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
23 Comments
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 1y
Top tier title OP
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 37 pts · 1y
criitz@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 1y
Cuz they are trees
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 34 pts · 1y
Technically you’re not wrong. Mainly because there’s no agreed upon technical definition of what does or doesn’t constitute a tree.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
the definition of tree is literally just something that looks like a tree: a woody trunk with branches.
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
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
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 1y
I feel like sports could fit into that pretty well.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Fish
Szyler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Berries, insects
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I think both of those have rigid scientific definitions.
Szyler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Oh yeah. I thought you meant how they are used culturally. Because we have many nok-berries with berry in their name.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
Most won't consider it a tree but who am I to judge
jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 1y
Most are wrong then. If you can make toothpicks out of it, it's a tree.
flicker@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
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!
shneancy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
bones are trees? o_o
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 1y
So... Everything is a tree? 🤔
Gladaed@feddit.org · 9 pts · 1y
Because there is no such thing ad a tree. A tree is just a way some plants like to grow.
Vatowine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
My favorite slightly different perspective today
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
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@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Why would she be mad about her partner thinking about other women? Is she insecure?
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Schrodinger's landscape
nathanjent@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
He can't see the forest for the grass.
TastyWheat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
She's got a point