Progress!

Well, at least we’re not chucking shit out the window these days. We pay a TV license to have it pumped into the the lounge instead.

History repeats itself

Improve yourself

@@MsKittyGirl2010 History may repeat itself however historians definitely repeat themselves

Very true

​@AEG3587 your existence is based on their survival. How dimwitted are you that you don't have the comprehension skills that a 3rd grader could decipher

@@AEG3587your ancestors went through countless wars, plagues, wild living beyond your imagination, winters with no food or heat, hunting and being hunted, all of which resulted in you sitting in your heated house writing that comment. You may not ‘owe’ them anything per se, but you should certainly appreciate the hundreds of thousands of years of struggle it took to get us to where we are.

Most didn't survive long, they simply survived long enough to reproduce... a brutal life to be sure.

@@KazeHorsepeople like him are not able to comprehend the grim reality of what life is and care not for how lucky we are so naturally he can’t appreciate it

🤣🤣

Lol

😂

Whammy

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Sounds like a good simple life

Its still like this in most of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

And now you know why some people are smarter

Wars as well

Sounds like life in Yakutia now!

Well to be fair I think people enjoyed going outside and looking at it back then too, people wrote poetry and stuff about it’s beauty even back then, if you didn’t have a good roaring fire and some fur blankets you were in sorry state 🥶

@@edanridge3023 Also, peoples dwellings were much smaller on average, or at least the places were one would normally spend their time. A peasant's one room house could be pretty easily heated by a good hearth. A noble's castle had many fire places spread out within it to keep warm, and of course there was always blankets and bed warmers.

Living in a castle actually would’ve been pretty nice. Stone holds heat really well, a big center fireplace does wonders in heating a building.

@@tiko4621 The thing is, I know a guy that lives in a castle, he has modernized windows and the walls are at least a meter thick in his main living room and it takes very long to heat it up - and even then it's far from being cozy. No insulation also means that they transport heat (or cold) rather well, so when a day is particularly cold, your fireplace might not be sufficient to fight that amount of coldness. Think of it like this: You have one comparatively small fireplace and a giant surface area of walls all around you, when those are exposed to cold winds, they lose heat extremely fast and the source of more heat is rather small. Fireplaces with a chimney have a severe drawback as well:the warmest air is sucked right into the chimney, so in the worst case scenario, you actually suck in cold air from outside and the only heating you get is whatever is radiated from the fire directly. And last but not least: There's a reconstruction of a wooden defense tower from the 13th or 14th cenutry close to where I live, that thing has an indoor fireplace and an oven... but no chimney. The smoke is let out through a window, so while you can heat up the tower with that method, it also means everything is exposed to smoke. Unsurprisingly, the area for the nobles is behind a door, so they can enjoy the heat from the oven with minimal smoke, while the kitchen area with the servants is exposed to both the smoke from the oven and the cooking fireplace.

Living in a castle would be awful, they didn't have windows, can you imagine how cold it would be

I was thinking exactly that, like wait I've seen this before.

Awesome, thank you for this info

Good movie

Awesome thanks! Ill check that out

@@shinrapresident7010 the aristocrats thought the heir baby to be dead

Had a similar experience. Glad you're warm and happy.lollol

I never got used to the cold, that's why I moved to Florida

my grandparents also lived in an old house (tho not middle ages I suppose), and they litterally lived above the cattle to have it warmer. I can only imagine the smell...

​@@longfadestarlink my dude

Videos or you lying

….I lived in a similar home in Bayern as a child (Vogtareuth, GER), built in 1387….Though built of timber & heavy stone (with at least 1 fireplace in every room), the lack of insulation was FELT every winter (and our area of Bayern was in the lower Alps)….

@@longfade I have a 5G cell phone tower in the next village further down the valley, so I put an external 5G antenna up on a pole on the roof, plugged two coax cables into it and installed a netgear nighthawk and some WiFi repeaters in the house. So: Yes, I can even watch Netflix.

