Can you go to the toilet in medieval armour? (and other funny stories)

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Published 2021-03-16

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  • @Ironsix6six
    sleeping in armor is "A bad Knights sleep" lul
  • @matbroomfield
    If there's one thing Heath Ledger has taught me, it's that any old peasant kid can become a world-class jouster in a single comical montage.
  • @SamBrickell
    The last time I pooped in armor they kicked me out of the museum.
  • @AFatalPapercut
    I was stationed in Büdingen, Germany for a few years and one time I was walking around the main town area and could hear what sounded like someone crushing a ton of soda cans in the distance, or better yet, it sounded like someone swinging a trashbag full of sodacans against another trashbag full of sodacans. It was a rather loud, metallic, crunchy sound that echoed through the narrow streets. I walked around to the old medieval gate area in the town and realized the sound I was hearing was actually 4 or 5 dudes all in full armor re-enacting a fight. I instantly realized that if the armor of those 4-5 dudes were making that much noise, It would've been insanely loud with thousands of people doing it. And that was JUST the sound of the armor moving around, not hundreds of swords hitting, dudes yelling/screaming/cursing, etc. Just dudes reenacting, not an actual battle and it was still very very loud all things considered...I'm glad I got a pic of them, they looked sharp in their gear.
  • @iweinjoos6694
    Alternative title: "Here, I answered them, now let me drink my ale in peace at a festival."
  • We did an event a few summers ago and we had to use cooking gloves to take peoples helmets off.
  • @EcoCurious
    Jason 'Never been unhorsed' Kingsley. Nice flex :P
  • @Quazi-moto
    Fighting those old battles had to be a nightmare in and of itself. But fighting in one while also battling bubble guts HAD to be the ultimate in 'having a bad day.'
  • @WookieChef
    "The people with the worst view of the joust are the two jousters." Why is that so hilarious, haha.
  • @TobyVenables
    "Why didn't armies use gigantic magnets against knights?"
  • @metatronyt
    You look absolutely Stunning in your armour. My Milanese set Is finally on its way to my door. I'll porbabky Ask you a thing or two about proper maintenance, as I see your kit is still in Prestine conditions. Anyhow very very interesting practical answers from real experience. Loved It.
  • The debate over visor open vs visor closed has a modern parallel in the decision of tank crews to fight closed or open hatch. Closed hatch offers much more protection, especially from artillery, but at the same time, the additional situational awareness from the tank commander fighting out of the hatch can shave seconds off an engagement time or prevent the tank from going into a ditch.
  • @matbroomfield
    "I wear this for festivals and events sometimes and there are questions that I always get asked." Children at Pokemon festival "Mummy, why is that man wearing armour?"
  • "It gets incredibly cold in cold weather and incredibly hot in hot weather." Sounds like my apartment. 🥲
  • @nuvostef
    Your torment at the...”hands” of a fly caused me to laugh, not only because of your description, but because once when in dress USAF uniform, bloused trousers, white boot laces, white ascot and gloves, and hands completely occupied holding the national ensign aloft, a fly chose that moment to land on my right eyeball. It then executed a loop and vanished from view right up my right nostril. Fortunately, a modest snort ejected the beast but he then landed on the left corner of my mouth, which was a bit distasteful and caused me to instinctively curl that side of my mouth inward and upward in a bizarre grimace. So there I am all spit ‘n polish with VIPs and generals and possibly the ghost of Curtis Lemay himself eyeballing us intensely, and I’ve got one eye squeezed shut, my lip all twisted out of anything like a normal expression, and it was at that moment that a crystal clear Technicolor mental image popped into my mind and I was convinced that everyone was staring at my Popeye The Sailor impression. 🤣 As always, I love your viddies and your channel. Thank you, sir. 🌹🤙🏼
  • @GravesRWFiA
    I've re-enacted the american revolution for nearly 30 years. We always get asked 'aren't you hot in that" was we wear waist coats, coats and bearskin hat. At the battle of monmouth in 1778 the heat was so high more men were dropped by heat than bullets.and that was just in wool coats.
  • @garrick3727
    If Jason rides around in front of the Queen wearing armour, maybe he will get leveled-up to KBE. He has a horse, he has the armour, he can joust - I mean, is anyone better qualified to be a Knight? Then he will be Sir Jason.
  • I’d have thought knight attacks would’ve been quite common in the middle ages.
  • @The_Lone_Outlaw
    Suddenly I realize that being a knights squire is shittier a job than I thought.
  • Serious jousting injuries still happen, in 2011 a man named Peter Allen died in a jousting accident at Rockingham Castle when a lance shattered and a splinter went through the eye slot in his visor into his eye and pierced his brain.