Extra Credits

Isn't that basically the First Crusade?

No, you're thinking of the Fourth Crusade. That went horribly for pretty much anyone who wasn't a Venetian or a Turk.

I noticed that when India and Russia popped up, they used modern map outlines. The British Raj in India included today's Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal and Bhutan. They got the United Kingdom right though by including all of both islands.

If nothing else this series is a good reminder that medical science is a shockingly new innovation. Doctorin' back in the old days was essentially "Have you tried leeches yet? Yes? Then time to amputate."

You know nothing, landlords.

So, people knowingly drank water that came from a river called "The Great Stink". Denial is a powerful thing.

Where else were you supposed to get your water from?

The upstream of the river (the part that didn't stink) is what I was thinking. They did know why the river stank, I hope.

London was a large city, with a good few other cities further up along the Themes.

As a major city at the dawn of the industrial revolution, I don't think it would be feasible for them to import their own water, even from a few hours away from the start of their pipe systems. Certainly not for the working class.

Meanwhile, there does seem to have been an initiative to filter the water supplies dating back to 1804 in the United Kingdom (Starting in Scotland, actually), but it's entirely possible that these were focused more on getting rid of anything visibly disgusting or off colour. This would be the only explaination I can think of that there /would/ even be these big water companies rather than just people pumping from wells directly from the Thames for free.

In which case, John Snow's big contribution is showing that not only is this necessary but it needs to be targeted on a microbial level against "poisons" and the like, rather than just on an aesthetic level to "get out the gross bits" so to speak.

edited 22nd Nov '15 10:06:42 AM by Fauxlosophe

To be fair, The Great Stink was still four years away at this point, and was the cause of major reforms in sanitation.

Well, that makes it better, I suppose. My main issue was that the river was obviously disgusting but still people took water from the disgusting part. If the river didn't smell bad yet, I can see why they thought cleaning visible detritus would be enough.

It was bad, but it wasn't bad enough to get named "the great stink" until after all this.

The weird thing to me is how small the entire thing makes London seem, as a Londoner Lambeth and Vauxhall seem almost right on top of each other, my local Tube station is Lambeth North and I technically live in Lambeth, but my parliamentary constituency is the Vauxhall one. It just seems weird that the two areas he studied were so incredibly close to each other.,

Though I guess that was the point, by being right next to each other he could eliminate all other factors, with the areas only being different due to their water source.

Sometimes I forget that the River Ankh is only somewhat exaggerated.

Also keep in mind that it was the water companies drawing the water, not the people themselves.

The water companies would have had to be making it cosmetically decent. If the water you're providing has brown sludge and stinks to high heaven you're going to go out of business fast. But the regular people never thought about where their water was coming from aside from where was the closest pump.

Part 3 of 3 of John Snow's work to prove that he knows something vital.

That scene 5 minutes in, is that Walpole on the far left? Think this will be mentioned on the Lies episode?

Probably just a recycled design.

More likely an easter egg. You don't just throw a memetic character around willy-nilly.

^^It seems to be running gag to have Walpole appear as background character. He did appear in crusader videos as well

edited 28th Nov '15 2:51:24 PM by SpookyMask

Part 4 of 3. Street poop is bad.

No shit.

Whelp, this shit is crazy ._.;

edited 17th Dec '15 7:53:18 AM by SpookyMask

^Things like these are the reason i don't like the Chinese Government. They keep saying they're Good Guys and the West is unfairly portraying them yet they're also claiming this territory is my territory, cracking down local minorities, wanting Hong Kong and Taiwan fully under their control and beliefs despite the people's protest and using their wealth to bully smaller countries and movie studios to make them do what they say.

And now they use Social Media to reward and punish anyone who isn't loyal to the government.

Bricks were shat. Reality beats fiction again.

Hm...

I'm thinking, good chance, someone will game the system. And, likely, one of those early adopters, one who isn't so patriotic, is gonna be the one to do it.

You make that mandatory, and everyone who doesn't wanna play by the rules is gonna learn how.

Let's not even talk about hackers.