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		Do plants think? Broccoli: "I'm broccoli. I am broccoli. I AM BROCCOLI" (scientificamerican.com)		74
		More: Interesting, plants, Daniel Chamovitz, cell divisions, postdoctoral fellows, biological clocks, photosynthesis, human biology, Neuroscience

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brantgoose		2012-06-06 12:14:36 AM

Stupid plants. They can think but they can't spell without the help of a bee.

brantgoose		2012-06-06 12:16:39 AM

Then again, you try to spell brocolli without a bee.

It's the one letter you can count on people getting right.

farkingismybusiness		2012-06-06 12:39:38 AM

Saddest song ever.

vossiewulf		2012-06-06 01:53:43 AM

I am broccoli. I AM BROCCOLI

Suck my stamen?

Sliding Carp		2012-06-06 02:15:43 AM

A celery is as a celery does.

LewDux		2012-06-06 04:12:05 AM

Kanemano		2012-06-06 04:20:21 AM

in it's position would you want to do a lot of thinking?, covered over in mud and animal shiat, and when you finally break through and gaze at the sky, someone comes along and hacks you in two

HeliumAddict		2012-06-06 04:21:59 AM

This is gonna be so much fun if it gets some momentum. Plants feel pain...

Farking Vegans are going to overnight be turned into sadistic torturers... Awesome.

wildsnowllama		2012-06-06 04:26:48 AM

"Potato!"

Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy		2012-06-06 04:29:33 AM

Kanemano: in it's position would you want to do a lot of thinking?, covered over in mud and animal shiat, and when you finally break through and gaze at the sky, someone comes along and hacks you in two

I suppose if you were a plant you'd be thinking "Mmm, delicious mud and animal shiat. Full of nutrients that a growing plant needs."

King Keepo		2012-06-06 04:30:06 AM

MORB		2012-06-06 04:41:38 AM

HeliumAddict: This is gonna be so much fun if it gets some momentum. Plants feel pain...

Farking Vegans are going to overnight be turned into sadistic torturers... Awesome.

"Salad is murder"!
Let's eat dirt and rocks.

uknesvuinng		2012-06-06 04:43:01 AM

"Oh no, not again."

Teknowaffle		2012-06-06 04:56:45 AM

Cauliflower is the most retarded of all the vegetables.

PvtHike		2012-06-06 04:59:03 AM

Teknowaffle: Cauliflower is the most retarded of all the vegetables.

You ever try arguing with an eggplant? Cauliflower is a genius next them.

RoyBatty		2012-06-06 05:02:31 AM

Plants so dumb, let's mock them.

i.imgur.com

LordJiro		2012-06-06 05:04:54 AM

"I'm broccoli! ...FARK, I'm broccoli. ...Least I'm not a farking beet, I guess."

RoyBatty		2012-06-06 05:05:38 AM

So I was farking this orchid the other day, when this corpse flower tapped me on the shoulder and told me not to bogart the chick.

Teknowaffle		2012-06-06 05:06:42 AM

PvtHike: Teknowaffle: Cauliflower is the most retarded of all the vegetables.

You ever try arguing with an eggplant? Cauliflower is a genius next them.

Eggplant plays dumb to get the guys who are turned off by a strong, smart woman. Cauliflower can't even argue back. Terri Shivo had more brain power than cauliflower.

fusillade762		2012-06-06 05:11:04 AM

farkingismybusiness: [25.media.tumblr.com image 500x363]
Saddest song ever.

Dammit. That was going to be my post. Guess I'll have to resort to the fallback:

i48.tinypic.com

Boatmech		2012-06-06 05:31:51 AM

HeliumAddict: This is gonna be so much fun if it gets some momentum. Plants feel pain...

Farking Vegans are going to overnight be turned into sadistic torturers... Awesome.

`
" Just as a plant can't suffer subjective pain in the absence of a brain, I also don't think that it
thinks."
~~Scientist~~ Daniel Chamovitz
`
After reading that craptastic article there is no way I'd describe this dude as a Scientist.

uttertosh		2012-06-06 05:31:56 AM

WOW this shiat's real? Nice!! :-D I've been using this line of defense with vegans for ages...

And here was me thinking I was just being flippant at best, facetious at worst...

angstycoder		2012-06-06 06:29:13 AM

farkingismybusiness: [25.media.tumblr.com image 500x363]
Saddest song ever.

