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    Default Perception of Perfection

    Why is it that, when you think of the "perfect strawberry," you think of a strawberry in a heart shape? Like, it doesn't even have to be big, it's all about aesthetics. Why wouldn't the perfection of a strawberry be measured by its size? Like, a strawberry should be considered more beautiful and perfect the more ripples it has.

    Which of these is closer to being the perfect strawberry?


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    The problem is that the second strawberry looks like a nut sack.

    You can't unsee it!

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    That bottom one is a mutant that wants to eat my family.

    Signature by rubah. I think.

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    The second one is preferred because it's large, and a large strawberry has more to enjoy! It has the right coloring, so it looks good to eat.

    Apparently, I have been declared banished.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys View Post
    The problem is that the second strawberry looks like a nut sack.

    You can't unsee it!
    I always knew you had a freaky-looking nutsack, but damn.

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    Also, they're probably heart shaped because they were created specifically to make an unhappy couple make-up.

    Signature by rubah. I think.

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    The second one looks like the retarded baby of a strawberry and a tomato. Or something like that.

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    The second one reminds me of a chewed up piece of gum.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ShlupQuack View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys View Post
    The problem is that the second strawberry looks like a nut sack.

    You can't unsee it!
    I always knew you had a freaky-looking nutsack, but damn.

    Stop hitting on me, you're a married woman!

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    The second one looks like it better fits a mouth.

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    Ballsacks aside, the second strawberry is the better strawberry, and the first is the quintessential strawberry.


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    ichigo

    well that's an easy question: it's been typified as an image in our media and culture, which has intensified an arbitrary value of "perfection"

    next?~

    [edit- a good example of what I mean by being typified is this very posticon!]

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    I don't judge a strawberry by its size or shape, I judge it by how sweet and juicy it is. I have, on occasion, eaten perfectly shaped strawberries that were sour and eaten malformed strawberries that were so good they melted in my mouth. Strawberries are all about taste!
    :kauberry:

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    bigger is not always better. I have a picture of a giant lobstar, but it tasted terrible.

    Smaller lobsters taste better.

    The strawbee on the left is more perfect than the second one. Mostly because it developed properly while the other one probably consumed it strawbee brethren in a desperate race to be super duper big and probably not juicy or yummy.

    yuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pokékeeper View Post
    Ballsacks aside, the second strawberry is the better strawberry, and the first is the quintessential strawberry.
    There is no ballsacks aside, there is only superior and inferior, and the ballsack strawberry is inferior

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