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

But who woke him up? 🤔

PugJesus,
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Who knocks up the knocker-uppers?

768,

The night shift.

Swarfega,

But who wake them up?

768,

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

Zugyuk,

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

Deceptichum,
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The kids from those they “knocked-up”.

Anticorp,

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

Zorque,

Discusting.

Tarquinn2049,

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.

GFY, in Aboriginal Australians used as forced labor by European settlers, 1902

It’s crazy to me that people can look at this picture and then immediately start arguing about semantics.

ArmokGoB,

Every one of those people said it’s effectively slavery.

sharkfucker420, in Aboriginal Australians used as forced labor by European settlers, 1902
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He looks way too fucking smug

DragonTypeWyvern,

No John Browns in Australia.

masquenox, in South African diamond miner being x-rayed at the end of his shift to prevent theft, 1954

Yep… that diamond belongs to rich capitalists in the Global North and most definitely not to people born in South Africa - and that hasn’t changed all that much, really.

Odo, in A 5MB Hard Drive, 1956

Pics like this remind me of the Elliott 405 vs Raspberry Pi Zero tweet: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b84965d6-da59-4138-9ffb-9e61d47c2748.png

nslatz, in Female IRA partisan with an AR-18, 1973

Colman Doyle’s 1973 photo of a woman IRA volunteer in Belfast became one of most iconic shots of the Troubles: rte.ie/…/1147804-troubles-northern-ireland-colman…

FireTower, (edited )
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Reminds me of this famous picture too:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7e2ce361-7047-49ac-9f01-8d6a685afa84.jpeg

I find it funny that they’re either obviously staged or the photographer is standing in an awfully precarious location.

nslatz,

Belfast was an awfully precarious location when this was taken in 1987.

corsicanguppy,

Their ether? No; the guy has a rifle.

FireTower,
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Swipe text typo fixed it.

CurlyMoustache,
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It looks just as absurd as the situation was. Here’s a picture by Philip Jones Griffiths:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ea1f99b0-372d-4a11-a63d-f7d3f93c6a3a.jpeg

governorkeagan,

That lawnmower looks like a hoover

CurlyMoustache,
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Beats raking, I guess

Crashumbc,

They look staged as fuck

weariedfae, in Michael Dukakis tanks his presidential campaign, 1988

Do the Dean scream next! I will never forget how something so so so stupid can kill a campaign. But only if they’re D.

thecrotch,

Dean’s campaign was dead and starting to rot before the scream happened. It wasn’t the death so much as the obituary.

UndercoverUlrikHD, in Docked US Navy Dirigible upended after a strong wind, 1926
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Airships are so strange. It’s old technology, yet it looks so futuristic and fantastical.

Aggravationstation, in The ISOLATOR, invention from 1925

Sherlock wore one in the Elementary series 1000011361

TIMMAY,

god I loved this show so much

Sakychu, in Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s

Freaking Alarm clock are stealing our jobs!

Mitchie151, in Dr. Clark’s Spinal Apparatus, an ineffective scoliosis treatment, 1878

It actually looks a lot like spinal halo-gravity traction which is a modern treatment for childhood scoliosis.

PugJesus,
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Might be a 'right principle, wrong execution' kind of thing.

logicbomb, in Multi-cigarette holder, for rapid cancer acquisition, 1954

“I like smoking, but I’m concerned that perhaps smoking a single cigarette at a time won’t make me stink enough. There must be some way that I can be even smellier. Why, as it is, I can even occasionally taste food.”

Laser,

She’s a rookie, left row cigarette number 5 isn’t lit. Are you even smoking at this point or just pretending? Take a lesson from this fella 1.bp.blogspot.com/…/StefanSigmondWorldRecord.jpg

XTornado,

Not sure anymore what is real or AI.

Frozengyro,

I feel like I’ve seen this picture long before AI was this good. Unless this comment is AI to trick you into thinking the photo isn’t AI …

Anticorp, in Beggar (possibly a WW1 veteran?) running beside King George V's carriage, early 1920s

Top hats seem like they’re specifically designed to send a message of “we mock your poverty”.

PugJesus,
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Ambatukam,

You are as PRESUMPTUOUS as you are POOR and IRISH

I’m using this the next time my Irish girlfriend asks for a ride home from work

PugJesus,
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I'll attend your funeral

Ambatukam,

Update: I don’t think she’ll like her new contact info in my phone https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/70980771-3e4f-4f67-ae63-968237d92e5b.jpeg

lars,

Whoa — she’s super hot

Hats off to you

ThatWeirdGuy1001,
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Most things that rich people do are for this exact reason only.

It’s how we got grass lawns and ponds and swimming pools and the reason our “fancy” clothes exist.

Some rich fuck decided to start doing something over the top because he’s gotta flex on the poors and then poor people are like “oh we gotta look nice like them!” And it ends up causing societal changes to the point I can get fined for not mowing my fucking lawn enough.

This comment brought to you by years of repressed rage against rich people

DetectiveKakuna, in Amphibious bicycle, Paris, France, 1932

Imagine biking in the water while wearing a suit

Mr_Blott,

Imagine biking in a paris canal in the 30s 🤢🤮

Noodle07,

Supposed to be clean for next year! Really concerning

livie,

The person’s amphibiousity is greatly lacking

Gazumi, in Aboriginal Australians used as forced labor by European settlers, 1902

Even today, only cursory recognition that the Aboriginal people remain excluded from their own lands and ways

Madison420,

Hey you could get a token reservation increased policing a nation that thinks themselves native and have since 1740 at the very least.

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