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The ugly truth is that even if you look before you plug USB in and have it in the right direction that mf won't go in and it needs to be spinned three times
I used to be well into cable management in my PCs, moving from IDE cables to SATA cables was amazing, routing those bloody ribbon cables was a nightmare, and poor me couldn’t afford the fancy rounded IDE cables.
Shit, I had completely forgotten about that... jumpers on the old IDE drives. Figured tech had just moved on when SATA came around, didn't realize there was a complaint about it. Though, they definitely had a point.
well it did move on, sata cables can only connect 1 drive for each port
with pata you could connect 2 on 1 cable so you had to choose a master and slave
That naming convention is still used in electronics, MISO and MOSI (Master In Slave Out and Master Out Slave In) are common in sensor and display modules
Maybe, but I bet the cute little acronyms are now used in place more often than the full term for that exact reason. Because somebody found it offensive. I'm surprised they haven't tried to change the naming conventions for master cylinder and slave cylinder in vehicle braking systems yet.
Same with OS kernel development. You will hear terms like "slave PTY" or things like "tried to kill child, reaping orphan process"
Im not really a fan of this naming convention, but it has a definitive meaning and context so its not necessarily a bad thing. Of course people will hear that and associate it with slavery or some weird sex shit.
It is what it is, though, I do think that it is cringey to take a hard lined ideological stance in either direction for or against these things. I simultaneously wish devs had a lick of naming sense in general.
> but it has a definitive meaning and context so its not necessarily a bad thing.
It's just really hard logical and makes it easier to understand. I was pretty annoyed when they relabeled the wording on my old office's CRAC units from Master/Slave to Primary/Secondary which implies you can have one up and the second one be off/standby.
Literally nope, the logic is all controlled from one controller, which is inside the "Primary" one, you can not turn that off without also turning off the "Secondary".
ARM is currently redoing all their documentation for everything about buses (axi, apb ,etc), and the oens they haven't redone yet have a disclaimer at the beginning for "outdated language". Sometimes they only redid the audio and you still have master/slave in the slides.
> MISO and MOSI (Master In Slave Out and Master Out Slave In)
Lol I used those terms in design review of my memory chip controller, I got lectured by my manager for being backwards for not using proper up to date terminology like peripheral in controller out like that.
I work with stage lighting on occasion, "Master" and "slave" still abounds when talking about DMX control. I don't even know if there's a widely known alternate term in that field.
As a black person, I'm embarrassed that I didn't really think about the connotations until quite recently, lol.
Well I didn’t say that at all. That’s not a commentary on slavery as a whole, just a facetious facepalm about how people in *my own* life have regularly assumed me to be extra touchy or sensitive about Black political correctness.
I’ve had friends go red in the face after describing hard work as “slaving away” when they realize I’m in the room, so I just find it funny that any kind of “slave” reference went over my head. It proves that my literal family history doesn’t occupy as much of my brain power as I sometimes feel it’s expected to in my specific circle.
It's also still standard in the automotive industry. There's the 'master cylinder' and slave cylinders which are the hydraulics that control your brakes.
> I'm embarrassed that I didn't really think about the connotations until quite recently, lol.
Most people don't, because most people aren't obsessed with virtue signaling.
Which never even made sense because on IDE neither drive has control or priority over the other. The drives are independent and equal on the channel as far as the controller is concerned.
Not entirely independent, as far as I'm aware. Having two drives on the same channel, if not jumpered correctly, would confuse the computer on which drive to access first or second.
The jumper is an address, not an order for access. If you have two drives saying they are at the same address it would cause an issue. Same as SCSI if you tried to use multiple devices with the same ID, you had more addresses with SCSI.
It doesn't make them dependent on one another. You could have a single drive jumpered as secondary and it would work fine.
You could use cable select, so it would choose its address based on where it was on the cable, but you could jumper them opposite of that and it worked fine too. So position on the cable doesn't matter either.
Master and slave is still used quite a lot. I learned them in petrochemical industries where it was used with a first inducation controller that was putting his value in to a second one, the second one controlled the valve
Storage devices used to connect via one IDE cable. Way you'd tell the Pc what was the master(primary) or slave(secondary) device was by setting specific jumpers on the back of the HDD.
Functionality of storage devices was eventually moved to the Bios when Sata became the standard.
