• Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    183·
    4 个月前

    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.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      3513·
      4 个月前

      Wtf

      Alternate comment: I love how you need to internalize 100 years of sexism before you can relieve yourself

    • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      111·
      4 个月前

      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.

        • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          31·
          4 个月前

          Hmm, well, I have heard women being compared to singing birds (or more degrading as vultures or pen of hens if in group), but I’ve more often heard women being romantically compared to bees or flowers. Though, I don’t think I’ve ever heard men being compared to bees, but often to birds (eagles, vultures, seagulls, etc.).

          Might also be local culture, as I usually think of harmony, nature, and perhaps matriarchy when pondering bees, while birds seem much more gender neutral, like, standoff-ish, elegant, brutal, impulsive, egoistic, even presented as predatory and evil in children movies and some media.

          So, using common stereotyping, you can see where I’m coming from.

    • Bob@feddit.nl
      4·
      4 个月前

      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
        51·
        4 个月前

        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.

        • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          4 个月前

          It’s slang you’d hear 50 years ago in the east end and Essex. You’ll only really hear it used by gangsters in movies these days or someone putting on the accent for laughs, possibly from an old geezer, you certainly won’t hear it used by respectable establishments or family friendly media. It’s not generally considered offensive but is considered uncouth.

  • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1221·
    4 个月前

    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.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
      15·
      4 个月前

      “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, something we humans normally do.”

          • PunnyName@lemmy.world
            13·
            4 个月前

            Kinda. But it gets fucking crazy. Mr Garrison gets surgery to be trans fem. Kyle gets taller, black skin, and Mr Garrison’s testicles as his new knees. Gerald becomes a dolphin. It’s all over the place.

            Matt and Trey use the writing technique of “but, therefore” which leads to very insane story threads (with their ribald thinking)

            https://youtube.com/watch?v=j9jEg9uiLOU

          • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
            8·
            4 个月前

            This one might have been, but a few seasons later you have “The Cissy”, probably the most trans-supportive episode they made.

            • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
              21·
              4 个月前

              South Park is always “edgy” in the safest way. Climate change was widely ridiculed when they made manbearpig, and the undertones of this one were definitely pretty bad. I give them a pass on mr/Mrs garrison because he’s always been a piece of shit much like cartman, but the message with Gerald and Kyle is “surgery doesn’t change who you really are.” It dropped in 2005 so… Product of the time I guess?

          • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
            8·
            4 个月前

            Southpark makes fun of literally every and anything, so yeah it could be considered transphobic lol. Just keep in mind the intention is to be gross, over the top, nonsensical, etc…

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
    60·
    4 个月前

    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.

      • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        4 个月前

        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?

      • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        4 个月前

        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 it doesn’t really translate into human biology).

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      4 个月前

      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

    • MNByChoice@midwest.social
      2·
      4 个月前

      I am shocked how few people know Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings? Bees (females) going flower to flower, pollinating.

      I hope those are single user bathrooms. It just simplifies things.

  • ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world
    421·
    4 个月前

    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.

    • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 个月前

      I once was in the restroom 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 his scientific staff are his personal slaves.

    • zarathustrad@lemmy.world
      1·
      4 个月前

      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.

      • xenspidey@lemmy.zipEnglish
        121·
        4 个月前

        Women also piss on the seat, some squat over the seat to avoid touching it.

        • bitwaba@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 个月前

          Tell that to the women I work with that had us roll back the 12x gender neutral toilet stalls into 5x men + 5x female + 2x genger neutral. Top complaint was “using a stall after a man has used it is disgusting”. The second highest complaint was that it smells like someone poo’d in the toilet… which is a strange complaint for a toilet.

          • acetanilide@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 个月前

            Would they rather the poop be out of the toilet? I am so confused lol

            Although I do agree. Using a stall after a man has used it is disgusting. Also, using a stall after anyone who is not a man has used it is disgusting. (But only if they don’t keep it clean)

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
        6·
        4 个月前

        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.

        Anti Commercial-AI license

      • Leviathan@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 个月前

        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?

        • bitwaba@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 个月前

          You’re preaching to the chior. Try convincing the rest of the men in the world that they also can.

      • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
        2·
        4 个月前

        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

    • SlothMama@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 个月前

      That reminds me of stingers for strings and wings for flings.

      Used to hear it all the time got me cut up like what.

    • EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world
      9·
      4 个月前

      Birds also poop out the seeds they eat that helps spread them, while bees rub themselves all over the flower, covering themselves with pollen before moving on to the next flower.

      Not sure that helps answer the question, though.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    4 个月前

    I seriously don’t know what the hell the “Birds and the bees” even refers to beyond an olde movie cliche.

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    31·
    4 个月前

    OP’ was actually meant to take a left, but instead got 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 school group being traumatised.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      225·
      4 个月前

      Thats a little to common sense for the average American.

      I’d wager bees are boys, for bathroom purposes, cause boys have a “stinger”

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
        13·
        4 个月前

        Maybe this isn’t in America.

        That said, if it was in the UK, ‘birds’ would be for women, so the result would be the same.

      • AbsentBird@lemm.ee
        8·
        4 个月前

        I think it’s a play on words Bees -> Bs, B stands for Boy. Birds -> British slang for women.

          • AbsentBird@lemm.ee
            2·
            4 个月前

            I mean that if you say “Bees” out loud it sounds like “B’s”, as in the boy’s room.

            • iopq@lemmy.world
              6·
              4 个月前

              I actually got that after I read my own post

              But it did remind me of the joke that Quebec labels the cold water with C for cold and hot water with C for chaud

      • JoshCodes@programming.dev
        31·
        4 个月前

        Same thought different reasoning: the expression “a bees dick” exists. There’s no equivalent for birds.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          21·
          4 个月前

          Well, there is the fact that “bird” is itself slang for both penis and woman, though of course in the case of the latter it is antiquated enough to be considered offensive (of course, since as I’m informed the only inoffensive ways to refer to those who identify as belonging to the gender traditionally known as the “not male” gender are “girls” for those under 18 and “women” for those above, the offensiveness of this term is perhaps expected.)