Look at this fella with no favourite rock
Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock.
Submitted 15 hours ago by DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Genius@lemmy.zip 44 minutes ago
shikimazu@lemmy.world 32 minutes ago
this reminds me of the kam patterson skit
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
My favorite rock has a first name, it’s H-O-M-E-R. My favorite rock has a second name, it’s H-O-M-E-R.
Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Still pretty common today.
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I thought I was weird after seeing that black stand-up on kill Tony saying he had some of his favorites in his pocket. My step mom and I went hiking and she found two really cool rocks, one was gray and has streaks of purple, the other one was dark but with orange streaks. They live on my dashboard.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Dashboard, as in car dashboard? Or is that also a name for furniture?
datavoid@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
They’re fucking minerals Marie
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I can’t pick a favorite.
They’re all neat.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Wait till this guy finds out about the Kaaba
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Wearing Jewels is the advanced form of carrying a pet rock.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
We’re not so different than the penguins that prostitute themselves for rocks
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 hours ago
To be fair, the penguins don’t care about the rocks they’re just kinky like that
judgyweevil@feddit.it 12 hours ago
Paleontologists have found Neanderthal stone tools (knapped stone) made with high quality stone taken from kilometers away. This means that they had favorite tools that they wanted to keep with them, while other low quality stones where used few times before being discarded near their collection point
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
“Yo dude checkout my secret rock collecting spot it’s just 13 kilometers over that way”
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 hours ago
Even way back then, they already used the metric system!
Captain_CapsLock@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
There’s an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I’ll see if I can go find a link.
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I have a favourite rock
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 7 hours ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
I got an STL on his face on those things that shot at you from the river in ocarina of Time. It’s called an octorock
radix@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ehhhhh, believe it or not the 1970s was 50 years ago.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 hours ago
The 70s will remain thirty years ago until the day I die.
radix@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Stfu
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Was?
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Umm… I still have a favorite rock. His name is Doug 😂
davidgro@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
My favorite rock also has a name: Mount Saint Helens
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
And what a great rock that is. Although temperamental at times.
njm1314@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You don’t have a favorite Rock?
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
One of my favorite rocks is stoner rock.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
stone? or rock?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
:: eye twitches in deserve space miner::
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 12 hours ago
It’s a mineral, Gurk.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Don’t mind Geologists
mercano@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 8 hours ago
According to archeologists, it was probably obsidian.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s believed that connections to objects as favorites is a more recent human evolution. Tribes would have spears and tools but people would just take one.
untorquer@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
Doing volunteer trail maintenance. All the people swarm the tool pile trying to claim their favorite pick mattock or grub hoe. It’s adorable.