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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Man has felt the need to leave his mark on this world since the very beginning. Not likely to ever change

[–] Dragon@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 hours ago

I visited a 17,000 year old cave painting site in France, and the whole walk into the cave there are modern day graffiti signatures like "Bob, 1992" etc. but then you start to notice that the years go back further and further...1827...1761...1597. Then you get to the old cave art and it kind of feels like a continuation of the same shit, just some people leaving their scribbles on a rock like they have been probably since they discovered how to do it.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 25 points 7 hours ago

I had a book of graffiti, one of them was described as an arrow written up a wall next to a urinal up to the ceiling where a message read "by the time you've read this message, you have pissed on your shoes."

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 52 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I would unironically watch something called 'Ancient Shitposting' that focused on old graffiti and pisstakes. It would still be more relevant to history than most of what is on channels with History in the name these days.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I want a spinoff focusing on animals fucking with humans in ancient times, like paw prints in bricks or on documents. Must be a treasure trove of hilarious antics throughout the times

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I know a number of Roman and medieval European tiles have been found. I'm sure there's more around the world because cats gonna cat.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The only exception would be in places like the Americas where they didnt have any domestic cats, though who knows maybe someone tried domesticating mountain lions which are in the same family as housecats.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago

Well, there's more than just cats, but true. Wolves, dogs, monkeys, and just about anything else could be traipsing about.

[–] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 120 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I liked the story about the "very high" runes and so I found a source. Apparently, the writing was "Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up".

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Kolbein must've been so proud.

[–] bangsnooter@lemmy.zip 59 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Souls players have been around for centuries.

Try finger but hole

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Best use of a time machine ever, carve that in ancient Norse runes for future people to find.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Nah, go further back and carve next to all kinds of fossils the word "dog"

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Especially the trilobytes

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Finally, we'll know where the word came from!

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Thing is, unless we first found it way later, people would just think they're referencing the runes.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

"Nooo, we were trying to spread the meme, not destroy it!"

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Do it next to something only discovered within the last few years

[–] dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago

Attaboy Tholfir

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Probably not "Marcus is gay" since they didn't have a similar idea of sexuality, it being more or less a free-for-all.

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oh my sweet summer child...

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

Bad use of the meme.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 30 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!

Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.

Theophilus, don't perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog

I have buggered men

Secundus likes to screw boys.

If anyone sits here, let him read this first of all: if anyone wants a screw, he should look for Attice; she costs 4 sestertii.

The one who buggers a fire burns his penis

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Yo Imma need Attice's digits, and a bag of sestertii

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 6 points 6 hours ago

these are the greatest receipts I could ever dream of.

[–] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 64 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I would watch Ancient Shitposting religiously.

[–] hate2bme@lemmy.world 44 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Too bad it would never happen on the history channel, it involves history.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

They can always claim it's aliens. And then translate it all, with the people's names, and keep claiming it's aliens.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Milo Rossi should make a channel

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

People think humanity is so much more evolved now but it has been actually the same shit from thousands ago or whenever recorded history goes back.

Also: portuga was here

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Millions of years, likely. The whole reason we’re successful is because our pre-human ancestors were empathetic and cooperative enough to build societies.

We see those same traits in many other primates, and they’re not something it makes sense to evolve, lose, and evolve again. Those traits predate us.

Language almost certainly predates us, since we see it not only in other primates, but in non-primate species, too. And based on the humour we see in many animals, you can bet we were making dick jokes nearly out of the gate.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Societies weren't built on empathy, they were built on security. Not just physical security but food as well. No society in history was built on empathy, ever.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Always has been. This is where the whole "Dark Ages" idea comes from, IIRC: people further on in time wanting to separate themselves as special and more advanced.

[–] portuga@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

We’ve evolved technologically, not psychologically

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 49 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's a pyramid with hieroglyphics carved onto the side that roughly translate to "This End Up"

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 5 points 10 hours ago

The not so famous pyramid of Packanghamen.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 16 points 10 hours ago
[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 10 hours ago

Try finger but hole

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 3 points 8 hours ago

I guess this means Norsemen is more historically accurate than Vikings

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

They really understate Mozart. My favourite scatalogical composition of his is "Lick My Ass Right Well and Clean" where he compares his ass to nicely buttered roast meat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_sch%C3%B6n_sauber

Super pretty choir piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNePP0DX1A

[–] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

It sounds so classy when a choir sings it.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 5 points 10 hours ago

Commit to the bit. The bit is eternal.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana 5 points 11 hours ago

Those who forget the past, are condemed to repeat it.

Let's just forget everything, ok?

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Vikings (and Varangians) loved write silly things everywhere.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

Yep, same graffiti means people haven't changed at all. It's so obvious!

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Humans have always been, and always will be, garbage.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 18 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

This isn't garbage, this is good banter.

A bored guy engraving runes at an height of 3.8 meters just to mess with the next guy reading it, an artist or worker sculpting his name into a work, ordered by the class in power (church) just to give the finger to the clergy, Mozart creating a piece to get revenge on the rich class that held him prisoner to work on what was asked to him instead of having liberty to create as he pleased...

Good, old fashioned, rebellion.

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