Weirdest Bits Of Victorian Etiquette You Won't Believe People Actually Observed

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  • Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
  • The Victorian era saw the advent of numerous political reforms, social changes and the world’s first industrial revolution.
    However, the Victorians had some other, stranger customs whose common observance died out long ago. These weird bits of etiquette range from the mostly harmless to the straight-up appalling and they paint a pretty clear picture about how far the Victorians were willing to go in the name of what they considered decorum.
    #VictorianEra #Etiquette #WeirdHistory
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  • @Izzy-qf1do
    @Izzy-qf1do 3 года назад +3376

    "Babe, I haven't cheated on you. I've been eating my cornflakes."

    • @srutideka2894
      @srutideka2894 3 года назад +156

      "Then why did you ask the lady next door if you could inspect her necklace? Huh?"

    • @donwild50
      @donwild50 3 года назад +71

      The funny thing is, Kellogg's brother went into business with a guy named Post and made Kellogg's Corn Flakes and added sugar to them to improve the taste...but the Health nut Kellogg detested any form of sugar....and sued his brother. The court found in favor of the brother, deciding that he couldn't be denied the right to use his own name.

    • @yourah-drunk-cow6993
      @yourah-drunk-cow6993 3 года назад +48

      And who’s teeth did you eat them cornflakes with?

    • @Xtensionwire
      @Xtensionwire 3 года назад +27

      @@srutideka2894 *PASSES OUT*

    • @MsDig65
      @MsDig65 3 года назад +14

      Kellogg is Welsh for chicken 🐔

  • @yvellebradley2502
    @yvellebradley2502 3 года назад +1233

    Fainting. Bring back fainting and swooning. Awkward conversation? Swoon. Wanting to leave a boring gathering, swoon. Employer gives you too much work? Swoon.

  • @Sk8ngInDuval
    @Sk8ngInDuval 3 года назад +1403

    “Passing out was an acceptable form of expressing your emotional state.“
    Why is this no longer acceptable?!?! “Shit this is stressful, I’ll just pass out and not deal with it right now” sounds great.

    • @user-gk9dp9mh6m
      @user-gk9dp9mh6m 3 года назад +37

      Ikr!! Passing out is an underrated expression! 🥵

    • @lowrainmadeleine8390
      @lowrainmadeleine8390 3 года назад +48

      @Busy Bodies! Bring back the corsets so I can dramatically faint whenever we'd have an exam!!

    • @sophieruby9135
      @sophieruby9135 2 года назад +40

      @Busy Bodies!
      It wasn't just corsets. Women used fainting to manipulate those around them, often to get attention. Some men loved it because it made women seem weak.

    • @heatherlawrence84
      @heatherlawrence84 2 года назад +9

      Sounds like me with my narcolepsy

    • @brettrobinson2901
      @brettrobinson2901 2 года назад +9

      Hell...I be constantly unconscious at work!😵

  • @joshuamartinez5775
    @joshuamartinez5775 3 года назад +1659

    "Nice teeth, I couldn't help but notice you have my dads smile, god rest his soul."

  • @celinevanruyskensvelde7448
    @celinevanruyskensvelde7448 3 года назад +2713

    During college I had a roommate who loved history. English of this particular century. Now I get why one morning he came in, saw me eating Cornflakes and left chuckling. Now I know why, after 10 years I finally now WHY.

    • @taraelizabethdensley9475
      @taraelizabethdensley9475 3 года назад +37

      Lol

    • @siennapayne9485
      @siennapayne9485 3 года назад +116

      This is the single most underrated comment I have ever seen.

    • @thynylejr4n_m
      @thynylejr4n_m 3 года назад +27

      I don't know if I'll laugh my ass out or just… HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    • @sandygibson1197
      @sandygibson1197 3 года назад +13

      Good story lol

    • @PotterPossum1989
      @PotterPossum1989 3 года назад +27

      To be fair, if you were full of a non-savory food, would you necessarily have a libido?

  • @parkboy8445
    @parkboy8445 3 года назад +2743

    “Two redheads marrying would be a recipe for disaster”
    The Weasleys: 👁 👄👁

    • @myamdane6895
      @myamdane6895 3 года назад +22

      Fucking hell these comments are beyond unfunny.

    • @round5soundsfetchmetheirso827
      @round5soundsfetchmetheirso827 3 года назад +94

      @@myamdane6895 go complain somewhere else then

    • @parkboy8445
      @parkboy8445 3 года назад +56

      @@myamdane6895 almost as unfunny as you are kind :)

    • @myamdane6895
      @myamdane6895 3 года назад +6

      @@parkboy8445 You have no idea what I'm like, how could you say that?

    • @parkboy8445
      @parkboy8445 3 года назад +44

      @@myamdane6895 I may have never met you, but I do know that a person who was nice, would not respond to someone with a mean or hateful sentence.

  • @jenniferbaldini3527
    @jenniferbaldini3527 3 года назад +88

    I was a hospice nurse before I retired. I would always offer to cut a small lock of hair from my patient for the family members at the time of death. I never had anyone decline that offer. Also, often times at the time of death, the patient might shed a single tear. I would collect the tear on a clean, white handkerchief (I carried them with me) and present the 'tear cloth' to the family. Families were very grateful to have a physical memory of their loved ones.

    • @monicarenee7949
      @monicarenee7949 Год назад +8

      I wish I would have done that. My sister styled my mom’s hair while my mom was in hospice and I remember feeling how soft it was. I would have loved to have a little bit of her hair.

    • @LeeLeeCRN
      @LeeLeeCRN Год назад +4

      I am a former trauma 1/er nurse. Couldnt keep up with it due to chronic health issues n after having a family.i now work part time as a home care hospice nurse n a few hrs a week as a dosing nurse at a methadone clinic. Ive been in nursing overall for close to 20yrs n never thought of that going to start asking my hospice patients families about the hair! Thank u!

    • @inthelandofmorethansmall7582
      @inthelandofmorethansmall7582 Год назад +1

      I'm an ER Nurse. I wish I'd thought of this. Thank you for the idea! I think I'm going to start offering this, too!

