Hella unlikely they were used to knit gloves

  • PorkRoll@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I like the idea that it was a blacksmith “benchy.” Archeologists might do the same with the one 3D printing hobbyists make.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      1, I don’t expect most benchys to last longer than people who know what they’re for; I imagine the plastic will crumble to microdust before then, but 2. benchys look like little toy tugboats. Society being so destroyed we can’t recognize a toy boat while benchys are still around…I’ll believe that the last human to hold a benchy in their hands will say “Oh, a weird little toy boat” but not “no one on earth knows what this is or has the start of the beginning of the foggiest clue what it was for.”