Yelling yabadabadoo and sliding down that dinosaur
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I know how to make rope, among other things, as an eagle scout, and I have some experience with atatl so, probably dying of fever at 14.
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Excel, it wouldn't be useful but I'd still be great at it.
Great! I got a random Excel question. Sometimes when I pull reports at work the format for the price changes. Instead of showing the $ and the correct amount of spaces after the cent sign like .00, it has no $ and many digits after the cent sign like .000000000000000.
Now when I try to change the cell format back to currency, accounting, text, or anything it keeps the same format and amount of digital after the cent sign. The work around I found is to open up a different Excel doc type it in the correct format and then copy and paste over the incorrect formatted cell.
Do you can a better answer or did I explain horribly and your as confused as me when I try to fix Excel?
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Recreational drug use can be traced to before written history. Bartering also existed then. I'd be a drug dealer.
Fun fact: Barter only seems to occur in human societies when a. markets were previously established b. those markets collapse. Check out David Graber's 'Debt: first 5000 yrs' for more info. Most societies are debt based- as in people just do things for each other but keep basic accounts in there heads. Eg. You paid for dinner out last month, i'll pay this month(doesn't really matter how much was spent, the exactness isn't very important) Or, my grandma makes the coolest knit socks, I'm gonna ask her to make some for me and then shes gonna have me do some yard work when i visit later.
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I'd probably be something of a builder/ "engineer."
I'm not actually an engineer, but I have a knack for utilizing what I have around me or simple enough objects to serve other goals. I suppose I'm what people used to call a Macgyver or "mechanically inclined."
So, what would you "build"?
Definitely some kind of stone bulwark at the cave entrance to keep out the bears and prehistoric cheetahs.
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Storytelling & oral sex.
But not simultaneously.
Once upon a slurp slurp slurp
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With or without my current knowledge?
Because I'm pretty sure I could smelt Iron with what I know, and a year or two of experimentation. So the answer would be "ending the stone age".
Without? I dunno, maybe building traps and snares.
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Dying
I came here to write Dying, but 7 other people had already done that.
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I would invent God so others would do all the hunting and gathering for me while I partied in the cave basement drawing on the walls.
Iโm pretty good at thinking outside the box and innovating, so Iโd probably just die.
I'm a natural at shooting a traditional bow.
I know every edible plant in my area, and some that get you high.
I can find north without a compass, day and night.
I can make a fire from things I can gather in the woods.
I know how to safely fell a tree, split logs and build a shelter with hand tools.
I know how to act around most predators and have experience handling a spear.
I think I'd do reasonably well.
Sometimes I wish I was born in the stone age. My ADHD is completely gone whenever I'm in the wild.
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drawing dongs everywhere
Dying quickly
Just by knowing how to wash my hands, medicine. Up until 20th century.
Wash the wound with soapy water, apply cloth that has been boiled. Yeah that should have a better survival rate than most of human history.
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dying
Either making elaborate traps and contraptions out of sticks and stones.
Or brain surgery.
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I wouldnโt survive long with my poor eyesight. Maybe Iโd create tools or something. Love tinkering.
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Starvation.
technical art and programming for video games
I've got some decent smithing skills, I'd go looking for bog iron and skip the bronze age.
Probably tool making.
It would take time to get back into it, but I was turning out decent knives, spear points, and arrowheads for a while there. Nothing that would blow anyone's mind as art, but pretty enough and usable.
One of those things I did just because I wanted to see if I could, and it turned out to be really relaxing and enjoyable. Arthritis took the enjoyable and relaxing part away, so I stopped, but on a survival level, I could get the job done well enough to make up for being a bottom tier hunter.
Cavernbook: a cavern where everyone chisel his/her photo and his/her thoughts
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Hoarder. Of things that might conceivably be used one day.
You need weird rock? I got weird rock.
Finding fruit trees. Hunting would be my weak point.
Hog cranking
obsessing over plants and accidentally dooming the world with agriculture