Religious homophobic twat gets pwned on Twitter

[8ball]

It's definitely something:
"Charles Halloway, citizen, father, introspective husband, night-wanderer, and janitor of the town library."

It really just seems to mean someone who wanders at night.
Let's face it - there was no internet.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

It really just seems to mean someone who wanders at night.
Let's face it - there was no internet.

Bums.
I wanted it to be some sort of obscure ancient job or euphamism.

 

[DotCommunist]

Bums.
I wanted it to be some sort of obscure ancient job or euphamism.

it does sound like it belongs in a list of things like 'cutpurse' and 'footpad'

 

[Mrs Miggins]

it does sound like it belongs in a list of things like 'cutpurse' and 'footpad'

Exactly
And Pure-finder

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's definitely something:
"Charles Halloway, citizen, father, introspective husband, night-wanderer, and janitor of the town library."

It sounds a bit like loitering with intent too.

The searches for the term seem to indicate that it is used in gothic novels.

 

[8ball]

It sounds a bit like loitering with intent too.

As opposed to "accidental loitering" (aka "lollygagging").

 

[DotCommunist]

Exactly
And Pure-finder

lol thats a new one on me, and probably what my medieval job would have been

 

[JimW]

Was there a curfew in force? Might make a night-wanderer even more suss.

ETA: Might well have been http://www.medievalists.net/2016/10/1390-ad-london-in-the-late-middle-ages/

 

[Mrs Miggins]

lol thats a new one on me, and probably what my medieval job would have been

There's always the option of Night Soil Man if you get bored of looking for pure

 

[JimW]

There's always the option of Night Soil Man if you get bored of looking for pure

Gong farmer!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Was there a curfew in force? Might make a night-wanderer even more suss.

ETA: Might well have been 1390 AD: London in the Late Middle Ages - Medievalists.net

Interesting....that would make sense of why this "night-wanderer" is being lumped in with all the other dodgy types in that quote.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Gong farmer!

Aces! i'm going to remember that.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]