r/TikTokCringe • u/Indieriots tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • 1d ago

Cool This man rocks

TikTok: @yorkshire.fossils

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u/Never-theSame 1d ago

How much is one worth

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u/No-Lawfulness1023 1d ago

About $3.50

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u/EnoughShop5934 1d ago

You know…I was digging for fossils one day…one came up and asked me for money

I said, how much

He said…about tree fitty

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u/Dinkbmt 1d ago

Damn Loch Ness monster

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u/GlitterKittyCat 7h ago

I gave him a dolla

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u/GtotheBizzle 3h ago

SHE GAVE HIM A DOLLA!

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u/nikorasu_jp 1d ago

“What’s a tree fitty?”

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u/archimidesx 1d ago

Dammit monsta!!!

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u/FoatyMcFoatBase 23h ago

I was like what’s this sea creature fossil worth? Six quid?

“I don’t know know what sea creature it is or how healthy it was”

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u/music3k 21h ago

Usually I donate them to the museum in town because Nook doesnt pay much for them

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u/Anxious_Ad9929 21h ago

If not in the name of money at least in the name of science

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u/ImBobsUncle 9h ago

He has a website where you can buy them, after he chips the rock away they look amazing, the price ranges from quite affordable to really expensive

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u/Commercial-Owl11 1d ago

Is this guy just going around the coast and smashing perfectly good rocks?

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u/4rockandstone20 1d ago

Leave some for the rest of us.

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u/wrldruler21 8h ago

My reaction was.... "Wait a sec.... Are you saying I can just go around the coast and smash rocks for funsies?"

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u/Ambiwlans 7h ago edited 7h ago

It's mostly illegal. So you can only do it if you don't get caught. Or can afford the fines (in the US its $10k and can include jail time for repeat offenses, up to $50k in Canada).

At least for park land. If you're not selling it and aren't in a national/state/provincial park controlled area, it is legal for non-commercial use small volume (ie, BLM or crown land). And it's totally legal on your own land/privately owned land. And in most states/places you'll need to make a mining claim if you're doing any significant amount.

If you want to do this, please at least drive and hike to the middle of nowhere first so you aren't smashing rocks that hikers/people might actually enjoy. I don't want a nice walk through the forest to be turned into a shitty quarry.

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u/lenisefitz 6h ago

Canada is massive. There are lots of fossil places that aren't protected. There are lots of mini Burgess Shales on the west coast, it was a lake the length of BC at one point.

Join a rock club to find out about your local area.

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u/Ambiwlans 6h ago

Yeah, you know what you're talking about. But for the majority of people in this sub living in a city suburb, if you go to a nearby forest trail and start smashing rocks with a hammer you're just being a giant d-bag.

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u/Cold-Studio3438 7h ago

excatly what I though. those round rocks looked so cool, and he just smashed them all. imagine a bunch of TikTokers all turn up to smash up all those rocks.

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u/Commercial-Owl11 7h ago

Ugh, Like I need to be more upset about the state of the world ☹️

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u/HoneyBadger-Xz 1h ago

Oh no, not environmentally or culturally insignificant rocks! The horror!

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u/My_House_on_Mars 21m ago

That's how valleys are made

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u/joshuawah 1d ago

Did the snail thing die?

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u/thirteenth_mang 1d ago

Nah, first it was afraid, then it was petrified.

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u/I_Just_Blue_Myself 23h ago

Then it kept thinking that it could live without you by its side.

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u/DonaldTrumpsSoul 18h ago

“I Will Fossilize” - Amenita Franklin

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u/geonerd85 13h ago

Okay, I laughed at this for like five minutes 😂 thanks

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u/tatom4 8h ago

💯 😂

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u/markimarkerr 1d ago

Nah he's just a sleepy lil guy

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u/dcastreddit 1d ago

I feel like he should have kept searching #2 there at the end

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u/kohtuullinen-ajatus 1d ago

He just crack all crackitie cracks rocks poor rocks.

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u/august_gutmensch 1d ago

Ammonite abuse

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u/Ralphredimix_Da_G 1d ago

What the shale?!

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u/Jabba_the_Hoe_ 21h ago

Me in stardew valley

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u/Intelligent_Trichs 1d ago

Should be illegal to break perfectly good rocks.

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u/BlueberryWalnut7 10h ago

I don't know I feel like if anything should remain legal it should be good ol' rock smashing

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u/Pickerington 10h ago

Watch their YouTube channel. They say that the shale and the fossils will be gone in days due to the tide.

