On the topic of eyepatchs for pirates, it actually has some basis in reality. For those curious, it wasn't that pirates were well known for losing eyes, but eyepatches did see some use on ships for a very practical reason. In the era before electric lights, the only reliable lighting were flames or the sun. Sun works fine on the deck of the ship, but its less effective below deck. Flames would work fine, unless you have a ship made out of wood, in which case maybe don't risk turning the only thing keeping you out of the abyss into a flaming death trap. As a result, it wasn't uncommon to have no lighting below deck. Given the cramped quarters of your typical vessel, lack of vision can be a problem during the time between leaving the deck and your eyes adjusting to the lack of light. Hence, if one eye is covered, it's already adjusted to the lack of light and can be used to navigate through the bowels of the ship without knocking over everything that's not nailed down. Or at least that was a tidbit from one of my own history teachers back on the day, and it sounds plausible enough to me.
The Mythbusters actually tested and proved this. I mean, not that they actually did it historically, but that having an eye always in the dark helps with seeing below deck where there's little to no light. Contrast that with the blinding sun on deck (when it was sunny)
@@DieserAIiasIstSchonVergeben One of the big reasons why fire on a ship was one of the worst things that could happen wasn't the fact that they were made out of wood, or even gunpowder. It's the fact that the substance used to seal any cracks, holes and gaps between the boards was tar. It's not easy to put out with water.
Plausible enough for me to use that tactic to great effect. Even though there's modern lighting there are some dark spots in my house where light doesn't reach. I started covering one of my eye for a minute before going and when I'm there i just close one eye and open the other. It actually works.
5:41 when your diet consists of mostly hard tack and salted cow, it doesn't sound like they had a salad bar or fruit stand on the back of the ship. Canned food would revolutionize this whole problem (Excluding the side track down lead poisoning lane due to the early solder in the cans).
There were fruit, veggies and meat on voyages, but those would only last for some days. Then it was dried fish and meat, hard tack... High sugar foods like jelly could last some time but i dont know if it was used on ships
For extra credit in my history class we brought in homemade hardtack, unpopular opinion but it wasn’t so bad only felt like I broke 3 teeth I see that as a absolute win
Strange that when you hear how shitty pirate life was there was Stede Bonnet, the gentleman pirate, who just wanted to be a pirate and gave up his life as a plantation owner with immense wealth. The pirates he had on board where just not fighting him as their captain cause he could pay them without raids or plundering ships. Later he met with his idol Blackbeard and his ship became Blackbeards ship under a new leading man. Bonnet got to be a "guest" on Blackbeards ship (probably as prisoner or hostage). People should remember that pirates weren't nice or smart persons, mostly they prefered living as pirates instead being in a prison waiting to be killed.
There were always exception of the rule, especially after age of pirates ended. So Blackbeard and stuff, when most of them try go legal, so we actually know they stories. But in reality 99% of pirates were literal sea hobos. Lot of misconceptions also is related to privateers, corsairs and to a degree buccaneers. Who were actually closer to mercenaries, who didn't usually do piracy. But "special missions" for the patrons. Those usually were more trained and equipped. They usually operated from Port Royal (buccaneers) and Tortuga (corsairs). Many of them ended as high ranking navy officers. Such as Sir Francis Drake or Captain of the Guards of Port Royal Henry Morgan. This confused many people about true nature of the pirates.
Pirates may have worn an eye patch, bandana, scarf or a piece of cloth over one eye if they thought they'd have to go into the hold so that they'd build up their low light vision to better move around, and all they'd have to do was uncover that eye when going below deck. I don't know if there was any documentation of this.
i do remember that the mythbusters did an episode on this and while of course they cant prove whether or not pirates did this they did confirm that the trick does actually work.
@@woutervanroessel9033 you know that's something i've always wondered just exactly how much does the whole "one eye equals lack of depth perception" thing actual mean because i can keep one eye closed and i can still figure out how far something is from my self and move towards if probably a bit slower then naturally so how much would that affect you for ever day life on ship, the obvious downside in one of the rare battles not needed to be stated.
@@woutervanroessel9033 I don’t think it would be too much of a disadvantage because pirate tactics as Sam discusses in the video just include dozens of pirates boarding a ship and shooting them with pistols or just stabbing them with their sword
The fact that the number of youtube channels focusing on making history interesting is on the rise really makes me love history even more. Kinda like napoleon loving his tall shoes ❤️
Pirates actually only averaged about 3 years before death, and suffered from really bad health. Totally riddled with STDs too. So, all these movies that glamorize Pirates are the opposite of what really happened.
