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[–] [email protected] 215 points 1 year ago (7 children)

They could have placed the funnel anywhere else in the illustration, but they chose not to.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a reason left side specifically has to be on the surface?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most people's rectums angle slightly to the right. Please see a doctor if you have an atypical rectum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No matter whether it’s left leaning or right leaning it’s still an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's probably the best place for funnel insertion at the end of the day. A hole left behind there is appropriate, you don't want to mess with any details you might get from the face, and it's way funnier this way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best place would probably be the first place you found. The archeologist wouldn't have any clue to the exact position the person was in and over digging could ruin the find

The person making the illustration though knew what they were doing.

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

I do wonder how they knew it was a person shaped cavity vs a plain old hole in the ground.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Is boofing or butt-chugging the more accurate term when it comes to molding plaster?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You've got a high anus, a real tall boy.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turns out, after all this time, sadam just wanted to butt chug plaster

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

Well he fucked that up then.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow! I didn’t know they were casts. I thought we found the remains as presented.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen them. Also up the road at Herculaneum the dock buildings are full of skeletons all huddled together.

It's really haunting.

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

More or less so when you realize how many were slaves.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Alternate caption:

Most people dont know that boofing was actually invented by archaeologists researching Pompeii. Justice Kavanaugh was unavailable for comment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It'll always be plugging to me.

Also, why does the article only talk about alcohol? Seems like a huge oversight, given how easy it is to rectally absorb other stuff besides liquid.

Like ecstasy.

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

When I first started reading this I was thinking it would end up being some Pompeii didn’t happen denial craziness ha

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Luckily this isn’t xitter or facebook

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

DIY fossilization

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What happened to the bones? How did they know there was a body there?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the article someone linked below I found this section :

Archaeologists preserved the newly discovered remains using a variation of a technique developed by Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. The process involves pouring liquid chalk into cavities left by decomposing bodies; this plaster fills gaps in preserved bones and teeth, creating a cast of the bodies as they looked at the moment of death.

So you find a cavity with bones and other remains in there and use it as a mold I suppose? They probably were excavating the city from the ash cover and when they found something that could be remains of a human they stopped digging and used said techniques to preserve the remains.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

The bones are inside the cast. They found the cavities during excavation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They ordered a boneless pizza

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

This has to be added to the meme collage of Sadam and digging for diamonds etc.

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

Why is the funnel in his arse. Why was that artistic choice made.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Clearly ascribing to 'a hole's a hole'

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Preserving preserved history.

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

Archaeologists preserved the newly discovered remains using a variation of a technique developed by Italian archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli in 1863. The process involves pouring liquid chalk into cavities left by decomposing bodies; this plaster fills gaps in preserved bones and teeth, creating a cast of the bodies as they looked at the moment of death.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-two-men-one-rich-and-one-enslaved-found-pompeii-180976383/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Was it a matter of some good timing that these casts were able to be made? That is, with enough time, wouldn't the voids/cavities themselves likely collapse with the gradual shifting of the soil?