Smelly Facts About London's The Great Stink of 1858

[@WeirdHistory]

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[@OhItsReo]

Thanks for loving my comment! I love this channel so much! It makes history so much more interesting and funny ❤

[@smallies7154]

u are obsessed with BO and stink

[@darianthescorpion1132]

The worst smell I’ve ever encountered was when my friend’s winter coat got soaked in cat piss. Boyyy, we had so much fun holding back our vomit that day. It was the only coat he had for the frozen weather. We actually agreed on burning his coat when we got back to his house, but on our way back we got some powerful detergent. He wasn’t impressed with his cat. I can assure you. LOL

[@nathanhails5901]

I once met Donald Trump during a Lunch Meeting... There were lots of McDonald's bags and Diet Coke cans. Mind you that this was before he was President. Now when Trump passes gas, the Secret Service is responsible for clearing the room. I was very unfortunate, it was days before my appetite returned and still nothing tastes quite right.

[@hugi117]

Can you do a video about being a solder is the Byzantine empire around 900 a.d please. It is my favorite time and I cannot find anything about it.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Stories like these allow me to express how grateful I am to not have been born during those times.

[@Oladavol]

Crazy to think we wouldn't know any difference though. 200 years people might be saying the same about today haha

[@franny5295]

I'm grateful that we can bath. I had no idea how privileged that is.

[@FeedMeSalt]

@@Oladavol we already do. New York is vile, I puked the first time I visited. And nearly any Chinese city is worse then anything humanity has ever built.

[@luhbot]

I’m surprised there is no comment saying OmG I sEeE yOu EvErY wHerE

[@eliasdegele6785]

Yeah, I thank god to live in the 2020 and being put to jail if I go outside cause there's a deadly virus that is killing thousands of people and destroying our economy.

[@nextup8598]

Fact that rome had a sewer system a thousand years before London crazy

[@ihatemanchesterunited44]

civilizations do not follow our concept of time

[@Tenkai917]

So did India. What happened?

[@thezombcasthd254]

Mike Keller That should be the slogan for all the reasons London modernized quickly.

[@shebamaree9026]

When Rome fell it set back the western world a 1000 years

[@BGdroopy]

Niso Stannard worse than Naples?

[@iamelectric30]

As a kid I thought Dicken's was exaggerating; as an adult I think he was sugarcoating.

[@ladyviola2685]

He was definitely sugarcoating everything here-

Mmmm, don’t we all love some Great Stinks?

[@masterrhythm4596]

what did he sugarcoat?

[@keepgoing1973]

Sugarcoating the shit.

[@darllalett960]

Me too

[@helvis7336]

you know when the romans moved into a new area the first piece of infrastructure they built was sewers and toilets, and this show why..

[@fallonfireblade4404]

It does make me appreciate the intelligence of the ancient Romans

[@AverageAlien]

@@fallonfireblade4404 And Greeks

[@bradlafferty6076]

Et Tu Brute....another SHIT today!#### that was a pun

[@MrCrowebobby]

@@fallonfireblade4404 The heat was an extra incentive.

[@looweegee252]

@@AverageAlien lol racist

[@OhItsReo]

More proof that the government only acts when a situation starts to affect them directly lol Edit: Omg 2k likes thank you all for your understanding sense of humor!!! 🥰 Omg 3k! Nice! Thanks peeps that know a joke ❤❤

[@chocodawwg]

@Willem Chastity what even is the point of your comment

[@chrissnyder8415]

Well yeah, why would they act differently than civilians? You just described how everyone on Earth reacts. Thank you, Captain Obvious.

[@RSAgility]

Victor Ponce probably a young 10 year old who doesn’t get enough attention at home, so they look for any type of interaction, but they lack a developed frontal lobe to communicate properly so they get angry instead of learning, so we parents have to teach them patience and knowledge, which they reject because they know everything 😉

[@ladynikkie]

True

[@allandavies1642]

@Willem Chastity ,idiot !

[@thalia2906]

“Delicious raw sewage” sir I’m gonna have to place you under arrest.

[@asafaust6774]

Poor choice of words.

[@lachied2126]

Unsee juice

[@bewitched5717]

Wish I was Jared, 19

[@tzxragerz5357]

Why did he say that its making me hungry

[@mission2completion36]

😂

[@ginasreview1030]

The man that created the sewer system, he would be so beyond proud that it's still used today, even hundreds of years later.

[@sinenominee1454]

@Darkness Light They are updating most of it now so soon will be closing it alot of it as it still empties into the Thames if it overflows

[@iFixJunk]

The fact that it would be less than $1-billion today is also remarkable.

[@liliks14]

until a new problem arrives :D

[@LetsTakeWalk]

He also pretty much the forerunner of all sewage systems in the world, contributing to the world’s hygiene.

