Top 10 Ways The Past Was WAY MORE AWFUL Than You Think
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Some people have the nerve to think that society has lost something important that it had in the past. Their nostalgia makes them think that they’d actually like to live in or at least visit years gone by. Any historian who really digs into the nit and grit of the past will tell you that the past was so much worse than the present, pretty much across the board. Not just in the obvious, prominent ways, but in matters that you’d take for granted.
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10. Food Variation
9. Furniture was Horrible
8. Night Soil Problems
7. Just Being a Woman was Basically a Medical Problem
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3. Entire Families Shared a Bed
2. Constant Crisis Level Pollution
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This is what galls me the most whenever I hear people wax nostalgic for days past. And whenever I hear someone talking about "eating Paleo"
Not to mention a lot of places had near constant states of war. On their home soil.
Plus, the threat of bandits coming and stealing your food...during a famine.
Plus the threat of being enslaved
And just the lack of modern medicine should send shivers down the spines of those who are nostalgic for the past.
and there were NO COPS...So wtf you do if some N****** jumped you n stole ur stuff?
We see still in a constant state of war
Still war 24/7/365, still most of the planet don't have any medical access
Jacob Meehof the cops are gangsters by any other name, enforced protection racket(taxes) slave labor camps. Kidnapping etc.
And the US is supposed to be an example of civilization. Nearly as bad as the Zionist racist murderers.
Dear Top Tenz, Thank you for including my country, Liberia, in one of your videos. I think you're all pretty groovy. Please keep uploading awesome videos. Sincerely, A new subscriber.
Just based on indoor plumbing, I had already decided I'd never want to visit the past. You've given me even better reasons for my decision!
+Karen Dobrowolski Imagine go live in the 70s even, without internet
+Vanessa Pucca I'm OK if Internet was gone
The ancient Romans had plumbing and flushable toilets, though the bad news is that there where a lot of reports about those toilets would catch fire from all the sewer gas, and they used a reusable sponges to clean themselves. Bring your own toilet paper or papyrus and avoid the flaming steaming hot toilets, visiting the past might be ok.
LOL XD
Been there done that!
+Zinervawyrm What of the Greeks and the Mongolians?
I would say that a lot of people who complain the past was better usually refer to the 1960s-1990s as the time they liked living in or would rather live in, as it is clear that any time before 1900 was not going to have many benefits to live in.
Personally I prefer now. If you were in any way ethnic in the 70s, 80s, 90s in Australia, you ran into regular problems with the majority. These days there's so many foreigners, only the most hardcore ethnobigots are a problem - those from Queensland and New Zealand (historicially isolated culturally - very picky about you being like them), and it's worse if they're around 50 years old (when that mentality was much stronger).
I'd still like to visit the past, definitely not live in it, but at least visit
Local lord declares war
You brought a gun and destroy the enemy
Celebrated as a war wizard with a magic wand who killed hundreds in a single battle.
+General noob You could probably win the battle of Waterloo if you had a light tank
or a Apache helicopter. but then you probably would be considered a demon or god until the fuel run's out.
Yeah, explaining fuel shortage is getting awkward in the next war that was only started because your party thought they had a flying war-demon on their side.
A world without Aids.
I suspect that most people saying they'd like to live in the past are actually thinking the 1950s or '60s. Or my favorite, the '70s.
I know, never heard anybody wanting to go and have a plaque or be a slave, but just you wait to be told how hard was it to have a date or go to the cinema with a friend before mobile phone
Sounds like fun times until you really look into everything that was different or not even available or invented. Being born in 1960 I'm not far from that period you mention. And being a woman in those times must have been a real treat. I don't know about other countries back than. But in Germany a woman had literally no rights and needed permission from her husband for almost everything. Most people looking back at those times are looking at it through the warped lens of TV shows and books or some choice remarks from people having experienced that time and being lucky enough to had a supporting husband and/or family.
If I had to stick around permanently, the 1970s would be the very earliest I'd patiently tolerate.
