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 weeks ago by DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Genius@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
D_C@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Ha, what a …wait, do you think they also don’t have a favourite stick?!?
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or a favourite cave?
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There was definitely a time when nobody pretended their favorite stick was a gun.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I have a jar of rocks and two sticks. That guy doesn’t know how to human.
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Wearing Jewels is the advanced form of carrying a pet rock.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
We’re not so different than the penguins that prostitute themselves for rocks
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
To be fair, the penguins don’t care about the rocks they’re just kinky like that
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
They’re fucking minerals Marie
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can’t pick a favorite.
They’re all neat.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Mine is cummingtonite
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Dashboard, as in car dashboard? Or is that also a name for furniture?
judgyweevil@feddit.it 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
“Yo dude checkout my secret rock collecting spot it’s just 13 kilometers over that way”
Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Even way back then, they already used the metric system!
Captain_CapsLock@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ehhhhh, believe it or not the 1970s was 50 years ago.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
The 70s will remain thirty years ago until the day I die.
radix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Stfu
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have a favourite rock
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 2 weeks ago
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
That’s not a rock, that’s Dwayne Johnson, you know the actor
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Was?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait till this guy finds out about the Kaaba
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Glory to your rock house
untorquer@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
You’re my favorite grub hoe.
untorquer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
😍
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
One of my favorite rocks is stoner rock.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
stone? or rock?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
:: eye twitches in deserve space miner::
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Umm… I still have a favorite rock. His name is Doug 😂
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My favorite rock also has a name: Mount Saint Helens
Happyblonde@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
And what a great rock that is. Although temperamental at times.
njm1314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You don’t have a favorite Rock?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
It’s a mineral, Gurk.
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Don’t mind Geologists
mercano@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like I have a favorite spatula.
tehWrapper@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
According to archeologists, it was probably obsidian.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ah, they tried to reach the Nether.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I have a favourite kitchen knife, so it’s plausible
shikimazu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
this reminds me of the kam patterson skit
Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Still pretty common today.