I can never remember that. Thanks!
Ah the things I learned from TV Funhouse!
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
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.
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.
For those who enjoy a little racism with their misogyny, there’s a way to disambiguate one of the B colors.
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.
What the fuck
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 * * *”).
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.
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?
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 I just assumed that everything I learned has become out of date.
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.
Why didn’t you make it “great” sex?
Great Community reference btw
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
Gray sex.
You know, sex between people of Pierce’s age.
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.
It’s pride month
Remember Send Vedding Present.
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.
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!
I’ve also said Donkey Kong for years!
You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?
Ah, the new Lemmy flipperoo
Hold my Kevin (gives him a smooch), I’m going in!
P.S !lemmaroo@lemmy.world exists
“Domain, Kingdom, Phy- oh no! Kevin is right there! OK, I should ask before I forget.”
I hate that I have learned this factoid.
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.
Memorable 👍
so it was for Kevin
Why wouldn’t you use Karen…?
It’s gay sex, dummy.
So use “great”.
You can’t teach kids mnemonics about straight sex anymore, because of woke.
I thought this was sincere for a second. Totally got past my sarcasm filter.
“Who’s looking out for wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, evangelical, cisgendered, heterosexual men?!”
“Uh, the government?”
“Well, yeah. I meant aside from that.”
“Who’s looking out for wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, evangelical, cisgendered, heterosexual men?!”
Well now I can’t remember anything!
Or good
Well, Kevin makes more sense to have gay sex with than Karen. At least if you are male.
This is why we need more women in STEM.
The hero we needed, but not the one we deserved.
Thank you, ThotDragon, for supporting the queer and feminist parts of the scientific community.
I think Karen is just as capable as Kevin of having gay sex.
Depending on how pedantic you are.
I’m starting to think no one here knows this is from a TV show…
Kevin likes to be used
