The worst smell I’ve ever encountered was when my friend’s winter coat got soaked in cat piss. Boyyy, we had so much fun holding back our vomit that day. It was the only coat he had for the frozen weather. We actually agreed on burning his coat when we got back to his house, but on our way back we got some powerful detergent. He wasn’t impressed with his cat. I can assure you. LOL
I once met Donald Trump during a Lunch Meeting... There were lots of McDonald's bags and Diet Coke cans. Mind you that this was before he was President. Now when Trump passes gas, the Secret Service is responsible for clearing the room. I was very unfortunate, it was days before my appetite returned and still nothing tastes quite right.
@@Oladavol we already do. New York is vile, I puked the first time I visited. And nearly any Chinese city is worse then anything humanity has ever built.
Yeah, I thank god to live in the 2020 and being put to jail if I go outside cause there's a deadly virus that is killing thousands of people and destroying our economy.
Yes - and the network is still functional despite population growth, high rise buildings etc ... The biggest problems being fatbergs and shaking loose of arch bricks due to juggernaut lorries driving above them ... The extension "super sewers" add to Bazalgette's network, providing some safety catchment of excess volume overflow. They don't replace them ...
Another reason Bazalgette's sewer system is still in use today is because when designing it, he calculated what size it would have to be to service the current population of London, and then doubled it.
I read that he made it 10 x the size required at the time as he predicted a huge increase in the population over the years.The authorities resisted but he won the argument.
Moral of the story: Most governments usually don't do a damn thing to fix the problem until it affects the upper classes or common people get angry enough to revolt (which affects the upper class). Also Engineers at that time already had a solution that had been ready for years and just waiting to be funded.
@@grimsonforce7504 The BLM thing is the start of that, as now it is no longer about race but a movement in response to the COPS' response to the first hints of protest, like "hey wait wtf, cops cant be the strongarm actors of the government, this is supposed to be a democracy not a dystopian oligarchy, and we fund their paychecks with our taxes so wtf"
AyyanOriginal How so? It accomplishes a lot and grabs the attention of officials. It gets the job done instead of acting like there isn’t an issue until there comes to be a point where people are demanding things that should have been enacted a long time ago. So many of your very rights were gotten through riots and protests.
Yes, Ganges is in a very sorry state. But the government is trying it's best to clean up the mess which was the result of the exploitation done by the British as they had left millions of Indians in poverty few decades ago. 😊
The worst smell I've ever encountered was when due to miscommunication at work, I wound up drenched in the contents of my ship's Black Water tank, aka several hundred gallons of a mix of toilet contents from ~500 people, plus the runoff of all the ship's sinks... Not a great day. We now use it as a cautionary tale when training new deckhands.
oh my fucking god i looked in the comments section jokingly wondering if anyone was going to mention the cuyahoga and LO AND BEHOLD, I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED
You guys are all so cute in your blissful ignorance. Our drinking water is not only filthy but toxic in ways that effect the body that humanity never could have imagined until the last couple generations
And also all the folks who keep it working. It may be a dirty and smelly job, but still one of the most important. If those sewers broke/leaked, clogged or what ever the fuck, we'd have some serious trouble.
The nastiest odor I've ever endured was from the air in industrial northern New Jersey in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There were, among other things, chemical factories belching pollution into the air constantly. If this stench had a color it would be a bruised grayish-purple surrounded by alternating bands of neon bilious green and diarrhea brown. Whatever was floating in that air caused my nose to swell shut so I couldn't breathe through it. Mouth breathing means that you don't filter out what you draw into your lungs. It also means that you don't smell the odor, you taste it. They're right when they say that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger if I'm still around to complain about it.
@Ma Kyel it depends on your teacher, really. Highschool history sucked for me. But i had a minor subject of history in college wherein the professor sticks to the curriculum but would always try to nake it interesting by adding facts like these sometimes or he’d search some movies regarding what we’re about to discuss. they need to follow a curriculum/certain topic outline, so i guess least they can do is to present it in such a way that it’s interesting and not just merely reciting the contents of a history book
Ma Kyel My history teacher makes us watch movies or videos and sometimes talk about stories my classmates think it’s boring but I like History is my best subject
The worst smell I ever encountered occurred when I worked at a Wal-mart more than a decade ago. I was a "Floor Maintenance Associate," which is Wal-mart-ese for "Janitor". One of my duties was to scrub the floors. To do this, the location I worked at had a Zamboni style, drivable scrubbing machine. This was nice, as it gave me a chance to sit down and work hard at the same time. All the undesirable substances the machine scrubbed went into a waste tank, along with the soapy water that had been used in the scrubbing. Every time I used the machine, I carefully drained and rinsed the waste tank, which was unpleasant, but bearable. One week, however, I went on vacation. When I got back, I found that the machine had been used, but the waste tank had not been rinsed, or even drained. I expected it to be bad, but it was orders of magnitude worse than I had anticipated. The stench when I opened the tank of week-old Wal-mart floor waste fit Disraeli's description of the Great Stink perfectly! I had to run from the room to keep my lunch from coming back up. I got the manager on duty and had her come into the room. I didn't have to say a word to make my point!
