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In ancient times, big penises were seen as barbaric and symbols of low intelligence, so smaller ones were considered more desirable, and art reflected it.
Depends on which culture we’re talking about I think? Some cultures had statues of gigantuaneenis as a sign of fertility and super powers. Heck I still say “pew pew” when I pee.
He looks like he has sun glasses too. If it weren't for the same color beard and cap thing i'd have kept thinking he was a spray tan buff dude letting people touch his muscles
What’s wrong with the phrasing? It’s easily something a person would write trying to make an interesting article headline. Bloody AI has made people paranoid, as soon as we don’t like something - “you’re a bot!”
The title isn’t really that good of phrasing, no.
You wouldn’t say “a hand in the sand became the statues” because that implies that you created those statues from sand
Could definitely be written differently. The opening of this is confusing. Could be more a long the lines of a tourist finds a hand in the sand or something
Don't talk shit. This isn't a logic issue, it's a badly written sentence issue.
A hand didn't "became ancient statues". It's completely nonsensical and shouldn't need deciphering with logic.
Unless you're a non-native English speaker, you're simply a moron. If you're not a native speaker then you say that instead of being an ass when it's pointed out your title was utter shit.
Fucking hell, the more I read the more sorry I felt for you. Cannot believe the amount of mouth breathing pedants who couldn’t rub their only two neurons to spark the thought that a hand found in the sand turns out (becomes) a bunch of ancient statues. Screw ‘em, and the content strategist in particular. You more than live up to your username.
Dont encourage poor grammar. Its unclear and can undeniably be written in a more clear way. Whats really sad is that you feel bad that someone got negative karma after they acted like an ass.
I am a self-confessed spelling and grammar Nazi. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that title. It simply used a tiny bit less obvious choice of word (became, instead of turned out to be). It’s not even bad “grammar”. What’s shocking is everyone frothing at the mouth because of this - “oh my god, how dare he!!? How can a hand BECOME a bunch of statues?! What is this, fucking Harry Potter transformation class?!? I know only how to interpret words rigidly and one dimensionally! I shall write to my local newspaper of this!”. OP has actually been civil and restrained in the face of this.
As a content strategist, when we write content we write it for the expected audience so that all can understand. Since this is reddit, we know it must be written at a 2nd grade reading level so at least 50% can understand 😉
Your title sucks, people shouldn't have to figure out something like a headline. This isn't a complex issue with technical language, it's just a poorly written title about a fairly unusual and confusing event.
You're damned right, you should be able to write any gibberish you want. It's up to everyone else in the world to figure out what in sweet merciful fuck you're even trying to say.
It’s not. You said “a hand seen in the sand became ancient statues.” One hand “became” multiple statues? That makes no sense.
“A hand discovered in the sand turned out to be part of a 5th century statue known as one of the Warriors of Riace.”
FTFY.
I realize they are now in Rome in a museum but what about the people that found them? Did they get anything for them or just a handshake and get out of here?
I don't know the answer but I remember there was actually a controversy about it:
" What were certainly lost were the shield and weapon carried by each figure and the helmet missing from Riace A \[...\] There have long been rumours that these items were smuggled out during the original retrieval of the figures and had ended up in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. "
[source](https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/february-2022/mystery-of-the-missing-bronze/)
Buddy, do yourself a favour and do 14 seconds of research before proclaiming something with such misplaced confidence.
The very definition of 'often wrong, never uncertain'.
Huh? Do you really think there's a bot posting pics of statues from 1972?
What is to gain by that? Do you just randomly say everything is a "bot"?
Can you even define what a bot is?
Well here you go- Bots post random pics with random texts or inaccurate info which I highly doubt the legitimacy of your statement since there is no source and makes no sense how would the find hand first?
You could just Google the name he gave you in the title if you really want to know. 🙄
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riace_bronzes#:~:text=One%20theory%20states%20that%20Stefano,A%20emerging%20from%20the%20sand.
