Why Barbers have a Pole outside their Shop

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[@soulkiss5853]

when i was a kid, im confused where did the spiral goes whenever it went down.

[@jocaingles8464]

When I was a kid, I was confused as to how it teleported back to the top

[@canurageplease8261]

Confused when I was, kid I was

[@thekerncinematicuniverse1809]

Wait a minute WHERE DOES IT GO!

[@therealshubaapostle8920]

Back to the spiral when kid I was confused I'm where down whenever went it

[@ahhhyes4793]

Down kid pole spiral.

[@pingguerrero2007]

A local barber was arrested for selling drugs. I've been his customer for 5 years I never knew he was a barber

[@edinfific2576]

I can imagine your shock when you realized he was a drug dealer. 😆 😉

[@candicedice8605]

@@edinfific2576 👀👀👀👀👀👀🍷🚶

[@jrmetmoi]

😆😆

[@jrmetmoi]

Edin Fifić 😆😆😆

[@leogradwell-spencer1382]

Ping Guerrero loool

[@visibleconfusion9894]

i thought it was a hypnotize thing to lure you in

[@childishclambino]

lmao same

[@rekt632]

Same

[@killerqueen1170]

I thought it of it kinda the same but instead to make people see the pole because it has some bright colours

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

It works.

[@missidominici]

Are you the new justin y because i have seen you on multiple videos now

[@potatoparadise6238]

So........the origin of the pole: 60% Surgery stories 20% Teeth and dentals 15% Ball, basin and other objects 5% About the hair

[@kolotzkiesmirana9620]

potato paradise yup and not about the haircut haha

[@thedai23]

0% about hair..

[@tomlxyz]

They basically advertise with something they don't offer smh

[@rodigoduterte9192]

Back when barbers were the human version of Swiss army

[@Simplehistory]

..knife

[@n2daseco128]

@@Simplehistory what?

[@n2daseco128]

I did not know that swiss are barbers warriors

[@_aragornyesyes_7171]

My president is that really u?

[@zed9095]

Hey IDOL

[@CCJJ160Channels]

‘Barbers also performed surgery and amputations.’ Gives a whole new meaning to “just a little off the top.”

[@kuchiskali4160]

😂😂😂

[@Broadcast13-9]

“I got you fam”

[@grassytramtracks]

"just trim off the ends"

[@dr.rosannavasquez-gregoryd5967]

Now we know where barbaric is for

[@cptjackpl8690]

I didn't know those barber poles have a very long history. O.O

[@andrewclark3977]

CptJack PL So does mine 😏

[@mitjed]

We never question why? I wonder why?

[@danieler4554]

Neither do I

[@silvertemplar8061]

CptJack PL seems that something we don’t know much about always has a trail of history.

[@rich6754]

NICE!

[@KeefCounty]

Next Video: Why Strippers have a Pole inside their shop

[@runari892]

😂😂😂😂

[@YeshuaDisciple916]

I literally LOL'd at this. At 3:00 am, while my sons are all sleeping. If either of them come in here because I woke them up, I'm blaming you... Seriously though, that was funny!!! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@celebtalk7073]

I think its self explanatory.

[@Patrick_Bateman92]

It dates back to when strippers were also pole vaulters in medieval England

[@trashchannel3723]

No.

[@ianburgos4702]

Damn I never would have guessed thanks simple history! Keep up the great content!

[@bennyrahmat8494]

I am afraid my future son will ask oneday, so I click this video

[@kerrin6633]

Haha nice. Being prepared!

[@blackman5867]

You are a great dad

[@blackman5867]

@Oliver Partis y

[@blackman5867]

@Oliver Partis good joke man, 10/10, really loved it

[@blackman5867]

@Oliver Partis oh, no, no, I really loved it. I really do! See? I just liked your comment

[@lonelyheartproductions5237]

So... The barber-surgeon from Flapjack is historically accurate?

