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I love hanging out with my parents because they are great parents: have these parents considered trying “not being terrible parents”

also this nails it. people have been quietly cutting off their horrid family members since the dawn of time, it just used to be easier to get away with it unnoticed before we had instantaneous global communication. bsky.app/profile/lasr...

You didn’t have to come out and SAY that you were packing up your ocean-crossing canoe to search across the seas for a new land just to get away from your awful family, but you know that had to have been a FACTOR for a lot of history’s intrepid explorers and settlers

mfs out here being like “if I have to see my uncle Teuira and my aunt Uira one more fucking time on this tiny island, I will drown myself in the sea, so guess I’m packing up the outrigger canoe and brushing up on my star navigation”

“Oh, there’s a frozen land bridge leading to uncharted territories across the Bering Sea now? Where my horrible family won’t follow me to judge my mammoth spearing technique ever again? Sign me up.”

and that’s how human beings arrived in North America, probably

“Dad, I have HAD it with your incessant urge to shit all over my flint-knapping technique, and Grandpa did NOT do it better: I’m leaving all you assholes behind on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and dispersing the hell out of Africa.”

I mean thats just Jean Auel's milieu in a nutshell.

I just realised I really want to know how to swear in Neanderthal. It can't have been all non-verbal "Just say it with Rocks" or Clubs.

Neanderthal swearing. A guide. The word for being hit by kids spear when he was spearing a Mammoth with his fancy new Mammoth Spearing Technique. UUUUUURGGHHHHHHHHHHHH. Kids words after you dealt with kid. AAARGHAHHH UUUUUURGGHHHHHHHHHHHH.

See also: Getting thyself to a nunnery/monastery!

I mean, the nunnery comes with the benefit of being far less likely to die in childbirth (barring assault, you are expected to Not get pregnant rather than the reverse). Pretty much the number one risk of death for women in many centuries (high up if not at the top).

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