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Original post by @rightyouareken00 in 2015
Feb 23, 2022 4:44 PM
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Original post by @rightyouareken00 in 2015
DarkHollowDulcimers
He made the night a little brighter
Wherever he would go
The old lamplighter
Of long, long ago
thisismysociallife
fyi log drivers still exist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHakr6ASSBw
RandomName24601
I can't believe millennials ruined all those businesseses!
DontLookAtMeInThatToneOfVoicee
Nah, it was Marie Callender
bestspelerever
Did the foreigners take these jobs too?
freckledkink
#3 I beg to differ. Charlie is a great rat catcher. That's one of his main jobs!
leroy666
I was a “pinboy” or pinsetter in my youth(5 pin bowling). We were paid, IIRC, five cents a game, and could make as much as a dollar on a 1/2
leroy666
2/2 friday or saturday night. We also, I think, got to bowl free on saturday mornings.
Grillparzer
Anyone with kids knows human alarm clocks still exist.
freckledkink
Yep. And God dammit if your routine changes! They will not change theirs without much complaining, lol.
WhyWouldIUseMyRealNick
"I'm a lamp lighter and my SO is an ice cutter. Our budget is 2.4M" ?
wapo12
My father set pins in the 30s for ten cents a night.
thricebakedxyz
My Dad did that too in the 30s - don't know about wages.
RhinoNaut
It can't be more than two days ago I saw a post about a hipster bowling alley with human pinsetters.
Velv3tThunder
Why not? Lunatics.
XplodingRibcage
In about 20 years they'll have to add all the driving jobs...
spudpicker
I'm fully expecting a savage political brawl over self-driving vehicles in the next decade or so. It's gonna be epic.
aFloatingCabbage
Still a few #1 ally’s out there
littlecoatfatguy
Imagine having to wear a tie to your job drowning rats.
whirlydoodle
Would make me feel more dignified tbh
FriendsCallMeLara
I still get my milk delivered by a milkman
Skipadedodah
Early 90’s I helped a friend shoot rats at a vegetable canning/freezing plant. Few bucks an hour plus a buck a rat. We had $100 shifts each
Sensino
It was NOT better in the past!
stardustskeleton
Fun Fact I just learned, there is still a Vintage bowling alley that has pinsetters and your score is projected to the wall.
BeardyBuilds
Human alarm clocks still exist, they are called toddlers.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
I'm old enough that we used to have milk delivered into milk box. And my mom was a switchboard operator.
Velv3tThunder
Go take some ibuprofen
squirreltactics
My father was effectively a switchboard operator for 30+ years. Mostly managed the computers that run it.
mondomar
People have milk delivered into a milk box now.
tinyfootprints
I moved to the USA in 1961. We got milk delivery for a year. Then the dairy stopped the service in 1962.
ferocat
I mean, I’m not yet 30 and I had milk delivered in glass bottles. They’d put it under a cover so magpies wouldn’t drink it. Dublin, Ireland
ferocat
Adding: it was covered in foil and magpies & crows would peck through either to get the shiney or to drink it.
dronir
My dad did the ice cutting. He grew up on a dairy farm before widespread refrigeration, milk was cooled in the summer with winter ice.
Islandvoid
How old is that?
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
We got milk into the 1980's until government subsidies shut down small dairy farms. My mom was born in 1933
jd48191
My grandfather was a Milkman in Detroit.
Freakbeatagogo
We still have our milk delivered and in glass bottles that are left out when empty and taken back by milkman. This is in Devon, England.
IndigoThursday
Same here, in London
TipsyMcStagger
Same for me in Suburban Chicago
olderbrotherofsnagglepuss
Milk & More?
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Sounds lovely. Is it pasteurized or do you get cream on top?
Freakbeatagogo
Most is pasteurized anyway; low fat/semi skimmed/full fat (That's the one with cream). Used to get channel island milk that was very creamy
user403
The stuff with cream on top was pasteurised - it's the homogenising that stops it separating.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Yup. Got it wrong. Thanks for the correction.
