The Poole Museum in the UK has a display behind glass of a rock donated to the museum by a young child.
The Poole Museum in the UK has a display behind glass of a rock donated to the museum by a young child.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17811614
This is definitely wholesome, but that is also a really cool rock. Everybody wins.
46 0 ReplyI live down the road from Poole.
This is probably the most exciting thing in the whole county tbh
37 0 ReplyYou've got a man with his nob out etched into a hill. What more do you want?
6 0 ReplySo weird to think anyone else from Dorset would've even heard of Lemmy
4 0 ReplyI think anywhere with an IT presence is gonna have Linux people, and by extension potentially Lemmy users.
We do fit a stereotype 😆
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As someone who worked for a (university) museum, I just know it made that worker's day to put that display together.
25 0 Replyprops to the museum, but also that's a pretty cool rock. good job bethan
22 0 ReplyTaking stones from children and displaying them!? The UK’s colonial ambitions knows no bounds!
19 0 ReplyThat's really sweet. It matters to show that we all have a heart.
12 0 ReplyAny amateur geologists out there have any idea what kind of rock that is?
10 0 ReplyI'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.
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Ngl, Bethan has good taste in rocks. This was the right call by both parties.
9 0 ReplyThanks for the repost!
8 3 ReplyHappy to! It was such a heartwarming story I had to share it 🥰 .
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What a pretty rock! I wonder why it's coloured that way?
Enjoys
3 0 Replyi really like that font
2 0 ReplyThey were probably just thankful of having something to put in it.
1 0 ReplyOkay but is it worth more than a cool leaf?
2 1 ReplyImo if a kid would be terminally sick or something then that would be wholesome but otherwise it is just funny
1 6 ReplyI 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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