6 Disgusting Occupations in the Medieval Era...

[@Invalidpoint]

Having to collect human 'gong'? That's disgusting, no way I would do that jo-- "They earned about 6 pence per day, which was a week's wage for the average worker." You know, it doesn't sound that bad actually.

[@kaamkic]

Glad it’s not just me lol

[@EkTwRLoveGarlic]

Nah, it's a good deal but I wouldn't wanna catch any disease there, rather catch the usual like the plague or smt.

[@cagrenita562]

After a while you loose your sense of smell eventually, but i helped cleanout a dump while camping and the smell is almost maddening, but you can use vinegar filled rags and being drunk helps alot haha

[@christophersummers1939]

_Have to collect human 'gong'_ I sleep _"They earned about 6 pence per day, which was a week's wage for the average worker."_ "Real shit?"

[@Anamillio]

You would if you had no other choice. Most these people didn't have a range of jobs to choose from. They did what they had to do to survive

[@chriskelly9476]

I read somewhere - and if it's true it's quite sad - that poor families used to sell pots of urine to the tannery for income, and the poorest of the poor didn't even own a pot. Hence the modern phrase "he's so poor he doesn't even have a pot to piss in."

[@ronaldmessina4229]

That is why many. Doctors used masques shaped as storks, to keep the smells of the pestilence at bay

[@Allyourbase1990]

Yup , and sold poop to farmers

[@quovadis5429]

"...'e don't 'ave a pot to piss in nor a window to throw't out've. At least we're supportin' ourselves. Now, get up off your shyte-streaked arse, and 'elp me scrape this foul pudding from the Missus' gong-pot!"

[@susankara7520]

The rest of the phrase goes..and a window to throw it out of...because so many persons slept in other person's beds or slept sitting up in a row on a bench with a rope across their chest so they wouldn't fall over because no one could afford rental.😮

[@kevm9908]

​@@quovadis5429I'm howling 😂

[@ccsmooth55]

"Really there were just 2 classes, the Elite and the Workers" sounds exactly like 2022 to me.

[@juneroberts5305]

There were three classes throughout the Middle Ages: Oratores, Bellatores, and Laboratores. Oratores - those that pray. Bellatores - those that fight. Laboratores - those that work. The last category included every single person that didn't fall into the first two categories. Everyone from farm hands to goldsmiths. Some were richer and more successful than others but the whole Elite crap didn't exist, and it is a shame he worded it so sloppily. But hey, nothing like the old 'us' against 'them' to cater to the crowd. 🙄 Apologies for the long post, but as you can tell I got triggered. 😅

[@grindcoreninja6527]

It's still Lords and peasants, we're just called working class now

[@cobaingrohlnovo]

Then do something about it

[@jonnuanez7183]

It's like the pendulum swung back. Or coming full circle again. Sad, huh, that we don't learn from history.

[@dianeleininger704]

Funny, I thought the same thing.

[@Aaron_Gentry]

Imagine being a person assigned to collect dead bodies during the Black Plague. That sounds absolutely horrific

[@SiliconBong]

You just get the new guy to do it :)

[@Fankas2000]

They did earn a shit ton of money for it though.

[@micheldesormeau6828]

Not so bad if it’s in-laws you are picking up! 😂

[@zinkheroofyoutube8004]

@@Fankas2000What’s the point if you’re going to die anyway

[@Fankas2000]

@@zinkheroofyoutube8004 Leave it to your family. Also some people were naturally immune to the plaque.

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

How we managed to survive the medieval era is freaking insane.

[@00_00.1]

Humans have this amazing ability to always find a way to eat drink and fuck

[@Dr170]

And we owe a lot of it to the "productivity" of Shaggy McShaggerson of Shagtown

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

@@Dr170 👍👍👍

[@ThomasDoubting5]

@@Dr170 Very true and yet very false at the same time.

[@ElohAraphel]

I don’t know about you, but in my part of the world we’ve had toilets for 1000 years, one of the rare good things that came out of the Arab conquests, to be honest.

[@hbhb7900]

It amazes me, how people all living within a couple hundred feet of each other, couldn’t get together and decide not to throw poop out the window. 😂 I wonder why they couldn’t decide to have one spot to empty the buckets.

