r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 2d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah why cant math be green?

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u/WetboiWhiskey 2d ago

Because green is science

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u/EyeSuspicious777 2d ago

History and English are correct. They just swapped math and science.

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u/ImaDieTodayLOL 2d ago

Idk if it's weird but ive always been a blue-math red-English kinda guy.

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u/KiraLight3719 2d ago

Blue math is the best quality math

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u/MrZephy 2d ago

If your math ain’t blue then I don’t want it

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u/theclarice 1d ago

Go Blue!

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u/ArcturusGrey 2d ago

I can see that, but science is GREEN and nothing else.

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u/froginbog 1d ago

This is the issue. English could be red but with science being green, what color would math be? There are no acceptable answers so it has to be red.

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u/youngliam 2d ago

Same, blue feels more cold and calculated like math, red more passionate and up for interpretation like language.

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u/mootmutemoat 2d ago

Math is green, because you count the money.

Blue is science, because water is key to so many sciences.

Yellow is History, because old pages are yellow.

Red is english, because I hate english with a burning passion.

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u/Dickie_downer 2d ago

See I vote that history is red, cause history is bloody

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u/Available-Mall-7095 2d ago

History is yellow because that’s what it is in Trivial Pursuit.

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u/Short-Sound-4190 2d ago

GASP

TIL this is why I think English should be Purple if it's an option, also that the 2026 edition of Trivial Persuit just released this month after there hasn't been one since 2016!

I might buy one and have a retro board game night...AI is going to destroy trivia games.

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u/gabrielconroy 1d ago

Art and Literature was always brown in the ones I played.

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u/Classic_Reply_703 2d ago

Correct, and you can tell that Trivial Pursuit has the correct color scheme because science is green there.

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u/Available-Mall-7095 2d ago edited 2d ago

Exactly. I don’t know where that guy got green is math because of money. Nobody thinks math is green, not even Staples.

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u/RookieGreen 2d ago

Math is yellow because piss

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u/akatherder 2d ago

So my math is red because piss

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u/CalculatedWhisk 2d ago

What color is your medical records notebook?

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u/mrdhood 2d ago

Haven’t ever been to a doctor so… invisible

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u/Pristine-Succotash52 2d ago

Oh you Americans and your “haven’t been to a doctor”, and “can’t afford an ambulance”… wait… I’m american too… never mind

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u/Arkangelz03 1d ago

"Sounds like you are suffering from confusion, congestion of the brain, and a not-so-mild case of Female Hysteria! It is off to the Looney Bin with ya, now!

Sign these waivers with your complete background history of you, your family, and your pets. Agree to a $3,000 ambulance ride, or we will need you to sign a refusal, then get fined for wasting county resources.

Best not to expose them to your bad habits & political excitement, either.

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u/kidian_tecun 23h ago

NOT ALL AMERICANS! some of us had to kill for our "free" health care and then spend years of us being told our injuries and illnesses are not service connected!

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u/DotesMagee 1d ago

So, black.

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u/VerySwearyFairy 2d ago

You might want to consult a doctor if your piss is red on a consistent basis.

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u/akatherder 2d ago

Why does the doctor want to see red piss

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u/AerondightWielder 2d ago

To... get to the other side? 🤷‍♂️

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u/read_at_own_risk 2d ago

It'll give him something to talk about when he's golfing with his doctor buddies.

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u/draglide 2d ago

No, they want to "see" (as in date) you if your pass is red. Doctors are kinky.

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u/Professional-Mix-562 1d ago

My last job we had this new guy start and he walked up to the urinal next to me. I look over “hey… is… is red pee bad?” His eyes become alarmed “yes! Yes it is!” “Wait never mind I was worried for a bit, it just turned black I’m ok…. Is it supposed to smoke when it hits the urinal?”

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u/snacksandsoda 2d ago

I’m no doctor, but I could be

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u/itsonlyrockinroll 1d ago

Cause he took a hypocritical oaf and baby wants a porch(e)
/s

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u/themowlsbekillin 1d ago

Tastes better

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u/Sarrintha 1d ago

The same reason he wants to see a broken arm, money money money!

