Dear Kevin
from ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz on 18 Jun 01:35
https://lemmy.world/post/31561743

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SoupBrick@pawb.social on 18 Jun 02:23 next collapse

Memorable 👍

expatriado@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 02:40 collapse

so it was for Kevin

blazeknave@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 02:53 next collapse

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

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 04:12 collapse

What are learned domains?

funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jun 04:25 collapse

i think theyre referring to the mnemonic

King Phillip Came Over From Great Spain

=

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

and theyre saying they should add Domains to this (that precedes Kingdom)

Lemminary@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 05:26 collapse

Ohh, they learned that domains exist. Silly me. Lol I was ready for some epistemology, ngl.

blazeknave@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 19:05 collapse

Yeah, I reread it - that was a critical missing word! Sorry!

seven_phone@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 03:04 next collapse

You use taxonomy to remind you to ask Kevin over?

hansolo@lemmy.today on 18 Jun 06:14 next collapse

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

Toldry@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 16:44 collapse

Ah, the new Lemmy flipperoo

poplargrove@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 17:12 collapse

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

poplargrove@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 17:23 collapse

P.S !lemmaroo@lemmy.world exists

scbasteve7@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 03:04 next collapse

Why wouldn’t you use Karen
?

Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Jun 03:20 next collapse

Well, Kevin makes more sense to have gay sex with than Karen. At least if you are male.

thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 Jun 05:19 next collapse

This is why we need more women in STEM.

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 18:54 collapse

The hero we needed, but not the one we deserved.

Thank you, ThotDragon, for supporting the queer and feminist parts of the scientific community.

chellomere@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 05:57 collapse

I think Karen is just as capable as Kevin of having gay sex.

Jolteon@lemmy.zip on 18 Jun 06:50 collapse

Depending on how pedantic you are.

AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 03:22 next collapse

It’s gay sex, dummy.

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 05:48 next collapse

So use “great”.

AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 06:23 next collapse

Well now I can’t remember anything!

kemsat@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 07:38 next collapse

Or good

Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone on 18 Jun 08:02 collapse

You can’t teach kids mnemonics about straight sex anymore, because of woke.

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 08:20 next collapse

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.”

teft@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 18:35 collapse

“Who’s looking out for wealthy, white, Anglo-Saxon, evangelical, cisgendered, heterosexual men?!”

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/40f398ef-f873-433d-bbdd-3f701c264049.gif">

TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 23:25 collapse

the thing is
 there’s gotta be at least a million Americans or more who unironically would say this

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Jun 01:24 collapse

Karen can have gay sex too, if she wants.

AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 03:32 next collapse

I’m starting to think no one here knows this is from a TV show


skeesx@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 08:09 collapse
kibiz0r@midwest.social on 18 Jun 03:44 collapse

Kevin likes to be used

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 18 Jun 03:57 next collapse

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?

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jun 05:11 next collapse

Sure, just tag “and subphylum, subclass, superorder, suborder” to the end, so that it’s ASSSS

And you know everyone wants and ASSSS orgy

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today on 18 Jun 07:29 next collapse

Didn’t know Kevin was such a sub


goldfndr@lemmy.ml on 18 Jun 08:18 collapse

spermy scat sometime soon

hellfire103@lemmy.ca on 18 Jun 04:49 next collapse

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 on 18 Jun 16:55 collapse

I’ve also said Donkey Kong for years!

PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jun 04:53 next collapse

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.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 07:48 next collapse

Do these mnemonics actually help?

Psythik@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 08:02 next collapse

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:

đŸŽ” Por quĂ©, why,
Quando, when,
Qué, what; donde, where.
Cuantos, how much; cĂłmo, how,
Quien estĂĄ, who is there?
CuĂĄl! đŸŽ”

đŸŽ” Por quĂ©, why,
Quando, when,
Qué, what; donde, where.
Cuantos, how much; cĂłmo, how,
Quien estĂĄ, who is there?
Which! đŸŽ”

SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Jun 08:07 next collapse

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 on 18 Jun 08:19 collapse

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.

RebekahWSD@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 08:09 next collapse

Well I still remember Roy G. Biv and Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally so maybe?

psud@aussie.zone on 20 Jun 08:53 collapse

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

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip on 18 Jun 08:45 next collapse

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.

meyotch@slrpnk.net on 18 Jun 13:41 next collapse

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.

Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 19:20 collapse

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.

Hoimo@ani.social on 18 Jun 07:53 next collapse

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 on 18 Jun 08:18 collapse

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 on 18 Jun 08:20 collapse

It isn’t, it’s just a description of evolutionary descent. An additional classification instead of a replacement.

Wilco@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 08:57 next collapse

I hate that I have learned this factoid.

BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 09:44 next collapse

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 on 20 Jun 08:43 collapse

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

TheTurner@lemmy.zip on 18 Jun 10:30 next collapse

Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me

TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 23:29 collapse

for classes of stars!

TheTurner@lemmy.zip on 19 Jun 01:25 collapse

Yes! I learned it in astronomy class in 2008 and have never forgotten it! Lol.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca on 18 Jun 11:57 next collapse

Remember Send Vedding Present.

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Jun 01:24 collapse

Rescind Sickening Vogon Poetry

psud@aussie.zone on 20 Jun 08:45 collapse

RĂ©pondez s’il vous plaĂźt?

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Jun 08:47 collapse

Oui

WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Jun 13:07 next collapse

Why didn’t you make it “great” sex?

Great Community reference btw

markovs_gun@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 17:09 next collapse

It’s pride month

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 19:07 collapse

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

exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Jun 19:14 next collapse

Gray sex.

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

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 19:26 collapse

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 on 18 Jun 20:18 next collapse

grumpy

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 20:35 collapse

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

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andros_rex@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 14:48 collapse

I missed the “for.” There’s a serious lack of mpreg daddy dom fiction.

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 14:58 collapse

That’s understandable. There’s a lot going on in that cover picture and title.

Also, be the change you want to see in the world.

sthetic@lemmy.ca on 18 Jun 21:18 next collapse

I choose guilty sex.

It makes it a little raunchy, without explaining why.

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 21:26 collapse

Catholicism has entered the chat.

xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jun 23:23 collapse

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

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 14:44 next collapse

Maybe in this case, it’s not about Kevin’s interest. The speaker is mandating that Kevin be Karyotyped to determine which bathrooms he can use.

TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works on 19 Jun 19:52 collapse

Relevant username ‘xx’, lol

Bosht@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 17:10 next collapse

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.

markovs_gun@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 17:13 next collapse

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

thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz on 18 Jun 17:53 next collapse

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 on 18 Jun 19:53 collapse

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 on 20 Jun 00:32 collapse

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.

Cuberoot@lemmynsfw.com on 18 Jun 18:42 next collapse

For those who enjoy a little racism with their misogyny, there’s a way to disambiguate one of the B colors.

lemmyingly@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 19:54 collapse

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 on 18 Jun 21:51 collapse

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

Edit - Evidently I was wrong, a mod has informed me that I need a spoiler tag

Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works on 18 Jun 23:18 next collapse

I was so confused lmao

[deleted] on 19 Jun 21:01 next collapse

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fossilesque@mander.xyz on 19 Jun 21:08 collapse

Can you please put that in a spoiler tag at least lmao.

pineapplelover@lemm.ee on 18 Jun 18:51 next collapse

What the fuck

exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Jun 19:13 next collapse

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 on 18 Jun 20:02 collapse

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.

the_tab_key@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 21:54 collapse

It’s for those of us that prefer our circuit components to be LGBTQ+ friendly. Fuck those SMD resistors.

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 21:05 next collapse

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

HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Jun 21:43 collapse

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%).

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 17:34 next collapse

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 on 18 Jun 19:36 collapse

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.

Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 19:04 next collapse

I can never remember that. Thanks!

BlackPenguins@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 21:47 collapse

I feel like Community inadvertently helped so many biology students in the past 10 years.

jve@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 19:32 next collapse

Ah the things I learned from TV Funhouse!

youtu.be/c8d5tobSv5E

youtu.be/62zX5x-bgEM

youtu.be/7tFp674luH4

Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 22:48 next collapse

My GCSE bio class taught something along the lines of “Dear kinky prostitutes, come over for great sex”

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world on 18 Jun 23:05 collapse

Interesting. Kevin showed up either way.

0x0@lemmy.zip on 19 Jun 15:10 next collapse

Kevin goes both ways.

outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Jun 21:16 collapse

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.

rat@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Jun 03:43 next collapse

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

trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 15:05 collapse

Is he a ratfucker

Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca on 19 Jun 21:39 next collapse

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

ada@piefed.blahaj.zone on 19 Jun 21:46 next collapse

Archaea and Everything Else (I can't remember the other domain)

Liz@midwest.social on 19 Jun 22:26 collapse

Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya

MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca on 19 Jun 23:37 next collapse

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.

Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Jun 01:24 collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/0a4822ed-c46c-465c-8d04-cc6645b226b5.webp"> Stuff being separated away makes sense I guess

TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works on 19 Jun 22:05 next collapse

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

literally 1984

Agent641@lemmy.world on 20 Jun 00:08 collapse

Great (gay) sex

mondomon@lemmy.world on 19 Jun 23:03 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5430d97b-f99d-46f2-9b87-31c751f7da06.gif">

oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 20 Jun 01:17 collapse

Reminds us of how one of our teachers taught us SOHCAHTOA:

Sex On Hard Concrete Always Harms The Orgasmic Areas.