[@heathergreer9919]

There's alot that bothered me about the old ages but this is one of the biggest. Like why did they even decide that that was the way to get rid of poop? And then nobody thought it was nasty to walk threw it when on the streets...just so many questions. No wonder so many ppl stayed sick.

[@frostyjim2633]

At least they didn't just shit on the sidewalk, like the modern-day sophisticates of San Francisco

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

​@@frostyjim2633fear Allah

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Fear Allah

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

​@@heathergreer9919fear Allah

[@SailorSlay]

Leather workers did all that and lived in poverty. Makes sense. We still under compensate vital jobs

[@barbieblues7639]

It's just a fact that the worst and hardest jobs pay the least, and that's stupid...

[@mrusername3438]

@@barbieblues7639 Okay now that's just dumb

[@bcaye]

@@barbieblues7639, so, you would say being on your feet 12+ hours a day digging around in human bodies (live or dead) isn't a hard job?

[@craftyin907]

And overpay frivolous jobs 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@oliveryt7168]

Leather isn't vital to a modern society.

[@tomservo5347]

It's interesting how to this day people's surnames generally denotes the occupation of their ancestor like Tanner, Miller, Smith, Bowyer, Fletcher, Sawyer, even White-as it referred to a miller that was always covered in flour dust. My German mom's name of Kessler means 'cauldron maker' and refers to coppersmith as it goes back to the 11th century and the family shield has a copper cauldron on it.

[@2Bad4YOUuu]

Very cool 😎

[@CBrown86]

All I can think of is Nichol Kessler and her pretending to be some kind of wise witch with her basic knowledge of rocks 😂

[@barbieblues7639]

That's cool, my family's name used to be German before it was anglicized and it was "Maurer" which apparently meant stonemason

[@cw4608]

We had a Kessler Brewery in my hometown. So this man likely brewed beer in the very copper cauldrons made by other Kesslers.

[@tomservo5347]

@@cw4608 Hehe cool.

[@Voirreydirector]

My environmental scientist husband paid his dues working in an underfunded wastewater treatment plant, and I can tell you, the washing machine never recovered. So yeah, I can imagine imagine being in a gong farming family, no fun.

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Jesus was not killed nor Jesus was crucified

[@melissapinol7279]

My husband worked in a wastewater treatment plant inside as a lab tech, but he told me he still had trouble eating his lunch sometimes...

[@GarryDKing]

treadmill operator sounded fun to imagine til that last part. still, the peasants who had that job never skipped leg day.

[@deadon4847]

Usually the people in the treadmill were blind because they couldn't see how high up they were and get frightened.

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Jesus was not killed nor Jesus was crucified

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

​@@deadon4847Jesus was not killed nor Jesus was crucified

[@toko_ribbon]

Working in a tannery has to be the absolute worst in any era- the smell, lack of money, and stigma just makes that hard work all the more miserable 😩 Wonderful video! 👌✨

[@SiliconBong]

There was a tannery in my small nz town, although surrounded by a wooden fence over two meters high the 'odour' permeated the entire street (100m) ...which was a shame as there were some very nice houses there.

[@cleocatra9324]

I cant figure why Tanner is such a popular name. Like sure, name your baby PeeStomper…

[@ION400]

@@cleocatra9324 😆😆😆

[@cleocatra9324]

@@shinrapresident7010 hey i may have worded that wrong. I meant Tanner Tyler etc are popular choices as first names today( sometimes with no family connections)

[@mountainpackboys7995]

N the GONG FARMER!

[@sophroniel]

Nightsoilmen also had the risk of methane catching fire. They also had problems with beggars during winter, because the decomposition was warm, so they'd go there to save them selves from freezing to death.

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Dog not allowed ect

[@MichaelLevine-n6y]

The book, "The Worst Jobs in History" by Tony Robbins, discusses this subject from the Medieval rea to the 1800s. Well written and quite fascinating.

[@yokiryuchan7655]

It's Tony Robinson, not Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins is the motivational speaker lol.

[@MichaelLevine-n6y]

@@yokiryuchan7655 Yikes! You're right, it is Robinson. Opps! I've heard a few posts form Robbins. Not very motivating.