You literally only need a heat source and the ability to plan ahead and stockpile food. While survival got more difficult during the winter most of the time it wouldn't have been as dramatic as you're making it seem lmao. I say this as someone from finland where poor children sometimes didnt habe shoes during the winter and they where relatively fine, because they knew how long to be outside barefoot

You are the winners child of the winners child of the winners child throughout history

Irs like how everyone in England has a grandad or great grandad that survived the war. Of course ye do the dead don't get to procreate

I mean other places have winters too my guy and people from places without winters know hardship as well. But whatever. I think luck is a more determining factor. Sometimes you're at the wrong place at the wrong time. River floods at this bank but not at that bank, too bad you die. Your home catches flame because of your neighbor, too bad you die. Wrong person sneezes on you, too bad. etc, etc. Most people are of comparable strength.

I should be proud that my ancestors copulated? The bar is low, man.

Isn't it humbling to think that we are the descendants of those very survivors.

@@LumiSisuSusi Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. The mere fact that we exist is a testament to the survivorship of our ancestors, who braved truly difficult and horrific events.

I think about this all of the time. I do not think I could have survived without the modern advances we have- medical and otherwise. It saddens me to think about the hardships our ancestors had to endure yet I feel amazed that they were able to survive and thrive. And thanks to them we are here today.

@@jrjubach ✨👌 well said..it makes me all the more intrigued to try to research my family tree.

@@LumiSisuSusi Indeed.Relating to evolution, mutation and survival of the species I used to say to my students that they should be pretty proud of themselves. So many humans (and pre-humans!) in the past had gone by the wayside due to natural selection. Their set of DNA had the right genes to survive all the way throughout biological time for them to be sitting there today.

You’re channel has no content, maybe it should. You’re experience’s would be interesting.

@@blindfredy6128 I have SO MUCH to say about so many things. I'm desperately trying to get my voice heard, actually. Just have no idea how to start!

@@juliana.x0x0 Please don't. You may have the need to run your mouth as an attempt to fill the void left by your unattentative parents, but we don't actually need more drivel clogging up the information commons. Trust me, nothing you've experienced or learned can either actionably move our culture forward, or isn't already written about in a book (or explained about through some other media.) Blind fredy is just either lazily admitting he doesn't read, or is misapplying a human social strategy to uplift someone in his local environment. As you're not actually in his local environment, nor would your content benefit his life (he's probably too stupid to realize the consequences of his actions, and only seeking his dopamine hit (his attempt at morale boosting you is mostly so he can "feel good that I made someone else feel good")) it would probably just further dilute the internet.

@@austpem I'm not sure you know what you're talking about 😁 but I'll be doing whatever I'd like, but thanks for the unsolicited advice!

Allah سبحانه وتعالى said, وَلَوْلَا أَن يَكُونَ النَّاسُ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً لَّجَعَلْنَا لِمَن يَكْفُرُ بِالرَّحْمَـٰنِ لِبُيُوتِهِمْ سُقُفًا مِّن فِضَّةٍ وَمَعَارِجَ عَلَيْهَا يَظْهَرُونَ And were it not that mankind would have become of one community (of disbelievers, desiring this worldly life only), We would have provided for those who disbelieve in the Most Gracious (Allah), silver roofs for their houses, and elevators whereby they ascend, وَلِبُيُوتِهِمْ أَبْوَابًا وَسُرُرًا عَلَيْهَا يَتَّكِئُونَ And for their houses, doors (of silver), and thrones (of silver) on which they could recline, وَزُخْرُفًا ۚ وَإِن كُلُّ ذَ‌ٰلِكَ لَمَّا مَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا ۚ وَالْآخِرَةُ عِندَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ And Zukhruf (adornments of gold). Yet all this (i.e. the roofs, doors, stairs, elevators, thrones of their houses) would have been nothing but an enjoyment of this world. And the Hereafter with your Lord is (only) for the Muttaqun (God-fearing). [Az-Zukhruf 43:33-35] There were no to little atheists among the people of the past. They were dependent on rain for sustenance for themselves and their cattle vs today where you pick whatever you want from the supermarket. The feeling of dependency, hope and belief in God wanes when the materialism, security and luxury increases. Today on the other hand, the diseases of the heart like depressions, anxieties and pain of the heart from too much materialism is becoming the way to make people return back to their Creator. Every era has it's on fitan (trials and tribulations). The trials of the people of the past were more physical in nature, whereas our trials are more mental in nature.

glad to see a positive comment about today's world, it isn't all so bad. i'm enjoying being alive every day!