Aaaaand, done!

angstycoder		2012-06-06 06:30:49 AM

Kanemano: in it's position would you want to do a lot of thinking?, covered over in mud and animal shiat, and when you finally break through and gaze at the sky, someone comes along and hacks you in two

Well, personally, I often do a lot of thinking when I am position.

DjangoStonereaver		2012-06-06 06:32:06 AM

"I AM BROCCOLI!"

Gordon Bennett		2012-06-06 06:42:44 AM

StoPPeRmobile		2012-06-06 06:58:22 AM

Circle Derp		2012-06-06 07:01:23 AM

I am the eggplant, they are the eggplants

Boatmech		2012-06-06 07:07:13 AM

Diarrhea Anne Frank		2012-06-06 07:09:52 AM

HeliumAddict: This is gonna be so much fun if it gets some momentum. Plants feel pain...

Farking Vegans are going to overnight be turned into sadistic torturers... Awesome.

Why do vegans annoy you so much? Most don't preach their beliefs, regardless of what you believe. Most just do their thing, and certainly none of them are as overbearing as the "Awww f*ck yeah, ate a steak, take that, vegetarians! Does my delicious steak make you feel silly? Awww yeah, check out my ballhair" manly-men who feel the need to declare what paragons of masculinity they are in any thread dealing with vegetarianism. Do you feel threatened by vegans? Does their existence bug you? It must, for you to say that. Why do you feel this way? Or do you just want to reassert to the internet that you are, in fact, a "real man?

ArcadianRefugee		2012-06-06 07:26:36 AM

Hawnkee		2012-06-06 07:32:46 AM

I had an uncle who used to mumble that. Always happened when he came back from Squeaky's house.

SourImplant		2012-06-06 07:33:52 AM

Kibbler		2012-06-06 07:37:03 AM

uknesvuinng: "Oh no, not again."

Dammit.

dbirchall		2012-06-06 07:55:21 AM

Wait, are you sure it's not Barack-oli?

AthensBoy		2012-06-06 07:57:25 AM

Came here for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference, leaving satisfied with my towel.

Because that's how much a hoopy frood I am.

Shadowknight		2012-06-06 08:03:18 AM

Thoughts have to be more intellectually coherent than your average American voter.

Railbird3		2012-06-06 08:06:56 AM

Boatmech: HeliumAddict: This is gonna be so much fun if it gets some momentum. Plants feel pain...

Farking Vegans are going to overnight be turned into sadistic torturers... Awesome.

`
" Just as a plant can't suffer subjective pain in the absence of a brain, I also don't think that it
thinks."
Scientist Daniel Chamovitz
`
After reading that craptastic article there is no way I'd describe this dude as a Scientist.

images.wikia.com

You are a poor scientist, Dr. Chamovitz!

perigee		2012-06-06 08:12:33 AM

Nurglitch		2012-06-06 08:19:43 AM

ArcadianRefugee: [img.photobucket.com image 419x313]

Side-boob?

tdyak		2012-06-06 08:26:35 AM

Pants full of macaroni!!		2012-06-06 08:38:50 AM

Software2		2012-06-06 09:09:48 AM

StoPPeRmobile		2012-06-06 09:17:25 AM

ArcadianRefugee: [img.photobucket.com image 419x313]

I'd let her eat me.

Dr. Whoof		2012-06-06 09:17:33 AM

LewDux		2012-06-06 09:22:02 AM

Nurglitch: ArcadianRefugee: [img.photobucket.com image 419x313]

Side-boob?

lolscream.com

Teufelaffe		2012-06-06 09:22:49 AM

Diarrhea Anne Frank: HeliumAddict: This is gonna be so much fun if it gets some momentum. Plants feel pain...

Farking Vegans are going to overnight be turned into sadistic torturers... Awesome.

Why do vegans annoy you so much? Most don't preach their beliefs, regardless of what you believe. Most just do their thing, and certainly none of them are as overbearing as the "Awww f*ck yeah, ate a steak, take that, vegetarians! Does my delicious steak make you feel silly? Awww yeah, check out my ballhair" manly-men who feel the need to declare what paragons of masculinity they are in any thread dealing with vegetarianism. Do you feel threatened by vegans? Does their existence bug you? It must, for you to say that. Why do you feel this way? Or do you just want to reassert to the internet that you are, in fact, a "real man?

I can't speak for HeliumAddict, obviously, but to me vegans are like atheists. Sure, there are a lot of nice, respectful ones out there, but the obnoxious, in your face, holier-than-thou pricks among them tend to ruin their image as a group.