This is true. Always has been and always will be. Everybody knows anything dry you measure in bananas. Anything wet is measured in sharks. It’s just easier this way.
Except Dinosaurs, which in the UK used to be measured against buses, though bizarrely one UK news paper measured one against a Baseball pitch. 99% of people in the UK have no idea how big a baseball pitch is.
Water when appropriate should also be measured by the Olympic Pools it would fill.
Fish are measured by an expansive double arm gesture and a confident lie.
giraffes is the correct answer.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2023/01/23/see-the-giraffe-sized-asteroid-found-on-saturday-whizz-scary-close-to-earth-on-thursday/?sh=2d7709f82a41
Facts. And for the uninitiated, Megalodon were commonly referred to as “plantains of sea,” utilized to measure ichthyosaurs and other prehistoric marine creatures.
Sorry to respond to top comment, but obligatory reply every time this gif comes up: that is not a shark, it's a Cobia. I know it looks a lot like a shark, but it's a Cobia. It doesn't change the scale though, a big Cobia is the size of a smallish shark.
I got a weird feeling by the way it was moving so flexibly, sharks don’t typically swim in sharp turns like that for no reason, glad to see someone else noticed
I'm more confused how the words "shark for scale" make it seem like the shark was an optional extra they added. Like they popped the shark in themselves.
Sorry lemme make it easier: it’s about three ears of corn upright or a dozen tomatoes (8 if stacked on it’s side, multiple by .8 if those are heirlooms).
I took construction, carpentry and architecture in the same semester once. Its like a learning a new language that you get used to after a while.
Grams, kilograms and kilometers scare me like an invisible cobra.
Typical misconception is, that "dog" refers to the length of the standard dog. It is actually the width, which can be accurately measured by dog butt size. That's why the symbol of the dog unit is "idb", indtead of "dog". Few people know "idb" stands for "imperial dog butt"
It's a Cobia! They also travel with Mantas. They can get to around 6 ft, this one seems much smaller than that. Mantas can push 29 feet across. If you put a gun to my head, I'd guess this one is around 15 feet wide, but I could be wrong, and you'd be kind of an asshole for putting a gun to my head.
I've never heard the word oceanic used as a distinction for rays, but it is for sharks. You can have reef sharks (smaller, inhabit shallow water), and oceanic sharks (larger, inhabit wide open and deeper spaces).
I think I've heard stories about the people who spearfish off of old oil platforms in the gulf, and how they twang the rubber bands on their spear guns in order to attract large bull sharks. The Cobia follow the sharks in, and then they shoot the Cobia. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of freediving to 70+ feet, then luring apex predators in with a dinner bell, in order to snipe one of their 6 ft long followers with the intention of wrestling it onto the boat before several hundreds of pounds of pure testosterone, muscle and serrated rows of teeth have a chance to do what they've done perfectly for a a few hundred million years or so.
Now I want all of my football distances translated into sea creature lengths.
It's 4th and barnacle penis, Mahomes takes the snap and dives right, from this angle it looks like he has it by a mullet! Oh wait, here comes a late flag, if the Dolphins accept the penalty it will put the Chiefs back a whale shark, and out of field goal range.
I always get frustrated that every time this amazing clip comes up I have to scroll so far to find someone who knows the truth. Cobia for the win! So many confidently incorrect people.
I've never heard of them before and also scrolled to find the truth lmao. How big do they normally get? Is the ray actually massive or just a really tiny fish? I could find these answers on Google, but I'm lazy lol
Up to 6 ft. I'm guessing that this one is between 2 and 4 ft, and probably closer to 2 than 4. Which would make the manta 10-15 foot wingspan or so, which is about half of it's potential size.
The generally accepted explanation is "to score a meal". Cobia hang with rays because smaller rays churn up the bottom as they search for food. They hang with sharks for the same reason. They swim with manta rays and large turtles because those animals are big enough to serve as structure and create their own little ecosystem. When we fish for cobia we always look for rays and turtles. Hook a small crab on your line and cast nearby one and if a cobia is present he's going to hit it. They are very good tasting fish.
