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Remembering the ‘Knocker-Ups’ Hired to Wake Workers with Pea Shooters

60 点作者 DmenshunlAnlsis大约 7 年前

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mjlee大约 7 年前
The Royal Navy still does this - partially because you want to ensure that whoever is going to relieve you at 0400 is definitely awake and getting ready.<p>I always slept more soundly when I was getting a &quot;shake&quot; versus relying on my alarm clock. It&#x27;s very comforting to know that you&#x27;re absolutely going to be woken up when you asked to be and not have to worry about your phone being on charge or accidentally sleeping through an alarm. It also meant you didn&#x27;t have to do time zone maths when you went to bed and that your alarm wouldn&#x27;t wake your cabin mates.
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pbhjpbhj大约 7 年前
I&#x27;ve heard of the practice of knockerups several times before but always they used a rod of some sort. The title is misleading as it reports plurally but the story states that Mary Smith was unusual in singularly using a pea-shooter and only reports on her, and later - on her demise - her daughter Mary, using a pea-shooter [possibly the self-same one?].
aklemm大约 7 年前
Yes! I always thought the unaided or alarm clock only wake up is a tall order and doesn&#x27;t quite jive with how I sleep&#x2F;wake. A proper physical wake up is just the thing.
trigonomicon大约 7 年前
God dammit. I love this idea.<p>Being woken up by a person sounds so much more pleasant than the idea of some obnoxious scheduled noise. Alarm clocks and telephone calls are the most dehumanizing thing ever. Even if you can ignore it because the alarm isn&#x27;t for you, but the person next to you. Sometimes having to wake up to someone else&#x27;s terrible morning alarm is worse, because you can&#x27;t exactly opt out on the same terms.<p>At least you can whine and complain to a person trying to wake you up, however antagonizing and snarky they may be.
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pizzapill大约 7 年前
Who was waking up the knocker ups?
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