We once bought a property that had every manner of pest known to man in it. We didn't see any of that when we bought it because the old lady who lived there had so much furniture and knickknacks and pictures on the walls that when we toured it, it looked clean, just overdecorated. After cans and cans of roach spray and 2 rounds of bug bombs, the bugs were still there so my husband put pans of sulfur in every room and lit them. We went back after 3 days and every insect and rodent was dead! It only took 2 days of leaving the windows open and a few gallons of paint to get rid of the sulfur smell and it never had pests again. If you are ever flipping houses and get a buggy one, you can literally go medieval on it LOL!

These videos make me feel a lot better about my job

Four guys shooting paint-balls from semi-automatic weapons is not the same as being shot at by muskets.

The petard run was hilarious but I'm pretty sure muskets didn't have the same rate of fire as paintball guns.

Aw...am I the only one who thinks that it's adorable when he's holding those kittens?

His enthusiasm at the explosion was adorable.

I just love Tony, he is so comical, knowledgeable and personable.

"They would try to shoot you, dump things on you, anything they can to try and spoil your day." Lol!

Black Adders servant would seem to be a pretty bad job. I have a cunning plan.

"Baldrick, to you the renaissance was something that happened to other people."

so what I've learned so far it's basically the whole history evolved around the use of urine.

Tony commits the perfect crime; disposing of corpses filmed and broadcast, who checks that the corpse is a prop or not... Duhn duhn duhhh.

The plague searchers were often elderly widows that were paid by the parish and restricted from life within the heart of the city except to do their jobs. They didn't make much, and could be easily bribed and bought off not to report "plague". Once the plague was reported, the entire family was padlocked in the home, the healthy left to contract the illness and die alongside the sick. Only after 40 days (hence the word quarantine) since the last report of illness were the inhabitants allowed freedom.Most never made it that long. During that time, ironically, those still clinging to life would be at the mercy of the kindness of others, often other older women who served as doctor, midwife, and apothecary. All of these women often had contracted the plague earlier at sometime which gave them immunity. At various times all of these women were paid by the parish to collect the valuables of the deceased where they were to be sold to pay for the salaries of the searchers, nurses, and gravediggers. No surprise that these women kept most of what they found, only reporting a portion to "make it look good". Because "Plague" was a death sentence for entire households, and gave stigma to the entire community, it's another reason it was often under reported. It gave the "healthy" time to flee, and often the healthy were anything but, instead they were incubating the infection, and just ended up spreading it to more people in formerly plague free areas. Also these elderly searchers hadn't any medical training, even for the time, and often confused and reported plague as other common illnesses of the time that had similar hemorrhagic elements and visa versa. It was thought that this ignorance coupled with the ability to be bribed to not report plague, allowed the initial outbreak to grow so dramatically. Instead of the handful of cases often seen in non plague years and amongst those with risky jobs like cloth merchants or dock workers, it struck others in the crowded lanes and alleys and literally exploded in a fortnight to tens of thousands of cases. Most people had poor quality of life to begin with and might have had concurrent diseases like "the Pox", Syphilis, gut illnesses like Typhoid, Cholera, or common intestinal parasites (hookwork, whipworm, tapeworm) and "fever" from common bacteria in a time before antibiotics. All of these weakened them further to infection from Y. Pestis. Had the "widdowe Goody " understood how turning a blind eye was tantamount to the murder of tens of thousands, perhaps she would have reported the deaths properly. But alas, it was still thought to be spread by miasma-bad smells/fogs.

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when i got to the part about cats, i had a good cry and hugged my kitten afterwards ;_;

Tony,your the man!! Thanks Tony for this brilliant series. Many thanks for posting them.

I'm beginning to feel sorry for Tony as he puts himself through all that, this series is getting saddomasochistic

Baldrick the Dung Gatherer

Emptying sheeps intestines from poo reminds me A LOT of helping a python get well from constipation. True story. A very young python needed help, and we were there. The python lived a long and healthy life after that as far as I know. :)

I hope "retail" is in the list somewhere in this series