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submitted 7 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just drop the ship off the conveyor onto a bar. The good ships will bounce higher, and the bad ones won't. Problem solved.

Sarcasm aside, this is how they sort cranberries and where the expression "raising the bar" comes from. The higher the bar is set, the tighter the constraints on which cranberries will bounce onto the "good" conveyor.

[–] Vlyn@lemmy.zip 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I actually had to look this up, why are you spreading misinformation?

The idiom “raise the bar” came into use around 1900 and comes from the sport of track and field. The high jump event and the pole vault event both involve raising a crossbar incrementally to see how high the participants can jump or pole vault.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Because I grew up in cranberry country and that's what I had always been told. I'm not surprised to find this out though, because that makes a lot of sense.