Hopefully, c-section technology will still be around when it is time for the next generations to have children, or nature will again have to be the selector. I'm not trying to be rude. My sister had two of them, love those kids. Eventually, humans won't be able to reproduce without medical intervention.

@@cyborgpistol1650 i wouldn't live in a country that my race wasn't the majority in but that's just me

@@MrRedberd hopefully so

@Cyborg Pistol What about Black people in Africa? What about Indians in India? Who is oppressing them? Nice try baiter.

Old shack?

You're living a true mans dream im jealous

Yes my old Shaq actually it's an old story and a half house but it's not insulated very well and I don't have the money to fix it up so since I'm almost dead anyway there's no sense syncing any money into it. Besides I have an addiction and well I guess it's not an addiction if you're not trying to quit but I seem to always end up with these rescue animals and they're a little more important I feel

@@paulcharpentier7095 If you really don't care, remind you that you can get an abundance of insulating materials essentially for free. A lot of stuff is packed with styrofoam, with some acetone or gasoline, you can also dissolve it and make glue(although foam spray would save a lot of time) Glue it together, cut out flat using a metal wire and some voltage, et voila, styrofoam.

Jesus!! I’m so sorry to hear, sir.

Lmao another Made Up KZfaq Hensel and Gretel story. Europeans freezing. Lmao

@@alig8680 I mean after how crazy-high our electrical bills have been this year I'm glad the weather has been mellow so far. Not sure how many ppl can afford to get slapped with bills like that again in my country.

@@matenzo Change your electricity Firm, you are being ripped Off 😆😂

Solar Minimum didn't write why He is Back in Africa. Someone got deported and is now angry 😂😂

You are the descendant of those few who survived the Black Death and all the other multiple plagues and famines and terrible weather disasters. All of us are here by the chance of one or two people somehow passing through the numerous population bottlenecks and producing offspring who also managed to survive. Natural selection in action! Many Europeans today have some resistance to sepsis, bubonic plague, and even HIV infection because the genetic mutations that gave them resistance to the Black Death and allowed them to survive was conserved and passed on (and by chance gives some resistance to HIV as well if inherited from both parents), while those who didn't have it died out.

@@Pipsqwak look at that, a first class KZfaq commentator in action. Well done!

They endured it so we wouldn’t have to. Thank you ancestors.

It’s sad.

😷☕

Problem is there's very little documentation about the poor. Only the rich could afford to have anything written about them.

Is there a certain age you focus your content on ?

@@Black-Sun_Kaiser I generally write about but not necessarily for teenagers. Usually a coming of age type story or loss of innocence tale

@@strangementalitypaperYT I didn't mean the age of the reader I meant the Era of the story's setting 😂 that's nice though

@@Black-Sun_Kaiser Middle Ages, WWI and US Civil War

@@strangementalitypaperYT the us civil war is my least favorite subject in world history but I think it's only cause I'm American and was just over saturated with stuff about it growing up. I love ww1 and 2 especially and very fond of the napoleon Era also. I used to write also but just lost touch with it over the years. It's the only form of art I have any talent with. I can't play any instruments or draw or anything of that nature but for some reason I had a talent for writing stories. Anyways have a great day and good luck

To be fair, they wouldn't know how to drive a car etc. Different times need different skills.

I bet they could fill gaps to prevent draughts.

With daub

It doesn't take a genius, just a lot of preparation. They didn't work 8 hours a day doing something completely unrelated to survival either, so that helps.

