>Europe was so filthy and degenerate in the 19th century that "Rat Catching" was then considered a legitimate full-time occupation.
Europe was so filthy and degenerate in the 19th century that "Rat Catching" was then considered a legitimate full-time...
Ryan Martinez
Wyatt Fisher
I mean rats were a problem in cities and we still have exterminators today, I don't see your point, better than letting rats run wild
Jack Perry
>Europe was so filthy and degenerate in the middle ages they beer instead of water and had a bath once a year
Camden Hall
As opposed to today where pest control is a multi billion dollar industry, with entire local government departments set up specifically to tackle it?
Ethan Morgan
Someone had to do it.
Andrew Garcia
I beer everyday.
Nicholas King
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Lincoln Watson
>Typical European circa 1861
Juan Butler
>extensive plumbing systems bringing clean water into towns and even individual households
>military manuals describe the importance of finding clean water
>health manuals that describe drinking specific kinds of water to help different conditions
>HURRRR NOONE DRANK WATER CUS IT WAS FILTHY AND THEY INEXPLICABLY KNEW ABOUT GERM THEORY!!!!!!!
Jayden Phillips
You should probably browse and read a bit more before you make retarded threads.
Rats were a huge problem in cities
Juan Cooper
Rat-catchers are still a thing in NYC.
Charles James
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William Barnes
>Anecdotal reports suggest that some rat-catchers in Europe would raise rats instead of catching them in order to increase their eventual payment from the town or city they were employed by.
>some rat-catchers in Europe would raise rats instead of catching them
>raise rats instead of catching them
You had literally one job.
Grayson Harris
Aaron Davis
>people who the dregs of society spend more time trying to weasel their way out or scamming their employer, than they do working
Are you really that surprised?
Jack Brooks
kek
Elijah Lee
>>extensive plumbing systems bringing clean water into towns and even individual households
do you have any sources/examples? not arguing, just curious. i know europe wasn't a shit covered mess, but i've never heard of any real plumbing
Ryan Jackson
Chase Russell
Conduits. Most cities and larger towns had them. Londons could be made to flow with wine for special occasions.
This site has extracts of medieval documents pertaining to them.
users.trytel.com
The Coventry Leet Book or Mayor's Register is another excellent resource for info on running a medieval city (available via archive.org). There's several entries regarding their conduits, including one threatening the butchers guild with a fine if their members don't stop washing their meat in the flowing water.
There's also an interesting example from Lichfield where the conduit was maintained by the towns religious guild. The members were concerned that access to it would be sold off when Henry VIII had religious guilds suppressed along with the monasteries. They basically sold the land and the conduit to one of their members for a song. He then donated them back to the newly formed Lichfield city charity (with exactly the same members and goals of the previous guild). The charity is just barely surviving to this day.
Dominic Richardson
In fact, from that site
>certain Conduit was built in the midst of the City of London, that so the rich and middling persons therein might there have water for preparing their food, and the poor for their drink
>the poor for their drink
Brayden Scott
Hahahaha like how is the bubonic plague real hahahaha nigga just buy a cat
Hudson Wilson
Thanks, very interesting and informative.
Joshua Adams
I still have rats in my home, at least 2 that I know of. One of them lived off rat poison for months and just got fat, I gave up on trying to kill it. They don't bother me anyway, they just sometimes steal a bit of my rabbit's food.
Lincoln Lewis
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Aiden Gutierrez
To be fair, it was long before they invented cats
Eli Ward
>lived off rat poison for months
they're going to eat your rabbit soon
better fucking use a big fucking snap trap
Hunter Howard
Literally me
Chase Sanders
yes-yes man-thing, ignore your skaven-friends, there's no plan-plot to take over your home and drag you to the warp-mines, no-no!
Christian Bailey
I did use traps. He would leave poop all around them to mock me and completely ignore the bait.
Christian Miller
Pretty sure Pest Control is still a full time occupation.
Brandon Moore
Also, my rabbit weights over 5 kilos and has no cage. He's safe.
Ian Gonzalez
don't talk shit about exterminators
it was and is a real job everywhere in agricultural areas
we do what we can on the farm to keep rat numbers down, but under certain conditions it's almost inevitable there is a plague of them
at that point we have to call in exterminators, because we have neither the skill nor the time to deal with it
ever seen a hundred thousand rats in 40 gallon drums?
Ryan Miller
>implying employers don't weasel their employees more
Jacob Smith
the reason for that might be that there were lots of rats
Jason Jones
But that's the same things governments, bureaucracies, and even many private companies do today.
If you're paid for dealing with a problem that problem disappearing is the LAST thing you want.
Ideally you want the problem to grow so that your power can grow too, ostensibly to deal with the now-larger problem which will hopefully continue growing.
The complementary to that is creating whole new problems to solve.
Jonathan Ross
good to know i'm a true european
Daniel Brooks
>Not having a mouser