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Should We Eat Steve's Lava Chicken?

Should We Eat Steve's Lava Chicken?
This meme perfectly captures the bizarre enthusiasm geologists have for anything remotely related to molten rock! While regular folks recoil at the thought of scorching hot chicken (probably questioning Steve's cooking skills), geologists hear "lava" and instantly perk up like they've been offered free field samples. Their brains are hardwired to get excited about anything with temperatures exceeding 700°C. That thousand-yard stare isn't horror—it's pure, unbridled geological lust. They're not thinking about dinner; they're mentally calculating viscosity and silica content of that chicken!

The Engineer's Correction Compulsion

The Engineer's Correction Compulsion
Engineers claiming they don't have time to correct you, then immediately backtracking because their brains physically cannot allow inaccuracies to exist in the universe. It's like watching someone try to resist scratching a mosquito bite while sitting in a sauna. The internal struggle is real - they'd rather miss a deadline than let you walk away thinking torque is measured in joules. The obsessive need for precision is both their superpower and their kryptonite. Engineers don't just build bridges - they build arguments about why your understanding of cantilever physics is fundamentally flawed.

Pi: The Gateway Drug To Mathematical Obsession

Pi: The Gateway Drug To Mathematical Obsession
Staring at endless digits of pi while "Mental Illness" is plastered across the middle? Yep, that's just Tuesday for math enthusiasts. The beautiful irrationality of π continues forever without repeating—just like that conversation you had with yourself at 3 AM about whether infinity actually exists. The relationship between mathematicians and pi is basically an eternal love affair with commitment issues. They'll chase those digits to the billionth decimal place and still want more. It's not obsession—it's "academic curiosity." Sure, Jan.

Civil Engineer Moment

Civil Engineer Moment
When your passion for traditional construction materials goes WAY beyond hobby status! This person's brother has turned brick vs. concrete into the ultimate architectural hill to die on. The progression from German construction fascination to concrete-block-smashing vigilante is the most intense materials science journey ever documented. That breakdown in London over brutalist architecture? Pure engineering emotions in their rawest form! The family dinner table has transformed from political debates to heated discussions about building materials—which honestly might be more productive than politics anyway! Next Thanksgiving, just bring some vintage clay bricks as a peace offering.

The Ultimate Deadline: When Being Right Is To Die For

The Ultimate Deadline: When Being Right Is To Die For
Talk about taking your calculations to the grave! Cardano was so committed to his mathematical predictions that he allegedly *checks notes* ENDED HIS LIFE just to prove his death calculation was correct?! 🤯 That's not dedication to science, that's what happens when you spend too much time solving for X and forget to solve for WHY. Next time you think you're obsessed with being right, remember: Cardano set the bar astronomically high. Or low. Depending on how you look at it. The ultimate "I'd rather die than be wrong" energy that makes modern academic peer review look like a friendly chat!

The Physics Major's Paradox

The Physics Major's Paradox
The eternal paradox of physics majors! Secretly proud that nobody knows they study physics, yet physically incapable of having a conversation that doesn't involve quantum mechanics, relativity, or why everything you know about gravity is wrong. The party trick is spotting them—just mention "flat Earth" and watch them transform into a walking textbook with uncontrollable hand gestures. Their friends aren't annoyed... they're just experiencing social friction, which is directly proportional to the number of times "according to Maxwell's equations" is mentioned per hour.

Chemists Be Like

Chemists Be Like
Chemists really can't escape their professional obsession! The equilibrium arrow (⇌) haunts them like an ex who won't stop texting. Normal people see Spider-Man perched on a building, but chemists? They spot chemical equilibrium symbols in random architectural features and immediately geek out. It's that special kind of nerd syndrome where your brain has been so thoroughly marinated in chemical equations that you start hallucinating reaction arrows in the wild. Next time your chemist friend points at a random fence and whispers "reversible reaction," just nod sympathetically—they're too far gone.

The CAD Addiction Spiral

The CAD Addiction Spiral
The engineering student's journey with CAD software is a slippery slope of self-deception. First, it's just another homework assignment. Then you convince yourself it's actually intuitive (ha!). Suddenly, you're having "fun" designing things, and before you know it—you're 12 hours deep creating the most unnecessarily detailed model of a rocket engine that nobody asked for. The final panel hits with the crushing realization that you've been so absorbed in your digital creation that you've completely forgotten the actual assignment deadline. Classic engineering hyperfocus syndrome! The progression from reluctance to obsession is painfully accurate for anyone who's ever touched AutoCAD or SolidWorks.