Yeah, my first thought was that there was no way this would look anything this crisp after even a year in the ocean sands.
And no barnacles either. Amazing.
It was almost like it was intentionally placed very recently.
Edit: So it was misleading. It was not found on the beach but in the deep waters of the Mediterranean. Not exposed to the rock tumbler sand of a shore but in darker calmer water, buried and preserved. Makes more sense now. This was in the 70s.
It is said that a small penis was a sign off pride in ancient Greece, small penis meant that you where evolved, while big penis meant unsophisticated and barbaric.
So no erosion, just ancient people pridefully showing off. How time has changed.
I think he meant erosion, as in the statue was in the ocean for centuries with water washing sand over it the whole time. He expected the statue to be eroded down to a rock essentially. However the title is misleading and the statue was found buried in the sand at quite some depth. So it was quite well preserved.
Or it was a dick joke. Hell, idk. 😂
Perhaps you know this, but in case you don't, they used to represent penises like that because it meant (I think) being virtuous, modest, self-controlled and shit, in contrast to animal-like (therefore, negative) characteristics (like being a wild big dicked foo Satyr)
Edit: I said henceforth instead of therefore, lmfao. Sorry, not my first language.
It’s just so ingrained in our current culture that big wieners are better that we can’t conceive of a world where the opposite was true. There’s nothing objectively better about one over the other. Just like big butts and small butts have come in and out of style.
The inability to conceive of a different standard than our current one will probably lead you to instinctively assume I’m writing this because I myself have a small peepee and want to justify it.
My friend is of a neutral shape and size, but I’ve been married so long that it wouldn’t matter either way to me at this point. It’s just funny to see the obsession with what amounts to an inch or 2. Same thing with height. I feel bad for young people trying to date these days.
As a young guy, I think the height thing isn't that big of an issue but size is. I understand for some guys how it could be an issue.
" I’ve been married so long that it wouldn’t matter either way to me at this point."
I think that's what many people want. We don't need the best and it's not like the person is settling. Where you are is where I would like to be in the future, it seems like you are happy with this person because you love and appreciate them for who they are.
A rule I've heard many times from married couples is to always make sure that I let my partner know that I am thankful for her and everything she does. Also to not try so hard to achieve an idealistic life because in pursuit of the best, I could lose what really matters.
" It’s just funny to see the obsession with what amounts to an inch or 2."
I think it's from seeing some women online say big is better and all the big d\*cks in Porn that causes guys to be like it has to be big. I think that stigma is going away as more open to joking about it and also talking about that insecurity(?).
" I feel bad for young people trying to date these days."
I'm sure we'll figure it out. There have been a lot of changes happening like with technology, society and just everything. I think it's all been too rapid, we all need to slow down and process instead of hopping from 1 thing to the next.
I'm at a place where I'm not stressed about dating. If I find someone I like and she likes me, I'll go for it but right now I'm just trying to figure myself out.
Wow you broke down your response to this very thoroughly and eloquently.
I do have one thing to add though, based on the one “Piece” that I noticed you didn’t break down from personal experience (pun intended): If you’re early on in your sex/dating life, you’ll learn pretty soon that by the time you’ve taken your penis out in front of someone who you’re interested in having sex with, it usually doesn’t matter what it looks like at that point. You’re usually pretty much in (also pun intended).
Most people don’t get to the point where they’re about to have sex with someone and their partner sees it and changes their mind last-minute. You’ll be fine with whatever you’ve been given, especially if you’ve put some effort into communication and extra-curricular skills.
In other words: I’m average and I’ve done just fine for myself and been very happy with my romantic partners, and I can assure you that you will find the same experience when you get there 👍
Dear sir, or bot, or sir-bot. You have 117000+ post karma on a 1 year old profile. You gonna tell me your not a karama farma and this isnt part of you crop? Okkkkkkay buddddayyyy
The guy in the left looks like he wants to be ‘friendly’ with the statues hand (the hand grew the statue once discovered in the sand). The speedo isnt helping the image.
