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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Botanically, sure, but from a culinary perspective they're used like a vegetable.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't think vegetable is a botanical term. So fruit and vegetable aren't really mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I mean, mushrooms get lumped into the vegetable category most of the time and they're a fungus!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

and we usually eat the fruiting body!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle. But she would also be my grandmother.

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

But what if she had four wheels?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

A roller skate obviously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

had wheels

a bicycle

I suspect that your qualifications for what constitutes a bicycle are a tad short…

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

That's just science as applied by engineers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

As they say, intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

(That's the saying, but IMO it's wisdom to know and intelligence to not do it, maybe I'm mixing things up).

@Ilovethebomb has the answer IMO: knowledge and wisdom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

From Dungeon Crawler Carl:

I grumbled a bit about that three in intelligence. Yeah, I never did too great in math, but I never considered myself a slobbering idiot, either. I could fix most anything electrical after studying it for a bit. My friend Billy Maloney, now that guy was an idiot. Just last week we’d come out of a bar, and he’d peed right on a cop’s bicycle while the cop was giving someone else a ticket for drunk and disorderly. That guy deserved an intelligence of three, maybe two.

. . .

After I complained about my intelligence score to Mordecai, using the Billy example, he said, “Intelligence told you that bike belonged to a police officer. Wisdom told you not to urinate upon it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it seems you've heard a version adapted to explain the different D&D stats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Knowledge and wisdom is the one I've heard before.

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

That's way better.