Drunkard's Cloak (Weird Punishments in History)

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    Medieval Punishments: An Illustrated History of Torture
    By William Andrews
    Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
    By Alice Morse Earle

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  • @billetede2peso113
    @billetede2peso113 4 года назад +910

    Armor: 100
    Speed: 25
    Looks: -11

    • @BruhBuhic
      @BruhBuhic 4 года назад +15

      I would smash.

    • @matthewbrady327
      @matthewbrady327 4 года назад +48

      *-50 fire resistance*
      *+2 strength*

    • @billetede2peso113
      @billetede2peso113 4 года назад +10

      @@matthewbrady327 but 15 more afterburn time due to wooden being inflamable

    • @drewsillytoo
      @drewsillytoo 4 года назад +9

      Less speed since it's weighted

    • @jackcough8155
      @jackcough8155 4 года назад +18

      +50 cold resistance
      -2 barter

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 4 года назад +1144

    When you wear armour because it has a high stat but it doesn’t suit your character very well

  • @duchi882
    @duchi882 4 года назад +2176

    *Weird Punishment in History:*
    1. Kneeling on Legos

  • @eliasredlich3425
    @eliasredlich3425 4 года назад +748

    "First used in Germany" Germany never disappoints when it comes to Alcohol.

    • @blakebramley9171
      @blakebramley9171 4 года назад +7

      Or weird punishments

    • @Eric0225
      @Eric0225 4 года назад +3

      Or bradwurst haha

    • @ManuelTorres-vq8ov
      @ManuelTorres-vq8ov 4 года назад

      You got my vote for president

    • @esaug644
      @esaug644 4 года назад +15

      @NickoLps Humans never disappoints when it comes to sick disgusting and *perverted* thoughts
      Fixed that for you

    • @HexAims
      @HexAims 4 года назад

      And war crimes

  • @ScottOSaurus
    @ScottOSaurus 4 года назад +282

    Drunkards cloak? Sounds like something an alcoholic Harry Potter would wear.

    • @xdshrekt3909
      @xdshrekt3909 4 года назад

      Harry will pretty much hate it when people laugh at him.

    • @darrendavies5704
      @darrendavies5704 4 года назад +2

      Harry Potter and the drunkards cloak 😂😂😂

    • @adamscott7354
      @adamscott7354 4 года назад +1

      Here a Whisky Harry...
      I'm sipping a wot?

    • @SlyCooper1920
      @SlyCooper1920 3 года назад +3

      @@xdshrekt3909 he wouldve spam the killing curse at everyone otherwise. He-who-shall-not-be-named. would've been proud

    • @xdshrekt3909
      @xdshrekt3909 3 года назад

      @@SlyCooper1920 I thought "You Know Who" wants to kill Harry.

  • @derpinglemon4577
    @derpinglemon4577 4 года назад +2125

    3 openings...
    1 on the top of the barell
    1 on the bottom
    2 on the sides
    1+1+2=3????

    • @Alex_Richmond
      @Alex_Richmond 4 года назад +200

      ...top and bottom is already a whole 1....added with 2 with each sides....

    • @bethboone5020
      @bethboone5020 4 года назад +72

      My brain hurts

    • @YourFBIagent_
      @YourFBIagent_ 4 года назад +16

      I have a headache!

    • @jwsndjejek466
      @jwsndjejek466 4 года назад +44

      @@Alex_Richmond one opening on top , one on bottom and two on the sides equals four openings. The barrel has a top and bottom not just one way of entry .

    • @danielrobin7035
      @danielrobin7035 4 года назад +6

      Low iq

  • @jerichamesclammay3107
    @jerichamesclammay3107 4 года назад +1143

    Medieval folk. Making memes before the internet was even invented.

  • @foximacentauri7891
    @foximacentauri7891 4 года назад +86

    "How do we punish people?"
    Rest of the world: give him physical pain!
    Germany: Make him *_Beer_*

  • @mondaymotivator_
    @mondaymotivator_ 4 года назад +1222

    I swear Kim kardashian gonna one day use this as an article of “fashion”

    • @harambejr.4711
      @harambejr.4711 4 года назад +54

      She hasn’t already? Amazing.

    • @mayuyumiwazaki8769
      @mayuyumiwazaki8769 4 года назад +5

      Yup

    • @cannonball666
      @cannonball666 4 года назад +66

      "Does my butt make this barrel look fat?"