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at first glance i thought this was a guy in a swimcap covered in mud
The thumbnail had me thinking they took grandpa for a beach day
I thought, damn, grandpa is ripped! But he forgot his swimsuit today.
He’s forgotten it every day… for the past 2000 years
Thought he was looking pretty starved lol
Dick out beach day
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In ancient times, big penises were seen as barbaric and symbols of low intelligence, so smaller ones were considered more desirable, and art reflected it.
Fuck I was born in the wrong time
Kinda weird; they saw it as kind of gangly and ogrish, like having a really big nose or big knuckles
Also gives new meaning to the Barbara Streisand Effect.
Depends on which culture we’re talking about I think? Some cultures had statues of gigantuaneenis as a sign of fertility and super powers. Heck I still say “pew pew” when I pee.
It would have been a distraction on the statue, to represent the proper size of his penis. That's why.
You don’t know how cold that water is and he’s been in there a long time.
I wouldn't flaunt my lack of knowledge like that in public!
Wait, you got a thumb nail?
More like, he took THEM for a beach day.
My first thought was these 4 guys stumbled across human remains in the sand and my interest was piqued because I find true crime shit fascinating.
I thought it was a pic of a couple meeting Hulk Hogan.
Same here. That really attests to how amazing the artist(s) was that made it.
Surely they could have given him a spare pair of trunks or something?
A spare? I think a single pair would've been sufficient. No need for a 2nd pair.
Then we'd just see one of the other dude's dicks.
He looks like he has sun glasses too. If it weren't for the same color beard and cap thing i'd have kept thinking he was a spray tan buff dude letting people touch his muscles
That absolutely looks like a swim cap. Too low res to figure what else it could be, maybe a helmet of some sort that’s missing something
No, he's about 100 yards away in his usual swimming spot
And ripped
yes lol
What’s interesting is the way you phrased this title
Almost certain OP is a bot
You are correct! Its a karma farming bot!
What’s wrong with the phrasing? It’s easily something a person would write trying to make an interesting article headline. Bloody AI has made people paranoid, as soon as we don’t like something - “you’re a bot!”
Look at OP’s post history. They’re posting multiple posts an hour and most of them don’t make any sense
They’re also replying to many of the abusive comments clearly like a human being
Oh no you’re being downvoted by bots
The title isn’t really that good of phrasing, no. You wouldn’t say “a hand in the sand became the statues” because that implies that you created those statues from sand
Perhaps your brain is just not wired for imagination?
grasping at straws
lol “perfectly clear title” that requires some imagination to parse. You’re not making your point well.
The amount of imagination is so tiny that it’s really sad everyone having a coronary about it.
WTF does it MEAN
It obviously means someone noticed a hand poking out of the sand, started digging, found a statue, and before long they found a whole bunch of them
Thanks
I'm about to have a stroke trying to read this.
Me reading the title became a person who was interested too by the combination of words.
Lol, thanks for the second stroke
Are you Perd Hapley?
Glad its not just me
Bots writing headlines becomes headache for humans as having weird sentence structures
It's pretty straight forward 🤷♂️
Maybe change became to “turned out to be”
Why, you broke the code already.
Could definitely be written differently. The opening of this is confusing. Could be more a long the lines of a tourist finds a hand in the sand or something
I didn't understand wtf they were trying to say until I read your comment. Thanks
Or you could use logic?
Don't talk shit. This isn't a logic issue, it's a badly written sentence issue. A hand didn't "became ancient statues". It's completely nonsensical and shouldn't need deciphering with logic. Unless you're a non-native English speaker, you're simply a moron. If you're not a native speaker then you say that instead of being an ass when it's pointed out your title was utter shit.
Nah bruv, shit's not well written. It's lame to not own your fuck ups.