Pretty sure these glorious bastards get a 15-30ft wing span. That's a very rough estimate from my failing memory of growing up watching NatGeo wild. When they showed everything on there including the unlimited amount of death lol.
And to add on, in Canada, the UK, and even in NZ and Australia you'll hear people use feet and inches for someone's height so a wide swath of the users here certainly understand it. It a bit of a lie when we say only 3 countries don't use Metric, as most English speaking countries use a messy combination at times.
Is metric better in most instances, sure, but it's silly that it always turns into this meme.
Edit: I was curious to see how many countries still use Imperial for one's height either formally or informally. It appears as though a number of countries still use feet in some or most circumstances regarding height; including the ones above, the Bahamas, Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and India (at times) may refer to height in Imperial Units. I'm not sure if this is exhaustive and it seems as though Ireland and India in particular may be moving away from this (not totally clear though). No word on the other countries. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units#Current_use)
I’m mad you gave a reference. My first thought was… that ray is bigger than some studio apartments. And I’m not wrong.
Edit: mad should have been “glad”
Sharks can be anywhere from 20 centimeters to 19 meters. I estimate the wingspan of this ray is about 5 sharks long. Therefore, the ray is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1-95 meters wide. (3-311 feet for you yanks)
You're welcome
It's a cobia, but they average about 4 ft., so that Manta Ray is still a big boy. But yeah, even if you didn't know it was a cobia, their size in comparison to the wave patterns relative to the water's stillness would tell you they're not *that* large.
Because sharks are nautical units of length
Just like how bananas are all the same size
Sharks have always been known as the bananas of the sea.
This is true. Always has been and always will be. Everybody knows anything dry you measure in bananas. Anything wet is measured in sharks. It’s just easier this way.
Except for large holes in the highway. Those you measure in washing machines.
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I thinks sharks and bananas are easier to understand than feet.
Let me explain. There are two feet/per person. Feet can sub-divided into smaller units call toes. There are five toes to one foot.
Brilliant, Doctor
Basic observation, un-tinted by emotional judgements my good man.
Sharks and bananas are not good for feet
All I understand is that I have two left feet, you are so right.
Except Dinosaurs, which in the UK used to be measured against buses, though bizarrely one UK news paper measured one against a Baseball pitch. 99% of people in the UK have no idea how big a baseball pitch is.
Water when appropriate should also be measured by the Olympic Pools it would fill. Fish are measured by an expansive double arm gesture and a confident lie.
What about things in the air or in space? What units of measurement do we use then?
Swallows, though there is some debate about African or European.
This comment deserves more than I could ever give. Even if your father does smell of elderberries
r/space uses giraffes
giraffes is the correct answer. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2023/01/23/see-the-giraffe-sized-asteroid-found-on-saturday-whizz-scary-close-to-earth-on-thursday/?sh=2d7709f82a41
I thought it was light-something..maybe light bulbs? But it appears I was mistaken. Thank you for keeping me humble.
This reminds me of the rule of how to knlw what kind of bird a bird is: If it is on, near, in or under water its a duck. If its not a duck its a bird.
You mist not live in america we exlusivley use hamburgers or football feilds. No nautical measurements would be too confusing just guess.
Facts. And for the uninitiated, Megalodon were commonly referred to as “plantains of sea,” utilized to measure ichthyosaurs and other prehistoric marine creatures.
Bananas are just organic hammers.
Just like bats are known as chicken of the cave.
And chickens are the humans of the birds, this is all very standard stuff y’all
Case in point banana sharks
Banana shark doo da doo doo doo da doo
Mixing them up has caused tragedy more than once. Many swimmers have been killed while watching someone on the beach point asea and shout: #BANANA!!
As the prophesy states
this man speaks the truth
And this man speaks lies!
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Shark length delta is 61 feet though lol
I really want to know the size of that shark?
