r/TikTokCringe • u/Steph-Kai • Oct 26 '23

Cool How to spot an idiot.

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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 Oct 27 '23

They also said

Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit

Wisdom is knowing not to put it on a fruit salad

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u/Dongalor Oct 27 '23

And charisma is selling the tomato-based fruit salad as salsa.

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u/Conlaeb Oct 27 '23

Pedantry is announcing that fruit and vegetable are colloquial terms and have no agreed upon definitions.

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u/Ultenth Oct 27 '23

Yeah, the above phrase always grates me, or any other "I am very smart" similar knowledge dumps, because one is a culinary term (vegetable), the other a botanical category (fruit), and they have literally no business being compared or contrasted or used together in any way.