    • @brokenangel2224
      @brokenangel2224 Год назад +2

      You sound like a Wonderful, Caring, Loving human being. Thank You SO MUCH, for just being YOU. ❤❤❤❤

    • @Circlingthedrain1313
      @Circlingthedrain1313 Год назад

      beautiful thank you

  • @brushbros
    @brushbros 3 года назад +119

    Tape worms make wonderful and easy-to-keep pets. They go where YOU go, and eat what YOU eat. Pigeons are easy keepers too.

    • @Kolibri71
      @Kolibri71 3 года назад +14

      Perfect starter pet for any kid 😂😂😂

    • @Violetbunnyfish
      @Violetbunnyfish 2 года назад +10

      Also they're quiet and don't bark at the mailman, or leave hairballs on the floor. The perfect pet.

  • @vittxrio5198
    @vittxrio5198 3 года назад +1058

    Victorian Era were the concept of Consumerism began! This is were people began buying stuff even if it's useless, unimportant, or plainly because they were baited by the emotional rewards it offers.

    • @thebigpicture2032
      @thebigpicture2032 3 года назад +36

      Affluence from the industrial revolution made it possible.

    • @vcalv9354
      @vcalv9354 3 года назад +10

      Where

    • @jazzycup9274
      @jazzycup9274 3 года назад +7

      Yep, like offering up a dowery to be married without knowing if she was good at yelling at the help to do the dishes. Needed a try before you buy option.

    • @daphne4983
      @daphne4983 3 года назад +29

      Mass consumerism. People always have wanted nice things. But only the rich could afford it.

    • @mhmmhm725
      @mhmmhm725 3 года назад +7

      @@jazzycup9274 thats one strange comparison you made there

  • @lovely1641
    @lovely1641 3 года назад +2262

    Me:" Look at the Victorians....so elegant and cultured"
    This video:"They basically stunk, were weird and wore bits of the dead"
    Me:"so elegant...."

    • @reginalunaraea
      @reginalunaraea 3 года назад +152

      Weird history destroys all my period drama fantasies with all their hygiene videos

    • @lovely1641
      @lovely1641 3 года назад +56

      @@reginalunaraea lol same. Weird History won't let us have nice things

    • @megancrager4397
      @megancrager4397 3 года назад +53

      @@reginalunaraea I think the opposite 😂 I get aggravated with period films where it's not realistic lol

    • @charlottesmom
      @charlottesmom 3 года назад +30

      And had tapeworms! 🤮

    • @thekingshussar1808
      @thekingshussar1808 3 года назад +23

      These were norms practiced by a minority of the Victorian high class society, notoriously the most highest ones. Most Victorians were still elegant

  • @Palmieres
    @Palmieres 3 года назад +2093

    The fact that photos of Victorian times women breastfeeding exist but we have to censor them in 2020 shows we aren't really advancing on a lot of things 🙄

    • @dolphineachonga555
      @dolphineachonga555 3 года назад +199

      We're prudes in a lot of ways compared to early century civilizations like Rome, Greece, Egypt, India, Japan, Sumerians, Mayans, Vikings, Aztecs e.t.c.

    • @Georgeth-kb6rg
      @Georgeth-kb6rg 3 года назад +60

      Absolutely weird indeed

    • @ferocient
      @ferocient 3 года назад +184

      I'm 60 and I can tell you that in the 60s & 70s such things were censored much less than now. The 1980s came along and everything started getting conservative again. What is wrong with such a beautiful natural function as breastfeeding a baby? I am often startled by how prudish U.S. culture remains after all this time.

    • @PPikes
      @PPikes 3 года назад +36

      Actually it does show we've progressed because this is a public channel meant for everyone. It's not totally censored and it's not totally open and showing. It's right down the middle of the road to be equal for everyone. whereas we have an infinite amount of sources of free nudity for those that are in favor of that. Nudity of all types from all types of people and situations. The victorians would've never had that

    • @CeliaDeVeaux
      @CeliaDeVeaux 3 года назад +14

      @Fred Forbes We just love a really ✨Shitty person✨

  • @meiguess6765
    @meiguess6765 3 года назад +110

    I really wish that the mourning clothes were discussed a bit more! Like how they’d sometimes mourn for over a year, and that the longer you mourned the higher you were perceived societally. The black dresses were processed and dyed with chemicals, and would expose the wearer and everyone near them to arsenic, chromium, formaldehyde, ammonia, flame retardants and more.

    • @Circlingthedrain1313
      @Circlingthedrain1313 Год назад +2

      you still around? subject fascinates me. momento mori FTW

    • @meiguess6765
      @meiguess6765 Год назад

      @@Circlingthedrain1313 still here haha

  • @Halbairn
    @Halbairn 3 года назад +1764

    Me and the boys buying out the entire Kellogg's stock in a nearby grocery just to survive No Nut November

    • @Stopsign32v
      @Stopsign32v 3 года назад +52

      If this isn't proof that people get dumber as time goes on I don't know what is.

    • @battack56
      @battack56 3 года назад +5

      K k k@@Stopsign32v

    • @rontia
      @rontia 3 года назад +4

      @@Stopsign32v preach it man

    • @HFFCANADA
      @HFFCANADA 3 года назад +32

      @@Stopsign32v LOL u just proved you're own point bruh. It was a joke u clearly didn't get

    • @Oleanderlullaby
      @Oleanderlullaby 3 года назад +9

      This cracked me up. Kellog also believed circ would remove sexual desire as well hes who started the cutting babies at birth regularly thing

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 года назад +917

    The times where you can threaten someone by saying *"You need some manners!"*

    • @chuck2703
      @chuck2703 3 года назад +28

      *faint *

    • @johnnys3487
      @johnnys3487 3 года назад +3

      ANDREW JOHNSON WAS A BETTER PRESIDENT LMAO

    • @cherry_puffles
      @cherry_puffles 3 года назад +9

      @@chuck2703 how could you? * gets a heart stroke *

    • @garretth8224
      @garretth8224 3 года назад

      @Native Marauder Because Abe Lincoln isn't as controversial these days in comparison to the confederacy and its symbols.

