Those iron bars were a recent safety modification to stop naughty kids disappearing doon the loo. At one time there would have been a very comfy wooden seat and a lid.
@@teshiamiller3196 Yes I know this place! It is in South Yorkshire, to clarify my nan lived very close to the castle & not within, I could have worded better :D
It actually be the begining of the worst job out there At the bottom of the tunnel it just a simply latge bow that need to scoop out every day so it didn't full
Btw, in designing a castle, the architects even thought about defensibility on the stairs, They would look for the most likely points of enemy entry and would change the spin of the spiral staircase accordingly, so the defenders would have a better space of motion for their sword. This was under the assumption most people were right handed.
@@thecoolestmanever9068 its not even that most people were left handed. If you were in the military you wouldn't even be allowed to be left handed as it would mess up formation fighting.
You know the medieval myth "Castles didn't have toliets?" I don't know why that one keeps making a comeback. Also my favorite: "everyone was illiterate" compared to today, the medieval population were geniuses! 😂
Only the ones who could afford to go to school. Until Bibles became widely distributed people learned to read often by their parents teaching them from the Bible.
Yes only the wealthy. And owning a bible wasn't easy either for reasons of affording one then not having it removed. As recent as 19th century a certain denomination could confiscate them. True info in an autobio@@coreenaburke5378
I have never seen down one of these, I'm terrified of regular portapotties and especially the giant dug in ones in national parks. They are bottomless pits! THIS is like a Kraken vs a giant squid in the bottomless pit arena 😵💫😭😂😂
I know im dumb. But has all of these toilets been thoroughly cleaned? Or do you think, like, they missed some spots😭 and theres over 1000 year old poop stains.
The ammonia would be used to delouse the clothes sometimes. It was politely called the water clothset. The Blarney Stone was actually part of a toilet. Tourists shouldn't kiss it.
Andy I know you mostly do Minecraft. So I don’t feel weird saying I always put these in my Minecraft castles needs lots of mossy cobblestone for well TMI
@@oyen148 I don’t think you can upgrade it much, you could do a Minecraft tour of ‘ restrooms ‘ through technological advancements from a simple hole in the ground to a Roman army communal latrine to a Norman castle garderobe to the modern bathroom with tripwire hook Faucets and iron trapdoor showers but i think that’s what your limited too . And frankly I don’t real care about the latter because my builds are always Iron Age through medieval
Door ways and passage ways very narrow I guess the people of yesterday where a lot slimmer and fitter as life was a lot harder I cannot imagine my 600lb life people running up and down corridors defending the castle from marauding enimies ..
I've had 11 days of liquid gas diarrhoea after a trip to Egypt. The thought of that cold castle air rushing up to my inflamed, red hot and tattered ring piece is very appealing right now.
The fact that the tunnel bends and reveals the toilet It makes me scared because your gonna get jumpscared almost every time somebody walks in or when you walk in
I’m not sure that a toilet was ever called a gardez l’eau, a French shout used when emptying chamber pots out into the street, from where we get the modern look.
When I was a kid living in Luxembourg, our family visited a good number of castles all over Europe (Western). My brother and I always wondered how they did the dirty deed! We never saw anything like this!
Man, I would love to be able to go back in time and experience this. Not specifically the toilet part 😂 but just the whole lifestyle and the way they lived. At least the rich ones lol
The fact that luxury for them was moving a hole in the ground to a hole in a wall makes me feel blessed. I get to sit in a nice air conditioned room with a clean toilet and vents instead of being worried about snakes climbing up your bum hole or giant owls attacking you.
Well the toilet seat isn't there. It would have been wooden with a hole in it similar to a modern toilet seat and it would have had a wooden lid to cover the hole when not being used, to keep the wind and smell out.
That one wet liquid poo that smears all the walls of the toilet shoot Side note: this video well shows how thick castle walls were in relation to windows. Like castles look huge but their interior space wasn’t all that. It’s the modern equivalent of a traditional suburban home and the only interior would be the living room and half a kitchen
@@AverageAlien I respect your positivity about the medieval era but that's sadly false, most people smelled very bad. Only the rich smelled good because they had money
so many things about this is intriguing to me. not only is the design very smart , the spiral going upward probably reduces most or nearly all of the smell, esp with the little window. also it is very spacious(big enough for a wake and bake) and the hallway of course is designed for 1 person to fight off intruders, so it seems like a good last defense space. my only questions are where does this lead. and is it big enough for a last minute escape? the hole looks big enough for the kids or a skinny person lol
There is plenty of far older castles to visit. They didn't change much for a long time. Can see that isn't particularly old in the scale of things when it comes to castles in Britain.