    • @mondaymotivator_
      @mondaymotivator_ 4 года назад +4

      cannonball666 lmao

    • @kingjoe3rd
      @kingjoe3rd 4 года назад +11

      what is this 2010? that woman has like 6 kids and goes to church. why are you still talking about her?

  • @YourFBIagent_
    @YourFBIagent_ 4 года назад +274

    Mom: Wear this costume, you’d look great in it
    Me:

  • @mayuyumiwazaki8769
    @mayuyumiwazaki8769 4 года назад +113

    We need this thing back in our daily lives

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 4 года назад +7

      Lol for crazy drink people

    • @DevilDaRebel
      @DevilDaRebel 4 года назад +4

      Mayuyu Miwazaki Yeah, you should bring it back.

    • @firedup692
      @firedup692 4 года назад +1

      Now we have plastic drunkards cloak

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 4 года назад +10

      This is actually a pretty humane yet effective form of punishment.

    • @GeefVis
      @GeefVis 4 года назад +1

      It,s time for the CLOAk timmy!

  • @mreagn
    @mreagn 4 года назад +1133

    Yo you, yes you reading this.
    Good job on getting through most of 2019.

  • @sskuk1095
    @sskuk1095 4 года назад +445

    Ah, can't we all just admit that this is the peak of german engineering?

    • @santiagosoto4808
      @santiagosoto4808 4 года назад +28

      BBBBBBBBBBBAKAMONO GAAAAAAAAAAA!!! DOITSU NO KAGAKU WA SEKAI ICHIIIIIIIIIIIIII

    • @kevin22105
      @kevin22105 4 года назад +7

      @@santiagosoto4808 didnt expect jojo reference there

    • @biohazard724
      @biohazard724 4 года назад +3

      Can I do a longer look at it? Just a peek isn't enough.

    • @thenaughtychristmaself5261
      @thenaughtychristmaself5261 4 года назад +1

      Peak*
      Edit: I’m directing this at sskuk 10.

    • @marthaindahouse1010
      @marthaindahouse1010 4 года назад

      @isoIdier German engineering!

  • @nanitewarrior3690
    @nanitewarrior3690 4 года назад +102

    One day you’re drinking from the keg.
    The next day you become the keg (or barrel).

  • @johnclement189
    @johnclement189 4 года назад +26

    This is actually the best method of torture in the medieval, rather than being eaten by rats alive or being stretched apart.

  • @definitelynotthefbi2501
    @definitelynotthefbi2501 4 года назад +47

    When you are new in a game so you wear every armor that you find

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 4 года назад +29

    I guess you could say....they became the barrel of laughs in their hometown.

  • @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache
    @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache 4 года назад +148

    Silver-lining: Portable toilet.

  • @justinranisate4215
    @justinranisate4215 4 года назад +413

    Everything starts in Germany...
    Hey, now that I got a little bit of attention, can simple history do a video on Sybil Ludington? I think that would be a great vid.

    • @daniellalemanski4996
      @daniellalemanski4996 4 года назад +6

      So true

    • @-Kc1937-
      @-Kc1937- 4 года назад +23

      That's cause the Germans are some of the smartest people on earth. Right behind the English

    • @thebleugaming9444
      @thebleugaming9444 4 года назад +10

      Just like the world wars 😂

    • @corpsemachine6949
      @corpsemachine6949 4 года назад +5

      @@-Kc1937- fuggin Germans man.Great people

    • @Grand-Master-Azrael
      @Grand-Master-Azrael 4 года назад +21

      @@thebleugaming9444 we didn't start one in the first it were some neigbors of germany who shot the prince. And in the second we came later in. The reason everyone thinks we started both world wars is that the winners write the story not the losers.

  • @graeme3023
    @graeme3023 4 года назад +18

    1:10 _"Newcastle Cloak"_ ... that's my home town lol 🤣

  • @ghelmet2701
    @ghelmet2701 4 года назад +75

    When you realize that the barrel his wearing was enough to protect you from any musket bullets, plus those Skermishers would used it too because they are long range units.

    • @graeme3023
      @graeme3023 4 года назад +19

      A wooden barrel wouldn't stop a musket ball.

    • @gamecarnival2024
      @gamecarnival2024 4 года назад

      What? A musket wouldn't bounce off that would it?