    • @garretth8224
      @garretth8224 3 года назад +14

      @Native Marauder They were both good in different ways. Abe didn't really focus on the economy, he was trying to end the war that was pitting Americans against each other. Its far easier to focus on economical changes when you don't have to deal with a war.

  • @DammnDeejay
    @DammnDeejay 3 года назад +686

    I wish I could live long enough to hear what people in the next 5000 years have to say about our generation now. They’re gonna completely shred us later 😂

    • @gdubbs680
      @gdubbs680 2 года назад +56

      You don't have to wait 5000 years, only about 120 years

    • @DammnDeejay
      @DammnDeejay 2 года назад +36

      @@gdubbs680 at least I won’t be around to witness the roast session 🤣

    • @jamelbunny5732
      @jamelbunny5732 2 года назад +8

      I wonder what they would have to say about us.

    • @flyingdragon6275
      @flyingdragon6275 2 года назад +8

      maybe wait for 60 more years

    • @Shortstacksandticktacks
      @Shortstacksandticktacks 2 года назад +20

      They're going to say manners were considered old-fashioned and unnecessary, and we didn't understand how to use the internet.

  • @alicewilloughby4318
    @alicewilloughby4318 3 года назад +18

    1:22 - I'm amazed he was allowed to say that out loud!
    4:52 - Making love on a flight of stairs sounds like a good way to have a bad fall, never mind an unhealthy kid!
    6:40 - We used to have an old Victorian hair wreath. It had many different colors of hair from many different long-dead relatives. A couple of friends, when I told them what it was, said, "Ew, that's so gross, how can you stand to have that on your wall??" but I'd grown up with it and had gotten used to it long before it ever occurred to me that it could be considered "gross". My mom grew up with it too and she and her siblings referred to it as, "the grand old Hairloom". (Like heirloom, if anyone didn't get it.)

  • @curiousworld7912
    @curiousworld7912 3 года назад +223

    I once visited a museum that had a collection of 'memorial hair art', and I have to admit, they were not only beautiful, but the intricacy with which they were fashioned was amazing.

    • @annieoakley2925
      @annieoakley2925 2 года назад +5

      I used to think the hair jewelry was gross. Now I feel that it might be comforting to have a small locket or bracelet with my mother's hair.

    • @curiousworld7912
      @curiousworld7912 2 года назад +7

      @@annieoakley2925 I think we Americans have lost a lot of appreciation for 'memento mori', but I've come to view it as comforting, and not at all grotesque. :)

    • @metarcee2483
      @metarcee2483 8 месяцев назад +1

      I've seen one that was a necklace with a heart shaped knot of hair as the pendant. It was pretty cool.

  • @Roseyfinchartworks
    @Roseyfinchartworks 3 года назад +887

    I don’t think the hair locker is that weird. My mom has a piece of hair from my first haircut in her jewelry box.

  • @StargazerSkyscraper
    @StargazerSkyscraper 3 года назад +269

    There's a big difference between "etiquette" and "trends". Etiquette is where you put the silverware on the table. Trends are most of what's in this video, lol.

    • @kromos.mp451
      @kromos.mp451 3 года назад

      WHAT DO YOU MEAN LOL STOP IT

    • @CassidyStarke
      @CassidyStarke 3 года назад +13

      Most of them are though.
      Etiquette
      the set of rules or customs that control accepted behavior in particular social groups or social situations

    • @StargazerSkyscraper
      @StargazerSkyscraper 3 года назад +17

      @@CassidyStarke The key point in the definition of "etiquette" is that it is a set of rules, customs that have been designed to control acceptable behavior. Etiquette is what most of us think of as manners, how to be a good host, a good neighbor, etc. It's things like knocking before entering the bathroom, not putting your elbows on the table while you eat, or not wearing bright colors to a funeral.
      "Trends" are things that are popular or socially accepted at the time, things that are in fashion or make a person seem more popular, educated, attractive, etc. by the partaking. Most trends do not last very long and are not dictated by social rules, but by social interest.
      Using human hair in fashion accessories, eating cornflakes, consuming tapeworms for weight loss, using lard or arsenic as beauty products; these are all things that were popular (or at least a fad) in some parts of the world at the time. Think of the people in the 80's who wore crop tops, teased up their hair, wore shoulder-pads, and thought "Aids" was a good name for a chocolate diet candy. Nobody thought you were an asshole for not wearing a crop top or styling your hair more plainly. Maybe they'd think you were a square or uncool, but that's about it.
      Same difference. Trends, not etiquette.

    • @CassidyStarke
      @CassidyStarke 3 года назад +7

      @@StargazerSkyscraper
      So you’re building your whole argument on “what most of us think of”
      My comment is the by the Cambridge dictionary.
      Etiquette aren’t always about manners. They’re also about customs (see definition) the at you are expected to participate in if you’re part of a certain group.
      Most of the things seen in the video were costumes not trends.

    • @StargazerSkyscraper
      @StargazerSkyscraper 3 года назад +4

      @@CassidyStarke No, I'm not building my argument on "what most of us think of" and I'm not discounting the Cambridge definition of the word "etiquette". In fact, I was agreeing with it, and explaining why it proves my point and not yours. You simply seem to be misunderstanding or willfully misrepresenting the Cambridge definition (and what was said in my comment just now) because, for some reason, I guess you're really interested in defending the virtue of some random list video, LOL.

  • @sUjU91
    @sUjU91 3 года назад +76

    Given my back and staring problems, I’m beginning to suspect I was made on a flight of stairs 🤔

    • @ortiz4273
      @ortiz4273 2 года назад +3

      🏆

    • @cicin9313
      @cicin9313 2 года назад +2

      👍😂

    • @corinnepmorrison1854
      @corinnepmorrison1854 2 года назад +3

      That is too funny!! I like your sense of humor!!

    • @dgeneeknapp3168
      @dgeneeknapp3168 2 года назад +1

      I have scoliosis pretty bad and wear trifocal glasses. Lord only KNOWS where I was made. 🤔🧐

    • @louise.x03
      @louise.x03 Год назад

      stairing problems T.T

  • @LadySanako
    @LadySanako 3 года назад +634

    Actually the nipple protectors still exist today, but they are more to protect against injuries in women who are breastfeeding. And they are made of silicone.

