When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Sad, melancholic even.
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redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
guy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The amount of times I quote this and people just look at me like I’m insane
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
-jack handy
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But they were all of them deceived, for another citrus was made…
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But they were all of them deceived, for another citrus was bred. In the sun-scorched groves of Barbados, in hidden orchards, Captain Shaddock labored in secret to create the grapefruit, that would outshine all others. And into this grapefruit they nurtured all their boldness, their ambition, and their desire to reshape the taste of life itself. One fruit to eclipse them all.
emuspawn@geostationary.orbiting.observer 3 weeks ago
One by one, the free gardens of Pan-Gaea fell to the power of the Grapefruit, but there were some who resisted. A last alliance of citrus and citron marched against the armies of Florida, and on the very swamps of Ever Glade, they fought for the freedom of Pan-Gaea. Victory was near, but the power of the furanco courmarin could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Tangelo, son of the king, took up his father’s rootstock.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
didn’t realize the flavor of life was gross asshole.
not really surprised though either
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, iirc there are only four original naturally-occurring citruses, of which one is inedible. All the rest are hybrids.
termaxima@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
There’s a difference between citron and lemon ? As a french speaker this is very confusing, I thought “citron” was just our word for “lemon”
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yes, Citroën is just another word for lemon
I’ll show myself out
(also I don’t actually hate Citroën, only Peugeot. Citroën used to make cool shit)
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Fun fact Citroën is called like that because the maker was of Dutch decent. He was called Citroen, Dutch for the fruit. One of his teachers mistakingly added the trema, and he sick with it, finding it more classy and easier to pronounce for the French than his Dutch spelled name.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
peugeot cars may be crap, but their pepper grinders are pretty good.
CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Citron en anglais serait “cédrat” en français. TIL
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
A citron is a specific fruit that looks really funky
A citrus is a genus of flowering trees who’s fruits contain citric acid
Dasus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A citron is a specific fruit that looks really funky
I don’t see how those look funky. Could I get a comparison? If you were at mine and told me to fetch a lemon from the store, that’s what I’d bring.
nightlily@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
In German it’s Zitrone so I’m also confused.
OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Norwegian here. “Sitron” is a direct translation of “lemon”. Meanwhile, apparently the English “citron” is in Norwegian called “cedrat”. So it’s extremely confusing, yes.
dunz@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
It’s citron in swedish as well. Citrus medica is what’s being referred here as opposed to Citrus × limon, which is what we call citron
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When life gives you lemons, be thankful for receiving enough vitamin C in your nutrition to avoid scurvy.
ProjektSpartan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Life didn’t give us lemons… We gave lemons life.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All right, I’ve been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Okay, but what happened in languages where lemons are called “citron”?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The answer seems to be that they mainly call a citron “cedrat”.
lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I looked it up and German has several translations, among them Zedrate, as you suggested, but also Judenapfel (Jew apple) for no obvious reason (according to dict.cc)
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
In Polish, the word for lemon is cytryna, but the word for citron is cytron
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The metaphor still works. Making our own problems then complaining about them is our defining characteristic as humans.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
If life doesn’t give you lemons make them yourself.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And then bitch about them.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It just occurred to me that were a person to complain about life giving them lemons, that’s basically like how Homer Simpson complained about finding money when he was looking for a peanut. It’s indeed true that money would be unpleasant to eat directly, but that’s not how it’s supposed to be used, anyways.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
When life gives you lemons it’s because you put in the work.
inconel@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No one mentions F1 hybrid? Mass produced vegitables and fruits are often first offspring of 2 distinct variety, carefully selected to inherit desireble trait from both sides but no guarantee for 2nd generation.
Kind of soft-lock drm bcs people need to keep buying the specific seed if people want max yield. (I’ve read article gathering seeds store brought tomato, the yields were unstable but they managed to iterate 6 generations or so. The “traits” of F1 offsprings stabilize around that so you can keep growing your own variety).
Heirloom seeds doesn’t have this issue, but they likely to have quirks compared to F1.
10TH_OF_SEPTEMBER_CALL@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Wtf there’s a difference between lemons and citrons?
ClathrateG@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
About 71mph
nightlily@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Great Scott!
Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
Tell me something that doesn’t concern me.
Hrmm, I wonder if I’m getting an ingrown toe nail.
Digit@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
… Because we should all be concerned about lemons.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Acceptable.
witty_username@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
When lemons give you life, you are a citron tree
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
when life gives you lemons, make orange juice.
brem@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Don’t tell OP about tomatos…
Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Weren’t oranges also bred out of citrons?
faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You sure it’s not enlightened, euphoric even?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
When life gives you lemons immediately take note as you may be stuck in a computer simulation, lemons are not naturally occuring and thus life has no lemons to give you, do not be fooled by your captors keeping you stuck in a computer simulation to harvest your brain waves for mining cryptocurrency.
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plato’s lemons be hitting hard
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Weve built a cage - of lemons!