Bees have a stinger, and “bird” has been a slang term for a woman (like, what, 1920-1950s?).
Regards, I agree that’s needlessly vague, and just about to the point of useless.
Which is which?
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smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The only bees with stingers are the female ones, though.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Fine, Bs represent bra size so that’s the women’s room, and a cock is a bird, so that’s the men’s room.
Any way you slice it, these signs don’t help.
sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Birds have peckers
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wow, how did I miss that??
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Wtf
Alternate comment: I love how you need to internalize 100 years of sexism before you can relieve yourself
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Harmless old slang terms are now sexist. Got it.
StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Although almost all bees you actually ever see are female
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
You’re using logic in a situation where someone has to pee badly.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Thank you for the explanation.
As someone not too familiar with American cultures, I’d probably make an assumption and go for the (to me) more masculine bird over the docile and flower loving bee, since bees have stingers that they normally would never use and birds have beaks/peckers.
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve only ever heard bird used as working class slang for a woman in Britain.
MadBob@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Odd that so many people are coming out the woodwork to say they didn’t know Britons fairly often call women birds.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I’ve heard dame used more often than bird myself. Honestly, not sure I’ve actually heard bird used… it’s like a vague sense of “I think I knew that… right?” and my brain shrugs back.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Find a member of staff and ask where the “human bathrooms” are. Don’t let them leave until they explain. Bonus points if you piss your pants while they are trying to explain.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Look them intensely in the eye as piss streams down your leg to establish dominance.
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Better piss on their leg to mark your territory
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Excuse me sir/madam, I am looking for the human bathroom as I need to pour out some liquid from inside of my body through my urethra.”
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
One of the most uncomfortable episodes.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Doesn’t matter, just wash you hands when you’re done
expatriado@lemmy.world 5 months ago
don’t pee on the seat and flush would be my priorities
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Slang for women is “chicks” and a bit more archaic, “birds” too.
Bees have a…stinger? Dunno about that one.
Gigan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Aren’t most bees female though?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They are. Hence confusion with the signage.
theluckyone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
_prick /prĭk/ noun
… A small, sharp, local pain, such as that made by a needle or bee sting … A pointed object, such as an ice pick, goad, or thorn. _
- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Suppose calling men bees are more polite than calling them pricks…
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Just look for the one with a line (queue) outside.
Or be fair and pee half in each.
Or be chaotic and scrawl “Mammals” on the wall and pee under that.
uservoid1@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you carry and deposit pollen - use the Bees, if you are laying eggs - use the Birds, else use the floor.
ray@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
But bees also lay eggs, and birds also carry and deposit pollen
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Also male birds don’t lay eggs 🥚🥚
And only the queen bee lays eggs, any bee out and foraging around is a sterile female.
Isn’t it mostly just hummingbirds that would get involved with pollen? Or are there others?
Johanno@feddit.de 5 months ago
But bees are almost only females
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
To be honest, the gender binary makes even less sense for bees (as well as wasps, ants, hornets, termites, and other hive insects) than it does for humans.
Hive insects have three sexes: queens (analogous to females), drones (analogous to males), and workers (which could be analogous to intersex people, but this doesn’t really translate into human biology).
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 5 months ago
Yeah, males are the drones.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 months ago
I am shocked how few people know flowers can symbolize vaginas. Does no one see Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings? Bees (females) going flower to flower, pollinating vaginas.
I hope those are single user bathrooms.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wow never actually got the meaning:
According to tradition, “the birds and the bees” is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and results of sexual intercourse through reference to easily observed natural events. For instance, bees carry and deposit pollen into flowers, a visible and easy-to-explain parallel to fertilization. Female birds laying eggs is a similarly visible and easy-to-explain parallel to ovulation. Another interpretation of the bird laying the egg is childbirth, although that is not as common.
PS: left the links in this time, on iOS usually have to copy to PasteBoard to get plain text - just started happening in Voyager
NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you don’t have a cloaca you can’t use birds
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I know some of these words
OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
A cloaca is kinda like an anus that you also piss and reproduce with.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 months ago
So anybody with a cloaca can just go around and use birds?
It’s that what you’re saying?