My dad told me a lot of stories of weevils in the food in the US Navy. Not much that could be done about it, since you didn't want to go starving. Just had to deal with it and pick them out if you could. Some ships had it better than others and I guess it got better over the years, but it was still something that was a thing in the 90s-00s.
The Eye patch thing wasn't from lost eyes, it was cause they had no lights below deck, the patch made sure one eye was adapted to darkness so they could find stuff easily. Also why they all don't wear eye patches, just the guys you send below deck.
I don't know if anyone commented on the scurvy part but British Sailors used to get their vitamin C by consuming Limes on journeys. It's where the term "Limey" comes from.
Pirates were alchoolics. They lived in a time That it was pretty common to drink at work It also helped a lot, having alchool in water killed bactéria, and water lasted longuer. And if you squesed some limes on That water, you didnt need to worry about scurvy.
Limes just don't have as much vitamin c as lemons and the British and French refused to go through the extra every supporting their troops. This logic held through as the British Navy wanted and the workers took up work as pirates.
I think I remember a pirate drink, if not just a drink for sailors Basically you take some water, add some alcohol to prevent it from spoiling, add some citrus to battle scurvy, and some sugar to make it palatable if not taste better
It reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman wants to be a pirate and thinks it's like the swashbuckling Caribbean pirates in the movies, when in reality they went to Somalia and it was miserable.
Yo Mr. Terry. I just got PRK (the other eye surgery) a few months ago and I feel you on those dry eyes. I also got BluBlox at around the same time. I love their blue light glasses.
I heard a story where an English captain was looking for a way to prevent scurvy and heard that German sailors didn't get it as often. Somehow he came to the conclusion that it was because of all the sauerkraut they ate and so would order barrels of the stuff to take on their voyages. However he knew he wouldn't be able to convince his crew to eat the 'nasty foreign food' so he set the barrels out on the deck and marked them *For Officers Only.* Sure enough, although he never saw any of his crew eating it, the barrels' contents slowly emptied. I don't know if the treatment worked or not, but it is an amusing story.
They called the British limeys because their sailors would bring limes aboard. Whether or not their buoyancy of limes will save you at sea, they do ward off scurvy.
they put it in their grog unfortunately for them when they switched from lemons to limes they actually made themselves more likely to get scurvy as limes have much less of the stuff that prevents it.
I know that in the Swedish Uboat Navy they use eye patches so they can adapt to darkness fully, which helps when looking out in the water at night time.
on a whim I got blue light blocking on a pair of glasses once (a bit easier if you already need glasses anyway), would 100% recommend. Gotten it on every pair since.
What about Hammocks and they would take a ships cat to deal with the rats,they put rum in the water to keep it fresh , Grog, they would also take Limes etc to stop scurvy
Sure you could buy blue light glasses, but you could also just lower the blue output of your monitor. Specifically you can "raise the color temperature" of a monitor under windows settings to lower blue light immensely.
I also highly recommend the freeware f.lux for this purpose too. I know it's great on Windows and I'm fairly sure they've got Mac OS and probably Linux versions too.
That said, sometimes for people who are mega sensitive, or who only find they want the filtering for certain activities, or have to work on shared/inconsistent computer stations for whatever reason, glasses can still be useful. Also great if your room lighting has lots of blue in it to keep you nice and awake with full-spectrum during the day, and you want to have the room light on to work late or whatever but don't want to get stimulated by as much blue light nearing bedtime. (I'm personally MEGA sensitive to blue light and it contributes to me being unable to sleep for hours after I last get a decent dose of it, so I have to be mindful)
We have to remember that most if not all pirates were former navy sailors. So many of these things are not entirely true. Crews took care of their ships and didn't sleep on the floors. Ships had bunks for sleeping. Food and water spoilage was a big issue though.
@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 I could he wrong, but the advan advantage there was speed yes? They could come in and harass the bigger ships and run away quickly if they but off more than they could chew.
@@AnimeSquirrel yes, they used small ships due to the higher speed of them, but I think the downside would be to have no proper place to sleep, other than the deck.
Its hard to presever fruits and veggies, its why they got Sour Krout, and limes. Hence the nicknames for germans and british. Its because germans used sour krout which was pickled so it lasted better and had vitiman c, and limes seem rot slower, and british used those.
Alcoholism is no joke, but I should point out he was making a reference to the song "Down with the Sickness" by the band Disturbed. Hence his line "I may be *Disturbed* but alcoholism is one *Sickness* I can *Get Down* with".
I heard they did wear eye patches to see better below deck cause that eye is used to the darkness so you don't have to spend minutes to see something in the dark
When I was learning photography- was informed that MOST people's eyes are NOT white (the sclera i mean) but most media removes the red veins in the eyes to make it more pleasing.
