The Worst Jobs In History 5of6 Georgian

[@kcathow1814]

"A gravy of human detritus" is quite possibly one of the most evocative sentences ever uttered in English

[@saragrant9749]

I thought the same thing lol. He definitely has a way with words!

[@GreenHarpist]

I loved the little bit where Tony sang! His falsetto is pretty good. I knew about a lot of these jobs but had never heard about the garden hermits before--that is pretty weird.

[@WillowTDog]

Same!

[@saragrant9749]

People would do anything for a buck I suppose lol.

[@GreenHarpist]

I never said this

[@nigelprosser5692]

Tony , he’s always up for a challenge and a laugh 👍👍😂

[@jacobwilloughby9215]

Best thing about the UK in general is historical values. The fact that 300 to 500 year old buildings are still standing is crazy. Even more amazing after ww2

[@thomasvandevelde8157]

It´s the same here, in Flanders/Belgium. Every time I take the bus/tram, I pass by perfectly maintained castlewalls/keeps, huge churches, 14th century cannon, a torture chamber... Al within 15´ ride by bicycle! I never been to the UK on a tour, sadly enough. The UK evolved different than mainland Europe, which is what´s intriguing to a Continental Europe inhabitant. Here we got these MASSIVE post-Reformation churches/cathedrals build to outdo the Protestant part of Europe, mostly England and Holland.

[@Libbathegreat]

That hermit gig doesn't sound too bad (she said after 6 months in lockdown).

[@ChainSmashers]

I agree with him that mill scavenger is the worst. Utterly terrifying for a kid. Girth spaces, dangerous loud machinery that can cut you to pieces, ugh.

[@maryanneslater9675]

And the mills were loud too. People lost their hearing as well as fingers.

[@commandercoop2921]

actually a lot of mills were rather quiet in comparison to what is believed. Its a misconception that it was extremely loud, i recommend watching jay lenos video on his steam engine, which were widely used in mills for quite some time.

[@maryanneslater9675]

Commander Coop -- Er, what? The steam engine wasn't the problem -- it was usually in its own building anyway. Any sort of moving machinery whirs, clanks, rumbles, rattles, creaks, squeaks or thumps. One on its own isn't loud, but 50 or 100 in a huge echoing hall will be LOUD. Cloth mills where power looms were used were so bad that anyone who got hair or clothing caught in a loom might not be heard SCREAMING for help. The harnesses clank up and down, the shuttles rattle through the shed, the thread hisses through the heddles and the reeds thump as they beat the weft. There could be a hundred or more looms in a mill. And the metalworking mills must have been horrendous.

[@davidjones332]

@@commandercoop2921 If you have ever been in a weaving shed with a hundred looms running you would understand why all Lancashire mill girls were accomplished lip-readers -it was literally impossible to hear yourself think.

[@eliotreader8220]

@@maryanneslater9675 i understand from watching the mill little kids some times had help clean the boiler fires removing the clinker and ash from the fire boxes. did that really happen?

[@Hil0]

I had no idea Tony Robinson had such a lovely singing voice!

[@warburton8439]

Alot of actors do, to a certain extent.... They can hold a tune anyway. To get into drama school you have to sing a song in the audition like RADA, LAMDA etc.

[@TopazKnight87]

I didn't know ether, but I love it!😊

[@yomama5785]

And body, vavavaboom!

[@professornuke7562]

He's got a decent Counter Tenor too!

[@erinw8787]

He is a very talented man ❤️

[@nemosangel]

Why didn't they use bigger brushes? something like a broom? Wouldn't that have beens safer for the children? Oh child labor... disgusting!

[@WillowTDog]

Those kids are the best way to help people understand why regulations are not necessarily a bad thing.

[@FlyingwithFire]

@Maximillian Wylde lol, keep joking

[@thaddeuslindsay5872]

when you realize you have the same body as baldrick...

[@dangerstx]

i'm impressed. this guy is funny, holds the attention, cute, ... and he's gung-ho as shit! new favorite host.

[@tweezerjam]

Jwixom - agreed

[@WillowTDog]

And he's really scared of heights! He's a treasure.

[@robmckay5700]

Everyone loves Tony Robinson ☺️

[@brucegibbins3792]

Actually experiencing these things for the sake of one's art is a testament to Tony's bravery and tenacity. Good on you, mate.

