Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Medieval Toilets: The awful truth!" video.

  1. And then he gives up halfway through and starts saying "shit" anyway.
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  2. I had a very similar experience. There are things you can dump on "the pile" as well to reduce the smell very significantly. Lime was used in the outhouse I went to and it was quite bearable. The most annoying part was the rough wooden seat and the flies.
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  3. That game has incredible attention to detail and is more "true to life" than any medieval RPG I've ever played. After reading Franz Schmidt's diary, a famous executioner from late medieval Germany, an offhand line I heard one of the characters say about "the executioner lives outside of town, which is proper as I'm sure you know" suddenly made a lot of sense. The only thing that bothered me slightly was the fact that, while it does try to portray everyone as religious (as they definitely were), they use God's name in vain way too frequently. I believe people used euphemisms quite frequently, and saying "Jesus Christ!" as a swear was almost as bad then as dropping an F-bomb is today.
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  4. There is really a simple answer to any nonsensical use of money throughout history, which is to flaunt your wealth to everyone else. Yes, my castle gets covered in shit stains and I have it whitewashed monthly, what's it to you?
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  5. I've heard that medieval physicians actually knew what diabetes was and how to diagnose it. They would ask the patient to urinate and then taste their urine. If it was sweet, it would therefore have undigested sugar in it, and it would mean they had diabetes (which I've heard was called "honey disease" at the time). Although they didn't know the inner workings of insulin, the pancreas, and so on, they did know that sweet urine was a symptom of serious problems and would recommend the diet be changed accordingly
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