We need more memes in papyrus font.
I mean, they are both round, sweet fruits that have seeds and grow on a tree. Pretty comparable, honestly.
I never properly realized that Americans cannot compare apples and oranges, while in Europe many of us cannot compare apples and pears.
In french, some pears are called “pomme-poire”, like the Asian pear.
In German, we have a somewhat old-timey / regional word for orange, “Apfelsine”, which was derived from “apple of China”.
Admittedly, this was in the time period where virtually every fruit was called “apple”, but still funny that you can’t compare them in English, when we’ve got it in our vocabulary, that it’s like an apple, but Chinese…
Welcome to Deutschland, where all the fruits are apples and all the animals are bears
No! Don’t!
That’s an apple and an orange tomato.
Also there’s so much compression it could just be AI.
the one you peel - the other you eat directly!!!
with no one around, we can compare anything!!!
haaahahaha-- haaarharharharharharrrrr—
whos gonna stop us? the comparison police? what, are they gonna compare us to criminals? pffffff-
I wasn’t aware Lemmy was a place shock-full of street-hardened criminals of the very worst kind. The fediverse is even worse than the propaganda promised, I’m righteously appalled!
Bake them away toys.
Papyrus my beloved
Okay but how about this: How much is
1 apple divided by 0 oranges ?
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
They’re two fruits. It’s not even a big deal to compare them.
That’s exactly what an orange would say. >:(
No…
That will destroy us all…
I feel like the phrase “don’t compare apples and oranges” is more like “don’t stick your head into a campfire”. It’s clearly possible, but that’s not the issue here.
There was a big thread a while ago where one subset of posters were like “you clearly CAN compare them this is stupid” and another subset was saying “but the point of the idiom is doing so is fruitless”. Not sure what’s so hard to grasp about using an inappropriate metric to judge something.
But then again maybe most people use the idiom in senseless ways.
but the point of the idiom is doing so is fruitless
Not true, at least two pieces of fruit are involved!
The customer is always right. Blood is thicker than water. I’m sure there are a ton of other ones