    • @mommyrainbow8940
      @mommyrainbow8940 3 года назад +27

      This is so true! I even used one whenI had my first child. Helps a lot!

    • @iThiink
      @iThiink 3 года назад +18

      I thought they had tassles and were made for shaking what your momma gave you 😅

    • @ycl9234
      @ycl9234 3 года назад +8

      It's not that popular in the pharmacy here in malaysia. Probably the high birthing group here (endogenous group) are more hardy

    • @LadySanako
      @LadySanako 3 года назад +6

      I live in Germany, where it actually happens more often now. It makes it easier for the mother and the child to breastfeed.

    • @TanviPurohit86551
      @TanviPurohit86551 3 года назад

      Hi be to

  • @staysee1709
    @staysee1709 3 года назад +146

    The nipple shields are still in use today, typically made from silicone as a shield for injured nips or to help baby latch better. Even the theory behind the pooling of milk is correct, breast milk does actually aid in healing and soothing tissue. So they weren't far off other than the lead 😆

    • @thomasag2765
      @thomasag2765 3 года назад +1

      The more we know 🤘🏼😅

    • @demorik6794
      @demorik6794 3 года назад +7

      They'll probably know some negative effect from silicone 150 years from now. Lol

    • @johnbyrd7400
      @johnbyrd7400 2 года назад +3

      The silver part might not be such a bad idea either as long as it's actually silver. But if having a silver tongue means your mouth tells lies easily does having silver nipples mean the boobs lie easily?

    • @user-pu4bk7bf1g
      @user-pu4bk7bf1g 4 месяца назад

      T m I

  • @eyesofthecervino3366
    @eyesofthecervino3366 3 года назад +28

    Real talk: asking someone to take their necklace off so you can look at it is way, _way_ more polite than just abruptly leaning into someone's personal space and staring intently at their chest.

    • @llyn5759
      @llyn5759 Год назад +2

      Or worse, actually trying to touch it and hold it up to see.

    • @eyesofthecervino3366
      @eyesofthecervino3366 Год назад +2

      @@llyn5759
      "May I?" *grabs at throat*

    • @llyn5759
      @llyn5759 Год назад +1

      @@eyesofthecervino3366 😭 i just spit out my coffee lol

  • @brigetteuili2391
    @brigetteuili2391 3 года назад +3

    Shiiiit, I swoon every other day, when I see my bills come in 😂

  • @scottnotpilgrim
    @scottnotpilgrim 3 года назад +500

    Always look forward to Weird History uploads

  • @TheMsWilliamsShow
    @TheMsWilliamsShow 3 года назад +86

    I'd love to just pass out when someone gives me bad news. "zoom call in 10 minutes" and just pass out for the next 2 hours #goals

  • @sstritmatter2158
    @sstritmatter2158 3 года назад +54

    One thing they did get right was building solid and lasting structures. I own a Victorian era home of Italian style and it's as strong today as it was over 120 years ago when it was built. She's three brick width thick, 8"x8" timber beams, yellow pine flooring. She's strong and beautiful. I spent $14,000 this year renovating it from decades of neglect and she came out better than ever despite years of neglect - a testament to her Victorian era builders and craftsmen.

    • @cristinad5398
      @cristinad5398 2 года назад +9

      You know you love your home when you use the pronoun SHE to describe her 😅

    • @annieoakley2925
      @annieoakley2925 2 года назад

      Only $14K?? Seems like you couldn't get the house painted or put in a new kitchen for that amount of money. Sounds like a lovely place, though

  • @kyriljordanov2086
    @kyriljordanov2086 3 года назад +15

    I remember my grandma always wearing black for decades after her husband died but she was from Eastern Europe. She would still wear a black headscarf when she left the house. It was still common with the old women in the 80's and they generally never got remarried.

  • @mr.beetle1589
    @mr.beetle1589 3 года назад +726

    Imagine asking a girl to remove her necklace to observe its beauty in today's era .... 😂😁😂😀😁😁😂😀✌️

    • @jaelge
      @jaelge 3 года назад +77

      Even to this day, I would consider it more polite and respectful than simply gawking at someone´s neck, who may be taken aback or embarrassed by it. It also shows deference to their spouse, boy or girlfriend, or parent that may be present. Also, there exist men that are all too glad to punch someone out if they think they´re being too familiar with or flirting with their wife.

    • @daidai2636
      @daidai2636 3 года назад +26

      Ran off on da plug twice 👨🏿‍🦯🏃🏿‍♂️👨🏿‍🦼🤣🤣

    • @roninja6929
      @roninja6929 3 года назад +76

      So by that logic if I wanted to admire a Victorian chick's dress I could ask her to remove it?

    • @mikesharon2177
      @mikesharon2177 3 года назад +18

      @@roninja6929 exactly lol

    • @trippyboi91
      @trippyboi91 3 года назад +1

      @@jaelge frfr 😂

  • @ajaylet8466
    @ajaylet8466 3 года назад +30

    Passing out to let others know what’s on your mind is such a mood.

  • @violetopal6264
    @violetopal6264 2 года назад +9

    The hair thing... Keep in mind this was from before photography and is actually a lot older than the victorian eara. People wanted a way to remember loved ones just as much as we do and paintings were expensive.

    • @garycarpenter2980
      @garycarpenter2980 Год назад

      Remember there are paintings that are"attached"and or it got a little friend that is holding on to the picture 🖼️ if you get one look into the background

  • @janethenry1405
    @janethenry1405 3 года назад +14

    I would love to see a video on weird Victorian inventions! One good one is the bustle chair; a combination of a bustle and a chair in the 1880's.

  • @youroneblackfriend6321
    @youroneblackfriend6321 3 года назад +213

    Imagine turning this on when your parents walk in thinking it will be clean...

  • @AveryTalksAboutStuff
    @AveryTalksAboutStuff 3 года назад +169

    The tapeworm thing made me think of that episode of The Office where Creed gave Kelly a tapeworm. 😂

    • @RosiePosey5150
      @RosiePosey5150 3 года назад +3

      Made me think of house.