A few points in this video I’d like to shed some light on. 1. Pirates in the Caribbean typically only pillaged a few areas. And most used smaller ships like Sloops, so most of them wouldn’t have been out on the water for very long. 2. Because of their often short voyages they could actually keep a lot of lavish and tasty foods like fruit aboard their boats. 3. Scurvy while talked about a whole bunch wasn’t actually very common because of a pirate’s often lavish diets. 4. Barring the captain’s cabin, you could actually sleep wherever you wanted on a pirate ship, you didn’t have to sleep below deck. 5. Boarding combat could be brutal and grueling, but like he points out it hardly ever came to that. Fire on them with their cannons until they surrendered, or clear the decks with grenades, but you’d best hope you never actually fought on deck. 6. Such brutality on the part of a pirate was EXTREMELY rare, and most that would do something like that were often considered total nutcases by the crew. Bonus. There is one thing that absolutely cannot defend about the pirate life, or life on any ship for that matter. It was there HORRIBLE BATHROOMS I mean seriously, who wants to use a COMMUNAL SWAB to wipe!
Also most pirates did not execute their hostages, no pirate worth his salt would ever do something so stupid, unless it was personal. Most of the time they’d just maroon them on an island, give them a small ship to sail back to land, or press them in service. Pirates often favored the last one, quite a bit.
I wear glasses/contacts over 20 years by now, 3 years back i got blue light filter in my glasses and i'm never going back. Not great for daily life and outside etc (reflections are pretty bad, and blue sometimes), but perfect for behind the pc. If i play for 2 hours now without the glasses my eyes begin to hurt, But when i put the glasses on there is instant relief
“Felix Gray” “Felix Gray” “money back” “helps block 15% more blue light” “you can tell immediately” “Felix Gray” In unrelated comments, has anyone noticed this video isn’t sponsored?
"Yeah, we had a crewmate who decided to swing across into the enemy rigging with his cutlass clenched in his teeth..."Topless Harry", we wrote on the coffin."
You don't need to block blue light. You just need to reduce the brightness of your screen. Calibrating it will help, too, if it is tuned too far on the blue side (a lot are by defaults because you get the cooler white look).
You NEED to react to the 2 videos about pirates from CGP Gray. Because, yes, it Sucked, but like everything else on that time, and thats why CGP videos give a bit more context. Also, they are a lot of fun
This reminds me of a Robot Chicken clip. The guy is trying to fulfill his wife's "realistic" pirate sex fantasy, and begins vividly describing scurvy, rickets and all sorts of parasites.
If you wanna learn more about what people ate back in the day and food preservation methods then I'd recommend Tasting History with Max Miller and Townsends. They both cover hardtack and salted meat. Spoiler alert: they don't taste great, as they're basically emergency rations. People back in the day didn't eat it every day, not of they could help it; and they would usually preserve meat by keeping it alive as long as possible, because in order to eat salted meat you need to soak it in water several times to get enough of the salt out of it to make it edible.
Human eyes did not evolve for close in work, but since the days of writing…those who did such work have required magnification…in the distant past they used crystals or glass magnification…but they didn’t have glasses per say…it eventually became a thing by the 11th/12th century in the Arab world…and spread to Europe…
What I fond funny is that very little about this video is actually about pirates and just describes how shitty life was for sailors in general at the time. Why is it that they didn't bring potted plants with them? A few good sized tomato plants would have prevented scurvy. I suppose you'd need to dip into the fresh water supplies to keep them growing but still.
It would only be mildly worse than general ship life, the problem is not so much the difference in the day to day life, but the fact that pirate ships would stay at sea for much longer at a time than most other ships. Considering the golden era of piracy was right around the same time as shit and filth flowed freely through most city streets, it was at the end of the breakdown of European bathing culture which happend in the 16th century because of a syphilis pandemic, all in all life was just pretty filthy back then, not to mention the nasty shit people would do at a Kings court, for example plenty of rulers had rules that if you were invited for dinner then it would be a great insult to not finish the 15-30 course meal, so some castles had puke troughs in the hallways, so people could make room. The 16th century to the early 19th century were the most disgusting centuries in European history, bar none.
The only slightly better circumstance as a pirate would be on a privateers ship. Privateers were simply Pirates that a country would sponsor to attack that countries enemies without being charged for piracy in the sponsors country. Another note is that most pirates that were around during the American slave trade would attack slave ships and take the slaves as crew. While the former captured weren't given much of a choice about joining the crew, they were also not slaves as they would be given a share as any other member of the crew would be given. If the crew was too full to take them on, they would allow them to take the conquered ships dinghys and make their own way. Pirates rarely had to employ Brutality as the video said, the ships crew most of the time gave up (unless it was a military or particularly surly crewed ship). If the crew surrendered, pirates most likely looted the ships and let the crew continue on their way as there would be no reason to expend the extra effort. Scurvy was a major issue as unlike meats and hardtack, fruits and veggies could not be preserved (beyond jamming) and crews weren't exactly skilled in such things.
