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  • Godort@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlShe speaks from the fart
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    11 months ago

    Farts are universally funny. Like sex jokes, they transcend time and language.

    In fact, the oldest joke we have discovered was a fart joke:

    Something which has never occurred since time immemorial... A young woman did not fart in her husband's lap.

    Compare that to a different joke from about 200 years later:

    A dog entered into a tavern and said, 'I cannot see anything. I shall open this one

    It doesn't matter where or when you're from, nor does it matter what language you speak, farts are funny and will continue to be funny forever.


  • We were taught basic research skills all throughout highschool, how to find information, how to read and write academic papers and how to cite things properly.

    As far as media literacy goes, but our social studies classes always opened with a discussion about the day's news stories as well as the bias of the source it came from.

    But I think the class that really opened my eyes the most was a unit in 9th grade English where we discussed the language of advertising. In that class they taught us how anything you see in an ad has to be technically correct as to not run afowl of false advertising laws, but is very often misleading. After that, I started to spot those techniques everywhere, and not just in ads. Those few weeks were foundational to the way I approach critical thought now.