    • @hiyabuddy7
      @hiyabuddy7 3 года назад +9

      "That wasn't a tape worm" 🤣

    • @ediciushawthorne7389
      @ediciushawthorne7389 3 года назад +2

      She said.. I bought a tape worm from creed and swallowed it..camera pans*.. that wasn't a tape worm

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 3 года назад +5

      *there was an episode of the Twilight Zone (from 1988 season 3 episode 7) called The Hellgramite Method in which a tapeworm(ish) creature was ingested that totally removed any effects and therefore the enjoyment a person experienced from drinking...the drawback being that the creature once consumed feeds on the alcohol and will continue to grow and eventually kill its host but can be forced into hibernation if the person stops drinking but the withdraw will be unbelievably painful but effective...if the person ever starts drinking again the creature will reawaken and start growing again...a great if not somewhat unnerving episode..you can find it posted on yt)*

    • @destree6348
      @destree6348 3 года назад

      Reminded me of an Untold Stories of the ER episode I saw 🤢

  • @tariaurora9276
    @tariaurora9276 3 года назад +14

    I think we should bring back passing out... perfect way to avoid awkward situations 😝

    • @corinnepmorrison1854
      @corinnepmorrison1854 2 года назад

      It would be more fun to cause others to pass out/faint...😏

  • @justme2086
    @justme2086 3 года назад +20

    There’s a Greek saying that goes “you have a tapeworm in your stomach” when someone eats too much! I guess back then this phrase would be literal ...😂

    • @dgeneeknapp3168
      @dgeneeknapp3168 2 года назад

      I used to love when one of the 3 stooges would order burnt toast and a rotten egg to eat. They'd say they had a tape worm, and it was good enough for him. That always cracked me up.

  • @JenniferMenendez522
    @JenniferMenendez522 3 года назад +119

    As a kid, I always wished that I had lived in Victorian times. Mind you, I also wanted to be a farmer and a Detroit Lions cheerleader. 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @vittxrio5198
      @vittxrio5198 3 года назад +12

      Living in Victorian as a woman is a pain in the ass. Oh wait, living in Victorian Era was *generally* pain in the ass.

    • @mikitz
      @mikitz 3 года назад +24

      @@vittxrio5198 Living generally in any era in the past would be a pain in the ass for anyone living today. No matter what they say, we're all way better off now than ever.

    • @SearchIndex
      @SearchIndex 3 года назад +4

      I thought I was born in the wrong time because my mother was very victorian and raised us as such

    • @truthbetold6011
      @truthbetold6011 3 года назад +1

      what?

    • @Lil-io7zb
      @Lil-io7zb 3 года назад +1

      @@mikitz not if you went back to the 80s and 90s.

  • @laschellemendes1687
    @laschellemendes1687 3 года назад +90

    This channel makes learning fun

  • @eacalvert
    @eacalvert 3 года назад +4

    Actually nipple shields are still used today but tend to be made of medical grade silicon. I used one when nursing my son. They can be used to protect sore or chapped nipples, or if a woman has inverse nipples (ie they sort of go instead of out when aroused or nursing) it can help to midegete the situation. This can help the baby to latch. Nipple shields can also be used for babies that may be a slightly premature and have trouble getting a latch.

  • @barrishautomotive
    @barrishautomotive 3 года назад +74

    Ok, I'm going to be that guy. "Stair" and "Stare" are homophones, not homonyms. They sound the same, but are spelled differently.

    • @nozecone
      @nozecone 3 года назад +4

      No, they can be called homonyms as well.

    • @stillhere1425
      @stillhere1425 3 года назад +2

      Thank you, That Guy.

    • @stillhere1425
      @stillhere1425 3 года назад +2

      @@nozecone no they cannot because they don’t have the same NAME.

    • @nozecone
      @nozecone 3 года назад +4

      @@stillhere1425 I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. But, here's the OED definition of 'homonym', FYI: "Each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins."

    • @theuniverseisme432
      @theuniverseisme432 3 года назад +3

      @@nozecone you’re right. The definition says spelling OR pronunciation.

  • @katelamb4073
    @katelamb4073 3 года назад +18

    I am just gonna start fainting now whenever I hear something upsetting.... I will also make sure to let out a dramatic gasp when I do. LOL🤣🤣🤣

  • @youroneblackfriend6321
    @youroneblackfriend6321 3 года назад +136

    0:14 I don’t why my brain immediately went to saying “that’s a glory hole for feet” I think I have a problem.

    • @gfinnstrom
      @gfinnstrom 3 года назад +1

      no problem being normal love it

    • @chloevaughn9755
      @chloevaughn9755 3 года назад

      I-

    • @PlanetJ32
      @PlanetJ32 3 года назад +1

      LMAOOOO

    • @valalava1
      @valalava1 3 года назад +13

      I thought the same thing and I was hoping they would address it. If it's not that then what is it?

    • @steven401ytx
      @steven401ytx 3 года назад +3

      Literally dead. Rotting. Putrescent and bloated. Crows ate my eyes and I'm full of maggots. Soiled myself. Literally, literally dead.

  • @tym0tym
    @tym0tym 3 года назад +237

    The weirdest thing is that in 21st century you censored 19th century photos of breastfeeding mothers. o.O

    • @MFLimited
      @MFLimited 3 года назад +45

      Truth. We clearly have no business laughing at Victorians if we think breastfeeding is somehow pornographic.

    • @barrybbenson2439
      @barrybbenson2439 3 года назад +49

      It's because RUclips censorship, don't blame him blame RUclips for threatening to take his income because he showed a woman feeding her newborn

    • @PPikes
      @PPikes 3 года назад +3

      @@MFLimited the victorians would've never had this shown in as public a place as this. And it's right in the middle of the road in terms of what it shows, it's not fully censored nor fully showing... It's meant to be a compromise so that everyone feels safe. Plus nudity and full view breastfeeding is in full abundance in an infinite number of other places even on RUclips. That in itself shows a more progressive attitude than the victorians

    • @DSDaly
      @DSDaly 3 года назад +15

      @@PPikes breastfeeding was not seen as taboo in Victorian times and you certainly could do it in public with lots of people around. It wasn't until wasn't until formula became the norm that people got weird about it.

