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'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915
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this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
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But who woke him up? ๐ค
He was probably one of those annoying morning people who wakes up at 4 am, full of energy, and happy.
Discusting.
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.
Who knocks up the knocker-uppers?
The night shift.
But who wake them up?
The day shift, of course. If you refer to the chicken-egg problem, it was the Anomalocaris who begun everything.
A knocker upper knocker upper. It's knocker uppers the whole way down, and it always has been.
The kids from those they โknocked-upโ.