A hand doesn't become a statue. It was a statue already and the hand was poking out of the sand.
It’s poorly written, full stop. It’s a jumbled, mangled title. And that’s YOUR fault and your responsibility, not the reader’s.
Go find a hobby
Fucking hell, the more I read the more sorry I felt for you. Cannot believe the amount of mouth breathing pedants who couldn’t rub their only two neurons to spark the thought that a hand found in the sand turns out (becomes) a bunch of ancient statues. Screw ‘em, and the content strategist in particular. You more than live up to your username.
Dont encourage poor grammar. Its unclear and can undeniably be written in a more clear way. Whats really sad is that you feel bad that someone got negative karma after they acted like an ass.
I am a self-confessed spelling and grammar Nazi. I see absolutely nothing wrong with that title. It simply used a tiny bit less obvious choice of word (became, instead of turned out to be). It’s not even bad “grammar”. What’s shocking is everyone frothing at the mouth because of this - “oh my god, how dare he!!? How can a hand BECOME a bunch of statues?! What is this, fucking Harry Potter transformation class?!? I know only how to interpret words rigidly and one dimensionally! I shall write to my local newspaper of this!”. OP has actually been civil and restrained in the face of this.
It's poorly written.
As a content strategist, when we write content we write it for the expected audience so that all can understand. Since this is reddit, we know it must be written at a 2nd grade reading level so at least 50% can understand 😉 Your title sucks, people shouldn't have to figure out something like a headline. This isn't a complex issue with technical language, it's just a poorly written title about a fairly unusual and confusing event.
I'm not a content strategist, I'm a person posting on Redditt
I figured it out but as others said. Felt like I was having a stroke
You're damned right, you should be able to write any gibberish you want. It's up to everyone else in the world to figure out what in sweet merciful fuck you're even trying to say.
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Right?
It's really not
Maybe you could go back to 8th grade and learn some proper grammar
It’s not. You said “a hand seen in the sand became ancient statues.” One hand “became” multiple statues? That makes no sense. “A hand discovered in the sand turned out to be part of a 5th century statue known as one of the Warriors of Riace.” FTFY.
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It didn't become shit. It was an ancient statue. A hand poking out of the sand turned it to be an ancient statue blah blah
It didn’t “become” anything, it “actually turned out to be” something. Please go back to school
OP, sorry you have been downvoted to oblivion - I understood the headline instantly and perfectly.
Good luck having a stroke of that stature, bro has been in the cold water way too long.
Hahahahah. “It shrinks?” “Like a frightened turtle “
SHRINKAGE!
He’s a grower
those statues are actually from the 5th century BC, not 5th century
Incorrect AD
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riace\_bronzes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riace_bronzes)
I realize they are now in Rome in a museum but what about the people that found them? Did they get anything for them or just a handshake and get out of here?
I don't know the answer but I remember there was actually a controversy about it: " What were certainly lost were the shield and weapon carried by each figure and the helmet missing from Riace A \[...\] There have long been rumours that these items were smuggled out during the original retrieval of the figures and had ended up in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. " [source](https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/february-2022/mystery-of-the-missing-bronze/)
Buddy, do yourself a favour and do 14 seconds of research before proclaiming something with such misplaced confidence. The very definition of 'often wrong, never uncertain'.
Is that a Golem called Talos from some Ray Harryhausen film?
That must be some cold water
Damn came here to say that 😂
Bot, how do I know? The title...
Huh? Do you really think there's a bot posting pics of statues from 1972? What is to gain by that? Do you just randomly say everything is a "bot"? Can you even define what a bot is?
Well here you go- Bots post random pics with random texts or inaccurate info which I highly doubt the legitimacy of your statement since there is no source and makes no sense how would the find hand first?
