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  • Dr Suzannah Lipscomb takes us back to Tudor times, when the newly emergent middle classes had money for luxuries and early consumer goods, many of which contained hidden dangers.
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  • @delcie______r2431
    @delcie______r2431 Před 3 lety +3591

    Imagine dying while trying to poop in a river, then being called out by name in a CZcams video over 400 years later

    • @sshy_indigoo
      @sshy_indigoo Před 3 lety +70

      😬

    • @audreyhead3948
      @audreyhead3948 Před 3 lety +260

      I was thinking the same thing 😂 like damn dude immortalized for taking a shit and falling 😂

    • @lorabetht9206
      @lorabetht9206 Před 3 lety +141

      My Nannie told me about a cousin of hers who died because he got bit on the behind by a black widow spider 🕷 while “going” outside... poor guy 😕

    • @diaryofseresha
      @diaryofseresha Před 3 lety +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @kyle18934
      @kyle18934 Před 3 lety +48

      @@lorabetht9206 that is just unfortunate.

  • @jamesdrrr
    @jamesdrrr Před 4 lety +4558

    tudors: why is everything infected
    victorians: why is everything poisonous
    edwardians: why is everything exploding

    • @tatiaromero
      @tatiaromero Před 4 lety +363

      Modern us: (or would this gen be called elizabethians??) why does everything gives me anxiety

    • @kimgrattage2395
      @kimgrattage2395 Před 4 lety +90

      @@tatiaromero. We are the second wave of Elizabethan's in the UK, the first were governed by Elizabeth The 1st, daughter of King Henry The VIII, Henry was a Tudor King. Elizabeth The 2nd is our Queen, so in effect we ARE Elizabethan's. Next in line will be Prince Charles, then William. Luckily we won't experience Victorian and Edwardian times again in our lifetime. My late grandmother lived through the Edwardian era being born in 1907, she passed away in 2004 under the Elizabethan second wave, far more civilized than the first you will be glad to hear?

    • @kimgrattage2395
      @kimgrattage2395 Před 4 lety +25

      Check out the Ist Elizabethan wave. Elizabeth the 1st had a very colourful life. The daughter of Henry The VIII. In the UK we are part of the 2nd wave as you may call it due to our Queen Elizabeth The 2nd. Now in her mid 90s in age.

    • @texantexaningintexas7189
      @texantexaningintexas7189 Před 3 lety +135

      2020: why is everything racism

    • @Lukos0036
      @Lukos0036 Před 3 lety +115

      @@texantexaningintexas7189 Also 2020: Why is that man orange?

  • @ThePointlessBox_
    @ThePointlessBox_ Před 3 lety +263

    Romans: ''hey having water handy is pretty nice, lets create majestic structures to create artificial flow and bring water to the people''
    The british: *WOMAN AND BUCKET*

    • @JK_Clark
      @JK_Clark Před 2 lety +16

      Lol. The Romans advanced our nation by a thousand years, then left and we forgot most of it during the Dark Ages until.... The Roman Renaissance.

    • @goyonman9655
      @goyonman9655 Před 2 lety +10

      @@JK_Clark
      forgot most of it during the fall of Rome
      and no the Renaissance wasn't roman
      it was european

    • @FreeFalling2d
      @FreeFalling2d Před rokem +1

      😂😂😂

  • @diy_cat9817
    @diy_cat9817 Před 4 lety +1204

    Women: drown while washing clothes
    Man: dies while trying to take a dump

    • @daffers2345
      @daffers2345 Před 4 lety +114

      I no longer have a reason to complain about folding laundry that has been washed, cleaned, properly rinsed, and fully dried indoors while I lay around watching CZcams videos ;)

    • @meetvirginia7023
      @meetvirginia7023 Před 4 lety +12

      daffers234 Yes me too! Tuff times

    • @Cortesevasive
      @Cortesevasive Před 3 lety +8

      @@daffers2345 who the hell folds laudry lol

    • @daffers2345
      @daffers2345 Před 3 lety +27

      @@Cortesevasive Uh ... me? Especially undergarments like my sport bras.

    • @Cortesevasive
      @Cortesevasive Před 3 lety

      @@daffers2345 U clearly a neat women or a geh.

  • @sammysoppy3361
    @sammysoppy3361 Před 5 lety +3903

    “Teeth are pretty deadly” aaaaand yet most insurance doesn’t cover dental care because it’s not considered medical and any dental plans out there only cover the most basic things. Ridiculous.

    • @carlosmarte3154
      @carlosmarte3154 Před 5 lety +108

      steph soppanish The reasoning for that is because it’s easy and relatively cheap to keep your teeth healthy. It’s as simple as brushing, flossing, and rinsing twice a day while making sure to stay away/limit caustic foods. The same cannot be said of infectious diseases that one usually has no control over avoiding.

    • @carlosmarte3154
      @carlosmarte3154 Před 5 lety +49

      Alejandro - Healthcare is most certainly not a right. The reasoning is solid from the insurance company’s standpoint. They shouldn’t have to pay out for something that, barring rare circumstances, is easily avoidable in the 21st Century.

    • @carlosmarte3154
      @carlosmarte3154 Před 5 lety +59

      Alejandro - Not all, but a great deal of dental issues are due to poor habits. The same can be said of obesity. Companies should not have to bear the brunt for negligent clients that smoke, eat caustic foods, or fail to brush twice-daily and floss between meals. All of those brought dental disease on to themselves. People tend to think that corporations are these otherworldly entities; they’re nothing more than a collection of people (you know, those things you care so much about?) who need that profit to pay their mortgage and keep their lights on.
      You are correct on my assumption of the homeless. I come from a country where socioeconomic mobility is genuinely impossible. America truly is the land of opportunity, and anyone who is able-bodied can carve out a decent life for themselves here. This privileged capitalist ass came to this country at 19, worked 2 (sometimes 3) jobs, and lived out of a rented room in a basement. I eventually gathered enough for Community College, graduated, and found a nice job for myself. Fast forward 20 years and I’m living a life that would’ve been impossible for someone born to what you would call sharecroppers. Now it’s time to come full circle with my anecdotal story. As a broke immigrant working in a factory, I ran into plenty of those same underprivileged people you speak of. There’s a reason why many (not all, but a *great* deal) of them continue to live in mediocrity...and it isn’t because of some invisible force keeping them there. Poor life decisions lead to mediocrity, and poor dental hygiene leads to dental issues.
      My source for my original claim:
      www.dentalone-va.com/a-guide-to-dental-disease-prevention/

    • @pennynorthcutt5833
      @pennynorthcutt5833 Před 5 lety +53

      Especially Medicare. You've gotta get really sick from an infected tooth, where the infection spread to other parts of the body, before Medicare will pick up the bills.

    • @hwren9845
      @hwren9845 Před 5 lety +262

      @@carlosmarte3154 you Americans are wild lmao

  • @Berserkaholic
    @Berserkaholic Před 5 lety +3678

    I give her so much credit for actually going in that cold water in a wool tudor dress.

    • @e8root
      @e8root Před 5 lety +176

      I had worse reaction to a water in much warmer water. Would immediately drown in this muddy river

    • @qtexasbrumley
      @qtexasbrumley Před 5 lety +75

      @@e8root yep I'm sorry to hear that , I thought I could swim in some pants and shoes one time. Nothing nearly as bad as she was wearing.

    • @Amphitera
      @Amphitera Před 5 lety +201

      even today, few realize how dangerous cold water is. Even the best or floatiest swimmer who is trained to swim in full clothing and gear can go into shock and drown if the water is too cold.
      Cold resistance can be trained though! Hence ice swimmers exist.

