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 3 months ago by DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Genius@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
D_C@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Ha, what a …wait, do you think they also don’t have a favourite stick?!?
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Or a favourite cave?
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There was definitely a time when nobody pretended their favorite stick was a gun.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 months ago
I have a jar of rocks and two sticks. That guy doesn’t know how to human.
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 3 months ago
Wearing Jewels is the advanced form of carrying a pet rock.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 3 months ago
We’re not so different than the penguins that prostitute themselves for rocks
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 months ago
To be fair, the penguins don’t care about the rocks they’re just kinky like that
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
They’re fucking minerals Marie
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I can’t pick a favorite.
They’re all neat.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Mine is cummingtonite
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 months 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 3 months ago
Dashboard, as in car dashboard? Or is that also a name for furniture?
judgyweevil@feddit.it 3 months 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 months ago
“Yo dude checkout my secret rock collecting spot it’s just 13 kilometers over that way”
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 3 months ago
Even way back then, they already used the metric system!
Captain_CapsLock@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
radix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ehhhhh, believe it or not the 1970s was 50 years ago.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 months ago
The 70s will remain thirty years ago until the day I die.
radix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Stfu
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I have a favourite rock
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 3 months ago
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That’s not a rock, that’s Dwayne Johnson, you know the actor
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 months 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
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Was?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wait till this guy finds out about the Kaaba
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Glory to your rock house
untorquer@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
toynbee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re my favorite grub hoe.
untorquer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
😍
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
One of my favorite rocks is stoner rock.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
stone? or rock?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 months ago
:: eye twitches in deserve space miner::
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Umm… I still have a favorite rock. His name is Doug 😂
davidgro@lemmy.world 3 months ago
My favorite rock also has a name: Mount Saint Helens
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
And what a great rock that is. Although temperamental at times.
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You don’t have a favorite Rock?
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 3 months ago
It’s a mineral, Gurk.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I mean when I was young and used to play with rocks I had a favourite rock, I mean even painting rocks was a thing. No need to go thousands of years back lol
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Don’t mind Geologists
mercano@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Like I have a favorite spatula.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 3 months ago
According to archeologists, it was probably obsidian.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ah, they tried to reach the Nether.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I have a favourite kitchen knife, so it’s plausible
shikimazu@lemmy.world 3 months ago
this reminds me of the kam patterson skit
Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Still pretty common today.