Cucumber 🥒
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 06 Sep 2024 18:58
https://mander.xyz/post/17714713

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ethd@beehaw.org on 06 Sep 2024 19:20 next collapse

Same energy as “Sappho and her friend”

[deleted] on 06 Sep 2024 19:36 next collapse

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fossilesque@mander.xyz on 06 Sep 2024 19:42 next collapse

“It’s a ritual!” is a classic archaeology meme.

superkret@feddit.org on 06 Sep 2024 19:43 next collapse

“I found this strange fucking object” vs “I found this strange fucking object”

loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com on 07 Sep 2024 13:39 collapse

I hope this is your highest voted comment on Lemmy.

GraniteM@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 00:53 collapse

Motel of the Mysteries is basically this joke explored over 95 pages, lovingly illustrated by David Macaulay, the guy who did those black and white books Cathedral, Pyramid, Castle, and The Way Things Work, as well as others. It’s hilarious.

credo@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 19:46 next collapse

Where are the ‘?’ marks. Is this how people write now.

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works on 06 Sep 2024 19:50 next collapse

It’s a unicode emoji of a cucumber that your device apparently doesn’t support

essteeyou@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 09:00 collapse

The person you’re replying to is talking about the text in the image. “Is it though. Is it a model cucumber.” which should have two question marks.

the_crotch@sh.itjust.works on 07 Sep 2024 13:42 collapse

Oh my bad, I misread the comment

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 19:52 next collapse

It’s how people spoke in May of 2021. It was a different time.

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 19:57 collapse

ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝ ďż˝

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 20:14 collapse

Oh that’s cool, let me try.
Hunter2

BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works on 06 Sep 2024 21:39 collapse

All I can see is Hunter2 so you’re probably fine

TachyonTele@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 22:45 collapse

It works!

blackluster117@possumpat.io on 06 Sep 2024 23:22 collapse

Ah, a classic. Good vintage on this one.

antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 06 Sep 2024 20:09 next collapse

Imagine yourself being confused and baffled by something, and asking “Really?”. The intonation is rising, as is usual in questions. Imagine yourself hearing someone say something you are completely confident is absurdly false or a lie, and you want to suggest to the person that they’re wrong and you know the truth, by sarcastically asking “Really?”. The intonation is falling, closer to ordinary statements of fact.

OOP is using the full stop at the end of his “questons” to suggest the second, sarcastic intonation.

Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Sep 2024 20:26 next collapse

Grammar is made up

match@pawb.social on 07 Sep 2024 07:44 collapse

is there a problem か

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works on 06 Sep 2024 19:53 next collapse

The Egyptians weren’t always shy, but there do appear to be traces of green paint.

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/908fd40b-0fe7-4f6b-8a31-90986d6fb21f.png">

BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 22:03 next collapse

Mood

The_v@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 23:38 collapse

That’s just Min.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_(god)

qprimed@lemmy.ml on 07 Sep 2024 01:38 collapse

you know, after reading and viewing the depictions in the wikipedia article I am going to just keep my mouth shut.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 06 Sep 2024 19:57 next collapse

“Model cucumber? Hell, nah, son. That there’s a petrified hunk ‘a’ dooky.”

“Ah man, I ate off that thing!”

stoy@lemmy.zip on 06 Sep 2024 20:09 next collapse

Perhaps it was located next to a pair of model tomatoes

geekwithsoul@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 20:24 next collapse

Evidently it really was probably a cucumber? …blogspot.com/…/bullshit-memes-8-ancient-egyptian…

tl;dr - was found with other model food, probably meant to sustain someone in the afterlife

kamenlady@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 20:34 next collapse

Sustain someone with the ability to have a little sexy time in the afterlife? I like this.

idunnololz@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 00:46 collapse

No it was a final insult, telling them to go fk themselves /s

stupidcasey@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 20:46 next collapse

IM sure that’s what they wrote down and I’m sure that’s what the person who had it commissioned said it was but the one thing I am more sure of is that this is not a cucumber and nobody who ever saw it has ever thought it is a cucumber.

geekwithsoul@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 20:55 collapse

From the article I linked with the item in the context of other finds at the same site…

<img alt="" src="https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/bb983bd6-8461-44a5-8d68-8c76638f9c85.jpeg">

affiliate@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 21:29 next collapse

they chose to hide it in plain sight

geekwithsoul@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 21:36 collapse

Why does that sound like the voice of experience?

affiliate@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 21:38 collapse

🤐

kamenlady@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 22:23 next collapse

Theoretically even a buttplug could be assembled using 2 of the veggies

_lilith@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 01:03 next collapse

kinky

leftzero@lemmynsfw.com on 07 Sep 2024 02:35 collapse

So, a bunch of dildos and buttplugs. Even a ribbed one!

