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[–] rat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 9 points 13 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 4 points 13 hours ago

Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours 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 10 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 14 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%).

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 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 16 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 7 points 18 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 16 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 6 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 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 3 points 16 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.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago

What the fuck

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

I can never remember that. Thanks!

[–] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

Great Community reference btw

[–] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago

It's pride month

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I love that show, too.

I took the liberty of looking up adjectives that start with 'g' and sorted them by frequency of use. I found it amusing:

Good

Green

General

Global

Grand

Golden

Guilty

Genetic

Gentle

Grim

Genuine

Gray

Growing

Graphic

Grateful

Glaring

Gracious

Greedy

Glorious

Giant

Grave

Grumpy

Gallant

Gaudy

[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

I don't know why Kevin would be interested with some physical XX And XY chromosomes

[–] sthetic@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I choose guilty sex.

It makes it a little raunchy, without explaining why.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Catholicism has entered the chat.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Gray sex.

You know, sex between people of Pierce's age.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

That's a hilarious take.

When I saw "Gray," I imagined a black-and-white French art film depicting a couple and their struggle with ennui.

[–] foo@feddit.uk 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

It's a thing. Just don't go too far down the Deviant Art rabbit hole. There be dragons.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours 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.

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 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 3 points 17 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.

[–] seven_phone@lemmy.world 107 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?

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

Ah, the new Lemmy flipperoo

[–] poplargrove@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 1 day ago

"Domain, Kingdom, Phy- oh no! Kevin is right there! OK, I should ask before I forget."

[–] 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 19 hours ago

I've also said Donkey Kong for years!

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

Remember Send Vedding Present.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I remember telling my bio-chem mom about ‘King Phillip Came Over For Great Spaghetti’ in middle school. Didn’t realize why she chuckled until later.

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