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DNA

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Should we point out that in this context it's 'save', not 'safe'? If you're going to correct someone's spelling, make sure your own is impeccable.
- Nah. It's engagement bait, plane and simple
  
  It works too well… plain and simple.
  That missing period had better also have been intentional.
  
  But how can you be sertain?
  
  The fact that that's a thing is why I don't use the more mainstream social media. Only Lemmy.
- Its another classic case of Muphry's Law.
  
  Don't you meen Murphy's Law?
- you're*
  
  Youeu're*
  
  Lol. Wrong.

Deoxyribonucleic acid, for anyone wondering
- Deoxyribo&ucleic acid, for anyone sophisticated
  
  Deoxyriboanducleic acid, according to Shadow Radar.
  
  Wouldn’t it be Deoxyriboandacid?
  
  Ah yes, cue Monocle'd Pooh!
- Dicks n ass, for anyone wondering. It’s the male version of tna.
  
  Sure that first one is plural?
- I have this acronym finder as a search engine shortcut in vomnibar. It never has what I'm looking for:
  Department(al) Network Administrator Datanetwork Associates (Software) Does Not Apply
  
  Did someone tell these vomnibar people that their name sounds like vomitbar
- Or DRNA to anyone in the know.
  
  I get mad every time I think about it that we don't call it DRNA
- And?
- I think you mean deoxyribo and acid.

Science jargon has always sounded so impressive until I took anatomy.
for example, the big hole in the bottom of your skull (where the spinal chord passes through) is called the “foramen magnum” which is Latin for ‘big hole’.
- Is it jargon or just a different language
  
  Scientists use one to pretend the other
- I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?
  
  Get this. You have a structure in your brain called the "mammillary bodies". It's because it looks like a pair of tits.
- Unlike the cowards who hide their stupid names with latin, computer scientists will straight up call something a 'fat pointer'.

What part of deoxyribonucleic acid do you not understand?
- Dungeons nucleic Dragons
  
  This new craze they call "rock nucleic roll" is driving the country's youth wild!
  
  Oh, yeah, that's fair.
- The elven part
- What if I told you there's another kind of DNA for which that statement is actually true?

- That's South Africa, you can't expect that much from a 30% pass mark.
  
  South Africa is a region composed of several countries and eleven non-english languages. You're going to judge them based on a word Americans misspell??

“God safe us” - irony right there especially when critical of someone else’s use of an acronym perhaps one’s own grasp of the English language should be a little better!!!
God save us ….
- May god shave us all.
  
  Up yours Trebek!
  
  Shave my wife, I'm goin' down for the last time!
- The amount of grammatical mistakes in your own comment is pretty ironic as well.
  Muphry's Law strikes again.
  
  Excuse me, it's Muphry's Theory. It hasn't been proven enough to be a scientific law.
  
  Well then use this as a teaching moment and elaborate then?
  I live in a country that uses the King’s English, not the American version so please enlighten me - I do enjoy learning.
  But don’t say there are an amount of errors without even trying to quantify them….given the burden of proof rests with you.
- Whoooosh
- There's no formal rule, but adjectives can function as verbs in day to day English.
  <Subject>
  
  <adjective>
  
  <object>
  can mean the same thing as
  <subject>
  make
  <object>
  
  <adjective>
  .
  
  However, we all know she made a typo while criticising someone else's understanding of words

Desoxyribose & Acid
Name a more iconic duo, I'm waiting
- deoxyribose & acid
  
  In German it's "Desoxyribonukleinsäure". I never realized English doesn't have the "s"
- Does sound like some kind of duo.
  Comedy duo maybe?
  Psych Hop, aka Psychedelic Hip Hop... is that even a thing?

This post permanently lowered my IQ

DNA is AND when you reverse it.
- And?
  
  Yes.
- This makes way more sense than RNA

Pretty sure it's Dinosaurs, Nucleaics & Acid.
- I thought it was the three branches of science? Dinosaurs, Nukes and Aerodynamics?

Nucleic isn't a thing huh ? Can we send these people to a Gulag
- Call the Marxists

Douglas Adams' middle name was "Noel", not "and".

God safe us indeed

"Desoxyriboandnukleicacid"

My favorite part of the atom is the &uclease
- Hi, my name is Timmy Atom and this is my pet electron, &uckease.

I'm impressed by how much Cunningham's Law is in the comments. I can't tell if they don't get the joke, or if the joke is too deep and I'm the one missing it.
- Today I learned :
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Cunningham's_Law
  Cunningham is credited with the idea: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

(But it'd be bad satire to repeat the joke)
- The depth to which he has gone to illustrate what a simple /whoosh would a done is part of the sad tire no?

D 'n A

In Canadian it's DNeh?
- It's DNeh, eh? actually
  
  Hey bud, how’s she goin’? They’re just talking about Dean, eh. He left for beers and weed and hasn’t returned. We need beers and weed.

I think i'm having a stroke, because I have no fucking idea what's going on here
- I accidentally uploaded the wrong post and then replaced it within a few seconds. Sometimes that doesn't always federate right, so if you're seeing one about a funny guy on LinkedIn and not this, that could explain it:

Yes, just like that volatile T&T that likes to go boom.
/s

DnF'nA
- DFWTDNA
  (don't fuck with the dna)

Jeebus that boy ain't right

Anyone else ever heard someone refer to it as "Denna"? I did once and I just let it go. I wanted to see if it catches on in the wild.
- What about denna?

I don't know what y'all are talking about. Personally, I enjoy Tits Nucleic Ass.

"I DiD My OwN ReSeArCh! There's a meme about it!"

Just like in TNA,, I reckon. Stay in school.

Yo Shadow Raiders was a sick show

It's pure and there's nine of em!

This whole time i thought it was dioxy rizzz o nuke-in-your anus

Desoxyribo-antacid.

When, as we all know, it stands for n-BOOOOOP

D&A stands for "Drug & Alcohol Evaluation" as in "Came in for D&A per PO"

After saving I’d like a quickload. Did too much bad shit

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