Soon after your dinner, your wife may ask you... Dear, can you take out the trash? (Your reply) YOU cooked it, so YOU take it out! That is an old Rodney Dangerfield joke.
The man that created the sewer system for london was ahead of his time, I mean it's just now getting to the point that it needs to be a bit bigger but he built it like 150 years ago and I doubt anyone thought it would have done such a great job at the time of construction
This still happens in developing countries today, just because they don't have enough money to create proper sewage systems. We're lucky to be born in the locations we were born too
Maybe people in the past are luckier because the flooding that they experienced then is no more worse than the worsening floods that we will be experiencing now.
Rudolph hess actually europeans were considered quite dirty by pretty much all indigenous groups they encountered. keep in mind, at the time europeans showered rarely
"The British sure know how to beautifully articulate something that smells terrible" - immediately follows up with "the river was clogged with lots of bad stuff" XD great contrast there.
@@romanromanov6397 not really. A lot of scientist were Christians. Most of what slowed down Western European knowledge was the downfall of the Roman empire and how everyone would you know destroy everything during wars. Look at the Mongols and Afghanistan for example. The destruction of the Islamic city set us back thousands of years. And brought a end to the Islamic Golden age
@@thatsnodildo1974 Rome was destined to fall. Even if Christianity didn't become the dominant religion in the western world, the system of Roman economy is like a ticking time bomb. Plus a lot of variables like the Huns, Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, that is slowly collapsing the empire. The Roman empire has become too overstretched, and became too difficult to manage. The great thing Christianity did is preserving the knowledge, records and history of the Roman Empire throughout the Middle Ages, that helped restart the Renaissance.
humans lost 6 thousand+ years of history, technology & advancements due to the " Roman NWO" ! which started when they stopped the clock at 00AD , burnt down libraries, poisoned waters & called all other life "pagan" ! .. introducing the philosophy of baby talk & terror .. to present day!
I used to work at an Indian reservation that had over 100 fireworks stands all next to each other. Every one of them had there own portable toilet. During the hot Summer when they came to empty them once a week, the smell it created was pretty epic.
Reminds me of when I used to work at a refinery during the summer months. If the refinery didn’t smell bad enough, Wednesday morning’s would be when the portacans plant wide would be cleaned. The honey trucks would empty into a pit that was at a major intersection near the contractor gate. 🤢 For some reason they seemed to be at peak capacity for dumping as everyone was coming through the gates.
I can’t stop laughing cause all I can picture is someone just walking by minding their business until all of a sudden theres a slight shift in the wind and bam they’re seeing their lunch again!!! 😂😂😂😂
I actually do sewer and water construction ... the worst smell I’ve encountered was tearing out the old sanitary pipes in front of a very old hair salon... all the old hair and whatever else had produced THE worst smell...2nd is digging next to an d cemetery
Worst smell I’ve ever encountered was when I went to my church’s day camp. My stepdad was a janitor for a pretty large church. Basically on the first day of the day camp, they were told to clear out the kitchen for lunch. Unknowingly, they opened the fridge which erupted the most horrible rotting flesh smell I have ever smelled. Turns out, it was old turkey leftover from the Christmas production the year before. They turn the power off to that part of the building each winter until summer camp begins the next year. It had been rotting for a solid 6 months. Fyi this takes place in Alabama. Just imagine the heat and stench coming from that entire wing of the church. I’m gagging just thinking about it.
I love this channel. Your videos just happen to show up right when I am about to go to sleep, which I have no problem with. It's like listening to your grandma reading books for you again.
The worst smell that I have ever encountered was when I helped clean out the house of a hoarder. The smell of decay, carcases of dead animals, food rot, faeces, stale cigarettes, and ammonia was so horrific that I could only remain in the home for very brief segments of time!
Buried in poop? The ground basically is already poop, but like from a lot of organisms. In this case it's just human waste. So its the remainder of a human buried in the trash of human. Noice.
Worst stink I've ever smelled by far was an old fry grease trap in a building my company was demoing. God knows how long it had been there. The thing broke when we were trying to get it out, letting the ooze out. Smelled like vomit in concentrated form.
The worst smell I've ever encountered was when a patients ostemy bag was leaking all over our lobby at work. Probably what the river smelled like during the Great Stink tbh. ☠️
The Thames in London still smells in the summer, and is still pretty polluted and murky; but I can only imagine how much worse it must've been back then o.0
I once spent an entire evening in a Gasthaus in Germany, drinking aged German dark beer, while eating one pickled egg, after another. After I Eventually returned home, I was craving something sweet and the only thing that we had was a plum pie. I ate half of it. The next morning when I got up, I went into the kitchen, sat down and let out a fart so abominably rancid, that it would have ran rats off of a garbage barge. My wife actually threw up on the spot, right into a sink full of freshly cleaned dishes. Epic.
Tokyo's current sewage system vents at street level. In the summer the city in dense places smells like just what it is, 38 million people's turds intermingling.
@@sgt_08x it was made because the house was on Thames, it's to stinky and nothing works to make it not stinky so at the end make a new sewer ig, it succeeded. sorry for my bad grammar.