BallsDeepinaDragonscloaca
Aren't rat-catchers still technically a thing? Just now known as exterminators?
plingplinggoesmydingding
I could see myself as a lector... Not a bad job
DontLookAtMeInThatToneOfVoicee
You got that Morgan Freeman reading voice?
plingplinggoesmydingding
Not exactly, more like Macho man randy savage voice, but still i can read a romantic novel with passion
DontLookAtMeInThatToneOfVoicee
Hmm.. that'll do
widiwi
#5 still exists.
Ninjainslippers
You mean cats?
spudpicker
Yeah, his name is Charlie.
NickKater
As does #11 in Cuba.
Kuiper
#6 exists in some parts of New Jersey. We have towns that still use gas lamps. They're nice, but dim compared to modern stuff.
dcjunkee
Sure sure sure... some sort of Ghostbuster for rats and other pests? RIIIIIIIIIGHT.
ThePunishersVengefulBrother
Pretty sure #8 does as well.
ExplodingRobotColon
#7 in some parts, my Nana and grandad were getting milk deliveries until they passed 2 years ago
LaffertyDanie1
Came to the comments to say both these still exist so +1
SoberAndBored
Knocker-uppers were often the lamplighters: gas lamps had to be extinguished using a long pole, which could be used to knock on windows.
SoberAndBored
They also had to walk a large number of streets, early in the morning.
Cats2cats
My college dorm had one of those switchboards. Had to talk someone into putting off retirement until building updated. She knew us all.
Cpthornswoggler
You can still have your milk delivered here. Plus he has other things like juices and bread. Don't think he has many customers tho.
blumpk1npie
I wish the milkman would deliver my milk... in the morning
Ravenfloof14
Yeah I get my milk delivered to a milkbox (every week, not day), plus yogurt and bagels and stuff, costs the same as it does in the store :)
cbmech7
Stupid internet has ruined me. all I read was a bunch of sexual innuendos.
Imustupvotealltacos
Mmm milkman juice
FeminineBeeOnslaught
uwu fill my cup daddy
Nippledeepinahorse
howsplendid
We have it delivered where we are in the UK. During first lockdown he had so much surplus milk we were being left crazy amounts.
MrWobblyHead
I use a service called Milk & More. Costs a little more than the supermarket but I like the convenience of having it delivered so early.
Leleanor93
We had McQueen's for s while now on modern milkman as milk and more don't deliver in our area. Arrives between 11pm and 7am.
Freakbeatagogo
Ha, me too. But my God they deliver at 2.30 am and I don't think my neighbours are happy ?
MrWobblyHead
I've yet to discover when my deliveries arrive and if my neighbours have a problem with it
popejubal
Good thing Rita Moreno wasn't delivering the milk! https://youtu.be/VS4zHta30tc?t=248
popejubal
(Also, fuck Bill Cosby. But Rita Moreno is a gem.)
lrateyourrig
#5 Charlie Kelly all Day.
freckledkink
Lol, I commented this. I didn't realize this post was days old.
lrateyourrig
Updoot to yoot
spudpicker
fearlessfloyd
TIL about factory lectors and that seems so much better than having a radio tuned to the "golden hits of yesterday".
TheS4ndm4n
Went to a factory in Cuba that still had them. They read the morning newspaper.
cheddarhat
I would love to be a lector. Love reading, love reading out loud, want to record for LibirVox.
ExTechOp
I believe Cuba still does that for some cigar rollers: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71485/lectores-who-read-cubas-cigar-rollers
SirBobby98121
Latin American cigar rollers regularly had ' readers' for employees.
fearlessfloyd
News of the World is a great Tom Hanks movie where he does something similar, but for townspeople. Reads them the news.
ParadeOfCrap
Also a great Queen soundtrack, but the connection to the plot is more than a little tenuous.
fearlessfloyd
Very true. No one got down and made love.
somnif
the 'Muzak' thing has it's own interesting history. Like how they fabricated research that it worked best 'intermittently' so...
somnif
It would be on half an hour, then off for half an hour. In reality, the transmitter would just switch to another station and sell it twice.
bigbigbilly
The still have this job in Cuban cigar factories! Or at least they did like 15-20 years ago when I watched the doc
Natdictit
Hey I watched that doc as well!