#outrage
neclimdul@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Have an open mind. It’s 2024 for crying out loud. If they identify as a bird then of course they use birds rooms.
s_s@lemmy.one 5 months ago
Honey this is an Applebee’s, shit wherever you want.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Especially in the microwave. Adds flavor.
ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why not just make every bathroom a one occupant room? Just because someone has the same genitals as me doesn’t mean I want them to hear me fart.
menemen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I once was in the resroom when my (then) boss (plus later doctor father) came to the toilet and farted as loudly as humanly possible. It was very satisfying. Happy that guy is not my boss anymore, he thought grad students are personal slaves.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Because men piss on the seat, and women get pissy about piss on the seat.
xenspidey@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Women also piss on the seat, some squat over the seat to avoid touching it.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s cute that you think women’s bathrooms aren’t an absolute train wreck.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 5 months ago
There’s a reason the seats are liftable. It’s to lift before you piss and if you pissed on the rim, then just use the nearby faucet to wash it down, then drop the seat back down when leaving.
The problem is not men, but people who don’t think of the next person using the thingy.I was in a hostel for multiple years and I used to was the toilet before and after the deed.
iopq@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You should still have the standing to piss area elsewhere
Leviathan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I went to a restaurant this week where the washroom was just one big room with full door stalls and a full door room the size of two stalls with a few urinals in it. No fear of pissing on the seat of you use a urinal. Also, just lift the seat?
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
LOL, I worked on a construction site. The men sat for their business or used the funnel on the wall, the women hovered and wet the seat
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That would be nice, for small venues that only have a few stalls. However that would take a ton of rooms and money for high traffic areas like stadiums, airports, and so on.
Just make a big trough and make new friends.
Felipe@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Bees for pees, birds for tuds.
Can’t remember who originally said that but it had me creasing.
SlothMama@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That reminds me of stingers for strings and wings for flings.
Used to hear it all the time got me cut up like what.
vox@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
this is how i feel when a website presents me with a gender prompt with only two options
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or when a webform requires an honorific and none of them is suitable. (I’ll usually pick “Honorable”)
GoosLife@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I love it when serious companies make it a text field, and i get my bills in a letter adressed, in all sincerity, to Intergalactic Lord Emperor GoosLife
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hole or pole?
Alsjemenou@lemy.nl 5 months ago
Void or avoid?
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
This is literally the only reason I’m considering a PhD: I can put “Dr.” on official documents and it’ll be accepted.
Faresh@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Citizen Hellfire
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Birds eat worms, so it’s down to sexual preference.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I seriously don’t know what the hell the “Birds and the bees” even refers to beyond an olde movie cliche.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
OP’ was actually meant to take a left, but is now lost in the back corridors of the local zoo. Regardless of the which door they chose, it ended with a senior first aid officer and a local school group being traumatised.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Women are Bees. Men are Birds.
Of the 60,000 bees in a hive, almost 99% of them are female! Female honey bees, or worker bees, make all of the decisions in the hive and do all of the work. There are a couple hundred male bees in a hive, but they don’t do much but sit around and eat food.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The British call women “birds” sometimes. Idk.
francisfordpoopola@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m going in and committing to whatever I find inside.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bees have stingers, birds have peckers…
wabafee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Neither unless your a bee or a bird.
jpablo68@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Bees are all female, so…
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s an easy one. Just wait for someone to come out and you’ll know the answer.
portifornia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s not the right answer, but all the same, my head said:
Queen bees and Dodo birds
… - I think that checks out.
numberfour002@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bees are mostly female and most birds have a pecker, so factual knowledge is the logic I would use to guide my decision.
Ritsu4Life@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just select one, if you are wrong, say you are trans.
/s
db2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Answer the question, Claire!
cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Just pick one and piss. I’ve pissed in the woman’s bathroom before when the guys one was full. It’s not a big deal. No one cares.
psvrh@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Now I’m wondering about hummingbirds.
bruhduh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Anarchist answer: They’re both unisex - bees for pees, birds for turds.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hmm… You might be onto something here
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Yes, this establishment’s blacklist.
KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space 5 months ago
Do I have to hold my pee while I’m pooping until I can get to the other bathroom?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
You don’t already?!??
tourist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
ngl I’d shit in the bees stall bc the other one probably nasty af
Oka@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
I would say they’re unisex and just pick one.