1:55 he says it blocks 15x more blue light but what’s it being compared to? Exactly, not having the glasses. Stay with me here, not wearing the glasses blocks 0 of the blue light so if wearing the glasses blocks 15 TIMES more would be 0 x 15 = 0. Hence, the glasses do nothing and just make Mr. Terry look smarter and younger
For me personally, I wasn't interested in becoming a pirate as a kid, because A) I was introduced to them via _Peter Pan_ , where they're rightfully depicted as the bad guys (albiet in a G-rated way, again), and B) I didn't even know pirates were real until I read about them in an encyclopedia. Again, probably because I was introduced to them through a movie where some kid kidnaps a bunch of other kids to go to some fantasy land where mermaids and racist caricatures exist. That, and through some Australian kids band who also have a herbivorous allosaur and a talking octopus as their mascots.
Would YOU want to be a pirate?
No
Yes. Most definitely not 🤣
No
Never.
Probably not.
On the topic of eyepatchs for pirates, it actually has some basis in reality.
For those curious, it wasn't that pirates were well known for losing eyes, but eyepatches did see some use on ships for a very practical reason. In the era before electric lights, the only reliable lighting were flames or the sun. Sun works fine on the deck of the ship, but its less effective below deck. Flames would work fine, unless you have a ship made out of wood, in which case maybe don't risk turning the only thing keeping you out of the abyss into a flaming death trap.
As a result, it wasn't uncommon to have no lighting below deck. Given the cramped quarters of your typical vessel, lack of vision can be a problem during the time between leaving the deck and your eyes adjusting to the lack of light. Hence, if one eye is covered, it's already adjusted to the lack of light and can be used to navigate through the bowels of the ship without knocking over everything that's not nailed down.
Or at least that was a tidbit from one of my own history teachers back on the day, and it sounds plausible enough to me.
The Mythbusters actually tested and proved this. I mean, not that they actually did it historically, but that having an eye always in the dark helps with seeing below deck where there's little to no light. Contrast that with the blinding sun on deck (when it was sunny)
@@DieserAIiasIstSchonVergeben One of the big reasons why fire on a ship was one of the worst things that could happen wasn't the fact that they were made out of wood, or even gunpowder. It's the fact that the substance used to seal any cracks, holes and gaps between the boards was tar. It's not easy to put out with water.
Wow, thanks for these!
Plausible enough for me to use that tactic to great effect.
Even though there's modern lighting there are some dark spots in my house where light doesn't reach.
I started covering one of my eye for a minute before going and when I'm there i just close one eye and open the other.
It actually works.
@@andregon4366 I actually have an eyepatch myself 😅 I don't use it as much as I used to, but I have it
"i might just be disturbed, but that's a sickness i can definitely get down to" (Down With The Sickness by Disturbed blasts in the background )
*OHH-WAH-AH-AH-AH*
Get.. a get down with the sickness
And thats the first time I got that joke. Thank you
OH SHI-
OH OH
5:41 when your diet consists of mostly hard tack and salted cow, it doesn't sound like they had a salad bar or fruit stand on the back of the ship. Canned food would revolutionize this whole problem (Excluding the side track down lead poisoning lane due to the early solder in the cans).
Exactly it, food preservation technology was not amenable to a lot of vitamin c in your diet in situations where you couldn't go scavenging.
Add lemon juice to the rum.
It gives flavour and adds vitamins to it.
Which was what some sea men used to do back in the day.
There were fruit, veggies and meat on voyages, but those would only last for some days. Then it was dried fish and meat, hard tack... High sugar foods like jelly could last some time but i dont know if it was used on ships
Is this why fruit become some OP item in one piece?
For extra credit in my history class we brought in homemade hardtack, unpopular opinion but it wasn’t so bad only felt like I broke 3 teeth I see that as a absolute win
Maybe you have pirate lineage
@@artsysabs I’ve been known to snuggle a few rats in my day
@@azkot9439 a few
*banging hard tack clip*
@@Kios_Antares tasting history reference?
Genuinely just one of the best channels out there, sam makes such wholesome videos, and Mr. Terry picks the happiest frames for the thumbnails :D
Truly wholesome
Not sure if wholesome is the word I would use, but other than that I agree with you 😅😅
Strange that when you hear how shitty pirate life was there was Stede Bonnet, the gentleman pirate, who just wanted to be a pirate and gave up his life as a plantation owner with immense wealth. The pirates he had on board where just not fighting him as their captain cause he could pay them without raids or plundering ships. Later he met with his idol Blackbeard and his ship became Blackbeards ship under a new leading man. Bonnet got to be a "guest" on Blackbeards ship (probably as prisoner or hostage). People should remember that pirates weren't nice or smart persons, mostly they prefered living as pirates instead being in a prison waiting to be killed.
