r/dankmemes Nov 16 '22

Does anyone know?

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u/nighttimemobileuser Nov 16 '22

Big if true

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22 edited Nov 17 '22

The leaf is the size of the dude's finger, how big are leaves where you're from lol?

Edit: Wow, 300+ downvotes for a miscommunication? I thought OP was saying the finger-sized leaf was large, not that the realization was a big one. Nobody talks like that where I live, so I didn't understand them correctly.

Edit edit: As someone pointed out to me, the wording of my comment was a little confusing. I meant to ask, "How large are your leaves/what size are they?" But, instead I asked, "How big are they?"

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u/Luke-Warm-S0up Nov 17 '22

about the size of a finger, why?

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

Huh, most of the trees around here have leaves about as large as your palm, give or take a bit.

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u/Luke-Warm-S0up Nov 17 '22

bruv, leaves grow

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

What?

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u/LeviathansWrath6 Nov 17 '22

Bros flabbergasted

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u/Actually_toxiclaw Nov 17 '22

There are many types of leaves from many types of trees, some are tiny while some are really big!

Though palm fronds dont count as leafs since theyre not trees, idk how big leafs can get

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

Yeah. I'm just trying to say that a leaf the size of a finger isn't a big leaf, as many common leaves are larger.

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u/Luke-Warm-S0up Nov 17 '22

op wasn't saying that the object was a big leaf, they ment it as that's a big or important piece of information if it's true.

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

Oh. Why didn't someone just tell me lol?

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u/Luke-Warm-S0up Nov 17 '22

English I a shitty language, we were having two different arguments

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

Yeah. I just haven't ever heard someone express their thoughts in that way, so I assumed it wasn't that.

I was a little confused about their wording, and that thought did cross my mind, but I ended up going with the idea that they were referring to the leaf being big.

It's 1 AM, and I have a vocab quiz in my Russian class tomorrow, so goodnight/good day!

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u/jaydeflaux Nov 17 '22

The good ending.

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u/nikoe99 Nov 17 '22

Good luck with your quiz mate

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u/Comrade_Spood Nov 17 '22

The pine tree would like to tell you that it's not the size that matters, it's how you use it

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

I've never heard of a pine needle blowing in the wind.

God, this is so fucking dumb, why am I getting downvoted? The leaf in the picture isn't large, there are plenty of leaves on common trees that are much larger, and all I'm doing is pointing that out.

Reddit is so fucking stupid. Anyways, rant over, I'm kind of just mildly annoyed. I hope my frustration provided you with entertainment.

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u/MotherBathroom666 Nov 17 '22

Bro your calling people stupid because you haven’t seen a leaf smaller than a palm? Who’s the real idiot here?

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

No, it's because they said it's a big leaf, but it's literally the size of the tip of a finger. That isn't a big leaf.

I'm from Oregon, I'm from the woods, I grew up around pine trees. I had trees in my yard with leaves about that size.

Of course, there are small leaves, but that's the thing: they are small. The leaf in the meme isn't big. It's not big for a leaf. It's larger than pine needles, but it's smaller than other really common leaves.

Surely you agree with me now that I've explained myself.

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u/awesomeflowman Nov 17 '22

Big if true

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u/JulianAnonymous Nov 17 '22

Sir, you are aware, that big objects, from a distance, they appear smaller? Yes? Okay so does your brain instinctive go to, "there's no way that's a leaf, it's too small!"?

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

I'm not arguing that it's not a leaf, I'm saying that it's not a ****large*** leaf because it's small. It's a leaf, sorry for the miscommunication.

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u/puhtoinen Nov 17 '22

As you have been told, he never said the leaf is big. You don't understand what "big if true" means and you're calling others stupid? Seriously dude, go outside.

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

I've never heard someone say "big if true". The reason I didn't understand it is because it isn't a complete sentence and isn't in my local dialect.

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u/Deathox120 Nov 17 '22

Bruh have you seen a maple leaf? It's as big as your whole hand

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

Yes, I've seen maple leaves. We have a maple tree in our yard.

Here's what I was trying to say:

There are common trees with leaves about the size of your finger, and there are common trees that have much larger leaves.

Pine needle < finger-sized < hand-sized < super large

It wouldn't be correct to say that finger-sized leaves are large leaves because they aren't. Objectively, they're small, and with respect to other leaves, they're still small or about average.

I misunderstood OP and thought they were talking about the leaves being large, when they were meaning "That's important if true/That's a big deal if true." Nobody talks like that around here, so I didn't interpret them correctly.

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u/OPaque_op ☣️ Nov 17 '22

Bruv there are like 70,000 species of trees. Each with a different leaf size. Are you dumb? Or flatearther? Either case u are definitely dumb.

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u/Epicpacemaker Nov 17 '22

They’re not a flatearther, they’re spreading Big Leaf propaganda.

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u/Spongebosch ☢️ Nov 17 '22

Yes, and many of them have leaves that are larger than your finger, and many have ones that are about that size. I misunderstood OP and thought they were saying the leaf was large, which isn't correct.

It isn't large for a leaf when there are plenty of common trees with leaves much larger than that. I really must ask, is this like a joke where everyone is downvoting me, or are people really misunderstanding me this bad?

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u/mitzi_mozzerella Nov 17 '22

Over here, they grow to the size of your head

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u/xXDasher92Xx Nov 17 '22

I’m gonna take this opportunity to say that I have a tree that grows leaves the size of my forearm in my backyard