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But who woke him up? 🤔
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 “knocked-up”.
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.
OY BRUV WAKE YOUR ARSE UP
I prefer a peashooter
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.
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
Interesting video, thanks for sharing!
Oh god damn