Anon finds a cool rock
Submitted 1 day ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Don’t watch this. Just don’t. Unless you want a brain aneurism. Source: im ded
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Idk I’d probably be fune… For a while…doodeedoodoo
Zink@programming.dev 21 hours ago
I have two optimism-filled counterpoints to this.
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Happy childhood memories are often much nicer than actually existing as a child. Much more concentrated. You already have the good stuff.
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The only person stopping you from walking through the woods and finding cool rocks is you!
(insert caveats here about how adult life sucks for so many people right now and they don’t have free time to wander in the woods. I know. It sucks. I can only encourage you to consider it a metaphor and find something realistic and rewarding that fits your life)
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Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m impressed the guide demonstrated the flint’s sparking abilities and let the kid keep the rock. I know way too many adults who’d be like, “Oh no, danger!” and make a kid leave such a rock alone.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People were a lot less weird about stuff like this in the past, even in the 90s and early 00s. My dad gave me a pocket knife when I was like 8.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Honestly the risks of giving children things varies by individual. 9 year old me with a knife? Perfectly safe and what wasn’t safe was a learning experience. 12 year old me with matches? Literal dumpster fire because I have pyromaniac tendencies.
Ingiald@feddit.nl 12 hours ago
The sparks are actually coming from the steel and not the stone. Flint is just a very hard and sharp stone that can make tiny bits of steel fly off, heated from the sheer friction.
A different stone that is hard and sharp enough would have the same effect, like pyrite also known as fool’s gold. A different metal with, i believe, not enough carbon in it would not work. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 12 hours ago
When I was young I thought I’d need to really know the difference between gold and fool’s gold as an adult.
inari@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I was expecting the rock to be Cesium-137 or something
Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was thinking unexploded ordnance
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hits it with some metal
It detonates, liquifying 15 scouts
Best day of my life
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 1 day ago
I’m not sure what shape a hearth is.
addie@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s the massive stone slab that lies in front of a fireplace, stops stray sparks for burning holes in your carpet or floorboards and burning the house down.
They’re usually half-tonne rectangles of granite. Fair play to the lad for digging one out and carrying it home, it’s normally a job for a forklift.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Tbf he did say it was hearth shaped not hearth sized, which I guess just means rectangular? Idk
eletes@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I thought it was a typo for heart based on the picture
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Nonsense. It was an important story, and OOP would have checked for spelling.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Kanda@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Booba?
AGD4@lemmy.world 1 day ago
So Anon is 16 years old? They’ll be just fine.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I can’t believe the rest of you left that behind
Jerkface@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll do better, I promise
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Why can’t I go back Anons?
🍄🟫
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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toynbee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I thought Tom Holland’s first movie was The Impossible.
grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
So many people seem to want to go back, though. Maybe we just need to coordinate
tanisnikana@lemmy.world 1 day ago
(the picture was taken in December ‘25, of my college I had graduated from twenty years prior. The absolute liminality, devoid of people, and night time environment, counter to how one would normally perceive a college, all adds to the unsettling effect. I added the text after the fact, and formatted it to fit. It wasn’t just hanging in space, but it should have been.)
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Who all wants to get together to live at the local boarded up mall!