    • @ecuadordada9874
      @ecuadordada9874 Před 5 lety +92

      @@Amphitera Thank YOU. Keep warning people. I have live on the Cooper River, Yukon & Kuskokwim
      Rivers in Alaska will kill you within 10 minutes from body reaction to cold. Thank you!

    • @someone3187
      @someone3187 Před 5 lety +80

      This also reminds me of how people died from the cold water during the sinking of the Titanic :_(

  • @vintxgesappho2114
    @vintxgesappho2114 Před 3 lety +834

    The 533+ people who disliked this are secretly Tudors who are furious that their sugar is to blame for their teeth, not the witch that they accused and killed.

    • @Mehrunes86
      @Mehrunes86 Před 3 lety +23

      Sssh!, they got friends, maybe they are gathering for TudorCon😂

    • @nerdgeekcosplay909
      @nerdgeekcosplay909 Před 3 lety

      @@Mehrunes86 are there any dresses from that era ?

    • @cleobinx
      @cleobinx Před 3 lety

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @darkfireeyes7
      @darkfireeyes7 Před 2 lety

      Or those who see parallels to all the preservatives and artificial colors etc. used today.

    • @kevinstutler7772
      @kevinstutler7772 Před rokem +2

      I fear those are my neighbors down here in hazard county!!

  • @YuBeace
    @YuBeace Před 3 lety +284

    “Teeth are pretty deadly, actually.” Tell that to the insurance company!!!

  • @CosmicDimensionsArt
    @CosmicDimensionsArt Před 5 lety +4887

    Idk why these have showed up on my feed, but I can't stop watching them now.

  • @SaraS-jq1ln
    @SaraS-jq1ln Před 5 lety +5460

    I always wonder what people 500 years from now will be having a documentary on us about.

    • @KittyHerder
      @KittyHerder Před 5 lety +855

      The oxy epidemic, obesity, diabetes...

    • @Patchuchan
      @Patchuchan Před 5 lety +822

      The use of fossil fuels, and pollution such as the Pacific garbage patch come to mind.

    • @ElloLoJo
      @ElloLoJo Před 5 lety +693

      Anti vaxxers, climate change denial, and definitely seconding the other two replies

    • @MasterGeekMX
      @MasterGeekMX Před 5 lety +528

      Sleep pattern alterations due light coming from our screens.

    • @diahan9896
      @diahan9896 Před 5 lety +221

      our SELFIES... different poses in every era 👌🏻

  • @bowiechick
    @bowiechick Před 4 lety +419

    “Wow, they really had no idea they were killing themselves with sugar!” I say, chewing a mouth full of super sour Scandinavian swimmers.

    • @bcubed72
      @bcubed72 Před 3 lety +24

      WTF are "Scandinavian swimmers?" Where I grew up, "swimmers" were slang for...something.

    • @Pomagranite167
      @Pomagranite167 Před 3 lety +26

      @@bcubed72 ima guess swedish fish XD

    • @theblackgoatofthewoods
      @theblackgoatofthewoods Před 3 lety +16

      If you eat scandinavian swimmers and they taste sour...
      Don't swallow!!!
      I think that you have a relationship with a guy who needs to go to a doctor...

    • @koalakid1884
      @koalakid1884 Před 3 lety +4

      I ate thise today too! I had a starfish, sea horse and something else

    • @anzemorgan-irwin8224
      @anzemorgan-irwin8224 Před 3 lety +13

      I was eating a packet of nerds while watching this! 1/10 don’t recommend eating sugar while hearing how sugar kills people😂😂

  • @colleta2400
    @colleta2400 Před 3 lety +143

    There is a Documentary I watched once where a Makeup artist showed what these people actually looked like. The wealthier the worse...I mean the people with the $$$ had no teeth from sugar, gout, no eyebrows or hair from the beauty rituals. The poor were no beauty contenders, however, in terms of physical appearance they won the lottery...for these times.

    • @Klmp13
      @Klmp13 Před 2 lety +2

      What Documentary? I must know

    • @colleta2400
      @colleta2400 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Klmp13 it was about 2years ago I do not remember the name. I found it here on youtube and it was a Brit doc

    • @notathletic4171
      @notathletic4171 Před 2 lety

      @@Klmp13 search for queen Victoria's makeup routine.

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Před rokem +2

      Reminds me of King Henry VIII gorging himself on an old equivalent of Burger King with 2 gallons of Soda and 2 gallons of Ice Cream. (I might be exaggerating a bit.) He died in his 50s with an infected, maybe gangrenous leg.

    • @englishatheart
      @englishatheart Před rokem

      ​@@101Volts That's what the fat bastard gets.

  • @sh115067
    @sh115067 Před 5 lety +3249

    Funny how about a thousand years prior, the romans had aquaducts indoor plumbing and heating

    • @teresaellis7062
      @teresaellis7062 Před 4 lety +377

      Sad how technology is lost.

    • @niwtru
      @niwtru Před 4 lety +199

      J Smith Same with the Native Americans

    • @johnreeves2016
      @johnreeves2016 Před 4 lety +98

      @Hannah Dyson Romans also used a lot of lead piping

    • @Fsrjtyttzma
      @Fsrjtyttzma Před 4 lety +65

      We didnt invite the Romans as I remember they invaded...

    • @mats7492
      @mats7492 Před 4 lety +39

      @J Smith obviously untrue.. the use of plumbing spread across europe but was lost over time

  • @Diesunddas24
    @Diesunddas24 Před 4 lety +1247

    A salad of lemon and sugar. That's literally teeth's nightmare fuel.

    • @Snake3yesEddie
      @Snake3yesEddie Před 4 lety +93

      IKR and if they had access to ice cream, I couldn’t imagine how painful it would have been if they ate something that cold after a lemon and sugar salad lol.

    • @roseblood7529
      @roseblood7529 Před 3 lety +16

      Eddie G I’m pretty sure they had ice cream (or they would have it soon)

    • @harrietbryant7772
      @harrietbryant7772 Před 3 lety +21

      I know it’s about as bad as it gets for teeth, but it sounds absolutely delicious!

    • @constancemiller3753
      @constancemiller3753 Před 3 lety +54

      Lemonade. Add water and its lemonade.

    • @punkybrewstar83
      @punkybrewstar83 Před 3 lety +14

      @@constancemiller3753 Exactly my thought. Minus most of the fibre and add a bit of water.

  • @TheBioExplorer
    @TheBioExplorer Před 4 lety +217

    Funny how I remember us playing with mercury from a broken thermometer as a child in school. Now as a science department head I am on constant lookout for old thermometers cached around the school so we can have them professionally removed. Still they are randomly found every few years.

    • @scatdog1
      @scatdog1 Před 2 lety +10

      Me and my brother used to chase the mosquito vector trucks down the alley back in the late sixties and seventies. Good times 😆

    • @animequeen78
      @animequeen78 Před rokem +1

      Thank you for your service in removing hazardous materials.

    • @TheBioExplorer
      @TheBioExplorer Před rokem +7

      @@scatdog1 That's funny. I grew up on military bases and in the late 60s & early 70s we did the same thing. We'd ride behind them on our bikes and pretend we were riding in the clouds. No telling how much DDT we absorbed.

    • @scatdog1
      @scatdog1 Před rokem +3

      @@TheBioExplorer lol yeah … things were a lot different back then. Both parents smoked with 3 kids in the car barreling down the road with no seatbelts on. We swam in the canals all summer going through pitch black tunnels under the road barely having enough oxygen to make it out. We dove off of the bridge That connects California and Arizona into the Colorado River. Didn’t even know what bike helmets were. I wouldn’t change it for all the video games and cell phones in the world.

