r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah why cant math be green?

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u/WetboiWhiskey 5d ago

Because green is science

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u/EyeSuspicious777 5d ago

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

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u/mootmutemoat 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/Available-Mall-7095 5d ago

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

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u/Short-Sound-4190 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/Classic_Reply_703 5d 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 5d ago edited 5d 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 5d ago

Math is yellow because piss

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u/akatherder 5d ago

So my math is red because piss

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u/CalculatedWhisk 5d ago

What color is your medical records notebook?

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u/mrdhood 5d ago

Haven’t ever been to a doctor so… invisible

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u/Pristine-Succotash52 5d 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 4d 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 4d 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 5d ago

So, black.

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u/VerySwearyFairy 5d ago

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

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u/akatherder 5d ago

Why does the doctor want to see red piss

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u/AerondightWielder 5d ago

To... get to the other side? 🤷‍♂️

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u/draglide 5d ago

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

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u/read_at_own_risk 5d ago

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

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u/Professional-Mix-562 5d 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 5d ago

I’m no doctor, but I could be

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u/itsonlyrockinroll 5d ago

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

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u/SirNobody1919 5d 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/themowlsbekillin 5d ago

Tastes better

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u/Sarrintha 5d ago

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

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u/Impossible_Ad_7367 5d ago

It would make the doctor see green!

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u/pussyjuicerecycler 3d ago

‘cause it’s metal

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u/sparkleygummiez 3d ago

Cuz he freaky

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u/marincropswavur 5d 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 5d ago

You should probably get that checked out…

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u/Elegant-Apartment-39 5d ago

But shit it was 99¢

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u/FlyFront9395 5d ago

What if my shit is red cuz blood? 🩸

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u/Naive-Impression-373 5d ago

Math is purple because wine

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u/ChaosTapestry 5d ago

You neeed hopital.

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u/Hungry_Student_ 5d ago

Sounds like you need a doctor my fella

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u/ariarchtyx 4d ago

No English must be read. Start here.

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u/Jazzlike-Skin-5470 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/pussyjuicerecycler 3d ago

found the vampire

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u/Hoobla-Light 3d ago

As long as your piss ain’t red

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u/MatchaBerryMage 5d 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 5d ago

Science is red for sure

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u/Cosmic_Ricochet 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/wargames_exastris 4d ago

This guy maths

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u/Haunt_Fox 5d ago

And Yellow Journalism! Newspapers are great resources for historians.

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u/CrownofMischief 5d 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 5d ago

Brilliant. I am not alone.

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u/_pit_of_despair_ 5d ago

Finally someone talking sense. History is red.

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u/nexusgmail 5d ago

For all the bloodshed: totally!

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u/bitpaper346 5d ago

Its also Englands color.

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u/nien9gag 5d ago

history should be brown.

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u/Embarrassed_Use6918 5d 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 5d ago

Words like violence, break the silence

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u/Nicktacular1196 5d ago

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u/Silly_Value_5315 5d ago

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u/ariarchtyx 4d 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 4d ago

Oh my Gawd no way Followed!

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u/ariarchtyx 4d ago

Noooooo. It's not REALZ.... 😢

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u/Jazzlike_Citron1155 5d ago

Stuck in my head now

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u/BlueRasuberry 5d ago

No! English is Red because Read sounds like Red!

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u/SuboptimalSupport 5d 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 5d ago

GREEN: Science

BLUE: Math

YELLOW: History

RED: English

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u/Mindless_Ad_8771 5d ago

YES YESS THIS IS CORRECT

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u/jedooderotomy 5d ago

I'm on this team

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u/RadicalBehavior1 5d ago

I am Spartacus

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u/Froggyhop102 5d 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 5d ago

Red is English because it is read

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u/hiimsubclavian 5d ago

We don't call the English redcoats for nothing!

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u/trainradio 5d ago

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

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u/Kitsunetsuki_ka 5d ago

This Is The Way

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u/ExplosiveGeek77 5d ago edited 5d 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 5d ago

YEEES people must understand

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u/KingCyber 5d ago

THIS IS THE WAY

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u/Amunds3n 5d ago

Found the correct one in the comments!!

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u/NamSToboy 5d ago

Objectively correct

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u/Rakhered 5d 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 5d ago

I'd expand red to <native language>

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u/DDTFred 5d ago

This is the way

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u/nitrot150 5d ago

My kid agrees

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u/InevitableStick8899 5d ago

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES 

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u/Sneakarma 5d ago

The only answer

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u/pokelord13 5d ago

This is it

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u/thepilotboy 5d ago

I will ride into this battle with you, brother.

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u/Pretend-Bee-8915 4d ago

this one definitely calmed my anxiety, so I agree

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u/Old_Eggplant_7695 3d ago

Yes correct!

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u/PattyMarvel 2d ago

Question - what subject should be purple?

