That pic is valid because it's a lab in Australia. Sheesh! Use some common sense.
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If you hold the picture upside down the dna spirals the right way.
I once saw a shutterstock photo of someone using a large soldering iron on a motherboard, holding it like a pen (so holding the hot part). Stuff like this is so poorly done and fake, it's at the level of porn acting.
Here is the sacred tome you refer too m'lord wiggle;
Seriously though, is this the one you were thinking of?
I'm fairly sure this is the original I saw; But searching for "woman, soldering iron" results in many copycats, so it's hard to say if this is actually the one from back when, or if my mind just misremembers it as such.
Saw her at the range the other day
Cracked orbit in 3... 2... 1...
Women will seriously try that! Astonishes me every time, like, have they never seen a rifle shot in a movie?!
OTOH, the women I've dated who escaped Mississippi could all shoot like Annie Oakley.
Judging by how bad men are with women's anatomy despite consuming so much porn I'm gonna say watching movies doesn't give you any experience.
Haters: tHaSS seXistht!
Never trained a noob to shoot, huh?
Not OP, but I've seen this one years ago. Defo the one.
Not the one I know, I've seen one with the woman wearing a hard hat 😂
Hmm, I've spent quite some time in meme circles including 4chan back in the day, but I don't remember one with a hard hat. Oh well, I stand corrected.
Doesn't matter, the idea is the same. Poor performance, perfect meme content haha
Even if we assume that he's wearing a ladies shirt for a moment... Why does he have that stethoscope? Is this what doctors do when the patient is waiting in the exam room?
Wait what, where did you get that ladies shirt?
Either the image is an accurate facsimile (DNA was wrong and the guy's wearing a men's size shirt (buttons are on his right side)) or the image was mirrored (DNA was correct and the guy's wearing a women's size shirt (buttons are on his left))
Shirt buttons are sown onto the left side of women's clothes and the right side of men's. The buttons on his shirt are on his right side.
I'm assuming OP means maybe the DNA model has the helix spinning the wrong way because the image was flipped horizontally, but that would cause the shirt buttons to be on the wrong side for men's clothes.
So that's why my shirts are inconsistent...
WHY IS SOCIETY LIKE THIS? I'll have to make a shirt in which I alternate each button as revenge!
Apparently it stems from the days when women had servants who helped them dress, while men generally didn't.
every other button is both on the other side and facing inward?
You can tell what type a base pair is by listening to the tone it makes, but it's very quiet so you need a stethoscope.
"That's it, Dr Scientist, you're not taking this seriously. YOU'RE FIRED!"
"Good! I'm a maverick, I don't play by your rules! Fuck you, here's my badge and my gun!"
"Wait, why do you have a badge and a gun!? We didn't issue you those... You work in a lab!"
Most useful stethoscope ever
Quick! How do we know he’s a doctor? He could be a scientist with this cost! We need a stethoscope!!
OK very funny but its probably the camera doing a horizontal flip and the photographer not knowing to flip it back.
Judging by the buttons on his shirt, probably not.
I didn't even think of that. That's clever nice spot.
He likes wearing female blouses and doesn't appreciate your judgement.
It's obviously some smoothed Z-DNA
Flip it horizontally?
You could flip the image but the thing about a spiral is that it’s the same no matter you turn it around in space.
If you physically spin it, yes, it wouldn’t change its direction, but I was talking about flipping the image horizontally.
Wow, okay racist