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[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

due to the 'Dont Say Gay' bill my biology teacher said it was "great sex" instead of "gay sex".

literally 1984

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Great (gay) sex

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Reminds us of how one of our teachers taught us SOHCAHTOA:

Sex On Hard Concrete Always Harms The Orgasmic Areas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Which is Domain? When I learned this, it only started at Kevin. Nice to see folks getting more polite regarding their gay sex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

The kingdoms have changed several times, they're basically trying to use a more accurate system based on DNA using genotyping to decide which groups are more closely related and be less reliant on behavior and appearance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Stuff being separated away makes sense I guess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Archaea and Everything Else (I can't remember the other domain)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, my bf's name is Kenny and we love having gay sex, so this is perfect for me!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 23 hours ago

Is he a ratfucker

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My GCSE bio class taught something along the lines of "Dear kinky prostitutes, come over for great sex"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

The man loves his work. You gotta admire it.

From 20 feet away with a full NBC suit and some plastic sheeting, but you gotta.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Kevin goes both ways.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (6 children)

There's a particularly horrible one people used to use to remember resistor color codes-

"Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly."

Black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, gray, white

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Boomer Bigots Rely On Yellow-bellied Garbage By Vulgarizing General Wisdom

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Having worked with a bunch of Boomer and older Gen X EEs, it is a fucking misogynistic boys club of white ass old men with undiagnosed autism. I have never heard so many racist and sexist jokes in the workplace (except when I worked in VC, and those guys were JUST sexist).

So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I've heard it before, but as "Black Boys * * *").

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Black, brown, then the fucking colors of the rainbow in order, gray, white.

If you need a mnemonic to memorize that, you're gonna have some trouble actually building out your lookup table in your head of immediately knowing that red=2, yellow=4, etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never clocked on that the colors are in the order of the rainbow. Mind blown that it's taken your comment to highlight this for me.

I also like that the colors surrounding are shades of lightness... cough cough let's ignore the brown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

It's for those of us that prefer our circuit components to be LGBTQ+ friendly. Fuck those SMD resistors.

[–] Cuberoot 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

For those who enjoy a little racism with their misogyny, there's a way to disambiguate one of the B colors.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

To add to this, my dad told me that "Get Some Now" was sometimes tacked on to indicate tolerance levels. Gold (5%), Silver (10%), Nothing (0%).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

What the fuck

[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Why didn't you make it "great" sex?

Great Community reference btw

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

It's pride month

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

My friend came up with almost the exact same thing during high school. The only difference is that the DK stood for "Donkey Kong".

Can't say it wasn't memorable!

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When I was in 9th grade our geography teacher put us in groups and assigned each of us a group of countries to memorize. We were given the task of creating a mnemonic to help us memorize. We got central America.

Panama, Costa arica, Nicaragua Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico.

Please Call Nick He Sucks Good Butt Man.

It has been over 30 years and I've still never called Nick, but I'll never forget central America.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

We had to memorise South East Asia and its capitals. You had it easy. Look up the capital of Brunei.

We weren't advised to use mnemonics

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can never remember that. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

I feel like Community inadvertently helped so many biology students in the past 10 years.

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