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[–] rat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Is he a ratfucker

[–] Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Kevin goes both ways.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 17 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

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 13 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 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 * * *").

[–] foo@feddit.uk 3 points 21 hours ago

It's actually worse still. When I first heard it, the second B wasn't "boys". I'm Gen X and it was disgusting to hear even back then. Please don't lump us in with the boomers. A lot changed in a few short years.

[–] Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The racist term I was taught when I was a young person

(Color of darkness) (fatherless children) (coerced non-consensual reproduction activities) our (new people to the world) (XX people) but (pure people) go without.

I hate reading resistor color codes because which is the correct orientation for the resistor. Band gaps and positions on real world resistors don't stand out as much as what the theoretical charts show - so I always meter them anyway.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You can say black bastards rape our young girls but virgins go without on here. We're not reddit.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

I was so confused lmao

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 22 hours 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.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 20 hours 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%).

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

What the fuck

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

I can never remember that. Thanks!

[–] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 day ago (12 children)

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

Great Community reference btw

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

It's pride month

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[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 108 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?

[–] Toldry@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, the new Lemmy flipperoo

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hold my Kevin (gives him a smooch), I'm going in!

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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.

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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!

[–] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I've also said Donkey Kong for years!

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

See my stupid ass would remember the fun phrase but not the related factual word. So I'd just have phrases with no inkling what the original info was.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Remember Send Vedding Present.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Taxonomy is much more complicated than I remember from high school. For one thing I thought the top level was Kingdom, consisting of Animal and Plant. There's like 50x more to it. And I actually liked school and mostly paid attention. WTF?

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 22 hours ago

When I learned about taxonomy in the 90's they hadn't really sequenced many genomes, so taxonomy was still very much phenotype driven, rather than the modern genetic/molecular approaches. I just assumed that everything I learned has become out of date.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago
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