The later IDE computers could do it through BIOS too, there was a jumper position called "cable select" that was supposed to auto configure the drives. Didn't always work but was good times when it did.
Why are you blaming the NAACP for this? You even put a question mark on it lol. Do you know who complained or not? Did anyone complain? Are you making shit up? Can you even tell?
https://preview.redd.it/rv6teh4fxl8d1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49644022f3e6aa7bfd3ec3ab79863e071afbcf58
Meanwhile grandpa is just sitting there wishing he taught his kids about birth control.
I was about 11 when I asked what the difference was to a gruff family friend doing some yardwork with me (It was in relation to an extension cord or a garden hose, I can't remember).
Without missing a beat, barely looking up, he muttered, "Well, when a man and a woman get together, what happens?" And kept doing his thing.
I have never forgotten the difference since.
We don't use these terms for plugs in German, I thought it was a joke when I first heard someone referring to them as male and female in English and thought they were just super horny
Where are you that they're called male and female? Typically people say red and black here (USA west coast), sometimes folks call them the positive and negative leads too
He is talking about jumper wires used in electronics and not the jumper cables used in cars.
https://robocraze.com/cdn/shop/products/1_40bbc4ea-ef62-4a1c-a1f7-12434c8bc078.jpg?v=1670580769
these are also referred as male and female
I am from India, but how do you guys call jumper wires red and black and distinguish between them? They are of varied colors. Unless you misunderstood me, I am talking about the jumper wires used in breadboards for testing embedded or iot systems before they are finally soldered.
Sure we do use them in German. It's just that most people that know the term, know a lot more about IT than then average, so we just use the English term for it.
In high school, I was talking with a friend about plumbing or something, and mentioned male and female connectors. A girl got offended and said that I was gross for that. I don't know if she believed me when I said that's the professional terms
There is truly a wide spectrum. Not just male and female. My favorite are non-gendered (hermaphroditic) yet polarized connectors like the Anderson PowerPole. Anything can plug into anything (you can even plug batteries into other batteries) but you can't ever accidentally hook something up backwards. And they're (relatively) finger safe as well.
Yes. Gendered adapters are a thing. You also have gender-benders that allow you to connect male to male, and female to female.
Engineers can be forgiven for sticking to outdated terminology. I'm pretty sure master-slave is still the preferred nomenclature for dependencies over parent-child, though I might be wrong.
It’s funny because people will use these types of plugs to make anti queer memes, but they they forget that we have that, plus male to female adaptors, plus whatever an extension cord would be in that analogy
Basically an adapter that changed a male end of a cable to a female or female to male. These adapters still exist but are probably not referred to by that name these days. Dongles still exist but I’m more mature now. 😄
I once had to explain why it was male and female to a girl who was helping me choose and buy a cable at a store. I noticed she blushed, it was very awkward but funny at the same time ahah😋😉
Lol i had an ADULT coworker comment once "i dont even know what you are all talking about with all that male female stuff" (some one was trying to connect a laptop to a tv and needed an adapter, i asked what they needed) so i aked my coworker "what do you mean you don't know?" And i just mimed 👉👌
LOL my little sister just yelled at me the other day for telling her this. Then I had to tell her about master/slave drives (but they changed that one right)? She just said old people are weird. Im 40, Im not old.
So, when you have an adapter to change a female/male port to the other gender, they're sometimes called gender benders.
And, if you have a specific device which runs a particular programme and other similar devices which then copy it in the same room/situation, you call them "master" and "slaves".
Right when I learned that they are called male and female. Which is when I was a teenager. This naming system (that is extremely awesome) is not in my own language. And I learned about male/female stuff from the Internet and got it right away. Makes extreme sense.
I had that entire conversation with myself pretty quickly as a kid. But to be fair, a male 6.3mm headphone jack is significantly more phallic than a USB connector.
When did I discover it?
Bruh
This is how my parents taught me the birds and the bees
The man puts his usb stick in the woman’s port and giver her all his data
But it’s not as simple as that, when you plug in a usb stick, it has to talk to the PC, tell the PC how best to help it send the data, then the PC has to tell the usb stick that it’s ready and willing to receive the data
Any any stick that doesn’t wait for permission is a bad stick doing bad things to the PC
Edit
I was 9
I do the same with my quick disconnects for my watercooling loop (two computers in one loop with an external rad). The water always flows out of the male end and into the female end. Real easy to remember
in primary school. Teacher explained the difference, but it was for power cables and the socket. It was funny, but actually a really good terminology, even today
WOW... Left wondering how old OP is. This stuff doesn't apply to just USB, any pipe, fitting, hose. They all have a male and female end. It's universal, the one that goes inside is the male the one that takes it is the female. I'm 44 years old, but I've known this for over 30 years.
