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What's your fruit?

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What's your fruit?

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Postby malkymoo » January 23rd, 2019, 11:50 am

I wonder if the site could be enhanced to allow users to display some sort of symbol next to their user name to indicate their educational attainments, this would save them the trouble of telling us every time they post.

I suggest some sort of a fruit-based symbol set to tie in with the site name, maybe a cherry for a GCSE or O-level, a plum for an A-level, a peach for a first degree and so on, up to a pineapple for a doctorate. Of course, the format of the display might need to be changed to include all the qualifications of some users.

malkymoo (HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering), an apricot maybe?

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Re: What's your fruit?

#195822

Postby brightncheerful » January 23rd, 2019, 11:55 am

“I have nothing to declare except my genius”

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » January 23rd, 2019, 12:17 pm

Why do you want to belittle the cherry? Delicious (in season).

Mine's a blueberry: small but perfectly delicious, and grows in such lovely places. The cruellest fruit to gather in the wild, on account of so much work for so little result.

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby dionaeamuscipula » January 23rd, 2019, 12:20 pm

My proper title is :

The Rt Hon Professor Lord Dionaea Muscipula FRS GCMG GCVO CDM of Wells-next-the-sea

and I demand a fruit salad as my TLF honorific

DM

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby malkymoo » January 23rd, 2019, 12:33 pm

UncleEbenezer wrote:Why do you want to belittle the cherry? Delicious (in season).

Mine's a blueberry: small but perfectly delicious, and grows in such lovely places. The cruellest fruit to gather in the wild, on account of so much work for so little result.


I think you are maybe confusing the bilberry with the blueberry. Bilberries are found on moorland, blueberries are found in Waitrose.

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » January 23rd, 2019, 1:24 pm

malkymoo wrote:
UncleEbenezer wrote:Why do you want to belittle the cherry? Delicious (in season).

Mine's a blueberry: small but perfectly delicious, and grows in such lovely places. The cruellest fruit to gather in the wild, on account of so much work for so little result.


I think you are maybe confusing the bilberry with the blueberry. Bilberries are found on moorland, blueberries are found in Waitrose.

Around here it's whortleberries. One of many blueberry varieties.

But I've much enjoyed them - pretty similar blueberry varieties - in real mountains and forests, from the Alps to Scandinavia. As I said, nice places.

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby bungeejumper » January 23rd, 2019, 1:28 pm

Rotten through and through, but unaccountably favoured by some. You can call me Durian.

BJ (Doctor, 3rd class, Falklands, failed)

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby Watis » January 23rd, 2019, 1:29 pm

I suggest that, for those with IT skills, the most appropriate fruit would be the raspberry.

If you make the grade, you'll know why.

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby dionaeamuscipula » January 23rd, 2019, 1:35 pm

Watis wrote:I suggest that, for those with IT skills, the most appropriate fruit would be the raspberry.

If you make the grade, you'll know why.

Watis


But for similar of a certain age, it would be an apricot.

DM

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby kiloran » January 23rd, 2019, 3:45 pm

For some of those who frequent Polite Discussions, perhaps a Prickly Pear.
(Some may require many Prickly Pears)

--kiloran

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby GoSeigen » January 23rd, 2019, 5:53 pm

kiloran wrote:For some of those who frequent Polite Discussions, perhaps a Prickly Pear.
(Some may require many Prickly Pears)

--kiloran


Perhaps a chestnut for me -- prickly and somewhat nutty at the same time.

GS

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby scotia » January 23rd, 2019, 6:00 pm

UncleEbenezer wrote:Around here it's whortleberries. One of many blueberry varieties.
But I've much enjoyed them - pretty similar blueberry varieties - in real mountains and forests, from the Alps to Scandinavia. As I said, nice places.

In Scotland they are called blaeberries - but the spell checker on this site keeps trying to change the "a" to a "u"

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby Lootman » January 23rd, 2019, 6:05 pm

GoSeigen wrote:
kiloran wrote:For some of those who frequent Polite Discussions, perhaps a Prickly Pear. (Some may require many Prickly Pears)

Perhaps a chestnut for me -- prickly and somewhat nutty at the same time.

A wild blackberry. To get to my lush and succulent centre you need to first brave thorns, barbs and bramble.

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby tjh290633 » January 23rd, 2019, 8:51 pm

At my age I am getting a little bent, so perhaps a banana would be appropriate.

Pity rhubarb is not a fruit.

TJH

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby AleisterCrowley » January 23rd, 2019, 10:37 pm

Lychee for me. Or possibly an ugli fruit
Not a durian though [edit: BJ has nabbed the durian 'upthread'. OK as long as he keeps it well away from civilised noses]

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby melonfool » January 24th, 2019, 12:51 pm

tjh290633 wrote:At my age I am getting a little bent, so perhaps a banana would be appropriate.

Pity rhubarb is not a fruit.

TJH


Banana technically isn't fruit either.

Mel

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Re: What's your fruit?

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Postby Gaggsy » January 24th, 2019, 12:58 pm

melonfool wrote:Banana technically isn't fruit either.
Mel


Lol, best not go down that route or next we'll be discussing which nuts are really nuts too.


BBC R4 Unbelievable Truth last week - Series 21 Ep 5 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00024pp


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