Cucumber đĽ
Submitted â¨â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago⊠by â¨fossilesque@mander.xyz⊠to â¨science_memes@mander.xyzâŠ
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Apytele@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
[deleted]superkret@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
âI found a strange fucking objectâ vs âI found a strange fucking objectâ
loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I hope this is your highest voted comment on Lemmy.
fossilesque@mander.xyz â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
âItâs a ritual!â is a classic archaeology meme.
GraniteM@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨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. Itâs hilarious.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
It was probably used for religious purposes of some sort
qprimed@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
indeed. coming closer to believed gods is important to some in any society. its just a clear in and out conclusion.
Hupf@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Usage was frequently accompanied by callings to a deity from a trance like state.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
No you see they know itâs a cucumber because ancient Egyptian dildos had a compartment for bees so that users could experience a vibration effect.
fossilesque@mander.xyz â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
This is the economy model. Made for the common folk.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I was not aware of this urban legend, but I will repeat it anyways because itâs funny.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨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.
The_v@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thatâs just Min.
qprimed@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
you know, after reading and viewing the depictions in the wikipedia article I am going to just keep my mouth shut.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Mood
Nyx0r@discuss.online â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Likely used for ceremonial purposes.
stoy@lemmy.zip â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Perhaps it was located next to a pair of model tomatoes
credo@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Where are the â?â marks. Is this how people write now.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Imagine yourself being confused and baffled by something, and asking âReally?â. 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 theyâre wrong and you know the truth, by sarcastically asking âReally?â. The intonation is falling, closer to ordinary statements of fact.
OOP is using the full stop at the end of his âquestonsâ to suggest the second, sarcastic intonation.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs how people spoke in May of 2021. It was a different time.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Itâs a unicode emoji of a cucumber that your device apparently doesnât support
essteeyou@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
The person youâre replying to is talking about the text in the image. âIs it though. Is it a cucumber.â which should have two question marks.
match@pawb.social â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
is there a problem ă
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Grammar is made up
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
The Egyptlogists might have some additional context and knowledge that some rando on Twitter might now.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website â¨2⊠â¨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.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨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. Itâs crazy. âhmm that skeleton has wide hips, but it is also buried with a sword, so itâs a manâ. 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/âŚ/Invisible_Women:_Exposing_DataâŚ
cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm thinking they found other fruit/veggie/food models with the dildo.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Shouldnât have just assumed but in that case it was the correct assumption vast majority of the time. Still bad to assume.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
But did cucumbers look like that 4000 years ago?
ethd@beehaw.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Same energy as âSappho and her friend spent every waking hour together and they were roommates too, what a lovely example of a definitely straight womanâ
10_0@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Do a scientific test were you put it in front of a cat and see what happens
Comment105@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Then do the same test but you put it in front of Catharina, and see what happens.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Etterra@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨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!
voldage@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨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.
Damage@feddit.it â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm the model of a cucumber Egyptian
Kolanaki@yiffit.net â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
âModel cucumber. Hell, nah, son. That thereâs a petrified hunk âaâ dooky.â
âAh man, I ate of that thing!â
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
There are some people in here who are weirdly obsessed with risking a yeast infection.
nBodyProblem@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
But bro
You could get yourself a yeast infection with 3000 year old yeast
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Was talking more about how many people are insisting cucumbers and eggplants should actually be used like that
match@pawb.social â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
sourdough infection
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
[deleted]fossilesque@mander.xyz â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
))<>((
10_0@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
If they found green dye on it sure, if not then it might beâŚ
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
A cuke named Duke
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
See also âancient stone tool.â
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? âŚblogspot.com/âŚ/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptianâŚ
tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife
kamenlady@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.
idunnololz@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
No it was a final insult, telling them to go fk themselves /s
Alice@beehaw.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isnât a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.
I remember seeing a ton of âarcheologists: tHeYârE jUsT fRiEnDsâ 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.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨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.
Itâs 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 âvaccine badâ part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.
Does anyone still know where the original âjust friendsâ 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?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
also like, is it really that hard to imagine that archeologists went âwell this is a gay couple but uh, we canât really say that, so letâs just informally agree that âclose friendsâ is euphemism for âgay coupleâ, okay?â
M137@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Wakes up in the afterlife only to bite into fake food, thatâs gotta suck.
Lobreeze@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
You ever tried eating a mouldy cucumber?
Tiltinyall@beehaw.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
âsustainâ
stupidcasey@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
IM sure thatâs what they wrote down and Iâm sure thatâs 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.
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same siteâŚ
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