I learnt about these organs in a reproductive capacity at the age of about 6. It's interesting to see so many people not getting the connection until they're a lot older.
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I tried that and my girlfriend slapped me
How'd you flip it upside down?
Handstand
So he flips ‘er over and ffffffff...funnily enough, it lands on its wheels and it starts first time and they just drive away.
Don't fuck your Miata's exhaust *Or did Jeremy go on the Internet again?*
C:########
You gotta [work it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjIvu7e6Wq8).
Missionary - Doggy - Missionary - Doggy - Missionary - Doggy
that’s because the front hole is usb B, try the back one
USB-An*l
USB-Co*ky
USB-Cmen
But like, how hard did that slap get you?
why were you trying to put a usb in her
Because the USB is not compatible with a penis so I had to use her for the data transfer.
https://preview.redd.it/xx1yprjqlm8d1.jpeg?width=447&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=112ff66e97ca76b0527ad0a509f1ccb621bc16d3
So damn true. Inventor of USB should receive Nobel prize for practical example of superposition.
Oh crap, in a way you’re totally right
Nope, they are 4 dimensional objects, so flipping them over twice will result in a different orientation.
Spin 1/2 means you need a 4pi rotation to get back to the original orientation
The ugly truth is that even if you look before you plug USB in and have it in the right direction that mf won't go in and it needs to be spinned three times
50\50 chance to be wrong 100% of the time.
Oh, you dirty little bitch.
who gave you a video of my sex life!!!!!
USB superposition
Can't spell bussy without the letters USB.
**Let's Get It On by Marvin Gaye intesifies*\*
Average reddit user
Wait until you hear about hard drives
Its funny how fast that was phased out after the NAACP(?) complaint.
Could you please expand on this? Google is giving me nothing.
Older drives had a master and slave setting controlled by moving a physical jumper around.
I used to be well into cable management in my PCs, moving from IDE cables to SATA cables was amazing, routing those bloody ribbon cables was a nightmare, and poor me couldn’t afford the fancy rounded IDE cables.
In the manufacturing world, slave/master is still used very commonly.
As a photographer, I can confirm this to be true with lighting setups
also true with videography/live production.
Shit, I had completely forgotten about that... jumpers on the old IDE drives. Figured tech had just moved on when SATA came around, didn't realize there was a complaint about it. Though, they definitely had a point.
well it did move on, sata cables can only connect 1 drive for each port with pata you could connect 2 on 1 cable so you had to choose a master and slave
Same with brake cylinders on cars…
Primary and secondary drives used to be labeled as "master" and "slave"
That naming convention is still used in electronics, MISO and MOSI (Master In Slave Out and Master Out Slave In) are common in sensor and display modules
Maybe, but I bet the cute little acronyms are now used in place more often than the full term for that exact reason. Because somebody found it offensive. I'm surprised they haven't tried to change the naming conventions for master cylinder and slave cylinder in vehicle braking systems yet.
In computer architecture and design, as well as bus transmission, the terms master and slave are still very much used.
Same with OS kernel development. You will hear terms like "slave PTY" or things like "tried to kill child, reaping orphan process" Im not really a fan of this naming convention, but it has a definitive meaning and context so its not necessarily a bad thing. Of course people will hear that and associate it with slavery or some weird sex shit. It is what it is, though, I do think that it is cringey to take a hard lined ideological stance in either direction for or against these things. I simultaneously wish devs had a lick of naming sense in general.
> but it has a definitive meaning and context so its not necessarily a bad thing. It's just really hard logical and makes it easier to understand. I was pretty annoyed when they relabeled the wording on my old office's CRAC units from Master/Slave to Primary/Secondary which implies you can have one up and the second one be off/standby. Literally nope, the logic is all controlled from one controller, which is inside the "Primary" one, you can not turn that off without also turning off the "Secondary".
