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/ :)
Comment on Roman numerals, man... so close!
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 months ago69 is (our) 69 because the whole thing is the same when you rotate it 180°
As is XIX
:)
overcast5348@lemmy.world 11 months ago
jungle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nah, that’s not how 69 works
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 months 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).
jungle@lemmy.world 11 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.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Plot twist, dude is fucking his clones.
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you passed over two people having sex, and went right to a three way
kemsat@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
Huh, I thought it was because that’s where the head is.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well that’s one way to think about it lol
kemsat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I remember what my friend taught me in middle school!