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

​@@MichaelLevine-n6yfear Allah

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

​@@yokiryuchan7655India don't burn dead body not allowed

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

India don't burn dead body not allowed

[@0612Crystal]

Oh the Gong Farmer got me!! 🤢 I’m glad they got at least decent pay.

[@rurazar1686]

Yeah, I agree. But I question the life expectancy of those working that kind of job. Just one of those things, where even if you pay me a million an hour, I wouldn't do it. But that's just me.

[@0612Crystal]

@@rurazar1686 I agree with you. Prostitutes probably had a long life expectancy than those guys.

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Fear Allah

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Don't die as a disbeliever

[@nonameneededd]

I know this is a new channel, but can I just say your cometary on these videos is outstanding. Please don’t change the style of content here because of a few people who are displeased, and please know your work is really appreciated and highly interesting. Thank you 😁

[@alastairgreen2077]

commentary

[@JRLNeal]

This audio has been slowed down surely. I have listened to others on this channel and they don’t sound like we are being dragged through aural treacle. Otherwise a great video.

[@slickrick2420]

@@JRLNeal It doesn't sound that slow. It sounds just right and sets the mood. It's perfect now.

[@RustyB22]

It DOES sound better at 1.5 speed. It sounds like he is really tierd or on a sleeping pill 😂

[@CaptHollister]

Correction, there *were* mechanical cranes and hoists. That's exactly what the treadmill was.

[@phillawrence5148]

Noticed that myself, a wynch is a hoist

[@Xtralge4ee]

bio-mechanical

[@jessicadrawdy8292]

It puts sparkles in my eyes when I think about this era. Like, every single one of us is alive today because our ancestors miraculously survived all of this. It's extraordinary!

[@mignonhagemeijer3726]

They survived just long enough*

[@mignonhagemeijer3726]

But in all honesty it always amazed me how thing go like that. There is some line that traces us all back to the beginning of life. Its fun to see some of the traces of the past. Apparently on my mothers side of the family we used to have soen French nobel blood. Pretty amazing we survived that as well. No clue about may dad's side though

[@Jacinto93077]

Class still exists no matter what government try to say. High class elites, middle class,and lower class. Money means everything in this world and more have more power and usually more breaks you get law and tax wise. Yet,anybody lower than elites is taxed too death and literally work themselves to death just to live. It's truly sad and heartbreaking.

[@ankhpom9296]

The reality is people like Trump give himself and the billionaires tax breaks leaving the burden to the shrinking middle class and the poor of course. Nothing has changed.

[@PitboyHarmony1]

Actually new research proves that people didnt just throw their chamber pot contents out the window. That was a more recent (probably during Dickens time) bit of medieval rhetoric. Before the Gong farmer, a family member or someone would walk it down to the ditch, trough or river. Just as today, medieval people didnt stand for flying excrement, and there were laws and comunity norms.

[@joywebster2678]

And my understanding was it was only urine that went out the window, solid waste was as you indicated carried out to be dumped.

[@TexanTemplar]

This is officially my favorite channel

[@Heather406]

I just need to let you guys know I absolutely love this channel and always look forward to new videos!! The narrator is brilliant, very soothing, mysterious voice, perfect for these videos 😁 And the content is great! Please keep up the great work and keep the videos coming!

[@2Bad4YOUuu]

I 2nd that! Very interesting to listen to while I'm doing errands and chores or even as I'm heading off to sleep 😴 ... Then hit replay when I wake up lol

[@daltrui315]

Safe to say that the 'Gong Show' would've been a completely different type of program in the Middle Ages.

[@debbylou5729]

Contestant number 2……SHOW US YOUR BUCKET!!

[@alliecollin1748]

👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jcspider7259]

And we shall appear at least as horrific to those who live 700 years from now and are looking back at the 21st century.

[@Faythe98]

This channel makes me so happy! The perfect thing for my history obsession!!

[@jennaolbermann7663]

It is really good for my history addiction too!

[@e4t662]

This is absolutely fantastic. Well done. It's amazing to think how far we've come as a species, only to be disappointed again.

