cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18212134

My kids bored out of their minds with a house full of toys, don’t know how good they got it

Lil Nabû-zēr-kitti-lišir woulda killed for better toys

  • @Tattorack
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    261 month ago

    That’s a toy car before cars were a thing.

    • The Giant Korean
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      61 month ago

      I was gonna say, it looks so much like a car. Like a race car, even.

    • Singletona082
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      128 days ago

      We need a child for scale to see if it’s a pinewood racer, or a tiny push-car.

    • Flying SquidM
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      11 month ago

      I wish my Pinewood Derby car looked that good.

  • Liz
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    91 month ago

    Who fucking wrote that description, a middle-schooler?

  • @gmtom
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    41 month ago

    Shouldn’t Turkiye return this to the country it originated from or does that discourse only apply to the British?

    • Flying SquidM
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      61 month ago

      May I make a humble request to not honor Erdogan’s absurd requirement that everyone call his country the name he wants it to be called, what with him being a fascist piece of shit?

      Atatürk was fine with it being called Turkey by the West despite literally winning independence from European occupiers and founding the modern nation.

      That should tell you all you need to know.

    • Singletona082
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      128 days ago

      They should absolutely return it, or at least ask permission to exhibit it.

  • @[email protected]
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    41 month ago

    Kids often make vrooming noises when they push toy cars around now. What noises did Mesopotanian kids make when playing with this?

    • @[email protected]
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      1 month ago

      I was going to say “chariot noises” but it looks like the oldest are from ~1950 BC, in Russia of all places?

      My opinion on pyramid building Egyptian pharaohs is ruined and will never be remade.

      Broke bitches didn’t even have chariots because "no one has invented them yet.’

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        I think you might be right about chariot noises actually. The Encyclopedia Britannica suggests that chariots, including four wheeled versions, were first invented in Mesopotania around 3000BC, which would tie in nicely with the estimated age of the toy. It’d be like having a model of the latest and greatest supercar, or possibly tank.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          That’s interesting. Wikipedia claimed the oldest examples were Russian… I wonder what that bias there was!

        • Singletona082
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          128 days ago

          ‘My dad got to ride one in the last campaign against the mesonites!’

          ‘Bullshit! your dad was shoveling horse shit the whole way.’

          ‘Never said he was at the front lines. They let him ride the thing around before putting the horses up. Said if the campaigns go well maybe I’ll get to have one when it’s my turn in the army.’

  • @[email protected]
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    328 days ago

    What’s up with these kids and their ‘wheels’? My kids will never be allowed to go anywhere near these things, or they’ll turn out lazy slobs who can’t carry things by themselves but get an ‘ox cart’ for it. What happened to our glorious nation?

    • Singletona082
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      228 days ago

      You joke… but I could swear I have legitimately seen cuneiform tablets that basically translate to that very complaint.