Having been in the countryside of Eastern Europe in the 90s & encountered latrines for myself, I have plenty of sympathy for what Londoners went through! I smelt one latrine at a time & that was bad enough, but a whole city's worth of sewage, oh my word! So glad & grateful that I live in a country with clean water & sanitation!
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Victor Ponce probably a young 10 year old who doesn’t get enough attention at home, so they look for any type of interaction, but they lack a developed frontal lobe to communicate properly so they get angry instead of learning, so we parents have to teach them patience and knowledge, which they reject because they know everything 😉
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Many places in the world still live under such poor conditions, if not worse. All those that have access to clean, fresh water really are very fortunate.
Your sigh of relief isn't anticipating the fact we're about to reverse to that kind of precarious life... If you don't understand that, you definitely will in a few years.
Americandude0576 Bruh you need to take environmental classes and actually read. You’re part of the problem 🙄 Also even if you dont believe it, a smart person would take preventative measures in the case they are wrong, solely because smart people preplan and smart people dont always think their opinions are utterly correct.
The worst smell I can remember was when I traveled to India. I was walking through the streets in New Delhi; that oppressive heat and humidity, with piles of garbage and raw sewage around us, was awful. It's the only time I have ever come close to throwing up because of a smell.
I am from mountains in the northwest of the United States. I traveled the country only one time and I never took for granted our crystal clear rivers (and even some lakes). Some places the rivers look so disgusting that I couldn't imagine touching them let alone eating or drinking anything from them...
Im loving all the hard work you are putting into producing the vids big thumbs up 👍👍. Would really like to see something from my small but great nation NZ. From our late discovery 250 years ago roundabout, to the signing of the treaty to how we as a nation started. ( Rugby) lol big one, plus or work to protect the southern sea, an just everything u can find out to brake it down. Thanks bro!!
Especially when you consider that on top of the sewage problem there would have been the problem of all the manure from all the horses being used at the time.
Not mentioned here but when Joseph was designing his new sewers he actually made them far larger than anyone else said they needed to be, large enough to fit a population many dozens of times more than Londons current population. Why? because he forsaw London would undergo an enormouse population boom in the coming decades and centuries. This is why it's still in use to this day. There are not many who would have that kind of foresight back in those days/
The first time I EVER heard of the Great stink was on the 5 million pound super sewer 3 part programe that was shown about 2 years ago and wanted more in depth detail, this has covered all areas, thank you
I grew up in Woodbury NJ. Around 1965 the Woodbury creek got pretty putrid for a while there. At one point a whole gang of fish all died, and piled up for us to see and smell. They must have taken care of it, because after that, it was never that bad again.
The worst smell I have ever encountered was people smelling like they haven’t showered for days. I work at a grocery store and have had customers coming in smelling like BO it is disgusting! I definitely don’t think I could live in the 1800s are used to think I wanted to but after seeing how they live I don’t think I would ever want to! It makes me definitely appreciate the era that I live in.
the worst thing i’ve ever smelled are my school’s bathrooms. they literally never get cleaned. they probably do, but only around once every 2 months or so. every time i used it, it had the same smell it always had. wet shit.
The worst smell I've encountered was at a huge dump, a dump truck emptied its trash near us and a viscous ooze poured out and crept close to us. Absolutely revolting.
The worst smell I ever encountered was my niece’s first poopy diaper right after she started on solid foods. I refused to change her diapers after that. Let the parents do it!
The system is creeking now but that doesn't detract from Bazalgette's achievement. The UK regularly has sewage entering it's rivers and coastline. The sewage works at Erith were one of the first places that we had to visit during college.
The worst smell I ever smelled was the bag with my sister’s glasses and jewelry that she had died in. She was in her room 3 days before someone checked on her, and when I opened it the stench rolled out and I I felt the worst gut punch of my life, The stench was unlike anything I had ever smelled, and the idea that she was alone like that, rotting... it haunts me as much as that awful smell.
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u are obsessed with BO and stink
The worst smell I’ve ever encountered was when my friend’s winter coat got soaked in cat piss. Boyyy, we had so much fun holding back our vomit that day. It was the only coat he had for the frozen weather. We actually agreed on burning his coat when we got back to his house, but on our way back we got some powerful detergent.
He wasn’t impressed with his cat. I can assure you. LOL
I once met Donald Trump during a Lunch Meeting... There were lots of McDonald's bags and Diet Coke cans. Mind you that this was before he was President. Now when Trump passes gas, the Secret Service is responsible for clearing the room. I was very unfortunate, it was days before my appetite returned and still nothing tastes quite right.
Can you do a video about being a solder is the Byzantine empire around 900 a.d please. It is my favorite time and I cannot find anything about it.
Stories like these allow me to express how grateful I am to not have been born during those times.
Crazy to think we wouldn't know any difference though. 200 years people might be saying the same about today haha
I'm grateful that we can bath. I had no idea how privileged that is.
@@Oladavol we already do. New York is vile, I puked the first time I visited.
And nearly any Chinese city is worse then anything humanity has ever built.