Lol! I DID live in the 1970's. I was born in the ancient 50's! A LIVING RELIC! 😂😂😂
@@shameywhinks4394 Tell us of your ancient ways! How did you survive to adulthood without your parents hovering over you and watching your every move?!
HORSE MANURE : the reason the street curbs are uniform in every city is because when they were wooden they were raised off the street level to prevent manure from getting onto the walkway.. when the street would fill up to the curb level (usually a week) the cleaners would go out and clean the streets.. source - my grandfather did this job as a teen..
Just imagine in 200 years from now, how people will then be saying how terrible things were in the early 21st Century!
I wouldn't disagree. The libtards are ruining the modern world.
what ru gonna cry? u gonna cry now? Inb4 they create their own new political ideology and they will look at our current political conflicts in confusion.
+Owen Ooi
Is TopTenz a trump supporter? If not, I'm unsubbing.
I don't see how anyone who actually cares about America can be a Trump supporter. He has the maturity level of a fifth grader.
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One thing that was not mentioned about people sleeping on one room/bed. In the country if it was freezing a lot of times the farm animals were brought inside to prevent their freezing.
Speaking of sleeping conditions, a three dog night meant it was so cold you needed three dogs to keep warm: one to your right, one on your left, and one on top.
The dog might was an Aboriginal colloquialism referring to dingoes
#3 Another reason they all slept together is for warmth, especially during winter. You didn't exactly have central heating in those days and you can't leave a fire/stove burning overnight.
Actually you can. I grew up with wood/coal stove heat only. You learn to bank the fire......
Keeping a fire going all night isn't hard at all.
I gave up the romanticized version of past when I thought about what It was like to deal with your period back then :S
NO INTERNET. NUFF SAID.
+RetardedMonkey10 -- true. I still remember the time when a programmable pocket calculator was the ultimate thing to own. CDs didn't exist. mobile phones were two decades off. analog video recording didn't exist. Incredible advancements have been made. Also in the sciences.
In that respect, my generation may have been the one where society and everyday life changed more than ever before. Thrilling!
+RetardedMonkey10 true bruh cant live w/o internet
I'm OK without Internet... I only use it 5 months a a year anyways
+xor sama sad
***** How?
Something for you time travelers to ponder: How far back in the past could you go and still speak and understand English? Maybe also applies to French and Italian.
Apart from treaties, years, who conquered whom and so on, I think one of the key roles of history lessons at school should be giving you such a glimpse of what everyday life was like in the past, that could really help you appreciate the times we are living now.
I still think it would be fun to go back in time. For a few days
+katten elvis Most of us are already vaccinated to what used to kill the people from the past. You would most likely just stand there watching others die
Ondine 524
Ah thats true, didn't think about that.
+Ondine 524 Not really, diseases can mutate super fast so more than likely there will be some disease that will mutate and could possibly kill you
Anonymous No, we come from a time where most diseases have mutated so much because of the meat industry. It is more likely that our diseases would wipe them out.
Anonymous Also, mutations like that happen when there are enough similar people infected.
Re: Item 8 - Night Soil Problems. My mother who is now 84 tells me that this was common practice right up until the late 1930's especially in smaller towns and rural areas. However they weren't inside the house but rather in what would later become, (with plumbing and actual toilets), brick-built outside lavatories. In fact she reminds me of it every time I leave the toilet seat up at her house. Fortunately for me, she hasn't told me who disposed of the 'soiled' soil or how it was done. Probably my Grandfather.
Who would want to go back that far back, I would go back to the 90s
Back when Bill Maher said, "Every decade sucks when you're in it."
When I think of the good old days i dont think about the 1800s and 1700s like many of these things showed, i think more of 1970s-90s maybe very early 2000s.
Lakos Lakos Two words: Dial-up.
But, but, a simpler, more innocent time!
But, but, traditional values!!
But, but, but back in my day.........
Thank you for this video. Now don't get me wrong: I like Elvis and the Beatles and _It's a Wonderful Life_ as much as the next guy, and I'm all up for a renfest, but actually living in the past? Thank you, but no.