    • @Violetbunnyfish
      @Violetbunnyfish 2 года назад +1

      It's because of RUclips rules

  • @vfjungle
    @vfjungle 3 года назад +4

    This channel does such a good job with quick historical bits. Let’s see more about beauty through the ages .

  • @pavladavlas
    @pavladavlas 3 года назад +199

    Kellogg’s: the official meal of No Nut November!

    • @ScarlettM
      @ScarlettM 3 года назад +1

      What is "No Nut November"? Why "November"?

    • @low-keyrighteous9575
      @low-keyrighteous9575 3 года назад

      @@ScarlettM lol .. this dude doesn't know . He copied his comment from someone else

    • @gaggymott9159
      @gaggymott9159 3 года назад

      @@ScarlettM Onomatopoeia, I'd suggest...No nut April doesn't really sound the same....

  • @maryhildreth754
    @maryhildreth754 3 года назад +556

    These arent etiquette. They are interesting but would be called customs or beliefs rather than etiquette.

    • @tiamarie6719
      @tiamarie6719 3 года назад +17

      Yes, I agree with that. Except for it being seen as obscene to express sexual desires, even if someone is not being creepy about it.

    • @Deltadivaix
      @Deltadivaix 3 года назад +2

      Agree.

    • @umarb7325
      @umarb7325 3 года назад +20

      they are customs steeped in pursuit of etiquettes. You are using a limited view of the term etiquette

    • @lindamaemullins5151
      @lindamaemullins5151 3 года назад +1

      Yep

    • @lindamaemullins5151
      @lindamaemullins5151 3 года назад

      @@umarb7325 perhaps adaptation 🤔

  • @diamondtiara84
    @diamondtiara84 3 года назад +5

    I read about a Victorian couple who, when their little girl died, had a wax doll made to look just like her, dressed the doll in her clothes, and had some of her hair cut off to make a wig for the doll. That's really weird!

  • @AtaMarKat
    @AtaMarKat 3 года назад +10

    Can’t believe y’all left out that so many dentures were supposedly made with battlefield scraps that the British called them Waterloo Teeth for a while.

  • @t_albino
    @t_albino 3 года назад +24

    Love how the Arsenic Complexion Wafers screams that its GUARANTEED ABSOLUTELY SAFE HARMLESS TO ANYBODY just to erase any doubts customers have 🤣

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 3 года назад +7

      *just like what Lorillard Tobacco did 60 years ago when it introduced Kent cigarettes, between March 1952 and May 1956, Smokers of that era puffed their way through 13 billion Kents whose patented ‘Micronite” filter contained a particularly virulent form of asbestos in the name of safety and refreshing flavor enhancement of tar and nicotine....yum!!!!*

  • @Alex-ms9em
    @Alex-ms9em 3 года назад +30

    I love videos of the Victorian times! There aren’t many on RUclips so I’m glad you do them!!

    • @mgthestrange9098
      @mgthestrange9098 3 года назад +4

      I subscribe to a channel called fact feast where the narrator reads journals and reports from the time. It’s usually about life on the streets and in the slums. It’s a small channel and worth supporting.

    • @Alex-ms9em
      @Alex-ms9em 3 года назад +3

      @@mgthestrange9098 I’ll definitely check it out thank you!

  • @jeremyheartriter2.063
    @jeremyheartriter2.063 3 года назад +6

    It's about time we bring back the trend of fainting 🤣

  • @pamelaeversole6050
    @pamelaeversole6050 3 года назад +2

    Been binge watching & lovin it !!
    I will go forth to share the knowledge. 😆No joke, y’all are great & I appreciate the videos. Thank you!

  • @darkezt1
    @darkezt1 3 года назад +141

    ok that voice just makes you believe whatever he is saying, he ever jumps on the ancient aliens channel WE WILL ALL BELIEVE

    • @garretth8224
      @garretth8224 3 года назад

      Which he won't ever do.

    • @monix6907
      @monix6907 3 года назад

      I turned off because of The voice

    • @gohawks3571
      @gohawks3571 3 года назад

      Aliens

    • @monix6907
      @monix6907 3 года назад

      @@gohawks3571 non human life forms artificial intelligence and it's getting boring

    • @gohawks3571
      @gohawks3571 3 года назад

      @@monix6907 Geez, sorry

  • @kavyareddy8711
    @kavyareddy8711 3 года назад +120

    I just hope tiktok doesnt become our representation in history.... man, they would have a laugh 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @violetdusk1968
      @violetdusk1968 3 года назад +11

      I doubt it will. Look how technology changes at one time all people had was the radio. They even had pretty much television shows that were just audio. Now we have youtube. So I think as technology changes people probably won't even be able to see tiktok.

    • @PianoGesang
      @PianoGesang 2 года назад

      TikTok is from a communist hellhole. Why would anyone in his right mind install it let alone be using it. Delete it and don't look back unless in remorse.

  • @altair5240
    @altair5240 Год назад +3

    My dad is a keen metal detectorist in the Scotland, whilst metal detecting in a field one day he actually found a in-tact locket with hair in it, the strands still intricately woven 100+ years after it had been lost!

  • @allandavis8201
    @allandavis8201 3 года назад +65

    Having a locket containing your loved ones hair isn’t weird, I think it’s just a sentimental act of someone in mourning, and a way of still feeling close to your love. All the other slices of Victorian etiquette are really very weird, but not really surprising, after all the Victorian era was the era that ushered in today’s etiquette standards. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 3 года назад +146

    I'm an atheist but I grew up Seventh-day Adventist and we heard a lot about Dr. Kellogg, many years later I found out that he was a eugenicist and racist. The things you find out when you have an opportunity to do research.

    • @Blazemoth
      @Blazemoth 3 года назад +11

      The man was crazy.

    • @TheJamieRamone
      @TheJamieRamone 3 года назад +16

      He was also NOT a doctor.

