• MrShankles@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    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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      24 hours ago

      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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        15 hours ago

        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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          15 hours ago

          No problem :)

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