There is nothing in this video that is not hilarious:
It's so true. I wake up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat (well that's 'cause I don't have any air conditioning, but that's another post), my heart pounding, thinking OH NO, IT WASN'T A DREAM! Breakfast is a disaster. I can't go to supermarkets 'cause I might see one. And don't even get me started on pajamas.
The video is also ridiculous on a more serious level. After all, bananas are the way they are because they were bred to be that way by humans! In fact, bananas come in all kinds of shapes and sizes (and flavors). Plus the yellow banana we're all familiar with (called the Cavendish) will cease to be commercially viable in a few years due to a devastating disease spreading across the world (a fact I first learned listening to a fascinating Fresh Air interview). Since it's the only variety tough enough to withstand shipping to the U.S. from tropical climates American atheists may be able to sleep soundly in ten or twenty years.
Even setting aside disease, the Cavendish is hardly perfect. It has to be picked green, transported in refrigerated containers, and then ripened in special rooms filled with ethylene gas.
Also, if bananas are so great, why do some people feel the need to carry them in protective cases?
--Sam Boyd