I’m surprised there is no comment saying OmG I sEeE yOu EvErY wHerE
Yeah, I thank god to live in the 2020 and being put to jail if I go outside cause there's a deadly virus that is killing thousands of people and destroying our economy.
Fact that rome had a sewer system a thousand years before London crazy
civilizations do not follow our concept of time
So did India. What happened?
Mike Keller That should be the slogan for all the reasons London modernized quickly.
When Rome fell it set back the western world a 1000 years
Niso Stannard worse than Naples?
As a kid I thought Dicken's was exaggerating; as an adult I think he was sugarcoating.
He was definitely sugarcoating everything here-
Mmmm, don’t we all love some Great Stinks?
what did he sugarcoat?
Sugarcoating the shit.
Me too
you know when the romans moved into a new area the first piece of infrastructure they built was sewers and toilets, and this show why..
It does make me appreciate the intelligence of the ancient Romans
@@fallonfireblade4404 And Greeks
Et Tu Brute....another SHIT today!#### that was a pun
@@fallonfireblade4404 The heat was an extra incentive.
@@AverageAlien lol racist
The man that created the sewer system, he would be so beyond proud that it's still used today, even hundreds of years later.
@Darkness Light They are updating most of it now so soon will be closing it alot of it as it still empties into the Thames if it overflows
The fact that it would be less than $1-billion today is also remarkable.
until a new problem arrives :D
He also pretty much the forerunner of all sewage systems in the world, contributing to the world’s hygiene.
A hundred? You know about Roman sewers right
Fun fact: When Bazalgette calculated how big the sewers needed to be, he went ahead and made them twice as big.
Safety factor of 2
I like his way of thinking. Better safe than sorry
Yes - and the network is still functional despite population growth, high rise buildings etc ...
The biggest problems being fatbergs and shaking loose of arch bricks due to juggernaut lorries driving above them ...
The extension "super sewers" add to Bazalgette's network, providing some safety catchment of excess volume overflow. They don't replace them ...
Hes a hero!
pun pun fun
Another reason Bazalgette's sewer system is still in use today is because when designing it, he calculated what size it would have to be to service the current population of London, and then doubled it.
amazing
Bazalgette was a genius.
I read that he made it 10 x the size required at the time as he predicted a huge increase in the population over the years.The authorities resisted but he won the argument.
@@joliax1646 agree
@@MarkBrennan thank goodness for those forward thinking people of the past.
Politicians often impede necessary progress unnecessarily.
“Delicious raw sewage” sir I’m gonna have to place you under arrest.
Poor choice of words.
Unsee juice
Wish I was Jared, 19
Why did he say that its making me hungry
😂
Moral of the story: Most governments usually don't do a damn thing to fix the problem until it affects the upper classes or common people get angry enough to revolt (which affects the upper class). Also Engineers at that time already had a solution that had been ready for years and just waiting to be funded.
Completely agree💯💯
TheDarkever Moral not morale.
I wonder when will the common people of my country get angry enough to revolt... 😞
I wonder when the citizens in the US will get up and revolt. Probably never.
@@grimsonforce7504 The BLM thing is the start of that, as now it is no longer about race but a movement in response to the COPS' response to the first hints of protest, like "hey wait wtf, cops cant be the strongarm actors of the government, this is supposed to be a democracy not a dystopian oligarchy, and we fund their paychecks with our taxes so wtf"
I am absolutely stunned that this went on so long. I cannot even fathom living around this and drinking water. Reminds me of the Ganges.
The Ganges is..there are no words to describe it tbh.
The stupidity continues even today. How much rioting in the streets does it take to enact change at government level still!
@@sergeant5848 rioting is the stupidest shit ever being honest
AyyanOriginal How so? It accomplishes a lot and grabs the attention of officials. It gets the job done instead of acting like there isn’t an issue until there comes to be a point where people are demanding things that should have been enacted a long time ago. So many of your very rights were gotten through riots and protests.
Yes, Ganges is in a very sorry state. But the government is trying it's best to clean up the mess which was the result of the exploitation done by the British as they had left millions of Indians in poverty few decades ago. 😊
The worst smell I've ever encountered was when due to miscommunication at work, I wound up drenched in the contents of my ship's Black Water tank, aka several hundred gallons of a mix of toilet contents from ~500 people, plus the runoff of all the ship's sinks... Not a great day. We now use it as a cautionary tale when training new deckhands.
Must've been a shitty day
@@MarloSoBalJr breh
Want in one hand shit in the other takes on a whole new meaning.
@@MarloSoBalJr same shit, different day
*i'm guessing it took more than one bath to freshen up to what would be considered even remotely sanitary and close proximity standards*
"Yeah your river may have stank but we set ours on fire" - Cleveland
We sure did.
What?! How?
@@AmyAndThePup pollution
Imagine your river being so polluted that it caught on fire.
oh my fucking god i looked in the comments section jokingly wondering if anyone was going to mention the cuyahoga and LO AND BEHOLD, I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED
Can we all just take a moment to appreciate our sewer systems?