[@logannuts91]

A hundred? You know about Roman sewers right

[@Irraanos]

Fun fact: When Bazalgette calculated how big the sewers needed to be, he went ahead and made them twice as big.

[@narishsurajbally1517]

Safety factor of 2

[@jessica_jam4386]

I like his way of thinking. Better safe than sorry

[@evelynb1325]

Yes - and the network is still functional despite population growth, high rise buildings etc ... The biggest problems being fatbergs and shaking loose of arch bricks due to juggernaut lorries driving above them ... The extension "super sewers" add to Bazalgette's network, providing some safety catchment of excess volume overflow. They don't replace them ...

[@BrownSkinnedDiva95]

Hes a hero!

[@harpar1028]

pun pun fun

[@TheDarkever]

Moral of the story: Most governments usually don't do a damn thing to fix the problem until it affects the upper classes or common people get angry enough to revolt (which affects the upper class). Also Engineers at that time already had a solution that had been ready for years and just waiting to be funded.

[@blessedchildofthemosthighj6702]

Completely agree💯💯

[@seanwebb605]

TheDarkever Moral not morale.

[@FauZhee]

I wonder when will the common people of my country get angry enough to revolt... 😞

[@grimsonforce7504]

I wonder when the citizens in the US will get up and revolt. Probably never.

[@Psyfonify]

@@grimsonforce7504 The BLM thing is the start of that, as now it is no longer about race but a movement in response to the COPS' response to the first hints of protest, like "hey wait wtf, cops cant be the strongarm actors of the government, this is supposed to be a democracy not a dystopian oligarchy, and we fund their paychecks with our taxes so wtf"

[@davidcorruthers78]

So basically up until a century ago Londoners were living in their own filth

[@teflonkc713]

So much for high IQ

[@mrx7062]

@@teflonkc713 what are you talking about?

[@cyantadeo975]

Most of Europe did for centuries

[@iiastridii]

Rudolph hess actually europeans were considered quite dirty by pretty much all indigenous groups they encountered. keep in mind, at the time europeans showered rarely

[@Tomos_J-J]

@@iiastridii Showers were made in the late 1700s.

[@makylesato4004]

I wish schools would teach us these things to make history subjects less boring. (at least for me)

[@pichuu7036]

@Ma Kyel it depends on your teacher, really. Highschool history sucked for me. But i had a minor subject of history in college wherein the professor sticks to the curriculum but would always try to nake it interesting by adding facts like these sometimes or he’d search some movies regarding what we’re about to discuss. they need to follow a curriculum/certain topic outline, so i guess least they can do is to present it in such a way that it’s interesting and not just merely reciting the contents of a history book

[@user-wy1yb7zj1j]

Ma Kyel My history teacher makes us watch movies or videos and sometimes talk about stories my classmates think it’s boring but I like History is my best subject

[@alexanderarkum4793]

Come on now.....our educational system would never take the risk of teaching something interesting or helpful in life

[@gj9933]

True stories about lesser known incidents and everyday life and habits are interesting.

[@lutello3012]

Are there teachers that show channels like this in class? Get kids to watch something besides the smelly shit on trending.

[@boowiebear]

I am absolutely stunned that this went on so long. I cannot even fathom living around this and drinking water. Reminds me of the Ganges.

[@teflonkc713]

The Ganges is..there are no words to describe it tbh.

[@sergeant5848]

The stupidity continues even today. How much rioting in the streets does it take to enact change at government level still!

[@kanyewest2729]

@@sergeant5848 rioting is the stupidest shit ever being honest

[@treacheroustea926]

AyyanOriginal How so? It accomplishes a lot and grabs the attention of officials. It gets the job done instead of acting like there isn’t an issue until there comes to be a point where people are demanding things that should have been enacted a long time ago. So many of your very rights were gotten through riots and protests.

[@rahulrao567]

Yes, Ganges is in a very sorry state. But the government is trying it's best to clean up the mess which was the result of the exploitation done by the British as they had left millions of Indians in poverty few decades ago. 😊

[@Choppytehbear1337]

Another reason Bazalgette's sewer system is still in use today is because when designing it, he calculated what size it would have to be to service the current population of London, and then doubled it.

[@joliax1646]

amazing

[@Casey5693]

Bazalgette was a genius.

[@MarkBrennan]

I read that he made it 10 x the size required at the time as he predicted a huge increase in the population over the years.The authorities resisted but he won the argument.

[@fireprincekai4065]

@@joliax1646 agree

[@jmack129]

@@MarkBrennan thank goodness for those forward thinking people of the past. Politicians often impede necessary progress unnecessarily.

[@thoughtfulbobcat1872]

"Yeah your river may have stank but we set ours on fire" - Cleveland

[@miriambucholtz9315]

We sure did.

[@AmyAndThePup]

What?! How?

