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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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[โ€“] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 114 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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...

[โ€“] HeckGazer@programming.dev 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This one is marketed towards men

[โ€“] Cheems@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 month ago (5 children)

We need to standardize banana.

[โ€“] Spider2013@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How tall are you? 6 and a half bananas

[โ€“] konalt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

this is how the imperial system was invented

[โ€“] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We need, Standard Fruit.

[โ€“] justtobbi@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ja! Let's create a DIN norm!

[โ€“] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

We can make it exactly 3.5 Thumb lengths.

I agree. I say seven inches.

[โ€“] FlexxxingOnThePoors@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Americans well use anything but the metric system, lol.

[โ€“] CptEnder@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

Wow he would burst my chest cavity! ๐Ÿคค

[โ€“] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Actually that banana's kinda big

[โ€“] bonn2@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago

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

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

[โ€“] key@lemmy.keychat.org 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] SuperIce@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Bananas in the US are pretty large though.

[โ€“] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Quexotic@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

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

[โ€“] Zier@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] jaschen@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Zier@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] jaschen@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

All love, my man.

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Zier@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

That's a 'firm' yes from me.

[โ€“] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bananas are now officialy a tool for measurement.

[โ€“] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Always have been

[โ€“] buzz86us@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month 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).

[โ€“] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

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