Right, in that case it’s eleven.
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I think you should try carrying some things through a wilderness where roads haven’t been built for you, and pulling a simple cart through a wilderness where roads haven’t been built for you, and see that maybe the cultures that never bothered with wheels had reasons other than being too stupid to notice what shapes roll. (Especially when some places without wheels still used log rollers.)
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Tools are easy compared to other humans. Your axe, wheel or boomerang isn’t going to murder you in your sleep or plot against you for their gain. Where once one only had to be faster than the slowest, it behooved one to be smarter than the mean group average. Thus the 'Dazzle-‘em-with-bullshit’ defense is born and leads us to Karen and her goddam 50 donuts.
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Chimps don’t need shoes or iPhones.
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It’s been suggested that the sophisticated tool use that’s used to define “modern” humans wasn’t about any sort of biological changes that occurred (as there doesn’t seem to be any difference between those humans and those of tens/hundreds of thousands of years earlier), but was just about humans reaching enough of a population density that they could share knowledge, basically. The tools got better suddenly because small groups now interacted with other small groups that had slightly better ways of making one particular tool. New tools and technologies took off like crazy. So “modern” humans, in terms of our intellectual capabilities, are probably far older than usually acknowledged.
To be fair about the wheel, though, it’s one of those things that’s only useful in a limited set of circumstances. Lots of cultures had the wheel (as toys, for example), but never used it as a tool because they lacked the right sized/shaped domestic animals to pull carts, nor sufficiently flat landscapes upon which to pull them.
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I can eat a dozen eggs, said Cool Hand Luke never.
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I’ve always believed that more than a couple 2 is a ‘few’ 3 or more perhaps topping at around 5ish then there’s a grey area before getting to ‘around’ a dozen (a couple or a few either side of 12) then there’s the precise dozen 12 and the discretionary bakers dozen 13 (depends on the establishment - obviously not Dunkin’ Donuts)…
Still trying to get my head around what a lot is
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Not as much as a ‘fuck ton…’
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Shit load is less than a fuck ton, I’m sure.
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Interesting. Well… if a virus can seemingly bring out the stupid… 
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6th gen Texan. I don’t know anyone else who says it.
Let me try this on: “I only had a couple of cookies.”
Damn! You’re right!
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It varies for me. Like, if I say “Give me a lot of money”, it is going to be a large amount of money. If I say “There are a lot of Trump assholes here”, it could be like, three. It varies a lot. 
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What are you talking about? They are paid a dozen bucks an hour. /s
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She’s using the metric system, obviously.
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Yikes. I thought they were referring to Burger King Atherosclerosis.
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Is that a metric fuck ton or Imperial?
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I really hope that’s not a literal quote from a proctologist!?
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Depends whether it’s the exam room, the waiting room, or the Super Bowl.
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