A Banana a Day Keeps the Reaper Away!

[Blackleaf]

The article says that the oldest person in the world is 115-year-old Misao Okawa in Japan.

She must have only just because the oldest woman in the world because the previous oldest woman in the world died just several days ago in Britain.

So. This guy took his bananas orally?

In the EU they'd have to be straight bananas because bent bananas are banned.

 

[Spade]

Bananas don't sexually reproduce; they are cloned.

 

[JLM]

The article says that the oldest person in the world is 115-year-old Misao Okawa in Japan.

She must have only just because the oldest woman in the world because the previous oldest woman in the world died just several days ago in Britain.



In the EU they'd have to be straight bananas because bent bananas are banned.

I don't think the oldest person in the world is often the oldest person in the world for very long. -

 

[Blackleaf]

I don't think the oldest person in the world is often the oldest person in the world for very long. -

Unless you're Methuselah, of course.

World's oldest man eats banana a day at age 112 - World - CBC News Grim news! What works for you? Personally, I prefer poutine.

Bananas were a luxury in Britain during the war. They were impossible to get as they were perishable items. They were so rare that many kids didn't even know what one was when they saw one. Most kids didn't see their first banana until after the war ended.

 

[Cliffy]

Bananas were a luxury in Britain during the war. They were impossible to get as they were perishable items. They were so rare that many kids didn't even know what one was when they saw one. Most kids didn't see their first banana until after the war ended.

That is a down side to starting wars. You would think that after all these hundreds of years the Brits would have learned something.

 

[Spade]

I think Britain still has empire envy.

 

[Blackleaf]

That is a down side to starting wars. You would think that after all these hundreds of years the Brits would have learned something.

I always thought it was Germany who started WWII.

Still, you learn somethong new everyday.

 

[eh1eh]

The article says that the oldest person in the world is 115-year-old Misao Okawa in Japan.

She must have only just because the oldest woman in the world because the previous oldest woman in the world died just several days ago in Britain.



In the EU they'd have to be straight bananas because bent bananas are banned.

Straight bananas? Is that an ironic accommodation for gay men and kinky swingers?

 

[Spade]

I always thought it was Germany who started WWII.

Still, you learn somethong new everyday.

Not WWI

 

[Blackleaf]

Not WWI

Germany started WWI, too, along with Austria-Hungary. Those two allies created the conditions for conflict and Germany was waging a deliberate war of aggression.

Under Kaiser Wilhelm II (Queen Victoria's grandson), Germany moved from a policy of maintaining the status quo to a more aggressive stance. He decided against renewing a treaty with Russia, effectively opting for the Austrian alliance. Germany's western and eastern neighbours, France and Russia, signed an alliance in 1894 united by fear and resentment of Berlin. In 1898, Germany began to build up its navy, although this could only alarm the world's most powerful maritime nation, Britain. Recognising a major threat to her security, Britain abandoned the policy of holding aloof from entanglements with continental powers. Within ten years, Britain had concluded agreements, albeit limited, with her two major colonial rivals, France and Russia. Europe was divided into two armed camps: the Entente Powers (British Empire, France, Russia, Italy [from 1915], Romania, Belgium, Greece, Portugal) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria), and their populations began to see war not merely as inevitable but even welcome.

BBC - History - World Wars: The Origins of World War One

 

[L Gilbert]

WTF does that have to do with having a banana a day?

 

[Spade]

Yellow jingoistic journalism and ethnocentric history are the colour and texture of bananas.

My favourite breakfast sides are fried bananas with a drizzling of maple syrup.