    • @graeme3023
      @graeme3023 4 года назад +6

      @@gamecarnival2024 No... it wouldn't

    • @gamecarnival2024
      @gamecarnival2024 4 года назад +3

      @@graeme3023 didn't think so, unless it's like a super barrel or something

    • @CocainePirate
      @CocainePirate 4 года назад +4

      It would either go right through or shatter the wood

  • @chichan9013
    @chichan9013 4 года назад +7

    _Somewhere in the shores of the Caribbean, a pub filled with drunk pirates, one Captain, found a way to sneak a person in a merchant ship._

  • @british-sama7007
    @british-sama7007 4 года назад +62

    I'm waiting for the bees
    NOOO NOT THE BEES

  • @user-ki8ef2uj1r
    @user-ki8ef2uj1r 4 года назад +46

    December: is about to end
    Simple History: barrel boi

  • @DrTran-cf4ih
    @DrTran-cf4ih 4 года назад +60

    Imagine it is used in the 21 century.

    • @elijahcs3633
      @elijahcs3633 4 года назад

      @Joshua Ngau Ajang You-

    • @krepler
      @krepler 4 года назад +5

      1/3 of my city would be wearing this the next Saturday including me 😄 I'll stay home tho so no one knows I'm getting drunk

    • @junmalit6629
      @junmalit6629 4 года назад +1

      thats what you call fashion

    • @senorhace4746
      @senorhace4746 4 года назад +1

      Memes

    • @Sarlasmancranmaji
      @Sarlasmancranmaji 4 года назад +1

      fashiom

  • @basharal-assad5602
    @basharal-assad5602 4 года назад +9

    When your mom asked what you are watching:
    Me: It’s complicated

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 4 года назад +44

    Atelier series be like:
    "Barrel, barrel!"

  • @toucanphoenix1629
    @toucanphoenix1629 4 года назад +3

    Thats a good punishment!!

  • @d-day7567
    @d-day7567 4 года назад +7

    If Donkey Kong would have smashed one of those barrels, he'll only find a drunk guy in it

  • @thecrippledpancake9455
    @thecrippledpancake9455 3 года назад +2

    We definitely need to get this back in the legal system for “severe public intoxication”. I’m talking original specifications.

  • @sco9301
    @sco9301 4 года назад +12

    3:09 this made me a little uncomfortable lol

  • @really.rhino12
    @really.rhino12 4 года назад +5

    You know what they say, you drink from the keg enough, you BECOME the keg.

  • @typicalfella2758
    @typicalfella2758 4 года назад +56

    If medieval people had youtube:
    A PERSON IS WALKING DOWNTOWN WEARING A BUCKET NOT CLICKBAIT

  • @GOOMBABOY123
    @GOOMBABOY123 4 года назад

    Not really sure why but when the guy would walk in the Drunkards Cloak, it would make me chuckle, especially when he’s walking from the front view.

  • @poucent6994
    @poucent6994 4 года назад +10

    'He who drinks from the barrel; becomes the barrel'
    - Mahatma Gandhi (c. 1432)

  • @ronin2387
    @ronin2387 4 года назад +1

    I want to make this my next halloween costume

  • @mondaymotivator_
    @mondaymotivator_ 4 года назад +16

    Nobody:
    Weird Minecraft mods: barrel armor

  • @user-zx2wk7yd9i
    @user-zx2wk7yd9i 4 года назад +1

    Teacher:what are you laughting
    Me :nothing
    My brain:

  • @foopthehoop3103
    @foopthehoop3103 4 года назад +8

    2:07 me waking up my mom to tell her I wet the bed

  • @ilovemuslimfood666
    @ilovemuslimfood666 4 года назад +1

    Reminds me of moments in cartoons where a character is naked and another dude gets all embarrassed and slaps a barrel over them to make them decent.

  • @ghostcreeper243
    @ghostcreeper243 4 года назад +18

    drunk guy: *breaths*
    drunkard cloak:im about to humiliate this man career

  • @dapperfield595
    @dapperfield595 4 года назад +2

    I guess that guy was *barrel chested* huh

  • @junaeidahmed6656
    @junaeidahmed6656 4 года назад +4

    Juggernaut during the medieval ages

  • @testfortester7131
    @testfortester7131 4 года назад +1

    My neighbor needs this

  • @troll925
    @troll925 4 года назад +3

    Somebody: *Kills drunkard with drunk cloak*
    Everyone: What's inside that barrel?
    Killer: "Just red wine inside barrell."