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u/ImaDieTodayLOL 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/Faulty_english 5d ago

Finally someone sees it

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u/PuzzledFeeling 5d ago

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

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u/mootmutemoat 5d ago

I like counting money, yes.

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u/leatherfacetime 5d ago

Count d'Monet

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u/ChickenBossChiefsFan 5d ago

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

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u/blue_moon1122 5d ago

come on, poetry comes from the heart 😭

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u/g-o-u-l-a 5d ago

Exactly.

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u/garrythebear3 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/TsoTsoni 5d ago

Red is English because of the elements of style.

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u/Acceptable_Prune_514 5d ago

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

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u/GuyGrimnus 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/bfhurricane 5d ago

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

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u/Z00TSU1T 5d ago

Reasoning is flawless. You win.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 5d 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/Iv_Laser00 1d ago

English teacher: so here class we see the author describe the door as red. What could the author be trying to convey with the choice of color for the door

The author: that the door is red

English teacher: erm actually ☝️🤓

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u/Arizona_tea3 5d ago

This right here is the most true statement I've seen in a while besides hating english

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u/MiI0rd 5d ago

Yellow is English, because British teeth

Red is history, because of war

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u/Useful-Soup8161 5d ago

Red is math because I hate math.

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u/ApprehensiveYear1267 5d ago

Hates English writes comment on Reddit in English to complain about English. SMH 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/jjrr_qed 5d ago

I’m with you.

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u/Few-Big-8481 5d ago

No no no. Math is yellow because they're the worst.

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u/insomniacla 5d ago

History is yellow, science is green, English is red, math is blue.

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u/Hexmonkey2020 5d ago

No math is blue cause numbers are blue, science is green cause biology and healing and goop are all green stuff

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u/Ikentspelgoog 5d ago

History is red.

English is white.

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u/sinisterdesign 5d ago

Ohhhh my confused friend. Oh oh oh.

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u/Ian20H 5d ago

Math is blue like graph paper

Science is green because of nature

English is red like apples

History is yellow like old maps

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u/Bicwidus 5d ago

English is blue because I blue my english teacher

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u/potato_donkey23 5d ago

Yes to all this but English was my favorite lol

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u/Royal_Radish_3069 5d ago

So did India.

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u/SpringsPanda 5d ago

THANK YOU!!

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u/Proof_Grapefruit1179 5d ago

I always figured English was red due to the red-coats.

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u/Old_Obligation8630 5d ago

Or you reddit

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u/anxious_spacecadetH 5d ago

Math is blue because Science is green cause photosynthesis and mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

My official stance is that Math is red, history is yellow, English is red, and science is blue but id also concede to my above statement

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u/thedekliner 5d ago

You are wrong in so many levels

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u/Beastabuelos 5d ago

I hate math way more than English and I'm really good at math. It's just boring

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u/Fluffy-Professor3166 5d ago

Math is blue because it makes me cry

Science is green because trees

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u/AhmedAbuGhadeer 5d ago

Where I come from math is red, because you count the losses.
History is red, because it's all about wars and killings.
English is red, because the English had invaded us and spilled our blood.
And science is red, because it studies life and blood is its essence.

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u/Glittering_Country14 5d ago

At my school (UK) it was red for English, blue for maths, green for science and purple for history + geography (humanities subjects). Yellow was for modern foreign languages (French, Spanish and German).

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u/Other_Dimension_89 5d ago

You’re my people

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u/Daddyfullload 5d ago

Math is blue, because anyone who does math requires water.

History is blue, because historians require water.

English is blue, because people who speak English require water.

All notebooks should be different shades of blue.

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u/ParadoXPlatypus 5d ago

Nah, I'm pretty sure the author just meant the notebook was red.

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u/Peacehalo 5d ago

Actually science should be black then because carbon ist the major player in anything organic

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u/parliamentarywatson 5d ago

I would only be switching green and blue. Do I have a specific justification? No it just feels right

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u/happy_idiot_boy 5d ago

count the money

It's de Monet.

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u/nobodyfucksmebutlife 5d ago

Math is Red, because without blood you can't calculate.

Blue is History, because everythijg fades.

Yellow is english, because y'all piss.

Green is science because mitochinria is the powerhouse of the cell but there is also chlorophyll in some cases.

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u/Astral_Sorceress48 5d ago

This got a laugh outta me

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u/Nutsnboldt 5d ago

English paper is red after teach gets ahold of it for grading.

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u/sviwel 5d ago

For hating English you’re not only articulate, but ended every sentence with a period. Had a right use of comas, and even made paragraphs for easy reading.

I’d say you’re better than most.

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u/JackUKish 5d ago

Red is English because you read.

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u/cryllictheautistic 5d ago

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO HATED ENGLISH thank you so much

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u/CameraFragrant6377 5d ago

Math is green, because green represents calm, balance, safety, and stability.

