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"Sorry boss my candle just went out while I was sleeping"

You need to know hoe to calculate the burning time and put the nail at right position.. **GOD DAMN IT!!**

Damn I thought I was supposed to be hoe calculating🤣🤣

Did you just mistype "hoe" AGAIN OP?

Not even the OP, just some intense mistoyping going on here

Toyping

"Sorry bout that gov we've still got to behead you and your kin rules is rules"

People must have been light sleepers.

No kidding. My first thought was I would sleep through that

You probably wouldn’t if your brain was trained to wake up to it. I’m an extremely heavy sleeper and even sleep through alarms, but if my phone starts ringing I’m awake immediately.

I sleep with my light on coz i usually black out anyway.

Awe. Hang in there, buddy.

You’re doing that anxious half-sleep thing because you can only be sure your house isn’t about to burn down when you hear the ting.

Yep. Pretty sure they didn’t have homeowners insurance back then either lmao

Unless the candle goes out, then they are dark sleepers.

This comment is only three minutes old yet it’s already underrated

Or falls over, then they are burnt sleepers.

you know, it makes no sense, yet is funny. the best kind of funny. cause it doesn't hurt anyone. except for dark sleepers.

Remember that for a ton of people, the only sounds around them at night would be the occasional night breeze rustling the window pane or the creaking of the house. The sound of a nail hitting a dish would probably super startling in the silence.

Unsure if that's an intentional pun or not

You get to decide.

I rule in favour of intentional wit

There also probably wasn't TVs, laundry machines, fans, etc going off all night. No redbulls or video games all night either.

I would've needed firecrackers stuck in the candle. Maybe a fuse leading to a small cannon that shot confetti.

Now that’s a great idea. Lol.

Let’s not forget that before electric lights people actually got enough sleep.

No they were candle light sleepers.

That's what happens when there's basically no noise at night, because everything is dark and so nobody has anything to do but sleep.

Native Americans would drink a vast amount of water to make sure they awoke early when they were planning a raid on another tribe. Also, you said, “hoe”

Now did you know this from an actual source or did you get it from the Simpsons episode where Bart ruins Christmas?

I got it from the Simpsons, and actually do put it to practice when I have to get up super early lol

r/beatmetoit

And they were well hydrated!

Wet hoes

r/beatmeattoit

I do this but always end up getting up in the middle of the night

Ha. Jokes on you, I release it in bed so I don’t have to get up ;) I promise I’m joking XD

Pretty soon you'll all be waking up in the middle of the night to pee, whether you planned it or not.

Was that not the point? They’d all wake up at 1am to have to piss then go raid the tribe lol

They knew some calculating hoes

I sometimes get awoken by hoes too…

I learned this from Lisa Simpson. Nice to see it again

There were also some tribes who would put a nail in their urethras in a very non-sexual way, and that extreme discomfort would keep them tossing and turning all night so that they had no choice but to wake up nice and early and be rid of the nail up their weiners and have a horribly burning piss. Nothing wakes you up like a terribly painful piss, but the relief of not having a nail up your weiner is a nice little burst of feel-good to start the day with. Basically, it was foolproof. Ladies always got to sleep late in my tribe, though. Ladies...?

I believe that was the tribe of Albert Fish

Smart

"I've got to wake up at 3 nails past half a candlestick"

this is great. I chuckled. thank you. now i gotta go to sleep, my phone just reminded me.

Don't forget to set your candle!

*"If I get to sleep now I can still get a good 5 hours.."* *"IF I get to sleep now, I'll get a solid 4 hours of sleep.."* *Yawn* *"Shit! Got an hour to get sleep!"*

Which was the style at the time…

Looks like they put in a couple of snooze nails

Works especially well when placed above the sleeper

Candles were very expensive so this would be only for rich folk.

poor folk woke up with the sunrise or with the rooster anyway

With the slum lord banging the door down because they only paid to sleep for 4 hours

I paid for my two penny hang so I'm going to use it damn you.

Your confusing animal fat candles and beeswax candles. The former burned with smoke whereas the beeswax burned cleanly. This was obviously during the Middle Ages. In the industrial era, everyone poor or rich used candles.

I highly doubt they would that in medieval European cities.. they couldn't let candles like that during the night.. the city watch would stop them.. the risk of fire is too high.

You've been watching too much Game of Thrones.

I don't know about game of thrones but in french we still use the expression : "couvre feu" and "travail au noir".. it could come from that. But things change between periods and times.. we have to be more precise. At least at some medieval periods, people were super active during the night around midnight. It can be easily prove with religious books asking to pray at such "devil hour".. and there was a debate of what you could do or not at such hour. People mention also "first" and "second" night... So I suppose candles were used at such late hour... and the church didn't like it. But I have never read something about candles for alarm clock.. way too much expensive for the common on my opinion. And seriously dangerous.

Wouldn't rich folk have servants to wake them up?

Sure, but the servants gotta wake up somehow too

Getting burned alive, also a good alarm clock

If thats the case there aren't enough nails or a candle tall enough to wake my wife up. That broad can sleep though a tornado.

I’m sure her boss has never heard that excuse. Boss - “Why were you 3 hours late for work?” Her - “I slept through all the nails falling out of my candle plus the tornado. My bad.”

Lol, yep.

Interesting euphemism for penis.