Fascinating. I always knew life and people in the past had to SMELL pretty bad (for many obvious reasons) most of the time, and to me, THAT would be the main prob we'd all be worrying about. Clearly, I didn't really stop and think on it for very long. Smells would be largely ignored and unnoticed since you were working too hard and long. And then when you got home, one probably stayed awake long enough to eat and then, since there's no TV and candles burn down fast, it's lights out. Thx for posting.
It's so strange seeing Simon without a beard and glasses (recent subscriber). Still handsome, though
This what we call Chicken Simon which my fiancee called him the other day when we watched an older video lol 😂😂😂😂😂
@@KingAlucard323 LOL
That beard though, sexy as hell!
I agree Simon you appear so much more intelligent with the beard and goggles
pollution in the 1960's on the Eastern US seaboard was terrible. I lived in a medium sized suburb in Bergen Co. NJ and we lost a classmate to childhood cancers every year. In contrast, my children were raised in the rural Midwest and lost a classmate to cancer every 15 years
1:47 ha you are mistaken for i am infact watching this video sat on top of a step ladder in my driveway, long story
Does it have to do with a quack dragon
YES! Instructions were confusing af my penis is trapped in a closet
General noob the one and only
Quack Dragon I am at work laying on a couch watching this! Another long story! 🤣
i was out walking. short story: exercise.
Thank you for informing us that living in today's world is a blessing. I couldn't imagine the smell of cities back in the late 1800s.
Last time I came this early, I had to pay child support.
+Sahaj Dhungana its time to stop
Last time I came this early, that was an original joke
Nobody will miss you when you die.
Sahaj Dhungana last time I came it felt great.
@TopTenz
I have NEVER been nostalgic for the past, neither the recent nor the distance past, for all of the reasons that you mentioned plus many more.
Food variation I've lived off pepperoni pizza for 10 years.
Kekero I know. As a relatively poor kid growing up, we generally ate one of 2 things, Hot dogs (with Mac and cheese and baked beans) or hamburger helper (usually not with hamburger but with leftover deer meat from hunting season). Once in awhile I’d get to go to my grandparents house and eat chicken and actual beef and once in awhile fish (which I eventually became allergic to a certain kind. Maybe because we never had fish for dinner). The age of the food and the ingredients were questionable at times as well. It was fine because it strengthened my immune system. I rarely got sick and never had food poisoning growing up. I’ve had food poisoning (only twice) since but I still rarely get colds or the flu and on the rare occasion I do, they are never bad enough to interfere with my daily activities and I show little symptoms.
Growing up, my dad (and then the rest of my family at different points) went to turkey farms and loaded then onto trucks. We got to keep the ones that had heart attacks. (You wouldn't BELIEVE how often it happened.) One year, we had an ENTIRE stand-up freezer full of turkey. I would have given away ALL of my Christmas presents if I could only have had a cheeseburger on Christmas day!!!
Sidenote to #10: The Irish potato disease and famine were actually caused by "rationalization" of the farming process. In the traditional way, there would be a microclimate favourable to potato plants and unfavourable to the potato disease, but harvesting was slow and labour-intensive. So potato fields were smoothed out, and suddenly the microclimate was perfect for the disease to spread. This was of course only realized quite recently, thanks to data collected at traditional potato growing sites in the Andes, which resemble the traditional Irish ones quite strongly. (Source: Charles C. Mann, 1493)
a bird can fly but a fly can't bird...
+MrCODkiller00
Those are some awesome words.
+MrCODkiller00 words of wisdom!
+gingersleep oh shit bro you just blew my mind
a fly can fly but a bird can't bird
for some one who is named MrCOdkiller00 your pretty smart
I remember that In the book (not the movie) Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Dahl has Charlie's 4 grandparents sharing one bed (2 with heads at each end). The film with Gene Wilder downplayed Charlie's poor upbringings, but the book definitely did not.
#11: Simon didn't have a full beard
The famine in India could have been avoided. British Imperialism was largely responsible for the famine in India that killed millions.
