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PM_ME_ALL_UR_KARMA OP t1_ja6l2np wrote

Reply to comment by winterized-dingo in This women's room has a urinal by PM_ME_ALL_UR_KARMA

It is. But fun fact, urinals in women's rooms were also a thing during the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. They were for women wearing kimono who couldn't squat (for squatting toilets) or sit down (for western-style toilets) to pee.

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gheebutersnaps87 t1_ja6l7s5 wrote

That’s such a specific fact, how and why do you know that?

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PM_ME_ALL_UR_KARMA OP t1_ja6len2 wrote

I remember reading about it as a part of a trivia on the 1964 Olympics, and it just kind of stuck.

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Throwaway4545232 t1_ja6lvbl wrote

Funny how this sticks but the Pythagorean theorem doesn’t. Brains are weird

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gheebutersnaps87 t1_ja6n2xc wrote

Maybe it’s just the adhd, but I can somehow remember the lines of entire episodes of the office, but can’t remember a single thing from highschool algebra

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stopcounting t1_ja7b8p6 wrote

That's because you only took algebra once, but you probably binged the office like >5 times, plus whatever random episodes you catch on tv, plus quotes that get tossed around on reddit. The cultural saturation's lot higher if you don't use algebra at work or something.

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No_Primary_44 t1_ja7ytzo wrote

Though an ADHD brain is also just incredibly bad at prioritizing which information is important and which isn't

I remember so many insignificant details, like what clockspeed that one online friend I barely talk to has set his gpu to that one time when he tried overclocking seven years ago.

But actively working on and practicing stuff I need to know for an exam? Studying that subject every day? Nah, can't remember any of it.

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yoUsermame360 t1_ja7yy72 wrote

Petition to start quoting the quadratic formula

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SuckerOfPun t1_ja90j5t wrote

Isn't that (-b +/- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac))/2a? It's been a while...

Edit:formatting

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gheebutersnaps87 t1_ja92r2u wrote

Man I mean even during school when I actively had algebra, I couldn’t remember any of that shit even if my life depended on it; goes in one ear and right out the other without even touching my brain

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notlayingnow t1_ja6mxso wrote

Fun fact: Pythagoras hated beans, and believed they were the devils spawn or something. One fateful day he was running from a bunch of murders who rudely interrupted some meeting (i think) and as he ran came across a bean field. It would go against his teachings to touch the beans so he allowed himself to be killed!!

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Earthshattering-ass t1_ja77w68 wrote

Actually, pythagoras worshipped fava beans because he believed them to hold the souls of the dead because they were flesh like and would not eat them because he considered it cannabilism. It’s also not confirmed that that’s how he died but Its likely it was because he would not step on the sacred beans, lol.

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notlayingnow t1_ja7abkb wrote

So he either hated them so bad he no step or loved them so much he no step, or it’s a made up fan fiction

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LePixelinho t1_ja792qk wrote

That's ony a legend though, there are different theories about his death (even though they are not as memorable as the bean field one)

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ManicPandiculation t1_ja6z2h6 wrote

Pythagoras was a weird cult leader. He also didn't invent the Pythagorean theorem. He just Ben Franklin'ed that shit.

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ninto1 t1_ja7zd4z wrote

How would the Pythagorean theorem not stick? It is really simple and easy to imagine visually (squares around triangle).

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randomjberry t1_ja83cp2 wrote

but a^2 + b^2 = c ^2 is easy to remember but the quadratic formula is actualy onr that might take me a minuite

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H2Omekanic t1_jaar29o wrote

The Olympics were different back then. Didn't Germany win the women's standing pee for distance competition? Tall gal..got almost 2 meters

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