This is why humans have become so successful because we have become specialised. The down side is you are more reliant on other people.

Say-what? Do you have warmer homes there?

@@throughthoroughthought8064 , yes

I was always told it’s the moisture in the air that makes it feel colder. Being an Oregonian I think they were right. I never felt warm in winter.

They don't have serious insulation or windows so it's always drafty and cold - I found this in New Zealand as well

Swedes and Norwegians love the UK it seems.

Which country?

whic country exactly?

@@samplesample7178 Serbia

Likewise in remote parts of Scandinavia and Russia. Just 100 years ago, this was everyday life for my Swedish ancestors.

@@GhostSamaritan True, for scandinavians this was normal just two or three generations ago

Dried animal mesenteric tissue could also be used for windows.

medieval Windows… also known as Windows 3.1 Usually made of 1’s and 0’s

@@notmenotme614 funny asf underrated comment

And yet medieval windows still had viruses

Yah the transparent material we call glass was probably an luxury.🤌💵

I worked at the Philly Zoo as a kid. People asked me, how can you stand the smell. I'd reply, "What smell?"

The Inuit survived and thrived in the harshest environment on Earth. Pretty amazing.

@@squamish4244 Somewhat surprisingly, European explorers who came from cultures from northern climes with centuries of winter experience had to turn to Inuit clothing technology (all of which was based on using readily available natural products) to survive their arctic and sub-arctic treks. Never underestimate the ingenuity of the people who lived in allegedly backwards, hunter gatherer cultures.

@@dpeasehead Indeed. The ingenuity of peoples we used to call backwards was truly astonishing. Oddly, the worst Arctic disaster of European explorers came after the British had become quite good at surviving in a polar environment. That would be the Franklin Expedition, where all 129 men perished trying to find the Northwest Passage. However, what appears to have happened is that they fell victim to lead or zinc poisoning from eating canned food from poorly soldered cans, which damages your ability to think rationally.

I like being stanky

While doing research in far Northern India near the border of Tibet, I stayed with in a village where all the residents still actively use this method to manage their livestock and heat their homes in the Himalayan winters! They harvest animal dung all summer for fuel during the long cold months since there are very few trees at their altitude, which is around 13,000 feet.

​​​​​​@@michaelalovejoy2016 For all those twisting their noses, sun-dried animal dung has no strong odors at all. People in African countries use it as fuel as well, in place of wood, as wood is scarce in some areas.

A laithe house. I used to play in an old abandoned one on the farm as a kid. By the time I was born it was where the bantams lived😅

Hope y'all are doing ok!!

Hope you are safe. Maybe you will use some of these techniques to keep warm when the power is down. Take care.

Hang tough Ukrain. Help is on the way.

ZOV

Do you have electricity, water and heat now?

Very true

I love the cold and lived through the ice storm of 08 with single digit to negative temps and no power for 3 weeks. Would much rather prefer this than crazy florida people.

There are multiple degrees of coldness. I like the cold but do not like the very cold or the extremely cold.

Unless they're a menopausal woman...who suddenly have an EXACT, very narrow comfortable temp. Often too HOT.

I love the cold. I was born in December, and since I live in Finland I know what serious cold is like. -25C enough? With proper clothing, good boots, nothing is better than a cold starry night with snow crackling under your boots. Take cold any day instead of wet.

And indeed acknowledge things worthy of complaint and thus maintain your blessings, as they had to as mentioned

Root crops can be mulched appropriately, and will not be frozen. Look up how that is done. Old farmers did it, back in the day. Things like carrots, etc.

In old homes where the basement floor is a dirt floor, people kept a sand box to place carrots in, covering them completely in sand. A wooden box for potatos. Onions and garlic hung from the rafters. Cabbages where placed upside down to prevent drying out, on a wooden shelf. Smoked sausages and bacon also hung from the rafters. Sauerkraut was kept in crockpot type containers, other vegetables were pickled. Seeds were carefully kept, sufficient for the next two seasons, in case of crop failure, enough for the season that followed. Of course there was honey. Dry herbs were hung upside down in the kitchen. That is how people survived. Some might have hunted as well, but that was a privilege kept for the upper class. Of course there also is fishing, which can be challenging to do in the freezing winter.