    • @englishatheart
      @englishatheart Před rokem

      ​@@scatdog1 My brother and I*

  • @AlphaSniperAcademy
    @AlphaSniperAcademy Před 3 lety +49

    Props to you for actually getting into the water with that dress on. Real dedication to the depiction of the past

  • @Lemanic89
    @Lemanic89 Před 5 lety +698

    "Page after page suggest different cures, which indicates somewhat that none of them worked"
    If 5-minutes Crafts did healthcare, this is how it would turn out, sadly.

    • @JA-pm5yl
      @JA-pm5yl Před 3 lety +17

      This comment is criminally underrated.

    • @TopFurret
      @TopFurret Před 3 lety +26

      I can see their handiwork now.
      Break a bone? Boy do I have a glue gun hack for that

    • @note_6956
      @note_6956 Před 3 lety +8

      They have videos for turning strawberries white by literally soaking them in bleach overnight. The kicker is, most their audience are kids under 16-18 so we all know how THAT’S going to inevitably turn out.
      PS: the first sentence rhymes.

    • @matt3570
      @matt3570 Před 3 lety +8

      ​@@note_6956 I have yet to meet one person over 14-15 that will actually watch their videos for anything but ridicule. Sadly the audience put at risk is likely even younger than that estimate. It's quite horrendous frankly.

    • @gypsierose3611
      @gypsierose3611 Před 3 lety

      Hmmm just like today

  • @daniellenelson8034
    @daniellenelson8034 Před 4 lety +1445

    She said “white gold” then leans towards a flame with a pipe... girl I did not think that was tobacco 😂

  • @MrGlennJohnsen
    @MrGlennJohnsen Před 3 lety +147

    "Death from crushed testicles."
    Literally closed my legs to protect myself.

  • @johnwebsterwallace4884
    @johnwebsterwallace4884 Před 4 lety +72

    "Crushed testicle's, caused by playing games at Christmas." Well, some things never change...except the technology.

  • @maximilienrobespierre7927
    @maximilienrobespierre7927 Před 5 lety +470

    I love how that one guy in every episode has a maniacal smile every time he talks about ways people could die.

    • @h.r.9563
      @h.r.9563 Před 3 lety +39

      That or he seems extremely hurt by the trauamas of our amcestors. He has no in between. Lol

    • @amandabr9562
      @amandabr9562 Před 3 lety +20

      Yea that dude cracks me up. Do British people have a twisted sense of humor?😆

    • @nokturnna83
      @nokturnna83 Před 3 lety +1

      yap :D

    • @gardenwillow
      @gardenwillow Před 3 lety +2

      You are hilarious. And spot on accurate.

  • @doglover8596
    @doglover8596 Před 5 lety +1245

    This channel is fantastic. It's not just fluff, you actually learn something. I love it.

    • @SyobonPro
      @SyobonPro Před 4 lety +4

      excuse me, but what do you mean by fluff?

    • @oddeyes9413
      @oddeyes9413 Před 4 lety +18

      @@SyobonPro read any textbooks lately? The ones written in 2005 vs. 2015 are absurdly changed. Like, The Trail of Tears, and all of that is removed. Mostly because they think knowing what Americans and others did would *upset* current generations.

    • @electricbuttercup7954
      @electricbuttercup7954 Před 4 lety +22

      @@oddeyes9413 American textbooks sound pretty crap from that

    • @josephinediaz1416
      @josephinediaz1416 Před 4 lety +3

      Electric Buttercup that statement wasn’t true at all

    • @leafymintaj8610
      @leafymintaj8610 Před 4 lety +6

      Odd Eyes94 if it makes you feel better, in the state of Florida we still learn a lot about the atrocities in history. We go into lots of detail about the trail of tears and slavery, as well as colonization and the negative affects it brought. I’m not sure about other states though

  • @jimtalbott9535
    @jimtalbott9535 Před 3 lety +184

    "Mercury Underwear" - that'd be a great name for a band.

  • @euanc1459
    @euanc1459 Před 4 lety +30

    best thing about this woman’s documentaries are her ‘walking in the background’ scenes. i love her

  • @untetheredsoul
    @untetheredsoul Před 5 lety +1784

    ... what kind of games were they playing at Christmas that resulted in death from crushed testicles?!🤔😲

  • @oddeyes9413
    @oddeyes9413 Před 4 lety +524

    The Tudor period sounds like: *Final Destination: 1500s Edition* Dear God, it's honestly surprising people survived.

    • @meandoriandragon
      @meandoriandragon Před 4 lety +24

      Victorian times were worse it looks like

    • @leafymintaj8610
      @leafymintaj8610 Před 4 lety +13

      meandoriandragon god Victorian times were truly awful

    • @alilordoftheskies5079
      @alilordoftheskies5079 Před 3 lety +24

      It's surprising that anyone survived any time period, truly. My god, times were rough.

    • @ericag5346
      @ericag5346 Před 3 lety +8

      But, they didn't survive... They're all dead... Am I missing something? 🤦🏼‍♀️

    • @actionjackson3522
      @actionjackson3522 Před 3 lety +22

      @@ericag5346 Survived long enough to reproduce and not leave the resulting offspring as a bunch of helpless orphans.

  • @I.love.chease
    @I.love.chease Před 3 lety +24

    33:28 “full of leakage from men and other abominations” dude I can’t even 🤧🤣🤣

  • @Sayerdify
    @Sayerdify Před 3 lety +146

    Kudos to Dr. Lipscomb for her brave water display. Goes to show us how fortunate we are to be here in modern times and how incredibly tough people were way back in those days before modern times. Tudor homes are beautiful.

    • @JeNn0mic0n
      @JeNn0mic0n Před 9 měsíci +3

      Makes you wonder if ppl back then thought they were fortunate to be what was considered to be “modern” for their time.

    • @maloryj7165
      @maloryj7165 Před 9 měsíci +3

      ​@@JeNn0mic0nof course they did and they talked about how people were becoming spoiled and lazy compared to their ancestors and "kids these days" and all that. People have mostly always been the same.

  • @BrattyCaffy
    @BrattyCaffy Před 4 lety +192

    “To go somewhere with a diet virtually sugar free and be given a table full of sugar”
    Real crackhead hours back then weren’t they

  • @caidalee1994
    @caidalee1994 Před 5 lety +510

    “Elizabeth Bennet drowned” Me, reading Pride and Prejudice: 😨

    • @Great_Lake_Surfer_
      @Great_Lake_Surfer_ Před 4 lety +7

      ? I'm confused. I've never read this book, could someone please fill me in?

    • @XyliaLi
      @XyliaLi Před 4 lety +19

      Gracie Anne in p&p, Elizabeth didn’t drown. It’s a romantic novel.

    • @sarahkohlhagen9057
      @sarahkohlhagen9057 Před 4 lety +29

      @@XyliaLi well .. who knows how her marriage with Mr Darcy went on ..

    • @vjapple3083
      @vjapple3083 Před 4 lety +23

      Gracie Anne Elizabeth Bennet is the main character in Pride and Prejudice and its worrying seeing an actual person with her name that died from drowning

    • @Hawkfire360
      @Hawkfire360 Před 3 lety +13

      I had the same reaction. “LIZZIE?!”

  • @seonghyunae
    @seonghyunae Před 3 lety +68

    My dad actually has periodontal disease, and he never went to the dentist so we didn't actually know until he went into septic shock. Had to have all but four teeth pulled and wears dentures now.