[@kyleshiflet9952]

@@AmyAndThePup pollution

[@khanaratsadon]

Imagine your river being so polluted that it caught on fire.

[@15Anime4Ever15]

oh my fucking god i looked in the comments section jokingly wondering if anyone was going to mention the cuyahoga and LO AND BEHOLD, I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED

[@jacobbrown5865]

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate our sewer systems?

[@MarianneKat]

My civil engineer dad would be proud

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

yep

[@notthisguyagain2269]

You guys are all so cute in your blissful ignorance. Our drinking water is not only filthy but toxic in ways that effect the body that humanity never could have imagined until the last couple generations

[@jokullah]

@@notthisguyagain2269 not on my island, our water is top notch

[@sagichdirdochnicht4653]

And also all the folks who keep it working. It may be a dirty and smelly job, but still one of the most important. If those sewers broke/leaked, clogged or what ever the fuck, we'd have some serious trouble.

[@miriambucholtz9315]

The nastiest odor I've ever endured was from the air in industrial northern New Jersey in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There were, among other things, chemical factories belching pollution into the air constantly. If this stench had a color it would be a bruised grayish-purple surrounded by alternating bands of neon bilious green and diarrhea brown. Whatever was floating in that air caused my nose to swell shut so I couldn't breathe through it. Mouth breathing means that you don't filter out what you draw into your lungs. It also means that you don't smell the odor, you taste it. They're right when they say that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger if I'm still around to complain about it.

[@shaiaheyes2c41]

😊❤

[@niranjandesai6766]

well, at that time you probably smelled nazi camps.

[@Janoip]

@@niranjandesai6766 nah

[@darllalett960]

That sounds awful.. I'm really sorry

[@catherinebirch2399]

I've heard New Jersey is nicknamed the cancer belt.

[@seanwilliams3634]

it's embarrassing. The Romans had to topped off centuries earlier.

[@romanromanov6397]

Christianity had slowed down human development by 2000 years. We could be walking on the Moon by now.

[@thatsnodildo1974]

@@romanromanov6397 not really. A lot of scientist were Christians. Most of what slowed down Western European knowledge was the downfall of the Roman empire and how everyone would you know destroy everything during wars. Look at the Mongols and Afghanistan for example. The destruction of the Islamic city set us back thousands of years. And brought a end to the Islamic Golden age

[@jannadrielcervo7753]

@@thatsnodildo1974 Rome was destined to fall. Even if Christianity didn't become the dominant religion in the western world, the system of Roman economy is like a ticking time bomb. Plus a lot of variables like the Huns, Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, that is slowly collapsing the empire. The Roman empire has become too overstretched, and became too difficult to manage. The great thing Christianity did is preserving the knowledge, records and history of the Roman Empire throughout the Middle Ages, that helped restart the Renaissance.

[@seanwilliams3634]

@Find this video on youtube no their not.

[@azmovement79]

humans lost 6 thousand+ years of history, technology & advancements due to the " Roman NWO" ! which started when they stopped the clock at 00AD , burnt down libraries, poisoned waters & called all other life "pagan" ! .. introducing the philosophy of baby talk & terror .. to present day!

[@DamonNomad82]

The worst smell I ever encountered occurred when I worked at a Wal-mart more than a decade ago. I was a "Floor Maintenance Associate," which is Wal-mart-ese for "Janitor". One of my duties was to scrub the floors. To do this, the location I worked at had a Zamboni style, drivable scrubbing machine. This was nice, as it gave me a chance to sit down and work hard at the same time. All the undesirable substances the machine scrubbed went into a waste tank, along with the soapy water that had been used in the scrubbing. Every time I used the machine, I carefully drained and rinsed the waste tank, which was unpleasant, but bearable. One week, however, I went on vacation. When I got back, I found that the machine had been used, but the waste tank had not been rinsed, or even drained. I expected it to be bad, but it was orders of magnitude worse than I had anticipated. The stench when I opened the tank of week-old Wal-mart floor waste fit Disraeli's description of the Great Stink perfectly! I had to run from the room to keep my lunch from coming back up. I got the manager on duty and had her come into the room. I didn't have to say a word to make my point!

[@niranjandesai6766]

damn!

[@abdulalshibly3930]

I've never been able to smell a video but there is always a first for everything

[@emilmathew1104]

@Evilpimp cruel

[@abdulalshibly3930]

@Evilpimp The irony is I watched this video directly after showering but still a nice one

[@atompunk456]

You know it's bad when people are literally throwing up on sidewalks

[@SeymoreSparda]

Ahhh yesss...the exact video to watch whilst I'm eating my dinner.

[@operator6438]

LOL

[@DukeCoffeeXIII]

Saem. Lol.

[@corinaho1]

It could only be matched by an episode of Kitchen Nightmares

[@user2144]

Soon after your dinner, your wife may ask you... Dear, can you take out the trash? (Your reply) YOU cooked it, so YOU take it out! That is an old Rodney Dangerfield joke.