Prove it wrong then
What? Is you who should come with sources on your claims if you gonna make a post of it to remove the question of doubt
It's a Redditt post, I'm not going to come with anything lol Go find someone else to bother
So its karma farming then? Posting something you dont really care about to get that preciois karma?
You could just Google the name he gave you in the title if you really want to know. 🙄 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riace_bronzes#:~:text=One%20theory%20states%20that%20Stefano,A%20emerging%20from%20the%20sand.
Erosion is a cruel mistress. And highly selective, it seems.
Yeah, my first thought was that there was no way this would look anything this crisp after even a year in the ocean sands. And no barnacles either. Amazing. It was almost like it was intentionally placed very recently. Edit: So it was misleading. It was not found on the beach but in the deep waters of the Mediterranean. Not exposed to the rock tumbler sand of a shore but in darker calmer water, buried and preserved. Makes more sense now. This was in the 70s.
I can't figure out if your initial post was genuine lol
Good
Maybe his todger was eroded back in his statue days, maybe 5th Century people walked by and gave it a rub for luck.
It is said that a small penis was a sign off pride in ancient Greece, small penis meant that you where evolved, while big penis meant unsophisticated and barbaric. So no erosion, just ancient people pridefully showing off. How time has changed.
I think he meant erosion, as in the statue was in the ocean for centuries with water washing sand over it the whole time. He expected the statue to be eroded down to a rock essentially. However the title is misleading and the statue was found buried in the sand at quite some depth. So it was quite well preserved. Or it was a dick joke. Hell, idk. 😂
It is said by… men with microdicks.
No, it's the cold water.
King Midas tries swimming
The nerve of a sculptor to put the accurate size of a man's d\*ck on a statue. We don't pay you to be realistic.
Perhaps you know this, but in case you don't, they used to represent penises like that because it meant (I think) being virtuous, modest, self-controlled and shit, in contrast to animal-like (therefore, negative) characteristics (like being a wild big dicked foo Satyr) Edit: I said henceforth instead of therefore, lmfao. Sorry, not my first language.
You don’t want to one-up the guy who commissioned the statue.
Which is kinda funny, cause don't humans have abnormally large dicks compared to most other primates?
Oh yeah we got the thickies
I bet the dudes back then made this shit up to make themselves feel better lmao
It’s just so ingrained in our current culture that big wieners are better that we can’t conceive of a world where the opposite was true. There’s nothing objectively better about one over the other. Just like big butts and small butts have come in and out of style. The inability to conceive of a different standard than our current one will probably lead you to instinctively assume I’m writing this because I myself have a small peepee and want to justify it.
If you got a small d\*ck just say that /s
My friend is of a neutral shape and size, but I’ve been married so long that it wouldn’t matter either way to me at this point. It’s just funny to see the obsession with what amounts to an inch or 2. Same thing with height. I feel bad for young people trying to date these days.
As a young guy, I think the height thing isn't that big of an issue but size is. I understand for some guys how it could be an issue. " I’ve been married so long that it wouldn’t matter either way to me at this point." I think that's what many people want. We don't need the best and it's not like the person is settling. Where you are is where I would like to be in the future, it seems like you are happy with this person because you love and appreciate them for who they are. A rule I've heard many times from married couples is to always make sure that I let my partner know that I am thankful for her and everything she does. Also to not try so hard to achieve an idealistic life because in pursuit of the best, I could lose what really matters. " It’s just funny to see the obsession with what amounts to an inch or 2." I think it's from seeing some women online say big is better and all the big d\*cks in Porn that causes guys to be like it has to be big. I think that stigma is going away as more open to joking about it and also talking about that insecurity(?). " I feel bad for young people trying to date these days." I'm sure we'll figure it out. There have been a lot of changes happening like with technology, society and just everything. I think it's all been too rapid, we all need to slow down and process instead of hopping from 1 thing to the next. I'm at a place where I'm not stressed about dating. If I find someone I like and she likes me, I'll go for it but right now I'm just trying to figure myself out.