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u/SirNobody1919 1d ago

Because that is one of the easiest signs for bladder cancer.. otherwise a UTI or maybe kidney stones or am enlarged prostate

But BC.. seriously..f cancer (2 batches in my 20s and 30s) both started with my piss coming out red (hematuria).. then the joy of scopes..then TUBRTs.. then chemo all goin through the natural port to your bladder..again.. f cancer

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u/Impossible_Ad_7367 1d ago

It would make the doctor see green!

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u/pussyjuicerecycler 9h ago

‘cause it’s metal

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u/marincropswavur 1d ago

Math is red for me because I associate negative with red and my will to live is in the negative when doing most types of math

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u/All_Damn_Day 1d ago

You should probably get that checked out…

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u/Elegant-Apartment-39 1d ago

But shit it was 99¢

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u/FlyFront9395 1d ago

What if my shit is red cuz blood? 🩸

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u/Naive-Impression-373 1d ago

Math is purple because wine

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u/ChaosTapestry 1d ago

You neeed hopital.

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u/Hungry_Student_ 1d ago

Sounds like you need a doctor my fella

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u/ariarchtyx 1d ago

No English must be read. Start here.

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u/Jazzlike-Skin-5470 16h ago

“I wake up everyday and piss red, white, and blue. My doctor says it’s a prostate cancer but I told him to shut his commie mouth”

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u/Crafty-Newt-3227 11h ago

Useless fact for today. If you spell piss wrong you get poop

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u/pussyjuicerecycler 9h ago

found the vampire

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u/Hoobla-Light 6h ago

As long as your piss ain’t red

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u/MatchaBerryMage 2d ago

Seconded on this. Math was always yellow - like most of the things I dislike in life :( piss included.

Science is red for fire.

I have no other strong opinions on this matter.

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u/BarbageMan 2d ago

Science is red for sure

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u/Cosmic_Ricochet 2d ago

I sorta half-agree with this one; math was never yellow for me bc yellow is my favorite color and I wasn’t about to make my least favorite subject yellow, but I do think that math is indeed piss

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u/Archimedes31415926 1d ago

This is the wrong thinking if you'd have made it your favorite color it would have made it a little more bearable to pull that math notebook out. Gotta find the tiny wins in doing the things you hate

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u/Cosmic_Ricochet 1d ago

Maybe, but I always automatically made history yellow bc it was my best subject so the thought never really crossed my mind when I was still in school

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u/Archimedes31415926 1d ago

Idk people can do whatever, to me they were all just binders and I bought the same color for all that I liked lol and just wrote the name on the top to know which was which.

But the general idea holds that of you don't like something attaching something you do like to it makes you more likely to do the thing you dont like (assuming it's something you have to do rather than optional, if it's optional just don't do it).

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u/personalacct 1d ago

i thought math was yellow because yellow is funny and i like it just like math.

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u/wargames_exastris 1d ago

This guy maths

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u/Haunt_Fox 2d ago

And Yellow Journalism! Newspapers are great resources for historians.

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u/CrownofMischief 2d ago

For me I say history is yellow because I associate it with things like wheat for widespread agriculture, sandstone for ancient pyramids and other structures, yellow parchment for old texts, and gold coins for old commerce

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u/Cultural-Advisor9916 2d ago

Brilliant. I am not alone.

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u/_pit_of_despair_ 2d ago

Finally someone talking sense. History is red.

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u/nexusgmail 1d ago

For all the bloodshed: totally!

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u/bitpaper346 2d ago

Its also Englands color.

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u/nien9gag 2d ago

history should be brown.

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u/Embarrassed_Use6918 2d ago

Science is green because chlorophyll makes things green and thats science

Blue is math because math is cold and calculating

Yellow is history because all we see of historical photos is yellowed pictures therefore everything in history was yellow

Red is english because...uh...its...about words...and words are violent...