[@Koa808]

Dinner where you live at?

[@justdeidra13]

I think London's sewer system is probably due for another upgrade/repairs now....

[@salsylexhagen7423]

It's getting upgrades now. Parts of it leak into the Thames because it still overflows every now and then. Yuk!

[@stinkydill9511]

Too much Curry and Chips

[@aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418]

I think America's sewer systems are too! Too much cheeseburgers and beer 🤣

[@chilliecheesecake]

@@aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418 I can assure you that's not the case lmao.

[@chrisandthemike9020]

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens. Actually not the case at all👋🏾 stay blessed

[@athena8794]

The worst smell I've ever encountered was when due to miscommunication at work, I wound up drenched in the contents of my ship's Black Water tank, aka several hundred gallons of a mix of toilet contents from ~500 people, plus the runoff of all the ship's sinks... Not a great day. We now use it as a cautionary tale when training new deckhands.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Must've been a shitty day

[@ineedanewname6086]

@@MarloSoBalJr breh

[@vanessaculater9038]

Want in one hand shit in the other takes on a whole new meaning.

[@Harshhaze]

@@MarloSoBalJr same shit, different day

[@scottmantooth8785]

*i'm guessing it took more than one bath to freshen up to what would be considered even remotely sanitary and close proximity standards*

[@-.Germanicus.-]

The whole ground was saturated in London.....try to imagine how london cemeteries were like 🤮

[@Personthatlikestodraw1]

Buried in poop? The ground basically is already poop, but like from a lot of organisms. In this case it's just human waste. So its the remainder of a human buried in the trash of human. Noice.

[@emems6620]

Cant believe how distant these things sound but they arent! I'm lucky to be born now for many aspects

[@LannasMissingLink]

This still happens in developing countries today, just because they don't have enough money to create proper sewage systems. We're lucky to be born in the locations we were born too

[@jerrycrow8153]

Imagine the things we do now that people in 100 years are gonna cringe at.

[@greyriddance64]

Yeah, it was quite shitty back then.

[@belo-zerolt-180]

Yea no Lie. Ugh That made me sick I would not like by there

[@nandy1256]

Maybe people in the past are luckier because the flooding that they experienced then is no more worse than the worsening floods that we will be experiencing now.

[@sternobum1524]

The man that created the sewer system for london was ahead of his time, I mean it's just now getting to the point that it needs to be a bit bigger but he built it like 150 years ago and I doubt anyone thought it would have done such a great job at the time of construction

[@zbychu6392]

Romans had sewer systems 2000 years earlier lol

[@sn5255]

@@zbychu6392 lots of older civilizations too

[@mikegoodburn2364]

I used to work at an Indian reservation that had over 100 fireworks stands all next to each other. Every one of them had there own portable toilet. During the hot Summer when they came to empty them once a week, the smell it created was pretty epic.

[@AverageAlien]

epic isn't the word I'd use

[@motrhead69]

I'll bet they only sold snakes N sparklers?

[@mayuksurja8228]

Wait Indian, u mean indigeneous indians or ppl from the country of India

[@Backyardmech1]

Reminds me of when I used to work at a refinery during the summer months. If the refinery didn’t smell bad enough, Wednesday morning’s would be when the portacans plant wide would be cleaned. The honey trucks would empty into a pit that was at a major intersection near the contractor gate. 🤢 For some reason they seemed to be at peak capacity for dumping as everyone was coming through the gates.

[@GodOfDragonBallZ]

Okay, this is epic.

[@justinpolanco5046]

This just shows that when you want something done then all you have to do is make it a nuisance to the rich and powerful.

[@NewMessage]

They had some real hard Thames. As in 'solid waste'.

[@adamwiggins9865]

I actually do sewer and water construction ... the worst smell I’ve encountered was tearing out the old sanitary pipes in front of a very old hair salon... all the old hair and whatever else had produced THE worst smell...2nd is digging next to an d cemetery

[@jayzoayo415]

Can you imagine if weird history existed in 1858 and someone in London was just drinking some water then watched this

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Ask Flint, Michigan

[@terranceaddison4599]

@@MarloSoBalJr or any heavy industrial city?..

[@scottmantooth8785]

*slice me off a glass of fresh(ish) water, if you'd be so kind*

[@Ndstars1]

@chico Beer was definitely safer to drink than the water.

[@SkyVettel]

"The British sure know how to beautifully articulate something that smells terrible" - immediately follows up with "the river was clogged with lots of bad stuff" XD great contrast there.

[@djscottdog1]

The video maker isnt British lol

[@heyheytaytay]

If you cringed at least once through this you lost. I lost many times.

[@Loopyschwoopy]

Watching this while having lunch at work. So far so good

[@MrShitthead]

I just lost again reading your comment.

