Monks did most of the writing and artwork.
Monks main diet was brassicas.
They grew their own food.
Do the math, it’s wish fulfillment
Brassica, it is ALWAY brassica.
Mate, when a full monastery is blowing the covers off every night to the sound of foghorns i care little for correct plurality
I read their response not as “The correct plural is brassica”, but as “Friggin’ everything is a brassica cultivar”.
If you didn’t know: cabbage, kale, broccoli, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, collard greens and cauliflower are all selectively bred cultivars of the same species.
No, not everything is brassica.
But everything that isn’t brassica is cucurbita.
I think you’re really on to something here, if you don’t work in history or something, you should run this by a historian or scholar and see what they think
Explains the rabbits as well! You come up with this on your own?!
Monty Python makes so much more sense now
This makes so much sense, is there any evidence? I don’t want to spread the rumor as a fun fact unless there’s something behind it. Very fun idea!
Hey, that’s clever. Snails are a scourge of gardening. “I want to kill those suckers.”
It makes sense that they made doodles of their desirrd victory over the garden-munching snails.
The ones with the rabbits are pretty messed up as well!
Ahhh…this explains the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The snails also explain an odd event in Runescape while doing the Temple Trekking minigame. Now that I think it, Runescape also has a historically accurate fascination with Brassicas like Cabbages, which would correlate with a historically accurate aversion to snails.
That movie is shockingly historically accurate.
That’s the kind of thing I doodle in my notepad when I’m bored during a call.
I’m concerned.
I’m aroused.
I’m concerned again.
Stop. I can only get so erect.
Imagine getting beaten with a stick by a rabbit as his friend robs you, while your friend draws it for historical archive.
He’s not robbing the guy, he’s peeling the skin off his foot(!)
Oh that’s much better.
he’s peeling the skin off his foot
To which he has no ownership of, so he is still robbing him, just not for material objects.
The Snail Wars lore has been lost to time
Our DNA never forgets. That’s why to this day, every human has an innate and irrepressible fear of snails. It’s true.
Well, in France people eat them… It could still be related though…
Most things are actually delicious when cooked well. Alligator? Stingray? Guinea pig? Cow tongue? The heart of nearly any creature? All of them are better than chicken
We eat things not because they’re delicious, but because they’re convenient and reasonably delicious. Snail used to be a delicacy… They don’t eat it in France much anymore because they’re not convenient anyone
We eat things not because they’re delicious, but because they’re convenient and reasonably delicious.
Like children.
Honestly I like snails, they look kinda cute. I get excited whenever I happen to find one
The exact same thing will happen hundreds of years from now with amogus memes and
:.|:;Is there a god damn font character for loss??
Took me a bit to work it out but it’s :.|:; with a strike through. Bloody genius haha
Is this loss
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
First boss of Shadow of the Erdtree
I saw this years ago and I still think it was primitive office humor. Snails ate delicious plants and there were probably monks waging a war against them. The incredulity of fighting so hard against an enemy so weak was funny.
This seems like a plausible explanation, but I’d maybe expect to see a few giant slugs and caterpillars - these are at least as damaging to crops as snails.
Im betting they got all done up in their armor and went to fight in muddy battlefields, and when they were not fighting the enemy they were dealing with snails crawling inside the armor and being all slimy and disgusting crawling between the knights legs and the armor.
A few hundred years from now, historians are going to be equally confused by the horse-sized duck images …
And why there are so many pictures of bananas next to things.
"We hypothesize that the bananas of the 21st century were a different type, one that grew in a wider range of climates. We’re not certain why this breed seem to have randomly fallen from the trees so often, but perhaps it helps explain all these other drawings of inattentive humans slipping on random banana peels as well. … "
… Actually the lore behind banana peel gags is more interesting than you think. They were a super cheap snack in Victorian London and the bananas they had were the gros Michel cultivar which had really thick slippery peels and a lack of general cuture of actually throwing garbage in the bin meant that a lot of them rotted on the street so early comedy stage acts started using them as a gag because slipping on them was a common sometimes life threatening hazard.
But because art borrows from art the banana peel gag outlasted the cultural problem that sparked it by over a century.
I had no idea about the Gros Michel peels - that’s fascinating!! Thank you for sharing that!
I read once on reddit that a dominos pizza guy claims people still occasionally demand the pizza for free since it took more than 30 minutes to arrive.
A promotion that ran for a few months 33 years ago.
There was this thing going around my work where people would caption a nuke explosion with a mention of a certain guy using the microwave again. There was an incident with a break room microwave. Now imagine if that survives and a thousand years passes.
We believe the one called Gary was a deity of all things nuclear to these people.
What about the cat pictures? Will they think they’re our gods?
Wait, they aren’t?
Source: the cat pictures from every single culture in history.
There going to have to sift through so much porn.
Porn will train the next-gen AIs and, since AI cannot tell the difference, in the future 90% (-99%?) of all language will be based on porn, just as (looking back with 20/20 hindsight) the proportion of the current internet would imply must have been true of today’s culture.
“Yes spank me harder daddy” will come to mean “I would like a promotion in my place of employment, so that I can take on exciting new challenges in this fast-paced, team environment”:-)
Ofc, “help me stepbro, I am stuck” will still mean the same thing as it always has.
spoiler
the joke here is that the change in meaning has already occurred
Future generations are going to be so confused… :-P So exactly as we are now, I guess? :-D
Well Dodo’s were big ass duck like birds, though not as near as big as a horse. Weird thing, they haven’t been extinct that long.
Shoebills are a little closer in size, and they’re still around.
Ye olde memes.
Did they also take that challenge with the immortal snail?
Plot twist: its actually the same person making the snail memes today, yet to be caught and looking for new ways to stay one step ahead of the snail
one step ahead of the snail
I dare say it shouldn’t be very hard to stay one step ahead of a snail.
But it never stops since its immortal. Keep that motherfucker in eyesight or one day it’ll just be there at your feet, waiting to kill you!
Oh, it’s easy to run away from a snail. You get away, and for weeks, even months, you stay vigilant. But one day, when your vigilance fades, you find yourself surrounded
Not friends of the gentle racing snails? How sad…
Oh dear. I read that as ‘fisting’ at first.
I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue.
Japan is attacked by sea creatures.
England is besieged by Snailfist and his legion of slime.
Garden warfare!
Gardeners… Nuff said
Is that writing in the pictures old English? I can’t make any of it out.
Looks like Latin to me.
I can only recognize a couple of words, but this (and similar texts) are going to be in Latin.
Its easy to forget that yeolden times were also capable of satire.