[@maryoleary5044]

Gosh, climbing up those ropes on the ship! 🤢😬

[@StyrbjornStarke]

"loose canon" "square meal" "learning the ropes" so many terms come from the ships

[@Azphreal]

Not enough room to swing a cat is another.

[@kp6405]

StyrbjornStarke tighter than a ducks ass

[@swannavon2309]

"groggy"

[@worddunlap]

Heave ho. Used on-board, shore in the pub and house of horizontal dancing.

[@oml81mm]

Nipper?

[@bluewolf993]

I remember reading Anne Rice’s book Cry To Heaven about the life of the eunuchs of that day and the castrati singers. It was a good book... and it didn’t even have vampires!

[@maryoleary5044]

Poor Horses and little ones in factories 😥😔

[@OllieEvansartist]

What a legend, this man does some bold shit haha

[@dylanfontaine591]

"and i still got me testicles" that was good

[@simonbroberg969]

Glad we kicked the Catholic church out of England.. Sweden, Holland, and quite a few other places eh?

[@pastorjillk]

@@simonbroberg969 Ten why did the Protestant Georgians clamor castratii singers. Same in Sweden and Holland

[@anthonyeveritt9366]

Oh shut up cultist

[@TopazKnight87]

LOL🤣

[@TrapperAaron]

Well this all deteriorated quickly. Never change.

[@TM-oz2kt]

Tony Robinson, no fear!! i take my hat off to you sir.

[@getin3949]

There is a GREAT series on Amazon Prime Video called The Mill. I've watched it at least 4 times now. They did an excellent rendition of what it was like for children in that era. Very realistic with only one accident, thankfully.

[@getin3949]

Such a handsome Captain, he really looks the part too.

[@NYGGJELEBEITE]

Infotainment on a very high level!

[@getin3949]

I just love the rich history of Great Britain. They must have acres and acres of museums and storehouses full of historic items that the public and tourists can view. I wish I was able to travel because I would love to see so much more of it in person. Just standing inside of a castle has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

[@donnadees1971]

At that time the use of children was told in novels of the time. The water babies, and a novel by Delderfield, at least what I’ve read. Children used as sweeps of chimneys, were tied by ropes so as to haul them up if they suffocated. The dancing in the mary poppins film is so not true. Omg.

[@Zinkromo]

Update: These guys are lucky that they get to sit but it can actually be a hindrance to their work since their perspectives shift everything you switch what you're looking at. As a former art student, being a nude model now is one of the best paying jobs a uni student could get. We gave ours breaks about every 20 mins or so and had space heaters pointed towards them. For multi day drawings, our professor would make chalk marks around their position and, if they were comfortable with it, photography the position as well from multiple angles. Most models were fine with this as long as the photos were taken with their own phones so they didn't have to worry about them going anywhere.

[@WillowTDog]

There's an excellent mini-series, I think it's called The Mill that really shows what working in a mill was like, often for women and children. The kids had to actually run under to grab out the cotton fluff. Many kids were orphans or their parents were in a workhouse which was a truly soul-crushing place. The work was made to shame the poor. Just an awful time to experience poverty (not that it's ever fun).

[@Theseus9-cl7ol]

If you think climbing up the rattlins to the top of the ship was bad.....you should try cell phone tower climbing today.

[@michaelsexton70]

Cell Phone Tower is easier. The main mast of a tall ship is comparable in height of a cell phone tower, They both have to deal with the weather but the Tower is on stable ground not a tempest tossed rolling ship.

[@WhiteRabbitTricks]

Those poor children in the factories. And to think, child slavery is still happening in some countires

[@lumu76]

I can't believe they risked Tony-a national treasure-climbing that ship rigging without a harness!

[@lizzy66125]

that cottonmachine is awful .poor kids.

[@jordanlea1502]

He really doesn't like heights, loooool, go on lad 😀 How could you not like baldrick, just look at him 🤣

[@mercywalschek2695]

Ugh! Watching that last job was horrible! And to think little kids did that broke my heart.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Probably would have been homeless or in the workhouse otherwise.

[@SaturdaySportsman1]

I did artist modeling in college. It was pretty uncomfortable.

[@db2xs]

it can get pretty cold in the studio, and on top of that, you're not allowed to move

[@swannavon2309]

I did art modeling as well, but at least we were allowed breaks and didn't have to hold still for eight hours at a time!

[@paul6925]

I do a lot of life drawing as a hobby and in the past at design school. Always impresses me how good most of them are at holding the long poses. I certainley could never do it!

