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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 96 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

When life gives you lemons immediately take note as you may be stuck in a computer simulation, lemons are not naturally occuring and thus life has no lemons to give you, do not be fooled by the illusion your captors erected to keep you stuck in a computer simulation and harvest your brain waves for mining cryptocurrency.

[-] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 3 days ago

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

[-] guy@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago

The amount of times I quote this and people just look at me like I'm insane

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago

But they were all of them deceived, for another citrus was made…

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah, iirc there are only four original naturally-occurring citruses, of which one is inedible. All the rest are hybrids.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But they were all of them deceived, for another citrus was bred. In the sun-scorched groves of Barbados, in hidden orchards, Captain Shaddock labored in secret to create the grapefruit, that would outshine all citrus. And into this grapefruit they nurtured all their boldness, their ambition, and their desire to reshape the taste of life itself. One fruit to eclipse them all.

One by one, the free gardens of Pan-Gaea fell to the power of the Grapefruit, but there were some who resisted. A last alliance of citrus and citron marched against the armies of Florida, and on the very swamps of Ever Glade, they fought for the freedom of Pan-Gaea. Victory was near, but the power of the furanco courmarin could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Tangelo, son of the king, took up his father’s rootstock.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago

didn't realize the flavor of life was gross asshole.
not really surprised though either

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!

[-] termaxima@slrpnk.net 35 points 3 days ago

There's a difference between citron and lemon ? As a french speaker this is very confusing, I thought "citron" was just our word for "lemon"

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 33 points 3 days ago

Yes, Citroën is just another word for lemon

I'll show myself out

(also I don't actually hate Citroën, only Peugeot. Citroën used to make cool shit)

[-] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

peugeot cars may be crap, but their pepper grinders are pretty good.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago

A citron is a specific fruit that looks really funky

A citrus is a genus of flowering trees who's fruits contain citric acid

[-] CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

Citron en anglais serait "cédrat" en français. TIL

[-] dunz@feddit.nu 4 points 3 days ago

It's citron in swedish as well. Citrus medica is what's being referred here as opposed to Citrus × limon, which is what we call citron

[-] nightlily@leminal.space 5 points 3 days ago

In German it’s Zitrone so I'm also confused.

[-] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Norwegian here. "Sitron" is a direct translation of "lemon". Meanwhile, apparently the English "citron" is in Norwegian called "cedrat". So it's extremely confusing, yes.

[-] ProjektSpartan@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Life didn’t give us lemons… We gave lemons life.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

When life gives you lemons, be thankful for receiving enough vitamin C in your nutrition to avoid scurvy.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago

Okay, but what happened in languages where lemons are called "citron"?

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago

The answer seems to be that they mainly call a citron "cedrat".

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

I looked it up and German has several translations, among them Zedrate, as you suggested, but also Judenapfel (Jew apple) for no obvious reason (according to dict.cc)

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

Luckily that isn't the name of the Wikipedia entry

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

In Polish, the word for lemon is cytryna, but the word for citron is cytron

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

The metaphor still works. Making our own problems then complaining about them is our defining characteristic as humans.

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 days ago

If life doesn't give you lemons make them yourself.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

And then bitch about them.

[-] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

When life gives you lemons it's because you put in the work.

[-] inconel@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No one mentions F1 hybrid? Mass produced vegitables and fruits are often offspring of 2 distinct varieties, carefully selected to inherit desireble traits from both sides but no guarantee for 2nd generation.

Kind of soft-lock drm bcs people need to keep buying the specific seed if people want max yield. (I've read article gathering seeds from store brought tomato, growth werent great and the yields were unstable in both taste and quantity, but they managed to iterate 6 generations or so. The "traits" of F1 offsprings stabilize around that so you can keep growing your own variety).

Heirloom seeds don't have this issue, but they likely have quirks or less immunity compared to F1.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

It just occurred to me that were a person to complain about life giving them lemons, that's basically like how Homer Simpson complained about finding money when he was looking for a peanut. It's indeed true that money would be unpleasant to eat directly, but that's not how it's supposed to be used, anyways.

[-] brem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Don't tell OP about tomatos.....

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Acceptable.

[-] faultyproboscus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago
[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 5 points 3 days ago

Tell me something that doesn't concern me.

Hrmm, I wonder if I'm getting an ingrown toe nail.

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 points 3 days ago

... Because we should all be concerned about lemons.

[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago

When lemons give you life, you are a citron tree

[-] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

when life gives you lemons, make orange juice.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

You sure it's not enlightened, euphoric even?

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