Horrible Histories The Royal Socitey

[@laurenconrad1799]

Might I just point out that idiot or not, Pepy's writing everything down taught historians a huge amount of what they know about daily life in the Stuart Age.

[@andrewobrien8325]

If I wrote down everything I experienced from today....till my dying day...people 300 years from now would know a lot about the age we live in. Would that stop me being an idiot? Doubt it...in fact the age we live already has that! It’s called the Internet, chances are 300 years from now people will be able to look back and say “Wow! Everyone in 2020 was an idiot! Except for that girl who posted this cute cat meme”

[@Zeldarw104]

True, Pepsy's wrote about the Great London Fire of 1666 in much detail, I believe he was maybe a little long-winded but a brilliant historian. 🤔

[@carlbirtles4518]

Would COVID-19 victims publish diaries on their experiences or blog about their experiences?

[@henrymanley4116]

@@carlbirtles4518 How much would there be write considering all they basically did was sit at home doing nothing?

[@carlbirtles4518]

@@henrymanley4116 I'm refering to people in furlough, those waiting in long lines for food, those who were in the ICU and those who have lost a friend or relative to COVID-19.

[@thecynicalraven257]

I love Mat’s facial expressions in this scene, especially when he says “You’re an idiot, write that down”

[@EditorOfSL]

I love the way he says “On what?” It sounds like this might not be the first time Pepys did something like that.

[@ShieldHero1935]

I don’t want to.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

As a lifelong fish historian, I am siding with Pepys on this one.

[@punkwrestle]

So you’re the one.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

@@punkwrestle We are legion

[@jaybestnz]

Is it true that this was a real book

[@Account.for.Comment]

Can't blame you for that. Me, I prefer the one who discovered the Three Laws of Motion.

[@Account.for.Comment]

@@jaybestnz Wikipedia said Yes.

[@robertbilling6266]

Also Newton's dog Diamond chewed the manuscript of Principia so badly that Newton had to write it all out again by hand.

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

Isaac Newton's dog ate his homework? And lo, the jokes did writeth themselves.

[@sarah3796]

Hahaha wow

[@Vesnicie]

My favorite part of the diary is when his long-suffering wife tries to murder him with the fireplace poker.

[@thunderbird1921]

Yikes! Was she charged for this? That's brutal.

[@Meow_Zedong_1949]

@@thunderbird1921 Maybe the authorities let her go after realising her husband was an insufferable oaf.

[@maddiowens3549]

@@thunderbird1921 she was not charged and she had every right, that man put her through hell from the time she was 15 years old. Constantly cheating with their maids, any woman he could get his hands on really, until she tragically passed of typhoid fever entirely too young

[@Tareltonlives]

I wouldn't be surprised given how often he cheated on her with the hired help

[@iBishopEsquire]

I bet Snuggles is a female that has serious issues with men.

[@carlbirtles4518]

Pepys buried his cheese and wine to prevent them being damaged in the Great Fire of London in 1666. (See Season 1 Episode 9)

[@sarah3796]

😮

[@Mudhooks]

Pepys really did write everything down, including his messing around with and/or trying to mess around with almost every female he met… even in church, much of it was written in barely disguised French.

[@niseplank4527]

Pretty much any woman in arm's length.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

​@@niseplank4527 Pepys was a sexual harassment lawsuit waiting to happen!

[@eldrago19]

Members of the royal society started giving copies of the history of fishes to each other as a joke.

[@whatsanenigma]

I wonder how Fishbrain took that.

[@lukassnakeman]

Well now I want to read about the history of fish

[@ollebo]

No worries, it's available for free on google books. Better brush up on your Latin first though: books.google.se/books?id=D81WAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=De+Historia+Piscium&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY3Oe7xZ_pAhUszqYKHZbCAq0Q6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=De%20Historia%20Piscium&f=false It does have some wonderful illustrations, from page 357 and onwards.

[@pendragonxt3674]

Neil Degrasse Tyson showcased a copy of it when he did his version of the tv show cosmos.

[@SensiofRabbitude]

Legitimately one of my all time favourite HH skits.

[@potatoegirl31]

seriously, these guys are the 21st century Monty Python! 😂

[@carlbirtles4518]

A family-friendly version.

[@thunderbird1921]

Agreed.

[@knightforlorn6731]

pretty much the best

[@pendragonxt3674]

@@carlbirtles4518And educational!