1:14 it wasn't a famine it was technically a genocide
Eireann Go Bragh he's English. What do you expect. He probably believe there was never slavery in Scotland too.
It's ridiculous how often this is said. It was mass genocide, trying to gloss over history won't change it.
Every famine in history was the direct result of government incompetence or intransigence.
Chicken Man GORTA...
It was both. It was a manufactured famine.
#3 In historical times, entire families usually slept in their kitchens because that's where the source of heat was. I can only imagine how horrible that would be... in a time when the average person was a farming peasant who only bathed a few times a year, and the average family had 8+ children, the average bed was a hole in the floor filled with straw, and the average bathroom was a bucket in the corner. Fun fun, it would like living in Mississippi
I would miss my toothbrush :P
Another reason families would share sleeping areas is that in winter, many families didn't have a great many stoves or fireplaces. My Mom, who wasn't poor by any means, (she's 80) let me know that her sister an brother and she would sleep in the same bed in the winter, and that on the oven they would heat bricks, roll them into a blanket, then lay it at the foot of the bed to keep them warm.
Well, its true when talking amenities, technology and quality of everyday life, yet all of that doesn't seem to make us more happy.
People are more depressed that before, suicide rate is much higher. For every disease we exterminate, a worse one appears.
Archangel1991 yes and now we overuse antibiotics, which often make things worse. We also have opioids for pain, but that clearly backfired as well.
Im just want to know what modern day virus or disease you think is worse than the viruses of the past.
david barnett heart disease and cancer are two examples. Not necessarily worse but they do take longer to kill.
AIDS comes to mind and FLU viruses that didn't exist before mass migration and globe trotting became common place.
O no not the flu!!! Aaahh. What about the plague, small pox, syphilis, malaria, and the host of parasites kept at bay by modern technology.
PJ O'Rourke said the best reason to live in modern times vs. pre-20th century can be summed up in one word - dentistry.
I hate people who complain that old was better and they don't want new things.
+The Ultraempoleon Pretty bad thing to hate people for
No I just want better things I think food probably tasted better in the recent past (1900s
***** and to help the environment
Yes because it's already outdated...ba dum tss!
actually not so much. I have eaten 13th-century recipes that were fairly tasty....Most were seasoned with common herbs, and plants from the local region instead of imported spices.
While beef and pork were not as common people could eat fish, and fowl including sparrows, pigeons etc...those sorts of food were fairly easy to come by and didn't need large tracts of land to raise.
You forgot to mention that the other reason doors and windows were so small, and people all slept together was because houses were expensive to keep warm.
WOAH THERE SLOW TF DOWN.. where are your glasses Simon?
#5 I have explored numerous castles and palaces around Europe, in Germany, Italy, Ireland, France, and the Czech Republic. Any castle from prior to about 1400 was not at all meant to be luxurious, they were fortresses first and foremost. Honestly, the short doorways were basically the least of the problems...their design to keep invaders out also meant keeping you (and stagnant water) in, so they usually have a funky smell, plus they're dark and usually cold but also humid. The floors are often uneven, the stairs are often uneven, steep, and narrow, and in general, they are a claustrophobic's nightmare.
The later ones were more luxurious, as the nobility of Europe became excruciatingly wealthy and the threat of invasion was less of a problem, but even those have far fewer conveniences than even the most simple of western houses. For example, their original bathrooms were designed to move sewage away from the room, which meant falling to a lower level since consistent running water was a later staple. The doors in some chateaux were impressively large, while others were fairly short, and of course, lighting meant someone had to climb a ladder and light hundreds of candles in an elaborate chandelier.
I would actually go to the past to see some Extinct Species, Dodo bird looks awesome.
"It worked my time machine wor..."
*CRUNCH*
"I AM A STEGOSAURUS"
The dodo lived on the island of Mauritius, you'd need conventional transport to get there, as well as your time machine. Unless you already live on Mauritius, of course.
In this diary about his trip to Italy ("Italienische Reise"), Goethe mentioned what food there was available in the villages he stayed. This village had peaches, that other village only had sour pears or whatever. ... I didn't read the whole book, but I do remember that. No Aldi. Nothing is to be taken for granted.
