he's one of those who deserves his knighthoods

A bit like riding a bicycle - you never really forget, I guess. But you have to hand it to the guy, able to carry the plank at his age like he was decades younger.

He's also a pretty secure bloke that has big balls considering that some involve being a transvestite, working from great heights and the downright disgusting!

+semisophisticate63 I'm sure he thought he must've been crazy to try that job, too. Anything involving heights really gets to him.

The thing about the heart is that the more you use it, the stronger it becomes. The less active you are, the weaker it becomes.

Britain has adopted the metric system in many aspects in order to get along in the EU, but they still use the imperial system too.

CologneCarter Officially, all weights and lengths should be given in metric. For some bizarre reason, road distances are still in miles, though. Drove me crackers while I was living there.

Iv used nothing but imperial

There are two kinds of countries in the world: Those that use the Metric system, and those that landed a man on the moon.

@@dtaylor10chuckufarle NASA scientists used a metric system for measurements that they later converted to the imperial system.

Search KZfaq hook ladder race watch the one in Poland and you'll see how it's really done and no safety tether to boot

@11:08

You wouldn't be caught dead on the ladder, but you might be caught dead on the sidewalk if you fell off the ladder.

Touche

😂

Tony Robinson the presenter is scared of heights as well. Madness.

I just remembered that I never actually finished watching all of the episodes 😑

You don't need to say '' Edinburgh Scotland'', just Edinburgh is fine. I know Septicland has an Edinburgh or two, but no-one gives a monkey's about them.

Mike Nichols yep your probably right I also feel that whoever produced this show just pitched it as let’s give Baldrick his own show and label it as tony Robinson shovelling shit

Think Tony is one of the producers he does loads of historical stuff.

Must've been good money due to rebuilding, or at least better than it was.

Think he rote it and was a producer to. Loves his history but that's dedicated.

Where I live bottled water is a must. The water from the tap tastes so bad that it can't even be used for tea of coffee. Oh and god for bid someone have a soda on their food stamps. God knows they paid taxes for years and their families paid taxes and even died for their country. We need that money for bombs and "walnuts and pizzas" The poor should live on basic food like beans; rice; and water. As someone who has been on food stamps, when a person falls on hard times should they be forced to sale their car; clothes; and leave their homes? Should the be force to ride a unicycle; wear a potato sack; and live in a box?

Joshua sounds good to me. You want to eat lobster and steak? You earn the damn money to do it. I make enough to eat more expensive food, but I still eat plenty of ramen and rice and beans because I know how to be smart with money and I live within my means. I shouldn’t be paying taxes so people poorer than me can eat better food than I do.

DrewskiTheLegend fool those of us on stamps do NOT eat fancy foods! Healthy foods are marketed to be smaller amounts for much more money while fatty, chemical laden foods are packaged as "family sized" (still too small) for cheaper. The for we end up much more at risk for sickness and diabetes and cancer. To eat healthy foods on stamps is very difficult having to plan out family meals and kids snacks a month ahead and on frozen foods. Cash hose for bills, clothes, outside gear seasonally, (each year) school gear, also each year, all the various soaps to run a home, tooth needs, medicines, hygienic needs, toilet paper. And that's if there are no animals. Animals cost even more cash wether they are merely pets or farm animals. Taxes are forever being pulled from workers and even with two adults working FULL TIME with only two kids still need both food stamps and Medicaid. Here in Alaska the rent, prosperity tax and transportation is insanely high and the winter, spring and fall are extremely harsh.

The guy said there were deaths. Using from infection tho

+jmm1233 Agreed.

Did that in first series, can't remember which era though.

lordofdarkdudes 1. Stairs. 2. Competition.

But women did the job.

+Rob Robert However it's pronounced, really painful job. *Cringe*

+Rob Robert I'm from England and I say asphalt

+Dumbledoritos I believe it varies from region to region.

Alex-Zander Browne I think it only varies from region to region due to the mispronunciation by some of one word - and one spelling - common to all English-speaking regions. I don't think the folks in Britain are using a different dictionary from the one used in Canada or USA.

I heard it is pronounced Ass Felt in Septiclsnd.

lol

3 shillings is 15p. u wouldn't get a dollar out of a shilling, as one shilling is only 5p.

About 10 too a Dollar, but that was the basic value balance though, it may have been 12 to an old Pound and 10 for the new.

Sorry for the kind of late reply, but I suspect water caddy's place on the list was because of the likelihood of destroying your back during the course of your everyday work. Carrying a heavy load like that dozens of times each day for months or years is almost certain to cause serious, permanent damage. I can imagine the retirement years of the typical water caddy being spent in quite a bit of pain because of their former career. I'm being generous in calling it retirement, by the way; they would most likely have been forced into retirement because of said damage causing them to be unable to continue their jobs. They would have had to find new employment options that they could still do with a very bad back.

Haven't you heard? "Ashfelt" is a new substance invented in Britain to replace asphalt. lol

I thought a tanner was sixpence

Half a crown =2 shillings and sixpence ,Crown five shillings A pound was 240 pennies,20 x 12 pennies per shilling,a tanner was sixpence half a shilling.........simple!

Then you certainly don't know Tony Robinson.... he's a national treasure in the UK and loved around the world

THAT TAUGHT ME! the problem with famous people is there are so many ov them.. you cant tell who half ov em are think about that bubbles. @@jrmckim

one bob/shilling is about 5 pence in todays money

OK and 5 pence is about what in USD ? 5 cents ?

There were twenty (20) shillings per pound. The shilling was subdivided into twelve (12) pennies. The penny was further sub-divided into two halfpennies or four farthings (quarter pennies). 2 farthings = 1 halfpenny 2 halfpence = 1 penny (1d) 3 pence = 1 thruppence (3d) 6 pence = 1 sixpence (a 'tanner') (6d) 12 pence = 1 shilling (a bob) (1s) 2 shillings = 1 florin ( a 'two bob bit') (2s) 2 shillings and 6 pence = 1 half crown (2s 6d) 5 shillings = 1 Crown (5s) so 10 bob equaled about 203 us cents

Intelligence frightens some people, no reason to hate those more intelligent than yourself just because of that

wtf

Fear the unknown, if you must... just don't fear vocabulary.