For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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The medical symbol of the staff with the snake is only supposed to have 1 (one) snake on it. A staff with 1 snake is the Rod of Asclepius (the son of Apollo and Greek demigod of medicine), a staff with 2 snakes is a Caduceus which is carried by Hermes as a messenger or herald.

Physicians get 1 snake. Couriers and heralds get 2 snakes. Any medical professional or organization that uses 2 snakes is wrong and needs to go study the humanities and classics for a bit.

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Similarly, the Shamrock, (☘️) an important symbol for Saint Patrick’s Day has three leaves where most SPD kitch sold in the US features four-leaf clovers (🍀) an unrelated good luck symbol. I dont object because I feel Ireland needs a better iconic saint (and a better holiday) than the guy who brought the imperialist religion under which the native Irish would be subjugated.

They need someone like Joan of Arc who ran the English out (of settlements in France).

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Wait, he didn’t chase out literal snakes?!

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While I know you’re being funny, for those unaware, the snakes being referred to with St Patrick were a euphemism for the non-Christian beliefs in Ireland.

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So, let’s get rid of the Catholic St. Patrick and bring in the Catholic St. Joan of Arc? That seems illogical, since St. Joan of Arc also represented what you refer to as an imperialist religion. St. Joan also overtly represented the imperial power of France, which was very much expanding its territory at the time that she lived. I agree with you about the shamrock.

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I meant similar to Joan of Arc, in that she chased the English out, but I’d be much happier for someone who wasn’t a religious saint.

For now, it’s Mad Sweeneys’ day, more or less.

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Would two snakes on an ambulance be acceptable? They’re kind of like couriers of the sick and injured.

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That’s the only time I think it’s acceptable. Ambulances are kind of a venn diagram of healthcare and couriers, so the 2 snakes on the star of life makes sense.

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They may need to mix it up by switching to 2 crossed staffs with a total of 3 snakes to get it juuusst right.

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I thought one snake was use for medecine and two snakes for pharmacy. I guess I was wrong. Anyway in France, the one snake is use for medecine and pharmacies used a green cross shaped like the one the suisse flag.

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… But 2 snakes looks cooler…

Also Hermes -> Alchemy -> Medicine. I can grok that.

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Given the thread we’re in: grok is not a word.

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A word is a word when people use it and it is understood. Grok was in a book, and used extensively in everyday conversation by the 70s counterculture.

Grok is a word.

Seethe.

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Isn’t the one snake staff more of a trans symbol?

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Look I’m all for trans homies and positivity but not everything has to be a fuckin trans symbol.

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This is what I was thinking of, which does have two snakes and a stick in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias

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I have never heard of that association.

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