@@heidimisfeldt5685 ...Sure, there were ways to lessen the sufferings of winter cold and hunger, but you couldn't eliminate them if you were a commoner. An English wattle and daub house, for example, with its usual dirt floor will be painfully cold. Even if you have a fire, the smoke has to get out and fresh but cold air has to get in. The vast majority lived at a subsistence level without the luxuries of canned fruits or potted meats. Basically, if you didn't fatten up in the summer and fall, you starved in the winter. We can romanticize the pre-1900s and we can imagine living in those times, but I guarantee most are dreaming about summers of plenty back then. They aren't romanticizing famine, disease, starvation or freezing which were the daily winter companions. There is too much taking for granted what we have now. It wasn't like the movies depict back then. We should have more gratitude. It was only yesterday. We could find ourselves back there in a minute.

Wild animals do it every day. Trying to find food while also trying to not become food. Those lovely bird songs you hear every morning are actually them screaming and cursing in horror as they awake to their existence.

Shut up

@@colorad6018 make me, goblino slime ball!

hehe

DM: _You forgot to pickle your food before heading to the dragon's lair in the dead of winter, and your provisions are rotten. 1 d8 hunger damage._ Players: _We go hunting._ DM: _Ah, forgot that the dragon killed all the wildlife. Starvation damage gets worse; 2 d8's._ P: _We plunder any farms we see!!_ DM: _The lack of wildlife has led to a Great Famine, and most of the outer farmholds have died. You find small cottages full of stinky rotting corpses. Also a couple recently burned down ones._ P: _So the dragon must be close, right!?_ DM: _Nope! Just huddling next to fires in wooden shacks. Ain't no fire department in Fáerun! 3 d8's!_ P: _... We eat the dwarf player?_ Dwarf: _Hey now!_ DM: _... Roll initiative._

Pig spooning as a game mechanic.

I'm heating my house with wood. Nothing like the joy of warming your family with the firewood you've personally split.

Good to think replanting is part of the system. Reforestation is key - no matter what part of the world.

@@TheLegendaryLore I think we rely on heat and AC a little too much. At least in the sense you don’t have to live in a city where mass heating/cooling is viable.

@@FumblsTheSniper 100%

@@mortalclown3812 We can never have too many trees 🌳🌳🌳

Wattle and daub isn't difficult to repair so you don't have draughts. They weren't idiots.

@@julianshepherd2038this. if you would be uncomfortable today, you would’ve been back then as well. they surely insulated their homes nearly to full efficiency. They weren’t morons

Yeah mate those types of walls were efficient even during summer as it kept the dwellings cool enough. Chimneys were also a thing from fairly early on.

Yeah i'm a bit tired of these kinda documentations that make it look overly dramatic and act like people had nothing. But most houses in the middle ages were probably better insulated than modern american cardboard houses

I'm sure the smoke caused cancer, tho.

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I think cancer was the least of your concerns back then.

Try "banished". Winter will seriously F**** you up.

Is it computer game?

It was not pretty much the same as living in the 1400's. Very typical boomer conflating the two

@@frank6842 grow up.

It was definitely hard but not nearly as rough as 1400s bro

As a New Zealander living in a poor excuse for a house I can relate heavily to your comment!

Ikr I'm fixing to spend the winter in a tarp shelter. We're expecting a blizzard at the end of the week

@@perarduramcintyre5578 it’s the AS/NZ standard

@@tammiebroggins we bought an older house about 3 years ago and I’ve slowly been going through and putting proper insulation in all internal and external walls except lounge areas because meh but all the bedrooms, 1 bathroom and laundry (more for sound suppression) have thick earth wool bats inside them. It makes an incredibly huge difference. Next step is 2 Whirly birds on the roof for excess heat in summer

@@frenchys_prospecting good for you. Good luck on getting it finished

I recall Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs from college Psych 101. It's basically saying that once we satisfy one level of need, we move to a higher level. For most of history the majority of people were at the bottom level striving for water, food, shelter, clothing, employment, resources, personal safety. Now that many of us have achieved that, we focus on higher levels: love and belonging, esteem, and self actualization. It seems like a lot of Americans are stuck at level 3:love and belonging. We report record high levels of loneliness and isolation, especially men and the young. There's always something to long for.

