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banana for rule 😔

Review on Amazon: A banana for scale should be to scale https://a.co/d/aAZPaX4

::: spoiler Alt text 1 star review by user "Tall Guys Wife" on Amazon of a rubber banana that has the words [for scale] on it.
Picture attached shows rubber banana is smaller than real banana.

Review text reads: "purchased this 'banana for scale, but it's way smaller than an average banana. People on social media demand if you're showing something that you use an average banana for scale. I would never deceive anyone with this ridiculous substitute for an accurate measuring tool." :::

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IT LOOKS LIKE AN AVERAGE SIZED BANANA TO ME. TOO BIG EVEN MAYBE

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CptEnderreply
lemmy.world

I'm surprised more things aren't measured in football pitches

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bonn2reply
lemm.ee

Maybe it is a regional thing? I'm from the US and that is pretty much the size of every banana at my grocery store.

To clarify, by regional I mean that the US disproportionately buys / sells a variety of bananas that is just bigger. Though I'll admit I have not taken the time to google this so 🤷

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Its the same for bananas in Romania, but i know that at least in Egypt the bananas are closer in size to the fake banana

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keyreply
lemmy.keychat.org

Agreed. Another review has a picture holding it and it looks like typical banana size. That banana is just a banana of unusual size.

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infosec.pub

Thank you for the hope. You can still buy the gros michel, but it's breathtakingly expensive. I'd love to finally try one.

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You can only buy them by the crate and their hundreds of dollars and you can pretty much be guaranteed that half of them will spoil during shipment. I may actually go in with a number of other people and purchase an entire crate of them but I'm not really sure I could find enough people that will be willing to pay or split the cost, especially with the knowledge that a bunch of them are probably going to spoil along the way.

Edit: It's $36 for one banana with shipping costs.

$127 for a small box. I don't have that kind of banana money

Source https://miamifruit.org

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Americans will argue over the size of bananas instead of using a proper measuring system, smh.

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There be no blasphemy or deception like using a plastic banana rather than whatever random banana they have at your local store.

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fedia.io

I have a totally different kind of banana you could use for scale. wink wink

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jaschenreply
lemm.ee

This is only useful if we are measuring small insects or microbes. nudge nudge

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Zierreply
fedia.io

Now, now, don't be so self deprecating. Some people are into 'small and adorable'. giggle giggle

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But there's a flaw. You've already lost it.

Maybe a different fairly popular but far less likely to be lost pen. How about Lamy Safari (Vista and Al-Star can be used too - same dimensions).

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It depends what you’re comparing it to. Perhaps someone wants to make something look larger in the photo compared to the mini banana…

What kind of unscrupulous person would do that?

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Tbf, I like the smaller ones (I don't need that goddamn much banana I'm eating breakfast not making delicious pudding to dip nillas in). I have a couple bananas hanging around that are probably about the size of the fake one (maybe a bit bigger).

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