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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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[-] [email protected] 115 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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...

[-] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago

This one is marketed towards men

[-] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago

We need to standardize banana.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

How tall are you? 6 and a half bananas

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

this is how the imperial system was invented

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

We need, Standard Fruit.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Ja! Let's create a DIN norm!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

DIN-B4N4N4

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

We can make it exactly 3.5 Thumb lengths.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I agree. I say seven inches.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Americans well use anything but the metric system, lol.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Wow he would burst my chest cavity! 🤤

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

Actually that banana's kinda big

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months 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 🤷

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months 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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Bananas in the US are pretty large though.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Its average sized

[-] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

There's still hope we might get it back someday!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

All love, my man.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Ahhh, a plantain?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

That's a 'firm' yes from me.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Bananas are now officialy a tool for measurement.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Always have been

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months 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).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

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