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[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 124 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 92 points 1 month ago

But he did have two sisters, which makes this post a lot weirder

[–] ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io 77 points 1 month ago (26 children)

Yeah I was gonna say that. He was famously single his entire life and is speculated to be one of the first historical examples of an asexual and aromantic person.

[–] Ravi@feddit.org 88 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can't be the only one that read "aromatic person" instead of "aromantic person".

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 75 points 1 month ago

He was born in the 17th century, everyone had quite the aroma back then

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 month ago

sniff sniff

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

atleast you're not alone.

[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

oh damn that's sick if he was! pretty cool ace representation

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[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought that was the joke here, isn't it? He stayed virgin due to this...?

[–] Pissman2020@lemmy.world 89 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'm gonna go ahead and be that guy and point out the fact that in the panels showing himat his desk from the inside, th window is to his right and there's no wall right next to him, while the one from the outside has the window directly in line with him and it's breaking me

[–] Broken_Monitor@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

But at least the formulas and constants appear to be correct

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

My gawd, you've entirely ruined my enjoyment of this cucumber.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

He moved his desk to a different room/window

[–] flughoernchen@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

It's all just one room, they moved the desk to the window to make place for a bed.

[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I sure hope somebody got fired for this blunder!

[–] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm gonna be the guy that points out cucumbers are spiky before they get to the grocery store...

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I've grown lots of cucumbers, and while I haven't shoved them in my arse, I can confirm that they are smooth. Ridge cucumbers can have spikes, you may be thinking of them.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago

you mean zucchini

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It looks correct to me, the inside view doesn't even clear the window, the outside view shows that the wall is maybe ~1' past the window frame which we don't even see on the inside shot. Unless I'm missing something?

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A cucumber tree? Sir, this is a science community.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The cucumber is on the ground. And cucumbers do grow on plants.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Admittedly the image quality is "this meme first appeared in a dirty magazine in 1986 and has been re-compressed twice a year since the internet was invented", but there are falling lines above the cucumber, and a little puff of smoke where it hits the ground. It's depicted as falling out of a tree.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's common to use a trellis with cucumbers to have their vines grow vertically instead of covering all of the horizontal space of a garden. That makes cucumbers "hang" in the air like a fruit on a tree, and would lead to those motion lines in a fall.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But did they do that in Newton's time?

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Well before Newton discovered gravity, the vines would have been floating freely around. His discovery is what triggered the cucumber to hit the ground.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The apple falls next to a tree trunk, the cucumber falls next to vines and leaves near the ground. You wrong.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 points 1 month ago

The cucumber just fell out of a peddler's basket who was moving ahead of the woman under the tree.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

If they don't grow on trees then why are they green.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isaac fucked the apple too tho.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Surely that took a lot more practice than doing a cucumber. So I was told.

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[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago

Needs more jpeg

[–] NerdyPopRocks@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The center wall that separates the windows is larger on the inside than the outside. Fun

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[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always laugh at stuff like the small dust cloud of the cucumber, as if it just popped into existence and caused air pressure.

I think it fell off the vine like the apple fell off the tree

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