I Am Just The Same!

This meme is a brilliant play on chemical notation using political satire! It shows the progression of chemical bonds (single, double, triple) between atoms, but replaces the atoms with faces and uses a wordplay on "Putin" that mimics the naming convention of hydrocarbons. In chemistry, alkanes with single bonds are named with "-an" (like ethane), alkenes with double bonds use "-en" (like ethene), and alkynes with triple bonds use "-in" (like ethyne). The meme cleverly transforms "Putin" into "Putan" (single bond), "Puten" (double bond), and "Putin" (triple bond)! The title "Old But Au" is itself a chemistry pun - Au being the chemical symbol for gold, suggesting this joke is an oldie but a goldie. Nerdy chemical nomenclature has never been so politically charged!

The chemistry lab equivalent of a mic drop. Phenolphthalein is the ultimate pH snitch—colorless in acidic solutions but turns bright pink when exposed to bases above pH 8.2. So when someone asks if they're "basic," this indicator doesn't sugarcoat it. It's literally designed to expose basic substances with an unmistakable hot pink callout. Chemistry doesn't care about your feelings; it just delivers cold, colorimetric facts.

The marketing department clearly skipped chemistry class. "C₂O" would be carbon suboxide—a highly toxic, flammable gas that smells like rotten fish and definitely not what you want in your refreshing tropical beverage. If coconut water actually contained C₂O instead of H₂O with some electrolytes, we'd have a lot fewer Instagram influencers pushing hydration trends and a lot more emergency room visits. Drink up! Nothing says "wellness" like a compound that spontaneously polymerizes at room temperature.

Oh my periodic table! Someone's finally cracked the elemental code of bathroom signs! Fe (iron) for female with its circular symbol and Mn (manganese) for male with its triangular sign. It's the perfect chemical pun—nature's way of saying "hold my beaker" while designing gender symbols! The irony is that iron is actually one of the strongest elements, while manganese is more brittle—which completely shatters gender stereotypes. Next up: discovering whether carbon and oxygen are just really good friends or in a covalent relationship!

Cells don't appreciate thermodynamics forcing them to spend precious ATP just to run basic maintenance. That 30.5 kJ/mol energy cost is basically the cellular equivalent of paying protection money to the laws of physics. "Here's my hard-earned phosphate bond... now please let my metabolic pathways continue in peace." Every biochemistry student eventually realizes that cellular metabolism is just a sophisticated extortion racket run by entropy.

The disappointment is immeasurable. Spent four hours in the lab meticulously measuring, mixing, and monitoring two transparent liquids only to end up with... another transparent liquid. No color change. No precipitation. Not even the courtesy of a small explosion. Just documentation of yet another "successful" reaction that looks exactly like what I started with. My lab notebook is just a collection of "mixed clear liquid A with clear liquid B" with increasingly desperate margin notes.