[@this-is-big-john]

Lonely Heart Productions yup

[@dickwatson5691]

mmm... mmm.. mmmmm doctor barbeeer

[@Captain23rdGaming]

+Lonely Heart Productions i was just thinking about that

[@danieldeak9141]

Yea

[@imraanwadiwala]

Suuurrrgeryyy mmm yeees

[@cannonball666]

"Help me. I've been bleeding frommy nose and ears for 3 weeks" "You need a good bloodletting"

[@engineergaming5989]

When I was a kid I thought the pole meant there was candy inside the shop and the barber did give me sweets

[@condorX2]

In Scottish voice.

[@Piku_gram]

Patient A :"but I'm bleeding, how can bleeding more will help?" Barber : " and that's why you need bloodletting. You bleed because you don't do it". Patient A : "but- ... Make sense"

[@Niya98]

🤣😂🤣

[@mrbisshie]

At least it's better than the "hospital", they just tell me to pray more, and hit me with a Bible.

[@nappythegreat667]

#MakeBarbersSurgeonsAgain

[@eliancalebsaquilayan5255]

go home your'e drunk...

[@fulcrum2951]

Go drunk you're home

[@a.b.6796]

Go home your drunk

[@muhammadjoshua7464]

Oh no.. Please don't

[@rainyrei707]

No pls

[@rylandmalcolm3825]

And now we must resist exclaiming our trivia when ever we walk past a barber shop with mates

[@-Invero-]

*Jeeps poles* done *Barbers pole* done *Dancing pole* missing?

[@billy7066]

lmao

[@Tigerskunk]

Yeah, they're kind of dancing around that one.

[@xXxKAMIKAZExXx]

E Robinson There's not much to cover

[@backpackpepelon3867]

xXxKAMIKAZExXx They can just spin the same thing over and over. It wont get boring.

[@maskeduchiha8359]

xXInvincible ZeroXx Can you Dance on a pole for me?

[@topdoglucas0810]

Me: *cough cough* Barber: You need to bleed boi!

[@_phong.huynh_]

Let's start with the testicles....

[@Bolt99K]

Wow this is honestly the most interesting thing I’ve seen in weeks. Who knew barber poles have such a long and strange history lol

[@ScreenedHarp54]

When will be the history of the gloriously Bob Semple tank?!?

[@Simplehistory]

just looked that up, interesting!

[@fulcrum2951]

The glorious stronk bob semple tank, would ve beaten any tanks

[@Toptop-gt1nq]

Isp

[@AHappyCub]

Bob Semple best tank XD

[@toffeeballs9690]

big bob > Maus

[@AllohaAllohaSnackbar]

I still can't believe my profession, Dentistry, started from barbers hahahaha

[@angelojoshuaandeo9884]

Which started from clergies.

[@IndianCuber]

Back when Barbers were multitaskers... P.S. Thanks for the likes and also the heart from Simple History!!!!!!

[@esaskykke7600]

Now they can cut only one hairstyle

[@dylanmcshane9976]

Yeah, cut one hairstyle and screw it up lmao

[@roelwieggers4181]

Now they fill up the gaps with a lot of talking.

[@esaskykke7600]

This is your biggest day! Enjoy it!

[@IndianCuber]

@@esaskykke7600 thanks a lot!

[@captainteutonica5474]

Actually the barber poles in germany are also red white and blue. Not just in America.

[@bueberry9028]

Singapore too! (Some)

[@LockenJohny101]

Because they follow the trend.

[@lwolf2002]

The Blue is ink because Barbers gave tattoos as well

[@nothisispatrick4644]

So remember people If you want to advertise your business just put out a pole with blood stain outside your building

[@danieler4554]

Then you would get catches

[@danieler4554]

*catched

[@ValerioRhys]

@@danieler4554 caught*

[@bigmike9558]

That’s actually pretty cool. Glad modern medicine has came so far

[@sirshockraiden]

Man, barbers back then were quite barbaric, or should I say *BARBER-IC*

[@sverreschei969]

Sir_Shock_Raiden just no

[@Lustrous_Beauty]

So that's why they are called barbers.

