Comment on Roman numerals, man... so close!
jungle@lemmy.world 8 months agoStill not seeing it, lol. I guess you mean it would be their 69, except that you need one to be the upside down version of the other…? I don’t know. Someone should write a research paper on this. :D
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
69 is (our) 69 because the whole thing is the same when you rotate it 180°
As is XIX
:)
kemsat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I thought it was because the 6 is a dude with his dick out, and 9 is a girl with her tits out, or the 9 is another dude flipped around…
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Huh, I thought it was because that’s where the head is.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well that’s one way to think about it lol
kemsat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I remember what my friend taught me in middle school!
overcast5348@lemmy.world 8 months ago
69 isn’t “the funny” number because it’s an ambigram. It’s the “funny number” because it’s the sex position number.
You’re one of that’s 10000: xkcd.com/1053/ :)
jungle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah, that’s not how 69 works
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes it is! One person one way, one person the other. From the 180 perspective, the same.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)
Unless you’re meaning it specifically has to be 2 digits, and therefore XIX doesn’t qualify? If so that’s fair (it was just the closest analogue I could think of. Maybe II would indeed be better).
jungle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I can’t believe I have to explain this, but the key to 69 is that the two “people” are in opposite directions to reach other, not that the pair looks the same from either direction.
AA5B@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you passed over two people having sex, and went right to a three way