I've wondered for years, now I'm asking. What did they use for toilet paper? I read how colonial era America used corncobs for tampons, whichbis a specific strain of corn btw. I can only imagine what we used for toothbrushes & toothpaste.
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That bathroom still looks better than the bathroom at McDonald's!
Prolly not even used anymore.
At least Macdonald's in Western world.
In Indonesia is another whole different level much better than in the west.
And cleaner for sure
Or Taco Bell 🔔
@@RIZFERD Why would Indonesian McDonald's toilets be better in general?, and would they be squat toilets?
That looks really comfortable on a nice winters day 😂😂
Or summers...🔥🔥🔥
need someone standing by with a pitcher of warm water, to free your cheeks from those metal bars!
Ahh so this is where Tyrion Lannister shot and killed his father Tywin Lannister with a crossbow
Imagine the echoes throughout the kingdom as you let them rip in that stone toilet 😂
Imagine the cold draft coming up that ! On a cold day!😢
Those iron bars were a recent safety modification to stop naughty kids disappearing doon the loo. At one time there would have been a very comfy wooden seat and a lid.
That was going to be my question. Thank you.
@@conmckflyThe walls would be plastered too.
Be blessed by twousand 1,000
I am thinking that invaders needed blocking. Helluva job to sneak into the castle that-a-way, though.
Could rats climb up the toilet?🫣
Good old Conisbrough castle by the looks of it! Been here a lot as my nan lived there, love the WW1 memorial just down from it too. Good video
Wow. For real. You know this ??
@@teshiamiller3196 Yes I know this place! It is in South Yorkshire, to clarify my nan lived very close to the castle & not within, I could have worded better :D
I live in Conisbrough and straight away I thought it was Conisbrough castle. :)
Same@@JanineMarshall61390
@JanineMarshall61390 I'm from over water in mexbro! Been to Conisbrough Castle a few times.
Lol its so smart bc it's like a tunnel that shoots the poop out the castle walls
@@Aturmare LOL that's perfect
It actually be the begining of the worst job out there
At the bottom of the tunnel it just a simply latge bow that need to scoop out every day so it didn't full
Any army trying to invade it will have a really shitty time.
@@LadyArceus Waste typically just wound up in the rivers. This was due to the design of such poop shoots.
It means as a last resort protection against an unbearable invasion!
Sir Thomas More describes a king as receiving someone while 'sitting on the draught'. Well put!
You mean getting the wind up his Dumfungus McGreggor!! As my gran would say!
Man, those iron bars must've seen a lot
lol
*smelled alot
How did they used to even sit on these rods in winter 🥶
A whole lotta shht😂
they was using rocks and sticks to wipe too😂
I would rather use that toilet on a winter day, than the toilet at a truck stop.
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Byo 😂
I think about those dresses. Imagine the flies. Wipe?
No need for FABRIEEZ.
, depending on time of year , I'm wondering when hits the water/dirt , is it already frozen ? 🙃🤔
It heads straight for the moat. The smell, in the Summer, must have been hideous.
That's why the richer you were the higher you were from the street
@@Loralanthalas During the Summer, the smell got so bad that the residents would often leave the castle until the smell passed.
Why?
Yes just like our British rivers!!
They would not have noticed it. People in our time live in a sanitized world.
Btw, in designing a castle, the architects even thought about defensibility on the stairs,
They would look for the most likely points of enemy entry and would change the spin of the spiral staircase accordingly,
so the defenders would have a better space of motion for their sword.
This was under the assumption most people were right handed.
I don't know what the architect at Beaumaris was thinking when he put 8 latrines in each wall?
well, most people are.
@@jonomoth2581 to fight off the british more efficiently? in castles it’s always the more the merrier no matter what it is.
@@thecoolestmanever9068 its not even that most people were left handed. If you were in the military you wouldn't even be allowed to be left handed as it would mess up formation fighting.
@@jonomoth2581 diarrhea.