My civil engineer dad would be proud
yep
You guys are all so cute in your blissful ignorance. Our drinking water is not only filthy but toxic in ways that effect the body that humanity never could have imagined until the last couple generations
@@notthisguyagain2269 not on my island, our water is top notch
And also all the folks who keep it working. It may be a dirty and smelly job, but still one of the most important. If those sewers broke/leaked, clogged or what ever the fuck, we'd have some serious trouble.
The nastiest odor I've ever endured was from the air in industrial northern New Jersey in the late 1940s and early 1950s. There were, among other things, chemical factories belching pollution into the air constantly. If this stench had a color it would be a bruised grayish-purple surrounded by alternating bands of neon bilious green and diarrhea brown. Whatever was floating in that air caused my nose to swell shut so I couldn't breathe through it. Mouth breathing means that you don't filter out what you draw into your lungs. It also means that you don't smell the odor, you taste it. They're right when they say that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger if I'm still around to complain about it.
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well, at that time you probably smelled nazi camps.
@@niranjandesai6766 nah
That sounds awful.. I'm really sorry
I've heard New Jersey is nicknamed the cancer belt.
I wish schools would teach us these things to make history subjects less boring. (at least for me)
@Ma Kyel
it depends on your teacher, really. Highschool history sucked for me. But i had a minor subject of history in college wherein the professor sticks to the curriculum but would always try to nake it interesting by adding facts like these sometimes or he’d search some movies regarding what we’re about to discuss.
they need to follow a curriculum/certain topic outline, so i guess least they can do is to present it in such a way that it’s interesting and not just merely reciting the contents of a history book
Ma Kyel My history teacher makes us watch movies or videos and sometimes talk about stories my classmates think it’s boring but I like History is my best subject
Come on now.....our educational system would never take the risk of teaching something interesting or helpful in life
True stories about lesser known incidents and everyday life and habits are interesting.
Are there teachers that show channels like this in class? Get kids to watch something besides the smelly shit on trending.
The worst smell I ever encountered occurred when I worked at a Wal-mart more than a decade ago. I was a "Floor Maintenance Associate," which is Wal-mart-ese for "Janitor". One of my duties was to scrub the floors. To do this, the location I worked at had a Zamboni style, drivable scrubbing machine. This was nice, as it gave me a chance to sit down and work hard at the same time. All the undesirable substances the machine scrubbed went into a waste tank, along with the soapy water that had been used in the scrubbing. Every time I used the machine, I carefully drained and rinsed the waste tank, which was unpleasant, but bearable. One week, however, I went on vacation. When I got back, I found that the machine had been used, but the waste tank had not been rinsed, or even drained. I expected it to be bad, but it was orders of magnitude worse than I had anticipated. The stench when I opened the tank of week-old Wal-mart floor waste fit Disraeli's description of the Great Stink perfectly! I had to run from the room to keep my lunch from coming back up. I got the manager on duty and had her come into the room. I didn't have to say a word to make my point!
damn!
Ahhh yesss...the exact video to watch whilst I'm eating my dinner.
LOL
Saem. Lol.
It could only be matched by an episode of Kitchen Nightmares
Soon after your dinner, your wife may ask you...
Dear, can you take out the trash?
(Your reply) YOU cooked it, so YOU take it out!
That is an old Rodney Dangerfield joke.
Dinner where you live at?
The man that created the sewer system for london was ahead of his time, I mean it's just now getting to the point that it needs to be a bit bigger but he built it like 150 years ago and I doubt anyone thought it would have done such a great job at the time of construction
Romans had sewer systems 2000 years earlier lol
@@zbychu6392 lots of older civilizations too
Cant believe how distant these things sound but they arent! I'm lucky to be born now for many aspects
This still happens in developing countries today, just because they don't have enough money to create proper sewage systems. We're lucky to be born in the locations we were born too
Imagine the things we do now that people in 100 years are gonna cringe at.
Yeah, it was quite shitty back then.
Yea no Lie. Ugh That made me sick I would not like by there
Maybe people in the past are luckier because the flooding that they experienced then is no more worse than the worsening floods that we will be experiencing now.
So basically up until a century ago Londoners were living in their own filth
So much for high IQ
@@teflonkc713 what are you talking about?
Most of Europe did for centuries
Rudolph hess actually europeans were considered quite dirty by pretty much all indigenous groups they encountered. keep in mind, at the time europeans showered rarely
@@iiastridii Showers were made in the late 1700s.
I've never been able to smell a video but there is always a first for everything
@Evilpimp cruel
@Evilpimp The irony is I watched this video directly after showering but still a nice one
"The British sure know how to beautifully articulate something that smells terrible" - immediately follows up with "the river was clogged with lots of bad stuff" XD great contrast there.
The video maker isnt British lol
it's embarrassing. The Romans had to topped off centuries earlier.
Christianity had slowed down human development by 2000 years. We could be walking on the Moon by now.
