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TIL knocker uppers were people who went around knocking on windows to wake people up in pre-alarmclock times.

https://lemmy.ca/post/61434672

TIL knocker uppers where people who went around knocking on windows to wake people up in pre-alarmclock times. - Lemmy.ca

Lemmy

Mar 7 at 12:22pmWeb
Show threadlastaMar 7
Knocking up your entire neighborhood is an essential duty šŸ«”
Show threadRhoeriMar 7
I would have had an entirely different definition of this had I been left to guess.
Show threadTomtitsMar 7
How many knocker uppers could a knocker upper knock up, if a knocker upper could knock up?
Show threadkamenladyMar 7
Did they walk around with their giant cocks, like sheā€™s doing in the article image?
Show threadaltphotoMar 7
Having huge knockers and a giant cock is illegal in the USSA
Show threadcub GucciMar 7
Quackers were the people who were waking people up imitating duck sounds
Show threadhayvanMar 7
Quakers were the guys stayed up all night playing Quake so they can wake others up.
Show threadMakingWorkMar 7
But who woke the knocker uppers up on time?
Show threadSchmidtGeneticsMar 7
Candle with a tack stuck in it.
Show threadThatGuy46475Mar 7
They had a 24 hr rotation
Show threadbrbpostingMar 7
So the first knocker-upper was late
Show threadCarighan MaconarMar 7
The knocker-upper upper-knocker.
Show threadgrueMar 7
The article says they stayed up all night.
Show threadberberMar 7
were
Show threadMrQuallzinMar 7
I continue to be baffled how people keep making this mistake. ā€˜Hā€™ is nowhere near the letters in ā€˜wereā€™.
Show threadetherphonMar 7
Did they have a propensity for sleeping with their clients? Is that where we got the saying from? lol.
Show threadramble81Mar 7
So then Iā€™m curious how the phrase ā€œknocked upā€ came to mean getting pregnant.
Show threadMycelialMassMar 7
Wake the husband up with a knock, continue route, circle back in abit cause you know hes now gone to work?
Show threadTrack_ShovelMar 7
Show threaddr_robotBonesMar 7

ā€œYouā€™re up early!ā€

ā€œYeah, I got knocked up this morning.ā€

Show threadEpheraMar 7

ā€œThey wanted to get to church at a particular hour, or say their morning prayers early in the morning, because they thought that brought them closer to God.ā€ There was often a sense of one-upmanship, she adds, in terms of who was up and at their prayers earlier than the next person.

Oh man, thereā€™s some weird traditions in my hometown. If you were the last of the family to get up on Pentecost, my mum would call you basically a dumbass. Admittedly, I am still suspicious of this not actually being a tradition and rather just an excuse she came up with to insult us.

Another tradition is that on Easter Sunday, the local wind band would form small groups and walk through the streets to play Easter songs, starting at 5:30 in the morning.
I actually participated in that a few times and the only explanation I have for us not experiencing violence is that people still had to get dressed, while we already moved on to the next street.

Show threadJasonDJMar 7

How many Easter songs are there?

Is it just an all-winds rendition of ā€œHere comes Peter Cottontailā€, marching towards you at the ass crack of dawn? Because that sounds almost like something out of a horror movie.

Show threadEpheraMar 7

Well, Iā€™m from Germany, so we probably have different songs here.

We had a booklet of maybe twenty songs or so. Although, I couldnā€™t tell you how specifically Easter these songs were, as we usually just had the title to go off of, and I didnā€™t know the majority of these songs.

They were certainly old-timey songs, probably collected over the course of centuriesā€¦

Show threadLiveLMMar 7

If you were the last of the family to get up on Pentecost, my mum would call you basically a dumbass.

Iā€™d tell you to get orchestrate a scheme where the entire family wakes up before her and everyone gets to call her a dumbass but you guys might end up with shoes shoved up some uncomfortable places afterā€¦

Show threadJasonDJMar 7
I gotta go to bed early, Iā€™m getting knocked up at 6.