Except there’s people freezing in poverty today as well

There are people who would say the exact same thing in the medieval ages. Just because things were worse before doesn't mean you can't complain about things now and try to make them better. And I don't think I have to point out the irony in complaining about complainers

This is definitely written by a privileged boomer with a nice house, good pension, internet access, central heating, public infrastructure, 3+holidays a year etc etc

Luxury isnt everything

Sounds like the tenement living in nyc in the 50s that i experienced.Bang on the radiators to get the supers attention without luck.Rope in our frozed longjohns on the clothesline in the morning and ram them against the radiators to get the frost off.And top floor living was the worst.We had a gas burner stove in the kitchen that we shared with the rodents and insects who were looking for warmth also

I witnessed minus 47 C in Russia in 1979

What inspired me to watch this they don’t speak on in the vid is there apparently has always been a winter vomiting virus that I just got it’s horrible only lasts about 24 hours but I almost choked as I would projectile vomit if I moved the slightest bit so when I did vomit I would vomit repeatedly and violently while moving to a bucket I had an extremely hard time staying hydrated and I imagine in a time when survival was hard this would have taken many lives shockingly as it comes on suddenly likely with 1 meal prepared by a sick person and you rapidly become violently ill

They had to build castles to stay warm in

Dutch, too

Chuck in a few onions and potatoes you cant go wrong.

*pheasants 🕊 :p

BABIES!!!

@@dizasteroid7 no I meant peasants, as in people. Human beings.

Peasants are too scrawny to eat. Pork is better.

I heard Buffalo people got stuck for DAYS in their cars!

@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 With all that hair they were fine.

That painting is in the movie Stalker 1979 and not incidentally Melancholia 2011.

I have a copy of that painting, but as a tapestry. It's a really nice piece.

Thank you! I knew I’d seen the painting before but couldn’t remember the painter and was hoping someone would mention the artist in the comments

Reminds me somewhat of L.S. Lowry

Peter Bruegal the Elder.

Yes i remember the painting from Andrei tarkovsky's solaris

It was also used on a Monty Python album sleeve

Pieter Brueghel was Belgian though

and kolf on the ice, too

Interesting Thanks

They didn’t have the moon?

@@matthewcasagrande231 Did you ever try to read a book in the moonlight?

Until very recently?

Until very recently 👍

@@ohhhSmooth If it's a children's book, the letters are probably huge and you could read them

People still ate pigeon in my area of the UK when I was a kid. Pigeon pie usually.

@deniseelsworth7816 pigeon is popular in Asia, and I've seen Squab on European menus. Until I watched Time Team, I didn't realise that Dovecotes were for winter food, rather than the enjoyment of birds flying around.

@@theharper1 same here with the dovecotes. I had thought how lovely until I knew the real use.😯

wines growing in england? farming in greenland? isn't that existenial?

@@jameshudson169we still grow wines in England. We have champion country, the English version champagne country.

@@Secretname951 maybe folk meant NEW england.

@John Willings English sparkling wine is regarded as some of the best in the world

That was prior to the 1300s. Vineyard in England were common in the 1200s but then the weather changed in the 1300s.

Don't you have a space heater?

My apartmant right now inside is 22°C and i am not even heating it. It' 18° outside and stupid rain.

My brother has bought me an oil filed radiator as an early Christmas box. It's quite a good one. It's apparently very economical too. With that and my fire on low at least I'm not sitting here wearing a Thermal shirt, a Thermal hoodie a thick fleece lined dressing gowned and a woolly hat.