[@cassidymiller6677]

Like 2 minutes in I was fainting from cringing of the pictures of wasting systems

[@JesusIsAlphaOmega001]

Did you know Jesus Christ died for your sins?

[@SuperTweezy5]

I was cringing while watching this, my husband saw me and asked what the hell was I watching, lol!!

[@ReannaPeters12]

I remember when I was a child my friend told me England had a clouds that smelt like farts over it's country and I think she meant this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Soturi92]

Worst smell I’ve ever encountered was when I went to my church’s day camp. My stepdad was a janitor for a pretty large church. Basically on the first day of the day camp, they were told to clear out the kitchen for lunch. Unknowingly, they opened the fridge which erupted the most horrible rotting flesh smell I have ever smelled. Turns out, it was old turkey leftover from the Christmas production the year before. They turn the power off to that part of the building each winter until summer camp begins the next year. It had been rotting for a solid 6 months. Fyi this takes place in Alabama. Just imagine the heat and stench coming from that entire wing of the church. I’m gagging just thinking about it.

[@malenyluna5275]

😲

[@Galen-864]

This is why rebuilding our infrastructure is so critical.

[@VFatalis]

Most infrastructures in the world are in bad shape but we're running out of money

[@reasonablerage4370]

@@VFatalis more printing 😂

[@dusk6159]

@@reasonablerage4370 Hell no, that's exactly ignoring the infrastructure and the method to actually do good and put method.

[@anonymussmith2899]

Breakfast is tasting really good now

[@ekehernandez]

Was looking for a video to go with my lunch -- 'hey weird history has a new video up!'

[@MarianneKat]

Obviously not a nurse

[@LS-cq3qy]

"Ignoring the dire warnings of a panicked scientist, seldom leads to anything good." 5:43

[@janssengeyrozaga9710]

Man, it stinks here. Weird History: Not like in London 1858

[@bioticjedi3864]

The Thames in London still smells in the summer, and is still pretty polluted and murky; but I can only imagine how much worse it must've been back then o.0

[@sierras.4592]

The worst smell I've ever encountered was when a patients ostemy bag was leaking all over our lobby at work. Probably what the river smelled like during the Great Stink tbh. ☠️

[@SuperDjdil]

I empathize. One of my patients vomited faeces because of a bowel obstruction. The smell haunts me still

[@christycullen2355]

@@SuperDjdil wow, that's insane I didnt realise your body could even do that

[@sandyworkman3025]

@@SuperDjdil I just threw up in my mouth a little. 😨

[@anupama2620]

@@SuperDjdil ....omg i was thinking of the patient..how utterly horrible it must be !

[@oddacity5883]

@shani perera Dear Jesus that is horrid

[@johndettra8958]

This is where the term, "making a big stink" about something started.

[@midgie4410]

I bet so

[@darllalett960]

My daughter said Louisiana in summer smelled worse than the Thames in London. A hundred times worse. I've never smelled either.

[@andyrickert1]

Worst stink I've ever smelled by far was an old fry grease trap in a building my company was demoing. God knows how long it had been there. The thing broke when we were trying to get it out, letting the ooze out. Smelled like vomit in concentrated form.

[@dorseyann2611]

Lord do I appreciate modern sewage systems.

[@MSAMERICA-zo4qk]

Amen.

[@smashchamp117]

18 days to solve a problem that people warned about years and years before. SMH.

sounds like climate change

[@Americandude-de6zd]

@ climate change is BS

[@heartsDmise]

Americandude0576 Bruh you need to take environmental classes and actually read. You’re part of the problem 🙄 Also even if you dont believe it, a smart person would take preventative measures in the case they are wrong, solely because smart people preplan and smart people dont always think their opinions are utterly correct.

[@fawnieee]

@@Americandude-de6zd uh huh, we'll see how you feel in a few decades when resources are sparse.

[@fawnieee]

@@Americandude-de6zd uh huh, we'll see how you feel in a few decades when resources are sparse.

[@shayZero]

Worst smell definitely when my brother and I were walking along a disused train track and found a suitcase laying on the track. We laughed about and kicked it abit till my brother went to click it open. As soon as it opened a bunch of flies buzzed out and the smell of the dead dog inside it hit us and we both vommed. We legged it home and told our mum who told us not to go back there. I can still smell it now in the nose memory. Foul.

[@nighttadeo6812]

Poor dog 🥺

[@izzbambii2086]

@@nighttadeo6812 ik bruh, poor suitcase dog

[@sussekind9717]

I once spent an entire evening in a Gasthaus in Germany, drinking aged German dark beer, while eating one pickled egg, after another. After I Eventually returned home, I was craving something sweet and the only thing that we had was a plum pie. I ate half of it. The next morning when I got up, I went into the kitchen, sat down and let out a fart so abominably rancid, that it would have ran rats off of a garbage barge. My wife actually threw up on the spot, right into a sink full of freshly cleaned dishes. Epic.

