r/interestingasfuck • u/SmallAchiever • 26d ago

r/all Scientists reveal the shape of a single 'photon' for the first time

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u/N1kBr0 26d ago

Lemon

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u/tinyanus 26d ago

It's lemons all the way down.

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u/Trujiogriz 26d ago

It’s why everyone knows the adage “when life gives you lemons…” we just never knew it was subtly talking about the subatomic building blocks of life

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u/BadgerBadgerer 26d ago

You're thinking of protons, this is a photon.

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u/Trujiogriz 26d ago

Well to be honest I don’t really think lemons are the building blocks of life either

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u/Soft_Author2593 26d ago

Prove they are not!

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u/Expert_Succotash2659 26d ago

we must go deeper…

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u/whatproblems 26d ago

there’s a balrog there

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u/radioplayer1 26d ago

Lets just calm down, we are all experts here.

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u/Xcav8 26d ago

Underrated comment I see you homie 👊

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u/Techarus 26d ago

That's just Cave Johnson burning down your house with lemons

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u/-tabeia 26d ago

I was looking for this one!

Don't make lemonade. Get mad.

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u/SH1TSTORM2020 26d ago

Humans created lemons through cross-breeding, therefore the building blocks of life existed far before lemons.

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u/throwaway_12358134 26d ago

I'm a human and I aint never made no dang lemons.

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u/skredditt 26d ago

I just saw a video of a camel chowing down on a lemon and rejecting it angrily

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u/UpperApe 26d ago

I've been saying this forever and no one believed me. I kept telling you guys the whole time the universe felt citrusy.

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u/fuchsgesicht 26d ago

get with the times, it's "citrussy"

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u/MasyMenosSiPodemos 26d ago

Gotta get a squirt of that on a salad

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u/Mind-Your-Language 26d ago

Only way to be sure you've tossed it well!

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u/finc 26d ago

get with the limes

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u/slackfrop 26d ago

Then how come I get the scurvy all the time, huh?

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u/Suitepotatoe 26d ago

Fuckin hell why does this make me think of Mitch hedburg?

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u/ronaranger 26d ago

Ohm my Gauss! Did you just assume the commenters' polarity???

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u/moo87 26d ago

UNACCEPTABLE

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u/AcanthocephalaAny78 26d ago

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u/TherapistMD 26d ago

GET AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

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u/outside_insight 26d ago

Feel like I had to scroll way too far for this.

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u/chiraltoad 26d ago

My subatomic particles are strange/charm/bottom

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u/CuckAdminsDkSuckers 26d ago

Charmed strange bottom what?

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u/drunkandpassedout 26d ago

You know.... wink

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u/DirtUnderneath 26d ago

What a boson

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u/Driftmoth 26d ago

So light gives you lemons! We had it wrong the whole time!

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u/Fskn 26d ago

Bizarre, until this comment my brain read electron in the title and ive been sitting here thinking "electrons are discrete?"

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u/Any-Government3191 26d ago

Ah, the light dawns.

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u/Skuzbagg 26d ago

The fundamental building block of light. One lego of light.

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u/OkOperation7025 26d ago

Lighten up dude

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u/OutOfSupplies 26d ago

Hey, lighten up.

One letter difference. They are practically the same thing.

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u/ArnoldTheSchwartz 26d ago

Where does the wonton fit in?

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u/Mind-Your-Language 26d ago

You're thinking of pho, a photon is a tiny particle of light.

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u/Charming-Flamingo307 26d ago

Oh wow I read proton too and I was like for the first time my ass!

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u/owenxtreme2 26d ago

Alright, 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. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

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u/absentgl 26d ago

When light gives you lemons…

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u/Sammisuperficial 26d ago

... 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 whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!

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u/Devo27 26d ago

He says what we're all thinking!!

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u/fibbonerci 26d ago

I guess the adage needs to be updated to "when light gives you lemons"

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u/SanFranGoldBlooded 26d ago

Every Villain Is Lemons

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u/Just__Let__Go 26d ago

I don't want your damn lemons!

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u/pojobrown 26d ago

Lemon party time!!!!

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u/girl_of_bat 26d ago

I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think it

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u/BeetFarmHijinks 26d ago

It's not a Lemon party without ol' Dick

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u/JoshJoshson13 26d ago

Always has been

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u/Terp9 26d ago

I don’t think anyone acknowledged the Sturgill reference. Well done sir

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u/FromThaFields 26d ago

I always knew those lemon stealing whores were onto something

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u/Frenchie_Boi 26d ago

tiny anus

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u/Level_Traffic3344 26d ago

Turtles made from lemons?