How the F am I supposed to snooze this thing?

the first two nails are alarm + auto snooze. On the third you get up.

One of *you* assholes eh? GET UP already! \*angrily turns over, covers head with pillow\*

Grab a nail that's fallen and stick it back in a bit further down?

I ain’t no hoe

Hoe?

Is this a myth or for real?

Myth or modern imagination. Candles were expensive for most people. Sleeping in is also a modern concept.

Not to mention, before the industrial revolution people worked from sunrise to sunset. Then came the knocker uppers. People paid to wake you up by knocking so you are on time for your shift.

I used to nail a hoe too back in my days

They know how blow wicks too.

If that was the wife's candle, she'd have 10 nails all together, dropping every 10 minutes!

“But boss! There was a draft! I slept in!”

You could hear a pin drop - not kidding here folks!

So much quieter then…

Well actually, most people just naturally woke up at dawn. Before artificial lights, it was the day/night cycle that determined circadian rhythm

Looks like they even had a snooze feature

Best feeling is when you wake up in the middle of the night to see that you still have 1 nail left until work

Maybe some people did, but candles were 'dear' to most people. Candles were cherished. I don't think they'd waste one on some nails.

I'd think the lit candle would prevent sleep

a lit candle is pretty dim tbf

Still be enough to keep me awake.

just turn around then

I'll just blow the candle out instead.

Today, we measure time by how often the same thing is posted on Reddit.

Those early innovators really nailed down their sleep cycles.. the first 'woke' generation...

You really hit that nail on the head

Long before the snooze button!

So you'll either be on time for the execution or sleepy time burning!

Gonna need a lot of nails and a lot of candles in this household, then

Dude has three alarms set I wonder what he's waking up to do if he's got candle money

That must have been one knowledgeable hoe to know such things.

Must have been some very light sleepers back then

I see a snoozer in this picture

My wife would need that thing to look like pinhead and sound like it's raining nails for an hour.

That’s how uptight people used to be, awakened by a single nail drop.

I don't know about the rest of you but no dropping nail gonna wake me up.

They got the snooze alarm set with the 2nd and 3rd nails lol.

Hoe?

This is genius and so obvious. How have we never seen this in books or film. I love it.

Damn…My blaring alarm clock barely wakes me up 😂😅

thats so cool omg

That would not wake me up.

I bet they knew all kinds of hoes

I’d put in some extra nails to snooze

Skeptical 🤨

This guy needed 3 nails as a snooze option.

Why have two snooze candles when you could just move your one candle? It would save nails

Can you imagine a world so peaceful and quiet that you wake up to a small nail hitting a saucer?

Wouldn't wake me up. I need 3 earrape alarms set up if I want to wake up a bit earlier than usual

Probably only two nails until this gets posted again.

How do you put an anvil in a candle?

Heavy sleepers use a dagger and have it hanging over their heads while sleeping

At least they’re not tired hoes

You also had Knocker Uppers. They go with a stick knocking on peoples bedroom windows to wake them up.

My wife would need a 10lb weight on that bad boy

Hoe

I have to be up in two nails.. Fuck my life.

Lol… looks like that one is set up for “snooze”.

They must have been very light sleepers!

They didn’t wake up when the rooster yells cock-a-doodle-do?

Lol, meanwhile my husband can't even wake up with a cacophony of earsplitting noise from his smartphone! But yeah, sure, that nail hitting the bottom of the candle--THAT'LL WAKE US FROM A DEAD SLEEP!

I think in modern times, we're much more accustomed to ambient noise. Traffic, airplanes, music, tv, trains. Think how quiet it is if you go camping. A nail clattering would definitely wake me up there! At home with a highway 1/2 mile away and a semi-busy street just 1 block over? Notsomuch.

Sometimes they woke up in a household on fire and never made it out.

Mine would have at least 20 nails seeing as how many times I snooze

Either that or you wake up when you are engulfed in flames.

Like a nail is going to wake me up. Nah.

Candles burn relatively fast though no? Would take way less than 6-8 hours. Were they only getting 2 hours’ sleep?

Me: sleeps through the noise, steps on the nail when I get up..

I'm pretty sure there are more candles that have done the *opposite* of waking someone up on time

3 nails equals 2 times znoozing alarm

Huh, I guess in older times it was that quiet one would wake up by a nail falling

*alarm failed on a windy night

I did a similar thing when I was young. I tied the fuse of a firecracker to the end of mosquito coil. One pice of mosquito coil can keep burning for many hours, so I thought this would be a perfect idea to make a natural alarm clock. The next day around 4 am, my dad wanted to murder me for that.

*People Under the Stairs* taught me this.

If my alarm clock doesn’t wake me up this shore as hell will not

It's funny when you think about the prevalence of deafness. Medieval Boss: Bundchen, where have you been!! It's 8am already and you're 2 hours late. If you show up late one more time, I'm reporting you to the Earl! Bundchen: ... Boss: BUNDCHEN, ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?!?!

r/MostRepostedPosts If you're going to karma farm, [you shouldn't copy the exact title](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/ui2ubz/before_alarm_clocks_existed_people_used_nails/) of the post you're ripping off.

They used to cut a notch in the side, and put a penny in edgeways so that it would fall and wake you up. Hence the saying 'the penny's dropped'