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[–] HonoraryMancunian 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Top tier title OP

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

i try

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cuz they are trees

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Technically you’re not wrong. Mainly because there’s no agreed upon technical definition of what does or doesn’t constitute a tree.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the definition of tree is literally just something that looks like a tree: a woody trunk with branches.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

TIL that trees are the same as vegetables and weeds, arbitrary cultural groupings. We should make an arbitrary cultural group name for arbitrary cultural grouped things!

So far the group is: -Trees -Vegetables -Weeds -Pets -Continents -The culinary use of fruit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I feel like sports could fit into that pretty well.

[–] idiomaddict 3 points 1 month ago

Fish

[–] Szyler 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Berries, insects

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think both of those have rigid scientific definitions.

[–] Szyler 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah. I thought you meant how they are used culturally. Because we have many nok-berries with berry in their name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most won't consider it a tree but who am I to judge

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Most are wrong then. If you can make toothpicks out of it, it's a tree.

[–] flicker 15 points 1 month ago

You can make toothpicks out of anything if you're willing to find a hard bit in it that can be sharpened or whittled.

Holds up a chicken. Behold! A tree!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So... Everything is a tree? 🤔

[–] shneancy 3 points 1 month ago

bones are trees? o_o

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because there is no such thing ad a tree. A tree is just a way some plants like to grow.

[–] Vatowine 1 points 1 month ago

My favorite slightly different perspective today

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Every lawn would look like a forest if grass were as tall as bamboo. Every forest would look like grasslands if trees were as tall as grass.

[–] ghterve 3 points 1 month ago

Why would she be mad about her partner thinking about other women? Is she insecure?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

He can't see the forest for the grass.

[–] Glitterbomb 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For me personally it's this damn neighborhood I came across once called Woodfield. Which one is it??! Woods or a field?! I lie awake at night, guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Schrodinger's landscape

[–] TastyWheat 1 points 1 month ago

She's got a point