    • @darralpeoples6211
      @darralpeoples6211 3 года назад +28

      A racist in the 1800s? You must be joking.

    • @momolee5262
      @momolee5262 3 года назад +1

      @@darralpeoples6211 ....

    • @jesslynn3182
      @jesslynn3182 3 года назад +18

      Women were also treated for hysteria. Look it up...particularly as we are looking at the Victorian era. I’m so surprised it didn’t come up! Pun intended for those in the know!

  • @ohnoajellyfish
    @ohnoajellyfish 3 года назад +66

    You know... I can't make fun of any of the "health and beauty" tips here given what we're willing to put ourselves through nowadays. 😅

    • @violetdusk1968
      @violetdusk1968 3 года назад +1

      Yeah sucking the fat right out of your body sounds pretty horrible.

    • @jassewalton1768
      @jassewalton1768 3 года назад +3

      Brazilian waxing springs to mind!

    • @rat3367
      @rat3367 3 года назад +4

      Brazilian butt lifts, lip fillers, rhinoplasty and breast implants come to mind.

    • @duolingoowl8207
      @duolingoowl8207 3 года назад +1

      Well some people removed their ribs for beauty

    • @Jacob_Overby
      @Jacob_Overby 2 года назад

      weirdos tbh

  • @hooligan3821
    @hooligan3821 3 года назад +5

    I love the idea of mourning jewelry. Im planning doing it for my pets, loved ones and when i die having some made for my surviving family and friends. And having my tattoos cut off and preserved for either my boyfriend or mom just to freak her out.

  • @MsYunaFires
    @MsYunaFires 3 года назад +5

    I'd love an episode on all the horror icons - Dracula, Frankenstein, Dorain Gray, Jekyll/Hyde - and their authors!

    • @corinnepmorrison1854
      @corinnepmorrison1854 2 года назад +3

      I have read all of those novels... Enjoyed them all!! The movies often strayed too far from the books’ plots...

  • @deangeloellis729
    @deangeloellis729 3 года назад +9

    That hand that said "STOP" had me laughing a bit too hard.

  • @blynn7053
    @blynn7053 3 года назад +56

    Funny to see a Kellogg’s commercial during this lol

    • @jaretharneberg1258
      @jaretharneberg1258 3 года назад

      R.I.P jay Kellogg 11/15/2020. Smokem if you gottem

    • @rolltideroll8458
      @rolltideroll8458 3 года назад

      @@jaretharneberg1258 what

    • @CamoCanary
      @CamoCanary 3 года назад

      No you didn’t

    • @albertwells8503
      @albertwells8503 3 года назад +4

      I noticed that too. Unintentional humor. And probably won’t help Kelloggs sell their product!!

  • @thantalus77
    @thantalus77 3 года назад +11

    Oat meal hasn’t diminished my lusty desires in the past 75 years

  • @taylorrogers4064
    @taylorrogers4064 2 года назад +2

    Why couldn't the narrator be my history teacher in high school? I would've actually went to class. This guy is amazing. 😂😂😂

  • @misabelrodriguez1163
    @misabelrodriguez1163 3 года назад +23

    I'd love to hear about the Edwardian Era!!

  • @Just_another_turtle
    @Just_another_turtle 3 года назад +76

    Number 1: Always wear a top hat.

  • @kierraogden6771
    @kierraogden6771 3 года назад +11

    While cleaning up my grandparents house with my mother we found a picture made out of locks of hair haha so yup it’s true

  • @MG-xr9dt
    @MG-xr9dt 2 года назад

    “Leather-face family Christmas” I. AM. DECEASED! 🤣🤣🤣☠️

  • @FeedScrn
    @FeedScrn 3 года назад +42

    Well at least they didn't eat their pets.

  • @Mr-.Facts.
    @Mr-.Facts. 3 года назад +53

    I can already see future humanity cringing on the TikTok videos

    • @Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo
      @Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo 2 года назад

      even the humanity of this day and age who actually have brains are cringing on tiktok vids.

  • @kenster8270
    @kenster8270 3 года назад +11

    4:08 teeth were also harvested from living enslaved people.

  • @satanswife2546
    @satanswife2546 3 года назад +18

    I honestly quite like the whole “you have sex without love, your kid is gonna be well ya know?” thing

  • @signorpincodepincopalli7788
    @signorpincodepincopalli7788 3 года назад +13

    0:15 This was probably supposed to hide the gown,
    but they don't tell you the doctor has a foot fetish

  • @teeheecindee
    @teeheecindee 3 года назад +24

    LETS NORMALISE FAINTING AS AN EXPRESSION AGAIN! so i can 'faint' at work then proceed to sleep

  • @lindsayrush1895
    @lindsayrush1895 Год назад

    I am the biggest Weird History fan ever! Thank you so much for your amazing channel! I was wondering if you could possibly do a video about advertisements from the Victorian era. Every time I see one, my jaw hit the floor and I am also laughing.

  • @markwilloughbywood3868
    @markwilloughbywood3868 3 года назад +2

    The use of cadaver teeth as dentures actually goes back AT LEAST to the 1500s and probably further (Geo. Washington's dentures were most likelyfrom slaves and not a tree!). And too funny the photo of Victoria in her extremely rare smiling pose there! LOVE it!

  • @loudoesdrawing7537
    @loudoesdrawing7537 3 года назад +12

    Loved the video!!! I wonder if you could make a video about a Danish king Christian the 7th, I've read a lot about him but I would like to know more since he was accused of being crazy

  • @OleGeezerCirca1941
    @OleGeezerCirca1941 3 года назад +29

    Not only were tapeworms great for weight loss, they made ideal pets. They would go where you'd go, eat what you ate, and they never had to go out for a walk, or make a mess on the carpets.

    • @jessebullard5559
      @jessebullard5559 3 года назад +3

      Now I want a pet tapeworm!

    • @powerlocalmedia5130
      @powerlocalmedia5130 10 месяцев назад +1

      Well the mess on the carpet happens once when they come out🪱

  • @dmacmillion
    @dmacmillion 3 года назад +3

    Thank you RUclips for protecting me from the 100% sight of a nursing baby.

