# I Pit pollen (mild)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pollen-mild/749218>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 16, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pollen-mild/749218 "2016-03-16T22:37:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pollen-mild/749218/1 "2016-03-16T22:37:14Z")

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Specifically, oak pollen. Even if I weren’t allergic, it’s disgusting and it gets **everywhere.** Every morning and at the end of every workday, when I get in my car the windshield is spattered all over with little green powder-blobs of treejizz (and I don’t even park under a tree). Happens every year at this time.

If I’m ever Mayor of Tampa, I will find a way to have every oak tree in town pulled up by the roots and sold to a paper mill. (Why not, we’ll still have plenty of trees.)

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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pollen-mild/749218/2 "2016-03-17T03:50:06Z")

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Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean all the trees aren’t trying to mate with you. Cut them all down …

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**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pollen-mild/749218/3 "2016-03-17T11:15:02Z")

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> treejizz

A pollen grain is is actually more akin to a testicle than to jizz. Each grain contains several cells, only two of which form the sperm nuclei. I don’t know if that’s at all comforting, but I thought I’d throw it out there.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pollen-mild/749218/4 "2016-03-17T14:34:29Z")

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> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#):
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> A pollen grain is is actually more akin to a testicle than to jizz. Each grain contains several cells, only two of which form the sperm nuclei. I don’t know if that’s at all comforting, but I thought I’d throw it out there.

It is not, but it is somehow good to know.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-pollen-mild/749218/5 "2016-03-17T15:38:06Z")

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I miss spring near my old high school. There was a field that had about a dozen or so large poplars on it. When the ground was covered in the pollen you could light it on fire. It made a giant ‘poomf’ with a quick bright flash and then it was all gone.