Better than an outhouse
This is where Twyn Lannister found dead
😂😂
Shot on the loo, .... with an arrow by his own son
@@michaelstibbe972
Well……
He was an angry little elf
He was a real prick.
Thought the same thing haha
At least they don’t have to worry about the water splashing them in the butt? Now I know where the term “Poop shoot” originated from.
I was about to say the same thing😂😂😂😂
chute as in noun
Lol 😂
@@jukodebu I was just about to note the same thing!
😂😂omg
Thank you. Always wondered about the toilets during ancient times. Thank u for showing. 😁👍💖
Basically, if you were rich, you through it out the window. If you were poor, it landed on your head.😂
Yeah 🤔🤔 hmm kvd had many sleepless nights wondering about their toilets. Huh.. s room with a view. Whoda thunk😅
Yeah and the royals had people specifically for wiping their asses when they got done pooping. They were called asswipes. lol
@@robwalker7575Gardyloo they used to shout in years gone past as the 💩 was chucked out of the window. 😂
You know the medieval myth "Castles didn't have toliets?" I don't know why that one keeps making a comeback. Also my favorite: "everyone was illiterate" compared to today, the medieval population were geniuses! 😂
Lol...illiterate yet able to build what we couldn't today given the same tools.
People always think that the age they live in is the most advanced 😂
Only the ones who could afford to go to school. Until Bibles became widely distributed people learned to read often by their parents teaching them from the Bible.
Yes only the wealthy. And owning a bible wasn't easy either for reasons of affording one then not having it removed. As recent as 19th century a certain denomination could confiscate them. True info in an autobio@@coreenaburke5378
There you go people who wished they lived in these times
would be brilliant
Not me! I prefer this time period.
I'm freaking cool.
I'm quite sure it was fixed up nicer at the time it was in use.
@@MegaLivingItyeah I bet they had a roll of 3-ply toilet paper and the walls of the chute weren't bolstered by a thick, steaming layer of xcrements.
that tunnel is big enough for a person to fall. SCARY
I was looking for this comment. Like imagine having a toddler or something and they just fall.
Secret escape route 😂
There would have been a wooden seat over the hole usually with a cover. Sometimes they were upholstered.
@@KitOkunari Secret attack route, occasionally.
Thats why the bars are there to prevent people from falling. The original seat has obviously rotted away long ago.
This is the most dangerous toilet i have ever seen
exactly
Because assassin's would climb up and lie in wait to stab you
i mean it’s the past lol
@@KittyGata314 good point
Go visit China.
"Damn which shader pack is that its so realistic"
Full RTX pack bro
@@skatu2367 Pray for us n me ❤️🙂💕❤️
Sildurs I think. Probably conquest reforged mod pack and textures.
Skyrim 😂😂
That's quite a trek just to go to the loo! I'm wondering is that how they came up with the song Skip to my loo?? Juuust kidding
Everyone have a moment of silence for your plumbers 😂
Is this castle moated? If so I can just imagine the amount of bodily excrement is in that moat! 🤮
Why do I find quite relaxing up there.
So fascinating those old places are. 1000 years ago people were walking those halls.
Now you know what's in the moat!
And the fish live in the moat. 🤮
Wondering if this is where the phrase _"to take a dump"_ comes from.... 🤔🤔🤔
I think it comes from going in a chamber pot and then having to bring it outside in the morning and dump out. Taking a dump.
Bruh imagine the amount of bugs in there while you tryna poop
one might crawl on you !
Rats crawling up easily on such holes , modern life is a huge blessing we take for granted
Cockroaches too
@@Köennigcockroaches weren’t in Europe then, they were still chilling in the Pacific
I have never seen down one of these, I'm terrified of regular portapotties and especially the giant dug in ones in national parks. They are bottomless pits! THIS is like a Kraken vs a giant squid in the bottomless pit arena 😵💫😭😂😂
This makes chimney sweeping look like a peice of cake
Imagine you’re in a rush and you sit on the sticks too hard
😂😂😂
those are IRON RODS lol
In a rush for what?
"You can look out the window or you can just have a big poo" hahaha I'm so immature
No magazines at that time
@@SimpleLifeAlways81 So nothing to wipe with?
Imagine how cold it was in the winter
It's why London sewers were built, because the Thames stank, as it flowed past the Commons and MP's.