  • @reytiempo7743
    @reytiempo7743 4 года назад +1

    Old time punsihment:drunkards cloak
    Present time punishment:kneeling on legos

  • @sherisheepsworth8432
    @sherisheepsworth8432 4 года назад +6

    Mom: Careful, the food is hot
    Me: Nah
    The food:

  • @hawkshot1276
    @hawkshot1276 4 года назад +1

    You should do a video on the Philadelphia Experiment

  • @jackietang3789
    @jackietang3789 4 года назад +6

    This was peak times my dudes 😂

  • @BUTTERsword
    @BUTTERsword 4 года назад +1

    Everyone’s laughing till an army of men in wooden barrels come Rolling down the mountains and next thing you know you’ve been raided by a bunch of armoured barrel men

  • @victorvargas7927
    @victorvargas7927 4 года назад +3

    When your starting a new RPG but you only have that in your inventory.

  • @v.emiltheii-nd.8094
    @v.emiltheii-nd.8094 4 года назад +2

    This reminds me. One band actually performed in these barrels.

  • @REzado63
    @REzado63 4 года назад +6

    Can you guys do an episode of the boy scout that made a nuclear reactor?

  • @stubb306
    @stubb306 4 года назад +1

    Worst punishment of history
    1.stepping on legos
    2. Stepping on plastic army man
    3. Stepping on plug on ground

  • @veryhistorysmokey5523
    @veryhistorysmokey5523 4 года назад +5

    "Do a barrel role"

  • @Welshman2008
    @Welshman2008 4 года назад +1

    Always associated wearing a barrel from various cartoons

  • @minecartrider7057
    @minecartrider7057 4 года назад +8

    When you realize a wooden bucket is advanced armor

  • @TomFromYoutube
    @TomFromYoutube 4 года назад +2

    Wasn't this a thing on old cartoons? Seems vaguely familiar...

  • @xenomorphexidious9102
    @xenomorphexidious9102 4 года назад +3

    Donkey Kong could throw that one too.

  • @JoshyCC
    @JoshyCC Год назад

    My wife has a VERY debilitating and violent form of alcoholism. I bet if this were still a current punishment, she would not have struggled with the addiction for as many years as she has. I love her, and also her relapses are very damaging to all aspects of her life and relationships.

  • @billetede2peso113
    @billetede2peso113 4 года назад +6

    Ohh i saw this one in the Netflix series "Disenchantment" now i get it

  • @StormLaker
    @StormLaker 4 года назад

    Probably beats being put in a barrel with ONE hole in it as often joked about on ships of that era, haha.

  • @kintsugi5685
    @kintsugi5685 4 года назад +8

    Petition to rename this "Florida Fashion-special"

  • @peradith0163
    @peradith0163 4 года назад +1

    i think i know what i will be wearing for carnaval

  • @mitchellworthington8768
    @mitchellworthington8768 4 года назад +3

    Why did we stop

  • @SFODJ12
    @SFODJ12 4 года назад +2

    I like how you guys used RuneScape music in the very beginning! xD

  • @juniperjercial3211
    @juniperjercial3211 4 года назад +5

    When doing barrel rolls were much easier to do.

  • @Novusod
    @Novusod 4 года назад

    It was also used in the wild west period of American history. Only the barrel was smaller and the guy was usually stripped naked before being put in it. The punishment was usually reserved for gamblers rather than drunkards.

  • @dr.manhattan9177
    @dr.manhattan9177 4 года назад +3

    When all you have is a barrel 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @thecoopinater
    @thecoopinater 4 года назад +1

    I like the three day upload schedule it’s really nice because history.

  • @iftekharulislam9698
    @iftekharulislam9698 4 года назад +6

    3:09 things seem kinda awkward....

    • @alfajorcin
      @alfajorcin 4 года назад

      They induce suffering dont you see it

    • @MomentoHodie
      @MomentoHodie 4 года назад

      I got disturbed at that part

    • @alfajorcin
      @alfajorcin 4 года назад

      @@MomentoHodie often and auccesfully like every tv or video that does not supoort your biases

    • @alfajorcin
      @alfajorcin 4 года назад

      Hipnotic torture. Lucky its not phisical torture that will scar you for life l8ke the spanish barrel.

