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

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1 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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[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 minutes 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).

[-] FlexxxingOnThePoors@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago

Americans well use anything but the metric system, lol.

[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 48 points 11 hours ago

We need to standardize banana.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I agree. I say seven inches.

[-] Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

We need, Standard Fruit.

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

We can make it exactly 3.5 Thumb lengths.

[-] justtobbi@feddit.org 7 points 8 hours ago

Ja! Let's create a DIN norm!

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

DIN-B4N4N4

[-] Spider2013@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

How tall are you? 6 and a half bananas

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

this is how the imperial system was invented

[-] HeckGazer@programming.dev 58 points 14 hours ago

This one is marketed towards men

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 5 hours 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 2 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 100 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours 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...

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 7 points 12 hours ago

Bananas are now officialy a tool for measurement.

[-] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Always have been

[-] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 6 hours ago

Ahhh, a plantain?

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 25 points 13 hours ago

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

[-] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

All love, my man.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 30 points 18 hours ago

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

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

Wow he would burst my chest cavity! 🤤

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 16 hours ago

Its average sized

[-] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 18 hours ago

Actually that banana's kinda big

[-] bonn2@lemm.ee 14 points 15 hours 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 🤷