Hostel where you sleep while standing ?????

psychward wrote: »

Ok I choose the thread title so that someone would see it and go ''wtf'' where and whats this but heres the deal:

For years my older relatives have been joking about something they call ''standing lodgings''
They say that poor people used to sleep standing tied to a wall like sardines leaning over a rope . Maybe in some kind of hostel from hell I don't know. Personally I'd rather sleep under a bush than standing up as I can't even get a decent 10 minute sleep in a seat on a plane.

So is there any truth to this myth or urban legend of ''standing lodgings'' or ''standup lodgings'' ?

The odd thing is I put the search terms into Google and cannot even find a reference to it as a myth nevermind reality. It doesn't even seem to come up as a legend yet I've heard of the idea from people who do not even know one another so the idea is around from somewhere. Has anyone heard of this before ? I don't think it can be true but why isn't it even in Google as a busted myth ?

Ah, it kinda sounds like one of those stories an oul fella tells you; like the days he had to walk 30 miles to the shops in his bare feet, reciting the Bible in Latin while being whipped across the arse by a Protestant landowner... and then he had to sleep standing up.

It was for drunken drovers at marts. They used to have to walk the animals for anything up to a day. When they got to the mart they'd go on the beer. At the back of the Shebeen they'd tie a rope across a few tree's and drag the drovers out when they fell asleep. They just cut the rope to wake them.

Try this link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_penny_coffin

Capsule hotel > This.

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

It was actually on thumped.com but you should be able to read it.

http://thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?63903-The-Penny-Hang-a-viable-accommodation-option-nowadays

Biggins already linked to your thread.:p

I heard about this for the first time recently in London on a Jack the ripper walking tour. Apparently it was common enough back then for prostitutes, drunks and the homeless to ‘sleep on the rope’ for a small fee as it was better than lying out on the dirty streets and cheaper than getting a bed.

There may be some truth to those stories about cheap flop houses and doss houses, but I suspect they were so long ago that those who say they remember them are really only recalling accounts they heard from old people long ago.:)

http://www.squidoo.com/tuppence-on-the-rope

A hobo's life is brave and free
I've ofttimes heard folks say
But I know better now I've trudged
all through a winter's day
I've slept in barns and garden sheds
and in some haystacks too
Tramped the road from coast to coast
in ragged clothes and shoes

But when you're down and nearly out
and have no place to go
You can shelter from the long hard night
For tuppence on the rope.
Tuppence on the rope, me boys,
tuppence on the rope

I've been in spikes the country round,
Met workhouse masters many
Most of them are harsh and stern and kind ones hardly any
In dosshouse I've had many a kip, a sixpence for a bed
But in these days of poverty a tanner's hard to beg.

In Glossop Spike there's bread and scrape,
But oh, their work is hard
It's five hours spent just breaking stones
Out in the workshouse yard
In Rochdale I was given a shirt, in Bakeup got new boots
But Blackburn's beds are hardwood boards and full of hungry coots

Oh evil day when a man cannot get to his spike in time
And in a dosshouse spends his pence to hang upon the line
When workhouse masters disappear, it's not too much to hope
That we will never see again those men hung on the rope