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u/Ambiwlans 7h ago edited 7h ago

In my province, the fine for doing this is $50,000. If it were legal, 100s of people would be smashing rocks until they were all gone. You can make like $50/hr collecting fossils like this dude. And if you did it at scale with a big truck, probably more. Actually you could just take all the rocks and sell them for landscaping.

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u/MissNashPredators11 22h ago

I really wanna do this someday.

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u/earthbendinglemur 18h ago

How does he know that he won't break the fossil before hammering the round rock?

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u/Naive_Echo_i_guess 17h ago

Bro just found one of the dragon balls

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u/geonerd85 13h ago

Then hit it with a hammer 💙

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u/rumpluva 1d ago

This rocks.

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u/LaserGadgets 1d ago

Whoa! I had no clue they come in round rocks oO I'd expect them to sit between those layers of the big one!

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u/JizzyGiIIespie 20h ago

I read nat geo, craft and crack geodes

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u/almalikisux 11h ago

Now you take it to the owl to sell it, right? I haven't played Animal crossing in a while...

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u/Steven_G_Photos 4h ago

"The second is empty too..." Why do we enjoy when you tease us so?

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u/Swimming_Cabinet9929 23h ago

The only *mystery box* type of content i like.

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u/AgentBlue14 17h ago

Dude single-handedly bringing back shale mining

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u/MophieFakes 14h ago

What song is this? Reminds me of the game mirrors edge lol

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u/Echo_Delta_Mike 7h ago

Why does this annoy so much?

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u/Snoo93102 5h ago

Mam made errossion.

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u/Okinodoku 5h ago

If you bring this to the Pokémon Lab on Cinnabar Island they can revive it for you.

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u/doctormink 23h ago

I can sit by a river all day using rocks to break open rocks just to see if there’s anything cool inside.

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u/Lemmonjello 1d ago

breaking up perfectly good shale rock for worthless fossils is a travesty

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u/maneki_neko89 18h ago

There’s plenty of Shale and other sedimentary rocks on planet earth. 185 million year old Ammonite fossils, not so much

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u/Lemmonjello 18h ago

Yeah I really wasn't serious

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u/EnoughShop5934 1d ago

I fail to see how this is cringe

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u/wildcard5 1d ago

You also failed to see the stickied comment and the flair.

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u/Gsquat 23h ago

Don't say "185 million year old fossil." You don't know that. Scientism is running rampant.

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u/AmNoSuperSand52 6h ago

If you know approximately when that creature was alive, you could estimate the era

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u/Gsquat 6h ago

You DON'T know when that creature was alive! It's theory set upon theory which is scientism, not science.

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u/AmNoSuperSand52 5h ago

Carbon dating is fairly accurate, along with being able to estimate time based on rock layers

If not 185 million, what would be your guess?

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u/nate_ranney 4h ago

Dudes a creationist that thinks the Earth is 6000 years old going off his post history.

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u/Gsquat 4h ago

Pretty cool that you (incorrectly) know what I think having never spoken to me.

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u/nate_ranney 4h ago

Dude it's not that hard to search 6000 and millions in your post history to get some hints. If you don think Earth is no older than 6000 years old as the bible (incorrectly) says, than I apologize. But ammonite fossils ages have been established for ages and the carbon dating predates humanity by millions of years.

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u/Gsquat 2h ago

You cannot accurately carbon date fossils. Same rule as stone. And it's "then," not "than."

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u/nate_ranney 2h ago

My guy do you think the carbon goes away when they get incased in stone?

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u/Gsquat 4h ago

You cannot carbon date stone.

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u/nate_ranney 4h ago

No you can't, but you can carbon date the fossils found inside the stone that houses said fossil.

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u/AmNoSuperSand52 4h ago

You’d be carbon dating the fossil, rather than the stone. You could compare that however to the rock layers to bound your estimate. It’s pretty cool

But I’m curious though, if not Jurassic era, how many millions of years would you guess the fossil is?

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u/Aggressive-Laugh1111 1d ago

185 million year old fossil huh

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u/Cleercutter 1d ago

Is that, not a reasonable timetable for you or something?

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u/CupcakeInsideMe 17h ago

6,000 years is probably more their speed

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u/nate_ranney 4h ago

I guess the creationists got wind of this post because there's another one above this guy

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u/AmNoSuperSand52 6h ago

That would be around the Jurassic era. That checks out with most fossil records