Hello_there@fedia.io on 06 Sep 2024 20:54 next collapse

Let me guess. A model carrot, squash was there also. And a drawing of a farmer with his shirt off.

Tja@programming.dev on 06 Sep 2024 21:27 next collapse

🍆

mst@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Sep 2024 06:20 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh8dQ818E9iuPxwR0NPUQvUdgiCyBkYE4d3N3FmCKN44E5eKRzHdkXda4yoVIWWN1INjzdM7SSb7PClFxHiLCmqsyQw_ejr7M84u5svdeYPOtKbPKTJ4pv0tk0fKgHSUulRzvuSAFbF6d2vUk9BzqQiuFzPYT3UaEL9PTmLA93t36xqvh9nc6yymc/w400-h166/hayes_1959_I_fig225_Lisht_MiddleKingdom_models.jpg">

Hello_there@fedia.io on 07 Sep 2024 07:12 collapse

Butt plugs and corn ribbed for her pleasure

dumbass@leminal.space on 07 Sep 2024 08:10 next collapse

Yeah picture didnt help their cause, thats a whole bunch of ancient sex toys.

CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world on 08 Sep 2024 09:35 collapse

How thoughtful of them to ensure that the deceased would have something to put up their butt in the underworld.

tabris@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2024 21:44 collapse

Porous material and no flared bases, not approved.

Hello_there@fedia.io on 09 Sep 2024 04:44 collapse

<thats why she died>

Tiltinyall@beehaw.org on 06 Sep 2024 21:25 next collapse

“sustain”

M137@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 21:50 next collapse

Wakes up in the afterlife only to bite into fake food, that’s gotta suck.

Lobreeze@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 23:02 collapse

You ever tried eating a mouldy cucumber?

CascadianGiraffe@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 01:28 collapse

How long does it take you to die?

Lobreeze@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 04:43 collapse

Not something I’m in a hurry to find out!

Alice@beehaw.org on 07 Sep 2024 01:57 collapse

People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn’t a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.

I remember seeing a ton of “archeologists: tHeY’rE jUsT fRiEnDs” comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.

lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Sep 2024 10:15 next collapse

Seems like a case where a particular claim of a select group was generalised over a supergroup by way of being the subject of memes that ran away with the stereotype.

It’s like that one fraud falsifying studies about a specific type of vaccines in an attempt to sell his own, only for people to latch on to the “vaccine bad” part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.

Does anyone still know where the original “just friends” claim stems from, in which context, supported by which arguments, what refutations have been offered since and just how widespread among archaeologists it is today?

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Sep 2024 17:09 collapse

also like, is it really that hard to imagine that archeologists went “well this is a gay couple but uh, we can’t really say that, so let’s just informally agree that ‘close friends’ is euphemism for ‘gay couple’, okay?”

Damage@feddit.it on 06 Sep 2024 20:47 next collapse

I’m the model of a cucumber Egyptian

mindbleach@sh.itjust.works on 06 Sep 2024 20:58 next collapse

See also “ancient stone tool.”

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 21:08 next collapse

There are some people in here who are weirdly obsessed with risking a yeast infection.

nBodyProblem@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 22:50 collapse

But bro

You could get yourself a yeast infection with 3000 year old yeast

PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee on 06 Sep 2024 22:58 next collapse

Was talking more about how many people are insisting cucumbers and eggplants should actually be used like that

match@pawb.social on 07 Sep 2024 07:44 collapse

sourdough infection

Nyx0r@discuss.online on 06 Sep 2024 21:43 next collapse

Likely used for ceremonial purposes.

