As I'm annoyed and there's nobody to fight nearby, I'll go debunk a youtube video in stead.
Such fun!
This account has over 4 million subscribers and boy does the thumbnail look promising...
I'm doing this review with rolled up sleeves and wearing knuckledusters. The description gives us a little hope but... no sources, no references, nothing.
Please tell your children (or let them tell you if you're as old as I am) not blindly believe any video without sources.

Let's review another painting together, another one by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, this time the 'Boerenbruiloft' (farmer's or peasant's wedding) from c. 1567.
Another glimpse of what life was like for common people in the 17th century!
Time to check out some details. The bride, she looks suspiciously content.
Is she drunk, tired, super content or does she have a secret?
Above her the double paper crown as well as a sort of crown on her head, making her the queen of the event.
It may symbolise her virginity or wealth.
Its in many paintings.

Oh boys and girls, auntie Jo has found another real estate gem... and it only costs 4 million Euros...
This may be one of the most gorgeous houses I´ve ever seen.
A Dutch 1917 villa:
funda.nl/detail/koop/wa…

Cough, cough.
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/me… Emily Beecham (Edith)

Found another gem on the Dutch real estate website.
A lovely little church in the 'Amsterdamse School' style, built in 1926 and clearly inhabited by a fellow time traveller, just wait till you see inside.
funda.nl/detail/koop/mu… Decorated with respect to the design and character of the building but filled with lots of interesting and weird old stuff.
Yep.
Time traveller.

The BBC has released their trailer for their new show 'King & Conqueror'.
Let's take a look.
Get your Medieval myths bingo card ready...
What... what on earth are those clothes?
Is this game of Thrones?

I don't know much about art but I know what I like.

"Germanic warrior with helmet", ca 1902.
By Osmar Schindler Oh btw, for a laugh I asked ai.

Gemini got it WRONG:

Sailors of HMS Rattlesnake bathing, drawing made by their captain Owen Stanley in the late 1840s while under orders to survey the inner route along the Great Barrier Reef and to chart the southern coast of New Guinea.
He made many drawings, a few in this thread:

This is how conspiracies are born.
Someone who doesn't understand old art (and may have problems seeing) thinks that this painting shows that Queen Mary I was brown and the painting later (literally) whitewashed to hide that but they forgot one hand...
tiktok.com/@kingsmonologu… Thinking that for a second is fine, but actually believing it and making a whole CSI video about it... that's daft.
Here's the biggest version of the painting I could find.
If we take a closer look at her brown hand...
We see that she's just wearing & holding a folded glove.

Nice to see an online paper that reaches so many people talk about this subject.
But seeing healthy people during the Black Death would have been very normal.
Not everyone looked sick right away or at the same time.
A thread. I think this person describes these kind of ai videos very accurately, brilliant, what a wonderful insight, who is this wonderful lady, oh wait, hang on.

They've done it again.
The internet is flooded with history themed Ai nonsense and people are loving it.
The History revived page has 600k followers and they're all about posting ai generated history themed rubbish.
Some of it is fun & interesting, but most of it is... well... Lesson one every child learns: to go potty, you have to partially undress.
Romans didn't know that.
Also the sponge on a stick story is possibly nonsense.

The other painting of Jean-Paul Marat's murder is more famous but this one is interesting.
It was painted by Johann Jakob Hauer  (1751–1829).
Let's look at a couple of details. The lady is wearing an awesome hat.

Here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson talking about history with Joe Rogan.
Mr. Tyson claims that tallest thing humans built after the pyramids is the Eiffel tower... but is it?

Let's watch & check: Let's pretend this show did what it should and had someone correcting things being said.
Even a quick google could have stopped millions of people hearing & believing this claim.

Anyway:
Tallest pyramid:
Khufu at Giza c.2570 BC: (originally) 146.7m
Eiffel tower 1889AD: 312m.

Isometric sketch of a sauna stove made by master builder Heinrich Schickhardt in connection with the construction of a sauna in Stuttgart in 1616. Above the arches (A) there is space for the stone packing, on which water can be poured from the bathroom onto the stones through the openings (B). However, this stove is without the characteristic half-walls along the side walls, which are found in southern German saunas and in Næstved. After Tuchen 2003, p. 311
academia.edu/9791712/Badstu… Yes I'm doing some random research and this is now a thread of what I find.

Nordic bathhouse, 1555.
Oven in middle, vat with water next to it, pipe bring the water to a basin, chap rinsing twigs for a thrashing, chap drinking from horn while enjoying cupping therapy.

Just so you know, if you see this guy in a video, the odds are high that you're about to be told something iffy.
Dr. Roy Casagranda is all over social media but his research abilities leave a little to be desired.
In short: street sewers were mostly for rain & other liquids, generally not serious icky waste.
They generally didn't throw their human waste out of the windows.
They made sure to keep their wells and water sources as free from pollution as they could.
Cholera wasn't a huge problem in Europe till the 19th century.
They drank lots of water, drank beer because it's more nutritious, tastier & more fun.
The alcohol level was very very low, so they weren't drunk all the time.
Medieval people washed, bathed, used soap, did laundry and tried to smell nice because they were terrified of bad smells.
They wore linen under their woollen clothing so they weren't always itching, also some wool was quite fine and smooth.
fakehistoryhunter.net/2019/09/10/med… How about another one of his "lectures".
Yeah, no, again.
fakehistoryhunter.net/2021/12/03/coc…

Let's review another youtube video by The Infographics Show, yes that lot again... they have 14 million subscribers.
This one is called:
How Did Bubonic Plague (Black Death) Actually End?
It was seen by almost 5 million people...
Can you see the first error already? Yes, of course.
The plague doctor with the bird beak mask wasn't around during the Black Death.

Found another gem on the Dutch real estate website Funda, but it also made me angry because modern people have done modern stuff to it and somehow that's not a reason to put them in jail apperantly.
Weird.
Anyway, MEDIEVAL house!
Sort of.
funda.nl/detail/koop/wo… So although altered many times, it originally was built in the 14th century.
What do you reckon, are those tiles old?
The ceiling is gorgeous but the decor and that weird glass wall... ew.

I was asked about this tweet, were these genuine 1970s-1980s adverts for what appears to be date-rape drugs?
Research thread time.

https://x.com/an_average_bear/status/1839318139928195298

I found several examples online but most of them mention no source, publication date or any other details that make the examples trustworthy, some claim to be from Penthouse.
They do appear genuine though.

One of the many things we think are weird/gross about the middle ages is the idea of people sharing their homes with animals, especially cattle.
But is this true?
Did they really have cows & sheep walking around their living room?
Let's research.
A thread. I regularly hear this being mentioned as just another bit of evidence of how dirty & backwards medieval people were and that it's no wonder they got all those diseases, were covered in filth all the time, etc.
Especially this image is often used, it's nice but is it accurate?

Yeah google, that's how it's done...
Yeah Musk, decent accuracy...
AHEM.

#vikingsdidnthavehornsontheirhelmets Just in case you need a reminder:

Let's look at an old painting together, see what we can learn from it.
This time a naughty one; a brothel scene from 1537 by the Brunswick Monogrammist, an anonymous Netherlandish painter.
Such an improper subject, so you better not check out this thread, look away now. A bit more about the artist:


We start with the birdcage by the door, the cage symbolises proper love, the bird a woman.
So a woman 'caged' by love is protected but a bird outside the cage is free.
This bird is locked, the door shut. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick…