• @Taleya@aussie.zone
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    941 year ago

    Monks did most of the writing and artwork.

    Monks main diet was brassicas.

    They grew their own food.

    Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment

    • lemmy689
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      441 year ago

      Ahhh…this explains the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

      • @doctorcrimson@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        The snails also explain an odd event in Runescape while doing the Temple Trekking minigame. Now that I think it, Runescape also has a historically accurate fascination with Brassicas like Cabbages, which would correlate with a historically accurate aversion to snails.

    • Hubi
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      211 year ago

      That’s the kind of thing I doodle in my notepad when I’m bored during a call.

    • The Barto
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      41 year ago

      Imagine getting beaten with a stick by a rabbit as his friend robs you, while your friend draws it for historical archive.

    • Kogasa
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      101 year ago

      Our DNA never forgets. That’s why to this day, every human has an innate and irrepressible fear of snails. It’s true.

        • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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          11 year ago

          Most things are actually delicious when cooked well. Alligator? Stingray? Guinea pig? Cow tongue? The heart of nearly any creature? All of them are better than chicken

          We eat things not because they’re delicious, but because they’re convenient and reasonably delicious. Snail used to be a delicacy… They don’t eat it in France much anymore because they’re not convenient anyone

          • Magnor
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            31 year ago

            We still do eat them. Well at least I assume some people do as I can’t stand it. But you still find frozen snails in pretty much every supermarket around where I live.

          • Herbal Gamer
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            31 year ago

            We eat things not because they’re delicious, but because they’re convenient and reasonably delicious.

            Like children.

  • GreenM
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    311 year ago

    Imagine future civilization digging out some of today’s memes…

  • athos77
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    291 year ago

    A few hundred years from now, historians are going to be equally confused by the horse-sized duck images …

    • Zorque
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      171 year ago

      And why there are so many pictures of bananas next to things.

      • athos77
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        81 year ago

        "We hypothesize that the bananas of the 21st century were a different type, one that grew in a wider range of climates. We’re not certain why this breed seem to have randomly fallen from the trees so often, but perhaps it helps explain all these other drawings of inattentive humans slipping on random banana peels as well. … "

      • OpenStars
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        71 year ago

        Porn will train the next-gen AIs and, since AI cannot tell the difference, in the future 90% (-99%?) of all language will be based on porn, just as (looking back with 20/20 hindsight) the proportion of the current internet would imply must have been true of today’s culture.

        “Yes spank me harder daddy” will come to mean “I would like a promotion in my place of employment, so that I can take on exciting new challenges in this fast-paced, team environment”:-)

        Ofc, “help me stepbro, I am stuck” will still mean the same thing as it always has.

        spoiler

        the joke here is that the change in meaning has already occurred

        Future generations are going to be so confused… :-P So exactly as we are now, I guess? :-D

    • shroomaroomboom
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      61 year ago

      Well Dodo’s were big ass duck like birds, though not as near as big as a horse. Weird thing, they haven’t been extinct that long.

      • Decoy321M
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        41 year ago

        Shoebills are a little closer in size, and they’re still around.

  • cannache
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    231 year ago

    Because they probably had a great sense of humour, comedy clubs and memes back then too, but hey let’s ignore that for just a moment to imagine how hardcore a knight you would have to be to fight off Cthulhu snails

    • ██████████
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      81 year ago

      The mystery of the medieval fighting snails 23rd December 2023, 09:00 EST

      This dude got payed to post this Ai article on christmas eve

  • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think we know the real answer.

    Humanity was ruled by giant snails and their hyper intelligent queen, and it was only through the bravery of these fine knights were our shackles cast off and the mollusk menace thrown down.

    And, in great effort to hide our collective shame, all knowledge about this was intentionally purged, Save for a few manuscripts who managed to be overlooked or were kept in hiding, so hints of humanities true history would be known.

  • @asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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    111 year ago

    I mean, I would guess dragons were a thing because of dinosaur skulls being found a long time ago. There were also giant dinosaur mollusk shells, so maybe this is the equivalent?