Comments by "Annoying B\x27stard" (@annoyingbstard9407) on "Fact Feast" channel.

  1. There seems to be a misplaced idea that London was the cause of poverty. The truth is the poor came to London because it was far, far better than being poor in the countryside.
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  2. I love your videos…the commentary always sounds like an early version of a Grauniad columnist sending in his copy before flying down to his Tuscan villa for the weekend.
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  3. As a bit of an aside the painting you show at 2:00 is actually called the Amateur Circus - which was a real-life circus in Paris featuring performers who claimed to be French nobility. The artist, Tissot, returned to France after the death of his lover in London. It was a turbulent period following France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian war and there was even talk of the French monarchy being reinstated. Tissot trod a bit of a tightrope as this painting shows the “nobility” riding high on their trapezes while the poor, broken down British clown is mocked and ridiculed. There’s no better way of getting onside with the French than by denigrating their rivals allies across La Manche.
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  4. Social gawking may have been fashionable in the Victorian era but it never went out of fashion. The Guardian still does it today, horrified at families who don’t have an au pair and nanny.
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  5. Viewing the workhouse from our now comfortable lives they may seem almost barbaric but they were a massive step forward, both for the individual and society, than just a decade earlier. My grandfather was born in a workhouse in 1889. His mother lived until the 1930s so was able to tell my family of the circumstances which were quite straightforward - without the workhouse she and he would have had no medical care or a roof over their head and would in all probability have died. For the poor going to the workhouse for relief,especially for those requiring some medical attention, was the norm. Victorian London was a mass of people who flocked to the city for the simple reason that life there was better than rural life where the poor had no care, food or housing. Workhouses were one of the main reasons the rural poor headed for the towns and cities.
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  6. Never forget….poor people flocked to London because it was better than the life they had in the countryside.
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  7. A) Edward, contrary to rumours, was never referred to as “her” and B) he was actually rather trim.
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  8. Looks like educational standards have already collapsed.
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  9. Wrong century dear.
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  10. They must be getting on a bit now.
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  11.  @insertwittynamehere8947 . Hardly, if they didn’t enter the workhouse they would have certainly died. So many people are totally ignorant of the good they did.
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  12. No. Doss come from D(own) and O(ut)s - which was how they were referred to by the police, courts and press.
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  13. That’s your garden that is. That’s where you have your barbecues.
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  14. That’s your mum that is.
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  15. Loot?
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  16.  @FactFeast  I didn’t mean you! I mean when you quote contemporary commentators who seem to use such excessively flowery language in their horror and outrage that I have to suspect it to be the earliest recorded form of virtue signalling.
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  17. What was there before the workhouse?
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