#bichemistry

[miriandedeus2021]

Não tenho palavras para descrever o quanto estou orgulhosa de te e das tuas escolhas. Esses 18 valores representam muito esforço, noites de sono, muitas renúncias. Como é o sabor da vitória! Meus parabéns minha Bioquímica preferida. #bioquimica #bichemistry #mirianescritora (em Évora) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR1dVJKFMuX/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I hate to be an ignorant American, but would you mind explaining a little bit about the importance of the recent election results? I think that until now Britain had a three party system, right-wing, left-wing, and centrist, but UKIP is now a more right wing fourth party? It's kind of hard to imagine what a far-right European political party would look like from an American perspective.

Hey everybody’s ignorant about a lot of things! Most British people don’t know shit about American politics haha so it’s cool, I’m glad when people are interested in finding out more about the United Kingdom of Turds. Warning before you start that this is very long cause I’ve basically written a not that good primer to (some of) UK politics haha. There’s a lot of opinion and communist stuff and the analysis only really gets going like halfway through but I felt it was important to talk about this stuff if you don’t know much about the UK cause it’s hard to get a feel for these things just from reading Wikipedia or whatever. Take everything I see with a pinch of salt cause it's very opinion but yeah

I hope this is an ok answer and please tell me if you have a problem/want clarification or anything - I understand it’s probably pretty incoherent cause no editing and I sort of veer off topic A LOT but I feel it’s all connected, sorry if it doesn’t really answer your question properly, feel free to tell me. Under a read more cause yeah it’s super long. I also talk a lot about racism and fascism cause it’s kind of unavoidable with UKIP and right politics in general, I hope I’ve talked about it somewhat sensitively though.So yeah first off the 3 major parties in parliament after the 2010 election (parliament elections are usually every 5 years) are Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats (in order of size). There are also the Greens, who have 1 seat, the Scottish Nationalist Party, who have 6 seats, Plaid Cymru (the Welsh nationalist party), who have 3 (out of a parliament of 650). There are also the 5 Northern Irish parties which I won’t go in to cause it’s complicated and although they have MPs the politics there are very different to mainland Britain. The SNP, Greens and PC are all somewhat left, the Greens most so - the other 2 are sort of coalitions of nationalist forces so have a range of political views although they all run on being to the left of the 3 main parties (this is actually a major part of the scottish independence campaign). They’re all pretty small though.

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bichemistry replied to your post: bichemistry replied to your post “exci...

No I mean literally all of them. Portugal used to only have a small number of names you could name your child by law, and Maria was the best option for Catholic reasons. Portugal still has the name list thing, except now I think its like 40 names? The more you know

woah no way, that's ridiculous, but interesting, thanks for telling me about it! i mean i guess i see where it comes from (like i guess the salazar government was pretty big on that sort of stuff) but still jeez. apparently it's still the most common name for girls (and children in general) by a huge margin, that's kind of astonishing

i found the wikipedia article on portugese names pretty interesting. i liked this "The law also establishes the maximum number of names allowed: up to two given names and four surnames (just in Portugal).[1] This is generally not enforced and it is not uncommon to have more than 4 surnames."

there's something i find really funny about the idea of illegal amounts of surnames. i dunno i can't explain it. it's interesting finding out how different naming is even in other parts of western europe

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bichemistry replied to your post “exciting family tree information, these are the Top Names in my family...”

Everyone girl on my mothers side of the family is named Maria because, you know, they're Portuguese and its basically the law. they all go by middle names. Its terrible.

dang that seems really confusing, i mean i understand the reasons why people do that sort of thing (tradition, honouring other relatives, etc) but really at some point someone has to say enough is enough

kafkarockopera replied to your post “exciting family tree information, these are the Top Names in my family...”

You made top 4!!

heck yeah i'm so history

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bichemistry replied to your post “melteddali replied to your post: one of the things that’s weird to me...”

I've never actually heard someone who was not a politician or a European use the word freedom fries.

haha yeah neither have i, apparently it did have some limited use but it was mostly like, congressional cafeteria and stuff like that. i'd never bring it up normally cause like most of those sorts of naming-from-above initiatives it was never popular. and it's sort of an easy thing to point to and be like "haha americans are stupid!!" (which i don't support cause i think it obscures actually important problems) and yeah it used to be a very popular joke over here. which was kind of ridiculous

and like with my first post i'm not pretending you don't get similar stuff from europeans (the whole "we're better than americans because haha this american thing is silly!!" thing) it just a slightly venty post because people from the usa are more common online so i notice that more haha

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bichemistry replied to your post “sexy john green meme" is fucking depressing as hell”

Im ...ughewwwwwww

yeah this pretty much sums up my reaction too

[thefuzzydude]

Today in biochem my lecturer was describing our molecular modeling kit, and he said that technically it wasn't that accurate because even if we could see molecules we wouldn't see the 'stick' of the bond between them so he said

'that's why we're rather attached to the pair of balls with the long rod between them' Then he stopped, realised what he'd said with a small look of horror, and sat down and just stared at the computer in front of him for ages

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bichemistry replied to your post “[[MOR] I get probably the double amount of sexual/romantic oblique...”

I think society reinforces a narrative where the guy is the one who chooses, the girl is chosen. Girls are embarrassed by their interest sometimes. I think girls don't ask because rejection is harsher for them. I read this dumb ass dating advice book He's Just Not That Into...

I definitely agree with you on that. I think part of the reason that perhaps rejection is harder on girls is that there is this weird perception that obtaining a date or having a sexual encounter is 'easier', which is just another layer of pressure. I fucking loathe books like that, which includes the whole PUA method. Horribly misogynistic and treats woman purely like objects of desire.