• @qooqie
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    1051 year ago

    How do we know it was by memory? What if the bear held that person hostage for a very flattering painting

      • @[email protected]
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        A good theory, but sadly this drawing predates the invention of the pickinick basket by at least 10 years. At least.

    • FuglyDuck
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      231 year ago

      Not nearly as dark as I was gonna go.

      I assume that chonker was tasty,

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I immediately thought this poor artist was in the cave for days, periodically poking his head out, and the bear was still there, just waiting.

      They got many close looks at that bear and had nothing to do but draw the thing that would finally kill them when they got desperate enough to make a run for it.

      This painting might be like someone writing Jeff on the tile floor in their own blood. Or they became friends like in a Disney movie. I see no middle alternative.

      Joking aside, that’s a phenomenal likeness.

  • @[email protected]
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    401 year ago

    It’s a really nice cave drawing for sure. It even has a bit of a Disney vibe to it. I think it’s because of the little ears.

    • @CaptPretentious
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      Look for the bare necessities

      The simple bare necessities

      Forget about your worries and your strife

      I mean the bare necessities

      That’s why a bear can rest at ease

      With just the bare necessities of life

  • KingJalopy
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    231 year ago

    Goes back in time

    Bro, awesome bear!

    Dude, that’s a cat…

    • @Agent641
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      51 year ago

      Goes back in time

      Plot twist: its a self-portrait

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      In fact, the word “brown” is the morph of the original word for bear. Whatever humans used for brown was overshadowed long ago by the very experience of bear itself, and the color alone became a prevalent warning against that thing that is the single most terrifying brown in existence.

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        Well, maybe. There’s also a competing hypothesis that says it’s the other way around, i.e. “bear” is derived from “brown”; the old word for “bear” became taboo, possibly for fear that speaking the beast’s name would summon it. Either way, the fear of bears has certainly left a mark on the Germanic languages.

      • v_krishna
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        21 year ago

        Orange too. What did those horrible citrus fruits do to our ancestors???

    • @LemmyKnowsBest
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      71 year ago

      do you know what I think of every time someone uses the phrase “I came across…?”

      shooting one’s jizz across something.

      There. i said it.

        • @LemmyKnowsBest
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          11 year ago

          If you could see the reality of what you just said, she was a hemiplegic in a wheelchair, she had bed sores, she is now cremated and sprinkled over her parents in a graveyard.

  • @ItsMeForRealNow
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    151 year ago

    They definitely practiced. Someone taught them. Damn.

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    What we see probably isn’t even the full image, either. They probably put more details and colors on it and stuff, that’s just the outline. How else do you teach your buddies about what bears look like?

  • @hakunawazo
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    41 year ago

    Is banana for scale a thing in lemmy? Maybe it’s bear sized and some cave owner painted his wall with an outline using his natural bear spirograph.