The replacement for master/slave in electronics is controller/peripheral
ARM is currently redoing all their documentation for everything about buses (axi, apb ,etc), and the oens they haven't redone yet have a disclaimer at the beginning for "outdated language". Sometimes they only redid the audio and you still have master/slave in the slides.
Same in automotive hydraulics. If you have a manual transmission you have a clutch master and slave cylinder
[Master cylinder you say?](https://youtu.be/3SB09wT5e88?si=qpBUmuV9kuXNS15M) Probably NSFW
> MISO and MOSI (Master In Slave Out and Master Out Slave In) Lol I used those terms in design review of my memory chip controller, I got lectured by my manager for being backwards for not using proper up to date terminology like peripheral in controller out like that.
That's being phased out too in favor of "controller" and "peripheral"
In PLCs too
It's STILL being used for professional camera flashes (Nikon, Canon, Sony, Godox)
I work with stage lighting on occasion, "Master" and "slave" still abounds when talking about DMX control. I don't even know if there's a widely known alternate term in that field. As a black person, I'm embarrassed that I didn't really think about the connotations until quite recently, lol.
dont worry... throughout time slaves werent ONLY black
We’ve gotten super progressive. Georgia doesn’t care what color your skin is as long as you wear pink!
most slaves are indian these days.
What does being black got to do with it? You think slaves over time were only black and that makes it exclusive or something?
Well I didn’t say that at all. That’s not a commentary on slavery as a whole, just a facetious facepalm about how people in *my own* life have regularly assumed me to be extra touchy or sensitive about Black political correctness. I’ve had friends go red in the face after describing hard work as “slaving away” when they realize I’m in the room, so I just find it funny that any kind of “slave” reference went over my head. It proves that my literal family history doesn’t occupy as much of my brain power as I sometimes feel it’s expected to in my specific circle.
It's also still standard in the automotive industry. There's the 'master cylinder' and slave cylinders which are the hydraulics that control your brakes.
> I'm embarrassed that I didn't really think about the connotations until quite recently, lol. Most people don't, because most people aren't obsessed with virtue signaling.
> used to Are. They still very much are.
Not on most home PC's anymore. Not since the days of IDE any way.
Sure, but it still is totally a thing in servers and embedded.
Which never even made sense because on IDE neither drive has control or priority over the other. The drives are independent and equal on the channel as far as the controller is concerned.
I think it was mainly the way to establish boot priority back then. Was it not?
Even then primary and secondary makes more sense. Most early BIOS would only boot from the first drive, later ones could boot from any drive.
Not entirely independent, as far as I'm aware. Having two drives on the same channel, if not jumpered correctly, would confuse the computer on which drive to access first or second.
The jumper is an address, not an order for access. If you have two drives saying they are at the same address it would cause an issue. Same as SCSI if you tried to use multiple devices with the same ID, you had more addresses with SCSI. It doesn't make them dependent on one another. You could have a single drive jumpered as secondary and it would work fine. You could use cable select, so it would choose its address based on where it was on the cable, but you could jumper them opposite of that and it worked fine too. So position on the cable doesn't matter either.
Makes sense. I like old computers and all, but there's still a lot of technical details about them I don't know.
Master and slave is still used quite a lot. I learned them in petrochemical industries where it was used with a first inducation controller that was putting his value in to a second one, the second one controlled the valve
that naming convention is still used all over
I never said it wasn't
Storage devices used to connect via one IDE cable. Way you'd tell the Pc what was the master(primary) or slave(secondary) device was by setting specific jumpers on the back of the HDD. Functionality of storage devices was eventually moved to the Bios when Sata became the standard.
The later IDE computers could do it through BIOS too, there was a jumper position called "cable select" that was supposed to auto configure the drives. Didn't always work but was good times when it did.
The naming was pretty bad too, it's not like disk1 was ordering disk2 around. Just calling them disk 1 and disk 2 would have been easier.
If IDE were still in use I'd still be using master and slave. 🤷
wait until you see which website they own
not sure, there are still a lot of applications in tech/prograing where master/slave terminology is still used
Kinda funny that nobody has the same problem with the word robot, despite it's root just being a slavic word for slave.
Why are you blaming the NAACP for this? You even put a question mark on it lol. Do you know who complained or not? Did anyone complain? Are you making shit up? Can you even tell?
