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I’m Not a Robot

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Re: I’m Not a Robot

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fucking captchas I'm already having periodic bad dreams about not getting through them, not interested in this literal nightmare of a game!

Re: I’m Not a Robot

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post #8

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Fruits and berries are not vegetables. But potato man is :)

This is not true. E.g. zucchinis/courgettes are fruits but are widely considered vegetables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini Same for eggplants/aubergines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant

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Re: I’m Not a Robot

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Since when are grapes or bananas vegetables?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable > Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternative definition is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition; it m…

Not everything on Wikipedia is true.

In idiomatic British English vegetable excludes fruit except for those fruits that are treated as vegetables such as tomatoes, etc.

The definition is arbitrary, hard and tedious to specify but nonetheless most people I know agree on which side of the line most common edible plant parts are on.

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