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I doubt that they used 3 years old. Not strong enough to do anything useful.
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But for what purpose that couldn’t be done bei a simple weight?
Fitting is one thing but they need to do actual work
Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
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Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Guildhall in London is one of the old political centres of the city. If you go down into the basement there's the remains of a Roman ampitheatre! Tucked away in an alcove on Cannon Street is an old block of stone. This is the famous London Stone. So old that nobody knows what it is originally famous for... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildhall,_London https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stone That sort of…
> That ampitheatre shows that street level in ancient times Why do street levels change like this? There seem to be a lot of "buried streets" in old cities.
Humans tend to accumulate building material in cities faster than it is lost to erosion. It can add up to many meters over the millennia.
Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#43There should be a name for the phenomenon where people upset about some injustice pick the least plausible example to use as the cause celebre of the injustice. For a more modern take I can't understand why Daniel Shaver is not the face of police murder in the US. The video is on YouTube, you can find the unedited version with a Google search. There is no benefit of the doubt to give. It was straight up murder done o…
> There should be a name for the phenomenon where people upset about some injustice pick the least plausible example to use as the cause celebre of the injustice.
Perhaps 'The Toxoplasma of Rage'? See https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage...
Or you might like https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacre...
Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#44I more examples from when that kiddie chimney sweep photo/film session went viral in the late 1920's. Interestingly the fakeness of it was never acknowledged. Here is Horst Bohnke in Spanish literary/art magazine Blanco y Negro in 1928. It includes one more photo not already in the original Fake History Hunter article. [1] And here he is in American newspaper photo collages, in a syndicated 1927 Central Press spread…
> Interestingly the fakeness of it was never acknowledged.
Perhaps it was implicitly understood?
Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#45Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#46The picture is a staged and is a caricature not a depiction or reenactment of anything real. Yes, there was child labour in many industries and it was dangerous to them in both the long and the short term. No, 3 year olds were not used to sweep chimneys (but slightly older children were, 5, 6, 7). Yes, this was outlawed long before the picture was taken. In the UK an act was passed in 1788 restricting the minimum age…
Yes.
And educating your children is what economists call a 'normal good'. Ie, richer people consumer more of it.
Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not remotely aware of this case. How does those words, or any words, on a gun case/cover relate to mental health issues? This isn't a manifesto; it is more like "guard dog? Beware of owner!" decal, or a Calvin pissing on a coexist sticker. Or truck nuts. These might be distasteful to some but is unrelated to mental health. I'd be more worried about my former neighbor who had an unhealthy love of maglite flashlig…
People like flashlights. It's a thing. Just like we like computers.
No shade meant towards odd collections nor truck nuts.
Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#48So it is a re-enactment but nevertheless, it is depicting real world practices prevalent at the time.
It's amazing how many military drills preceed actual engagement.
Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#49The boy would be the right age to be a soldier in WW2. So there's a good chance he died then.
Re: Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022)
#50So it was a common practice a century before the photo was taken. How is it surprising that people get upset? The photo is a record of a depiction of a practice that existed. It’s the practice that people don’t like, not the depiction.
Actually, I take back what I said. The article doesn't even conclusively demonstrate that this is a reenactment.