I was buying my mum a house plant recently and commented to the woman at the till 'how did house plants survive before there were houses?' She looked at me like I was an absolute idiot and said, 'they are native to warmer countries'.

[fesshole@mastodon.social]

I was buying my mum a house plant recently and commented to the woman at the till 'how did house plants survive before there were houses?' She looked at me like I was an absolute idiot and said, 'they are native to warmer countries'. I'm 54.

[natanox@chaos.social]

@fesshole Well to be fair, you in fact were an absolute idiot. 🫠

[benjohn@todon.nl]

@fesshole well, I understand quite a lot of crop plants are “cultivars” so different from the original wild plant you’d be hard pressed to know they were related. So it seems fairly plausible at least some house plants didn't really exist before houses either.

[kitten_tech@fosstodon.org]

@fesshole imagine how excited barn owls were when humans invented barns!

[zebulonmysterioso@mas.to]

@fesshole I'm kinda torn between 'that was kinda obvious you should feel a bit sheepish' and 'everybody thinks about something for the first time why do people take that as an opportunity to sneer at them for it'.

[colman@mastodon.ie]

@benjohn @fesshole that would be true of most of them, I suspect. The sort of thing clerics and ladies spent their lives breeding in the 18th and 19th C.