Around 1815, London was overpopulated in terms of its ratio of people and places to put their excrement. With this problem, along came the Poopsmiths of London to save the day. Their responsibility was to traverse the backyard cesspits of residents, shovel their excrement into buckets, and transport it to the countryside. To top it all off, they would have descend deep into the cesspits, literally standing waste-high in feces.
2. Whipping Boys
It’s not just an expression folks. Around the 17th century, young princes would have a boy assigned to them who would be beaten for transgressions committed by the royal. The prince was made to befriend his whipping boy to really make it a punishment for everyone, so it’s OK to feel bad bad for everyone involved. No one wants to see their friend beaten because they forget their math homework.
3. Human Alarm Clock (also known as a Knocker-Up)
During the Industrial Revolution in Ireland and Britain, alarm clocks were neither effective nor affordable. To account for this, enter the Knocker-Up, the early 1900s equivalent of a hotel wake-up call. He would go from house to house with a long bamboo stick, tapping on windows until everyone was suitably irritated and ready to go to their super-awesome jobs in textile factories.
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Whipping Boys isch jo angersch chrank!
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