[@tonyplaysthemambo]

1. He kept diaries after the one he published, which was written between 1660 and 1669. 2. He didn't write the book, but he did publish it.

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

3. He almost invented the photocopier

[@punkwrestle]

ProjectFlashlight612 Won’t anyone think of all the poor monks who were put out of jobs because of technology!

[@Threezi04]

@@punkwrestle I don't think the monks were being paid...

[@jonathanredacted3245]

@@punkwrestle this was after Henry the 8th abolished all of the abbeys in england. What you're thinking of would be the printers

[@EditorOfSL]

No one in the sketch said he wrote The History of Fishes, just that he published it. Open your ears!

[@agentimogen314]

' i squid you not' I love now being old enough to understand it!

[@carlbirtles4518]

You must have good 'herring'. 😄😄😄

[@howardlanus8610]

@@carlbirtles4518 Oh cut it out you two. I'm getting a haddock.

[@silliest_of_sillies]

It really helps to pay attenchion

[@TheBlackDemon1996]

In case anyone else was confused, "De Historia Piscium" was written by Francis Willughby, not Pepys.

[@princessbeaniewiggle]

Mat: I am an iDiOt wrote the idiot Pepys! I'm laughing at that way more than I should be. 🤣

[@whatsanenigma]

Pepys would have loved Facebook. Everything that happens in London-town indeed, complete with pictures.

[@Quinntus79]

Historians are going to read some interesting things in the next 400 years.

[@Phyllida-r7n]

Unlikely. Pepys preferred to write himself, he had a high ego and sense of self, strongly doubt he would have been interested in other people’s scribbling. Least of all Facebook of all things.

[@whatsanenigma]

@@Phyllida-r7n I see! Well, he probably would have at least liked to post on Facebook.

[@LewisStead]

I know I'm not the first to say this but the force behind Matt's line delivery of "I am an IDIOT" wrote the IDIOT, Pepys! was pure comedy gold!

[@carlbirtles4518]

Top tip: introduce a spending limit on certain things to avoid being a pennyless society.

[@janekhill8647]

Having just failed a mechanics exam I side with Pepys here

[@janetalee443]

Excellent, love Horrible Histories forever 💙

[@victorvalentine1173]

You’re not the only one

[@VioletteChevre]

replied the quick witted diarist to the bumbling astronomer (lol)

[@amabelbarlow8046]

Interesting about Newton's Principia, but very idiotic of Pepys to use all of the Royal Society's money to publish a book on the history of Fishes.

[@MysteriumArcanum]

And according to the comments he didn't even write the book, he just published it.

[@neonvalkyrie]

Thanks! One of the best so far!

[@jessie2claudia100]

" You're an idiot...write that down" ROTFL

[@thelastbumblebee]

"How many fish historians do you know?" "One." "Apart from the bloke who wrote the book." He didn't write the book, they don't say he did - and on the front cover of the book he holds up it correctly says that it was written by Francis Willughby. Sorry!

[@punkwrestle]

He never said Pepys wrote the book, he said the guy who wrote the book was the only fish historian that Pepys knew.

[@Threezi04]

@@punkwrestle Congratulations, you repeated what he said.

[@trowell200]

Elfsskeetit yes but the original comment is criticising the video for saying Pepys wrote it, but the video never says that

[@thergmtk]

@@trowell200 No, I believe he's criticizing the other commentors in the comment section.

[@Tareltonlives]

I love Jim as Pepys

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

I for one am quite curious about the history of fishes

[@Evaunit98]

Most of the Royal society was mental, Newton himself nearly went blind because he stared at the sun for a few hours.

[@TheNgamer1]

And thus... Twitter was born.

[@whatsanenigma]

I wonder why Pepys hung around with the Royal Society anyway.

[@thekingshussar1808]

"Da Hiztoree of Fishiezz..."

[@iamsheel]

I would like to read that fishy book

[@crimsonmoon7848]

me seeing this writing a report on the history of fishes

[@WretchedRedoran]

The due in the black wig looks like Alan Doyle.

[@bakanani8040]

Oh poor Halley 😂

[@whatsanenigma]

I don't know - looks like he and Newton got the last laugh this time!

[@shaddowkitty0193]

Matt with gray hair…

[@whatsanenigma]

It brings out his eyes so nicely.

[@williamjones7163]

It is nice to see all these Ghosts actors in other productions. Guess who is whom?