[@antcommander1367]

i did too, but they let me keep m underwear on just ,because there were few female minor on to skect my body

[@ketchup143]

im sure u were paid well.

[@nickrich56]

... being a hermit is hardly a worse job ... battleships are always the worst

[@FredC1968]

nickrich56 Loosing one's balls trump everything.

[@blaznskais2048]

Physically no, not the worst job, but psychologically it could be taxing. Ur basically contractually locked in solitary confinement, in an open cave. The isolation and lack a human socialization alone could be enough to drive a person mad.

[@simonbroberg969]

think my forebearer would agree... He was shipwrecked (or Sunk/thrown off board by Ruskies) in 1700. Landed here in blighty, and even being an Earl with land and power in Sweden, he wouldn't go back to sea. (it would be over 200 years for the first flight home), which is we have been in England ever since (One exception, my Grandad, who was born in Sweden when great grand dad went on a hunt for Viking gold)

[@mollyjune6164]

My dad would have been an awesome hermit, he already has the long beard and nails 😅

[@cynsini9211]

Anyone that votes against unions needs to work as a scavenger for a day, they'll change their tune PDQ. People of that era were capable of compassion, had outlawed slavery and knew human beings deserved the dignity of not being treated like furniture, yet the wealthy capitalists would still endanger children AND if a worker was harmed, disabled or killed from the extreme conditions, they'd be blamed for it, all while an owner could have done the right thing by them and had loyal folk fighting to work there. PS - if anyone wants to see a decent movie about castrati life, there is one called Farinelli... A little overdramatic at the end, but the cultivation of the boys, how they deal with the procedure, and the idol - like fame they can get is well depicted.

[@jackburton2148]

Genital mutilation....call a spade a spade, shall we?

[@lezzman]

The rum ration would probably make climbing the mast easier. You'd have more bravado about overcoming your fear of heights.

[@Cheepchipsable]

When you drank enough it counteracted the swaying of the boat.

[@mistermangoman9293]

Never before did I think that I would see baldrick naked, and I’m even more surprised that when I did it wasn’t a piece of fan art

[@behindthetree9022]

Isn't he the male ideal, the perfect man? LOLOLOL

[@annied1827]

He wasn't naked you can see that he's wearing a thong so he not flashing his family jewels to anyone 🤣🤣

[@tweezerjam]

That ship is fantastic. I’d love to take a tour. 👍🏼

[@1toshi32]

You can tour the ship for an entrance fee. I went on it with my husband and mother in law years ago.

[@nukeacitrus883]

Why didn't they just attach brushes to the underside of those carriages? Then the kid could just mop up the larger piles, somewhat safer behind the machine.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Probably needed the underside of the top of the machine cleaned as well. As Tony pointed out, the cotton fluff is super flammable.

[@penelopelopez8296]

Try working the express lane at Publix for 5 hours straight without a break…..try that.

[@TheSuperDerp]

When you think about it, the lack of an even rhythm might be a good thing. It prevents you from getting complacent and forces you to be aware of your body at all times.

[@MusicalMissCapri]

Terrifying job. Especially if you're phobic of huge machines, and I was when I was a kid. I'm not even sure I could manage the scavenging job now. In a later episode, the threshing machine is frightening too.

[@ranjapi693]

such a Brave man! i am absolutely scared of heights too! i Go hiking in Mountains But could never climb Up to the top Mast of that Ship. i visited the Victory, a beautiful Ship, i know how high Up that is... kudos to him!

[@davidchristoffersen1404]

That singing was not half bad at all , hats off to him for show casing that ..It sounds like he was schooled in classical music.

[@justaguitardude]

when was the bath house pool last used? and how did the water level drop so low?

[@greulich9635]

the water was eroding the stone so they removed all that wasnt needed for looks and now its a tourist attraction if other bathhouses are anything to go by

[@justaguitardude]

thank you. that makes sense.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Yeah I never worked out how the owners of the property would know you WEREN'T hermiting. I mean, yeah, the servants and stuff might tell on you. But, like, some of the other things that don't involve talking to people seem a little less likely to cause you problems. Plus there might have been some servants who would agree not to tell.

[@hugosophy]

Tony said that many of them had to go months or years without bathing or shaving or hair cut so I imagine that’s one way they could ensure you were hermiting

[@alritedave]

Thank God we didn't get to see little Tony lol.

