Banana for scale?

@ybmuG Let me check the couch.

@ybmuG Well, you could have …
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/student-eats-maurizio-cattelan-banana-art-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html

@Kyeh apparently there were other versions. One of which is currently up for auction
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/this-duct-taped-banana-art-piece-is-worth-at-least-1-million-heres-why/3773131/

@ybmuG Oh, bruther.
“profound and provocative.”
A lot like the Emperor’s New Clothes.

@Kyeh @ybmuG “The banana itself is regularly swapped out every two to three days, and is not for sale.”

So this is a million dollar Banana of Theseus?

@blaineg @Kyeh yeah - all you get is a “certificate of authenticity” and the right to tape a banana to your wall with your tape and it not be a forgery. Kind of a mash (forgive the pun) of physical art and an NFT

@blaineg @Kyeh Apparently the market is bananas - 6.24 million bananas
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/comedian-banana-art-sells-for-over-6-million-at-sothebys/483275

@blaineg @Kyeh @ybmuG So it was on the news this morning that the guy who bought this particular piece of “artwork” ate the banana. The news mentioned it had been sold a bunch of years ago as well and was being resold - clearly with a new banana. It was sold for a higher price this time around although they didn’t mention the inflation equivalent. Nice to be so rich that you will pay a zillion dollars for a banana to eat and be part of the on going joke. Almost sounds like something cards against humanity would do - except at a lower price.

@llangley Actual plastic banana. And both the banana and sticker are for sale on their site. Both are life sized.

Mission patch too.

Sorry, plush banana. With mission patch and “For Scale”.

@romellex Or 1.6109e-17 light years.

@romellex Depends on the year of printing.

Notes issued prior to 1928 were 7+7⁄16 by 3+9⁄64 inches (18.9 cm × 8.0 cm).

@yakkoTDI And I learned something new today! Thank you!!

@lisagd Length, width, or height? Which are all dependent on the bread used. Might as well just measure it in slices of bread.

I’m afraid that something so inexact and ambiguous would be worse than no comparison at all. Except for laughs, of course. But bananas are vaguely accurate, while still being as funny. (That is, on the assumption that everyone else is using the length of the banana as the primary unit.)

(But bananas are no longer unique, so picking a different humorous unit is acceptable I guess. As long as it’s not intended to give actual dimensions any more accurate than just an order of magnitude.)

@blaineg Almost $18 to ship one $30 banana. Pass.

@blaineg @heartny

You’d rather spend several hundred thousand $ for the “certified art” version?

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/student-eats-maurizio-cattelan-banana-art-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html

@mediocrebot That has a certain appeal.

@mediocrebot @mehcuda67 it has many a peels

@heartny I will be Dog gone…

@mycya4me
/showme banana shaped minions

@ybmuG I am so glad that the Banana is going to make it! that is till it get eaten! hehehe

@Kyeh absolutely HILARIOUS!! One of one!! Plus it’s signed by the artist. Chester fucking Cheetah!!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/305925216185

plus this is basically just buying a shitload of Cheetos…

@llangley Hah, true!

@Kyeh this is WAY MORE than a shitload, right?

Somebody’s getting a…
CHEETOS DROP!!!

@llangley That’s insane!!!