[@heatherbowman9450]

My tablet is gonna die💀

[@bekluwe]

The oldest science society is the Leopoldina in Germany. Founded in 1610.

[@jetfire1153red]

2:37 funny as hell

[@EditorOfSL]

Someone here needs to learn how to spell “society.”

[@scottmcphee2076]

This is the same society that financed the voyages of Captain James Cook.

[@jakobvonpistohlkors2305]

You’re right

[@EllaAnimates]

Your lying if you say you didn’t have a crush on like half the cast especially Matt even when they’re wearing crazy looking wigs

[@QueenShireen]

Give me that book!!!! .. about the fishes .. xD

[@evancrampton2936]

pepys is literally just elder pressley wearing a wig they act and sound so similar

[@TheRustAdmin]

Squids aren't fish. They're cephalopods!

[@henrymanley4116]

You spelled 'Society' wrong!

[@StiggusRattus]

The history of fishes

[@andrewobrien8325]

1:17 Let’s be honest mate, that fish historian story is so silly I’ll bet Pepys spend the money on things unbecoming for a Stuart gentleman and inappropriate for children…but I’m probably just looking for sleaze where there is none

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

"Discovered" gravity?

[@equestrianactor4071]

Me: so yeah Mrs Sw****: reapeat it please didn’t understand Told her ‘bout book of fishes 😂😅

[@Zolega89]

And how many fish historian do you know?

[@tricorvus2673]

So, Pepys is pronounced Peeps? Unless I'm deafer than I knew

[@whatsanenigma]

Apparently so. This isn't the only program where I've heard it said that way. As an American I must admit I have no clue how that makes sense. But apparently a lot of UK names of places and people are pronounced very differently than how they are spelled.

[@WiFiWombat]

@@whatsanenigma Just like Arkansas.

[@shunshun381]

Damn Matt looks so hot with that grey hair :D

[@idiotsassemble5698]

He can literally pull off anything 😍😂

[@whitejared309]

Do they really say fishes in England?

[@jamesanthony8438]

It's for speaking of more than one species of fish.

[@nathangamble125]

Is "sleeping with the fishes" really a proverb?

[@clockworkkirlia7475]

There are many fish in a one-species school, but the ocean has many different fishes to see, not all of which form schools.

[@GalenNight]

Ok so what would 50 British pounds be in Newtons time and then adjusted in todays era?

[@princessbeaniewiggle]

That would be approximately £5,258.75 give or take.

[@GalenNight]

@@princessbeaniewiggle so about $7k? What a price tag to publish a paper

[@adgstgx9339]

cool

[@dorothywillis1]

I think this video is unfair to Pepys, who definitely was not an idiot!

[@jamestown8398]

A fan of De Historia Piscium, I take it?

[@dorothywillis1]

@@jamestown8398 I just think it's a shame to give all the blame to one person, when there is plenty to be shared around. How could a bunch of smart people be so stupid? (Of course that's a question that has been asked many times throughout history.)

[@DeathnoteBB]

So basically, capitalism almost halted modern science? Sounds about right

[@punkwrestle]

Think about all the stuff older societies knew that were lost to us. How the hell did the Greeks know the liver could regenerate? Story of Prometheus....

[@DeathnoteBB]

Punkwrestle Damn I never thought about that

[@nathangamble125]

@@punkwrestle I think that is most likely a coincidence. Prometheus was immortal - you still die if your liver gets eaten by an eagle, regardless of whether parts of it are able to grow back from minor damage.

[@punkwrestle]

Nathan Gamble Depends on how much of it he ate. I think you could lose like half your liver and it will still regenerate, but it is odd that of all the body parts they chose the one that actually does regenerate..

[@DeathnoteBB]

Punkwrestle Yeah, it seems unlikely it was just a coincidence.

[@warmachineuk]

It's daft to say Newton discovered gravity. The earliest amphibian discovered gravity when it crawled onto land. Rather, he discovered the laws of gravity. Still hilarious the Society's budget was blown by a single member.

[@TheGroundedAviator]

He'd agree with you.

[@EditorOfSL]

He didn’t discover it, he was just the first human to work out how it works.

[@fishswim7554]

Socitey

[@nathangamble125]

*society

[@EleanorWhite-g8c]

I like Mathew Baynton very much I always have and I always will 🩷🩷🩷💖🩷 💖💖💖🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷💖💖

[@whatsanenigma]

He's cute enough in the dark colored wigs. But the lighter colored wigs like this one really bring out his eyes even more.