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[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 month ago

Look at this fella with no favourite rock

[-] D_C@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

Ha, what a ...wait, do you think they also don't have a favourite stick?!?

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Or a favourite cave?

[-] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

This is lemmy. Everyone has a favourite rock.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago

They're fucking minerals Marie

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago
[-] spizzat2@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago
[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

You just know the dude that named this had to be laughing to himself when submitting anything official.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I can't pick a favorite.

They're all neat.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

I thought I was weird after seeing that black stand-up on kill Tony saying he had some of his favorites in his pocket. My step mom and I went hiking and she found two really cool rocks, one was gray and has streaks of purple, the other one was dark but with orange streaks. They live on my dashboard.

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[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

Mine is cummingtonite

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

Still pretty common today.

[-] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 26 points 1 month ago

Wearing Jewels is the advanced form of carrying a pet rock.

[-] ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

We're not so different than the penguins that prostitute themselves for rocks

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

To be fair, the penguins don't care about the rocks they're just kinky like that

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

The rocks just make it classy.

[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 17 points 1 month ago

Paleontologists have found Neanderthal stone tools (knapped stone) made with high quality stone taken from kilometers away. This means that they had favorite tools that they wanted to keep with them, while other low quality stones where used few times before being discarded near their collection point

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Yo dude checkout my secret rock spot, it's 13 kilometers over there"

[-] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 month ago

Even way back then, they already used the metric system!

[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 6 points 1 month ago

It was the most natural thing to do

[-] Captain_CapsLock@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

There's an area in the cascade range (western US, specifically oregon) that is a giant field of knapped obsidian, that was used as a training ground for young knappers, as well as a trading ground to trade knapped obsidian that has been found all over the western US. Not just miles, but many many miles. I'll see if I can go find a link.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That's not a rock, that's Dwayne Johnson, you know the actor

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Wait till this guy finds out about the Kaaba

Glory to your rock house

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Doing volunteer trail maintenance. All the people swarm the tool pile trying to claim their favorite pick mattock or grub hoe. It's adorable.

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

You're my favorite grub hoe.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago
[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

My favorite rock has a first name, it's H-O-M-E-R. My favorite rock has a second name, it's H-O-M-E-R.

[-] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 month ago

It's a mineral, Gurk.

[-] radix@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Wasn't that long ago that people even had pet rocks.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Ehhhhh, believe it or not the 1970s was 50 years ago.

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 1 month ago

The 70s will remain thirty years ago until the day I die.

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[-] radix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Can't be. I was born in the 70s and I'm only what the fuck?

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[-] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Wait... do you guys not have a favourite rock?

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[-] shikimazu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

this reminds me of the kam patterson skit

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sea otters exhibit this behavior. They keep their favorite rock in their pouches and use them to crack open shellfish.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You don't have a favorite Rock?

According to archeologists, it was probably obsidian.

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[-] tehWrapper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's believed that connections to objects as favorites is a more recent human evolution. Tribes would have spears and tools but people would just take one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Humankind

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