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 1 month ago by DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Genius@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
D_C@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ha, what a …wait, do you think they also don’t have a favourite stick?!?
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Or a favourite cave?
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There was definitely a time when nobody pretended their favorite stick was a gun.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
I have a jar of rocks and two sticks. That guy doesn’t know how to human.
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 1 month ago
Wearing Jewels is the advanced form of carrying a pet rock.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 1 month ago
We’re not so different than the penguins that prostitute themselves for rocks
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
To be fair, the penguins don’t care about the rocks they’re just kinky like that
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
They’re fucking minerals Marie
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t pick a favorite.
They’re all neat.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Mine is cummingtonite
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month 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 1 month ago
Dashboard, as in car dashboard? Or is that also a name for furniture?
judgyweevil@feddit.it 1 month 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 1 month ago
“Yo dude checkout my secret rock collecting spot it’s just 13 kilometers over that way”
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Even way back then, they already used the metric system!
Captain_CapsLock@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ehhhhh, believe it or not the 1970s was 50 years ago.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 1 month ago
The 70s will remain thirty years ago until the day I die.
radix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Stfu
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have a favourite rock
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 1 month ago
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s not a rock, that’s Dwayne Johnson, you know the actor
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month 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 1 month ago
Was?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wait till this guy finds out about the Kaaba
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Glory to your rock house
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
You’re my favorite grub hoe.
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
😍
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
One of my favorite rocks is stoner rock.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
stone? or rock?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
:: eye twitches in deserve space miner::
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Umm… I still have a favorite rock. His name is Doug 😂
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My favorite rock also has a name: Mount Saint Helens
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
And what a great rock that is. Although temperamental at times.
njm1314@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You don’t have a favorite Rock?
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
It’s a mineral, Gurk.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Don’t mind Geologists
mercano@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Like I have a favorite spatula.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
According to archeologists, it was probably obsidian.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah, they tried to reach the Nether.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I have a favourite kitchen knife, so it’s plausible
shikimazu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
this reminds me of the kam patterson skit
Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Still pretty common today.