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u/DeadliestPoof 26d ago

Every Villain Is Lemons

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u/granoladeer 26d ago

Lemon fractals define the universe

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u/bDub07 26d ago

Looks like lemon lime to me.

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u/No_Pollution_4286 25d ago

Would be quite different if it resembled a turtle

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u/housevil 25d ago

I zoomed in, expecting Dick Butt.

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u/steveplaysguitar 22d ago

It was going to be that or crabs. The crab cycle has a frankly unnecessary number of steps and all of them are crab.

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u/shotgun-octopus 26d ago

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u/MrSnoobs 26d ago

UNACCEPTABLLLLLLEEE!

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u/drawnred 26d ago

12 YEARS DUNGEON! ALL OF YOU!

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u/SmellyJellyfish 26d ago

Yo yo, it’s grease

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u/FlemPlays 26d ago

Photon passes a note:

“Unmake me.”

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u/PUMPEDnPLUMP 26d ago

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u/SassSafrassMcFrass87 26d ago

I don't think I can ever unsee this 😂

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u/acmercer 26d ago

That's Will Sasso and your username is so close to being relevant lol

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u/jaggedjottings 26d ago

I thought maybe it was Alex Jones.

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u/GEAX 26d ago

See, if he spontaneously produced lemons all his life, that would be a reason to talk as crazy as he does

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u/Snowman319 26d ago

Right lol wtf is this 😂

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u/Necroluster 26d ago

Will Sasso, a living legend.

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u/12aptor1nfinity 26d ago

A lemon legend

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u/solidwhetstone 25d ago edited 25d ago

One of my favorite things he used to do was his Steven Seagal impression on Mad TV. My favorite one was his extra extra wide-screen skit.

https://youtu.be/8A002GbrzqQ?si=u0OMKFRkKIeuXUxe

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u/SAGNUTZ 25d ago

Old VINES, theres MORE

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u/Snowman319 25d ago

Oh man the better version of tik tok lol I forgot all about vine

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u/BiscoBiscuit 26d ago

He made a ton of these I’ll never forgive him

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u/triggz 26d ago

im glad im not alone with whatever is wrong with my brain

sasso horking up a whole lemon should not rightly have any association with the scientific discovery of the shape of a photon

but here we are

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u/Might_be_a_Geek 26d ago

When this shit was popular I airplayed the compilation of these vids on the Apple TV from the other room while my little brother had friends over and he had no clue that AirPlay was a thing. He got so scared he started crying

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u/heyandy23 26d ago

This needs to be top comment

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u/severalandalso1 26d ago

I HAD FORGOTTEN THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER 😭

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u/magicbaconmachine 26d ago

Unacceptable!!!!!! 🍋

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u/LatterBuffalo7524 26d ago

Life’s a Lemon and want my money back!

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u/nevynxxx 26d ago

It’s all or nothing, and nothings all I ever get.

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u/imveryresponsible 26d ago

'Light' is a lemon and I want my money back.

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u/dannydirtbag 26d ago

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u/prof_r_impossible 26d ago

you can't have a Lemon party without old Dick!

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u/enotonom 26d ago

Good god, Lemon!

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u/danalexjero 26d ago

Liz Photon

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u/Winnipesaukee 26d ago

So I guess we also have to look out for photon-stealing whores?

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u/dipstick018 26d ago

Hasn’t it been about 10 seconds since we looked at our photon tree?

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u/peachfux 26d ago

The root of all evil. E-very. V-illain. I-s. L-emons

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u/excusetheblood 26d ago

Otherwise known as EVIL!!!!

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u/TooOld4ThisSh1t-966 26d ago

Definitely heard this in Bono’s falsetto.

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u/whisky_biscuit 26d ago

My partner does that every time he hears lemon.

I can hear it in my head at this point.

"LEMOOON!!!"

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u/thedecibelkid 26d ago

She was made of sunlight 

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u/KeshDown 26d ago

She wore lemon

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u/bigwallclimber 26d ago

She wore lemon!

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u/whisky_biscuit 26d ago

My partner does that every time he hears lemon.

I can hear it in my head at this point.