DotcoreJetkill
Imagine! Live audiobooks!
Sigge1981
I prefer the audiobook I can pause whenever I want. I'm fortunate enough to have a job that doesn't discourage the use of headphones
lostharbinger42
*threatens Jim Dale* "I said do Dobby's voice PROPERLY"
TrappedShadows
My factory doesn't even allow a radio..
DaveSamsonite
Also: movie theater staff; Chinese restaurant buffet employees; mom and pop businesses; 30% of all businesses under employees; restaurants
HiMyNameIsKevinIHaveChangnesia
#10 has a great deal more to it. Most weren’t “hired” & some were med students bc they were required to provide their own cadaver for class.
spudpicker
Wow, telling stressed out med students to get a dead body seems like a good way to start a battle royale in the middle of Anatomy 301.
Velv3tThunder
BYOB (Bring Your Own Body)
astrid28
... milk men are still a thing. We have a dairy that delivers, get the nifty box, and bottles of milk/cream/etc...
newsguycraigevans
Cool! I can bring back my "You look just like the milkman" comedy routine!
ChloeRed
We don't have electric milkfloats here anymore, the diary went fully diesel a couple of years ago :(
EllisTomago
One profession that should be brought back is Newspaper Fact Checker.
poochyena
we already have that tho
SupermassiveZebra
Why have facts when you can have profits though, right?
youbetchamom
Why have facts when all you need is beliefs?
Xyle1977
"Faith without works is dead." Useful Bible quote for those pissed with "believers" who don't do. You sound like you might use it.
sylkysmooth
It'd just be nice to have a truth in news law in the US.. but.. hey.. at least we have a truth in advertising law, right?
GTimgur
That comes free of charge! Yourself!
tipcity
Ghlargh
Not just fact checkers, spell checkers are also sorely lacking in many modern publications.
cheesedogs
But then who checks the fact checker?
youbetchamom
The fact checker checker.
Memnoch112
Snopes.com
Chimichanga007
We have fact checkers, problem is in capitalism, the fact checkers inevitably get bought by the fact fudgers.
mcglirkymeow
And fact checkers, the honest ones, kinda get dead.
kioopi
It's time to buy my Non-Fudgable-Facts (tm)! They're made with Blockchain!
HandoB4Javert
IMakeMyOwnSweat
but fox isn't a newspaper
gilliamv
Kemi337
The Fairness Doctrine only applied to broadcast television, not cable. Fuck Murdoch, but we don't need to make shit up either.
Dongskanker
Worth noting that CNN is not a lot better. They need some BS meters on these guys..
EndOfMeaning
That's like comparing stepping in dogshit and rolling naked in a tub full of dogshit.
magicrhombus
None of the 24 hour news channels really set the bar very high, but Fox took the bar and dropped it into the challenger deep.
Dongskanker
I wouldn't watch either of them for more then entertainment. BBC, Yahoo, USA Today, AP and Reuters are where I go for the news.
PerpetualExhaustion
Same. I’ve cut out almost all news consumption for my mental health’s sake, but AP and Reuters are by two go-tos for news.
blaghart
Worth noting that CNN is quantifiably a lot better and the fact that that's your go to example belies how brainwashed you are.
UrGrammasMonkey
From what I've seen of them, they have biases but don't outright make shit up and lie to people.
ArkoneAxon
They've been sued repeatedly in the last couple years because they outright made shit up.
MarleafChef
Pre Trump days, CNN made up so much shit. Interviews edited to make people look bad (John Cena interview if you can see it) 1/
Ardranor
As opposed to Fox, who's only defense when sued was for their garbage lies boiled down to "no sane listener would believe what our hosts say
UrGrammasMonkey
Source? Being sued does not necessarily mean you did the thing.