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

  • Liz
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    3 days ago

    Who fucking wrote that description, a middle-schooler?

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    2 days ago

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

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      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.’

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        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.

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

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

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      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.

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        Further, traveling artifact exhibits are a thing, not that OP would ever learn that in person.