[@Eddyzz01]

disappointed again ??

[@beez1717]

The last picture of the guy getting stabbed in the head is hilarious because he's smiling as if he didn't care.

[@jamessloanofficial]

Because he knew he wouldn’t have to go back to the tannery…

[@Ry9653]

I was searching for this comment 🤭

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

​@@Ry9653dog not allowed ect

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

​@@jamessloanofficialdog not allowed ect

[@mattias969]

Barbers have only the name survived since they were practically surgeons

[@wht-rabt-obj]

Gong farmers would also occasionally get lucky and find valuables in the filth, like gold rings and such.

[@Rickuo]

"Before murderers and rapists be hanged, they would first be broken on the wheel." We are in need of reintroducing this punishment.

[@bcaye]

Cruel and unusual punishment is forbidden by the Eighth Amendment. At least where I live.

[@seanpatrick8253]

And the burning alive of witches and sodomites

[@AH-pw1im]

...Well maybe that's why they get out, if they even do time, and prompty re-offend?

[@Amilakasun1]

as long as false accusers get the same punishment I am fine.

[@happydace6991]

@@Amilakasun1 excellent point . Agreed .

[@kashyyyk]

Narrator: Gong farming is still a necessary job in some “third world” countries today. San Francisco: Am I a joke to you?

[@Michael-Douglas]

Those treadmill cranes are mechanical they work by using a system of pulleys in order to gain a mechanical advantage allowing it to lift heavy loads.

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Suicide not allowed

[@markc7955]

I worked in a tannery for one day. Not for me. Worst smell ever.

[@matthewmcbride2893]

I'm happy that the KZbin algorithm gods have led me here. Your narration is sublime. It's becoming rare to find a channel who speak naturally and intelligently on a topic. Well done. I subbed and I'm excited to hear more.

[@SilentKnight43]

In modern day Toronto there was an adult video superstore downtown on Yonge St. They employed a guy who's job after the store closed was to clean the video viewing booths at the back of the store each night.

[@danrook5757]

Super sex in Montreal was like that, I left my mark many times

[@MPHswayze]

Frank Reynolds calls that "wiping down the loads" 🤣

[@cet6237]

YOU COULDN'T PAY ME ENOUGH!

[@snaggiz]

The quality of your content for such a young and small channel is fantastic. I reckon you could go on to really carve out a good following for yourself! Fascinating stuff, well presented!

[@bechiiiiii]

You speak so well

[@michaelarchangel1163]

Better an executioner than a gong farmer. I bet nobody ever wanted to keep the company of any of the latter for having a good personality.

[@jeepliving1]

6 Disgusting Jobs in the 21st Century 1. Tanner 2. Septic tank repair and pumping 3. Fiberglass insulation installer 4. Chemical plant worker 5. Sperm collector for animal breeding 6. Mortician

[@alamore5084]

LOVE this newly discovered channel. Excellent. Much better than the crap on the television.

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Dog not allowed ect

[@galaxyrose15]

Wow I had no idea about the treadmills used to build things. Crazy what people come up with.

[@andrewkellar6511]

iiiiiiiiiiiii LOVE this channel!!!

[@karrenpopovics2780]

Many of these surnames are now first names..Hunter, Tanner etc.

[@glennhopkins2643]

Life in the Middle Ages was incredibly horrible.

[@directorphase]

Can't wait for the next video!

[@the_cursor]

People on the outskirts of Houston still depend on well water and cesspools. Like the gong farmer of old, someone has to collect it. When asked, those collectors say it smells like money.

[@PodOfHeat]

My new insult... "Gong farmer!!" 😂

[@nuudelz3711]

Before immigrating, our family were butchers back to the 14th century. Continued when they came over but were bought out by cargil. I have no idea what to do with a knife 😂

[@antonio388]

Great content, nice and clear good to leave my ear buds in while working

[@Hearts_4hellokitty]

Woohooo this has made my morning 🙂

[@RebeccaQueen-ti1bk]

Suicide not allowed

[@clairemcheskin]

In parts of Wales they still have septic tanks to empty instead of drains. The Welsh gong farmer is called the "Acky Pooky Man"

[@Russell-1]

Only in Wales? Septic tanks are found everywhere.

