An Interesting Property of Bananas

AbsoluteZero

Yesterday, out of boredom, I used a green highlighter to write "This Shit is Bananas" on the side of a banana.

Today, I wiped the green highlighter off only to find.... the banana had turned brown where the highlighter ink had been. It is a bit spotty, but this banana is quite clearly permanently branded "This Shit is Bananas."

This marks the greatest scientific discovery of my career! Banana crimes will no longer go unsolved, justice will be served.

Banana smugglers, I'm looking at you.

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Uriel

The Far Side wrote: »

ATHEIST'S NIGHTMARE

What does that have to do with bananas?

Moe Fwacky

An important question remains, were the words branded into the inside of the banana as well?

QuestionMarkMan

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Four-year-old Bernas isn't the computer wizard his mom is, but he's learning. Just the other day he used his lips and feet to play a game on the touch-screen monitor as his mom, Madu, swung from vines and climbed trees.

The two Sumatran orangutans at Zoo Atlanta are playing computer games while researchers study the cognitive skills of the orange and brown primates.

The best part? Zoo visitors get to watch their every move.

The orangutans use a touch screen built into a tree-like structure that blends in with their zoo habitat. Visitors watch from a video monitor in front of the exhibit.

"That's so cool," Jeri McCarthy told her three daughters as Bernas drew a red, blue and yellow picture on the screen. "He can't get enough!"

Zoo officials hope the exhibit will raise awareness of the rapidly diminishing wild orangutan population, which is on track to completely disappear in the next decade, and potentially provide keys to their survival.

"The more we understand about orangutan's cognitive processes, the more we'll understand about what they need to survive in the wild," said Tara Stoinski, manager of conservation partnerships for the zoo. "It enables us to show the public how smart they are."

In one game, orangutans choose identical photographs or match orangutan sounds with photos of the animals -- correct answers are rewarded with food pellets. Another game lets them draw pictures by moving their hands and other body parts around the screen. Printouts of their masterpieces are on display in the zoo.

The computer games, which volunteers from IBM spent nearly 500 hours developing, test the animals' memory, reasoning and learning, spitting out sheets of data for researchers at the zoo and Atlanta's Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, a partner in the project.

The data will help researchers learn about socializing patterns, such as whether they mimic others or learn behavior from scratch through trial and error, said Elliott Albers with the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience.

Researchers hope the data can point to new conservation strategies to help the 37,000 orangutans living in the wild on the Indonesian islands of Borneo and Sumatra.

scarlet st.

Uriel wrote: »

The Far Side wrote: »

ATHEIST'S NIGHTMARE

What does that have to do with bananas?

It's something from GodTube, I think
Most ridiculous fucking site. So gay

PiptheFair

godtube?

Uriel

scarlet st. wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

The Far Side wrote: »

ATHEIST'S NIGHTMARE

What does that have to do with bananas?

It's something from GodTube, I think
Most ridiculous fucking site. So gay

Oh that reminds me, we were at a church to see a friend's band play, and someone got into a car accident.

They started praying and playing worship music...

It made me very uncomfortable. I guess it did the same to Corey, even though he is sorta kinda christian, so we ended up leaving.

Faricazy

i have to say

this thread isn't what I thought it would be about

MAINER 3.0

Bananas are the #1 cause of go-kart accidents

scarlet st.

Uriel wrote: »

scarlet st. wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

The Far Side wrote: »

ATHEIST'S NIGHTMARE

What does that have to do with bananas?

It's something from GodTube, I think
Most ridiculous fucking site. So gay

Oh that reminds me, we were at a church to see a friend's band play, and someone got into a car accident.

They started praying and playing worship music...

It made me very uncomfortable. I guess it did the same to Corey, even though he is sorta kinda christian, so we ended up leaving.

Worship music and Bible study weirds me out.

Abracadaniel

There's some nonsense where a religious scholar talks about how the banana is a perfect example of God's Design because they're the perfect food because they come in their own wrapper and its safe for the environment and has all the vitamins and minerals blah blah blah.

Well if that's true then God put the prostate there for a donger to tickle it.

MAINER 3.0

Smart Hero wrote: »

Well if that's true then God put the prostate there for a donger to tickle it.

I submit to you that he did

Uriel

scarlet st. wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

scarlet st. wrote: »

Uriel wrote: »

The Far Side wrote: »

ATHEIST'S NIGHTMARE

What does that have to do with bananas?

It's something from GodTube, I think
Most ridiculous fucking site. So gay

Oh that reminds me, we were at a church to see a friend's band play, and someone got into a car accident.

They started praying and playing worship music...

It made me very uncomfortable. I guess it did the same to Corey, even though he is sorta kinda christian, so we ended up leaving.

Worship music and Bible study weirds me out.

Me too. I like being a deist, their music and shit makes me feel so outa place. Considering what I believe about Jesus.

scarlet st.

Smart Hero wrote: »

There's some nonsense where a religious scholar talks about how the banana is a perfect example of God's Design because they're the perfect food because they come in their own wrapper and its safe for the environment and has all the vitamins and minerals blah blah blah.