[@alisaurus4224]

Little Tony was auditioning for a hermit job

[@richardchaven]

They did not fire all the guns at once to reduce the damage from the recoil

[@dr.johnpaladinshow9747]

Garden hermit. Nice work if you can get it.

[@terencephillips6833]

What a relief when that music stops playing right over the top of the narrative..They all do it and it’s far too loud.

[@1toshi32]

I know if I was afraid of heights the way he is, there is absolutely no way I would be climbing up there. I know he's got a safety rope around him but it still has to be fkg scary as shit. I think he is fkg crazy.

[@RabidLeroy]

Hard tack beetles: the one protein very few want in their hard tack!

[@MusicalMissCapri]

Ugh, and that they were actually crawling around, ewwww.

[@alisaurus4224]

Remember to always choose the lesser of two weevils

[@annak4045]

A great amount of food actually still comes from the factory, contaminated with weavil eggs.

[@scottinWV]

That's how they had enough porn to go around back then. Art school sketches.

[@highonimmi]

you don't need a mule scavenger. get a had tool with teeth (picture a hair pic....only bigger)use it to clean the moving part of the loom...the teeth would be downward and the handle above the threads. flick the scrap material onto the floor allowing it to land. then take a rake and as the moving part of the loom moves towards the main part of the loom start raking the fluff and string towards the middle of the room. now it can be picked up. damn, people, easy peasy lemon squeezy.

[@mrmoofle]

In the US Civil War, soldiers would soak their hard tack in coffee.

[@kilotun8316]

20:23 I know that every dude watching this immediately winced, crossed their legs a little tighter and, in my case, shrieked in a fair approximation of a castrati.

[@sarahfowler9385]

Going up on ship netting nope push me off the plank lol n scared of heights I wouldn't have been able to come down lol

[@sebathadah1559]

Well this is just fucking ironic....brits smuggling tea because the tax on tea was to damn high...sound familiar America?

[@TheAmanda4life]

why not give the kids a brush on a longer stick like with a broom?

[@alisaurus4224]

Maybe because they would need more space free behind the machines to allow for the handles? Also the longer handle would lead to missed scraps around the feet of the machines because they couldn’t angle round the front.

[@mikitz]

It's probably due to the fact that the engineers didn't exactly think everything through. Then again, if something went wrong, there was always a slew of dispensable people in their disposal.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Hm, as riding officer I might honestly just go corrupt and strike a deal with one of the gangs.

[@DreamBelief]

Modelling may have meant survival, but not for long as I assume that once they got above a certain age they wouldn't be wanted anymore

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

The film footage appears to be rescued from Finnish national television archives.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

It feels redundant to have the hermit underground. If the whole point of the hermit was to show-off that you still had a soul, then you would want people to see him. So if you hide him underground where nobody will see him, what's the point?

[@seanmcguire7974]

Castrotto def takes the cake for worst jobs ever

[@adamsjerome1839]

As a garbage man for the best part of 30 years I am well aware of the social stigma. The irony is that with overtime I made a 6 figures a year. I may smell at the end of day but I had lots of disposable income.

[@Vizzini_]

You can see the safety line and harness when he gets to the top of the rope ladder on the ship

[@jesssefton6752]

30:03 you can also clearly see it here as well, of course he is going to have a safety harness and rope don’t think they’re trying to hide it 😂

[@otterwithagun1982]

Salted pork?!

[@robmckay5700]

So there was a deliberate gender pay gap back then! 🧐

[@Knightonagreyhorse]

I was hoping the castrato singer was a myth. Obviously not.

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

In 2022 we call it gender transformation surgery.

[@nataliapanfichi9933]

Cool video 😂😂😂..

[@savagebuilder4264]

Tony is a chad

[@Masterpeace777]

Whoa! Great voice.

[@bobsingh7949]

Thanks for putting yourself thru some o that Ton y.

[@hugosophy]

I wonder how many of these bathers died of amoebas in their brain

[@jrideout2802]

That singer guy and his weird sideburns make me uncomfortable.

[@howler9503]

Why do i keep hearing daniel mcfaydden's voice in the narrations

[@simonbroberg969]

So Demis Roussos wasn't a Cartari? You could have fooled me.

[@oscartravis5740]

Seriously, couldn't the mill workers use brushes with long handles to sweep up the chaff rather than send in kids to get their heads squashed like melons?

[@Invictus13666]

Kids are cheap.