    • @nyghtmoon
      @nyghtmoon Před 3 lety +9

      I am glad he survived. It must have been terrifying.

    • @jenlfpotter3870
      @jenlfpotter3870 Před 7 měsíci

      That is crazy. How can you not know? wasn't there an awful lot of toothache or pain when it was close to nerves or bleeding or discolouration? There must have been if he attended regular dental checks every 3 to 6 months. I've had bleeding inflamed gums and I have very small gaps between my teeth. Even fairly deep cleaning doesn't fix the problem gums for me.

  • @claudermiller
    @claudermiller Před 3 lety +24

    My great-grandfather died of carbuncel in the nineteen-teens. It's an infection caused by an ingrown hair. Life was hard back then.

  • @itiswhatitis1080
    @itiswhatitis1080 Před 5 lety +717

    So basically if you lived to be old age back then it was because of Gods mercy

  • @snarkspawner
    @snarkspawner Před 5 lety +615

    .... Excuse me while I watch this episode with floss pickers and mouthwash in hand instead of snacks.

    • @elvingearmasterirma7241
      @elvingearmasterirma7241 Před 4 lety +2

      I have weak teeth. And I can feel one of my back teeth starting to tinge in the way that screams Will need a root canal soon
      I dunno if I can catch it in time due to needing to do other stuff and living in the middle of nowhere... So, root canal tis. At least we have antibiotics these days :/
      Id have perished.
      Anyways I have my toothbrush at the ready

    • @charlottemartin4715
      @charlottemartin4715 Před 4 lety

      ElvinGearMaster Irma omg never related more 🤣 I’ve had multiple fillings 2 molars taken and out and I have an implant canine cos I decided to be lazy with brushing my teeth AFTER my big teeth came through 🙄. When I tell you my entire jaw started hurting watching that part omg 😖😣

    • @shaunyjimenez9637
      @shaunyjimenez9637 Před 4 lety +4

      I feel called out

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Před 3 lety

      @@elvingearmasterirma7241 Try Care Credit card. See if the dentist will take it. You can get several months interest free if you keep your payments current.
      They even give you the most points without an annual fee of anyone.

  • @chopppedliver
    @chopppedliver Před 3 lety +131

    "but the biggest cause of death, was not fire itself" *cuts to a church*
    me: *C H R I S T I A N I T Y*

    • @amberkat8147
      @amberkat8147 Před 3 lety

      Omg, lolz!

    • @Marlaina
      @Marlaina Před 2 lety +4

      The “religion” that they practiced was not in fact Christianity. It was superstitions fueled by fear of the unknown.

  • @kynandesouza
    @kynandesouza Před 4 lety +15

    today i discovered not only can fire kill you, but so can bricks and laundry

  • @itgetter9
    @itgetter9 Před 5 lety +294

    You know the woman demonstrating chimney fires was a super rebellious kid -- she has a lovely wicked grin. Probably gave her parents a few scares over the years, with her mad scientist pyro ways! ;-)

    • @kingkat_
      @kingkat_ Před 3 lety +3

      bro i used to burn shit all the time as a kid and gave my parents a couple of scares, i couldn't imagine what she could've done lolol

    • @24934637
      @24934637 Před 3 lety +1

      @@kingkat_ Same here....I was still doing that sort of thing until 9/11 happened and playing with chemicals was liable to get you arrested for terrorism even if you were only playing in your own garden!

    • @sarahstrong7174
      @sarahstrong7174 Před 3 lety +1

      My Uncle burnt down Grandads shed & hedge when a lad. Later he worked for Thorn Fire Prevention.

  • @sukievw
    @sukievw Před 4 lety +492

    me, in my tudor home: *guess i’ll die*

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 Před 4 lety +10

      Imma just die about it 🤷

    • @star-po3gb
      @star-po3gb Před 4 lety +16

      sukie w wait you live in a home from 500 years ago?!? europe is wild

    • @Lostouille
      @Lostouille Před 4 lety +9

      @@star-po3gb we have a lot of families that live in that kind of manors/castles ._.

    • @jd_1256
      @jd_1256 Před 4 lety +19

      Please we need an update? Are you still alive?

    • @sukievw
      @sukievw Před 4 lety +32

      Josh nah man i’m dead now

  • @MegaAstroFan18
    @MegaAstroFan18 Před 3 lety +27

    Also Dr. Lipscomb is amazing. Being able to read a Tudor English book with such ease is not a simple thing.

  • @AndreasMSchroeder
    @AndreasMSchroeder Před 3 lety +11

    35:45 „Death from crushed testicles after playing games at Christmas“. Man, those Tudors sure didn‘t fuck around as far as entertainment is considered...

  • @the-og-cerealkiller
    @the-og-cerealkiller Před 5 lety +674

    Pure sugar: *Becomes popular*
    Carbohydrates: "Am i a joke to you"

    • @michelleballard.
      @michelleballard. Před 5 lety +13

      CerealKiller i like your sense of humor

    • @michelleballard.
      @michelleballard. Před 5 lety +12

      CerealKiller even your user name

    • @fryode
      @fryode Před 5 lety +2

      I hope your name comes from Matthew Lillard's character of the same name in the movie "Hackers". That movie is a classic for being so cheesy.

    • @the-og-cerealkiller
      @the-og-cerealkiller Před 5 lety +3

      Fryode Nah i just found this pun from somewhere, I don't remember where

    • @I_am_a_cat_
      @I_am_a_cat_ Před 5 lety +1

      A pun that was hilarious... long ago when I was like... 12.
      Dont mind me, just an asshole cat. Lmao

  • @jacquelinemarie7418
    @jacquelinemarie7418 Před 4 lety +138

    I jumped in a really cold lake once and I was breathing just like her. I couldn’t catch my breath and I became dizzy from trying to actually breathe. I had trouble swimming out. In that moment you feel like you’re panicking and barely able to keep your head above water.

  • @caissafrass6631
    @caissafrass6631 Před 4 lety +48

    “Don’t plant deadly nightshade”
    Yeah, pretty sound advice

  • @Living20222
    @Living20222 Před 4 lety +8

    Watching this documentary made me immediately schedule an appointment with my dentist and I now have another cleaning in 6 months. Just wanted to update everyone. I never realized how scary sugar is

  • @robbinlynnspencer-buchtel6896

    The Tudor era was (is) equal parts amazing, inspiring, jaw droppingly stupid & head scratching of what the heck. We've come a very long way since then, although at times it sure doesn't seem like it. The sad part is how many skills have been lost.

    • @crazeddonkey
      @crazeddonkey Před 5 lety +8

      Well said

    • @idkwhattoputhere4695
      @idkwhattoputhere4695 Před 5 lety +14

      Pretty much how we will be looked back on in hundreds of years: ambitious, forward thinking but pretty self destructive comparing to later generations

    • @lorrainewadsworth9019
      @lorrainewadsworth9019 Před 5 lety +7

      If there were ever to be a time machine i would love to return to the Tudor times., ive always loved it, and im 56 now. I would have to be very rich and infertile..... couldnt go through childbirth in those times.. no thankyou.

    • @violetdivinespiritualreadi1824
      @violetdivinespiritualreadi1824 Před 4 lety +7

      We haven't come far enough tho its actually much worse cause we're polluting the earth more making animals endangered and wiping out cultures all for greed money power precious resources and minerals we're depleting the earth destroying our marine life too sadly we haven't learned yet what natives been warning about that's why i respect nature my native American ancestors believe we're one with nature not superior to it.. Just to have our technology like cellphones is making others suffer who mine for cobalt and other minerals not to mention blood diamonds that's why i don't wear diamonds im very spiritual i don't want a nice shiny diamond if someone had to suffer to mine it i rather have a precious rare crystal on my wedding ring

    • @oddeyes9413
      @oddeyes9413 Před 4 lety +5

      I'm actually taking the time to learn how to do some homemade breads and the like. I know it's not a lot or really anything, but learning how to cook some stuff is really cool.

