• TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    due to the ‘Dont Say Gay’ bill my biology teacher said it was “great sex” instead of “gay sex”.

    literally 1984

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

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    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

    • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
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      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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        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.

        • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          GenX here, my father was a racist and ran with a similar racist crowd, and i was disgusted pretty soon after i started to comprehend the shit they spew.

          That crap they said sometimes still comes into my mind when seeing non-whites (i heard that stuff a lot, as my father descended into his alcoholism over 2 decades), and then i firmly disagree with those thoughts and feel icky. Racism (and i believe it’s the same for sexism) is an active choice, even when growing up in a racist environment.

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      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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        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.

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      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.

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        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
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      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%).

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    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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    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.

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      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

  • PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works
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    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.