I recommend Internet Historian’s video on this topic
There were always exception of the rule, especially after age of pirates ended. So Blackbeard and stuff, when most of them try go legal, so we actually know they stories. But in reality 99% of pirates were literal sea hobos.
Lot of misconceptions also is related to privateers, corsairs and to a degree buccaneers. Who were actually closer to mercenaries, who didn't usually do piracy. But "special missions" for the patrons. Those usually were more trained and equipped. They usually operated from Port Royal (buccaneers) and Tortuga (corsairs). Many of them ended as high ranking navy officers. Such as Sir Francis Drake or Captain of the Guards of Port Royal Henry Morgan.
This confused many people about true nature of the pirates.
Pirates may have worn an eye patch, bandana, scarf or a piece of cloth over one eye if they thought they'd have to go into the hold so that they'd build up their low light vision to better move around, and all they'd have to do was uncover that eye when going below deck. I don't know if there was any documentation of this.
i do remember that the mythbusters did an episode on this and while of course they cant prove whether or not pirates did this they did confirm that the trick does actually work.
@@NerdKing2nd As someone who has to wear an eyepatch foe extended periods I can confirm it works.
Although it would be a disadvantage to wear one, as you lose the ability to see depth
@@woutervanroessel9033 you know that's something i've always wondered just exactly how much does the whole "one eye equals lack of depth perception" thing actual mean because i can keep one eye closed and i can still figure out how far something is from my self and move towards if probably a bit slower then naturally so how much would that affect you for ever day life on ship, the obvious downside in one of the rare battles not needed to be stated.
@@woutervanroessel9033 I don’t think it would be too much of a disadvantage because pirate tactics as Sam discusses in the video just include dozens of pirates boarding a ship and shooting them with pistols or just stabbing them with their sword
Was not expecting Sam to make a Disturbed joke.
He did: "If this is disease I can definitly get down with".
@@dinamosflams yeah I think that was what Brody was references with this comment.
Tbh I think he’s the MOST likely RUclips to make a Disturbed joke
The fact that the number of youtube channels focusing on making history interesting is on the rise really makes me love history even more. Kinda like napoleon loving his tall shoes ❤️
The eyepatch was actually practical; seeing as the inner parts of the ship were dimly lit it helped to have an eye adjusted to the low light level.
So glad to have Mr. Terry as my history teacher last year. Super fun class and I learned a lot. Thank you Mr. Terry! Good luck with the channel🙏
Pirates actually only averaged about 3 years before death, and suffered from really bad health. Totally riddled with STDs too. So, all these movies that glamorize Pirates are the opposite of what really happened.
My dad told me a lot of stories of weevils in the food in the US Navy.
Not much that could be done about it, since you didn't want to go starving. Just had to deal with it and pick them out if you could. Some ships had it better than others and I guess it got better over the years, but it was still something that was a thing in the 90s-00s.
It's been so long since I seen mr. Terry with glasses that I genuinely forgot that's how he started with.
The Eye patch thing wasn't from lost eyes, it was cause they had no lights below deck, the patch made sure one eye was adapted to darkness so they could find stuff easily.
Also why they all don't wear eye patches, just the guys you send below deck.
First a VTH vid now my mans Mr. Terry. My history bug is EATING TODAY YESSSIRRRR
There's nothing wrong with some Chris and then follow it up with some Terry. I just wish Adam came back to do more video.
I don't know if anyone commented on the scurvy part but British Sailors used to get their vitamin C by consuming Limes on journeys. It's where the term "Limey" comes from.
Sam O'nella is ridiculously entertaining for how crude it's done. Good contrast
Pirates were alchoolics.
They lived in a time That it was pretty common to drink at work
It also helped a lot, having alchool in water killed bactéria, and water lasted longuer. And if you squesed some limes on That water, you didnt need to worry about scurvy.
Until you run out of limes.
Limes just don't have as much vitamin c as lemons and the British and French refused to go through the extra every supporting their troops. This logic held through as the British Navy wanted and the workers took up work as pirates.
Fun fact, those are UV glasses, actual blue light glasses are amber colored. Because blue light is visible...
I think I remember a pirate drink, if not just a drink for sailors
Basically you take some water, add some alcohol to prevent it from spoiling, add some citrus to battle scurvy, and some sugar to make it palatable if not taste better
Grog. You got grog.