    • @MomentoHodie
      @MomentoHodie 4 года назад +1

      j j lol

  • @erlycuyler
    @erlycuyler 4 года назад

    Weird punishments....blindfolded walking through a field of RAKES. Lol. Or running a marathon in flip flops.

  • @thekingpug8281
    @thekingpug8281 4 года назад +4

    It’s should be continue coming back soon now There Get there DUI and this too

  • @SirHellNaja
    @SirHellNaja 3 года назад

    This still exists in some military branches. But the reason for wearing a barrel is mostly about uniform e.g. Your instructor isn't pleased with your dirty uniform.

  • @michaelsoulz8447
    @michaelsoulz8447 4 года назад +8

    So this is what it looks like when barely anyone shows up.

  • @hippsthehippo9804
    @hippsthehippo9804 4 года назад +1

    Guy in Barrel
    Medieval people :*_LAUGH_*

  • @latewizard301
    @latewizard301 4 года назад +3

    Now days you get shown on Cops.

  • @100subschallenge7
    @100subschallenge7 4 года назад +1

    3:10 Watch him stare into you soul....

  • @OrbitWithoutOil
    @OrbitWithoutOil 4 года назад +5

    I thought it said Dunkirk’s Cloak...

  • @cacogunky3032
    @cacogunky3032 4 года назад +1

    Drunkards cloak looks like something from a doofenshmertz backstory

  • @realtvgaming8220
    @realtvgaming8220 4 года назад +45

    I can’t believe 2019 went so fast 😔😔😔😔
    Edit:THANKS FOR 45 LIKES THATS A LOT.

    • @turbo682
      @turbo682 4 года назад +1

      Get used to it coz it only speeds up from here.

    • @jackietang3789
      @jackietang3789 4 года назад

      The last Friday of the decade too

    • @johnbriny1126
      @johnbriny1126 4 года назад

      Jackie Tang that’s a lie

    • @jackietang3789
      @jackietang3789 4 года назад

      @@johnbriny1126 nope because next Friday is in the new year

  • @StaleDoritoCrumb
    @StaleDoritoCrumb 4 года назад +1

    Human hand grenades don't exist, they can't hurt you.
    Human hand grenades: 2:54

  • @Number1Irishlad
    @Number1Irishlad 4 года назад +3

    3:17 hey its scp 049 😁😂

  • @SuperColonel91
    @SuperColonel91 4 года назад +1

    Jeez, you get drunk in public now and it's like it's rewarding

  • @NoobBLOX
    @NoobBLOX 4 года назад +4

    _Imagine wearing this barrel in a fashion show._
    *yeah I know it is embarrassing*

  • @JozMkII
    @JozMkII 4 года назад +2

    LOL this is funny for a change! And surprisingly tame, compared to just about all the other historical punishments Simple History has taught us about!

  • @gojira8495
    @gojira8495 4 года назад +24

    Um actually, it’s called fashion

  • @behindthen0thing
    @behindthen0thing 4 года назад +1

    Great video

  • @cadler5885
    @cadler5885 4 года назад +3

    3:00 looks like grenade

  • @lachlanfielding3502
    @lachlanfielding3502 4 года назад +1

    I was just about to go to bed but I guess 1 more video wouldn’t hurt

  • @johnst3313
    @johnst3313 4 года назад +5

    Do drug use in WW2

  • @breakingtoast2255
    @breakingtoast2255 4 года назад

    brief moment of silence at the end expressing the shame priceless

  • @vAqeii
    @vAqeii 4 года назад +34

    I hope my dad gets punished that way

  • @wote2760
    @wote2760 4 года назад +1

    we need this back

  • @flauwvaldutch9287
    @flauwvaldutch9287 4 года назад +3

    Hope y’all had a fun 2019 🥳🤘😈

  • @therealpuzzlecube3123
    @therealpuzzlecube3123 4 года назад +1

    0:58 did I just hear the narrator chuckle under his breath

  • @DraftTheHippies
    @DraftTheHippies 4 года назад +4

    WTF?! 3 views and 16 likes

  • @StudleyDuderight
    @StudleyDuderight 3 года назад +2

    We should do something like this for people who get caught DUI.

  • @coultonelliott4312
    @coultonelliott4312 4 года назад +24

    Probably going to be demonetized because some drunken person had his feelings hurt

  • @nonexistantman5797
    @nonexistantman5797 3 года назад

    100% best Halloween costume. Would wear again