  • @SabeLoTodox3
    @SabeLoTodox3 Před 5 lety +285

    The drowning scene gave me anxiety

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 Před 4 lety +6

      Me too. Almost had to skip it

    • @ericag5346
      @ericag5346 Před 3 lety +7

      There was a camera guy in there with her for sure but more than likely a few people for safety behind the camera guy...

    • @nora__
      @nora__ Před 3 lety +2

      Especially since this woman probably only weighs 100-110 pounds. 😰 I’m surprised they didn’t have her on some sort of tether for that.

    • @captainmorgan123
      @captainmorgan123 Před měsícem

      Loved every second of it

  • @saramarie5744
    @saramarie5744 Před 4 lety +13

    This Host and the experts make something I never thought I would care about the most interesting thing I have seen in ages .

  • @zhain0
    @zhain0 Před 3 lety +25

    imagine putting a fire out in a random town and your good deed being told 100's of years later lol

  • @tracycarmack9714
    @tracycarmack9714 Před 4 lety +466

    Can I just say that I am OBSESSED with this woman's hair? I want her curls so badly!!

    • @smilessantana2049
      @smilessantana2049 Před 4 lety +23

      Same! Curls are angelic😍

    • @nothingbutthetruth2145
      @nothingbutthetruth2145 Před 4 lety +7

      Same

    • @zoehanekom4671
      @zoehanekom4671 Před 4 lety +4

      Me to!

    • @TherealDanielleNelson
      @TherealDanielleNelson Před 4 lety +7

      My sister has curls like that.

    • @AshesAshes44
      @AshesAshes44 Před 4 lety +28

      With me, the tough part is getting *all* your hair to curl the same. Nothing more fun than random waves instead of curls. Then you get to fuss over a patch, cursing as it refuses to behave. Just because. Yesterday it curled just fine. 🤯

  • @MrJasonshores364
    @MrJasonshores364 Před 5 lety +843

    In these days of everything on television being scripted and fake I am completely obsessed with watching these or anything about history.

    • @scotshabalam2432
      @scotshabalam2432 Před 5 lety +34

      TV Shows usually have scripts. It gets terrible confusing when the actors just do what ever they want with no guidance.

    • @npcgray5480
      @npcgray5480 Před 5 lety +26

      @@scotshabalam2432 hes talking about those documentaries that go though the talking points in five minutes and just repeat them after ever commercial break

    • @scotshabalam2432
      @scotshabalam2432 Před 5 lety +16

      @@npcgray5480 I'm being a smart ass, but I did thumb up your comment for calling me out on being a smart ass so I hope you don't mind :)

    • @elderlypoodle9181
      @elderlypoodle9181 Před 5 lety +5

      jason Shores Yes!! I need to see the real thing. I just have to know the truth. I agree with you completely

    • @froznanus
      @froznanus Před 5 lety +2

      I absolutely agree!!

  • @Dedfaction
    @Dedfaction Před 4 lety +44

    Should point out as well, that most people didn't know how to swim.

  • @constancemiller3753
    @constancemiller3753 Před 3 lety +14

    If you watch the mudlarkers of the Thames they pull pottery, pipes, and the rare coins from Tudor times and the sugar gadgets. So cool.

  • @veran.8661
    @veran.8661 Před 5 lety +215

    1:03 - she sounds so cute saying 'naughty'! ^^ I'm really starting to admire Dr Lipscomb, she's so intelligent and warm and seems so kind and she's also super pretty.

  • @beth-rg8bm
    @beth-rg8bm Před 4 lety +138

    29:40
    I live in the Pacific Northwest and my parents demanded that I learn to swim in both warm and cold, fresh and saltwater!
    It saved my life more than once and the life of one other!
    Thank you mom and dad!

    • @P3trarch
      @P3trarch Před 2 lety +3

      I'm still surprised to see that a lot of people don't know how to swim... Crazy

    • @melissacoulter3996
      @melissacoulter3996 Před 2 lety +3

      I live in Florida have been able to swim my whole life and I’m confused. Isn’t swimming, swimming? I’ve swam at the beach, a pool, a spring, a river…and I wouldn’t say that it’s different from one to the other?

    • @P3trarch
      @P3trarch Před 2 lety

      @@melissacoulter3996 I have no idea why this is not taught to young kids.

    • @dbseamz
      @dbseamz Před 2 lety +2

      @@melissacoulter3996 I would hope they'd start with the more comfortable, warmer water...I think the basic movements are the same, maybe it's just remembering what to do even if you're cold? I'm not sure what the difference would be either. I do know saltwater is denser than fresh, and cold water is denser than warm, so the same person will be the most buoyant in cold saltwater and the least buoyant in warm freshwater, but the difference isn't big enough to change how you'd swim. Unless it's really salty water like the Dead Sea.

    • @UltimateCheetah-zs2iw
      @UltimateCheetah-zs2iw Před rokem

      @@melissacoulter3996 I live in the northern U.S., and it is a much different animal swimming when the water is absolutely freezing. Even if you are expecting the cold, it is still hard to get yourself to more around.

  • @user-vm6oz6wt5g
    @user-vm6oz6wt5g Před 3 lety +247

    "A salad of lemons sprinkled with dusted sugar..." only the English would call that a "salad."

    • @miaclarke6859
      @miaclarke6859 Před 3 lety +13

      Nah tudor English people. Americans would still call it a fruit salad cause it has the name of a fruit in it

    • @miaclarke6859
      @miaclarke6859 Před 2 lety +7

      @Rulya Mórrigan Ard Mhacha typical Americans. Don't even understand a joke

    • @deloreswilson1798
      @deloreswilson1798 Před 2 lety

      let them eat cake,said the French!!😏

    • @WhoTheFuck2
      @WhoTheFuck2 Před 2 lety +2

      I'd consider this as a salad more than Snickers Salad from Wisconsin 😭😭😭

    • @sunnie734
      @sunnie734 Před 2 lety

      Yeh, I'm English, and we'd never call this a salad nowadays, but America was the first place that sprung to mind. Those Americans and their "salads".

  • @tandiparent1949
    @tandiparent1949 Před 3 lety +29

    & the saddest thing is that even in this day & age, people all over the world either don't have access to clean water or have to go for miles every day for the family's, often dirty, water n then back home 😪

    • @fedupwithfedforever4151
      @fedupwithfedforever4151 Před 2 lety +1

      No the more sad thing is when ways of bringing clean water to those areas are devised the corruption of the local government destroys it !

    • @emakelley6807
      @emakelley6807 Před 10 měsíci

      Even sadder is billionaires could easily fix this but they don’t

  • @weirdxchicky
    @weirdxchicky Před 4 lety +97

    Damn, the sugar part made me rethink my whole dental hygene.