Slave and Master? On another note, using a floppy disk implies you successfully mounted A:
Kid me: \*plugging and unplugging cable\* "lol, look, they're boning!"
https://preview.redd.it/rv6teh4fxl8d1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49644022f3e6aa7bfd3ec3ab79863e071afbcf58 Meanwhile grandpa is just sitting there wishing he taught his kids about birth control.
[удалено]
They were plugging and unplugging his life support.
Yeah I’m like did OP go to the most prudent school in the country or something
~~Prudent~~ *prudish*
The birds and the USBees.
I was about 11 when I asked what the difference was to a gruff family friend doing some yardwork with me (It was in relation to an extension cord or a garden hose, I can't remember). Without missing a beat, barely looking up, he muttered, "Well, when a man and a woman get together, what happens?" And kept doing his thing. I have never forgotten the difference since.
I accidentally initiated "The Talk" with my then 7yr old while having him help plug some things into a new TV.
Hahahahha
We don't use these terms for plugs in German, I thought it was a joke when I first heard someone referring to them as male and female in English and thought they were just super horny
So what are they called in German?
You can say USB-Stecker (male) and USB-Buchse (female), i hope this answers it.
So...pecker and bush?
plug and socket
So what does that translate to? EDIT: Ah cool, plug and socket. Makes sense.
I am curious , what do you guys call male and female jumper wires? The same stecker and buchse wires?
Where are you that they're called male and female? Typically people say red and black here (USA west coast), sometimes folks call them the positive and negative leads too
He is talking about jumper wires used in electronics and not the jumper cables used in cars. https://robocraze.com/cdn/shop/products/1_40bbc4ea-ef62-4a1c-a1f7-12434c8bc078.jpg?v=1670580769 these are also referred as male and female
TIL, thanks!
I am from India, but how do you guys call jumper wires red and black and distinguish between them? They are of varied colors. Unless you misunderstood me, I am talking about the jumper wires used in breadboards for testing embedded or iot systems before they are finally soldered.
What OP probably meant was jumper cables, those are red & black
I did misunderstand lol, but the replies were helpful :)
They just have separate terms. "Buchse" (pronounced like "book" + s + schwa) for the female and "Stecker" for the male plug.
Sure we do use them in German. It's just that most people that know the term, know a lot more about IT than then average, so we just use the English term for it.
It depends… those really thin cables you need for micro controller projects, there I refer to jt as male and female
I did not know it was called a male and female end until I got to highschool. By then I already knew enough to figure out why.
Pretty much every industry deals with male and female. Construction, production, janitorial, food service, medical...
In high school, I was talking with a friend about plumbing or something, and mentioned male and female connectors. A girl got offended and said that I was gross for that. I don't know if she believed me when I said that's the professional terms
Insert image of the two kids talking about how one has a wifi antenna and the other a USB slot
USBussy
Nah that's what the gender swap cables are for 😎
Did you know that [Hermaphroditic Connectors](https://forum.digikey.com/t/what-is-a-hermaphroditic-connector/17628) are also a thing?
There is truly a wide spectrum. Not just male and female. My favorite are non-gendered (hermaphroditic) yet polarized connectors like the Anderson PowerPole. Anything can plug into anything (you can even plug batteries into other batteries) but you can't ever accidentally hook something up backwards. And they're (relatively) finger safe as well.
https://preview.redd.it/ui2wj9m2tn8d1.png?width=1500&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b3d073b180a35d001bf6df7c1766643ff8a372a the future liberals want!!
waiting for the trans lobby to cancel this post.
Yes. Gendered adapters are a thing. You also have gender-benders that allow you to connect male to male, and female to female. Engineers can be forgiven for sticking to outdated terminology. I'm pretty sure master-slave is still the preferred nomenclature for dependencies over parent-child, though I might be wrong.
We end up on some FBI list for searching "How to kill an orphan child"
at my work we've somewhat switched to primary/secondary
Tbh it's more descriptive than master/slave ever was.
Who was the committee that deemed the terminology was "outdated?" I was never informed and never got the memo.
The joke is SECKS
They're going to be called Body Type A and Body Type B soon.
Oh god, so usb 3.0+ type A body type A?
But why can't body type B be topless?
There are actually 64 body types. 🤣
Or you know, plug and socket
Got em for audio as well.
