Cucumber 🥒

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• geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? …blogspot.com/…/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian…

  tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife

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  • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No it was a final insult, telling them to go fk themselves /s

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  • Alice@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn’t a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.

    I remember seeing a ton of “archeologists: tHeY’rE jUsT fRiEnDs” comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seems like a case where a particular claim of a select group was generalised over a supergroup by way of being the subject of memes that ran away with the stereotype.

      It’s like that one fraud falsifying studies about a specific type of vaccines in an attempt to sell his own, only for people to latch on to the “vaccine bad” part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.

      Does anyone still know where the original “just friends” claim stems from, in which context, supported by which arguments, what refutations have been offered since and just how widespread among archaeologists it is today?

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      also like, is it really that hard to imagine that archeologists went “well this is a gay couple but uh, we can’t really say that, so let’s just informally agree that ‘close friends’ is euphemism for ‘gay couple’, okay?”

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wakes up in the afterlife only to bite into fake food, that’s gotta suck.

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    • Lobreeze@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You ever tried eating a mouldy cucumber?

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  • Tiltinyall@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “sustain”

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IM sure that’s what they wrote down and I’m sure that’s what the person who had it commissioned said it was but the one thing I am more sure of is that this is not a cucumber and nobody who ever saw it has ever thought it is a cucumber.

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    • geekwithsoul@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…

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• Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “I found a strange fucking object” vs “I found a strange fucking object”

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    • loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hope this is your highest voted comment on Lemmy.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “It’s a ritual!” is a classic archaeology meme.

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  • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Motel of the Mysteries is basically this joke explored over 95 pages, lovingly illustrated by David Macaulay, the guy who did those black and white books Cathedral, Pyramid, Castle, and The Way Things Work, as well as others. It’s hilarious.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was probably used for religious purposes of some sort

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  • qprimed@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    indeed. coming closer to believed gods is important to some in any society. its just a clear in and out conclusion.

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Usage was frequently accompanied by callings to a deity from a trance like state.

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• hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No you see they know it’s a cucumber because ancient Egyptian dildos had a compartment for bees so that users could experience a vibration effect.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the economy model. Made for the common folk.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was not aware of this urban legend, but I will repeat it anyways because it’s funny.

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There appear to be traces of green paint, but even then I would be very suspicious unless this was found with a bunch of other, less phallic model vegetables.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s just Min.

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_(god)

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    • qprimed@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you know, after reading and viewing the depictions in the wikipedia article I am going to just keep my mouth shut.

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  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mood

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• Nyx0r@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Likely used for ceremonial purposes.

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Perhaps it was located next to a pair of model tomatoes

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• credo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where are the ‘?’ marks. Is this how people write now.

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  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine yourself being confused and baffled by something, and asking “Really?”. The intonation is rising, as is usual in questions. Imagine yourself hearing someone say something you are completely confident is absurdly false or a lie, and you want to suggest to the person that they’re wrong and you know the truth, by sarcastically asking “Really?”. The intonation is falling, closer to ordinary statements of fact.

    OOP is using the full stop at the end of his “questons” to suggest the second, sarcastic intonation.

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  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s how people spoke in May of 2021. It was a different time.

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    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a unicode emoji of a cucumber that your device apparently doesn’t support

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    • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The person you’re replying to is talking about the text in the image. “Is it though. Is it a cucumber.” which should have two question marks.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    is there a problem か

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  • Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Grammar is made up

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Egyptlogists might have some additional context and knowledge that some rando on Twitter might now.

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  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sure, but experts have been making bad assumptions before.

    Like archaeologists up until relatively recently have been calling viking graves with swords in male, without really looking at the actual skeleton.

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    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My wife been reading this book that references this. As well so many other cases of men assuming disregarding women in science, among other things. It’s crazy. “hmm that skeleton has wide hips, but it is also buried with a sword, so it’s a man”. Female physiology traits in a man is way more plausible, than a woman being buried with a sword … wtf?!?

      Anyway, the book is next on my reading list en.wikipedia.org/…/Invisible_Women:_Exposing_Data…

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    • cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m thinking they found other fruit/veggie/food models with the dildo.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Shouldn’t have just assumed but in that case it was the correct assumption vast majority of the time. Still bad to assume.

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  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But did cucumbers look like that 4000 years ago?

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• ethd@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same energy as “Sappho and her friend spent every waking hour together and they were roommates too, what a lovely example of a definitely straight woman”

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• 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do a scientific test were you put it in front of a cat and see what happens

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then do the same test but you put it in front of Catharina, and see what happens.

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• MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember that the idiots in the 19th & 20th centuries uncovering all kinds of Egyptian stuff purposefully damaged inscriptions and art because they prominently showed gasp penises!

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• voldage@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As we well know all women and men in history that lived together with someone of the same gender were just friends. There are many historical records in which esteemed historians depicted the factual truth of deep friendships. Luckily for the rest of us, those noble seers always knew all context required and bore no prejudices towards anything whatsoever. That is a model cucumber. It even tastes like one.

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m the model of a cucumber Egyptian

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Model cucumber. Hell, nah, son. That there’s a petrified hunk ‘a’ dooky.”

  “Ah man, I ate of that thing!”

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are some people in here who are weirdly obsessed with risking a yeast infection.

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  • nBodyProblem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But bro

    You could get yourself a yeast infection with 3000 year old yeast

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Was talking more about how many people are insisting cucumbers and eggplants should actually be used like that

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      sourdough infection

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ))<>((

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• 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they found green dye on it sure, if not then it might be…

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A cuke named Duke

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  See also “ancient stone tool.”

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