• Norgur@kbin.social
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    11 months ago
    1. Unrelated (it’s from a line of “educational stories” by author Wilhelm Busch who wasn’t too subtle with his messaging)
    2. That’s unknown
    3. It’s not clear from the story. The mother in the story warns her boy about the tailor cutting thumbs off of thumb suckers and when the child doesn’t listen and the mother is away, said tailor just barges in, so there is an argument for it being a mythical tailor, but an argument for it being just your regular ass tailor as well.
    4. Unknown. Seems to be in their job description for some reason
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      11 months ago

      That’s awesome. Thank you for the breakdown! I’m a bit invested in the story as I’m an upholsterer and wondered if I wasn’t keeping up with the trade mythology.

      For the record, neither of my kids sucked their thumb…