Mongoloid Cow
Great Khan
What about a worker at the Roman vomitoriums (if you don't know what they were, notice the word vomit at the start of the word and let your imagination depict the rest)
Historical Filth - the Worst Job in History
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Lord_Vetinari
übermensch
Whaaaat?
Where did you hear this? My father has worked on North Sea oil rigs all his life, and he has never mentioned that it's supposed to be all that dangerous. In fact, most of my uncles and their friends also workd at oil rigs, and none of them have ever been seriously damaged, or know anyone who has. Surely there must be many, many more dangerous jobs out there?
gr8ful wes
Deity
I probably got it from some Trivial Pursuit question. I do recall hearing it though.
thestonesfan
A Client of Ron Kuby
Being a matchstick dipper in Victorian London. Nothing like a slow case of poisoning or lung cancer.
Gustav Weiner
Chieftain
Worst job: Royal stamp collector befor paper was invented.
Wildbore
Chieftain
The Pope because you cannot have sex, unless u do it up the #!$ secretly with little children.
Greeny
Human
The "Gong Farmer" in a medievil castle: up to your armpits in human ****e all day, and obviously no friends of any sort (exept mabe other gong farmers, at least they would be used to the smell).
gotta luv "Horrible Histories"
gotta luv "Horrible Histories"
Illustrious
Becoming Colonel Blimp
Sad that this old nonsense is still doing the rounds. A vomitorium was a high-capacity entrance/exit to a stadium or amphitheatre, not a room in which to upchuck.
Since everybody seems to get their disinformation from the internet these days, it seems only fair to point out some information in the same manner - here's a useful URL:
Go here
TNG
Sad, sad little man
I would consider a immigrant working in a factory in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Stefan Haertel
Title
That was a great post Kafka2, perhaps the best I've ever read in this forum!
As for my picks for the worst jobs in history...
A servant of Louis XIV in Versailles.
You have to undress and dress that man(?) every evening and morning. By chance, you might have to taste his morning tea, which is one-quarter tea, one-quarter water, and the rest perfume.
You have to spend your day with him and his surroundings, all with horribly powdered faces, you have to smell some disgusting 17th century perfume all the time (and just don't get a headache!), you have to help him on and off his horse, carry his prey from hunting excursions (and don't let the blood soak your clothes, or else!), and you might even have to wipe off his arse! But worst of all, you won't be remembered at all!
A slave of an owner of an insula in ancient Rome.
The insulae of the city of Rome were the most unsafe buildings ever constructed. Nearly every day, at least one of them caught fire or collapsed, burying every poor person underneath. As slave of the owner, you get to live in the rooms on ground level. You never get to leave the house. Living in an insula was damn dirty, loud, it stunk to hell, you would have had to take all complains of every person living there (and believe me, that's not few), tend any animal which happened to be living there, perhaps even taking care of the staircases (wooden staircases, very narrow, and, of course, not at all robust). But worst of all, if this insula decided to collapse, you're f*cked.
But the most horrible job in history, in my opinion, must have been being a slave of a slave of a slave in ancient Rome.
This indeed happened! Some owners actually gave their slaves a pay, allowing them to possess whatever property they wanted. Some slaves saved their money for so long, that they bought themselves slaves. These were called vicarii. You can imagine that admitting to be a slave didn't give you the best of reputations. But imagine admitting to be the slave of a slave!
Not enough, though. Even some of the vicarii were given a loan from their masters, the normal servi, i.e. the slaves. And it actually happened, that some of these vicarii bought their own slaves! Now imagine that you have to tell someone that you are the slave of a slave, who again is the slave of a slave!
That is, in my opinion, the most rotten existance in history.
As for my picks for the worst jobs in history...
A servant of Louis XIV in Versailles.
You have to undress and dress that man(?) every evening and morning. By chance, you might have to taste his morning tea, which is one-quarter tea, one-quarter water, and the rest perfume.
You have to spend your day with him and his surroundings, all with horribly powdered faces, you have to smell some disgusting 17th century perfume all the time (and just don't get a headache!), you have to help him on and off his horse, carry his prey from hunting excursions (and don't let the blood soak your clothes, or else!), and you might even have to wipe off his arse! But worst of all, you won't be remembered at all!
A slave of an owner of an insula in ancient Rome.
The insulae of the city of Rome were the most unsafe buildings ever constructed. Nearly every day, at least one of them caught fire or collapsed, burying every poor person underneath. As slave of the owner, you get to live in the rooms on ground level. You never get to leave the house. Living in an insula was damn dirty, loud, it stunk to hell, you would have had to take all complains of every person living there (and believe me, that's not few), tend any animal which happened to be living there, perhaps even taking care of the staircases (wooden staircases, very narrow, and, of course, not at all robust). But worst of all, if this insula decided to collapse, you're f*cked.
But the most horrible job in history, in my opinion, must have been being a slave of a slave of a slave in ancient Rome.
This indeed happened! Some owners actually gave their slaves a pay, allowing them to possess whatever property they wanted. Some slaves saved their money for so long, that they bought themselves slaves. These were called vicarii. You can imagine that admitting to be a slave didn't give you the best of reputations. But imagine admitting to be the slave of a slave!
Not enough, though. Even some of the vicarii were given a loan from their masters, the normal servi, i.e. the slaves. And it actually happened, that some of these vicarii bought their own slaves! Now imagine that you have to tell someone that you are the slave of a slave, who again is the slave of a slave!
That is, in my opinion, the most rotten existance in history.
Naval Power
Sailing the Seven Seas
How bout one of the guys in the army that cleans out the guts from the insides of the surviving Shermans now that had to be gross.
allhailIndia
Deity
ELEPHANT DUNG CLEANER!!!!
talk about a load of sh!t!!
talk about a load of sh!t!!
allhailIndia
Deity
Union Carbide did not have mines in India
You must be referring to a slum dweller in the vicinity of the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal.
Benderino
Loyal American Democrat
Prostitutes, perhaps? However, it is the oldest profession in history...
yaroslav
Emperor
Originally posted by G-Man
Also: being the test subject in the invention of the Spanish inquisition machines.
Yes, this was a bad thing to be...
oh please, being born into slavery and living the rest of your life as a chain wearing slave in the Americas, under the whip, mutilated for punishment, treated worse than dogs, and bareing children into the same life. not even the natives suffered as much as slaves - they just got wiped out.
joycem10
Deity
to quote norm mcdonald - "assistant crack whore"
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