[deleted] on 06 Sep 2024 22:43 next collapse

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hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 22:55 next collapse

No you see they know it’s a cucumber because ancient Egyptian dildos had a compartment for bees so that users could experience a vibration effect.

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 06 Sep 2024 22:58 collapse

This is the economy model. Made for the common folk, not Cleopatra. (That is just an urban legend btw.)

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 07 Sep 2024 11:05 collapse

I was not aware of this urban legend, but I will repeat it anyways because it’s funny.

Sam_Bass@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 2024 23:48 next collapse

A cuke named Duke

Etterra@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 00:22 next collapse

Remember that the idiots in the 19th & 20th centuries uncovering all kinds of Egyptian stuff purposefully damaged inscriptions and art because they prominently showed gasp penises!

MeatPilot@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 00:36 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://i.imgur.com/IRcSQJv.gif">

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space on 07 Sep 2024 00:53 next collapse

It was probably used for religious purposes of some sort

qprimed@lemmy.ml on 07 Sep 2024 01:32 collapse

indeed. coming closer to believed gods is important to some in any society. its just a clear in and out conclusion.

Hupf@feddit.org on 07 Sep 2024 05:14 collapse

Usage was frequently accompanied by callings to a deity from a trance like state.

scholar@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 2024 07:31 collapse

A very popular ritual that has survived for millennia

Kusimulkku@lemm.ee on 07 Sep 2024 11:17 next collapse

The Egyptlogists might have some additional context and knowledge that some rando on Twitter might now.

FiskFisk33@startrek.website on 07 Sep 2024 11:59 next collapse

sure, but experts have been making bad assumptions before.

Like archaeologists up until relatively recently have been calling viking graves with swords in male, without really looking at the actual skeleton.

that said, yeah, I still definitely trust the experts more

Kusimulkku@lemm.ee on 07 Sep 2024 12:06 next collapse

Shouldn’t have just assumed but in that case it was the correct assumption vast majority of the time. Still bad to assume.

FiskFisk33@startrek.website on 07 Sep 2024 12:10 collapse

it kinda wasn’t

smithsonianmag.com/…/researchers-reaffirm-famed-a…

Kusimulkku@lemm.ee on 07 Sep 2024 12:30 collapse

And out of Viking graves with swords, how many of them have turned out to be women?

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works on 07 Sep 2024 12:31 next collapse

My wife’s been reading this book that references this. As well so many other cases of men assuming genders or disregarding women in science, among other things. It’s crazy. “hmm that skeleton has wide hips, but it is also buried with a sword, so it’s a man”. Female physiology traits in a man is way more plausible, than a woman being buried with a sword … wtf?!?

Anyway, the book is next on my reading list en.wikipedia.org/…/Invisible_Women:_Exposing_Data…

cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world on 07 Sep 2024 14:47 collapse

I’m thinking they found other fruit/veggie/food models with the dildo.

FiskFisk33@startrek.website on 07 Sep 2024 15:27 next collapse

yeah, I still definitely trust the experts more

Comment105@lemm.ee on 08 Sep 2024 10:50 collapse

Yeah, I’m also guessing the Tweeter is just a masterbator, not a real doctorbator with a PhD in D.

CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world on 08 Sep 2024 09:33 collapse

And there is some green coloration on it, indicating the dildo was once painted to look like a cucumber. Derek Smalls gets it.

SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works on 07 Sep 2024 13:19 collapse

But did cucumbers look like that 4000 years ago?

10_0@lemmy.ml on 07 Sep 2024 13:33 next collapse

If they found green dye on it sure, if not then it might be for the fertility festival

10_0@lemmy.ml on 07 Sep 2024 13:34 next collapse

Do a scientific test were you put it in front of a cat and see what happens

Comment105@lemm.ee on 08 Sep 2024 10:44 collapse

Then do the same test but you put it in front of Catharina, and see what happens.

voldage@lemmy.world on 08 Sep 2024 11:08 collapse

As we well know all women and men in history that lived together with someone of the same gender were just friends. There are many historical records in which esteemed historians depicted the factual truth of deep friendships. Luckily for the rest of us, those noble seers always knew all context required and bore no prejudices towards anything whatsoever. That is a model cucumber. It even tastes like one.