When people talk about the past, they are not talking about 100 years ago.
Or the middle ages.
But like when they was young, meaning usually less than 40 years
Thanks for the reminder about the past.
YIKES! Remember: The past is gone and (hopefully) won't return, the future may not come; that's why now is called the present--the present is a gift we give ourselves.
Bob Laubach Yeah but Trump. In 4 years theUS will look like victorian london
+Will Lastnameguy
I could live with that.
Um. Thx.
Some old houses had low ceilings not because people were shorter, but because it was easier to heat. If I had a working version of Doc Brown's DeLorean, I:m going a couple centuries forward ..
How the hell was a door more expensive or a window if it was bigger? I mean...the door still has to fit the frame...and walls take up more material either way. So using less well and putting in more space for the door would be cheaper wouldn't it? Why would a larger door way or an absence of space...like a window...be more expensive?
I'm not an architect, so really can't answer that, but I can point out that Britain had a "window tax" for centuries. I believe France did as well, though not for nearly as long.
+Kat K proves how ridiculous taxes are. The government can tax you for anything. They even had a candle tax.
IDK about the door, but glass was an expensive, luxury item for sure. So you can have small windows with some glass that would most certainly keep the cold out, yet still let outside light in, or you can have wooden shutters that wouldn't let any light in while closed, and when open, you're letting everything in from light, to bugs, to birds, to rats.
Zinervawyrm transporting glass was also expensive
Contractor here. Doors require more expensive materials than walls. Also, the harvesting and carving of doors require greater levels of craftmanship than does a wall. Morever, these two things scale up with the quality and complexity of the overall build. Thus, a more expencive wall will have an even more expensive door. And yes, many of these cost are per square foot. But it's worse than that, because longer lumber is more expensive per board foot than shorter lumber. Hope this helps.
On every page in every book of history, a thousand tears were shed.
at least the buildings weren't just a simple block of glass and concrete twisted into a weird shape.
what ru gonna cry? u gonna cry now? 100 years ago, 90 percent of the cost of a building was the labour. Today 90 percent of the cost is the land. At least in North America. That explains a lot of why our buildings are so ugly in comparison.
Rose Stewart it's called post modern architecture. And 100 years ago they were not much different. Are you going to cry now? Try visiting a country with some real history
Minecraft? lol
Weren't the earlier buildings just simple blocks of stone though?
I've never understood why people romanticize the American 1950s. The benefits from that era were pretty much only enjoyable of you fit into certain demographics.
Sitting for a long period of time has been found to cause major health problems.
Skeletons and medical records are why we KNOW people were shorter.
You really missed on this video.
very well made and interesting, but you could add overlay text for dates and people's names which can be hard to absorb only while hearing. It's customary in lots of other channel too.
dudes, no toilet paper!!!!!!!
No female hygiene products !
+An Ngo Leaves
@@Christinebanks11 That's ok, if they were like my great grandmother, they just stayed pregnant pretty much non stop from 17 until menopause
@@seed_drill7135 menarche-the onset of the menstral cycle. Might you mean menopause?
Thanks. fixed it.
For your category one, the most precise ones were both recent and both involving non-West European and capitalist items : 19th C Russia and 19th C British Empire.
Few famines would have equalled the potato famine on Ireland or the Holodomor in Ukraine with neighbouring regions, both brought about by strongmen, Capitalist ones in Ireland (who forbade farmers to eat the wheat they had grown, preferring to sell it in England) and a huge Communist one for Ukraine, known as Stalin.
I demand a "Top 10 Ways the present is worse than the past, or worse than we know"
In terms of the accessibility of necessary goods life sure is better than the past. The ratio of people who can sustain themselves to people who are too poor to live is definitely less. Widespread epidemics are down. War is not really as much a problem anymore. What things can you think of how the present is worse than the past?
That's where the challenge would be, as well as go well with this video.
Diarakostima Just ask anyone in their 20s
Cicero, you think this is new?
