So, my clumsy servant broke the amphora I’ve had for as long as I can remember. I went to the marketplace looking for a new one, but for some reason almost all the amphorae there were ‘wheel thrown’.

What does that even mean?? Take a wheel off some poor farmer’s ox-cart and throw at a clump of clay hoping you get a pot?

Are coiled pots suddenly not good enough for people anymore?!

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    My family makes its living off coiled pottery and this is eating into our livelihoods! Such a disaster! Someone needs to stop this!

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    You think that’s wild, I saw amphora on the market with a completely flat bottom, just, liek, on a shelf. Da fuq?

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    Oh for fuck’s sake… first it was wheels on carts, now it’s wheels making pots.

    JUST PUT WHEELS ON EVERYTHING ALREADY IF THAT’S THE PLAN!

    smh…

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      Oh, don’t be such a Hephaestus hater. Prometheus didn’t get imprisoned on a rock so that we let that fire burn out. Who knows what gets invented next. Maybe even a way to put all those stupid papyrus rolls into a neat shape that I can store in my house.

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        5 days ago

        Call me crazy, but I’m thinking rectangles

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    6 days ago

    The same as all those other recent technological advances: they were given to us by our alien overlords.

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      Well those alien overlords stick those advances up their asses!