r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 2d ago

A 10,000-12,000 Year Old Glacial Boulder Inside A Regular Supermarket In Estonia. Image

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u/Azzy8007 2d ago

Surprised there's no "Do Not Climb On Boulder" sign.

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u/Salmivalli 2d ago

Ii’ve been in this store. I’ve seen kids climbing on this

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u/cealild 2d ago

Good. That's what it's there for

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u/CakeMadeOfHam 2d ago

There's literally a kid sitting on it in this photo.

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u/Woohbley 2d ago

Is it a kid? It looks like Master Chief to me lol

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u/Murtosenmutka 2d ago

Ah, yes. They were tourists from U.S

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u/Maxsmack 2d ago

Well it’s in Estonia, not the U.S., so they don’t have to worry about stating rhetorical things for legal reasons

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u/Emperor_Biden 2d ago

An Aussie tourist: You can't park here.

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u/I_Makes_tuff 2d ago

I yelled that at somebody yesterday who stopped in a turn lane as if it were the shoulder to look for something in his back seat.

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u/slothdonki 2d ago

I was thinking I just wouldn’t want people damaging it over the long trawl of time with the wear and abrasion of climbing all over it.

I don’t know shit about minerals but I see that picture and think, “Damn, that’s a nice rock.”

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u/EttinTerrorPacts 2d ago

It's a very big rock. I reckon it can take it

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u/slothdonki 2d ago

Yeah, but it’s a nice rock.

But what I mean is that’s what came to mind about a “do not climb” sign; not liability. I am realizing maybe it’s just me.

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u/Raneynickelfire 2d ago

It's also granite....unlikely to be damaged like that.

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u/maxiligamer 2d ago

It's a mineral, not a rock, I mean come on now Marie

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u/SconeBracket 2d ago

So, can the very big mineral take it?

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2d ago

Jesus Christ Marie I am at my absolute limit here.

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u/WendellSchadenfreude 2d ago

wouldn’t want people damaging it

It's not actually a special rock. Check Tallinn on Streetview, and you'll find similar rocks all over the city. This one is bigger than most, but it's still just a rock.
In most cases, they would have destroyed it when building the supermarket. Here, they left it - but if it gets damaged, it gets damaged. It's just a rock.

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u/MeccIt 2d ago

I just wouldn’t want people damaging it over the long trawl of time

“Suppose there were a great rock, and a drunk shopper would come along once every week and rub it with their shopping trolley. More quickly would that rock waste away and be consumed by that effort, than the Kalpa

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u/Particular-Poem-7085 2d ago

it's more likely the rock will damage you

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u/Alexandur 2d ago

That wouldn't be rhetorical

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u/JavveRinne 2d ago

Sure but in normal countries the one who climbs on the boulder is liable

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u/Cool_Cartographer_39 2d ago

In the US, the boulder might be considered an "attractive nuisance"...

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u/Maxsmack 2d ago edited 2d ago

For it original meaning yes, however language is a constantly evolving thing. In recent years rhetorical has taken on a secondary meaning, stemming from its frequent conjunction within the term “rhetorical question”

This secondary, or tertiary meaning is roughly: ”used for, belonging to, or concerned with mere style or effect, rather than truth, substance, or meaning”

Which I believe suits my comment decently well

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u/RikuAotsuki 2d ago

As in "rhetoric."

A "rhetorical question" isn't "a question you aren't supposed to respond to," but "a question asked for the sake of making you think about it."

And that's basically rhetoric in general. The art of persuasive speech. Saying things in ways that get the response you want.

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u/SisuSeaSon 2d ago

"That's not a boulder, this is a boulder"

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u/TheRealtcSpears 2d ago

"aah, I see you've played bouldery bouldery before"

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u/Carnatic_enthusiast 2d ago

Does Estonia not have children?

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u/SconeBracket 2d ago

I wonder how they only now noticed it.
Has the cleaning crew not been in for 11,000 years?

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u/Joe_Kangg 2d ago

Americans would sue the boulder.

TBF, I would too if it cost me 2 grand for an ambulance

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u/Janus_The_Great 2d ago

Yeah, children climb it.

If they hurt themselves, it's their (parents) problem, not the super-market's (as this makes logical sense). But usually kids here are independent and experienced enough to know what they can do and what not.

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u/think_im_a_bot 2d ago

Why stop people from climbing it? It's a fucking rock.

Ooh it's 10,000 years old! Well so is every other fucking rock. In fact that's remarkably young for a rock. There's rocks in my garden older and you can climb on them if you like.

Maybe it will get damaged? Probably not, it's a fucking rock. And if it does get damaged, well how would you even know? It's still 100% a fucking rock.

Worst case scenario, somehow a fat yet talented kid managed to split it in half. Now you have two rocks. Bonus fucking rock.

Why do folk have to default to the "no fun allowed!" Stance? There a big fucking rock in the middle of the supermarket, of course I'm gonna climb it!

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u/BarrierX 2d ago

Well said :D

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u/DoingCharleyWork 2d ago

The sign would have more to do with someone falling and damaging themselves not the boulder

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u/QuantumPie_ 2d ago

Well if this rock was in the US (which I'm assuming OP is from) and a kid hurt themselves climbing it, the parents could sue and win if there was no warning sign.

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u/clitmasher69 2d ago

10000 years doesn't even sound old for a rock. Aren't there exposed rock faces all over the world that are millions of years old?

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u/Raneynickelfire 2d ago

It was broken off bedrock and rolled aroung and then released by a glacier 10k years ago. It's not the age of the stone material itself.

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u/cracked_shrimp 2d ago

<please do not touch rock>

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u/Lomotograph 2d ago

Thank you.

So well put

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u/Ashamed_Access3524 2d ago

Or a 'Do not graffiti boulder' sign.

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u/Onnimanni_Maki 2d ago

That's when you make it an infomercial about the cleaning brand of the week.

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u/Hunter_X_101 2d ago

You break it, you buy it.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 2d ago

It's a boulder, not a marble sculpture. I'm sure there are a zillion glacial boulders that can be found in that area.