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[โ€“] Neon@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

in the french town of Eu

Wow, they were really ahead of their time.

Petition to move the EU institutions there?

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The tragic part is that the EU is called the "UE" in French...

Luckily French isn't a real language.

[โ€“] Neon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I know, I know, I had french classes as well. (Still seeing my therapist because of that :P)

But I still found it funny :)

[โ€“] Fermion@feddit.nl 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Props to whoever made that bottle and stopper. That note is in fantastic condition.

[โ€“] wieson@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It probably helps, that the bottle was in salt in a clay pot in the ground and not in the ocean.

[โ€“] Fermion@feddit.nl 6 points 3 weeks ago

It would seem that archeologists know how to preserve things.

[โ€“] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Every time I read news of people finding old messages in bottles I find it fascinating.

But then at the same time I wonder how many people it prompts to dump their own bottles into the sea (i.e. littering) anytime one of these headlines blow up

E: sorry I'm apprehensive about dumping plastic in our oceans. Damn. Didn't realise this was a pro-pollution community...

[โ€“] Elchi@feddit.org 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Glasbottles are fine and just fancy rocks.

[โ€“] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well yeah, I'd hope the people who do this use glass bottles, but let's be real, they'll use whatever easily-sealable bottle is most convenient. So plastic bottles.

[โ€“] match@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

but if i write my message on plastic it'll last forever

[โ€“] Elchi@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

the plastic will last "forever" but your message will quickly crumble away like ~~dust~~ plastic in the wind

[โ€“] Mr_Peartree@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'll send an S.O.S to the world