sciamatic
sciamatic t1_j2fvo48 wrote
Wow, it's almost like at the end of a year people like to talk with other people about their best and worst of the year.
Crazy.
Unthinkable.
They must be trying to con people into something because there's no natural way people would want to have those conversations.
sciamatic t1_iuc7dcc wrote
Reply to TIL strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries do not qualify as “berries” as defined by botanists, yet kiwis, bananas, and tomatoes do. At least blueberries are indeed berries. by Aequitas05
I'm gonna call bullshit on these sorts of things.
The definition of "berry" and "fruit" has existed for hundreds of years, and their lingual predecessors thousands of years.
I get that biology came along and found out that a tomato has more in common with an apple than it does lettuce, but clearly that doesn't change the definition of "fruit". It just means that science needs to come up with new words for these genetic and phenotypical groups. I don't care what they call them.
But a strawberry is a berry because that's what "berry" means. The fact that their seed distribution puts them in some other, science-based category as well doesn't really change that.
sciamatic t1_je48g1o wrote
Reply to This sign on my way home from work by jjmurphy8
I... How the fuck do you take a shit "deep"?
Are they trying to use "laying pipe", the famous expression for taking a shit, to mean fucking? Because...don't. Don't do that. Don't mix shitting metaphors with fucking metaphors.