Knowledge Memes

The eternal math education debate captured in stick figure glory! Former student smugly declares they've forgotten all algebra since graduation, triumphantly proclaiming "no one has needed me to solve for X!" only to have their math teacher deliver the ultimate comeback: "I told you'd never use it... IN YOUR FACE!" The comic brilliantly skewers the "when will I ever use this?" crowd while pointing out the bizarre contradiction: people proudly boast about forgetting math but would never brag about not learning music, cooking, or languages. It's the perfect encapsulation of math anxiety disguised as practical thinking! Next time someone says "I haven't used algebra since high school," just smile knowingly. They're using algebraic thinking constantly—they just don't realize it's hiding in everything from cooking ratios to budgeting to programming their thermostat!

That moment when someone questions basic unit conversion and your inner nerd goes nuclear! 5280 feet in a mile is basically tattooed on the brain of every science kid who paid attention for 5 seconds in school. The smug satisfaction of dropping that number faster than gravity pulls an apple is pure intellectual dopamine. It's like having a useless superpower that occasionally lets you feel superior at parties nobody wanted to invite you to anyway.