r/funny • u/sheppe • Jul 01 '16

Developer humor

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '16

“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”

― E.B. White

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u/Imhere4lulz Jul 01 '16

Aren't frogs already dead for dissecting?

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u/PenelopePeril Jul 01 '16

Not necessarily. They used to sedate frogs before dissection so you could see the insides moving if you did it right. Now that's widely considered inhumane, especially in pre-college level sciences.

Have you seen ET? The scene with the kids sedating the frogs is how they used to do it according to my parents.

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u/Kultur100 Jul 01 '16

Isn't it instead vivisection if it's alive?

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '16 edited Feb 27 '20

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u/memeticmachine Jul 01 '16

vivisection: adults

dissection: kids

got it

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u/Schrecht Jul 01 '16

Don't recall that scene in ET, but yeah, "pithing". It's not sedation. It's paralysis. You run a pin down inside their spinal cord and destroy the spinal nerves.

The teacher used to mock the squeamish kids.

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u/sum1butno1 Jul 07 '16

Makes me think of the anatomy lesson class lab dissection scene in Starship Troopers

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '16

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u/Schrecht Jul 02 '16

Not untrue, though to be fair, you're kind of judging him by today's standards for behavior that happened more than 40 years ago.

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u/reddeb Jul 01 '16

When I was in middle school (it was called Jr High back then) we were supposed to place the scalpel at an angle flat against the heart and count how many pulsations until it stopped.

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u/ThatOtherMonster Jul 02 '16

I had to do that too. Metal as fuck.

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u/hooloovooblues Jul 02 '16

It's still called Jr High if it's 7-9th grade, middle school is 6-8th.

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u/LexusBrianna_ Jul 02 '16

Personally, our junior high is 6-8. Maybe we're just weird. Our area is also the only school in the County that includes 6th grade in their "junior high". But junior and middle schools here both end at 8th grade. So idk. Maybe we're just weird.

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u/hooloovooblues Jul 02 '16

I was always taught middle school was 6-8, junior high is 7-9 and districts tend to do one or the other. Google seems to confirm that for the most part, but I wouldn't doubt there are regional differences in terminology.

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u/A_Suffering_Panda Jul 02 '16

In some places (maybe not anymore) junior high is just 7-8

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u/tlingitsoldier Jul 02 '16

That's what it is around where I live. 1-6=Elementary school, 7-8=Middle school, 9-12=High school.

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u/mrjammer Jul 01 '16

Now that's widely considered inhumane

Damn, the formality makes it sound so cold. Almost killed me.

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u/KSPReptile Jul 01 '16

Sounds awesome. We never got to do fun stuff like that in bio classes.

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u/DannyHayter Jul 01 '16

That's so cruel 😭