Yes this is one of my favorite videos of sams
giving some hardtack out to the class is a pretty cool thing to do in a history class I think especially when you're covering the civil war
It reminds me of the South Park episode where Cartman wants to be a pirate and thinks it's like the swashbuckling Caribbean pirates in the movies, when in reality they went to Somalia and it was miserable.
I miss Sam O' Nella so much
Same
He’s back
This guy is probably one of if not my favorite history RUclips channel and he deserves every subscriber he gets
I like when he had Disturbed's mascot over his face when he said "i may just be disturbed" lol
I learned back in history class that an eyepatch was worn to keep your night vision when going above and below deck
Yo Mr. Terry. I just got PRK (the other eye surgery) a few months ago and I feel you on those dry eyes. I also got BluBlox at around the same time. I love their blue light glasses.
I heard a story where an English captain was looking for a way to prevent scurvy and heard that German sailors didn't get it as often. Somehow he came to the conclusion that it was because of all the sauerkraut they ate and so would order barrels of the stuff to take on their voyages. However he knew he wouldn't be able to convince his crew to eat the 'nasty foreign food' so he set the barrels out on the deck and marked them *For Officers Only.* Sure enough, although he never saw any of his crew eating it, the barrels' contents slowly emptied.
I don't know if the treatment worked or not, but it is an amusing story.
It works, Sauerkraut has a lot of vitamin C and doesn't spoil as fast as lime juice or other treatments.
Very subtle ad placement, flowed nicely. Honestly best ad read on youtube because I didnt even realize it was an ad at first
Gets Lasik to get rid of glasses, ends up needing glasses becasuse of Lasik.
The funny thing is that my online alias for rpgs is actually felix grey
They called the British limeys because their sailors would bring limes aboard. Whether or not their buoyancy of limes will save you at sea, they do ward off scurvy.
they put it in their grog unfortunately for them when they switched from lemons to limes they actually made themselves more likely to get scurvy as limes have much less of the stuff that prevents it.
I know that in the Swedish Uboat Navy they use eye patches so they can adapt to darkness fully, which helps when looking out in the water at night time.
Why is it that even if I’ve watched the original video, I still learn something whenever I watch this guy
1:44
Thx for indirektly reminding me to put off my Glasses during playing Switch.
I am just thankful for that 😅
You should also check CGP Grey’s How to be a Pirate
"that's my hair"
*cuts to the one with his hair blowing a dude*
...
"OKAY"
on a whim I got blue light blocking on a pair of glasses once (a bit easier if you already need glasses anyway), would 100% recommend. Gotten it on every pair since.
Hopefully Sam will start posting again soon!
We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day
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@@BylethsBoba776 ye
What about Hammocks and they would take a ships cat to deal with the rats,they put rum in the water to keep it fresh , Grog, they would also take Limes etc to stop scurvy
Sam O’ Nella
Salmonella lol
The food was like chewing a shoe? That's where the joke with sailors eating boots came from I'm sure
Sure you could buy blue light glasses, but you could also just lower the blue output of your monitor. Specifically you can "raise the color temperature" of a monitor under windows settings to lower blue light immensely.
I got blue light glasses but all they give me is a headache 😅
I also highly recommend the freeware f.lux for this purpose too. I know it's great on Windows and I'm fairly sure they've got Mac OS and probably Linux versions too.
That said, sometimes for people who are mega sensitive, or who only find they want the filtering for certain activities, or have to work on shared/inconsistent computer stations for whatever reason, glasses can still be useful. Also great if your room lighting has lots of blue in it to keep you nice and awake with full-spectrum during the day, and you want to have the room light on to work late or whatever but don't want to get stimulated by as much blue light nearing bedtime. (I'm personally MEGA sensitive to blue light and it contributes to me being unable to sleep for hours after I last get a decent dose of it, so I have to be mindful)
There is a book call
Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition by B. R. Burg. is a real book.
My dad was raided by pirates before. He survived but they went back home with a shitty boat
We have to remember that most if not all pirates were former navy sailors. So many of these things are not entirely true. Crews took care of their ships and didn't sleep on the floors. Ships had bunks for sleeping. Food and water spoilage was a big issue though.
true, but then again, most pirate ships were like sloops, which are way smaller than the warships they fought against.
@@maximilianolimamoreira5002 I could he wrong, but the advan advantage there was speed yes? They could come in and harass the bigger ships and run away quickly if they but off more than they could chew.
@@AnimeSquirrel yes, they used small ships due to the higher speed of them, but I think the downside would be to have no proper place to sleep, other than the deck.
Its hard to presever fruits and veggies, its why they got Sour Krout, and limes. Hence the nicknames for germans and british. Its because germans used sour krout which was pickled so it lasted better and had vitiman c, and limes seem rot slower, and british used those.