Well if that's true then God put the prostate there for a donger to tickle it.

ahahaha, yesss

#pipe

Another interesting property of bananas:

it's super fun to type

BANANAS

Abracadaniel

Oh and that a banana fits perfectly into the human grip.

So does a wiener.

Sami

Bana

no, too short

Banananana

when does this shit end?

Faricazy

I went with a friend to her community church once. It was mostly teenagers there. I was promised food so I thought why not.

They sang some jesus songs and whatnot, then took out a bunch of bags of candy.







Then proceeded to throw the bags of candy at each other like fucking baseballs for five minutes. People were getting pelted in the face with Skittles.

Terrifying.

Ronjon

I think I'll brand a swaztika into a banana at work, because I wonder if the guy would still eat a nazinanner

#pipe

if you get cramps sometimes, you should eat bananas because they have potassium.

The Lovely Bastard

My only problem with Christian Rock and its ilk is the way they all rock out with their head down and one hand held up to the heavens and it just looks like they all think they are DJs or something.

Kadith

I thought that peanut butter was the new atheist's nightmare

Eastern Glow

My friend took me to Church camp when I was 13.

I was told I was going to Hell for 2 weeks straight it sucked.

Faricazy

Kadith wrote: »

I thought that peanut butter was the new atheist's nightmare

how so

Moe Fwacky

This thread makes me want to go to the grocery store with a highlighter...

Faricazy

MY BANANA SAYS PENIS ON IT I WANT A DIFFERENT ONE

...

OMG THEY ALL SAY PENIS

Kadith

Faricazy wrote: »

Kadith wrote: »

I thought that peanut butter was the new atheist's nightmare

how so

ever open a jar of peanut butter still sealed from the store and found life?

didn't think so

EVOLUTION IS FALSE

Faricazy

i

what

Ronjon

Eastern Glow wrote: »

My friend took me to Church camp when I was 13.

I was told I was going to Hell for 2 weeks straight it sucked.

all I remember about church camp was the free milkshakes and waterslides, and loud music

Ronjon

also, Bananas are made from cloning and genetic manipulation, not a very good fruit to choose for explaining God.

#pipe

Kadith wrote: »

Faricazy wrote: »

Kadith wrote: »

I thought that peanut butter was the new atheist's nightmare

how so

ever open a jar of peanut butter still sealed from the store and found life?

didn't think so

EVOLUTION IS FALSE

That's entropy or E, N, T, R, O to the P to the Y
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die :whistle:

Eastern Glow

Ronjon wrote: »

Eastern Glow wrote: »

My friend took me to Church camp when I was 13.

I was told I was going to Hell for 2 weeks straight it sucked.

all I remember about church camp was the free milkshakes and waterslides, and loud music

I remember playing basketball, pool parties, and three hour sessions of a priest telling us how not being baptized and having boners are a strait path to Hellvile.

SA

I ate two bananas today. One was in this awesome blueberry, raspberry, and banana smoothie.

Eastern Glow

The Lovely Bastard wrote: »

My only problem with Christian Rock and its ilk is the way they all rock out with their head down and one hand held up to the heavens and it just looks like they all think they are DJs or something.

I like Five Iron Frenzy. They have catchy ska tunes and tell me to love my brother man in a stricty Christian fashion.

Ronjon

Eastern Glow wrote: »

Ronjon wrote: »

Eastern Glow wrote: »

My friend took me to Church camp when I was 13.

I was told I was going to Hell for 2 weeks straight it sucked.

all I remember about church camp was the free milkshakes and waterslides, and loud music

I remember playing basketball, pool parties, and three hour sessions of a priest telling us how not being baptized and having boners are a strait path to Hellvile.

you got to talk about boners? awesome! we just talked about not lieing and cheating, lame boners sounds cool. I don't think we played basketball, but there was a pool and a huge waterslide and a thing called "the blob" that threw kids way up into the air and into the lake.

p.s. O.C. Supertones>Five Iron Frenzy

QuestionMarkMan

Ronjon wrote: »

Eastern Glow wrote: »

Ronjon wrote: »

Eastern Glow wrote: »

My friend took me to Church camp when I was 13.

I was told I was going to Hell for 2 weeks straight it sucked.

all I remember about church camp was the free milkshakes and waterslides, and loud music

I remember playing basketball, pool parties, and three hour sessions of a priest telling us how not being baptized and having boners are a strait path to Hellvile.

you got to talk about boners? awesome! we just talked about not lieing and cheating, lame boners sounds cool. I don't think we played basketball, but there was a pool and a huge waterslide and a thing called "the blob" that threw kids way up into the air and into the lake.

p.s. O.C. Supertones>Five Iron Frenzy

Heavyweights?

BYToady

The Far Side wrote: »

ATHEIST'S NIGHTMARE

Selective breeding!

The Lovely Bastard

One of my favorite concert experiences was seeing Deicide play in an old Church.

#pipe

SA wrote: »

I ate two bananas today. One was in this awesome blueberry, raspberry, and banana smoothie.

Man, smoothies are awesome.
Especially when they have muesli/granola blended into them
mmmmmm

Carol Vorderman

Ronjon wrote: »

p.s. O.C. Supertones>Five Iron Frenzy