One word - environment. Deforestation, desertification, animal and plant extinction, air/ocean/water/soil pollution, and an endless ever-growing pile of plastic garbage everywhere. That's all i think.
It is said that in prehistoric times there was far more food variation. Not only were people moving around all the time, there was also far more plant species.
Yes but what each food could be processed to or which ways it could be cooked were limited. While it may have had more ingredients it didnt have as many recipes kind of thing.
david barnett that true. In those ways there wasn’t as much variation. But, there was a very high variation in local vegetation, therefore it didn’t really matter that they weren’t able to eat exotic fruits and vegetables easily. Also, humans are a much more varied diet of animal products. This included meat from many many more animals , eggs from many species, and milk from several different mammals.
Yea but without paved rosds and modern transport you were likely to have to raise you're own
And, in 200 years, we will be seen as barbaric.....
The picture of the London Smog was in 1953, and led to the Parlimenatry Clean Air Act. As for night soil. Charles 1st was so desperate for Saltpter for gunpowder he gave Royal Warrants to his cronies that allowed them to enter any area, including houses and churches to dig up nightsoil for proccesing. It was one the more obscure causes of the English Civil War.
Why wasn't Small Pox one?
😲 I forgot how young you once looked 😂
hey Simon from 4 yrs ago, in 4 yrs you’ll have a baby 🤣 consider me just a kind fortune teller 😂🤣💛💛
Lol i was just thinking how strange this 4 year old video felt then i saw your comment 😂
Snodrod 🤣🤣🤣 I know right
Snodrod 😍 OMG! I love your screen name 🤣😂😭😭🤣😂😭🤣😂
Not many people eat watermelons in the past ....... That's a good thing
this reminds me of the watermelon skits on the soup with Joel Machale lol
It depends on what time in the past, in the Li'l Rascals, Stymie was always wishing for a "big watermelon!"
I love watermelon.
As a member of the past (1970s) we had armed guards in banks, restaurants, grocery stores, even in libraries. This was done to deter crime!
Never mind all of that trivial stuff. NO INTERNET!!
OMG, yeh how did the mo fos survive with no internet, ffs?
Jacob Meehoff
👵 well sonny, I played outside with friends, went off by myself to explore things, read lots of books, wrote, drew, played board games, etc...it was fine, we didn't know any different. I remember thinking how lucky one of my friends was that she had a full set of encyclopedias, "wow, she has all the information in the world!" (Yeah, 8 year olds are naive) 😃
lol, apart from board games I do all that
If the internet is so bad then why are you using it?
And no video games, either. The past was definitely a NIGHTMARE.
I was watching this when my husband came in to make a sandwich off in the kitchen. He thought I was watching a snooker or a bowls match. Simon's voice! Lol!
As a short white American male without need for surgery, it's smooth sailing for me at least all the way back to the Roaring '20s.
dandylion I'm not Irish or Polish or any kind of Jewish. Pretty sure I'm clean white all the way to the back.
***** white folk
***** Not from any of the ethnicky white folk places. Not Jewish or Irish or anything like that. Just white as a fence white.
***** The one with the purebred white people.
***** I do know.
WUHHH! That was an uncomfortable journey, but a necessary one. All too easy to forget about our ancestors and what they went through.
I heard stories of the Great Depression (1929), and couldn't imagine how terrible that must have been to live through. But even that pales in comparison to a few of these entries.
Again, thanks for the reminder...
lets be honest, child labor is the cutest kind of labor.
ROFL
+jsmetalcore Really how about you work 17 hours a day with maybe one break (if you were lucky), be locked in at night so you couldn't escape, and whipped if you couldn't keep up the pace. I forgot the jobs were so dangerous it wasn't abnormal for these cute children died.
+Heidi Melendez It's just a joke
Sorry I am the worlds slowest person to get a joke.
+Heidi Melendez Are you a child? if not quit being so butthurt. god damn hahaha
Even a visit to Simon from 5 years into the future was freaky.
the past was better 30 year's ago you wouldn't step on human shit in San Francisco now they have a clean up crew for it so now we are going backwards
No K-Pop, no Hay Day, no toilet paper....NO ME!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
You missed the opportunity to talk about GMO food and how it has eliminated most five & ten year cycle famines.
