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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Also: Strawberries are nuts - and Peanuts aren't.
Peanuts are legumes which means that peanut butter is basically sweetened bean dip.
If your peanut butter is sweet then you should buy a different brand. Added sugar is really bad for you.
Do you usually eat the whole tub? The dose makes the poison.
Not really true for an addictive substance like sugar. It changes your whole taste threshold, and leads to more sugar in everything else you eat. For the same reason diet soda is still bad - it has the same dopamine response in the brain and leads to more real sugar consumption than an unsweetened beverage.
I usually sprinkle some extra sugar on my peanut butter, Nutella and honey toast.
Hey, I already hate peanut butter, you don't have to convince me any more! ;-)
Fun fact: the bananas that are bred for human consumption are herbs. They don't contain any seeds, and they grow on herbaceous bushes.
I thought the tiny black dots inside were supposed to be the seeds?
Ok, I stand corrected, TIL about parthenocarpy:
In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilisation of ovules, which makes the fruit seedless
This is what the seeds actually look like in bananas for anyone who is curious.
So what are the tiny black dots?
Spider eggs.
But really they're what would have been seeds but aren't.
Apparently these are not the seeds themselves but only the remains of the original ovulums that contained the seed when they still existed.
Unless you showered with a book on botany and just found out about that, that's not a shower thought. Just a fun fact you knew about already.
Nah. Might be a botany student finally connecting those last few neurons on this subject.
Relevant Mr. Lovenstein comic: https://lemmy.world/post/8457726
"Strange times for the berry club..."
I love that comic strip! :-)
Goes to show that gastronomical and botanical terms have more than just a few contradictions.
Vegetables don't exist. It's not a botanical term.
They're all roots fruits seeds stems or leaves.
That’s actually great. Vegetables are therefore fully under gastronomy, so there’s no possibility of naming collisions. We should have more terms like that. You know, like “tasty”, “spicy”, “yummy” etc. are not technical terms, nor should they be.
And the word "banana" might be a very promising candidate for the word with the highest "letter a"-to-consonant-ratio in the English language. Unless there are some double-a words out there...
Ara has twice as many As per consonant. Am and at have the same ratio as banana. But I'll admit that two letter words is cheating.
But 'a' has an even higher ratio.
Well, you got me there.
^(Actually the ratio can't be calculated, since #a/#consonants = 1/0 and you can't divide by 0 ^and ^that's ^totally ^why ^I ^didn't ^mention ^it...)
But is "Ara" an English word? My favorite translation page tells me that the English name of the bird is "macaw". Still a nice A-ratio, although lower than for banana! :-)
Wikipedia says so, so it must be true!
I guess we are entering the philosophical level of "what is an English word?" now. I don't think I'm the right person to judge since I'm neither a native speaker nor a linguist. I'm fine with disqualifying ara.
If we allow for scientific names, the winner would probably be "Aa", the name of a type of plant.
But I personally would not count them, as not part of everyday language.
I asked an AI if it could come up with other suggestions. It burned up 5000 tokens while thinking and successfully found "Alabama".
So I think banana lost its first place in any case...
My vote is for a name that I just made up, Aarana. It's the female form of Aaron, with all a's. 😄
That's very close to spider in Spanish, araña.
Queue almost definitely has the highest vowel to consonant ratio (not counting words like I)