[@bretthess6376]

Outstandingly gross. Ain't life grand?

[@chilliecheesecake]

That's one for the books my friend

[@VFatalis]

Oh I see what you did here, Patrick

[@syntax2004]

Imagine the combustion from this grand fart

[@dukes1993724]

Thank you for sharing that.

[@doowokka]

If London’s Houses of Parliament hadn’t been directly ON the Thames, nothing would ever have changed. 😅

[@sgt_08x]

Wdym-

[@Melleoish]

@@sgt_08x it was made because the house was on Thames, it's to stinky and nothing works to make it not stinky so at the end make a new sewer ig, it succeeded. sorry for my bad grammar.

[@darllalett960]

@@sgt_08x that when it only affected the poor people they didn't care I think

[@danielleonfirehernandez5150]

I love waking up to watching weird stinky stuff! Hahahaha.

[@paulcowlishaw]

Where are you from

[@danielleonfirehernandez5150]

Paul Cowlishaw Arizona, USA

[@danielleonfirehernandez5150]

russ g , means we’re weird I guess!

[@paulcowlishaw]

@@danielleonfirehernandez5150 cool cool

[@moonwind6886]

I can’t stop laughing cause all I can picture is someone just walking by minding their business until all of a sudden theres a slight shift in the wind and bam they’re seeing their lunch again!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@bba935]

Tokyo's current sewage system vents at street level. In the summer the city in dense places smells like just what it is, 38 million people's turds intermingling.

[@luthaeris1]

😂😂 its a common issue with densed cities

[@deadpoolisdead0217]

@@luthaeris1 Its really not alot of major cities have very effective systems and or possessing plants

[@MrShitthead]

@@luthaeris1 I've been to some pretty dense cities and have never smell that... although I will admit that I've heard people say that about Paris but that's one I've never been to.

[@yveltalsea]

Peach Macabre mostly cause some guys there literally just pee in the street 😔

[@Admmkh]

It's amazing we survived as a species. Imagine having to do the nasty with someone that hasn't bathed in forever. Just.. oh god

[@darllalett960]

When I was married or the few relationships I have been in I insisted the person bathe before any intimacy.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

There goes my breakfast.... We should all breathe a collective sigh of relief that we don't live like that now.

[@cian5060]

Many places in the world still live under such poor conditions, if not worse. All those that have access to clean, fresh water really are very fortunate.

[@VFatalis]

Your sigh of relief isn't anticipating the fact we're about to reverse to that kind of precarious life... If you don't understand that, you definitely will in a few years.

[@UnorthodoxGaming007]

I don't know why but I imagine someone shouting in their era so loudly saying: "EVERYONE, STOP POOPING OR WE ALL DIE!!!!"

[@miomimomiro]

This was interesting. Can't wait to talk about this with my co-workers at the office or with my family when we go through our day during supper. :D

[@stevencooper5235]

Oh you're evil 😂

[@macrent2]

The worst smell that I have ever encountered was when I helped clean out the house of a hoarder. The smell of decay, carcases of dead animals, food rot, faeces, stale cigarettes, and ammonia was so horrific that I could only remain in the home for very brief segments of time!

[@catherinebirch2399]

People like that are disgusting!

[@TheCowboy4000]

That's when you just burn it to the ground instead 😂😂😂

[@zach7193]

Oh man, I feel like it's a follow up of the Victorian era of hygiene.

[@IdarkphoenixI]

Not mentioned here but when Joseph was designing his new sewers he actually made them far larger than anyone else said they needed to be, large enough to fit a population many dozens of times more than Londons current population. Why? because he forsaw London would undergo an enormouse population boom in the coming decades and centuries. This is why it's still in use to this day. There are not many who would have that kind of foresight back in those days/

[@blobsDOTau]

I find it mindboggling that nobody thought dumping sewage into the water you drink was a bad idea. Why not just drink your sewage then?

[@AG-ng8gt]

The worst smell I can remember was when I traveled to India. I was walking through the streets in New Delhi; that oppressive heat and humidity, with piles of garbage and raw sewage around us, was awful. It's the only time I have ever come close to throwing up because of a smell.

[@leathalz264]

Imagine if edp445 was alive then lol everyone would die

[@JuanitoK556]

RIP that toilet at chipotle 😂😂😂

[@PleaseDoNotDoThis]

If Chipotle was in business in Britain during that era then this stink problem would be over 9000 times worse.

[@PleaseDoNotDoThis]

Rich E I agree chipotle is actually genuine food compared to the Toxic sludge that comes out of you when you eat Taco Bell.

[@thebigsad9463]

There is nothing more delicious than drinking raw sewage

[@athallahrafi2319]

*Slurp Slurp* delicious

[@radiationstudios5533]

Heschewingonit did you go directly to Heaven?