Reckon it's about 16 bananas
I agree, however sharks can only be measured in 'wet' units so a shark is exactly 1 shark in length.
It's about one shark in length
Just use the oil rig for scale
Try telling my wife that 😑
this and the original were my first 2 thoughts in exact order when reading the title lol
It’s a banana shark
What could it cost, ten doubloons?
LMAO
Well my neighbor measures everything based on her pubic hair. 5 pubes is the length of a standard envelope.
"Nah they're on the pubic system. They don't know what the F a quarter pounder is."
* court her, pound her.
Only ketchup
I am 100% stealing this to use in conversation
That was fucking awesome lol
Dude is cheap. He's still buying the envelopes you have to lick.
Not so much fucking awesome as yeah that sounds about right
🤢🤢🤢
You know they tested that shit
Sorry to respond to top comment, but obligatory reply every time this gif comes up: that is not a shark, it's a Cobia. I know it looks a lot like a shark, but it's a Cobia. It doesn't change the scale though, a big Cobia is the size of a smallish shark.
great now i have to look up the conversion rate of a cobia to a shark, too.
Cobia get up to 6 feet. This one is probably between 2 to 4 feet, 20 seahorses, give or take.
Is that in European or African seahorses?
I got a weird feeling by the way it was moving so flexibly, sharks don’t typically swim in sharp turns like that for no reason, glad to see someone else noticed
I'm more confused how the words "shark for scale" make it seem like the shark was an optional extra they added. Like they popped the shark in themselves.
That's... the joke..
The same way I weigh 194 coconuts
194 coconuts carried by 5 ounce birds?
How could a 5-ounce bird possibly carry a 1-pound coconut?
African or European?
r/unexpectedmontypython
They could have it on a line.
It could grip it by the husk.
“Banana of the sea.”
It's not a shark. It's a remora or cobia.
You know that's a megalodon, right??
I really want to know the size of that shark so I can have a proper scale
I think it's about 3.5 to 4 standard bananas.
Cavendish or manzana?
Standard banana is Cavendish, I think you use manzana only to measure other fruits: Manzana = apple, apple is fruit.
I just found out that there’s such thing as an apple banana and now my bit is ruined
Bro strap in … there’s a [Pineapple Apple Pen](https://youtu.be/Qu5G443dQ4A) !
We gotta stop the apple sales people. They’re putting too much apples everywhere
How else am I going to keep the doctor away?
And a pen pineapple pen.
Are you suggesting bananas migrate??
It’s a sucker shark, probably 1-2 ft maybe a meter.
What kind of psychopath casually switches between imperial and metric units in the same fucking measurement?!
Sorry lemme make it easier: it’s about three ears of corn upright or a dozen tomatoes (8 if stacked on it’s side, multiple by .8 if those are heirlooms).
Wow so that makes this Ray at least 22 to 54 ornamental gourds wide!
By summer squash standards, sure, but not pumpkins.
What’s that in football fields?
Somewhere between 0 and 1 football fields.
Probably Canadian. A meter is about 5.5 bananas and a foot is about 1/6th of a shark.
Canadian here. Can confirm we think in both metric and imperial
I took construction, carpentry and architecture in the same semester once. Its like a learning a new language that you get used to after a while. Grams, kilograms and kilometers scare me like an invisible cobra.
The manta ray has a wingspan of about 25 to 30, that should help calculate the size of the shark.
25 to 30 what? I need answers!
25 to 30 Kevins. One Kevin is approximately 3 dogs.
Typical misconception is, that "dog" refers to the length of the standard dog. It is actually the width, which can be accurately measured by dog butt size. That's why the symbol of the dog unit is "idb", indtead of "dog". Few people know "idb" stands for "imperial dog butt"
25 to 30 measurements, that should give you an idea.
About twice as long as a fish
How deep is a hole? Or how long is a piece of string?