Oh boy I’m just SO proud of living in Seattle with our GREAT treatment of the homeless population and the AMAZINGLY low amount of drug usage!
People are nostalgic for cholera
Hey, why not? I mean, people are so nostalgic for whooping cough, measles, and mumps that they stopped vaccinating...
@@rickc2102 Disease apologists will never go out of fashion, I fear.
depending on the era, the building of structures with smaller doors and windows was a security measure to make it harder for people to enter the building without permission.
*In 1000yrs Archaeologists will find the remains of todays Millennials and will declare them,*
*"Look-Down Man".*
This is a particularly awesome one! Thank you, Simon!
When people talk about things being better in the past, they're usually referring to sometime in the 20th century, when we had some modern conveniences but not the harried pace of today. I don't think anyone wishes they had hard furniture, bland food, or a lack of indoor plumbing, which is where I had to stop watching this boring AF vid. Had to give a DV... so sorry....
We didn't have to constantly charge devices to ensure they functioned in the past. If we wanted to listen to music, we just plugged in a radio, turned it on, tuned the station in, and listened. Or we put a cd in the player, hit play, and listened. Some cds came with lyric sheets, and the physical product was a plus. TV, though we didn't get many channels without cable (which of course was an option) functioned better in the past if you were using an antenna than the antennas I've purchased recently. If one thing in a modern refrigerator breaks down you have to get a new fridge but in the past you could get the one part replaced. So in a lot of respects, things WERE better in the past.
we could go back to when everyone wasn't offended by everything
AMEN!!!
🙌preach
+sherry lee So you will go back to before mankind..
That is the single most offensive comment I've ever read on RUclips !
Please give me the reasons. But first, to give you some guidelines of how I see evolution;
It never became religion-like to me, but seems that way with some others only within the last 10 years or so because of heated arguments online (like this could become). For some reason, people like myself who saw it as a tool to use for following some explanations that weren't "do or die" needed information... splintered off into those who wanted to start pushing it on others that don't want to hear it. Not like in school where they just teach and test to see if you understand it but (at least in my school) never demanded you believe it. Want to understand botany? Probably should understand this stuff... and not say "because God said..." because you're going to starve.
These more aggressive arguments for evolution weren't as common until I noticed the internet platform being used for what already existed; religious agenda being preached to those they thought needed converting.... and the evolutionists pushed back. Now it's about even. Finally. There is no doubt that the religious have spoken in a way assuming others are on board and if not, need to be, far more and far longer than evolutionists. In other words.... "they started it". And no, that's not just a kids argument, it has merit. Two wrongs don't make a right but sometimes you have to fight back or else be surrounded by BS that makes your life miserable.
So NOW some evolutionists seem more religious-like because of fighting back, and it irks me because I don't need to do that. It just works for me and I don't try to convert anybody.
I can see evolution happen right now, and with religion I always have to rely on a book or somebody's word, which has not been a very reliable technique among humans to say the least. I have been fooled, led astray, pushed into trouble, time wasted and generally disappointed (life-changing disappointment) by humans talking or writing without backing it up. MANY many times. However I can see evolution around me, and bacteria are changing because of environmental pressures on our bodies, right now. I can see it in plants from simple changes in weather or what pollinates more easily, or what doesn't because bees are being wiped out by religious money-hoarding corporate bean counters like Monsanto. "It's okay to use these chemicals! PEOPLE invented these chemicals with their gift from GOD of thought and ingenuity! How can it be bad?" Derrrrr. Maybe because humans keep looking for easier ways to get by? And those short-cuts have mostly led to more problems?
How life all began? Hell I don't know. Evolution certainly gives me more to work with than religion though. For all I know, a god-like being might have been here forever, got things started and evolution is the way it works now. I don't claim to know it all, but I don't believe the religions offered today or yesterday explain jack shit.