I haven’t watched you in a long while and boy am I glad to be back
If I copy a DVD in Barbados would I be a pirate of the Caribbean?
yes
nice
Seeing Mr. Terry without a hat is like being at school during night
Alcoholism is no joke, but I should point out he was making a reference to the song "Down with the Sickness" by the band Disturbed. Hence his line "I may be *Disturbed* but alcoholism is one *Sickness* I can *Get Down* with".
I heard they did wear eye patches to see better below deck cause that eye is used to the darkness so you don't have to spend minutes to see something in the dark
im happy you finaly reacted to this, this was my 1st video ever wached by sam onella
2:38 I think he messed up.
I wish I had Mr. Terry as my History teacher when I was still in school. I probably would've gotten straight 💯's.
When I was learning photography- was informed that MOST people's eyes are NOT white (the sclera i mean) but most media removes the red veins in the eyes to make it more pleasing.
My man straight up avoiding the taxes on those taxes as a bussiness expence, i respect the hustle
Watching this instead of doing my history notes
Notes first, unless it's about pirates...
Like the trans flag Chloe
I believe the fruits with vitamin C would spoil quickly so it wasn’t a good idea to bring for long voyages
A few points in this video I’d like to shed some light on. 1. Pirates in the Caribbean typically only pillaged a few areas. And most used smaller ships like Sloops, so most of them wouldn’t have been out on the water for very long. 2. Because of their often short voyages they could actually keep a lot of lavish and tasty foods like fruit aboard their boats. 3. Scurvy while talked about a whole bunch wasn’t actually very common because of a pirate’s often lavish diets. 4. Barring the captain’s cabin, you could actually sleep wherever you wanted on a pirate ship, you didn’t have to sleep below deck. 5. Boarding combat could be brutal and grueling, but like he points out it hardly ever came to that. Fire on them with their cannons until they surrendered, or clear the decks with grenades, but you’d best hope you never actually fought on deck. 6. Such brutality on the part of a pirate was EXTREMELY rare, and most that would do something like that were often considered total nutcases by the crew. Bonus. There is one thing that absolutely cannot defend about the pirate life, or life on any ship for that matter. It was there HORRIBLE BATHROOMS I mean seriously, who wants to use a COMMUNAL SWAB to wipe!
Also most pirates did not execute their hostages, no pirate worth his salt would ever do something so stupid, unless it was personal. Most of the time they’d just maroon them on an island, give them a small ship to sail back to land, or press them in service. Pirates often favored the last one, quite a bit.
Yay! Glasses Mr. Terry is back!
Lol the lamnas bread joke got me
They got scurvy because you couldn’t preserve fruits back then obviously without fridge, so that led to most pirates not eating fruit
I wear glasses/contacts over 20 years by now, 3 years back i got blue light filter in my glasses and i'm never going back.
Not great for daily life and outside etc (reflections are pretty bad, and blue sometimes), but perfect for behind the pc.
If i play for 2 hours now without the glasses my eyes begin to hurt, But when i put the glasses on there is instant relief
“Felix Gray” “Felix Gray” “money back” “helps block 15% more blue light” “you can tell immediately” “Felix Gray”
In unrelated comments, has anyone noticed this video isn’t sponsored?
You look clean with those fits my guy. I hope it is appropriate for what u got it for.
How to prevent scurvy: eat one single orange...ever.
"Yeah, we had a crewmate who decided to swing across into the enemy rigging with his cutlass clenched in his teeth..."Topless Harry", we wrote on the coffin."
Scurvy was rampant because they did not eat enough fruits and veggies. That was impossible at sea, unless you had dried fruits or something like that.
Straight up looking like Drew Carey now! 🤓
You don't need to block blue light.
You just need to reduce the brightness of your screen. Calibrating it will help, too, if it is tuned too far on the blue side (a lot are by defaults because you get the cooler white look).
5:51 they made this reference in pvz gw2 where you have to hunt oranges cuz ol’ deadbeard had low vitamin C
You NEED to react to the 2 videos about pirates from CGP Gray.
Because, yes, it Sucked, but like everything else on that time, and thats why CGP videos give a bit more context.
Also, they are a lot of fun
This reminds me of a Robot Chicken clip. The guy is trying to fulfill his wife's "realistic" pirate sex fantasy, and begins vividly describing scurvy, rickets and all sorts of parasites.
Rickets is what kids get. As an adult, you’re more likely to get scurvy or pellagra.
Mr. Terry, have you played Return of the Obra Dinn? If not, any plans to play it on the channel?
Red eyes? Your bong is still up on the shelf.