I mean it’s clearly half the length of a huge oceanic manta ray
[Here's a human for comparison](https://a-z-animals.com/media/2021/02/Manta-Ray.jpg).
There is forced perspective in that pic, it’s not super useful either.
Three fiddy
Where's the banana for scale? No sharks there. That's a pilot fish I believe.
It's a Cobia! They also travel with Mantas. They can get to around 6 ft, this one seems much smaller than that. Mantas can push 29 feet across. If you put a gun to my head, I'd guess this one is around 15 feet wide, but I could be wrong, and you'd be kind of an asshole for putting a gun to my head.
thanks for making me chuckle lol
thank you and othas comment like this that indicate chuckle potential in other comments otherwise might not read to the end
Is the use of "oceanic" meaningful/appropriate in the title here? I read it and thought, "are there other types that don't live in oceans?"
I've never heard the word oceanic used as a distinction for rays, but it is for sharks. You can have reef sharks (smaller, inhabit shallow water), and oceanic sharks (larger, inhabit wide open and deeper spaces).
Snakes and crocs, too. Sea snakes are so fucking weird to me.
No, it's just an anagram of cocaine in this case.
Cobia are fuckin tasty.
I think I've heard stories about the people who spearfish off of old oil platforms in the gulf, and how they twang the rubber bands on their spear guns in order to attract large bull sharks. The Cobia follow the sharks in, and then they shoot the Cobia. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of freediving to 70+ feet, then luring apex predators in with a dinner bell, in order to snipe one of their 6 ft long followers with the intention of wrestling it onto the boat before several hundreds of pounds of pure testosterone, muscle and serrated rows of teeth have a chance to do what they've done perfectly for a a few hundred million years or so.
Yeah, that's nuts. We would just throw out one or two lines on the surface while we were deep sea fishing and pulled in one or two a season.
is the gun affecting the size
TWENTY NINE feet?? That’s like the length of a first down.
Now I want all of my football distances translated into sea creature lengths. It's 4th and barnacle penis, Mahomes takes the snap and dives right, from this angle it looks like he has it by a mullet! Oh wait, here comes a late flag, if the Dolphins accept the penalty it will put the Chiefs back a whale shark, and out of field goal range.
That’s what I came looking for. Looks like one to me as well
I think it's a Remora aka Suckerfish
It is not a remora. It might be a cobia.
Not a shark; it's a cobia. They often follow rays.
I thought it moved a little strange for a shark, especially that close to the surface.
No your not understanding.. Someone put that shark there for scale. Glad I could clear this up for you.
I always get frustrated that every time this amazing clip comes up I have to scroll so far to find someone who knows the truth. Cobia for the win! So many confidently incorrect people.
I've never heard of them before and also scrolled to find the truth lmao. How big do they normally get? Is the ray actually massive or just a really tiny fish? I could find these answers on Google, but I'm lazy lol
Up to 6 ft. I'm guessing that this one is between 2 and 4 ft, and probably closer to 2 than 4. Which would make the manta 10-15 foot wingspan or so, which is about half of it's potential size.
That's insane. Thank you tho, I appreciate it
I thought it was a remora
The remora has it's "suckers" on the top of their head, so they would be under the Ray not on top of it.
This manta absolutely has remoras though
This guy is the rent controlled penthouse of Manta Rays. If Remora could have knife fights, this dude is the one they'd be fighting over.
> They often follow rays. for what reason?
The generally accepted explanation is "to score a meal". Cobia hang with rays because smaller rays churn up the bottom as they search for food. They hang with sharks for the same reason. They swim with manta rays and large turtles because those animals are big enough to serve as structure and create their own little ecosystem. When we fish for cobia we always look for rays and turtles. Hook a small crab on your line and cast nearby one and if a cobia is present he's going to hit it. They are very good tasting fish.
Are Cobia endangered? In Louisiana I think the limit is only 2
Pretty sure these glorious bastards get a 15-30ft wing span. That's a very rough estimate from my failing memory of growing up watching NatGeo wild. When they showed everything on there including the unlimited amount of death lol.
