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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Robes were easier to make and were a one size fits all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Sounds nice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And thats where "rock with your cock out" and "jam with your clam out" comes from.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, and here I was thinking that rocking with your cock out was stimming in the shower during a crisis in existential dread. Well, you learn something new every day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Stimming, cock out and Lemmy. You got it bro

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Where do you think Satyrs came from?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

The tyranny of pants. Set me free, music!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Isnt this just because pants dont leave a lot of traces after tens of thousands of years, while a bone flute is much more likely to do so?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is kind of how I feel about the idea of the very first writing being chiseled in stone or engraved on clay tablets. If there was a much older civilization that never did that but invented paper and pencils instead, we'd probably never know it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Writing on the ground is probably No. 1 then maybe carving with a stone into wood/bark as No. 2 but yeah, lots of stuff we will never see or know about because they werent preserved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Or because it's not immediately recognizable as writing. I wonder how long it would have taken archeologists to figure out the quipu was actually a knot-based writing system without the Spanish mentioning their use by the Incas in their records of the invasion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

The quipu is very cool, never heard of it before. Thanks for sharing :)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That and that people used to wear other sorts of garments that weren't such a pain to make.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Loincloth people unite!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

Pants are a barbarian invention anyway!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

Wearing pants will not get you laid, having a sick flute will...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I see it as the golden age where you can play a flute pantsless

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Not in my town. There's only a few things you're allowed to play in the nude where I live; saxophone, xylophone, sousaphone, basically only if it ends in phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

So you can be nude and play on your phone is what I’m hearing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Just say it's a flutaphone.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

And skirts/kilts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Dammit, I wanted to actually hear it!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Music is definitely cooler than wearing pants.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Wearing pants is like the opposite of music, in terms of cool at least.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

You don't need pants if your tools have straps