@@romanromanov6397 not really. A lot of scientist were Christians. Most of what slowed down Western European knowledge was the downfall of the Roman empire and how everyone would you know destroy everything during wars. Look at the Mongols and Afghanistan for example. The destruction of the Islamic city set us back thousands of years. And brought a end to the Islamic Golden age
@@thatsnodildo1974 Rome was destined to fall. Even if Christianity didn't become the dominant religion in the western world, the system of Roman economy is like a ticking time bomb. Plus a lot of variables like the Huns, Vandals, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, that is slowly collapsing the empire. The Roman empire has become too overstretched, and became too difficult to manage. The great thing Christianity did is preserving the knowledge, records and history of the Roman Empire throughout the Middle Ages, that helped restart the Renaissance.
@Find this video on youtube no their not.
humans lost 6 thousand+ years of history, technology & advancements due to the " Roman NWO" ! which started when they stopped the
clock at 00AD , burnt down libraries, poisoned waters & called all other life "pagan" !
.. introducing the philosophy of baby talk & terror .. to present day!
This is why rebuilding our infrastructure is so critical.
Most infrastructures in the world are in bad shape but we're running out of money
@@VFatalis more printing 😂
@@reasonablerage4370 Hell no, that's exactly ignoring the infrastructure and the method to actually do good and put method.
I used to work at an Indian reservation that had over 100 fireworks stands all next to each other. Every one of them had there own portable toilet. During the hot Summer when they came to empty them once a week, the smell it created was pretty epic.
epic isn't the word I'd use
I'll bet they only sold snakes N sparklers?
Wait Indian, u mean indigeneous indians or ppl from the country of India
Reminds me of when I used to work at a refinery during the summer months. If the refinery didn’t smell bad enough, Wednesday morning’s would be when the portacans plant wide would be cleaned. The honey trucks would empty into a pit that was at a major intersection near the contractor gate. 🤢 For some reason they seemed to be at peak capacity for dumping as everyone was coming through the gates.
Okay, this is epic.
I can’t stop laughing cause all I can picture is someone just walking by minding their business until all of a sudden theres a slight shift in the wind and bam they’re seeing their lunch again!!! 😂😂😂😂
I actually do sewer and water construction
... the worst smell I’ve encountered was tearing out the old sanitary pipes in front of a very old hair salon... all the old hair and whatever else had produced THE worst smell...2nd is digging next to an d cemetery
Worst smell I’ve ever encountered was when I went to my church’s day camp. My stepdad was a janitor for a pretty large church. Basically on the first day of the day camp, they were told to clear out the kitchen for lunch. Unknowingly, they opened the fridge which erupted the most horrible rotting flesh smell I have ever smelled. Turns out, it was old turkey leftover from the Christmas production the year before. They turn the power off to that part of the building each winter until summer camp begins the next year. It had been rotting for a solid 6 months. Fyi this takes place in Alabama. Just imagine the heat and stench coming from that entire wing of the church. I’m gagging just thinking about it.
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Can you imagine if weird history existed in 1858 and someone in London was just drinking some water then watched this
Ask Flint, Michigan
@@MarloSoBalJr or any heavy industrial city?..
*slice me off a glass of fresh(ish) water, if you'd be so kind*
@chico Beer was definitely safer to drink than the water.
This is where the term, "making a big stink" about something started.
I bet so
My daughter said Louisiana in summer smelled worse than the Thames in London. A hundred times worse. I've never smelled either.
You know it's bad when people are literally throwing up on sidewalks
I love this channel. Your videos just happen to show up right when I am about to go to sleep, which I have no problem with. It's like listening to your grandma reading books for you again.
I swear this narrator for these videos is an absolute blast.
Love watching/listening to these videos. ☺️🥰
I was thinking the same thing
"Ignoring the dire warnings of a panicked scientist, seldom leads to anything good." 5:43
The worst smell that I have ever encountered was when I helped clean out the house of a hoarder. The smell of decay, carcases of dead animals, food rot, faeces, stale cigarettes, and ammonia was so horrific that I could only remain in the home for very brief segments of time!
People like that are disgusting!
That's when you just burn it to the ground instead 😂😂😂
I remember when I was a child my friend told me England had a clouds that smelt like farts over it's country and I think she meant this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The whole ground was saturated in London.....try to imagine how london cemeteries were like 🤮
Buried in poop? The ground basically is already poop, but like from a lot of organisms. In this case it's just human waste. So its the remainder of a human buried in the trash of human. Noice.
I think London's sewer system is probably due for another upgrade/repairs now....
It's getting upgrades now. Parts of it leak into the Thames because it still overflows every now and then. Yuk!
Too much Curry and Chips
I think America's sewer systems are too! Too much cheeseburgers and beer 🤣
@@aintnobodyherebutuschicken1418 I can assure you that's not the case lmao.
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens. Actually not the case at all👋🏾 stay blessed
This just shows that when you want something done then all you have to do is make it a nuisance to the rich and powerful.
Worst stink I've ever smelled by far was an old fry grease trap in a building my company was demoing. God knows how long it had been there. The thing broke when we were trying to get it out, letting the ooze out. Smelled like vomit in concentrated form.
