Someone help me make a 'transition metals' joke here...

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The hard thing is finding an infant in a wheelchair to go with you

Just find a regular infant and break its legs 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm still missing a wheelchair. And now I really need to go.

Last time I checked, infants can't walk anyway

That’ll teach the little fucker for not handing over the candy.

Psalm 137: 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Psalm 137: 9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

Iron Man: Am I a joke to you?

He has always been Fe-male :P

omg the cringe that was "Tony is female coded" / "Tony vs Cap is domestic violence".

Transition metals don't exist, everyone knows there are only 2 elements

Found the cosmologist.

Is that joke that on a cosmic level, it's mostly hydrogen and helium (?) so others get ignored, like how genders other than the usual 2 get ignored? If so, that's so smart and funny, wow.

Or is it something else that I'm not getting?

Pretty much, the universe is hydrogen, helium, and rounding errors.

Yep. Cosmologists work at the largest scale and often simplify regular matter down to hydrogen ("gas") and everything else ("metal").

So if you ever see a reference to the "metallicity" of a star, that can include the presence of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc... which chemists of course would never refer to as metals.

No, there are more elements. But there are only two elements there is an infinite supply of in the universe, Hydrogen and Stupidity, and we're not sure about Hydrogen. /forgot whose joke this was

The internet says it is an Einstein quote.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

I am betting like most quotes attributed to him that it is made up though.

This one's unproven. Given the quotability, I'm gonna say if he really did say it we'd know for sure.

And they both have cute little wheelchair persons as pets!

"Honey, do you think we should get a little wheelchair person?"

Iron? Manganese? I don't care what transition metal you are, at the end of the day you just want to fulfill your desire for d...

I'm sure there's a better version of the joke out there, but being funny isn't my strength

Female and man?

Yeah. Whoever decided on these is an idiot or deliberately calling women "females". Just on a standardization issue one is sex and one is gender.

we don't know if this pic was taken in an English speaking country

I was curious if there was a bimetal junction transistor (BJT) joke to make here, and turned up an interesting paper talking about a FeMn-bimetal complex effectively absorbing microwave radiation.

Best I think we can do here is "trans-sister."

Ok, what I love, is that the "symbol" for iron (circle with NE arrow), is used as the symbol for "male", so it's switched here.

AND THEN, that same symbol is used by automaker Volvo... Which is awfully close to "vulva"... Which references back to female!

  • Mind blown *

Also what's with the circle around women vs. the triangle around men? Is this some meaningful gender related symbolism that I'm unaware of?

On the left, you can see the shape of a female breast, on the right, the shape of a male penis.

If I had to match curves vs angles to women vs men I would probably do it like that

Huh, this is the exact design of some of the bathrooms at SFU. I wonder if it's fairly common?