[@Spicelot]

Sir_Shock_Raiden More like -NOT EPIC-

[@ikec2894]

I don't know if I should laugh or shake my head......

[@ninamarkovic4853]

Your punny

[@Piku_gram]

At my place Me : what's that spiral thingy for? Barber : just following the trend.

[@FrizTrooperz]

Sama coy

[@Simplehistory]

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[@fulgrimtheilluminator4632]

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[@samsmith7120]

1:54 hmmm?🤔

[@haekly264]

It looks like a colgate logo

[@williamjames7293]

ikr

[@fulcrum2951]

What if barbers were responsible for creating colgate?

[@projectkepleren]

it look more like thailand flag

[@toasterking7588]

@Yu Suk Mi Hof r/wooooosh

[@duccie4309]

Jerry Therapist dutch flag

[@reddeath707]

"Doctor Barber" from Flapjack makes a lot more sense now. I'd say it makes him a little less creepy, but no, it doesn't.

[@indianajones4321]

Please do the Mesopotamia Campaign World War One

[@weirdwalrus5757]

Indiana Jones Yeah!

[@joao_1986]

good idea!

[@kaiweichang7839]

Thank you so much simple history, this question kept in my head for so many years now I finely know what does it mean.

[@flindersliston1232]

Our teacher uses your videos for teaching when we have a substitute im not complaining its amazing to watch your videos in class!

[@jears]

@Big O My teachers use YT videos all the time

[@kvltizt]

@Big O I learn more through YT videos and their sources than I did in school.

[@PSYCOMETAL]

I'm sorry, but I lost it and started laughing like a jackal at the tooth decoration part. Love your guys videos, keep it up!

[@MsSnowyWintry]

I always liked that just seeing that red blue and white just spinning looks so cool

[@MsSnowyWintry]

@@NormanMStewart o o f

[@randomtanker4355]

Satisfying?

[@MsSnowyWintry]

@@randomtanker4355 yes satisfying

[@rickgal9003]

Yeah I know crack open a brew and just see it go like a Tesla ball intriguing

[@kunalmahajan7178]

That's the question I always had whenever I passed any barber shop in UK .. Thank you simple history 👌👌👌

[@ibackthebluenypd3344]

Episode on verdun?

[@josephstalin2776]

Balkan wars

[@ibackthebluenypd3344]

?

[@michaeldeleon2902]

I think verdun has been already been made bud.

[@leightonmarsh7835]

Oh shi here come dat boi S Verdun is already on the channel, but I think they’ll made a remade version of the video.

[@Simplehistory]

No going to remake it though

[@catchthattea6259]

Back in the day there wasn’t any schools that taught or trained people to be nurses, doctors , etc. people who had an idea in terms of treating people were picked due to also barbers knowing how to use scissors and razors

[@XxPlayMakerxX131]

Idk why but I thought that saloons with the red white and blue pole Had a prostitution room in the back which I NEVER go to that barber

[@tigger2581]

Where i live often barbers are fronts for brothels. No pole tho. Just a bunch of girls inside which lets u know whats up

[@suomenpingu4780]

Artillery Only!!!

[@HaartieeTRUE]

YES, WE ARE SPREADING!

[@suomenpingu4780]

@@HaartieeTRUE Да

[@x7218]

Русский пингу anti air only for 350k

[@thelifeoftommi9070]

What?

[@suomenpingu4780]

@@thelifeoftommi9070 normie

[@profanegaming2829]

Well, that... That is just terrible.

[@lordclangtheintolorable2094]

@stellvia hoenheim That sound horrific

[@ashley3629]

stellvia hoenheim Except that people aren’t cars

[@peterlustig6888]

What?

[@peterlustig6888]

Cupping is actually healthy

[@adamdevine2462]

I always wondered what that pole was for. I just thought it was to catch your eye as you went by.

[@marselmusic]

I appreciate how you go through a lot of effort to search history of things which may not seem very important or historical on the outside.... definitely a unique youtube channel and something out of the ordinary... which you wouldn't really learn from school... Keep it up Simple History!