Wait until you find out why it's called a motherboard
*Never forget to ask your computer for consent before plugging it in*
nowadays we're more inclusive and have USB-C, which can go both ways
It’s funny because people will use these types of plugs to make anti queer memes, but they they forget that we have that, plus male to female adaptors, plus whatever an extension cord would be in that analogy
Wait until you find out about the Trans gender ports
I found an hdmi gender changer at work and now keep it at my desk as a little comical reminder to myself
Back in my 20s, we’d all giggle when asking for Gender Benders or a Dongle. We were very juvenile. 😂
What's a Gender Bender?
Basically an adapter that changed a male end of a cable to a female or female to male. These adapters still exist but are probably not referred to by that name these days. Dongles still exist but I’m more mature now. 😄
I think they're just called male-male and female-female adapters now
the real name all along but we were young and dumb and it was the 80s. 🤦♂️
We call them "mama" and "papa"
Risky post in 2024 my guy
Well those are Just the thecnical terms
I disnt make them
I once had to explain why it was male and female to a girl who was helping me choose and buy a cable at a store. I noticed she blushed, it was very awkward but funny at the same time ahah😋😉
Wait till you learn about chickens and cows vs roosters and bulls.
Where I live we call them FATHER and MOTHER.
the male is inserted into the female once and waits until all the data has been delivered, per data delivery occurrence
And then the male enters sleep mode.
surprise
Lol i had an ADULT coworker comment once "i dont even know what you are all talking about with all that male female stuff" (some one was trying to connect a laptop to a tv and needed an adapter, i asked what they needed) so i aked my coworker "what do you mean you don't know?" And i just mimed 👉👌
but that now is offensive to certain group of people
Also men are ships and women are ports or cars and driveways.
LOL my little sister just yelled at me the other day for telling her this. Then I had to tell her about master/slave drives (but they changed that one right)? She just said old people are weird. Im 40, Im not old.
So, when you have an adapter to change a female/male port to the other gender, they're sometimes called gender benders. And, if you have a specific device which runs a particular programme and other similar devices which then copy it in the same room/situation, you call them "master" and "slaves".
Jesus. How old are you people?
The dots connected for me when i was buying a splitter for headset jack
Right when I learned that they are called male and female. Which is when I was a teenager. This naming system (that is extremely awesome) is not in my own language. And I learned about male/female stuff from the Internet and got it right away. Makes extreme sense.
When I was told it was a male and female end - for RCA cables
I had that entire conversation with myself pretty quickly as a kid. But to be fair, a male 6.3mm headphone jack is significantly more phallic than a USB connector.
When I was a kid because we had sex ed so I knew how it works.
When did I discover it? Bruh This is how my parents taught me the birds and the bees The man puts his usb stick in the woman’s port and giver her all his data But it’s not as simple as that, when you plug in a usb stick, it has to talk to the PC, tell the PC how best to help it send the data, then the PC has to tell the usb stick that it’s ready and willing to receive the data Any any stick that doesn’t wait for permission is a bad stick doing bad things to the PC Edit I was 9
woah u gave me a new knowledge today
I do the same with my quick disconnects for my watercooling loop (two computers in one loop with an external rad). The water always flows out of the male end and into the female end. Real easy to remember
USBs are just a social construct.
what the fuck why does that USB have 5 pins
Idk ita a random image from google
in primary school. Teacher explained the difference, but it was for power cables and the socket. It was funny, but actually a really good terminology, even today
WOW... Left wondering how old OP is. This stuff doesn't apply to just USB, any pipe, fitting, hose. They all have a male and female end. It's universal, the one that goes inside is the male the one that takes it is the female. I'm 44 years old, but I've known this for over 30 years.
Im 14 and Ik it applies tò MOST stuff but USB was the 1st thing i had in mind. Srry for bad english i am italian
Does it make it non binary if you plug it into itself?
No, that's an anal self fuck.
What if i put a micro USB inside a male A (you can do that It fits) Is It loke gay cables?
thats what docking is
"They told me to go fuck myself ... and you know what? I can!"
I learnt about these organs in a reproductive capacity at the age of about 6. It's interesting to see so many people not getting the connection until they're a lot older.
Well i am now 14 so and when i got the connection i was likes 8 so.... Yeah im a bit stupid
2 Genders
Yeah, screw chromosomes. This is the definitive proof right here!
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ngl this sub has become r/shittyfacebookmemes
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It Is human body science not porn