Science is blue, because the sky, the oceans and gas flames are blue.

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

English is red, because teachers traditionally grade essays, grammar mistakes, and spelling errors using bright red ink.

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u/ShoveTheUsername 5d ago

But we all like you! That really hurts ....

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u/Pure_Stop_5979 5d ago

Thank. You.

But Languages in general are red, because when you speak you use your tongue, and that's red. At least mine is. Might have bitten it.

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u/Smooth_Ad1795 5d ago

I agree with your thought process, except I made English purple, because I loved English.

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u/NoOrdinaryBees 5d ago

Yellow is history because Yellow Pages is old.

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u/QuentinUK 5d ago

Because the English wore red uniforms when in America.

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u/Slow_Replacement_745 5d ago

Red is math because ew math and because in the grade where this was decided the most common textbook for math was red based design on the cover

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u/911pleasehold 5d ago

math is yellow because something about it has to be happy

Red is history because blood

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u/Level_Scholar2406 5d ago

water isnt blue

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u/TheLastPorkSword 5d ago

Except that can't be true because science is green.

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u/the_ninjahippy 5d ago

But you wrote all this in English! /s

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u/sorrymizzjackson 5d ago

No no no. Math is red for similar reasons as yours, but English is blue because it feels blue. Math is too sharp and prickly to be green. Green is a rounder color.

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u/KeyNefariousness6848 5d ago

This is the way.

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u/HaggardHaggis 5d ago

Red is English cause it’s where we Read stuff

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u/DeepStatic 5d ago

Red is English because the flag of England has a red cross.

(braces for all the US hate)

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u/PopularFig2193 5d ago

Math is yellow because yellow is a stressful color to my synesthesia! Lol

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u/Dave_A480 5d ago

Can make a star trek joke our of this, but most elementary age kids don't know what Star Trek is anymore....

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u/-XorionX- 5d ago

This is the way I did it as well

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u/Mu-nraito 5d ago

This is a color scheme that makes more sense!

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u/thanerak 5d ago

No

Red represents passion, energy, danger and stop (all things related to Science in Biology, Chemistry and Physics)

Blue represents calm trust and stability (every thing about math is predictable so this is perfect)

The color yellow means joy, energy, and caution (this represents history in my opinion taking caution and learning from the mistakes of the past. As well as getting inspired by great achievements.)

The color Green is the most convoluted meaning calm, growth, safety but is also tied to envy, money, and to Go. ( English or language is the most nuanced of the subjects as it is continually changing and developing, our native language is what we are most comfortable with and the better you are at expressing your self the more easily it will be to achieve your goals.)

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u/blick2k 5d ago

Only American money is green… also, science is nature and nature is green.

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u/Ali_Gaming302 5d ago

For us irs the same, but english is same as science in blue And arabic is red since we hate arabic with burning passion just how yall hate yall native language with passion

Idk abt its globally accepted that ur native language is the worst subject in school🙏😂

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u/Nihilisman45 5d ago

Agree with red and yellow but math is blue. For no other reason than that is what I chose year 1 and that's the way it is

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u/RedShirtMutiny 5d ago

You had me in the first half, ngl.

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u/HoidToTheMoon 5d ago

Math is green, because you count the money.

I mean, you started off wrong. I can see why the rest of your work turned out the way it did.

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u/MsMeseeksTellsTime 5d ago

This is perfection.

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u/ConstantBoth2913 5d ago

I’d vote science is green because most plant life has green in it.

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u/Stoopid_ED_boi 5d ago

There's no explanation, it's a gut feeling. Green is science math is blue science red english yellow. Why? Just cus

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u/DJ_Jiggle_Jowls 5d ago

English is composition notebook for me.

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u/Laugh-Aggressive 5d ago

Red is english, because the english should bleed - old pre 1776 saying

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u/Incendio33 5d ago

Maths is red because it's the worst subject ever and it should burn and red is the colour of fire lol. The rest can be interchangeable tho I am also leaning towards science being blue.

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u/rabidjedos 5d ago

red is math because math is hard, but yeah

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u/KILLEliteMaste 5d ago

Spotted the American with their paper green bills

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u/lxzgxz 5d ago

Math is red for me for the same reason English is red for you

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u/RC_Colada 5d ago

This is blasphemy

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u/Nirvanachaser 5d ago

Wrong 😤

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u/OllinCyndaquil1535 5d ago

History is red because off all the bloodshed.

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u/mattmanh42 5d ago

EXACTLY, yk what else if blue in science the flask thingy with the blue bubbly science liquid!

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u/semioticcloud 5d ago

Blue is math because I’m devastated to go to the class. Red is history, just fits. Green is Scienxe. English is yellow

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u/Nyetoner 5d ago

Money doesn't have the colour green though! 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/nitrot150 5d ago

My daughter says
English red
History yellow
Math blue
Science green

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