[@dillonbright1974]

Artillery ONLY!!! I was sent here by ISP...

[@roycarreon4504]

tell to do field hospital only

[@chrisdugas1226]

But... it's not just in the U.S.A. where they are red, white and blue. Here in Canada I see them with those colors all the time and before this I didn't even know that some were just red and white.

[@bittersteel3284]

Hey, what is the medieval music that starts at 0:33? I heard it in a different video and can't find it. Thanks! :)

[@HajiIe]

So my uncle is a barber and technically he a doctor right?

[@anuvratverma1255]

If he takes some plague infected bloods out than yes

[@mitchelq.6594]

No

[@lordclangtheintolorable2094]

@@mitchelq.6594 Bleach being the voice of reason is startling

[@mitchelq.6594]

@@lordclangtheintolorable2094 yup

[@bswindy2895]

Yes!!!! 😳

[@12Mojo]

Yo man, can I have the medieval haircut treatment? Say no more, Pours leeches and performing cupping whilst chopping is ear off for bleeding lol

[@darkmusky9851]

I have another idea for worst/weird jobs in history: Victorian British Peelers

[@iskandarthemalayfarmer1796]

The Dark Musket Ja

[@zeeonnn]

Idk why but I use to think that the pole was full of ice cream. Once when i was 6 I cried in the mall cause "I wanted to eat the ice cream!"

[@エズカイレズ]

I know that the red in the pole represents blood. I've heard of this and that's all i can recall. Thanks for remembering this again Edit : your animation may not be the best detailed, or most fluid. But they are very nice to explain historic events which are very boring if told in a story telling method

[@brasibrad3011]

I never thought the story behind this simple thing would date back so long ago. Thanks a lot!

[@silo_magentheavythevip9921]

Even Philippines have that to so many on Barber's

[@NickolaUniverse]

tama!(right!)

[@arnie9913]

Maybe because it was under American rule for a long time ?

[@melbertdecamos3912]

Galing

[@宋教仁-b4i]

In China we have these poles too...

[@rainyrei707]

Maybe many barbers does

[@johnlorenpelayo]

so barbers are surgeons **pewdiepie HMMMM intestifies**

[@tstan9713]

the penguin king politicians are also assholes

[@hxvoon5682]

That’s why in flapjack the barber was also the doctor!

[@ArcturusOTE]

LUcky Beast Looks like the creators did their research well

[@ewadess9148]

Me: trying to sleep at 5am KZbin: wanna know why that pole is outside barber shops? Me: OMG I ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW THAT

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Barber: Oh I'm exhausted! Doing haircuts is surely hard. Barber's great-great-great-great-gramps: In my time, barbers had to perfomr surgeries

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

I thought poles are made of polish people?

[@pizz4c4t11]

stop

[@koulematon7359]

HAHAHA COMEDY MASTER MARRY MY DAUGHTER PLSSSS

[@chnb517]

makes the title funnier haha

[@danieler4554]

Why do you think like that? Because the colours doesn't have anything to do with polish people

[@hantusendawa]

Daniel the KZbinr *woosh*

[@Kyoukanasou]

Finally, my questions are finally answered! Thank you so much for this video! :--))

[@MrCanDyMaNN]

“Sooo umm yea, we’re gonna have to amputate that arm... how’s about a haircut to go with that?”

[@KevinPlayer]

Who else is watching this while being at the toilet?

[@thetitoist82]

kevin player LOL 10 mins ago i was in the toilet i just came out

[@keylupveintisiete7552]

Ur mom

[@PANZERFAUST90]

you mean....ON the toilet?

[@cranerishh]

kevin player im actually eating

[@TajimaMunenori]

Dropped a fat duece

[@RIFLQ]

This reminds me of that barber in The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

[@AAAAAA-hq9vl]

the blue represents ink as barbers once gave tattoos

[@your_fathers]

Ah yes, ink is blue,

[@rommelbonsun2665]

History are important lecture, without them we could make a lot of mistakes,but still people still get a lot of mistakes this days.

