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'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915 (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyporn@lemmy.world

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[-] Chivera@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

But who woke him up? 🤔

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

He was probably one of those annoying morning people who wakes up at 4 am, full of energy, and happy.

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Discusting.

[-] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Oh no, what did Eminem do. Hehe. Despite the implications of his very creative rhyming style, disgusting is not as similar to "discuss me" as he can make it sound.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

Who knocks up the knocker-uppers?

[-] 768@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

The night shift.

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

But who wake them up?

[-] 768@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

The day shift, of course. If you refer to the chicken-egg problem, it was the Anomalocaris who begun everything.

[-] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

A knocker upper knocker upper. It's knocker uppers the whole way down, and it always has been.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

The kids from those they “knocked-up”.

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I greatly appreciate the explanation, because without it that’s NOT what I’d have assumed a “knocker-upper” was. The photo would not have helped.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

OY BRUV WAKE YOUR ARSE UP

[-] gears@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

I prefer a peashooter

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

That's if you had money, of you were broke you'd rent a penny layover and yes that's where the phrase comes.

You'd literally lay over a rope to sleep and they'd pull the knot loose at a set time in the morning, anyone still on it woke up when they hit the floor.

[-] deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 months ago

you mean "hangover" (scroll ~halfway down), not layover.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Hah right thing wrong name, my apologies.

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 5 points 11 months ago

Here is a video by Historia Civilis about the history of the work day for those who find this interesting. It brings up how stuff like this (kind of) came to be. It's about 33 minutes long and pretty good to have on in the background