Comment on Roman numerals, man... so close!

• kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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…

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Huh, I thought it was because that’s where the head is.

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well that’s one way to think about it lol

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    • kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I remember what my friend taught me in middle school!

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• overcast5348@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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/ :)

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• jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nah, that’s not how 69 works

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes it is! One person one way, one person the other. From the 180 perspective, the same.

    The participants are thus mutually inverted like the numerals 6 and 9 in the number 69

    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).

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    • jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Plot twist, dude is fucking his clones.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think you passed over two people having sex, and went right to a three way

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