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Tell me something I don't already know.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:30, archived)

Bananas don't grow on trees
It's actually a large herb that looks like a tree
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:33, archived)

Unless you already know that
In which case, I can't help you
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:33, archived)

I do know about banana plants not being trees, although it was originally explained to me as
"bananas aren't actually fruit, they're a herb".
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:38, archived)

I believe bananas are berries
and strawberries and raspberries are not. What a world, eh?
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:39, archived)

Ribena isn't suitable for vegetarians.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:42, archived)

but Walker's Prawn Cocktail crisps are!

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:44, archived)

Botanically speaking, bananas are fish
that have simply evolved to live in trees
( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:38, archived)

Oh, so now we're just trying to prove things with facts?
Nice try brainiac
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:40, archived)

Similarly, pigs - despite looking and behaving very much like mammals - are actually a very highly evolved species of moss, thus making bacon technically vegan.
I read about this in a paper sponsored by PETA. I was as shocked as you are, I can tell you, but you can't argue with science, can you?
( Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:43, archived)

I can't believe what happens next!

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:44, archived)

It blew my mind and now I'm on disability

( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:46, archived)

+ and mad as hell
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:53, archived)

The slimming industry HATES her.

( Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:57, archived)

On a serious note
Someone once told me that banana trees/herbs/whatever walk.
As in, over a long time their roots will move towards higher concentrations of water and nutrients in the soil and kind of pull the tree along with them.
Trufax or total bollix?
( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:48, archived)

I hadn't heard of that before
But there might be something to it:
thespliceoflife.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/friday-fun-fact-banana-plants-walk-up-to-40-centimetres-in-a-lifetime/

Looks like it's to do with the way they're cultivated. Interesting though.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:52, archived)

Well they're you go

( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:01, archived)

*we'll

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:02, archived)

basic social skills

( Zuowan, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:34, archived)

I get upset easily online

( $$ ✅, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:35, archived)

Only about 1% of the mass of a proton comes from its constituent quarks.
The rest is due to the potential energy in the gluonic field binding the quarks together.
( Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:37, archived)

I'll have to take your word for that.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:39, archived)

Pfft, says you

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:39, archived)

The touch of a woman

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:39, archived)

I've often wondered about that.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:43, archived)

Ragdoll physics in video games were originally introduced in Hitman as a method of saving memory
Rather than have to make a separate animation for each character model when picked up and moved, they created nodes at the end of each limb, these would tell the model where the limbs should be based on movements in the environment, allowing the game to animate models on the fly rather than pre-bake them.

One thing that the developers noticed using this new system was that letting the nodes go limp and fall in the direction of gravity looked like a much more convincing death animation than the one they animated/mocapped, and many games began to adopt and refine this technique over time.

Or, I don't know, the inside of a vagina or something.
( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:43, archived)

This smacks of being copied from Wikipedia.
Particularly the comment about vaginas.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:48, archived)

Nah, 'onist 'guv, ai wroted it all dahn meself wiv me own two 'aynds sow ai dihd
If ai cop'eed it from Weekeypeedya it'd 'av flowery words like veer-lit intergayshin and imfersey kinkymatics an' orl that guff, beggin' yer pardon, m'lud.
( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:58, archived)

Oy daan't naow much abaowt thayt
Oy just loike to stick to me blecksmiffin'!
( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:59, archived)

Oh man, it TOTALLY snacks.

( Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:59, archived)

totes

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:08, archived)

You sneaky prick.

( Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:18, archived)

this is a nice (and relevant to your question) music video
vimeo.com/23262014
( manolith hooray for me, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:43, archived)

I was shown this last night by one of my kids
vimeo.com/56901429
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:45, archived)

This wins
https://vimeo.com/107435702
( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 15:54, archived)

I was shown this last night by my three year old
youtu.be/G_NIop72vis
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:15, archived)

I watched about a minute or so of that and there didn't appear to be any music in it

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:13, archived)

music starts after about 2 minutes

( manolith hooray for me, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:36, archived)

ok, but first you are going to have to tell me everything that you do already know so I don't waste my time

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:01, archived)

^This
is a valid request
( H.B.Mupps, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:04, archived)

I know everything about nothing,
but not too much about that.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:10, archived)

meow

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:11, archived)

where would you like me to start then?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:12, archived)

where do babies come from?

( manolith hooray for me, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 16:41, archived)

And where are they going?

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 17:14, archived)

And how can we stop them?

( Locus213 Slightly to the left of Bakunin, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 17:19, archived)

ok, but first you are going to have to tell me everything that you do already know so I nice try, goodbye
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 17:53, archived)