letters starting with CA. couldn't see the rest. CHECK TIMESTAMP approx. start at 20: 20
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Urine and faecal matter have been productively used for hundreds of years; but who discovered that human and animal digestive waste matter could be put to good use?
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You Brits really know how to put on a good show, if this was made in the USA we would have fake everything, you guys straight up kill frogs and use sheep corpses.
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Ironically, in killing cats, the English wiped out their first and best line of defense against disease. Cats were the thin blue line in pestilence vs. humanity.
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