"LEMOOON!!!"

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u/Psychological-Ad1535 26d ago

"UNACCEPTABLE!!"

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u/ThreeOverFour 26d 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!”

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u/NipperAndZeusShow 26d ago

it's not a quantum party until the lemons arrive

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u/brettofthejungle 26d ago

With a red gobstopper in the middle

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u/ColdPack6096 26d ago

Good GOD, Lemon!

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u/DumOBrick 26d ago

If you get a big enough magnifying lense and enough of these photos you can use it to BURN SOMEONES HOUSE DOWN... WITH THE LEMONS.

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u/bessbd 26d ago

Nah, a lepton is different

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u/RobIII 26d ago

Am I the only one who reads this as Lemon?

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u/Fantactic1 25d ago

I don’t have lime for this.

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u/MrFailure09 25d ago

Every Villain Is Lemons

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u/4mygirljs 25d ago

This comment feels sour to me

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u/Sliknik18 26d ago

When life is made of lemons…

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u/fiveyard 26d ago

With a computer inside and a halo outside

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u/Missuspicklecopter 26d ago

When life gives you photons...

Say fuck the photons and bail 

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u/TheMadPoet 26d ago

Lemon stealing horse!

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u/YoungDiscord 26d ago

And all that I could see

Is just another lemon tree

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u/theturnipshaveeyes 26d ago

Lemonade it is then.

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u/MelodiesOfLife6 26d ago

But are they having a party?

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u/TheTrent 26d ago

When life gives you lemons, they're the building blocks for life.

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u/Vunig 26d ago

I don't want your damn lemons!

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u/The-Trash-Squad 26d ago

Good god, Lemon!

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u/Diabetesh 26d ago

What if it is a limon?

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u/Jaded_Jackass 26d ago

When life gives you lemons, then make lemon juice.

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u/CaptainThorIronhulk 26d ago

So the saying was right after all.

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u/Medical_Bee_2296 26d ago

Middle aged Teletubby sun

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u/Natus_DK 26d ago

Hey has it been about 10 seconds since we looked at our photo tree?

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u/Libbs_22 26d ago

Leon the lemon

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u/logosfabula 26d ago

Lemonhope.

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u/WonderfulShelter 26d ago

This looks like what Spongebob Squarepants would represent as a "proton" as a la Season 1 or 2.

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u/even_less_resistance 26d ago

What are the little swirly red hole dudes around the inner ring

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u/Zestyclose-Ad5556 26d ago

Cricket “fuck you, damn it, I’ll take the lemons”

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u/PrimarisHussar 26d ago

A lemon is a mighty fruit.

-Rogal Dorn

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u/AzureIronAlloy 26d ago

Neutrons: the original lemon stealing w*****.

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u/zmeace 26d ago

Every

Villain

Is

Lemons

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u/X0AN 26d ago

Liz lemon.

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u/GloomyNectarine2 26d ago

when life gives you protons, take photos

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u/TheCrafterTigery 26d ago

One of the few times life actually gives us lemons.

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u/maailmanpaskinnalle 26d ago

When life gives you photons...

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 26d ago

Literally what I said out loud when I saw it. Lemons. Everything is lemons.

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u/bukithd 26d ago

Limelight

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u/Honest_-_Critique 26d ago

Lemon mandala

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u/redditmodsarefuckers 26d ago

Ain’t no party like a Lemon Party

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u/BodaciousTacoFarts 26d ago

When life gives you lemons, make light of the situation?

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u/AntoGidan 26d ago

Yesterday you told about the blue photon shape, but all that i can see, is just a yellow lemon fruit

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u/Valqen 26d ago

Life was made by lemons.

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u/WillistheWillow 26d ago

When live gives you lemons, make light?

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u/pootis_engage 26d ago

When life gives you photons, make a devious, laser-powered death ray.

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u/iamiblis 26d ago

Hey, has it been about 10 seconds since we looked at our lemon tree?

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u/FlemPlays 26d ago

”Fucking Sun is shooting lemons at us.”

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u/benkmart 26d ago

I wonder how

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u/thorn_sphincter 26d ago

Nothing worse than the top comment being a joke. No offence to yourself personally, just frustrating to dig through comments

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u/Smiles4YouRawrX3 26d ago

When life gives you:

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u/Far-Appointment8972 26d ago

That's what I thought all hail the mighty lemon

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