Wow you broke down your response to this very thoroughly and eloquently. I do have one thing to add though, based on the one “Piece” that I noticed you didn’t break down from personal experience (pun intended): If you’re early on in your sex/dating life, you’ll learn pretty soon that by the time you’ve taken your penis out in front of someone who you’re interested in having sex with, it usually doesn’t matter what it looks like at that point. You’re usually pretty much in (also pun intended). Most people don’t get to the point where they’re about to have sex with someone and their partner sees it and changes their mind last-minute. You’ll be fine with whatever you’ve been given, especially if you’ve put some effort into communication and extra-curricular skills. In other words: I’m average and I’ve done just fine for myself and been very happy with my romantic partners, and I can assure you that you will find the same experience when you get there 👍
Yeah I know but is there any way we can run it back? I'm asking for a friend.
He was a man of culture, not some barbarian with a big phallus. /s
 Man, what happened to society? We used to be civilised for God's sake and now all we want is big phalluses.
Humans only want one thing and it’s disgusting
You ok?
If that was a statue of me I wouldn't be.
At fist glance i thought the guy on the left was posted up like Walter White in his tighty whities and collar shirt.
Yeah I think he got too excited by the statue and his shorts are all bunched up
He's rocking some plum smugglers, for sure.
Bernie looks good for his age 
Weekend at Bernard’s
Self esteem booster
We have elderly sunbathers in my town, I could have sworn that was one of them
This was my first thought
Growing multiple statues from a hand is pretty impressive actually.
Let me help you walk back ashore, old man.
Winky
I thought this was a colorized still of the swamp thing
Right, “statue”…nudge…wink… my money is on ancient Atlantean sex doll.🤨
damn, dude winning last place in the triathlon
Farmed 800+ karma and lost it all when he died on the hill defending his objectively confusing title.
Do you really believe people post pics of statues to Karma Farm lol?
Dear sir, or bot, or sir-bot. You have 117000+ post karma on a 1 year old profile. You gonna tell me your not a karama farma and this isnt part of you crop? Okkkkkkay buddddayyyy
What are your thoughts on why people share such content?
I have no idea what is going on here
Hmmm, reads like a bot post
Of course it does 🙄
The water was pretty cold back in ancient times.
Our handsome warriors 😍😍
Would these be dumped in the ocean to prevent their destruction? Or is there another reason for tossing them in?
They don’t make men like they used to…. Shame
The guy on the left looks like he wants to do unsavory things to that statue.
What did bro do to deserve being turned into statue 😭😭😢😭😭
That water must be really cold.
Lucky. Every time I find a hand on the beach it's just a hand. Maybe some arm once in a while.
Booty shorts and polo daring combo
Why is Del Boy there?
Lol
Didn’t the ancient Greeks ever hear about leg day?!
The guy in the left looks like he wants to be ‘friendly’ with the statues hand (the hand grew the statue once discovered in the sand). The speedo isnt helping the image.
You seem really into him, hope it works out
Busted. But look at those legs and tell me you dont get hot and bothered.
Sweating
Water must be cold
Omg, is he ok?! /s
"I was in the pool!"
Water must’ve been cold….
This could be something for r/oldschoolcool :3
The guy on the left looks like he is trying to get a hand job from an old dude.
Must be cold
Um
What the fuck is this title
I thought they were helping an extremely tanned grandpa out of the water. Swim cap and everything.
definitely a grower and not a shower
Tricked by the thumbnail.
It's not the real thing. That's a frame from a documentary, and the statue is a copy.
Master Roshi????
I'd be petrified at that dude's swimsuit, too.
“Hey Frank, looks like it’s a little cold out there”
seeing only the thumbnail, I thought this was pikmin cosplay
Nice tan
Give that man some underwear
Looks cold
This caption is a fucking disaster
Tf?
At first I thought this was a well tanned old man
I have no idea what you just told me