    • @alexburnham7021
      @alexburnham7021 Před 3 lety +7

      The sugar bit was playing when I was drinking my tea, which I use lots of sugar with 😳

  • @geoffreydeniscrawford7296
    @geoffreydeniscrawford7296 Před 5 lety +509

    The tooth ache must have been awful

    • @ginam5683
      @ginam5683 Před 5 lety +26

      And no proper dentistry can you imagine?! 😳

    • @I_am_a_cat_
      @I_am_a_cat_ Před 5 lety +44

      I don't even wanna begin to imagine how bad tooth pain was back then.
      I just had a really bad cavity, hurt like hell. Had to get my tooth pulled because of it (it was a wisdom tooth anyways, why I never got it filled instead)
      So I cannot even begin to imagine how bad a fully rotted tooth would feel. Ughhhh

    • @UmmYusrah1
      @UmmYusrah1 Před 4 lety +2

      Tooth infection s caused death

    • @MrJesus-jp1zv
      @MrJesus-jp1zv Před 4 lety +10

      I wouldn't wish dental issues on anybody.

    • @leafymintaj8610
      @leafymintaj8610 Před 4 lety +2

      LB Abstract Art my older brother has extremely deep tooth roots. He had to get several root canals, but they had to inject so much numbing that the injection sites became infected and then infected his teeth and abscessed.. he has lots of chronic jaw pain now and can’t eat his favorite candy, gummy bears :(

  • @Thaistickthai
    @Thaistickthai Před 3 lety +29

    Her reaction is not exaggerated. I worked at a bar and it was in our historic downtown and every spring was prone to flooding rains, well early one spring the water main in the basement burst at a joint and was filling the basement. Right away the only way to prevent substantial water filling the basement and ruining everything down there was to hold the two segments together so the water continued through on it's intended path. Well it was another employee and I struggling against this raging torrent and the water was cold, as a witch's teat. I had never experienced being exposed to water at that temp and was amazed at how uncontrollable the gasping was. I was breathing heavily from the physically demanding task of the struggle and keeping my breathing was almost more than I could manage. It made me think of sailor's or submariners drowning in frigid waters and what a terrible fate that must be...

  • @MrKaiyooo
    @MrKaiyooo Před 4 lety +85

    Imagine being at a party and having to explain you are corpse archeologist.

  • @bonnierussell7824
    @bonnierussell7824 Před 5 lety +363

    Thank you do much for a documentary on actual history instead of just more aliens and vampires or worse, modern politics.

    • @agabas
      @agabas Před 5 lety +30

      To be fair, a documentary surrounding the people believing in vampires and such myths and folklore, does sound pretty interesting.

    • @bonnierussell7824
      @bonnierussell7824 Před 5 lety +16

      @@agabas Obviously. I'd take ghosts, vampires, and fairies or even cartoons over modern politics any day of the week. Although vampires and politicians may be related they are definitely not as cool.

    • @ladybrisen777
      @ladybrisen777 Před 5 lety +4

      @@bonnierussell7824 Yea I love anything on the paranormal too. but I love British royal history too! Any of it really.. Civil war.. Versailles Marie Antoinette. I do wish they would have more documentaries on ALLLLLL of the Kings and Queens.. if there isn't enough history on one to fill an hour.. then put two together.. 30 min on one.. 30 on the other.. I personally love the Tudors.. Henry his wives.. and Elizabeth but I have seen soo much on them there isn't much that I don't know.. However, info on his father and the monarchs before them would make a GREAT show.. shows..

    • @shaunyjimenez9637
      @shaunyjimenez9637 Před 4 lety +1

      Ugh p o l i t i c s

    • @angelikaskoroszyn8495
      @angelikaskoroszyn8495 Před 4 lety +2

      Tbf it's difficult to make a documentary without injecting some modern politics. For example when talking about the horrible air pollution during the industrial revolution it's impossible to avoid talking about the regulations which made it safer and healthier to live in cities
      A documentary about the rise of Hitler inevitably becomes a cautionary tale about how easy it is to radicalize whole nation, that it really can start with just concentration camps for refugees (btw concentration camps are not death camps)

  • @aunix16
    @aunix16 Před 5 lety +472

    Sugar is, quite literally, a drug.

    • @robertbennett2796
      @robertbennett2796 Před 4 lety +17

      Cheese has the same affect as drugs

    • @awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481
      @awittyusernamepleaselaugh7481 Před 4 lety +62

      Food in general does. Eating is a biological imperative after all, so we're hardwired to enjoy it. Problem is that for our hunter gatherer ancestors something fatty or sugary was an incredible source of energy (slow release and fast release respectively) and our brains still go "ug ug, this giant bag of sweets help hunt mammoth!" Which considering we're more likely to be hunting for the TV remote has predictable consequences.

    • @ericag5346
      @ericag5346 Před 3 lety +9

      I am addicted to sugar.

    • @generalraines1469
      @generalraines1469 Před 3 lety +7

      @@ericag5346 for some reason I'm the opposite, I get tired of it easily. I can barely finish half a chocolate bar 😅

    • @ericag5346
      @ericag5346 Před 3 lety +9

      @@generalraines1469 I know people like that, it's so interesting. I'll eat your portion of birthday cake 😅😉

  • @Stephen-cr3sc
    @Stephen-cr3sc Před 3 lety +33

    I had an employee whose husband burned trash in the fireplace. I said that was a very bad idea, I mentioned creosote She went home and voiced her concerns...He rejected them out-of-hand. I called the Fire Department and asked if someone could explain this to her, I handed the phone over to her and a fireman spent a full 15 minutes telling her her husband was wrong. She eventually divorced him. This was in the 1980s.

    • @saragrant9749
      @saragrant9749 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Smart woman. Sounds like a guy with a serious superiority complex.

    • @Stephen-cr3sc
      @Stephen-cr3sc Před 8 měsíci

      @@saragrant9749 ......Actually, the husband's overblown self-image led to his life going extremely wrong.
      His "Everything I do is RIGHT!" obsession with himself led to serious, and eventually fatal, health issues.

    • @saragrant9749
      @saragrant9749 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@Stephen-cr3sc oh! well then, I guess lesson learned… a lot too late. Sometimes that’s what it takes to get the message across sadly.

    • @Stephen-cr3sc
      @Stephen-cr3sc Před 8 měsíci

      @@saragrant9749 ......People with self-images far in excess of their actual abilities are widespread.
      Overblown egos writing checks their realities can't cash gets them every time.

  • @Clara-ph7my
    @Clara-ph7my Před 3 lety +13

    "Just a spoonful of sugar, makes the medicine go down"
    I love looking at these periods which our ancestors lived in.
    I love Tudor design, old cottages, old farm houses. The upkeep to restoring these beautiful listed buildings, is something else

  • @MissMysteryMusic
    @MissMysteryMusic Před 5 lety +155

    Am I the only one that was like "Mr. Darcy save her"! When they mentioned Elizabeth Bennett drowned. 28:30

  • @MTBR077
    @MTBR077 Před 5 lety +67

    Watching this documentary will spread a newfound respect of the highest caliber for dentists worldwide.

  • @TheJaxx62
    @TheJaxx62 Před 3 lety +13

    Makes me wonder how many beautiful Tudor buildings were lost forever because of these fires

  • @Gunnoh
    @Gunnoh Před 3 lety +19

    Tudors: why is everything infected
    victorians: why is everything poisonous
    edwardians: why is everything exploding
    me: why am I getting these videos in my recommended feed

  • @ataurus62
    @ataurus62 Před 5 lety +640

    Sugar is still killing folks.

    • @texastea5686
      @texastea5686 Před 5 lety +29

      And making us fat 😒

    • @Nirrrina
      @Nirrrina Před 5 lety +19

      And making us hurt.
      Sugar is really bad for fibromyalgia. If I eat to way too much sugar I flare up like crazy.

    • @texastea5686
      @texastea5686 Před 5 lety +7

      @@Nirrrina
      Yes I've heard that! Watch videos from Dr. Eric Berg and Dr. Ken Berry regarding keto diet and the horrors of sugar.