People threw everything in the rivers.
Andy!!!! We need a vlog channel!!! It's a necessity!!!!!
Are we getting a vlog channel?
do you think you can make it up all those stairs and not fall in a emergency situation
😆 plus the many layerd dresses and the heavy armour...
@@arigirl-fn9tzif you were a knight, your life would probably be a paradise in these times anyways
Always adding another Dumping of Protection to the Remote ,Moat!😂
I know im dumb. But has all of these toilets been thoroughly cleaned? Or do you think, like, they missed some spots😭 and theres over 1000 year old poop stains.
I feel like after 1000 years it's likely all decayed and gone 😂
There might be some gnarly ones that left a trace or two lol
Someone hasn't had kids yet.
Gosh! That loo caters for everything including "the motion of their swords" 😂😂😂
Imagine if those sticks break where you will fall 💀
Ohh gawwdddd 😵🤢🤮 you just gave me a nightmare
Looks like iron.
The ammonia would be used to delouse the clothes sometimes. It was politely called the water clothset.
The Blarney Stone was actually part of a toilet. Tourists shouldn't kiss it.
Andy I know you mostly do Minecraft. So I don’t feel weird saying I always put these in my Minecraft castles needs lots of mossy cobblestone for well TMI
Next video : 7 upgrades of minecraft toilet
@@oyen148 I don’t think you can upgrade it much, you could do a Minecraft tour of ‘ restrooms ‘ through technological advancements from a simple hole in the ground to a Roman army communal latrine to a Norman castle garderobe to the modern bathroom with tripwire hook Faucets and iron trapdoor showers but i think that’s what your limited too . And frankly I don’t real care about the latter because my builds are always Iron Age through medieval
😂
"You fall in?" As a matter of fact yes I did!😂
They used Cherry wood as a seat and cover for it's resistance to rot; the iron bars were to prevent enemies from climbing up & gaining entry.
Maybe that's where the damn saying came from..😂❤
I would probably enjoy hearing the splat from that distance 😂😂.
Thanks very interesting. More please.
By far your most realistic build, clearly stunning !
Na most of us wouldn't have experienced that luxury. We'd be hiding behind a bush wiping with a pine cone.
They also wiped with corn cobs. It sounds crazy but that was a question on a test I took.
Imagine wiping with Poison Ivy .
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@@JoyceHealy-z5l
Owch! That’s painful.
😂 exactly, most regular people didn't live in castles
So they had more efficient water saving toilets 1000 years ago? than the electronic ones today. 😂
I think you will make this castle in Minecraft
Cleaner than 9/10 public restrooms
Door ways and passage ways very narrow I guess the people of yesterday where a lot slimmer and fitter as life was a lot harder
I cannot imagine my 600lb life people running up and down corridors defending the castle from marauding enimies ..
Nope. Not many fatties then.
The thickness of the wall sent me for some reason 😂
"I sit and reflect on the arrow slot as I drop 100 ft turd bombs."
At least they didn't have to worry about ventilation in the toilet space, but a big worry about the stench during the hot weather.
Something about someone possibly seeing my poo fall out of the shaft doesn’t sit right with me 😅
😂😂😂
The only way they'd know it was you is if you shouted your name down the hole first or have a particularly recognisable backside.
@@Chris-dm1je😂😂😂👍🏼
I feel a cold draft 😂
I've had 11 days of liquid gas diarrhoea after a trip to Egypt. The thought of that cold castle air rushing up to my inflamed, red hot and tattered ring piece is very appealing right now.
thanks for sharing
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@@andyisyoda I'm here to educate. Fellowship of the Ring(piece).
I was going to recommend witch hazel and then I saw you posted this 3 months ago. I'm guessing you've recovered by now..😂❤
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What if your guests outside caught sight of your leavings falling down to the ground ? Would they still ring your door bell or return back home ?
The fact that the tunnel bends and reveals the toilet It makes me scared because your gonna get jumpscared almost every time somebody walks in or when you walk in
It would have had a curtain across the entrance. Plus a wooden toilet seat to sit on and a lid to cover the hole when not in use.
