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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm fascinated by how idioms have gone a complete 180. Now we tell people that they just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but that idiom is used to describe an impossible task. You can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, it's literally impossible. Same with it's just a few bad apples to excuse bad behaviour. The idiom is a few bad apples ruins the barel, that one bad person or thing jeopardizes the whole thing. I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People are rather ignorant as a whole. Many of us here probably use our brains for genuine thought, but I find that to be the exception.

Look at the shit people focus on as important and how they mimic what they see and parrot what they hear and it becomes clear how they can't even get simple sayings right.

Also I put my hand into a bag of apples last night and my finger dug into a rotten spot in one apple with mold in it. Thankfully it didn't get a chance to spread... close one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"A person is smart. People are dumb panicky dangerous animals and you know it."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Mob mentality. :(