In plenty of languages peanuts are also called ‘ground nuts’ or ‘earth nuts’
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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Okay, this may paint me in a bad light, but I was fucking 40 before I learned peanuts grew underground. I ain’t Joe Rogan stupid, but dang.
Nobody around here grew them (that I know of), and I never went anywhere that grew them where I would see them.
I assumed they were like any legume, growing above ground like peas or green beans.
But noooooo, they’re ground nuts. Which I thought was a different plant entirely.
Out of all my damn family on both sides, visiting (and working on) various farms, nobody grew the damn things.
So, yeah.
ThoGot@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Ouch, I had to think about what it’s in my motherlanguage and it’s actually earth nuts (Erdnüsse in German).
If you had asked me how they grow it would have been a 50/50 if I got it wrong.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The english Wikipedia article mentions that it’s sometimes called groundnut in english too.
affiliate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does this mean it’s valid to make fun of those who don’t know obvious things if they’re 30 or older?
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
[deleted]I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s literally an observation of the content of the comic. Fuck me, you people are stupid.
Szyler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, because there are error bars on “things”, and “everyone knows”, and on “by the time they are 30”.
This means that statistically, following a Bell curve on where people land based on this, there will be some that will be much older, and much younger that have heard of a specific thing to the point of “knowing” it.
SuperTulle@feddit.nu 2 months ago
I’ll never not upvote xkcd
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 months ago
Yea, hate him or not, he immediately researched his incorrectness. This is not something we should make fun of. Education is how we solve ignorance, even if the topic is nuts.
androogee@midwest.social 2 months ago
Nah I’ve watched him so for a claim to be checked, his checker came back saying that it was a true claim when it was total bullshit.
Dude gets zero credit for half assed at best fact checking.
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I hate you, have my upvote.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Seeing how cashews grow is the one that fucked me up.
Explains why they cost so much.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The fruit looks delicious too.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sometimes fruits look like that…
You can make jam that’s kind of ok with it.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Joe Rogan’s not stupid, he just had chronic traumatic encephalopathy from some injuries in his early twenties. Also he is an asshole.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Well, being as generous as possible, he says things a stupid person would say, with a high frequency. If that’s due to tbi, I feel sorry for him, but he’s still saying a lot of stupid stuff.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If someone says stupid stuff all the time, they are stupid. Doesn’t matter if they have an excuse. Especially if the excuse is that they did something stupid that made them stupider.
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I might be wrong, but I doubt that the TBI left him to be a different person than he was before.
My physics teacher had a TBI from a kart race accident that left him temporarily paralyzed and he had to relearn how walk and speak. People often assumed he was stupid or incapable because of the way he talked, but he was probably the brightest guy in that school by a long shot.
His mnemonics were also top notch. An example: Mnemonics are called “Eselsbrücke” in German (it literally translates to donkey bridge). When learning about harmonic motion, he asked us “What is the Latin word for donkey? That’s right: asinus. A * sin(wt)”. Genius.
candybrie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah man. TBIs can totally mess with your whole personality, cognitive abilities, everything to do with your brain. Maybe if you only get one traumatic event, it might not have the same consequences, but guys like Rogan and football players are repeatedly bashing their brains leading to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It really does depend on the parts of the brain damaged, and the severity.
A person can completely shift in behavior post tbi. And it absolutely can cause damage that impairs learning and thinking.
It’s impossible to give real numbers because the last time I went looking, there wasn’t enough research out there to properly break down the possible outcomes. That being said, I had a decent share of tbi patients over the years. That fact skews things, obviously; if they needed a caregiver, they had a more severe injury in the first place. But personality shifts were common, and functional capability varied greatly, even within the type of injuries that required caregivers after the fact.
It’s frankly terrifying to run into the patients that are 100% there intellectually and awareness wise, but stuck with limited ability to communicate.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s an odd route to go for remembering concave and convex considering concave has the word cave in it and looks like a cave.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I live in SW Ontario which used to be prime tobacco territory as in teenagers used to work tobacco fields in the 90’s when I was in HS. Both peanuts and tobacco love a loose sandy soil.
Point being, no one is expected to know how something grows unless they have some knowledge that makes them intimate or they’re a fucking nerd. Lol
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
cries in nerd-dom with ignorance
dumbass@lemy.lol 2 months ago
I just found out via this green text.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Honestly I think the only reason I kinda realized was because we distinguish peanuts from tree nuts - nuts that do grow on trees. The implication thus that peanuts grow at least not in trees.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Okay, this may paint me in a bad light, but I was fucking 40 before I learned peanuts grew underground. I ain’t Joe Rogan stupid, but dang.
I think that’s why dudes are magnetized to Joe. Interesting trivia that at no point does the average person need to think about are brought up and it’s fascinating.
Unfortunately, Joe also mixes in conspiracy BS. His extreme lack of critical thinking (or thinking with cherry picked data to fit a particular narrative), is why his fans are constantly belittled by people looking in.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No one’s criticizing Rogan for not knowing everything. The punchline is how he reacts to new knowledge and how he builds a false narrative to explain it
EnderMB@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m all for introducing the saying “I’m not Joe Rogan stupid, but…” into the wider world.