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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago

Protecting your grain in 700 BC

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Protecting your grain in 700 BC

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Curated Tumblr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 year ago
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    2000 year later and things haven’t changed:

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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      Ngl, I would give a few bags of flour …

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    Has there been any serious research into 700 BCE buttock decorating? Asking for a friend.

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      Here is his friend. Anything please?

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    Removed by mod

    • MeatPilot@lemmy.world
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      Next week on: Ancient Incels

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      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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        They “are totally not incels, you just don’t know them, they go to a different planet, they abduct me on the regular, so much you wouldn’t believe, all the probes” …

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      Zeus can find what?? Leaving out crucial information here!

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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        What can’t you read‽ Zeus can find 70!

        • Iron Lynx@lemmy.world
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          I doubt he can find 1.198 × 10100

          • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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            Bruh is a god, I think he’ll manage.

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              Nah it’s Zeus, he’ll say “fuck it” after not too long.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          70 what?

          • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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            Just 70, silly! Come on, get with the programme!

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            From the whole paragraph, that would be 70 sons.

            Makes sense as Zeus was well known for his affairs with mortal women using various disguises.

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    I’m wondering if Hesiod was referring to jewelry, fancy clothes, or tattoos.

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      Butt plugs. The kind with the jewels. Or tails.

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        Something something sparta stuffing a fox under their tunic, I don’t remember how it goes.

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    What kind of buttock decoration methods did they even have in 700bc?

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        The sacred texts! What did they say?

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    I always interpreted this as a willful mistranslation considering what a granary looks like.

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      I think that’s how they said “gold digger” ~2700 years ago

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    Is grain code for seed?

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      Back in the day being rich means owning lots of land and harvesting lots of crops from it. Grain means money.

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    Hesiod, Works and Days (370) or 373. Also Wikipedia.

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    I don’t think decorated butt means it’s a big butt

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    Wait a second… were there even buttocks in 700 BC?

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    Watch out! She’s after your seed!

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