  • @Samthe1stbob
    @Samthe1stbob 3 года назад +16

    They even had swooning chairs that women could pass out into when they heard overwhelming news or was too overwrought

    • @Sofia-nc1tu
      @Sofia-nc1tu 3 года назад +1

      That's hardly true.

    • @anamaria91106
      @anamaria91106 3 года назад

      They also had fainting rooms.

    • @Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo
      @Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo 2 года назад

      no they didnt had swooning chairs or fainting couches. thats a modern myth that has already been debunked.

    • @Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo
      @Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo 2 года назад

      @@anamaria91106 no they didnt. stop spreading bullshit myths that already have been debunked.

  • @thalia7104
    @thalia7104 3 года назад +35

    The amulet with the hair isn't that uncommon in today's times, too, actually. You can still buy such an amulet you can open, often combined with one side of the amulet being made for a picture, the other one for a lock of hair.

    • @laurielovett8849
      @laurielovett8849 3 года назад +2

      Future people will gush laughing at the nowadayshabitof bursting into tears at the drop of a hat. Nowadays if someone wins a talent competition its off into crying,and if they loose same result.Nosuchthingz as stiff upperlips nowadays

    • @NorseGraphic
      @NorseGraphic 3 года назад

      @@laurielovett8849 Or stiff lower lips....

    • @TG-fn2ri
      @TG-fn2ri 3 года назад +2

      I have one with the fur of my dog that passed.

  • @irenevania5714
    @irenevania5714 3 года назад +6

    Expecting to seriously learn history but instead i laughed so much 🤣🤣🤣

  • @ShitHappensRLY
    @ShitHappensRLY 3 года назад +4

    victorians like "eat asbestos so you became fireproof"

  • @alanmccright2282
    @alanmccright2282 2 года назад +1

    Then, as now, media and advertisers adhered to the adage, "No one ever lost money overestimating the gullibility of the public."

  • @AbrahamLincoln4
    @AbrahamLincoln4 3 года назад +59

    I remember the good old days.

    • @rapidswelsa3306
      @rapidswelsa3306 3 года назад +7

      Were they really good old days if you were sniped in those days?

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 3 года назад +4

      *such fond memories of those farm raised artisan leeches...good times...when the peasants danced in the mud drenched streets with their pitchforks and torches held high as they advanced on the castle of the regional lord and magistrate with their list of demands for social and political reforms before the harvest would be tended to...*

  • @veldawells2839
    @veldawells2839 3 года назад +3

    narrator is so witty! Makes me laugh. I love Weird History. So enlightening and educational. Gives me something to learn most days without it being too taxing. Very enjoyable.

  • @TheBlkKat
    @TheBlkKat 3 года назад +12

    This video was brilliant and fascinating. I would love if you made more videos regarding etiquette throughout different time periods.

  • @justineharper3346
    @justineharper3346 3 года назад +6

    Not going to lie. I think family "hair"looms are a pretty cool idea. I want to go chop off some locks from my immediate family and make something cool and pretty out of it. Maybe I'm a weirdo 😂

    • @louise.x03
      @louise.x03 Год назад

      it's actually quite common for people to keep hair from their deceased loved ones. and even babies first hair, then the parents will keep them as little memories

  • @gaddyify
    @gaddyify 3 года назад +11

    That era had the creepiest people.

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 2 года назад +1

      It had some fantastic people too though. Let's not lose sight of that, we must remember that EVERY era had both bad AND good people. In a way, other than maybe a few shifted views (such as civil rights/slavery, sanitation, etc.), not much has changed in western society in the last 150 years. We still have materialism everywhere, petty squabbles and fights, greedy people hurting others, working conditions that in some cases are unsafe, heck our elites even use overseas sweatshop factories (so maybe slavery ISN'T fully purged from our cultures).

  • @kayleelogan151
    @kayleelogan151 3 года назад +5

    right from the beginning this video is crazy lol

  • @burpostockings
    @burpostockings 11 месяцев назад +3

    Victorians were goth as hell. Silver nipple accessories, vampire chic, corpse jewelry, and weirdly sexual and unsexual at the same time.

  • @milodude023
    @milodude023 3 года назад +2

    Love your videos! Makes history be fun.

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 3 года назад +11

    Man, that's something. Strange times in the Victorian era. I've eaten Kellogg's cereal for breakfast since I can remember. Usually different brands. Mostly Frosted Flakes. I eat Honey Nut Cheerios at the moment. Don't get me wrong I believe Kellogg's has some of the best cereals there is along with other brands. I've read about Kellogg on Wikipedia how he introduced the breakfast cereal to the world. Battle Creek, Michigan is it's capital! I wonder after eating Kellogg's cereal for a long time, does it make me feel weird and strange?

  • @manicmechanic448
    @manicmechanic448 3 года назад +54

    I would not only be shunned by "polite" society. I would be deemed a heretic by the church.

    • @iceking2730
      @iceking2730 3 года назад +4

      this must not have eaten his cornflakes *burn him at the stake*

    • @ratticustheemperor
      @ratticustheemperor 3 года назад +1

      same.

    • @corinnepmorrison1854
      @corinnepmorrison1854 2 года назад

      You would have a lot of company... I’d have been considered a heretic as well...👍🏻

  • @ineffable_may
    @ineffable_may 3 года назад +3

    ‘Two redheads marrying would be a disaster’
    *Me automatically thinking of the Weasleys*

  • @judymotto272
    @judymotto272 3 года назад

    Well done ! And thanks for the laughs😂💙👍

  • @SusuStrangelove
    @SusuStrangelove 3 года назад +10

    I would love a video about victorian mourning rituals

  • @cadillacdeville5828
    @cadillacdeville5828 3 года назад +9

    Aww yes, another educational YET entertaining upload ☺️

  • @somedaysoon7713
    @somedaysoon7713 3 года назад +11

    Me sitting here with my naturally born red hair married to a man with black hair and blue eyes 😱

  • @TheLadybughug
    @TheLadybughug 2 года назад

    The puns! Always make my day. I really should know by now not to sketch while I'm listening to these 🤣🤣🤣