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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] qooqie 105 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen cartoons. That man and that bear were friends

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A good theory, but sadly this drawing predates the invention of the pickinick basket by at least 10 years. At least.

[–] FuglyDuck 23 points 1 year ago

Not nearly as dark as I was gonna go.

I assume that chonker was tasty,

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 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] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

For what? Communication is not happening, that's for sure.

[–] TheSpookiestUser 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pantomiming to ask if they take commissions

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, they clearly have experience in the furry category.

[–] new_guy 3 points 1 year ago

Not enough feet to be considered a furry artist

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

ThiNk aBoUT tHE eXp0SuRE!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This actually made me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goes back in time

Bro, awesome bear!

Dude, that's a cat...

[–] Agent641 5 points 1 year ago

Goes back in time

Plot twist: its a self-portrait

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If i came across a bear, i'd sure remember it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I came across your mom the other day.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest 1 points 1 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 15 points 1 year ago

They definitely practiced. Someone taught them. Damn.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 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 4 points 1 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.

[–] gothic_lemons 3 points 1 year ago