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#metatron #middleages #medieval

[mk-el]

"Why people think that medieval people were idiots?" - dude, a lot of people don't even think about anything that goes back more that their own life time, it's like humanity never had a brain for them just because modern technology didn't existed. It's insane.

[reisysv.felicitysumeragi]

"Medieval people are so stupid and lazy, these are things they wanted to be able to have" *describes modern standards of living*

[dorrin]

A good rule to remember: if you're ever thinking about history and find yourself thinking "Wow. Historical people sure were idiots!", there's an excellent chance you're misunderstanding something.

[AJadedLizard]

The fact you can see a single picture of a suit of armor *and tell me what collection it belongs to* is astonishing to me. Not just, "I know who made this" or "I know when and where it was used, " "I know this is at the Met in NYC." That's an insane knowledge of the subject.

[Wile_E._Wolf]

Had a chuckle about the "war is tiring" portion. I'm former Australian Army and remember having a discussion with my partner's friend who worked at an outdoor shop. She was discussing all her hiking experience and related it to soldiering. She wouldn't believe me when I told her that carrying 40kg for 30km on <3, 000 calories, planning to sleep for 3 hrs only to be woken by "enemy contact" after 20mins of rest and then expected to run around perform your tasks was just the training/preparation for the real thing.

Amazing how people think that medieval men-at-arms (and earlier era soldiers) were somehow either lying about their exploits or superhuman for performing what our modern 17yr olds who've spent a lifetime sitting down are expected to in a modern military.

[jackielou]

I'm a US Navy veteran and an early medieval reenactor. I can confirm that sometimes you get tired when carrying all of your gear, but you just deal with it and keep going. Eventually you even get used to it!!!

[publiusventidiusbassus]

Metatron slowly becoming the Historical Roast Master

[Specter_]

A funny thing. If a knight complained about an arrow piercing the side of his visor, it means he survived and the visor did it’s job,

[Omidion]

7 ways a medieval armor was worse than wearing nothing:
1. While swimming
2. While emptying your bowels
3. While having sex
4. While sleeping
5. While getting out of your PJs and into your daily clothes
6. While cave crawling
7. While giving birth (no one specified the sex of the wearer) :D

[life_of_riley]

"There was no way that medieval people could craft this armor without cnc machines and laser beams" these are my favorite podcast type claims surrounding people of the past. Whether its stones that are cut accurately or some agricultural feat, its like no human had any talent, skill, or ability before the year 1990.

[gadflyfiction]

I hold degrees in both Classical Studies and Medieval Studies, BA in both and MA in Classics, and it makes me weep knowing that many who have graduated with similar degrees uphold a lot of these stupid ideas.

[seranonable]

As a soldier, modern military-issued armor can be BRUTAL on the wearer. So after the first half or so of the Iraq war they started making these quick release systems for the plate carrier (which is the part of the armor that carries the actual ceramic or steel plates that stop the rifle rounds, it can also have some kevlar pads and stuff for fragmentation on other parts, typically the chest and back are the only areas covered by the plates) so that medics could pull a rip cord and remove the whole thing in a second if they need to get under the rig to treat you (also gives your buddies a great way of messing with you... pull your cord and your whole rig crashes to the ground in front of behind you and suddenly you have 20 minutes of extra work to do putting all your stuff back on; truly hilarious, the height of mirth and jest)

The drawback to this quick-release system is that it's accomplished by placing the entire load of the front and back halves of your rig onto a single thin steel cable that's draped around you to rest between your neck and shoulders on both sides... and EVERY OUNCE of weight is transmitted from that tiny cable, through a thin fabric pad and directly into the meat of your traps and collar bone. Keep in mind it's not just your armor plates hanging off that thing. All of your magazines are hanging off of it too, and those aren't light either. Add to that anything else that you might happen to be carrying: radio, GPS, water, firstaid kit, smoke; it all adds up.

If you wear that thing for 14 hours a day you will still feel the dent of that cable in your traps even after you take it off and the pain will still feel fresh by the time you have to put it back on and go out again.

[anthonyjbargeman]

As you asked sir.
I am a Vietnam and Cold War veteran. I can assure you that in modern full kit, you ARE expected to move around the battle field as needed to preform you duty. Or you can DIE. I also do reenactments, in period gear. I can tell you today's kit is much more weighty.

[greenhoundgaming]

"Sometimes I feel like I can relate more to medieval people than Gen Z... " I feel ya...

[gunnaryoung]

My biggest pet peeve about articles like this is when they refer to the abstract _"they"_ like every single person within a vast range of several centuries all over Europe were exactly the same. Like individuality wasn't invented until the 1900s!

[rorythomson]

In the '80's I was in the so called bush war in Namibia, and yes your battle kit was up to 25 KG depending on your weapons specialty ( 81mm Mortar in my case) and while in the heat of battle adrenaline countered the fatigue at that moment, it was not uncommon to be physically exhausted and literally collapse when the battle was over. War is hell!

[Stoic-Waziri]

You might not know this, but honestly, your channel is a breath of fresh air in this shit hole of a world we live in.

[gendalf]

"wearing armor could kill u but wearing no armor could kill you even faster" this should be a good article to read or make lol

[sandralachance]

I am a medieval food enthusiast, and the fact that peasants saw their houses built in fish pies make so much sense to me! Any kind of pastry, bread or pie has to be bought already made or you had to "rent" an oven to bake it, making it a luxury. Regular people didn't have an oven and had to default to boiled soups, poridge or stews. Anything roasted, grilled or baked was a party, so dreaming of pie-made houses was something close enough to their reality so they can imagine it, but so luxurious that it felt like a paradise. And fish pie? Hey, you can eat that every day, even on Fridays, what more can a guy ask!😅

[Junuki]

I served in the Dutch army for five years and us getting exhausted of wearing our gear (during high activities) is an understatement. 😅