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Why are idiots drawn to bananas?


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I suppose one of the things they managed to learn is the energy one gains when eating bananas. It works like a sort of stimulant for them.



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bananas are linked to monkeys, and monkeys are (incorrectly) linked to low intelligence.

 

that's what i think, anyway XD



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Minions: BANANA!!!

 

 

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because idiots eat bananas v.v


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it's a question that really does beg an answer.........

 

 

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what a funny manga this is   :D


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Aside from the monkey bit, its rumored that eating bananas is supposed to help increase IQ or brain function.........though fish and other foods are more popular as "Brain Food" it could just be an inside joke on the Author's side.



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Because bananas are yummy.



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VUhkNWqLmA

 

This song might explain a little, then again, it might not. ;)

 

EDIT: Might be slightly NSFW due to school mizugi.


Edited by Mrlightningbolt, 09 December 2014 - 12:02 PM.


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Hah! The banana song, hilarious  :D

 

Yoshiko, so cute she's in danger...

 

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Well, bananas are a symbol of idiocy of humans anyway.

Seeing how many people link bananas to great apes and monkeys although the most monkeys and great apes don't even have bananas in their wild habitate.

It's just that watching how they are fed with bananas in zoo or circus, people think automatically that bananas are their natural food (because, you know, bananas don't grow naturally in the new world and most parts of the old one), linking back to the point that apes in general should be fed bananas.

 

Well, the only apes that ever even waged wars over mere "bananas" are humans, though (well, other products of leisure were involved,too, like tobacco or sugar cane).

Some people even see a link between those banana wars and the Donkey Kong franchise...(I really recommend watching "Game Theory" at this point, your gaming experience will never be the same again :)).

 

Another point is that the banana was thought to be the fruit that drove people out of paradise, in contrast to the apple (well, that alone seems to be both theologically logic and at the same time illogical. On the one hand, if people were really driven out of the paradise because they ate the fruit that allowed them to differentiate between good and evil, why would god allow this fruit to grow outside the paradise? On the other hand, if that's not the case, then either the church employed genetical heredity

long before Mendel and Darwin, because without heredity of this treat, there couldn't be something called the "ancestral sin" in the first place because it would have died out in the human line with Adam and Eve, wouldn't it?). So the foolishness of "mankind in its early days"[according to the Thora and the Bible] might also accumulate in this view of banana= stupidity.

 

Also,when it comes to comparison to other fruits, bananas offer little to no other vitamins than C [which is already contained in abundance in nearly every other fruits and vegetables], offer a really unbalanced diet (the Kalium and Calcium in it offer great conditions for physical growth,though; resulting in a physically fit Yoshiko is not really unexpected if her diet is mainly based on bananas) if you want to grow into a fine human being.

 

And, there's also a discrepancy in eating styles of the banana. I myself like to eat "unripe"/ lesser ripe bananas with a grass green peel color, while most people crave the sweet yellowish brown ripened status ( and I know of people who eat them when they've turned black...). That's also a unique trait of the banana, you can eat it at nearly every stage of the ripening process [except when they are dark green, they taste like flour <_<], which might cause you to think of others as "foolish" for not enjoying the banana at its most aromatic [light green, doesn't taste like "banana" at all :) ], most "savory" [yellow brownish] or most sweet [brown-black] moment.

 

 

So in conclusion, the "Banana" isn't really what intelligent people should base their diet on, it has some kind of negative history in the Americas (i.e. the banana wars),

it became a synonyme to foolishness in the history of theology and is often linked to apes and monkeys, including humanity (who produces over a hundred million tons of bananas each year and selling it so cheap that even "indigenous fruits" are often sold more expensive in local supermarkets).

And, unlike other fruits, it causes disputes over its consumation time[according to ripening grade].

 

P.S. to add one more character that is stupid and likes bananas, I summon Miharu Seina Kanaka [Girls Bravo]

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I shall offer you my two cents:
  • Bananas are basically the fruit best liked by most children, and people tend to associate childish with stupid.
  • There's a myth that monkeys like specifically bananas, whylke what happens is that most species of monkeys either eat fruit (so bananas are in their diet strike zone) or are drawn to color yellow (there was a family of macaques that once ate the petals of every flower in a field of daffodils just because of that); monkeys are human-like, but animals, so they are associated with stupid.
  • There's a running gag about bananas and field trips that currently only class clowns (=stupid) make.
  • [EDIT: let's upgrade]
    Bananas are sold in Japan as a fruit that will make children grow "strong and healthy", and japanese people are not the only ones to believe that nutrients are like darts on a target, so if all nutrients go to physical health (of which Yukiko has in spades) none go to the brain, hence they become stupid.
  • Banana Republic, while also being a major brand producer of bananas, is the name given to corrupt military dictadures under the guise of democracy that happen with a good frequency in Latin America, and while they are dens of crime against humanity, the popular view on them is "backwaters nation of stupid people" (mostly due to cartoons and some US shows).

Another point is that the banana was thought to be the fruit that drove people out of paradise, in contrast to the apple (well, that alone seems to be both theologically logic and at the same time illogical. On the one hand, if people were really driven out of the paradise because they ate the fruit that allowed them to differentiate between good and evil, why would god allow this fruit to grow outside the paradise? On the other hand, if that's not the case, then either the church employed genetical heredity
long before Mendel and Darwin, because without heredity of this treat, there couldn't be something called the "ancestral sin" in the first place because it would have died out in the human line with Adam and Eve, wouldn't it?). So the foolishness of "mankind in its early days"[according to the Thora and the Bible] might also accumulate in this view of banana= stupidity.

Leaving aside the fact that many other fruits have been suspected of that and that even apples only became the popular image of it due to Renaissance artists (more traditional researches believe it was figs, but thinking about the question on a theological context it was suppossed to be a one-of-a-kind tree unable to leave offspring), bananas are almost the worst choice for it, only topped by those of the Cucurbitaceae family (melons, watermelons, pumpkins and gourds), since the plant bananas come from is a (tall) weed, not a tree, and wild bananas (in any of the two variants of banana-like wild bananas and ballon-like bananas) are not very appetizing (the seeds are quite big). And let's not forget that you should know hot to eat them, lest you try to eat it with the peel, which is not a very good idea for the human tongue.

Edited by Kemm, 06 July 2017 - 10:11 PM.


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A new chapter (106) out for those that are interested.......

 

https://futatsuscans.com/aho-girl-106/

 

https://yomu.wtf/manga/aho-girl/106 (online reader)


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