[@memelgaming]

@Radiation Studios No, straight to hell, to the boiler room of hell, all the way down.

[@user-wy1yb7zj1j]

🤤 yummy!

[@timmmahhhh]

@@memelgaming Google George Carlin raw sewage, you'll love it.

[@amyfisher6380]

The worst smell I ever encountered was my niece’s first poopy diaper right after she started on solid foods. I refused to change her diapers after that. Let the parents do it!

[@erikconfirmed1865]

watching this while taking a huge dump 👌

[@aden7175]

Lmao me 2

[@matthewlee4999]

Doing a solid.

[@Frawracopter]

I would like to hear a weird history about robots and AI. If there is enough history.

[@RIFLQ]

Now imagine the pollution done in the colonies..

[@saltymisfit6566]

I smelled this video coming from miles away 🤣

[@Scorch1028]

The Great Stink inspired “The Bog of Eternal Stench” in the movie Labyrinth. 😆

[@Chreeeis]

No wonder these dudes were exploring every inch of the planet during this time. I’d want to be the farthest place on earth from that city.

[@DerAykac]

Visited London one time, dirtiest river i have ever seen. Now i am afraid to go to NY and whitnes the hudson river

[@worldeater1498]

There are at least fish able to live in the Hudson. The Thames is uninhabitable

[@gregorygherkins1884]

It's only full of centuries of accumulated feces, corpses and sludge, what's not to love. Makes me thirsty just typing this

[@sinenominee1454]

@World Eater There have been fish and dolphins sighted in the Thames

[@tree427]

the river is just muddy

@@sinenominee1454 i thought that to people have videos of things being in there i am sure nothing stays there long though.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Thank God we don’t ignore scientists and medical experts anymore when they try to warn us of impending disaster. Oh, wait....

[@franny5295]

The worst smell I've ever had the pleasure of is c. diff diarrhea. Oh. My. Dear. Sweet. Lord....

[@kaitlynamira3916]

When I was 17 I contracted that bug from surgery. It’s… It’s one of the worst things in the whole world.

[@kaitlynamira3916]

brian morris oh my God! I just… I can’t even imagine. I am so sorry that you had to go through that. I had c. Diff when I was 17 I caught it from surgery. I could not imagine having that in my face. It was awful enough having to collect a sample for the doctor. I hope you don’t have to deal with patients like that anymore

[@franny5295]

@brian morris You win. By a wide margin, you win...

[@RedditSupport]

Hold up, so he came up with an all new sewage system, but then it still just ultimately gets dumped into the ocean? Wouldn’t that become a new problem at some point in the future?

[@ciera5235]

Back then.. No one cared about or even thought about the future..lol

[@shreyaadahall]

Bruh shit gets decomposed anyway

[@nlakidzichilisa5927]

Me: tap water is not safe. Me after watching this video: never touch the tap again

[@SilverBlueluna22]

Tap water has more checks by government than bottle water.

[@allangibson8494]

Bottled water is frequently just tap water with salt added. Dasani being one example...

[@LannasMissingLink]

Tap water in Europe is probably the safest in the world nowadays. Of course, check where you are. But for the most part it's really good

[@ryancorrigan4149]

Bottled water is literally just some factory's tap water.

[@PurplePinkRed]

I've always drunk tap water and never had an issue. Can't stand the chemical taste of bottled water. I am in Australia though, and our water treatment facilities are very good.

[@biscuits2463]

the worst thing i’ve ever smelled are my school’s bathrooms. they literally never get cleaned. they probably do, but only around once every 2 months or so. every time i used it, it had the same smell it always had. wet shit.

[@SpaceEnthusiast548]

That drawing of Bazelgette looks like the polluted water spirit in spirited away

[@AdolphisMalomar]

The sewers are still in use, but nowadays they have to send crews down occasionally to break up "fatbergs" which are congealed masses of trash and fats. Also, probably the worst thing I ever smelled was the trash compactor at this hotel I worked at. It sat outside and all the kitchen trash was thrown in there, it would bake in the sun and smell like deaths asshole. Not to mention the constant swarm of bees.

[@powpow1006]

Yea but have you ever heard of "My Great Stink Last Night After Milk?"

[@katnaz_]

Can you make a video about the 'reading flue' in 1700. When young people did nothing but read.

[@3bydacreekside]

I second this

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I gotta give those brits for having strong nasal resistance to stinkiness in the Victorian era

[@nevasoba5953]

The worst smell I have ever come across was in New Orleans ,after Katrina. I was working in the Uptown area doing Demolition and reconstruction. When people left their homes they didn't clean their refrigerators out for many many months sometimes not at all. And quite a few times the refrigerators would get opened while moving them out . Its not a smell that is describable ,if only to say its quite horrible.