Steam came out of your mouth 😂

like I was smoking

Keeping the body warm is easy, keeping it warm and dry is not. Moist accelerates loss of body heat. While wool is extremely slow on drying, it at least partly keeps its ability to trap warm air. Linen on the other hand quickly gets wet from sweat and does more harm than good. Bad combination, the linen feeds moist into the outer layer wool so it can't use its full potential. Polyester on the other hand helps to transport water. A great combination for high performance cloth - light, dry and very warm - is thinly spun wool plus 50% polyester. Or even better, wool spun around a polyester core. Don't demonize polyester, there's very good reason to mix it in, todays clothing - at least the high quality outdoor material - enormously outperformes medieval clothing...

Are we?

@@uberalles9797 You want to give up your modern heated/cooled home, car, food, medicine, and everything else the world has to offer for some filthy dirt floor hovel?

@@caesarsalad1170 because modernity gas granted us heating, food and medicine? Lol the amish are doing pretty fine without those 'luxuries'. I can make a fire living in the woods, have my heard od sheep/chicken and be perfectly healthy.

That’s what people in 300 years will be saying about us

@@uberalles9797 Go live without those luxuries then and quit talking about how easy it is.

You are so right about the kind of grain that Americans have developed since the 1950s. It’s full of gluten, and over 90% of people in the United States have some degree of digestive intolerance to it, either mild, or all the way to celiac. Even today, parts of Europe, harvest and make bread and pasta that is much lower in gluten and much better for you.

You guys don't have wood stoves? What

Canada is not a contry its a ice rink

@@meisrerboot I am in Canada and remember this event. We have wood-burning fireplaces in some houses and gas fireplaces in others. Apartments have none usually unless they are very expensive. .

The wolves were everywhere during the black death I probably don't have to explain why 💀

Lmaaaoo

I have no idea if you’re right or not, but maybe an Old English linguist could chime in in here?

Get along w Russia to be warm

I was born in St. Louis. Are you from west St Louis?

@@69Jackjones69 I was born on the Southside it's all pretty connected nowadays but the Southside is a mix of new business and poverty many of the houses are from 1903 and made of bricks

You think Holland has harsh winters? Come to Canada for a winter. You haven't seen anything

100%! Thousands of years were lived like this until the last 100. We forget that this is the norm and how we live now is not.

Just be grateful fam

​@@mariahsmom9457 Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1822: “I shudder at the approach of winter, and wish I could sleep through it with the doormouse, and only wake with him in spring, if ever ... When I recollect on the one hand all the sufferings I have had from cold, and on the other all the other pains, the former preponderate greatly".

But on the upside you got all of winter off!

what was the house made of? mud/earth?

@@incorectulpolitic wood planks and logs. I THINK they used hay and mud as insulation. The house was built by her dad in the early 1900s out in rural northern Michigan. I only went to the house a couple times as a little kid and mostly I was paying attention to the bison she was raising and all the taxidermy animals in the house lol. I just remember how hot it was in the house with that wood stove, and my dad who used to stay with his aunt during planting and harvest season would talk about how the house would get so hot with the stove (the stove was an actual working stove, not just their heat source) that he, his brother, and cousins would sleep in the loft of the barn.

Cool! In what location?

@raspeth Alpena, MI, so pretty far north on the east coast of the state. I remember going up there the first time, driving through hills and thinking they most be mountains 🤣🤣🤣

The Baltic sea does indeed freeze over but take that claim with a heap of salt. Medieval mapmakers were not reliable in their fantastical portrayals

@@Abraxium in middle ages there was a warmer period .in medieval time english and polish winemakers were competitive.

If they had enough seeds from a poor harvest and didn't eat them

@@MrRedberd Yes!!! Absolutely correct 👍🏻

It still is.

The future's uncertain and the end is always near. So says Jim Morrison

@@antonbatura8385 Unless you're living in a third-world country, no. No, it isn't.

@@DeadPixel1105 I live in Ukraine.

Life is the house with one entrance, and uncountable exits.