“Have yourself a big pooh”
I’m dying😂😂😂
I came to this video to only see how they go to the toilet 1000 ago AMAIZING i canot belive.
reminds me of johnny english, when johnny tried to climb the castle through the tunnel/pipe that leads to the toilet, hahaah!
omg my 1st thought was what if you drop your phone....
That's where we are at now...
Stone work is amazing ❤
now thats a castle! where all building materials were natural materials like stone rock, iron, wood and leather
Not all civilizations used quartz and were more refined. Especially in Asia and Africa and civilizations in the Americas
That looks really nice actually
Is it weird that i would legitimately love living there
More weird that you think it's weird
Imagine the wind coming up the drop on a hot day 😂😂😂
Bro imagine the dunk launches at someone while there having a good time
Looks real comfortable 😅😂
Wow this build is looking amazing, what texture pack is this?
Awe, everybody poops! Fascinating!
Is that Connesburough Castle? I've been there. Sat on that toilet.
Yes
I’m not sure that a toilet was ever called a gardez l’eau, a French shout used when emptying chamber pots out into the street, from where we get the modern look.
What did they use for toilet paper in those days? I'm thinking plant leaves, but I'm not sure.
The poop I'm falling 😅
When I was a kid living in Luxembourg, our family visited a good number of castles all over Europe (Western). My brother and I always wondered how they did the dirty deed!
We never saw anything like this!
I wouldnt be suprised if someone fell in there 💀
Man, I would love to be able to go back in time and experience this. Not specifically the toilet part 😂 but just the whole lifestyle and the way they lived. At least the rich ones lol
😂 me too, but only for a few days, not permanently, we are truly blessed to live in these times of modern medical care and sanitation
Do I want to know what happens to it afterwards? I see light down there haha
The fact that luxury for them was moving a hole in the ground to a hole in a wall makes me feel blessed. I get to sit in a nice air conditioned room with a clean toilet and vents instead of being worried about snakes climbing up your bum hole or giant owls attacking you.
That toilet seat doesn't look very comfy!
Well the toilet seat isn't there. It would have been wooden with a hole in it similar to a modern toilet seat and it would have had a wooden lid to cover the hole when not being used, to keep the wind and smell out.
Gardyloooo I'm cominggg. Runnn runn for your hygienic and sanity!
That one wet liquid poo that smears all the walls of the toilet shoot
Side note: this video well shows how thick castle walls were in relation to windows. Like castles look huge but their interior space wasn’t all that. It’s the modern equivalent of a traditional suburban home and the only interior would be the living room and half a kitchen
better than any gas station
That seems very precarious to sit on
probably because it's not the original design
Peoples' wardrobes were next to the toilet. The smell kept the moths away from the clothes. Them wur the days. 😂
People must have smelled poorly to say the least
they didn't. They bathed often and smelled good. Nobody would want to smell bad. We have not changed in 500 years.
@@AverageAlien I respect your positivity about the medieval era but that's sadly false, most people smelled very bad. Only the rich smelled good because they had money
@trvish8394 this is pure nonsense and you know nothing lmao
so many things about this is intriguing to me. not only is the design very smart , the spiral going upward probably reduces most or nearly all of the smell, esp with the little window. also it is very spacious(big enough for a wake and bake) and the hallway of course is designed for 1 person to fight off intruders, so it seems like a good last defense space. my only questions are where does this lead. and is it big enough for a last minute escape? the hole looks big enough for the kids or a skinny person lol
Everything is so tight! I would get Claustrophobia.
i'd love to poop there!!😀
There is plenty of far older castles to visit. They didn't change much for a long time. Can see that isn't particularly old in the scale of things when it comes to castles in Britain.
I recommend you the toilet in Malbork. Way bigger. 😊
Much more efficient, fertilizes the ground all you need is water to clean the chimney, it’s solid if you cleaned regularly
I've love that bathroom.
Looks warmer then my bathroom
Loving the privacy, not much has changed, ❤
The toilet looks so scarry. 😮
Hundreds of years of toilets in castles, and in Russia they still have privies in the yard. :P
I've wondered for years, now I'm asking. What did they use for toilet paper? I read how colonial era America used corncobs for tampons, whichbis a specific strain of corn btw. I can only imagine what we used for toothbrushes & toothpaste.
That toilet still looks better than the toilet across half of China.
Where you think ship rolls downhill came from.
"Or you can just have a big poo." That is absolutely hilarious.