You see, I don't need to have it all figured out; that's for the people that can't live scared. Both evolutionists and certainly the religious have those members. I can see evolution working but don't need it or anything to be the end-all be-all solution. It's like photosynthesis; does it explain the creation of all plants? No. But it does explain and can be proven how it works in converting energy for that plant. So I use it day to day if I feel like thinking about it. No big deal. Doesn't mean it's wrong if it doesn't answer everything. Religion barely answers ANYTHING. It did however, make a lot of people eventually use it to control people. It was brilliant if left simple in the form of Christianity's "be good to people" studies, but beyond that--- an absolute mess.
Good luck. I talked my way out of returning for a reply.
this video changed my life. thank you
they forgot racism
MrGremble lol I was wondering about that too
We still have plenty of that.
Racism never left.
Ugghh ALL poor people immigrants etc were mistreated .... many people in history have fallen victim to prejudice not just blacks ....
shadowcat 10110 he didnt mention blacks. case an point the start of the video talks about a famine. that famine was an excuse the english ignored the famine an let irish people stave taking food out of the country. racism is more then skin deep forgive but never forget
If I could go back and relive my life, I would. There's nothing I want to change about my past. For my past is what made me who I am today, and I like myself.
You only talk about the Dark Ages (that ended in the 70s) when humans in Europe, England and it's conquests, reached the peak of boredom and stupidity.
Think back. Way back, before humans thought that they are the center and the reason for all that there is.
Yeah, the average caveman would view all the info in this video as 'the top 10 reasons the future is going to be awful'.
Family members sleeping together in one bed is still being done in the most northern regions of Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. Also included were the family cats and dogs. Ever hear of the expression "its going to be a three dog night', meaning the weather is forecasted to be extremely cold to the point that three dogs were needed for their body heat.
#11 - Women didn't shave their snatches.
lmao
Did you just mansplain a wimen xd. Its a joke lol
Truth
Yes, than is largely true - but, interesting factoid, some cultures - particularly in hotter areas - were historically big on waxing. There are references in medieval Spanish literature, for example, about hair removal techniques of cortesans.
make America great......again?
1988 was a pretty good year.
what makes you say that?
It was my birth year and he knows it. ;)
How do you make it great? Only changed thing is the slavery
8:42
They have face covers and so do I
2020 COVID-19
In a heated building the heat tends to move to the top of the room, so a shorter door meant that you lost less heat when you opened it. That's why my grandfather build his house with short doors.
I think the most disturbing fact about life up until 1800-ish is that population growth was small to non existent, BUT the fertility rate was in the range of 6 or 7 children per woman.
I remember that fact really traumatized me when I first learned about it. Personally I would have to nominate the huge reduction in child mortality since the 19th century as the greatest single achievement in human history.
Ah, the good old days, before penicillin!
Number 1 should've been no Simon to give us this information
4:03 the advertisement for 'vibrator therapy' with the slogan, "Vibration is Life". Well, some things never change.... XD
The medical practice of "pelvic massage" was common in prudish Victorian England, and involved doctors bringing women to orgasm through genital manipulation. This is how sexual tensions were relieved, although few referred to it in those terms. The first attempts to create a mechanical solution to the problem led to the eventual development of the modern vibrator.
Said before, I say again: TopTenz is a top online offering! Classy format and content, literate delivery, avoiding tabloid fare like who's good in bed, discretion even with difficult topics. Simon Whistler for President! Don't we wish...
You underestimate how grateful I am to be living in the modern age.
In the UK they at one time placed a tax on the number of windows, leading to smaller and fewer windows.
Even into the 1880s (7:55)...
Into the 1880s? My dad had 4 siblings and his family lived in a 2 room log cabin in the 1940s. Not a 2 bedroom log cabin, a 2 *room* log cabin. One would’ve been the kitchen, family room, dining area. The other would’ve been the bedroom. 7 member family, one tiny bedroom.
Poor families shared one bed long after the 1880s.
Notice I didn’t mention a bathroom? They didn’t have one. My dad remembered how much using an outhouse sucked.