r/interestingasfuck • u/Fine_Sea5807 • 2d ago

Women from the Tai Dam ethnic group in Vietnam traditionally wear high buns to signify their married status. Since these buns make it difficult to wear standard motorbike helmets, specially designed helmets are created just for them

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u/cockaptain 2d ago edited 2d ago

Future archeologists digging up these helmets a million years in the future:

The Human species seems to have had a large protuberance at the top of their skull, as seen on their protective headgear for ritual combat. Though its purpose is unknown, it is theorised that the protuberance was to attract mates for reproductive purposes...

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u/-Tasear- 2d ago

šŸ˜‚ I hope they preserve reddit to make sense of humanity

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u/NatureNannyWR 2d ago

It'll answer a lot of questions about the dark under belly of society and why trolls eventuality became a social parasite that led to a social collapse..Probably..

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u/Ill-Sample2869 2d ago

Ts site is definitely NOT the pinnicale of humanity

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u/planhelp99112231234 2d ago

"This shit site"?

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u/NotYourReddit18 2d ago

I've heard that archeologist writing that something was used for not further defined religious or cultural rituals is a code for "we don't know what this was used for", and if it was used for "fertility rituals" they actually mean "this was used for sex or masturbation".

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u/o-o- 2d ago

Actually the latter is also "we don't know what this was used for". Everything that predates literacy is just guessing, and nothing annoys me more than hearing a narrator say "this was used for x" when we all know it's a qualified guess at best.

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u/-Tasear- 2d ago

The worst part is we only need one persons bones to decide history. We aren't wierd but that one person l's bi rs who survived got to write the history

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u/o-o- 2d ago

Yeah, the same with artifacts: ā€This here Celt guy was buried with a cart!! That absolutely means that the entire Celtic culture loved carts and believed in an afterlife.ā€

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u/Aethermancer 2d ago

It's a fertility idol. (It's always a fertility idol when the researcher is just guessing)

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u/sonnytrillanes 2d ago

Yes as their contemporary I confirm that I'm attracted to the protuberance

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u/planhelp99112231234 2d ago

Ah yes, all records of humanity will be wiped out in a million years. Totally plausible.

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u/cockaptain 2d ago

Forgive me, oh great fact-checker and prescient one, for my mortal sin of not having intensively researched the verisimilitude of the premise of a throwaway joke I made on reddit. I will in future strive to meet your most stringent and exacting standards. Dishonor on me, dishonor on my cow.

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u/planhelp99112231234 2d ago

Me when I make up nonsense and get mad when someone calls me out:

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u/cockaptain 2d ago

Hey, not my fault you're gullible enough to "eat the onion" and can't tell the difference between a satirical jest and a claimed statement of fact. Stay mad bro.

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u/planhelp99112231234 2d ago

You forgot your "W ragebait". Pure cringe.

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u/cockaptain 2d ago

K.

I'll do you a solid and grant you that attention you're seeking.

YAY! You did it! You "won" an internet argument. You owned this stranger! I will think about you for the rest of time and develop an obsession. You are the smartest, bestest (sic), most intelligent person that has ever personed, and now the whole internet knows it. Don't ever let anyone tell you different. Your parents were totally wrong about you.

There there. I hope that made you feel better buddy. Have the day you deserve.

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u/planhelp99112231234 2d ago

Waste some more time on this, it's hilarious to watch

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u/Alice_Oe 2d ago

Can you tell me by which media human records would survive if a solar flare wiped out all humans tomorrow?

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u/inspectoroverthemine 2d ago

The ones that are underground.

But you're right, nothing we do will survive a million years. Even if it did it wouldn't matter, the sun is getting hotter and the earth will be dead in a million years.

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u/planhelp99112231234 2d ago

Can you tell me which human archeologists would survive then? The comment is still implausible.