The worst smell I've ever encountered was when a patients ostemy bag was leaking all over our lobby at work. Probably what the river smelled like during the Great Stink tbh. ☠️
I empathize. One of my patients vomited faeces because of a bowel obstruction. The smell haunts me still
@@SuperDjdil wow, that's insane I didnt realise your body could even do that
@@SuperDjdil I just threw up in my mouth a little. 😨
@@SuperDjdil ....omg i was thinking of the patient..how utterly horrible it must be !
@shani perera Dear Jesus that is horrid
Breakfast is tasting really good now
Was looking for a video to go with my lunch -- 'hey weird history has a new video up!'
Obviously not a nurse
I don't know why but I imagine someone shouting in their era so loudly saying:
"EVERYONE, STOP POOPING OR WE ALL DIE!!!!"
I love waking up to watching weird stinky stuff! Hahahaha.
Where are you from
Paul Cowlishaw Arizona, USA
russ g , means we’re weird I guess!
@@danielleonfirehernandez5150 cool cool
The Thames in London still smells in the summer, and is still pretty polluted and murky; but I can only imagine how much worse it must've been back then o.0
This was interesting. Can't wait to talk about this with my co-workers at the office or with my family when we go through our day during supper. :D
Oh you're evil 😂
I once spent an entire evening in a Gasthaus in Germany, drinking aged German dark beer, while eating one pickled egg, after another.
After I Eventually returned home, I was craving something sweet and the only thing that we had was a plum pie.
I ate half of it.
The next morning when I got up, I went into the kitchen, sat down and let out a fart so abominably rancid, that it would have ran rats off of a garbage barge.
My wife actually threw up on the spot, right into a sink full of freshly cleaned dishes. Epic.
Outstandingly gross. Ain't life grand?
That's one for the books my friend
Oh I see what you did here, Patrick
Imagine the combustion from this grand fart
Thank you for sharing that.
They had some real hard Thames.
As in 'solid waste'.
hygiene, healthand daily life issues are my top favorite topics from your videos guys!
Tokyo's current sewage system vents at street level. In the summer the city in dense places smells like just what it is, 38 million people's turds intermingling.
😂😂 its a common issue with densed cities
@@luthaeris1 Its really not alot of major cities have very effective systems and or possessing plants
Peach Macabre mostly cause some guys there literally just pee in the street 😔
I like how this channel has similar videos that work off each other to understand ALL of history! Keep up the awesome work
If London’s Houses of Parliament hadn’t been directly ON the Thames, nothing would ever have changed. 😅
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@@sgt_08x it was made because the house was on Thames, it's to stinky and nothing works to make it not stinky so at the end make a new sewer ig, it succeeded. sorry for my bad grammar.
@@sgt_08x that when it only affected the poor people they didn't care I think
If you cringed at least once through this you lost.
I lost many times.
Watching this while having lunch at work.
So far so good
Like 2 minutes in I was fainting from cringing of the pictures of wasting systems
Did you know Jesus Christ died for your sins?
I was cringing while watching this, my husband saw me and asked what the hell was I watching, lol!!
Having been in the countryside of Eastern Europe in the 90s & encountered latrines for myself, I have plenty of sympathy for what Londoners went through! I smelt one latrine at a time & that was bad enough, but a whole city's worth of sewage, oh my word! So glad & grateful that I live in a country with clean water & sanitation!
Smelled
@@danettewelborn5577 I'm a qualified proofreader. "Smelt" is perfectly acceptable in informal settings.
Lord do I appreciate modern sewage systems.
Amen.
More proof that the government only acts when a situation starts to affect them directly lol
Edit: Omg 2k likes thank you all for your understanding sense of humor!!! 🥰
Omg 3k! Nice! Thanks peeps that know a joke ❤❤
@Willem Chastity what even is the point of your comment
Well yeah, why would they act differently than civilians? You just described how everyone on Earth reacts. Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Victor Ponce probably a young 10 year old who doesn’t get enough attention at home, so they look for any type of interaction, but they lack a developed frontal lobe to communicate properly so they get angry instead of learning, so we parents have to teach them patience and knowledge, which they reject because they know everything 😉
True
@Willem Chastity ,idiot !
i love watching this video and getting an Air wick ad. Truly amazing
That drawing of Bazelgette looks like the polluted water spirit in spirited away
I listened more than I watched your videos...... You're the best narrator I have met 🤘👌 I am a fan.
The fact that this happened only 142 years before I was born is scary
I have recently started watching your incredibly informative and entertaining videos. Please continue with these riveting addictive subjects, I’m hooked!
There goes my breakfast....
We should all breathe a collective sigh of relief that we don't live like that now.
Many places in the world still live under such poor conditions, if not worse. All those that have access to clean, fresh water really are very fortunate.
Your sigh of relief isn't anticipating the fact we're about to reverse to that kind of precarious life... If you don't understand that, you definitely will in a few years.
I find it mindboggling that nobody thought dumping sewage into the water you drink was a bad idea. Why not just drink your sewage then?
18 days to solve a problem that people warned about years and years before. SMH.
sounds like climate change
@ climate change is BS
Americandude0576 Bruh you need to take environmental classes and actually read. You’re part of the problem 🙄 Also even if you dont believe it, a smart person would take preventative measures in the case they are wrong, solely because smart people preplan and smart people dont always think their opinions are utterly correct.
