At least they get cute little parachutes
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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bad similes are like really bad. bad metaphors are shipwrecks.
this one is going in my brain, thanks
Oh man, my kids love to blow them and that stuff shoots everywhere.
ok, but just so you know, I did not consent
My kids will gladly blow you anyway. They don't care. You'll spray your seed all over the neighborhood, and they'll just smile and laugh.
Plus, they're kids so it'll be really sloppy and a lot of spit involved.
🤢🤢🤢
you need to teach your kids about consent
Helping a plant get off... gross, now I'm sad
Ballistic babies... all is right in the world
What a couple of psycopaths.
also, pollen contains the male gametes - how is that not dimorphic? Plants vary in their sexual strategies, but I do think it's fair to think of pollen as containers of semen or sperm ... or at least that's always how it's been presented anyway 🤷♀️
Yeah, the last time this was posted I had to run to wikipedia because I was fuming at my memory being wrong. I even have vague memories from biology in college about the 8-cell formation of a fertilized plant 'egg.' The poster was likely trying to say that many plants don't have 'male-only' and 'female-only' types, but at the very least, fruit bearing plants/trees (angiosperms, if I remember) have two sperm-equivalents in the pollen that drill down into the pistil of the flower and find the waiting gamete. One fertilizes, one becomes the food portion that we take sustenance from.
right, but when pedantically correcting the idea that pollen isn't an example of dimorphic reproduction, making gross generalizations like that seems strangely out of place, since the whole issue they took in the first place was a (mostly true / appropriate) generalization ...
Yeah
You're blowing it
Baby shotgun
🎵doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo🎵
thank you 🥵😩😌
What if I do want to blow a Dandelion? I'm fairly sure you can find depictions of that somewhere...
haha
A better analogy would be when you pick pollen from one flower and use it to fertilise another.
...I do this all the time with my pepper plants.
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