I wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.

I overheard someone talking about veganism and said they only eat plants. I asked them about mushrooms, “of course it's fine, those are plants”.
No amount of convincing worked.

So I've seen it once.

Pluto is a mushroom

I think an issue here is that taxonomic and colloquial definitions don't always agree.

Spiders are colloquially bugs, but they're not taxonomically "true bugs" (which is itself a colloquialism for Hemiptera). Tomatos are colloquially vegetables but taxonomically fruits...but afaik vegetable is a purely colloquial term anyway.

And as someone else in the thread mentioned, colloquial berries are not always taxonomic berries.

So...colloquially, "plants" sorta means, "macroscopic multicellular living non-animal thing," but taxonomically it's something else.

Fuck you op. Mushrooms are plants, Pluto is a planet, and that's the truth from one edge of this flat Earth to the other.

~disclaimer: this is a joke~

It's not a plant or an animal, but a secret third thing.

If Pluto is a planet, then Ceres is a planet too. CERES RIGHTS!

Thanks plants vs zombies 😡😡

I've met people who were certain that bugs weren't animals

Pluto is a planet, though. It’s officially considered a “dwarf” planet, and as “dwarf” is just an adjective, it’s still a planet (just like a short person is still a person). The other 8 new dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Gonggong, Quaoar, Orcus, and Sedna) are also all planets - so we have 17 planets total.

Seriously, though. By the same 3 criteria that Pluto isn’t a planet, Mercury isn’t (as it isn’t in hydrostatic equilibrium).

Watermelons are berries. Strawberries are not.

The definition of planet is completely subjective, whereas the definition of mushroom is based on science and evolution.

"GET MY PLANET'S NAME OUTTA YO MOUTH!"

From what I've seen, dudes that care that much about mushrooms are really fun guys.

I think OP is on mushrooms.

...this would trigger a friend of mine so badly (fungi enthusiast and Pluto stan). I want to send it, but at the same time... I'm not sure I'd hear the end of it.

Fun fact: mushrooms are closer to the animal kingdom than to the plant kingdom.

I have family in Streator, IL, home of Clyde Tombaugh, so we're die hard planet pluto.

Well they use chitin not celulose for structure so definatly closer to animals than plants.

Similarly plate tectonics - not fully recognised until the 60s apparently.

I mean both classifications are arbitrary and made up, so defense of either side is equally valid (even if only because they're also equally invalid).

We don't even have a solid definition of what constitutes "life", or "consciousness", because we can't agree on what should be included, or how various aspects are defined.

In the end, words are just symbols or sounds that we try to - as consistently as possible - associate with ideas, but it's all made up.

Pokemon

All hail the Mushroom King!

You can use mushrooms in Plants vs Zombies.

It isn’t called “Plants and Fungi vs Zombies.”

Ergo, mushrooms are plants.

Checkmate, atheists!

I consider myself a fungi.

I've never even considered whether they're plants or not. I guess I always assumed they were, but now it makes sense that they're not. But I can't imagine anyone having a tizzy over it either way.

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Yes, I've encountered a few people like this. Also, no one has ever heard of Archaea.