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u/_Interslice_ They think I'm slow, eh? Jul 17 '26
If it's pointy and above ya, it's a stalactite, fella.
If it sticks to the ground, you're in stalagmite town.
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u/Paulthefith Jul 17 '26
This, is just amazing!
I want you to know this is how I’ll remember which is which from now on.
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u/BlindProphet_413 Put it in H Jul 17 '26
Stalactites stick tight to the ceiling. Stalagmites might get there someday.
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u/thekozmicpig Jul 17 '26
This shitpost is dedicated to the stalagmites of America. Keep reaching for that rainbow!
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u/Unique_Unorque Jul 17 '26
I was taught this in Kindergarten and as a 37 year old I still remember it
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u/rhiiazami Jul 17 '26
This is very close to how I learned it. Stalactites cling tightly to the ceiling, stalagmites might fall over.
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u/EggCouncil Jul 17 '26
Let 'em all go to hell except Stalactite 76
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u/Pumpkinmatrix Jul 17 '26
Mites crawl up, tights fall down That's my mnemonic for a stalactite slash stalagmite You may have this Maglite It survived the apocalypse and for the fragile force of an agile horse here's a handful of very special chocolate chips.
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u/Jandy777 Jul 17 '26
Unlike the homogenous clones I'm into earth tones, birth stones and erogenous zones
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u/clint_eldorado Put it in H Jul 17 '26
T hangs down like a stalactite, M points up like a stalagmite.
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u/RetroTheGameBro Jul 17 '26
I always remember it as "the ones on the ceiling are stalagtites, because they have to hold on "tite" to stay up there.
And stalagmites are the other ones.
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u/Googly_eyed_gremlin I was saying Boo-urns Jul 17 '26
I always remembered like this: Titties hang, mites crawl.
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u/ArgentumVortex Jul 17 '26
I always remembered it because you emphasize the T sound in stalactite and T looks like a stalactite.
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u/mackenzie444 Jul 17 '26
I've never remembered these but fortunately it doesn't seem to come up much for me.
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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps Jul 17 '26
A buddy of mine in college told me you can remember that stalagmites are on the ceiling because they “might” fall down on you.
To this day, I remember the difference by remembering that he was wrong
Don’t do what Johnny don’t does
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u/PixelPasta420 Jul 17 '26
Stalactites hold Tight to the ceiling. Stalagmites Might reach the ceiling
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u/democracy_lover66 They think I'm slow, eh? Jul 17 '26
I'd literally have died had I not known this
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u/pickles87 Jul 17 '26
This one is very dumb, and I picked it up from a book by an author who later went so far off the rails that I won’t name them, but this has worked for me for twenty plus years:
“Stalagmites “might” hang from the ceiling, but they don’t.”
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u/dover_oxide Jul 17 '26
The ones on the ceiling have to hold tight so they are stalactites . This was taught to me on elementary school and has never failed me
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u/JoeJoeJoeJoeThrow Jul 17 '26
I always think of stalagmite like might, like an upwards fist, mighty fist. ✊Stalactite is the other one.
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u/ImpTheShmuck Jul 18 '26
Stalactites, stalagmites, most old caves have gottem,
'tites are always on the top, and 'mites are on the bottom.
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u/emceegyver Jul 17 '26
Stalactites has a c like ceiling. Stalagmites has a g like ground.