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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (10 children)

if you ask me, mushrooms are a bullshit double standard. THEY get to show their genitals to passing hikers in the state park, but when I do it, suddenly everyone gets real prudish? What’s THAT about?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't want my genitals cut off and eaten, don't know about you

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    If you don't want people to eat your genitals, have you considered filling them with deadly alkaloids and neurotoxins? Alternatively, just make your genitals look deeply diseased and likely to kill anyone who breathes near them? These methods seem to work pretty well for most mushrooms.

    If you're absolutely determined to make sure that no one eats your genitals, and you don't want to learn from the mushrooms, I would recommend registering as a Republican (or your local fascist party, as the case may be)

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You and me pretending to be individuals

    The universe

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I believe this is a depiction of Diglett, not Ditto.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    And they are holding hands with tree roots

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can different species of mushroom be fruits of the same mycelium?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Mmh. Mushrooms don't really show their fingers. You know, the things you see and eat, that's their private parts.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Had a dumb coworker trying to tell me that cheese with a little mold on top was dangerous. She didn't know the word "mycelium", but that's the explanation she was going for. Fair enough, I guess? Anyway, I'm carving the mold off and eating that cheese.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    She was right?

    The mold is on the inside of the cheese, the visible stuff on the surface is just the fruiting body used to spread spores.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yep, how far the mold penetrates depends on the hardness of the cheese. Block of cheddar hard enough to play headbrick? Generally fine to just cut off a the outer layer. Anything soft, a good pizza mozzarella maybe? Garbage the whole block

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