Apples, Oranges, and Romanian Idioms

"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to example of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores. wikipedia has a whole exact section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them all. In European French the idiom is comparer des pommes et des poires (to compare apples and pears) see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L In Russian, сравнивать тёплое с мягким (sravnivat' tjoploje s mjagkim) (to compare warm and soft) is used. ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. молодцы ребята продолжаем в том же духе. In Colombia, confundir la mierda con la pomada (to confuse shit with ointment) is used. colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me. In Serbian, it is Поредити бабе и жабе (Porediti babe i žabe) (to compare grandmothers and toads). In Romanian, it is baba și mitraliera (the grandmother and the machine gun) and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down, everyone give a big round of applause to romania

A dark-mode social media post humorously compares international versions of the idiom “comparing apples and oranges.” It escalates from relatively sensible comparisons to increasingly absurd phrases, with Romanian “the grandmother and the machine gun” presented as the funniest winner. The meme is used as a reaction to bizarre comparisons or unexpectedly vivid expressions. EN: A dark-mode social media post humorously compares international versions of the idiom “comparing apples and oranges.” It escalates from relatively sensible comparisons to increasingly absurd phrases, with Romanian “the grandmother and the machine gun” presented as the funniest winner. The meme is used as a reaction to bizarre comparisons or unexpectedly vivid expressions.

• @pokupkabitka / 54126 2026-02-13