…but only one person gets to talk about ea nasir’s yelp ratings.

They can be cool, inspiring events, or funny/dumb ones idc. I’m just looking for stories that make you go “I could see that happening in Jersey” or “My cousin caught a charge for that just last week!”

  • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
    721·
    9 months ago

    I love how many dicks have been drawn in historical artifacts by the people who built them. I remember reading about an engraving at the very top of an old column which the building was too unstable to get close enough to see for a long time. I think when they got up there and translated it it said something like “this is very high”. It’s nice to know people have always been people.

    • Skua@kbin.social
      25·
      9 months ago

      it said something like “this is very high”.

      Maeshowe, in the Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland. It’s a properly ancient structure, and there are 30 runic inscriptions in it which are all just straight up graffiti, including “Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up”. My favourite part is it’s not even that high up, like the guy was probably just on someone’s shoulders.

      Oddly enough we probably have the story of the graffiti artists. The Orkneyinga saga tells the tale of some 12th century Norsemen who took shelter there during a snowstorm and looted the place. By the time they did so, Maeshowe was already about 4,000 years old, and whatever they looted was probably left there by their own ancestors a few centuries beforehand.

    • Hegar@kbin.social
      133·
      9 months ago

      A lot of archaeological dicks are apotropaic - they ward off evil. Some are for fertility of course. Today I feel like it’s often seen as a minorly transgressive act, drawing something ‘rude’. It’s so fascinating that we keep doing the same thing and just change what we say it means.

      • Susaga@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        20·
        9 months ago

        That’s bollocks. Whoever claimed that people used to draw dicks to ward off evil was talking out of their ass to make a dick pic seem classier. They were just embarrassed that their submission in an archeological journal was so similar to what they carved into their desk in school, and I’m damn certain the school desk isn’t protected from evil either.

    • Shard@lemmy.world
      10·
      9 months ago

      I’m just waiting for the first dick cave painting to be found. Then I’ll know we’ve always been this way and I’ll be able to die happy

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      9·
      9 months ago

      There was a lot of it in Herculaneum and Pompeii.

      I also feel this way about all of the historical remnants of how much ancient people loved their pets. There are still ancient roadside shrines throughout Europe to memorialize ancient people’s pets. <3

      • Berttheduck@lemmy.ml
        10·
        9 months ago

        I love in Pompeii you can follow the dicks on the cobbles to the brothel, brilliant advertising.