I'm not a geologist amateur or otherwise but it looks a lot like a flint stone which has those kinda chalky spots. I've got a very similar looking one from Rügen, an island in the North of Germany.
I think we just have too much media emphasis on such cases - they are absolutely important, but they make us forget that the very regular children doing something like this and adults empowering them is just as wholesome, precious, and important.
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Letstakealook@lemm.ee · 49 pts · 2y
This is definitely wholesome, but that is also a really cool rock. Everybody wins.
li10@feddit.uk · 37 pts · 2y
I live down the road from Poole.
This is probably the most exciting thing in the whole county tbh
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 2y
You've got a man with his nob out etched into a hill. What more do you want?
Theme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y
So weird to think anyone else from Dorset would've even heard of Lemmy
li10@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 2y
I think anywhere with an IT presence is gonna have Linux people, and by extension potentially Lemmy users.
We do fit a stereotype 😆
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y
As someone who worked for a (university) museum, I just know it made that worker's day to put that display together.
pyre@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
props to the museum, but also that's a pretty cool rock. good job bethan
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 2y
Taking stones from children and displaying them!? The UK’s colonial ambitions knows no bounds!
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 2y
That's really sweet. It matters to show that we all have a heart.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Any amateur geologists out there have any idea what kind of rock that is?
PeterLossGeorgeWall@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y
I'm not a geologist amateur or otherwise but it looks a lot like a flint stone which has those kinda chalky spots. I've got a very similar looking one from Rügen, an island in the North of Germany.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Ngl, Bethan has good taste in rocks. This was the right call by both parties.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Thanks for the repost!
sundray@lemmus.org · 15 pts · 2y
Happy to! It was such a heartwarming story I had to share it 🥰 .
Corno@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
What a pretty rock! I wonder why it's coloured that way?
Enjoys
Napain@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
i really like that font
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
geometric, similar to futura
Floey@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Okay but is it worth more than a cool leaf?
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 2y
They were probably just thankful of having something to put in it.
Nicoleism101@lemm.ee · -5 pts · 2y
Imo if a kid would be terminally sick or something then that would be wholesome but otherwise it is just funny
Allero@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 2y
I think we just have too much media emphasis on such cases - they are absolutely important, but they make us forget that the very regular children doing something like this and adults empowering them is just as wholesome, precious, and important.
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
imagine, a kid sent a rock to a museum, and the museum rejected it. this outcome is more wholesome.