[@lifeisaadventure9948]

You should work as a professional model Your muscles are perfectly sculpted 👏🏻 Or a Oprah singer

[@joanhuffman2166]

Worst job, fulfilled by children in government 'care'.

[@eliotreader8220]

what did they do will the broken cotten?

[@nilsvocalisornilsvocalisor9341]

Tony, you nice castrati.

[@cdfdesantis699]

OK, seeking fame & fortune as a singer's fine, but being castrated to achieve it? Um, NO. Although, there ARE some modern singers who could AVOID infamy & misfortune of paternity suits, should they have it done.

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

28:13 the shade!

[@seanthebrawn]

Tony climbing the rope: I feel sick, I'm shaking. Camera man who is already up there point the camera down at him: 🥱

[@coppertopv365]

I think Sir Tony is afraid of Heights ..

[@Cheepchipsable]

He is. He says this in an earlier show.

[@ChainSmashers]

On the ship, beetle biscuits, omnomnom.

[@jeremiahgabriel5709]

Is being a hermit still a paid position anywhere? *because if ever there was a "dream job" for me, this is it*

[@MetalheadAndNerd]

There are jobs like lighthouse keeper on some islands and sparsely populated places.

[@KingFluffs]

I bet they preserved the bollucks via taxidermy like the Queen does to this day.

[@shellcraigmiles5253]

Why was the tea illegal?

[@zackp8201]

it was smuggled to avoid paying duties. Probably the best modern example is illegally smuggled cigarettes which have very high taxes and a huge black market.

[@Cheepchipsable]

Tea wasn't but importing it without paying tax was.

[@lezzman]

I wonder if any descendants of the Castrati get any royalties from their recordings?

[@C21L01]

Uh... you do realise that nieces and nephews count as "descendants" because there's a common blood relative. 🤦‍♀️ So your humour falls completely flat. The Castrattos weren't all "only-child" kids.

[@lezzman]

@@C21L01 Depends on the type of descendant in question. A linear descendant must be in direct line of descent...children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. Nieces, nephews, cousins, etc. are known as collateral descendants. In either case, the humour remains relevant because people with a sense of humour understand the point I was making. Only obsessive, cheerless pedants would fail to see this as anything other than a light-hearted comment made for no other reason than to give someone a brief moment of mirth purely for the fun of it. I hope your attempt to darken it has made you feel better.

[@SammyBirdTheGreat]

Models absolutely earn their money, nothing but respect for them. I’ve considered doing it but I just don’t have the stamina for 4 hour stints several times a week (what the models at my school do)

[@SammyBirdTheGreat]

Oof at those figure drawings - please tell me this was an first year life drawing course 😂😂😂

[@TreizeKh]

Anyone know what ship that is?

[@_.mycop._]

Probably a late response but it’s the HMS Trincomalee it’s currently stationed at the Royal Navy museum in Hartlepool :)

[@maeve4686]

My poor doggie has a skin yeast inflammation and smells like a homeless person. Maybe Tony should have had her to complete the smell...lol. Yes, she's under treatment...

[@Masterpeace777]

"Smugglers"... nice pejorative for people who simply wanted to engage in free trade.

[@kellywelsh6250]

I liked this series but why did he have to be naked...so etimes I've found him over baring in these

[@christinemichele8575]

How is it that these Georgians never thought of a brush on a stick?!? 🤪

[@Invictus13666]

It wouldn’t work as well. It’s clearly explained.

[@jacobwilloughby9215]

The UK was built on the backs of the lowest classes. It killed millions over the centuries to build up the kings and queens. I see why my family ran to the us lol. Willoughbys trace back to Saxon days. We helped win a major battle with our land some how. Crazy to think my ancestors lived the life I have seen on here. Until the early 1700s

[@Cheepchipsable]

Can you name a Civ that wasn't built on lower classes? Kind of how it works for the most part. I think people get bent out of shape because this is more recent history. As well as the industrial revolution, the notion of workers rights began to take off. Main difference here is that it was recorded and there became a more obvious disparity between wealthy and poor. Is less technologically advanced societies, you pretty much worked to the daylight and your Leader might have had a better horse and nicer clothes and a sturdier hut. For all it's faults, at least this culture actually did something about slavery, which has existed for 1000s of years.

[@BrendanMurdockRUA313]

And artist

[@lynnweasenforth8799]

Jack of all trades, master of none, but I love him anyhow 😍 ❤️ ♥️ 💙