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

Alt text1 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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[-] FlexxxingOnThePoors@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

Americans well use anything but the metric system, lol.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

We talking real football or the one where you use your feet?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 days ago

We need to standardize banana.

[-] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We need, Standard Fruit.

[-] Spider2013@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

How tall are you? 6 and a half bananas

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

this is how the imperial system was invented

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

We can make it exactly 3.5 Thumb lengths.

[-] justtobbi@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

Ja! Let's create a DIN norm!

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago
[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I agree. I say seven inches.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 111 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Tbf, I'd also be kinda pissed if I bought a meme banana and it wasn't the size of a real banana. You had one job...

[-] HeckGazer@programming.dev 70 points 3 days ago

This one is marketed towards men

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 33 points 3 days ago

SLPT: use a banana flavored Runtz candy piece to make your schlong look fucking enormous.

[-] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Wow he would burst my chest cavity! ๐Ÿคค

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago

back in my day, we'd measure things with a REAL banana

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago
[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

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

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Well then just buy one banana. How much could it cost, $10?

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I feel like a.BIC pen is much better for scale

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

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).

[-] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 3 days ago

Actually that banana's kinda big

[-] bonn2@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago

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 ๐Ÿคท

[-] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

You're thinking too hard, i was just making a penis joke lmao

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

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

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 7 points 3 days ago

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

[-] SuperIce@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Bananas in the US are pretty large though.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 days ago
[-] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago

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

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 27 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Zier@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago

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

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

All love, my man.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago
[-] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

That's a 'firm' yes from me.

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

Bananas are now officialy a tool for measurement.

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Always have been

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago

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

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I'm tired of how big bananas are now. Small bananas ftw

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