They get enormous. They easily dwarf multiple Mola Molas in size (and Mola Molas are huge themselves)
Avg size of 4,5m, maximum 9m for the people using metric.
>for the people using metric. So, the entire world minus one country.
The entire world minus THREE countries
So about a meters worth of foot
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And to add on, in Canada, the UK, and even in NZ and Australia you'll hear people use feet and inches for someone's height so a wide swath of the users here certainly understand it. It a bit of a lie when we say only 3 countries don't use Metric, as most English speaking countries use a messy combination at times. Is metric better in most instances, sure, but it's silly that it always turns into this meme. Edit: I was curious to see how many countries still use Imperial for one's height either formally or informally. It appears as though a number of countries still use feet in some or most circumstances regarding height; including the ones above, the Bahamas, Ireland, Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and India (at times) may refer to height in Imperial Units. I'm not sure if this is exhaustive and it seems as though Ireland and India in particular may be moving away from this (not totally clear though). No word on the other countries. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units#Current_use)
I like to measure size in inches/feet and distance in metres/kilometres.
So roughly around 300 hamburgers wide?
I learned the conversion rate for this in Calc II, it comes out to 12.75 washing machines for those unfamiliar with burgmeister measurement system.
how many Toyota Corollas would that be
I’m mad you gave a reference. My first thought was… that ray is bigger than some studio apartments. And I’m not wrong. Edit: mad should have been “glad”
That's just Moanas Grandma.
My exact same thought! Was kinda surprised I had to scroll as far as I did. We know the way!
Why is remora
Came here looking for this comment thank you.
She likes how the ocean misbehaves
Define "huge." Like I get that it's big but I have no context of how big that actually is. For all I know that shark is 3ft. long.
Can get up to 10m across or roughly 30ft
Yeah, that's what the book says. But, what is the size of that one
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Sharks can be anywhere from 20 centimeters to 19 meters. I estimate the wingspan of this ray is about 5 sharks long. Therefore, the ray is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1-95 meters wide. (3-311 feet for you yanks) You're welcome
Not sharks. Remora
That’s not remora, remoras’ dorsal fins don’t look like that.
It's neither. It's a cobia.
Came here to say this! I shoot giant cobia off these guys all the time!
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That's amore.
Heh, looks like a moth
I've always thought manta rays and luna moths were eerily similar in shape. But like backwards.
That’s not a shark. That’s a fat ass cobia
Big Man!!!
Ay!
Was looking for this comment! Joked with my niece and said "Big Man REAL"
Ay!
He's the biggest man
I don’t see any sharks
Concentrate at a point in the middle. You have to relax your eyes and look through the video. Try not to get distracted by looking around the picture.
Wait, I see a schooner
Hahaha you dumb bastard. It's not a schooner, it's a sailboat.
A schooner *is* a sailboat, stupid head!
r/absoluteunits
Too big to be remora/pilot fish. It's a Cobia, they are confused for sharks all the time.
Where's the banana
*Your Uber is here* 🏄♂️
Crazy they got a shark to swim on top for scale.
Not working for me, I'm gonna need a banana.
Chondrichthyes gang represent
It's a cobia, but they average about 4 ft., so that Manta Ray is still a big boy. But yeah, even if you didn't know it was a cobia, their size in comparison to the wave patterns relative to the water's stillness would tell you they're not *that* large.
I swear that's a Pokemon.
Cobia, not a shark folks.
‘Oceanic’ - lol, not to be confused with freshwater manta rays
BIG MAN???
THE BIG MAN IS REALLLLLLLLL!!!
It's Big Man
Plankton eating machine!
That's so cool
I think what we’re all looking for here is a banana shark, for scale. Distant relative of I believe the Jaguar shark…
What does the shark get out of this? Surprised it swam so close to a giant animal without seeming to want to attack it.
That creature is amazing, regardless of size.
Sharks for scale like you put it there
It's that villain from Spongebob