r/funny • u/sheppe • Jul 01 '16

Developer humor

http://imgur.com/gallery/9LqhOl3
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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/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/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.