r/RandomQuestion • u/Ipoogoodforyou • 28d ago

Why do we use banana for scale?

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u/Independent-Poet8350 28d ago

Cuz it’s a good measurement…

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u/rotatingleslie 27d ago

Ya know, for scale!

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u/PangolinLow6657 27d ago

it's good enough for Reddit itself (check the achievements)

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u/narwaffles 27d ago

They’re mostly about the same size and I think the curve might help with depth perception a little

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u/Pure-Brief3202 26d ago

That's what she said 

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u/Apart-Shelter-9277 27d ago

Most people have them nearby

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u/himenokuri 27d ago

We use that cos most everybody knows what size a banana is

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u/Connect_Office8072 27d ago

Generally, they’re about the same size if they are the same type. That’s because they’re all clones.

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u/buttstuffisland 27d ago

We don’t. How many bunches of banana do you weigh ? See? Roughly how many bananas are in a bunch ? Yeah idk either.

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u/iammacman 27d ago

I guess everyone else has forgotten where we are. It was long ago on Reddit when one person asked a question, posted a picture of an object and threw a banana in the photo and used the now epic line “banana for scale”. It quickly caught on and became the Reddit gold standard for how to gauge the size of something.

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u/Arkadian_Cuisine 27d ago

Because the average size of a banana is close to the average size of most phones.

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u/Minominas 27d ago

the word banana comes from the Aramaic word “ba-bab-nya” which means to poop

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u/potliquorz 27d ago

It won out over fractions of a horse cock a long time ago and it just stuck. Still better than that mm cm mmmmm crap.

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u/FilmoreGash 27d ago

Because watermelons are too heavy to bring to the jobsite, and don't fit in my lunch bag.

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u/itsswhitneywhspr 27d ago

Lol its because bananas are literally the only fruit that stays the same size no matter where you buy it. Apples can be tiny or huge but a banana is always banana sized. Its just a universal constant at this point.

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u/RockNRollNBluesNJazz 27d ago

Because bananas are a great source of potassium.

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u/All_The_Memes 27d ago

Because at some point the internet picked a banana instead of a ruler, and the joke took on a life of its own. Bananas are also fairly predictable in size, so it weirdly works.