    • @williamarthurfenton1496
      @williamarthurfenton1496 Před 4 lety +37

      @@texastea5686 I't's probably not a problem with it being naturally in foods, but the fact it is added in gross quantities to almost everything is the problem. Also people think a glass of orange juice is healthy, when one may as well drink a glass of Coca Cola because it's still sugar overdose.

    • @texastea5686
      @texastea5686 Před 4 lety +3

      @@williamarthurfenton1496
      Agree!

  • @oopsie_daisy8625
    @oopsie_daisy8625 Před 5 lety +71

    I watched the Victorian video and I’m already in love with this account

  • @riabouchinska
    @riabouchinska Před 3 lety +20

    Seriously how gorgeous is that house though

  • @JackJack-wf2ly
    @JackJack-wf2ly Před 3 lety +7

    I am absolutely 💯 % addicted to absolutely history...also does anyone else have a 😍 crush on learning from
    Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb? Or is it just me?...

  • @JohnDoe-xf8ew
    @JohnDoe-xf8ew Před 5 lety +236

    I can't be the only one who thought she was lighting up a crack pipe @ 4:40

    • @cheatsheet3325
      @cheatsheet3325 Před 5 lety +13

      "White Gold."
      "...Oh, tobacco?"

    • @braids80
      @braids80 Před 4 lety +4

      No, no, you were not.

    • @worldtraveler930
      @worldtraveler930 Před 3 lety +1

      If she is freebaseing brown sugar it's more akin to dropping Acid.

  • @horae2583
    @horae2583 Před 4 lety +95

    lmao when she said "white gold" i thought she was about to start doing lines

  • @Morrighanangel84
    @Morrighanangel84 Před 3 lety +5

    It's so nice to find a CZcams channel with proper shows

  • @demetter7936
    @demetter7936 Před 4 lety +8

    How did i only just find this channel? The videos are super high quality and frequent.

  • @seiyuokamihimura5082
    @seiyuokamihimura5082 Před 4 lety +77

    "And if absolutely necessary, vegetables" well someone had issues with veggies. Must have sucked.

    • @alisonbrowning9620
      @alisonbrowning9620 Před 4 lety +11

      they believed vegetables upset the humours, i would have hated it as i love my veg, their guts must have been so gummed up.

    • @tandiparent1949
      @tandiparent1949 Před 3 lety +4

      Lol, look up & see how many years ago that people quit thinking that a red tomato was poisonous and could eat them.

    • @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
      @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 Před 3 lety

      @@tandiparent1949 Tomatoes are inflammatory for the body. The seeds and the skin, supposedly.

    • @leechowning2712
      @leechowning2712 Před 3 lety +3

      It was considered a sign of poverty. At this time they actually believed that upper society, the middling sort, and the peasants were almost three separate races. Vegetables were for the "human livestock", while fruits, meats, and fish were for the middling sorts. The upper ranks would deliberately avoid anything "poor".

  • @JenIsHungry
    @JenIsHungry Před 5 lety +125

    I had cheesecake for breakfast and now I'm paranoid.

    • @CraftQueenJr
      @CraftQueenJr Před 4 lety +13

      I had waffles. I am now brushing my teeth.

  • @user-xv9qt2mc6s
    @user-xv9qt2mc6s Před 3 lety +27

    I admire you, guys, for all these marvelous history productions.
    I really do.
    Regards from Greece.

  • @allylaande
    @allylaande Před 4 lety +7

    I’m only after discovering this channel it has grown into one of my absolute favourite.

  • @tc2334
    @tc2334 Před 5 lety +460

    The name for the color orange up until the 1540s was “yellow-red” (though spelled much differently)...hence why people with “orange” hair were then and are now called “redheads”.

    • @mczenk5095
      @mczenk5095 Před 5 lety +52

      Yep, spelled like geoluread

    • @wilmafistfit4788
      @wilmafistfit4788 Před 5 lety +36

      Yes orange only became a color name after the fruit

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 Před 4 lety +23

      Leave it to my favorite color to be a weirdo

    • @alphaplenn
      @alphaplenn Před 4 lety

      @@mczenk5095; ??????

    • @dasffs
      @dasffs Před 4 lety +2

      @@mczenk5095 is this real? I'd love a source if so.

  • @softfishy
    @softfishy Před 5 lety +85

    Imagine having a common disease that'll probably heal within a few weeks but dying from the "cure" what a bummer

  • @Delicate_Disaster
    @Delicate_Disaster Před 4 lety +26

    What kind of games were they playing on Christmas!?
    Also- 1 bear 🤣

  • @pamelab7871
    @pamelab7871 Před 3 lety +9

    I remember when I was a little child, my brother had accidentally broken a glass oral thermometer which used mercury to calibrate a person’s temperature when ill. The mercury spilled out onto our kitchen table like balls the size of BB gun pellets. My brother pushed the balls around on the surface of the table. We all laughed at the wonder of this mysterious element. We had no idea whatsoever that this was a dangerous metal.

  • @pennybatzoni5583
    @pennybatzoni5583 Před 5 lety +13

    My most beloved son Richard Roxborough (Fogtopia) passed away on may 30th 2019 this particular song was one of Richard's favourite and was played at his funeral on Friday June 14th I am numb with grief but this song is giving me a little comfort.

  • @rosequill7925
    @rosequill7925 Před 5 lety +159

    So thanks for scaring me into brushing my teeth

    • @k.morningstar7983
      @k.morningstar7983 Před 3 lety

      floss too--my dentist told me how little people do it and what damage not dislodging bits between your teeth + at your gumlines does
      some think that alzheimer's may be caused in part to plaque as well

    • @rosequill7925
      @rosequill7925 Před 3 lety

      @@k.morningstar7983 wrong kind of plaque. It's not teeth plaque that causes Alzheimer's it's clumps of misshapen proteins that form in the brain that just happen to also be called plaques. You're thinking of dental plaque, Alzheimer's is caused by amaloid plaques.

  • @micaelacorona1350
    @micaelacorona1350 Před 3 lety +7

    why are these videos so addicting, I love them

  • @alistairborland4680
    @alistairborland4680 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Dr Lipscomb does a superb job, presenting this series of hidden killers in the home , not only is she knowledgeable regarding her series , but presents extremely well .

  • @MrPaulMorris
    @MrPaulMorris Před 4 lety +130

    Interesting to compare the super-cautious approach to mercury shown in laboratory conditions to the way it was handled even in my school days in the 1970s. Mercury was used in numerous experiments in physics classes and the main concern was the difficulty of recovering this expensive chemical if spilled. I recall in one case the tray on which the teacher was carrying out a demonstration was knocked and about half a pint of mercury spilled across the bench and onto the floor. We pupils then spent the rest of the lesson on our hands and knees helping the (not terribly happy) lab technician to collect the elusive liquid by scraping it onto folded pieces of paper drop by drop. If i recall correctly, about a quarter of the mercury was never recovered, presumably rolling into cracks and crevices to later evaporate into the school's atmosphere.

    • @rulerworld1289
      @rulerworld1289 Před 3 lety +6

      😧 absolutely astounding

    • @sarawatechnology7070
      @sarawatechnology7070 Před 3 lety +11

      Same thing happened in a class I was in. We were given mercury to roll around in our hand, and after we gave it back the beaker got spilled. But unfortunately the classroom floor had a slight slope to it so it all rolled to one side in little drops and disappeared under the molding at the bottom of the wall. We did not recover any of it and classes continued as normal

    • @user-mn3yk6ym2m
      @user-mn3yk6ym2m Před 3 lety +2

      Yeah I remember the class clown used 2 break the thermometers open and play with the mercury on the desk!