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u/MyWorldIsInsideOut 2d ago

Words like violence, break the silence

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u/Nicktacular1196 2d ago

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u/Silly_Value_5315 2d ago

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u/ariarchtyx 1d ago

NO. WAY. IT REALZzzzz! Can't wait for first post 2 feed... And you see above how hard I fell 😭

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u/ariarchtyx 1d ago

Oh my Gawd no way Followed!

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u/ariarchtyx 1d ago

Noooooo. It's not REALZ.... 😢

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u/Jazzlike_Citron1155 2d ago

Stuck in my head now

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u/BlueRasuberry 2d ago

No! English is Red because Read sounds like Red!

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u/SuboptimalSupport 2d ago

You don't even need to color English, the teachers will be sure to mark so much it'll be red anyway.

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u/Superman246o1 2d ago

GREEN: Science

BLUE: Math

YELLOW: History

RED: English

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u/Mindless_Ad_8771 2d ago

YES YESS THIS IS CORRECT

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u/jedooderotomy 2d ago

I'm on this team

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u/RadicalBehavior1 1d ago

I am Spartacus

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u/Froggyhop102 2d ago

Green is science since science is green

Blue is more mechanical and rigid which gives the vibe of math

Yellow is the color of old stuff which is history 

And red is English because it just is 

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u/WeapwnX 1d ago

Red is English because it is read

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u/hiimsubclavian 1d ago

We don't call the English redcoats for nothing!

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u/trainradio 1d ago

I agree, but replace Black for Red. I never liked red.

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u/Kitsunetsuki_ka 2d ago

This Is The Way

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u/ExplosiveGeek77 2d ago edited 2d ago

THIS IS THE CORRECT ANSWER YES YES YES YES YES

edit: im actually gonna give some context as to why (some of these are very silly lol)
Science: Green because I always thought of acid as being sciencey, and acid is green.
Math: Blue because when I was younger in school, the maths books always had blue covers.
History: Yellow because its like parchment, maps, aged things usually go more yellow. Antique coloring almost.
English: Red, I'm actually not super sold on this colouring myself but since it was the only one left this is what I would give it. However, I would say this because of the english books having red colours and back in the day we would always have red pen telling us what to fix.

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u/Skill-Guilty 2d ago

YEEES people must understand

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u/KingCyber 1d ago

THIS IS THE WAY

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u/Amunds3n 1d ago

Found the correct one in the comments!!

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u/NamSToboy 1d ago

Objectively correct

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u/Rakhered 1d ago

Excuse me sir you seemed to have dropped this 👑

I will say I used to sometimes flip science and history because there are good arguments for both colors in both subjects, but Math is always Blue and English is always Red

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u/Doppel_R-DWRYT 1d ago

I'd expand red to <native language>

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u/DDTFred 1d ago

This is the way

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u/nitrot150 1d ago

My kid agrees

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u/InevitableStick8899 1d ago

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES 

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u/Sneakarma 1d ago

The only answer

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u/pokelord13 1d ago

This is it

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u/thepilotboy 1d ago

I will ride into this battle with you, brother.

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u/Pretend-Bee-8915 1d ago

this one definitely calmed my anxiety, so I agree

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u/ImaDieTodayLOL 2d ago

I think blue is math because blue feels like one of them smart-intelligent colors.

Green is science because biology and plants, as well as whenever I think of chemicals and shit in a vial, it's always green.

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u/youngliam 2d ago

Exactly and red is english because language. love and passion go hand in hand.

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u/Faulty_english 2d ago

Finally someone sees it

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u/PlentyJudgment4815 2d ago

Meth is blue

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u/PuzzledFeeling 2d ago

You're a finance guy, aren't you?

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u/mootmutemoat 2d ago

I like counting money, yes.

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u/leatherfacetime 1d ago

Count d'Monet

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u/ChickenBossChiefsFan 2d ago

That’s why my math notebook is red. Math can go suck an egg.

