this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
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Pareidolia

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Post pictures of things that look like something that it's not. Or sounds like something else. Or smells like something else. This subreddit is for things that unintentionally look like something else.

PAREIDOLIA IS NOT JUST FACES!

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[–] starman2112 53 points 2 years ago
[–] CookieJarObserver 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] vaultdweller013 2 points 2 years ago

Thats one of the hypothesis, it also could be a matter of using one thing for a secondary purpose that wasnt originally intended. I have opened a can with a nail puller on a hammer, dont think that was even a considered feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Interesting. I know those things for making 3D knitted tube-strings but those have only one (2D) plane of prongs and a single hole. Wonder if this could be used to knit ~~4D~~ strings? (e: considering again, WTF! -- It has 12 planes! So now i wonder if the interior space is really as "finite" as it appears...)

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

(this is correct, tho the SCP link is even correcterer)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Easy. Twelve men gather 'round and insert their penises (or penii back then) and try to make them meet in the middle. Whomever has the shortest penis that does not gingerly meet the others, draws the equivalent of the short straw, and performs whatever unfavorable task the men fetched the ol' dodecahedron in order to determine in the first place. This game was of course unfair, as the man with the largest penis was always the first to suggest the dodecahedron, and the men with the smallest penii were practically serfs among their respective groups of friends.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Everybody knows that all ancient artefacts are always for ceremonial purposes, all the time. Ancient peoples ate nothing but ceremonies.

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

Everyone knows it's a 4-socket resonator.

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

Is that the one that connects to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft to effectively prevent sidefumbling?

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

Trifumbling is far superior, god I'm so sick of u sidefumblers!

"It$ sMoOtHeR111!!!

Get rekt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Which fossils are we running today?

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

Probably a construction tool for room expansion. Smart romans !

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Looks like the model of a virus.

[–] Classy 5 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like how everything has to have some purpose.

It's entirely possible that this was a useless decoration or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Purpose: useless decoration

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I like its surprised facial expression. It's like the surprised pikachu face

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks shocked 21st century people still fail to understand it's purpose while every kid knew at its time of creation

[–] FierroGamer 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's reasonable to find a YouTube video of a couple making a mood color changing toilet seat, but the idea of an ancient maker fabricating some thing just because they can is straight up unthinkable.

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

It's not unimaginable but you need to take in account that the YouTube couple has plethora of free time compared to people in societies with less division of work, infrastucture, home appliances and last but not least access to ressources.
Also the mood toilet seat generates clicks and attention which are perhaps the main motivation behind such a nonsense project.
But maybe you're right and I'm just to negative.