    • @archkull
      @archkull Před 3 lety +9

      Yikes! I hope that classroom was very well ventilated.
      Touching mercury itself is not dangerous, it cannot penetrate through your skin to get absorbed into your body. Unless you have a cut for example.
      The vapors of it however are where the biggest risk is, because it is easily absorbed into your body through your lungs.

  • @brianfuller7691
    @brianfuller7691 Před 5 lety +65

    The Victorians still had issues with Syphilis. Mercury,widely used in Tudor times, was still considered effective in Victorian times.

    • @BVenge-pe4wi
      @BVenge-pe4wi Před 5 lety +2

      Honestly it was still around Even in the 90s. I remember breaking a mercury thermometre in school.

    • @voivod6871
      @voivod6871 Před 4 lety +7

      @@BVenge-pe4wi Yes but not as a cure for syphilis.

    • @tuvelat7302
      @tuvelat7302 Před 4 lety

      It did relieve symptoms somewhat.

    • @rhaven50
      @rhaven50 Před 4 lety

      @@voivod6871 it wasn't a cure

  • @lalakuma9
    @lalakuma9 Před 4 lety +12

    When I heard about the Notre Dame Church fire, I immediately thought of this episode for some reason.

  • @bonzibuddy4483
    @bonzibuddy4483 Před 3 lety +15

    lol at the ADR "tobacco" edit to avoid saying cocaine. Nobody would ever call tobacco "white gold", people would think they were insane.

  • @ZBott
    @ZBott Před 5 lety +214

    Sugar and alcohol was eye opening for them? Imagine them downing a 4 loco.

  • @catwilk8213
    @catwilk8213 Před 5 lety +113

    I still have one of those books passed down from my family pass down from generation to generation

    • @annasloan2349
      @annasloan2349 Před 4 lety +8

      That is awesome. I collect antique books but have never had one that old...about 1850s is the earliest i have. What is tue name of the book of you dont mind me asking?

    • @annasloan2349
      @annasloan2349 Před 4 lety +3

      @Sam Bacon i meant to type 1890 not 1850..i have a small prayer book...its maybe 15 or so pages of psalms and proverbs..i imagine for a woman by the ribbons being pink and the font.
      Its in good shape except the binding seems to hsve erroded a little bit. Religious books seem to be the easiest to come across from that century.

    • @kitt3813
      @kitt3813 Před 4 lety

      The 19th century is hardly tudor is it? 19th century books are cheaply made with acidic paper and are 10 a penny.

    • @Bas_tet
      @Bas_tet Před 3 lety +1

      @@kitt3813 Those are penny dreadfuls

    • @siennasinestra2288
      @siennasinestra2288 Před 3 lety

      Amazing

  • @heidikurz6609
    @heidikurz6609 Před 3 lety +5

    The host's hair is making absolute history! So beautiful!

  • @roseleith
    @roseleith Před 4 lety +8

    On the topic of infections caused via open cuts and wounds: a couple of years back my rescue cat bit me out of fear and its teeth sunk into my finger. I went to the hospital and received antibiotics the same day. Despite taking the correct dose, two days later infection had reached my bloodstream and a red streak went from my finger up to my armpit. Felt feverish, went back to hospital, and was told I'd caught sepsis. One week in hospital, but still love my cat, who, incidentally, bit me again once I returned home!

    • @fedupwithfedforever4151
      @fedupwithfedforever4151 Před 2 lety +1

      I would have shot it !.....Actually wouldn't have had it to begin with....Vile beasts they are !

    • @kristiejones7420
      @kristiejones7420 Před 2 lety

      Cat scratch fever is a real thing. Any animal biting me is a one strike you're out kind of thing 😤

  • @corinnefrusciante3706
    @corinnefrusciante3706 Před 5 lety +43

    Both my baby and myself would’ve died at any point pre safe Caesarean section. Even with all the medical interventions available i was incredibly close to losing my daughter before she was born. Every medical professional came to look at her and said ‘you’re very lucky to have a live baby! ‘ I guess it’s so rare for babies to die in childbirth that they all had to come and see us. I had absolutely no idea until afterwards, pretty legendary of them to disguise their haste and slight panic but neither of us would’ve survived childbirth. Scary to think about

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 Před 4 lety +3

      Well, you do know it's a Caesarean because of the Emperor Caesar, so the operation has been around

    • @lucamixes6342
      @lucamixes6342 Před 4 lety +1

      It's not that rare for babies to die during childbirth they probably had more medical professionals as u said you had all the medical intervention possible

    • @picklep9812
      @picklep9812 Před 3 lety +1

      Mortality in America is quite high

    • @deendrew36
      @deendrew36 Před 2 lety +1

      @@lazyhomebody1356 but the original C-section was a last ditch effort. Mother’s were not expected to survive, or in fact had already died during the childbirth. It was a last ditch effort to save the baby.

    • @lazyhomebody1356
      @lazyhomebody1356 Před 2 lety +1

      @@deendrew36 No, I thought it was safer than that. Makes sense

  • @WeissTreufel
    @WeissTreufel Před 4 lety +264

    I wish they had mentioned cocaine. Despite it's modern illegality, it too was a big craze back in the day. It took centuries for people to finally realize what that stuff did to you.

    • @pandeomonia
      @pandeomonia Před 4 lety +17

      Coca wasn't really noticeable until 200-400 years later. Cocaine didn't exist before 1855. Same with opium.

    • @WeissTreufel
      @WeissTreufel Před 4 lety +58

      @@pandeomonia Dude... do you even history? Opium has been used by mankind since at least 3400 BC, if not much earlier. The Mayans were chewing coca leaves at 2000 BC. The Spanish conquest of most of south america would see this drug imported to Europe post-haste. While mostly in Spanish speaking communities originally had access to it. The French eventually caught wind of it and wanted in on the trade. It didn't become well known in the English speaking world until the early Victorian era. But that surely didn't mean it wasn't around. It simply wasn't universally known such as it is today.

    • @MauraAnastasia
      @MauraAnastasia Před 4 lety +30

      @@WeissTreufel They may have meant that mentioning cocaine in this program wouldn't have made sense, and that the modern version of cocaine was only created / isolated in 1855.

    • @101Volts
      @101Volts Před 3 lety +6

      Ah yes, "Cocaine Toothache Drops" used to be advertised in the 1880s.

    • @briandoyle6188
      @briandoyle6188 Před 3 lety +9

      Cocain definitely wasn't part of 15th century Britain...if it was I'm sure they would of been using it..

  • @HansonJ
    @HansonJ Před 4 lety +9

    The production value of this channel is insane

    • @harlotteoscara686
      @harlotteoscara686 Před 4 lety +2

      This channel did not produce the show. They copied and uploaded it. You can find all of these on Amazon Prime, but Amazon didn’t produce them either.

  • @casandrahampton376
    @casandrahampton376 Před 3 lety +12

    31:50 Also, I imagine, if the bank was too steep to climb up, the person was ill, had arthritis or something of the like, were exhausted or choking, drunk or concussed, or simply from the fall; hitting their head on a rock in the shallow water, getting the wind knocked out of them, or breaking a bone or tearing a ligament.
    I've twisted my ankle (tore ligament attached to the talus with a bit of bone avulsion) and I can tell you that I would have found it incredibly difficult to climb a steep or slick muddy bank alone. Add that to one other circumstance such as the dark, cold, breathlessness, clothing getting caught underwater, or confusion and I can see how they could die.