And “You” Are Feeling Old?

I enjoyed this thread of the oldest known examples of things like socks, sunglasses, shoes and sculpture. I don’t know how accuracy they dates are on this collection of random items.

Well, when I was in school I was told in Science class the Earth was 2.5 billion years old. Now they tell me it’s 4.5 billion. So, yeah, I seem to have picked up a couple billion along the way.

Excellent post / avatar combo. You’ve been doing this for awhile haven’t you? Like 2B years? :grin:

Wow, I didn’t know we used to only have two toes way back when.

Thought it was just the jokes that were that old… :wink:

When I was young, cars did not have cup holders, even the new ones, We had to drive around with a cold beer between our legs. Got warm faster.

Even worse, there were indentations for drinks in the open door to the glove compartment. Try taking a corner with your 8oz extra large McDonalds Coke sitting there.

The oldest thing on that list is around 35,000-40,000 years old. I wonder what, of all our crap, will be around in 40,000 years for someone to find and wonder at?

I’m thinking of the various aliens in science fiction films.

I remember that we had plastic cup holders that attached to the car door by sliding between the window and the door frame.

Two comments.

Those pants are surprisingly stylish.

What kind of freak decorates their purse with dog teeth?

Leave it to the Egyptians to invent something that sophisticated!

Am I a slut for viewing that sheepskin condom as slightly erotic? LOL

The globe has a “polar bulge” rather than an “equatorial bulge”. :slight_smile:

You can shelve that beer recipe. :flushed:

Are we sure that “first sculpture of a human form” wasn’t really meant to show “the first sculpture of a breast implant”? :smiling_imp:

The shoe, though impressive for its time, definitely wouldn’t be in my closet. LOL

Dog teeth were a common & widespread ornament on clothing, jewelry, bags etc., Prehistorically.

My source disagrees…

What does your source say about the co-occurence of Sauropods and double-Sapiens?

That’s the team you want if you own a rock quarry