[@mistermangoman9293]

“Barbers performed surgeries” that explains why the always amputate my scalp whenever I ask for just a bit off the top

[@qreues-alt7672]

Neck: Is Swore Doctor: *You're neck bouta go numb*

[@kutisbayag1309]

Wtf ! Blood letting using bowl and knife?hahaha, just like slaughtering a chicken

[@einstien1925]

do artillery only

[@theo284]

No

[@fulcrum2951]

Yes

[@maxxbloxxstudios-minecraft5177]

Sheeps trim themselves, and humans. Why do you think barber black sheep is around?

[@JohnTheStun]

2:09 Thought he said "a fleeb" XD

[@muscleman5266]

So they could hire strippers we all know that

[@dixhnsixj8254]

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[@lwolf2002]

The blue is actually ink in America cause Barbers gave tattoos it's not patriotism or viens

[@4HUNNIDZ]

Please make a video about WWII Russian Partisans they're really fascinating

[@CKC_Productions]

Wow, I never knew that. Thanks for the history Simple History.

[@JohnTheStun]

But did you remember to rub the fleeb? It's important that the fleeb is rubbed.

[@jacksondavenport9296]

Lol Rick and morty?

[@JohnTheStun]

@@jacksondavenport9296 yup

[@eternallyspoopy2238]

I thought it was used to tell you “hey the barber shop’s over here! That’s the tattoo salon!

[@danielrodriguez248]

Wow just learned more useless information,kool

[@Genrevideos]

You know what you should do as a sequel to this episode? “Why Pawn Shops have Signs with Three Balls?”

[@zielonysnajper2105]

318 monks dont like it

[@fdgod1931]

What I need when I eat breakfast a simple history episode

[@cookieusa1]

Thank you for another amazing video!

[@malikasadrashid2664]

Came here after junaidAkram story

[@HaMMaD147]

+

[@ehsannarejo8280]

Same 😂

[@amerzacreigh8085]

Barbers have poles outside their shop cuz... They have poles outside their shop.

[@andreiagache6596]

Speech 100

[@Xaramelo2024]

Preach it!!

[@tyreseraynvergara9056]

*BOI*

[@viktorbleszkany9299]

@@craidsaber5986 lol what alink

[@Jijo2003]

Anyone remember Dr Barber from Marvelous adventure of Flapjack?

[@MisterPogman]

The blue is for the dentist or barbers 💈

[@bmorekid28]

Wonder why over 456 people dislike and disagree with this video 🤨? Like really 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@eliubfj]

Maybe those are barbers that want their real jobs back

[@autumnhomer9786]

Thank you for the history lesson.

[@caitries7421]

Nice video lads, could you do a video on the witches of ww2? Unfortunately i cant remember their official title but they were ladies who flew bomber planes and cut out the engine mid-air in order to glide silently to their desired position. It would be very interesting!

[@wuznab5109]

This pole is more interesting than me.

[@johnd7009]

Akala ko nong una, iisa Lang ang may.ari ng Barbershop sa Kung saang lugar ako ma punta, Kasi paparihas Lang ng pintura.

[@marza339]

When are you doing artillery only??

[@chopsuey9950]

imagine when you have a toothace you need to go to the barber shop🥴and if you need dialysis to😂

[@rosth3453]

NOW we're asking the real questions here. Lol

[@maritime_history1912]

When i was a kid I used to get hungry over that becoz I thought it was ice cream😂

[@suomenpingu4780]

Artillery

[@drharoldpontiffcoomer]

1:43 That looks like a nice resteraunt.

[@alitlweird]

It’s because barber shops and strip clubs used to be one and the same.

[@GreatMewtwo]

Dr. John Doe, MD, DDS Physician/Barber/Dentistry

[@veejay3126]

I love these videos

[@jjtomecek1623]

The worst sounding thing of letting your barber be your surgeon is that your surgeon will now start trying to talk about life during the operation.