[@Deedeevenice]

You have a calm, soothing voice! I listen to your channel on headphones at night and “time travel” at least 4 centuries! If I close my eyes and concentrate, I bump into Samuel Pepys and his friends!

[@michaelsheils3214]

Great video, much more watchable at 1.25x playback!

[@alexclement7221]

Nobody would EVER was a hide in a well. "Poisoning a well" could get you executed.

[@velcroman11]

Actually, the killing of cats is likely why the plague stared. Cats ate the rats that carried the flees. Without the calls rats flourished . Thus, the flees flourished. You can blame the killing of cat on the Catholic church.

[@robertjensen1048]

Agree, but they probably thought that killing them was fun, because nobody likes cats.

[@EMbosliceN777]

Hey man I like this channel alot. You just gained another subscriber. Thanks for the historical info and humor! I love knowing these little things about history so this was a perfect stumbleupon!

[@alastairgreen2077]

a lot. Two words.

[@EMbosliceN777]

@@alastairgreen2077 Thanks troll! Must not have much to do but spell check comments on KZbin. That must suck A LOT.

[@Iamtheliquor]

Very interesting video mate. Thanks

[@margotro7728]

Hello, first timer to your channel. I enjoyed this historical vlog, I’m a fan straight away. 🐞

[@charitysheppard4549]

I think charcoal producers had it pretty hard. They had to skillfully chop and stack tons of hardwood. Then, once the stack is set ablaze, they had to watch the stack for 72 hours strait. They used one-legged stool to make sure they were awoken by falling if they fell asleep.

[@brianfisher4940]

What joy and utter peace it must have brought them all to know the "Church" was there to support them. Glory be. Saints be praised. Yes, that's meant as sarcasm.

[@pal_lokomotivet2679]

In norway the night man also had to put dead bodies on the wheel after execution

[@jessebullard7880]

After? Wow lucky fellas not getting broken firsy

[@SparkieGoth]

Urrrrgghh!!! I'm glad I don't have to collect leeches like that!!

[@kludgedude]

Gives new meaning to “gong show”

[@Ry9653]

Hm aren't there still tanners today? Leather is still made out of cow's skins, so there must still be people who do that

[@thra5herxb12s]

Not like today where the people working in the paper shop get punched and spat at and called fkin idiots.

[@rustomkanishka]

I've been near a manual tannery in a slum in Mumbai, India. 2/10 would not recommend.

[@barbieblues7639]

2/10? 😂 what is bad enough to earn a 1 or 0?

[@rustomkanishka]

@@barbieblues7639 rotting human carcass being removed piece by piece from a storm drain after the monsoon kinda smelled worse. So that's 1/10.

[@BeckBeckGo]

1400s Leech collectors: worst job ever 2000s Pharmacists: 🐤

[@mecongberlin]

Very interesting channel. Subscribed. If I may add, executioners also acted as surgeons or healers, due to their knowledge of anatomy (in later times this was turned on the head when doctors actually became executioners to guarantee a satisfying, long execution). And in some places, they were actually treated like pop-stars. I read a medieval book about the executioner of Lübeck - the marzipan city in Germany - were he described a day at work. First he mentioned how the people were dressed coming to witness the execution. Like they were going to church. And how they cheered him on and even wanted to shake his hand or touch his head for luck and prosperity.

[@snowbird1381]

There were no video games or real entertainment back then. At that time you took what you could get.

[@daryld4457]

Subscribed. Great videos so far 👌

[@Allyourbase1990]

I wish I could go back in time and teach them everything we know . They would write about me all they history . The God of hygiene

[@queensapphire7717]

6:32, funny when I was in Dublin, Ireland in the 70 - 80s to visit family, a weird (bad) smell would be about the streets, and my cousins called it “The Knackers” and it came to be a derogatory term for lower class people in Ireland. Like when I went to visit another uncle in the Ballymun Flats in Dublin, my other cousin said “Jaysus, that place is full of knackers”, as evidenced by the 1/2” of urine in the elevators, graffiti all over ( saw a Cool Saxon tag, after the 80s metal band) and naked kids running about, made every public housing project in Brooklyn, NY look like a palace.

