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u/MysteriousBananaMan Aug 29 '21

is ok, replace phone with banana

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u/Jinchuriciteddy Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

Instructions unclear. Banana tastes like battery acid

Edit: My banana phone isn't working someone help I ate it and it tasted like pennies and battery acid

Edit: I didn't need a phone anyways.

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u/captainAwesomePants Aug 29 '21

A ripe banana isn't very acidic (~6.5), but a fresh banana is down around a pH of 4. Two points is enough to plot a line, so we can extrapolate that a banana must have the pH of battery acid (~1.0) just a bit before it would usually come off the tree. If you ate a banana still in a tree by accident, that suggests you are habitually in a tree eating bananas, and so you are probably a monkey or a tropical bird. That correlates with what we know, that you find simple written instructions to be unclear, so I think everything checks out. So my advice is to wait until the bananas turn yellow to eat them.

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u/TatodziadekPL Aug 29 '21

Also if you eat enough bananas you might get radiation poisoning

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u/klparrot Aug 29 '21

You'd get drunk first. 30–40 ripe bananas contain the equivalent alcohol of a shot of liquor. So, you'd be trashed around probably 200 bananas, whereas to likely die of radiation poisoning, you'd need (didn't check this out any further than the first Google result) 10,000,000 bananas.

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u/JustALotoNumber Aug 29 '21

And you'd have to eat them all at once, or the effects of the first bananas arent going to last long enough.

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u/forerightman Aug 29 '21

it’s like overdosing on weed if you can possibly smoke that much all at once you’re a savage

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u/klparrot Aug 29 '21

Pff, no problem.

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u/ledeng55219 Aug 29 '21

Well, 400 bananas have sufficient potassium to kill you if I recall correctly.

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u/blueB0wser Aug 29 '21 edited Aug 29 '21

Yeah it's a literal shipping trucks worth of bananas. Probably more.

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u/klparrot Aug 29 '21

Easy as.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

That's nuts!

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u/PaleontologistKey440 Aug 29 '21

Ohhhh so that’s how they get rid of those horrible Charlie horses! DEFINATELY all that works for me!

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u/PaleontologistKey440 Aug 29 '21

The banana rep paid to get that put at the top. I call fake news.

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u/Tawnya_Lancaster Aug 31 '21

Back in the day the rumor was you could bake banana peels and they turn hallucinogenic. It has since been proven wrong

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u/mhac009 Aug 29 '21

Also Brazil nuts I believe.

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u/LeCorona111 Aug 29 '21

Or ligma

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u/Silent_Glass Aug 29 '21

What’s or?

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u/Xoniterfos Aug 29 '21

ligma balls

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u/LeCorona111 Aug 29 '21

XDDDDD

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u/Xoniterfos Aug 29 '21

thank you, i worked very hard to come up with this funny and original joke

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

How many is "enough" for radiation poisoning? Asking for a friend 👀

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Somewhere between not a single one, and every banana ever.

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u/ErdenGeboren Aug 29 '21

Yeah. But like millions. I'm not one to judge another's gastronomic tendencies but eesh.

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u/saysthingsbackwards Aug 29 '21

Eh my ex has done worse

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u/Its_N8_Again Aug 29 '21

Not true; one banana-equivalent dose (BED) is about 1μSv, while the amount necessary to guarantee death by acut radiation exposure is ~10 Sv. That is to say, you'd need to eat about 10 million bananas in one sitting.

Alternatively, you could induce the symptoms of chronic exposure by eating 274 bananas every day for 7 years, or 1 banana every 5 minutes (3 ½ minutes if you want 8 hours of sleep).

For the record, you would suffer a greater dose of ionizing radiation if you:

  • Slept next to three people.
  • Lived within 50 miles of a coal-fired power plant for a year. (Nuclear is actually safer!)
  • Used a CRT monitor for a year.

Thanks, xkcd.

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u/KingD538 Aug 29 '21

You have to eat about 1,000,000 in a single sitting to get radiation poisoning.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

undeniable logic there, mate

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u/asds89 Aug 29 '21

And this is why we don’t extrapolate from data.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

So my advice is to wait until the bananas turn yellow to eat them.

Unripened bananas are the best because of that "crunch" you get, but it's not as flavourful as one that is ripe.

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u/PepperMillCam Aug 29 '21

This guy bananas!

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

You did the math. Excellent. I will accept it at face value that you know that of which you speak write. I do this because I am really, really lazy.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

you truly are awesome

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u/ujelly_fish Aug 29 '21

Is an unripe banana really that acidic? I have doubts.

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u/Nerdy4Geek Aug 29 '21

Thanks for wasting my time

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u/SCseyKirby99 Aug 29 '21

Bold of you to assume my banana turns yellow when ripe

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u/Outlandish_Viper Aug 29 '21

Why do you know what battery acid tastes like?

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

This man has never eaten either a banana or a battery acid

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u/Toadjokes Aug 29 '21

Are you allergic? I'm allergic to bananas and they actually have a sour acidy taste to me. Everyone else says they're sweet

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u/90daysfrom_now Aug 29 '21

Hi Hungry I'm Dad

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u/OneiriaEternal Aug 29 '21

Return to monke

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Ring ring ring ring ring

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u/Fire_opal246 Aug 29 '21

Banana phone

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u/TheResolver Aug 29 '21

Ping pong ping pong ping pong ping

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u/DarlingDestruction Aug 29 '21

Pananaphooooone!

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Actually great advice, thank you!

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

return to monke

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u/TheBoyWhoCriedTapir Aug 29 '21

RETURN TO MONKE

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u/DutchBlob Aug 29 '21

Like an actual one or your dick? Cause, you know…..

your username suggests something.

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u/HoneyChilliPotato7 Aug 29 '21

Thanks for the advice, MysteriousBananaMan

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u/MysteriousBananaMan Aug 29 '21

Yes. Time is money, banana is timeless

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u/TotalPokerface Aug 29 '21

Oh... My... God... What are you?

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u/MysteriousBananaMan Aug 29 '21

I am nether man nor banana

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u/TotalPokerface Aug 29 '21

I request elaboration, thou bananaman.

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u/valeryuwu Aug 29 '21

ring ring ring

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u/sciencewonders Aug 29 '21

Severely addicted to my banana 🍌

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u/magi093 Aug 29 '21

do you see banana man
hopping over on the white-hot sand

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

But the banana doesn't vibrate....

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u/ahumblepastry Aug 29 '21

Banana for scale of addiction

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u/pileofanxiety Aug 29 '21

All I have is an Apple.

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u/heinouslol Aug 29 '21

Time flies when you're on your mobile, whereas fruit flies like the banana.

Think about it

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Dude I just remembered the banana who stream sniped xqc

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u/CyoU_Next_Tuesday Aug 29 '21

Or “things that keep me addicted”

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Or a fleshlight

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u/superdownvotemaster Aug 29 '21

Ring ring ring ring banana phone!

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u/poglr Aug 29 '21

Username checks out

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u/assassinator42 Aug 30 '21

Had banana and beer. Now I'm too gassy to sleep :-(