@@Americandude-de6zd uh huh, we'll see how you feel in a few decades when resources are sparse.
@@Americandude-de6zd uh huh, we'll see how you feel in a few decades when resources are sparse.
tx for the laughter!! really needed one:)
The worst smell I can remember was when I traveled to India. I was walking through the streets in New Delhi; that oppressive heat and humidity, with piles of garbage and raw sewage around us, was awful. It's the only time I have ever come close to throwing up because of a smell.
Just found this channel. I subscribed after viewing this. I am excited to view previous and new ones.
Thanks for another good one, Stank History!
I used to swim in the Thames as a kid. I was in this water sports club, it never occurred to me to question it
I am from mountains in the northwest of the United States. I traveled the country only one time and I never took for granted our crystal clear rivers (and even some lakes). Some places the rivers look so disgusting that I couldn't imagine touching them let alone eating or drinking anything from them...
Im loving all the hard work you are putting into producing the vids big thumbs up 👍👍. Would really like to see something from my small but great nation NZ. From our late discovery 250 years ago roundabout, to the signing of the treaty to how we as a nation started. ( Rugby) lol big one, plus or work to protect the southern sea, an just everything u can find out to brake it down. Thanks bro!!
This just made me think that living in a big city would have basically been awful until the 20th century.
Especially when you consider that on top of the sewage problem there would have been the problem of all the manure from all the horses being used at the time.
I DETEST big cities now. Then I would have been living alone in a cave
EXTREMELY INTERESTING AND WELL DONE VIDEOS.
Not mentioned here but when Joseph was designing his new sewers he actually made them far larger than anyone else said they needed to be, large enough to fit a population many dozens of times more than Londons current population. Why? because he forsaw London would undergo an enormouse population boom in the coming decades and centuries. This is why it's still in use to this day. There are not many who would have that kind of foresight back in those days/
All of these videos are awesome.!
I smelled this video coming from miles away 🤣
The first time I EVER heard of the Great stink was on the 5 million pound super sewer 3 part programe that was shown about 2 years ago and wanted more in depth detail, this has covered all areas, thank you
The Great Stink inspired “The Bog of Eternal Stench” in the movie Labyrinth. 😆
I've been watching y'alls content for some time now. Thank you for the videos ✌🏼
It's amazing we survived as a species. Imagine having to do the nasty with someone that hasn't bathed in forever. Just.. oh god
When I was married or the few relationships I have been in I insisted the person bathe before any intimacy.
I grew up in Woodbury NJ. Around 1965 the Woodbury creek got pretty putrid for a while there. At one point a whole gang of fish all died, and piled up for us to see and smell. They must have taken care of it, because after that, it was never that bad again.
Man, it stinks here.
Weird History: Not like in London 1858
I love this story...keep up the good shows
I would like to hear a weird history about robots and AI.
If there is enough history.
You described it so well that I could almost smell it myself
The worst smell I have ever encountered was people smelling like they haven’t showered for days. I work at a grocery store and have had customers coming in smelling like BO it is disgusting! I definitely don’t think I could live in the 1800s are used to think I wanted to but after seeing how they live I don’t think I would ever want to! It makes me definitely appreciate the era that I live in.
Yeah same. That was one of the reasons I switched jobs as soon as I could.
Always a great topic to enjoy watching during lunch
This must be embarrassing for people from UK. It’s crazy this happened not that long ago.
What a great and Wonderful CONCLUSION 😊
the worst thing i’ve ever smelled are my school’s bathrooms. they literally never get cleaned. they probably do, but only around once every 2 months or so. every time i used it, it had the same smell it always had. wet shit.
The worst smell I've encountered was at a huge dump, a dump truck emptied its trash near us and a viscous ooze poured out and crept close to us. Absolutely revolting.
The worst smell I ever encountered was my niece’s first poopy diaper right after she started on solid foods. I refused to change her diapers after that. Let the parents do it!
It’s amazing how fast nature can heal itself when we allow it to.
Now imagine the pollution done in the colonies..
The system is creeking now but that doesn't detract from Bazalgette's achievement. The UK regularly has sewage entering it's rivers and coastline. The sewage works at Erith were one of the first places that we had to visit during college.
I gotta give those brits for having strong nasal resistance to stinkiness in the Victorian era
The worst smell I ever smelled was the bag with my sister’s glasses and jewelry that she had died in. She was in her room 3 days before someone checked on her, and when I opened it the stench rolled out and I I felt the worst gut punch of my life, The stench was unlike anything I had ever smelled, and the idea that she was alone like that, rotting... it haunts me as much as that awful smell.
Visited London one time, dirtiest river i have ever seen. Now i am afraid to go to NY and whitnes the hudson river
There are at least fish able to live in the Hudson. The Thames is uninhabitable
It's only full of centuries of accumulated feces, corpses and sludge, what's not to love. Makes me thirsty just typing this
@World Eater There have been fish and dolphins sighted in the Thames
the river is just muddy
@@sinenominee1454 i thought that to people have videos of things being in there i am sure nothing stays there long though.
Love your channel it's awesome