The “Everybody had one” caption in the thumbnail is patiently false. I think they’ve only found a few hundred of them, which means not everybody had one.
These Have Been Found All Across Ancient Rome (Nobody Knows Why)
Submitted 2 months ago by sheridan@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://youtube.com/watch?v=smYbNisW5yI
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Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Patently
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks, I’m dyslexic and that’s where the spell check got me.
sheridan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you interpreting it literally? It’s a figure of speech—a kind of hyperbole; it’s just a way of implying something was common, not that literally every person had one.
Whether it actually was common though, I don’t know. Joe here might be taking some liberties for the sake of a catchy thumbnail.
Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a race to the bottom. Everything is blown the hell outta proportion until meaning is well meaningless.
breecher@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“Everybody had one” is not a figure of speech or even hyperbole. It is just a flat out lie.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, this video is poorly researched clickbait.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah that really bothered me. A lot of people are going to interpret that literally. I hate that sort of clickbait.
TheFANUM@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re for knitting gloves. It’s been solved for a while
Doom@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
No not at all.
If they were for making gloves there’d be more clues for it. There aren’t.
I could use a car to cook an egg, doesn’t mean that’s why it was made.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everybody knows you use GPUs to cook eggs, dont be silly
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
According to some random guy on medium. I think it’s a solid hypothesis but far from proven or “solved”.
MisterCurtis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Watching the video of him struggling with it doesn’t really sell the point.
It not being an efficient tool could explain why they’re not around, if that’s the case.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Knitting is medieval, and not attested to until the 11th century Egypt.
As spool knitters go, the dodecahedron are terrible for that purpose. The extra faces are useless. This idea has been explored and rejected, because it does not match Roman textile practices.
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well I think we established you can’t stick your dick in it. So I’m out of ideas.
CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 2 months ago
What an incredible case of the username checking out
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Because of how many they have found and at least one cache I remember reading about was found in some kind of marketplace, I like to think they were just common household tchotchkes. Like a Newton’s Cradle or other random as fuck desk or shelf decor. They are pretty aesthetic. I could see these things still being sold as a thing to just have your desk.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One hypothesis that made practical sense to me was candle holder
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Another video on this subject:
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everyone should watch this video instead. Actual archeologist.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Ah Stefan Milo. I love him.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So delightful that we have more people propping of the pseudo archeology “it was used for knitting! Despite knitting being not around until the Middle Ages, and spool knitting not being around until later!”
It’s a terrible French/spool knitter. The fact that someone made something on it does not mean that it was made for knitting, because you can do that with basically any set of pegs you want.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
they’re clearly for slamming affixes from a select pool based on the paired fossil ^*
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can’t possibly fathom why a bunch of people all over would all have the same weird, seemingly useless object on them at roughly the same time period. It’s an impossible mystery.
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Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 months ago
lol I immediately thought of fidget spinners too
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Humans are curious and scavengers.