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minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·7 months agoReminds me of the old banana argument for intelligent design. It fits well in your hand, and is nicely curved for ease of consumption.
minus-squareNate Cox@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·7 months agoI love that argument, it tickles me every time I hear it because bananas were intelligently designed… by humans, on purpose, over thousands of years, to make them more palatable and easier to eat than their original nearly inedible form.
minus-squareWilly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 months agoand they usually open the banana the hard way too
minus-squareWilly@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agothe flower end is the easy end. just pinch and split. the stem end is a mess.
minus-squareAltofaltception@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 months agoThe meme I was referencing identified a banana having a “pop tab”, which is in fact the difficult way to open it.
minus-squaremycathas9lives@mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months ago@Altofaltception @Willy Mine has the embedded string that you pull to tear a straight line from end to end. What kind of banana has tab side? I’d like to try that!
Reminds me of the old banana argument for intelligent design. It fits well in your hand, and is nicely curved for ease of consumption.
I love that argument, it tickles me every time I hear it because bananas were intelligently designed… by humans, on purpose, over thousands of years, to make them more palatable and easier to eat than their original nearly inedible form.
and they usually open the banana the hard way too
With the pop tab side?
the flower end is the easy end. just pinch and split. the stem end is a mess.
The meme I was referencing identified a banana having a “pop tab”, which is in fact the difficult way to open it.
@Altofaltception @Willy
Mine has the embedded string that you pull to tear a straight line from end to end. What kind of banana has tab side? I’d like to try that!