Pirate Latitudes is a great read for anyone interested in the pirate life.
Another Sam o nella!
Sam or in the! -RUclips
i love the chromebook because you can turn off blue light and i always have it off
Pirates are just the gangbangers of the age of sail.
I am not sure which type of pirate would be worse to deal with on the waters. The classic style pirates or the Somalian style pirates.
If you wanna learn more about what people ate back in the day and food preservation methods then I'd recommend Tasting History with Max Miller and Townsends. They both cover hardtack and salted meat.
Spoiler alert: they don't taste great, as they're basically emergency rations. People back in the day didn't eat it every day, not of they could help it; and they would usually preserve meat by keeping it alive as long as possible, because in order to eat salted meat you need to soak it in water several times to get enough of the salt out of it to make it edible.
Human eyes did not evolve for close in work, but since the days of writing…those who did such work have required magnification…in the distant past they used crystals or glass magnification…but they didn’t have glasses per say…it eventually became a thing by the 11th/12th century in the Arab world…and spread to Europe…
Terry you know who you remind me of with those glasses? Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys hehe :D
one word for sleeping
Hammocks
What I fond funny is that very little about this video is actually about pirates and just describes how shitty life was for sailors in general at the time.
Why is it that they didn't bring potted plants with them? A few good sized tomato plants would have prevented scurvy. I suppose you'd need to dip into the fresh water supplies to keep them growing but still.
How many people can be fed by one tomato plant?
@@MouldMadeMind Not as the exclusive source of nutrition, just enough to fend off scurvy.
@@BJGvideos how many?
@@MouldMadeMind What am I, a nutritionist? But the presence of tomatoes or similar fruits in the diet of a sailor would be a boon.
Question being, how does pirate life compare to general ship life? Or, even just life in general in those ages?
It would only be mildly worse than general ship life, the problem is not so much the difference in the day to day life, but the fact that pirate ships would stay at sea for much longer at a time than most other ships.
Considering the golden era of piracy was right around the same time as shit and filth flowed freely through most city streets, it was at the end of the breakdown of European bathing culture which happend in the 16th century because of a syphilis pandemic, all in all life was just pretty filthy back then, not to mention the nasty shit people would do at a Kings court, for example plenty of rulers had rules that if you were invited for dinner then it would be a great insult to not finish the 15-30 course meal, so some castles had puke troughs in the hallways, so people could make room.
The 16th century to the early 19th century were the most disgusting centuries in European history, bar none.
The only slightly better circumstance as a pirate would be on a privateers ship. Privateers were simply Pirates that a country would sponsor to attack that countries enemies without being charged for piracy in the sponsors country.
Another note is that most pirates that were around during the American slave trade would attack slave ships and take the slaves as crew. While the former captured weren't given much of a choice about joining the crew, they were also not slaves as they would be given a share as any other member of the crew would be given. If the crew was too full to take them on, they would allow them to take the conquered ships dinghys and make their own way.
Pirates rarely had to employ Brutality as the video said, the ships crew most of the time gave up (unless it was a military or particularly surly crewed ship). If the crew surrendered, pirates most likely looted the ships and let the crew continue on their way as there would be no reason to expend the extra effort.
Scurvy was a major issue as unlike meats and hardtack, fruits and veggies could not be preserved (beyond jamming) and crews weren't exactly skilled in such things.
1:55 he says it blocks 15x more blue light but what’s it being compared to? Exactly, not having the glasses. Stay with me here, not wearing the glasses blocks 0 of the blue light so if wearing the glasses blocks 15 TIMES more would be 0 x 15 = 0. Hence, the glasses do nothing and just make Mr. Terry look smarter and younger
Meth
Fun thing about rats: Wharf rats can be 25 pounds and infested with disease to the point where a single claw swipe could poison you fatally.
So it would be AMAZING to be a pirate is what I'm hearing
i just got blue lights and then i watched this video neat stuff
Those glasses don't block any blue light. If they did they wouldn't be completely transparent to visible light! Blue light is visible, who knew
You are the 3rd person i see this week with the exact same glasses ^^
For me personally, I wasn't interested in becoming a pirate as a kid, because A) I was introduced to them via _Peter Pan_ , where they're rightfully depicted as the bad guys (albiet in a G-rated way, again), and B) I didn't even know pirates were real until I read about them in an encyclopedia. Again, probably because I was introduced to them through a movie where some kid kidnaps a bunch of other kids to go to some fantasy land where mermaids and racist caricatures exist. That, and through some Australian kids band who also have a herbivorous allosaur and a talking octopus as their mascots.
Pirates can’t eat fruit, can preserve fruit with salt
I miss ur old shelf with all the cartridges.. What happend with them?