Dear Kevin
Submitted 9 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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mondomon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
due to the ‘Dont Say Gay’ bill my biology teacher said it was “great sex” instead of “gay sex”.
literally 1984
Agent641@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Great (gay) sex
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Which is Domain? When I learned this, it only started at Kevin. Nice to see folks getting more polite regarding their gay sex.
Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
The kingdoms have changed several times, they’re basically trying to use a more accurate system based on DNA using genotyping to decide which groups are more closely related and be less reliant on behavior and appearance.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Archaea and Everything Else (I can't remember the other domain)
Liz@midwest.social 9 months ago
Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
rat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Wow, my bf’s name is Kenny and we love having gay sex, so this is perfect for me!
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is he a ratfucker
Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My GCSE bio class taught something along the lines of “Dear kinky prostitutes, come over for great sex”
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
The man loves his work. You gotta admire it.
From 20 feet away with a full NBC suit and some plastic sheeting, but you gotta.
0x0@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Kevin goes both ways.
jve@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ah the things I learned from TV Funhouse!
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I can never remember that. Thanks!
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I feel like Community inadvertently helped so many biology students in the past 10 years.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Taxonomy is much more complicated than I remember from high school. For one thing I thought it started with Kingdom, which consisted of Animal and Plant. There’s like 20x more to it. And I actually liked school and mostly paid attention. WTF?
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months 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 I just assumed that everything I learned has become out of date.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months 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%).
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Boomer Bigots Rely On Yellow-bellied Garbage By Vulgarizing General Wisdom
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
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 9 months 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 9 months ago
What the fuck
Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
For those who enjoy a little racism with their misogyny, there’s a way to disambiguate one of the B colors.
lemmyingly@lemm.ee 9 months ago
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.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 9 months ago
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.
So this surprises me not at all (in fact, I think I’ve heard it before, but as “Black Boys * * *”).
foo@feddit.uk 9 months 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.
Bosht@lemmy.world 9 months 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.
WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Why didn’t you make it “great” sex?
Great Community reference btw
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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 9 months ago
I don’t know why Kevin would be interested with some physical XX And XY chromosomes
sthetic@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I choose guilty sex.
It makes it a little raunchy, without explaining why.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Gray sex.
You know, sex between people of Pierce’s age.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s pride month
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Remember Send Vedding Present.
TheTurner@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 9 months ago
for classes of stars!
TheTurner@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Yes! I learned it in astronomy class in 2008 and have never forgotten it! Lol.
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
psud@aussie.zone 9 months ago
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
Wilco@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I hate that I have learned this factoid.
Hoimo@ani.social 9 months ago
I don’t understand why you’d ever need to know this. What is a phylum anyway? Which animals share a phylum? Are bonobos and chimpanzees in a phylum, a family, a class? And what does that tell us about their relation that we couldn’t already tell from their characteristics?
AllOutOfBubbleGum@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The new thing seems to be “clades”. I’m not sure if it’s a complete replacement of the traditional taxonomy, though.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 months ago
It isn’t, it’s just a description of evolutionary descent
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Do these mnemonics actually help?
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Depends on the mnemonic. It has to flow and you have to know the steps individually. Although there was one time I spent so long trying to come up with a good mnemonic for the citric acid cycle that I just learned it and gave up.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 9 months ago
Unequivocally yes.
I got a contest going with my plant systematics cohort (8 credit hours over an academic year, that’s a lot of plant id work). We would see who could come up with the filthiest mnemonics to remember plant families and such.
Our professor, a brilliant botanist with a filthy mind and tenure, was delighted beyond measure at how well the entire cohort did on the practical plant ID exams. But mostly he enjoyed watching our classroom discussions.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I literally couldn’t tell you a single biology fact from my year studying it in HS but I remember King Phillip Came Over From Germany Stoned.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well I still remember Roy G. Biv and Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally so maybe?
psud@aussie.zone 9 months ago
PEMDAS for order of operations, we had BEDMAS which seemed memorable on it’s own, since we called these ‘()’ brackets and multiplication and division are equal so can be either way
SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
I learned Kids Playing Catch On Freeways Get Splattered about 20 years ago and I still remember, despite never needing to use it. So, the mnemonic helps to remember, but remembering doesn’t really help me
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 months ago
It helps you understand the world you live in and be a well rounded individual instead of cog whose only purpose is to know the things they need to make their owner more money and nothing else.
Psythik@lemm.ee 9 months ago
My 9th grade Spanish teacher taught us how to remember how to say who/what/when/where/why in Spanish by putting it to the tune of Jingle Bells. To this day that’s the only thing I remember from Spanish class, so yes I can confidently confirm that they work:
🎵 Por qué, why,
Quando, when,
Qué, what; donde, where.
Cuantos, how much; cómo, how,
Quien está, who is there?
Cuál! 🎵🎵 Por qué, why,
Quando, when,
Qué, what; donde, where.
Cuantos, how much; cómo, how,
Quien está, who is there?
Which! 🎵
PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 9 months 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.
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
My friend came up with almost the exact same thing during high school. The only difference is that the DK stood for “Donkey Kong”.
MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve also said Donkey Kong for years!
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Anybody got a sexy mnemonic that includes subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder, etc? Or, more to the point, what taxonomic system gets us to the orgy the fastest?
goldfndr@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
spermy scat sometime soon
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Didn’t know Kevin was such a sub…
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Sure, just tag “and subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder” to the end, so that it’s ASSSS
And you know everyone wants and ASSSS orgy
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Why wouldn’t you use Karen…?
kibiz0r@midwest.social 9 months ago
Kevin likes to be used
seven_phone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?
blazeknave@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Literally taught my son about Prince Philip a few hours ago. And learned domains is a thing now. Wish I could show him this for the serendipity but def no lol
SoupBrick@pawb.social 9 months ago
Memorable 👍
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Reminds us of how one of our teachers taught us SOHCAHTOA:
Sex On Hard Concrete Always Harms The Orgasmic Areas.