Have you seen the size of the average butt plug? If the seed stays smooth and slimy in transit (debatable), I don't think it would be too difficult to pass. I'd be most worried about getting it through some of the kinks in the intestine.
I've never thought to compare the sizes of those particular two objects... but now I'm sure there is someone out there considering some very kinky and unsanitary actions.
I've taken enough up the ass to know I really don't want to pass an avocado pit. That said, I also don't really like taking it up the ass all that much
Too old for their original friends, too young for the new friends after this wave of evolution collapses upon the banks of human wanton destruction of the environment.
Warning: Reading this article may cause a whiplash-inducing paradigm shift. You will no longer view wild areas the same way. Your concepts of “pristine wilderness” and “the balance of nature” will be forever compromised. You may even start to see ghosts.
And the pawpaw :'( but I planted 3 in my yard anyways cause I'm native plant-maxxing. Interestingly, despite no longer being able to effectively distribute its seeds pawpaws are actually on the rebound in north America cause they're super poisonous to deer and as deer populations explode they're one of the few plants they won't eat.
"Ginkgo is a gymnosperm and does not produce flowers; however, they are dioecious with separate male and female trees. Male plants produce small pollen cones with sporophylls. Female plants produce ovules at the end of a stalk. Fertilization occurs via motile sperm, as in cycads, ferns, mosses and algae."
Even if you incorrectly call ginkgos' unprotected seeds "flowers" (which are definitionally limited to the angiosperms), what I didn't discuss earlier – because the "flower" thing was a more obvious indication the writer had no idea what they were talking about and because my research turned up nothing – is that I did try to find any scientific literature about ancient insects pollinating ginkgos. I found nothing, and given they assert this entirely without evidence (or even identifying the insect), it seems like they misremembered or straight-up fabricated it.
31 Comments
InternationalHermit@lemmy.today · 55 pts · 122d
So are avocados. The creature that was supposed to eat avocados whole is long gone.
morto@piefed.social · 57 pts · 122d
I am very alive right here
Almacca@aussie.zone · 24 pts · 122d
You're eating them whole? Impressive.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 122d
Just make sure you defecate in the woods as nature intended!
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 122d
Pope style
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 122d
Passing an avocado seed seems rough but doable. I don't know though, and I wouldn't want to find out the hard way.
Jayjader@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 122d
Have you seen the size of the average butt plug? If the seed stays smooth and slimy in transit (debatable), I don't think it would be too difficult to pass. I'd be most worried about getting it through some of the kinks in the intestine.
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 122d
Yeah that's part of what I don't know about. Or other transition points, like exiting the stomach. Not to mention actually swallowing it.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 122d
I've never thought to compare the sizes of those particular two objects... but now I'm sure there is someone out there considering some very kinky and unsanitary actions.
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 121d
How do you add a flared base to an avocado seed? Asking for a friend.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
I've taken enough up the ass to know I really don't want to pass an avocado pit. That said, I also don't really like taking it up the ass all that much
psud@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 118d
I feel like the limiting factor is the small intestine
phar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
You're looking good for your age
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 25 pts · 122d
the great sloths are who we can thank, and some of the massive holes they dug for burrowing are still around
Melobol@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 122d
Thanks for this! Some article on this info
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 35 pts · 122d
Poor ginkgo trees.
Too old for their original friends, too young for the new friends after this wave of evolution collapses upon the banks of human wanton destruction of the environment.
fossilesque@mander.xyz · 25 pts · 122d
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 122d
Damn, what a hook!
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 122d
And the pawpaw :'( but I planted 3 in my yard anyways cause I'm native plant-maxxing. Interestingly, despite no longer being able to effectively distribute its seeds pawpaws are actually on the rebound in north America cause they're super poisonous to deer and as deer populations explode they're one of the few plants they won't eat.
Zulu@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 122d
They smell like cum though the very milisecond they ripen. (Family decided to collect a bunch. Kitchen smelled like a teenagers bedroom for a week)
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 121d
I already planted them you don't need to convince me!
Mnem667@retrofed.com · 30 pts · 122d
Apparently there's a fungus that grows only on the ginkgo, and it's also a living fossil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartheletia
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 122d
Ginkgos aren't angiosperms; they're non-flowering. They evolved before flowers existed. What the fuck is this talking about? Am I missing something?
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 122d
"Ginkgo is a gymnosperm and does not produce flowers; however, they are dioecious with separate male and female trees. Male plants produce small pollen cones with sporophylls. Female plants produce ovules at the end of a stalk. Fertilization occurs via motile sperm, as in cycads, ferns, mosses and algae."
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/ginkgo-biloba/
So yeah they don't have flowers but they do have cones-that-hold-pollen, so idk that sounds kinda like a flower to me but I'm not a biologist.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
Even if you incorrectly call ginkgos' unprotected seeds "flowers" (which are definitionally limited to the angiosperms), what I didn't discuss earlier – because the "flower" thing was a more obvious indication the writer had no idea what they were talking about and because my research turned up nothing – is that I did try to find any scientific literature about ancient insects pollinating ginkgos. I found nothing, and given they assert this entirely without evidence (or even identifying the insect), it seems like they misremembered or straight-up fabricated it.
We have evidence of ancient insects pollinating ancient gymnosperms. We have no evidence that I know of or could find that 1) ancient insects pollinated ginkgos and 2) died off such that ginkgos had to rely solely on non-insect means.
luxadazy@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 122d
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 122d
There’s a female ginkgo on the campus of the college I went to. We called it the “poo tree.”
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 122d
Fern: hold my beer.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
I've seen this passed around before, but isn't it kind of weird that the bees didn't learn how to get nectar from these flowers?
Seems like a huge mistake on evolution's part to make the bees not collect this abundant resource of nectar when they were in the area.
Or if this nectar is somehow toxic to them, it's weird that none of them ever developed an immunity to the toxin.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
9point6@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
Aren't Magnolia and Ginkgo two (very old, but) different things?
davidgro@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 122d
I think they were saying that ginkgo makes magnolia seem young by comparison.
Magnolia: 95 million years ago
Ginkgo: 290 million years ago
Beetles: 295 million years ago. I'm sure they were widespread by the time of magnolias.
9point6@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 122d
Ahh gotcha, thanks for clearing that up