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[โ€“] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 0 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Botanically, sure, but from a culinary perspective they're used like a vegetable.

[โ€“] just2look@lemmy.zip 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think vegetable is a botanical term. So fruit and vegetable aren't really mutually exclusive.

[โ€“] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean, mushrooms get lumped into the vegetable category most of the time and they're a fungus!

[โ€“] match@pawb.social 0 points 16 hours ago

and we usually eat the fruiting body!

[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle. But she would also be my grandmother.

[โ€“] stray@pawb.social 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But what if she had four wheels?

[โ€“] Ziglin@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

A roller skate obviously.

[โ€“] Gyroplast@pawb.social 0 points 16 hours ago

That's just science as applied by engineers.

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

As they say, intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

(That's the saying, but IMO it's wisdom to know and intelligence to not do it, maybe I'm mixing things up).

[โ€“] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, it seems you've heard a version adapted to explain the different D&D stats.

[โ€“] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago

From Dungeon Crawler Carl:

I grumbled a bit about that three in intelligence. Yeah, I never did too great in math, but I never considered myself a slobbering idiot, either. I could fix most anything electrical after studying it for a bit. My friend Billy Maloney, now that guy was an idiot. Just last week weโ€™d come out of a bar, and heโ€™d peed right on a copโ€™s bicycle while the cop was giving someone else a ticket for drunk and disorderly. That guy deserved an intelligence of three, maybe two.

. . .

After I complained about my intelligence score to Mordecai, using the Billy example, he said, โ€œIntelligence told you that bike belonged to a police officer. Wisdom told you not to urinate upon it.

[โ€“] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 0 points 14 hours ago

Knowledge and wisdom is the one I've heard before.