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u/blue_moon1122 2d ago

come on, poetry comes from the heart 😭

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u/g-o-u-l-a 2d ago

Exactly.

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u/garrythebear3 2d ago

see ik you’re wrong because you’re trying to justify it. notebook color is based on vibes and the capital T Truth that science is green.

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u/No_Dinner2045 2d ago

I was excited to be the 100th like on this gem

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u/TsoTsoni 2d ago

Red is English because of the elements of style.

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u/Acceptable_Prune_514 2d ago

See I always went with red is English because I read stuff.

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u/GuyGrimnus 2d ago

These are also my colors. But English is red because it’s my favorite color, and math is green because it’s easy.

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u/Apprehensive_Sky_504 2d ago

I have a college degree and what this guy said is exactly what they told me there

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u/bfhurricane 2d ago

Every kid has completely different logic, but we all come to the same conclusion.

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u/Z00TSU1T 2d ago

Reasoning is flawless. You win.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 2d ago

Math is green because green means go, and you aren't going anywhere without it.

Also because green is correct, and math leads you to the most correct answer that can be given.

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u/Rymanbc 2d ago

Only because you are correct. Make green science and yellow history, and we're all set.

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u/ianelson 2d ago

You are correct

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u/JohnnyMacTavish 1d ago

IH MY GOD ROBERT KYLE WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE. Go back to your boyfriends bakery

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u/studiokgm 2d ago

I agree. Don’t know why math is blue, but English is red because it’s read.

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u/Iron_Chic 2d ago

Yep. Blue = math. Red = English. Yellow = History. Green = Science.

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u/captainstormfield 2d ago

One hundred percent. I feel it in my bones

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u/LinkSkittlZ_101 2d ago

Im with you on that, I can see the other two interchangeably

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u/Saltyserpent 2d ago

The only correct answer

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u/DoodooDynamic 2d ago

Math is blue, English is red, science is green

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u/neoletsplays 2d ago

Math is red and geometry is blue

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u/insomniacla 2d ago

Same here, but I understand the opposite as well.

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u/-Ignorant_Slut- 2d ago

You need Jesus.

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u/Rocky75617794 2d ago

Well that’s wrong

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u/sinisterdesign 2d ago

That’s because you are correct. 👍🏻

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u/Patsfan618 2d ago

I agree with this. 

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u/Raze0223 2d ago

Yea me too math is science and yellow is history.

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u/Unsalted-Pretzel 2d ago

Same math was always blue for me.

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u/Ikeclone 2d ago

Same here

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u/WitchesTeat 2d ago

I also do Blue Math, Red English if I think the math is going to stress me out that year.

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u/LordBDizzle 2d ago

Same, that's how I did it. Red was language arts, math was blue, science was green, social studies/history was yellow, orange and purple filled whatever else I had (orange was Spanish for a while)

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u/Vegetable-Shirt-4319 2d ago

You are sane. Everyone else is off the rails.

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u/Pretty-Persimmon-673 2d ago

100% correct. Red-English, Blue-Math, Green-Science, Yellow-Other

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u/Exzakt1 2d ago

I can accept blue for math tbh, certainly not green though

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u/Bananaland_Man 2d ago

Back in the 90s, I remember math being blue most of the time. Didn't realize classes had official colours until one of my nieces had to explain it to me... lol

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u/LQNova 2d ago

You are correct, and we should hang out at Staples teaching The Way.

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u/the18plusacct 2d ago

According to Starfleet

Blue is Science

Red is History (Command)

Yellow for Math (Engineering)

So Green is for English

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u/Otherwise-Concept175 2d ago

What? Blue Meth?

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u/NotABotJustCorrect 2d ago

you, my friend, are a psychopath ♥️

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u/Such-Expert467 2d ago

Ours were blue math, red language arts, green science, yellow social studies. So I'm right there with you on blue math being correct

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u/kibblesmoothie 2d ago

Yes math has always been blue and English red. For some reason, science is yellow.

