velma comments on “Back in myyyy day…”

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

But the chimney sweep kids are “living it up”, as they’re learning an important trade!

The cancers those chimney sweep kids got were horrific. Last Podcast on the Left recently did a deep dive into chimney sweeps and it was eye-opening. Highly recommend listening if you're into that kind of thing.

I was just recommending a podcast episode lol

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[–] MrShankles@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, sorry... that was sarcasm. It was mostly slavery of orphans, guised as trade-skills. As well as the cancers, they also had hellish injury/death, because ya know... 7 year olds are climbing chimneys

"Put their feet to the fire"... sometimes kids were too afraid to keep climbing, so they lit a fire under them. Sometimes, they became too grown and got stuck in the chimney, possibly dying. Hellish

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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wasn't correcting you, I just have ADHD and saw your line about chimney sweeps which reminded me of that podcast episode so I recommended it hahaha

I'm sorry I didn't make it clear that I was just conversing with you.

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[–] MrShankles@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Lmao, well damn I'm sorry again! That makes more sense, I misinterpreted cause I is a little dumb. I'll have to check it out because I am in fact, into those kinda things! Thank you

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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

No problem :)

Tone can be so hard to convey on text and then further complicated with neurodivergence haha

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