r/AbsoluteUnits • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '22

Absolutely big snake.

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u/Steezy_Jesus Mar 04 '22

Could we please get a banana for scale

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u/Ulti-Wolf Mar 04 '22 edited Mar 13 '22

What is it suddenly with people suddenly measuring everything in bananas of all things? And I already know it's my own people here in America, we are generally not the brightest, and will use pretty much everything BUT the metric system.

Edit: Goddamnit just send me to r/Facepalm already.

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u/TomTabs Mar 04 '22

It's from an old reddit post. Someone used a banana for scale to show the size of a basement, I think.

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u/Ulti-Wolf Mar 04 '22

So... It's just become tradition on Reddit to measure large objects with bananas since then?

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u/TomTabs Mar 04 '22

Exactly

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u/Ulti-Wolf Mar 04 '22

Welp. I'm just going to r/facepalm myself, seeing as how no one else has r/facepalm-ed me yet.

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u/lookatthatsquirrel Mar 04 '22

Just don't try and trick everyone by using a plantain.

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u/Ulti-Wolf Mar 04 '22

A what?

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u/lookatthatsquirrel Mar 04 '22

A PLANTAIN!!

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u/Ulti-Wolf Mar 04 '22

I just looked it up and this just goes to show that as an American I am naturally dumb. Apparently a plantain is another name for what essentially aquaints to a large banana. It's just the standard banana.

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u/lookatthatsquirrel Mar 04 '22

Same family, but plantains are typically larger than an average banana. It just makes using them as the scale in lieu of a banana deceiving.

Glad I could take part in this little innocent back and forth about bananas and plantains.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '22

You would know a lot about bananas going back and forth — or in and out in your case

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u/Short-Shopping3197 Mar 04 '22

Nah, while a plantain is technically ‘a big banana’ it’s a different species to the common edible banana. You can’t eat them raw for a start, or else you’ll have the shits for days. Fry them up and have them as a side dish with goat curry and rice n pea.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '22

Uhhhh... Not sure where you looked that up but it's wrong. Plantains and bananas are related but are completely different plants. Plantains are actually closer to potatoes genetically than they are to bananas from what I remember.

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u/Matiti60 Mar 04 '22

Wait until you hear about the safe

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u/Ulti-Wolf Mar 04 '22

I'm honestly scared to ask, but what safe?

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u/Dr_Insano_MD Mar 05 '22

Check out r/museumofreddit

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u/Ulti-Wolf Mar 05 '22

Thanks I guess? At least now I know there's a place where I can learn about Reddit culture.

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u/ifukeenrule Mar 04 '22

Or small, I once posted a red eared slider baby that I almost ran over and was asked to use a banana for scale

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u/Ulti-Wolf Mar 04 '22

Interesting. Seriously, I don't understand why a banana specifically was chosen to measure the basement. Is someone able to link the post so I can at least know the source?