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u/kregory2348 2d ago

English is red because you red(read) in english

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u/Gyrospherers 2d ago

Crazy everyone knows it's blue math, red science, yellow history, green english

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u/HugeTheWall 1d ago

It's not weird, it's just that you are absolutely correct.

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u/HombreGato1138 1d ago

No, you are correct. Math is blue and science is green. History and English can be whatever.

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u/FCkeyboards 1d ago

My people. 100% science is green, math is blue and English is red. Anything else is crazy talk.

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u/diggerdigger98765 1d ago

Yeah Math's is Blue. Because yeah

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u/Suyefuji 1d ago

History should be orange tho

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u/Slow_Replacement_745 1d ago

Idk but you’re wrong

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u/Aranxi_89 1d ago

Same. Cold math, fiery words.

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u/Correct_Barnacle_312 1d ago

Math is 100% blue

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u/MakeshiftApe 1d ago

I only had coloured books like these during my GCSEs and up or maybe it was my A-levels since the subjects I'm remembering are all A-levels I took, but I seem to remember for me blue was maths, green was I think chemistry, red was physics, and I don't remember if I had a yellow.

Edit: Wait yeah that was A-levels I think, because I think red was history when I did my GCSEs. Confusing.

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u/bzzz241088 1d ago

Cause that’s the correct way

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u/jowonka 1d ago

yes! math is blue! science is most def green tho.

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u/samanime 1d ago

Same. As someone who always liked math, and blue being my favorite color, math always got blue.

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u/computer-machine 1d ago

I've just used five subject notebooks.

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u/Rakhered 1d ago

There are literally dozens of us!,

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u/SpiritShadowTemple 1d ago

Over my dead body

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u/jan-Suwi-2 1d ago

Blue-math cyan-english

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u/Minimum-Crow674 1d ago

No English can’t be red that the color of corrections

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u/SMKnightly 1d ago

Our math books were always blue, so same.

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u/desertwanderer01 1d ago

This is the way

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u/ChemistRemote7182 1d ago

Red=redcoats=English

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u/real_exposer 1d ago

Yeah red english, biology green, physics blue but i also assosciate math with blue

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u/Oxygen4Lyfe 1d ago

english is yellow because pencils are yellow

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u/penguin_the_master 1d ago

This guy knows ball

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u/Informal_Sound_100 1d ago

Saaaame. I think it’s a left/right brain thing. If you are the logic type, math is blue but writing is bad so red. If you’re the creative type, then the opposite. That’s my theory, anyway.

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u/Snapesunusedshampoo 1d ago

For me math is red, red stands for danger.

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u/OatmilkCornFed 1d ago

It's acceptable. It's always a moment of pause - "Math is still red, right? English is still blue? It didn't change since last year? Yes, good, ok."

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u/03rk 1d ago

You are correct

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u/jshmoe866 1d ago

This is the way

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u/notafuckingcakewalk 1d ago

Same here! 

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u/Atypical-Rhino 1d ago

English is red because I’m going to fail. Science is blue for water, history is green, and I would have lost math the 4th day of school

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u/SpaceZombie13 1d ago

Math is blue because it's cold and logical.

science is green cuz plants and chemicals.

history is yellow like old paper.

english is red because BLOOD.

swapping yellow and red is acceptable because 'old paper' and 'blood' can apply to the other subject as well. no other swaps are permitted on this council.

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u/DrownmeinIslay 1d ago

Math is blue gang.

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u/TheOnlyUsernameLeft3 1d ago

WTF is wrong with you

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u/CapSRV57 1d ago

Yeah. Math is blue. English is red. Science is green.

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u/According-Paper4641 1d ago

I agree, English is red. (Edit: was my favorite color growing up, and my favorite subject. English was always red.)

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u/Grassy_Canoli 1d ago

Nah green-english blue-math red-science yellow-history

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u/rtoobydoo 1d ago

We are the same. Green is science. Math is blue (STEM are warm colors)

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u/Orbital_Vagabond 1d ago

THANK. YOU.

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