If you’re still confused, it’s an apparently universal experience to try to plug in a USB, feel resistance, flip it, feel much more resistance, and then realize you were correct the first time. Hence, three is the magic number.
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sebinspace@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I learned a long time ago that it takes three licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop, because commercial breaks during Saturday morning cartoons told me so. Sometime later, I also learned that “three” is usually the magic number for correctly plugging in a USB Type-A device.
……what the fuck?
TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 11 months ago
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 11 months ago
sebinspace@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah no I get the reference
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Knusper@feddit.de 11 months ago
Diagram showing a USB Type A plug which doesn’t fit. Then it’s flipped 180°, still doesn’t fir. Then flipped 180° again, i.e. back into the original position, but now it magically fits.
CarlsIII@kbin.social 11 months ago
Still not sure what that has to do with tootsie roll pops, other than the number 3? Explaining why someone said something doesn’t automatically make it not weird
obre@kbin.social 11 months ago
Just a reference to an old ad
CarlsIII@kbin.social 11 months ago
No, I know, we all know the ad, we are just trying to figure out what that has to do with USB’s other than a use of the number “3.” It’s a really weird part of the article that elicits a “wtf” whether you get the reference or not. Getting the reference doesn’t make it not weird.
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Knusper@feddit.de 11 months ago
Oh yeah, no, I agree. I just wasn’t entirely sure, if they thought it was even weirder than it still is, because they did not know the joke about the USB sticks. Just trying to help via dumb memes. 🙃
sebinspace@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can respect that