[@boldvankaalen3896]

Quite clear where Terry Pratchett got his inspiration for Ankh-Morpork.

[@AmyAndThePup]

I was thinking about that! Ugh. Gross. On Discworld MUD, you can actually walk on parts of the "hard" river. (shudders in some kind of horror).

[@AArmstrong123]

Were Jack and Rose stinky af on the Titanic?

[@JulietteHelene]

Jack, most likely - Rose, definitely not- there were decent hygiene standards for wealthy people in 1912

[@donskeezy8762]

Ol ass smelling Jack

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Jack and Rose were completely unconvincing as young people living in that time frame. DeCaprio looked like a ‘90s teen magazine cover boy rather than a working class dude in 1912.

[@Ndstars1]

@@crixxxxxxxxx But Jack was an artist not a common labourer.

[@crixxxxxxxxx]

Ndstars1 He still looked and acted like some Teen Beat pretty boy.

[@Fudgeoff6628]

I swear this narrator for these videos is an absolute blast. Love watching/listening to these videos. ☺️🥰

[@darllalett960]

I was thinking the same thing

[@ChickenPermission617]

🎵“I passed along the river Thames, it’s waters did they wreak..”🎶 A Knight’s Tale anyone?

[@anonemous1046]

Have to say, rotten wet cat food is about the worst thing I've ever smelled. Previously frozen fish meat in a hot trash can sitting stagnet for a few days kinda tied with the cat food. Durian fruit smells real bad, too, but it's bearable.

[@themoofs6925]

This just made me think that living in a big city would have basically been awful until the 20th century.

[@oldman4353]

Especially when you consider that on top of the sewage problem there would have been the problem of all the manure from all the horses being used at the time.

[@darllalett960]

I DETEST big cities now. Then I would have been living alone in a cave

[@ladyfarona1988]

"Delicious raw sewage"... I picked the wrong time to drink this chocolate shake. 🤢

[@greg7964]

The worst smell I've ever encountered was a dead rat 🐀

[@djscottdog1]

It just smells like gas in my experience

[@robinsmith5442]

The worst thing I ever smelled was a decubitis ulcer on a patients foot that had become infected.

[@c00mgoblin]

When I visited London as a child and they told my the Thames was toxic I was sad and didn’t understand how it could still be poisonous. Now that I’m older… I shudder since I’m pretty sure this is one of the worst biologically man made disasters (ie no oil spills or chemical disasters) in history.

[@harryg1926]

I love this channel. Your videos just happen to show up right when I am about to go to sleep, which I have no problem with. It's like listening to your grandma reading books for you again.

[@BabbleOn777]

You asked what the worst smell this audience has experienced? Okay, me and my best friend were having an early morning walk around the water ways around the University we attended. Found a floater. It was disgusting. I can only say once you have smelt it...you never forget it. It was two weeks under.

[@antiquemacabre]

I have a 3-way tie for most disgusting smell: decomposing raccoon in some shrubs behind my flat, decomposing next-door neighbour, and a field trip to a water treatment plant. I highly recommend avoiding all three.

[@hanquokkassi]

"decomposing next door neighbor" did i catch it wrong, or is iw what it is? A next door neighbor... decomposing? 💀💀

[@nickbloom6861]

I am from mountains in the northwest of the United States. I traveled the country only one time and I never took for granted our crystal clear rivers (and even some lakes). Some places the rivers look so disgusting that I couldn't imagine touching them let alone eating or drinking anything from them...

[@joseph10d]

Worst smell I ever encountered was at A Fiesta supermarket I worked at. The moved the trash compactor and wanted me to clean under it. This compactor was the only compactor for the whole store and had tones of rotten meat, vegetable, milk and fruit juices sitting under it being baked by the Texas heat. Sure they’d empty it out twice a week but only clean under it once a year. I couldn’t for the life of me get near it without gagging.

[@antwaunwilliams6053]

The fact that this happened only 142 years before I was born is scary

[@4729Punisher]

Last year I hadn't heard from my grandparents for 2 months. We went on a trip to pick up a few hundred of pounds of fish. Turns out one fish was poisonous and had killed them that day. 2 months later i went to see what was up. Turns out they were both decaying im there 80 degree home with tons of fish they weren't able to put up. It was the worst smell ever. You could smell it at the begging of there driveway almost a mile away. Even police and clean up crew said those warm decaying bodies mixed with mushy fish were the worst thing they ever seen and had to smell. Never went there again, even at the funeral you could smell it through the closed casket. They told us that everything was so broken down they couldn't tell some human bones with the fishes. My family blame me since I tried moving the bodies because I was the last to see them and I didn't want to get blamed. All I did was pull off body parts and release fluids making it worse.

[@darllalett960]

😢

[@greygray6230]

This must be embarrassing for people from UK. It’s crazy this happened not that long ago.