TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why
TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why
The pages of medieval books are stalked by a ferocious monster: the fighting snail.
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A few hundred years from now, historians are going to be equally confused by the horse-sized duck images ...
And why there are so many pictures of bananas next to things.
"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. ... "
... Actually the lore behind banana peel gags is more interesting than you think. They were a super cheap snack in Victorian London and the bananas they had were the gros Michel cultivar which had really thick slippery peels and a lack of general cuture of actually throwing garbage in the bin meant that a lot of them rotted on the street so early comedy stage acts started using them as a gag because slipping on them was a common sometimes life threatening hazard.
But because art borrows from art the banana peel gag outlasted the cultural problem that sparked it by over a century.
I read once on reddit that a dominos pizza guy claims people still occasionally demand the pizza for free since it took more than 30 minutes to arrive.
A promotion that ran for a few months 33 years ago.
But immortalized in stuff like the Ninja Turtles movie and various other tv shows. Exactly same principle!
Good lord, that really stuck in our culture.
Never forget
I had no idea about the Gros Michel peels - that's fascinating!! Thank you for sharing that!
There was this thing going around my work where people would caption a nuke explosion with a mention of a certain guy using the microwave again. There was an incident with a break room microwave. Now imagine if that survives and a thousand years passes.
We believe the one called Gary was a deity of all things nuclear to these people.
There going to have to sift through so much porn.
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
What about the cat pictures? Will they think they're our gods?
Wait, they aren't?
Source: the cat pictures from every single culture in history.
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.
Shoebills are a little closer in size, and they're still around.