[@cheshirecat3978]

Liked the video because of the " bring out cha dead " lol

[@marshmangunnar9150]

Haha! Same

[@crazypolite]

This is literally modern day for 90% of the planet 😂

[@dnf7778]

love the channel. That music is so creepy. Right on guys!

[@rickeon2397]

So did Tanner's coin the phrase " taking the piss"?

[@2070paradigmshift]

Gong farmers still exist in first world countries too. Look at San Francisco for example.

[@vs4798]

Yes, and also gay bath house drain farmers.

[@unnamedchannel1237]

A lot of these jobs have not “gone” they have just shifted . E.g the person that collects and removes the poop they now just clear the pipes but still have to swim in it

[@jimschannel2220]

The gong men earned good money. They were on time and a turd.🤪

[@gianloplo]

No matter what we think, current situation looks like heaven compared to middle ages

[@frankparsley1913]

The good ole days!

[@JoeyChiba]

Anyone else think Richard the Raker was victim of foul play?

[@JackRed6666]

My son will become a Gong Farmer

[@oliveryt7168]

He'll be earning in one night what most others make in one week.

[@dotbluer9041]

When he said ‘as the body count got higher there ain’t no time for that ‘ I felt that

[@MrDiggityaus]

Playing this at 1.25x sounds better.

[@stevetaylor8698]

The flush toilet did not become available or widely used until the late 19th/early 20th centuries, even in industrial Europe.

[@daniel06498]

The first job of working on the leather is stil in use not mutch but there are people stil doing it

[@HerbaceousSW]

always good videos on your channel. thank you.

[@cyberzenASMR]

I would also include horse trainer and/or stable man. my family was french royalty and they pass down events that occurred from those days. the smell, can be dangerous animals, equipments and sanitation of the buildings can get you killed from infection. The horses attracted vermon and fleas. My family picked up the stableman skills (mainly women) because majority of the stablemen were taken out by diseases.

[@georgesouthwick7000]

Surprised the job of “Piss Boy” didn’t make the list….lol

[@wht-rabt-obj]

You can bet that there were more than a couple people buried in plague pits, that weren't quite all the way dead yet. 😳☠️

[@GAMESTERVISION]

They found a faster way to tan hides after they figured out a beetle that darkened it with natural dyes

[@GAMESTERVISION]

They make wood stain from those beetles as well

[@yecyec3927]

AT LEAST THEY HAD STABLE JOBS.

[@raffaelevalente7811]

Truly amazing video! Thanks for sharing! Deserves more views

[@ourv9603]

Back in the bad old days of wooden sailing ships these ships did not have a head. They had a poop deck. The crew would go to rail, drop their drawers, hang their butt over the rail & do their business. It didnt take long for the side of the ship to get splattered. It was the job of the youngest, most inexperienced apprentice sailor to go over the side in a bosuns chair & scrub the side of the ship. !

[@Heymrk]

Disgusting? My brother is a tanner and he loves it. Makes more money than I do and I have a PhD.

[@LassieFarm]

That's a bummer, man

[@Jordy40Growing]

Gong farmer = septic tank pumpers

[@chicagogyrl4846]

If the tanner was so vital, why did they not get paid accordingly??!

[@re_exist129]

I love all the paintings you dig up for your videos. Much better than stock footage. Don't be afraid to reuse them in other videos if you can't find new ones continuously, just don't start filling the videos with stock footage.

[@SalishCascadian]

several of the pictures of the 'gong farmers' were actually mud larks which reached their peak later on in the industrial revolution, or so I've heard.

[@bossgrunn775]

Throwing human waste into the street wasn't done anywhere near as much as people think, they didn't like bad smells just like most people, even laws against it

[@stansmith4054]

I believe it still happens in San Francisco.

[@junker1192]

@@stansmith4054Medieval men were quite civilized compared to californians.

[@stansmith4054]

@@junker1192 You got that right, brother!!

[@paulblichmann2791]

Then where did it go.

[@timjones7640]

Urine was a hot commodity it was too useful to throw away they sold it to the various trades that needed it.

[@nurim.4439]

Mankind was the most creepy and insane creation.