- Navarian ( @Navarian@lemm.ee ) 83•1 year ago
Unsure if this counts as a quote but here goes.
If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best
Absolute fucking nonsense.
- Lvxferre ( @lvxferre@lemmy.ml ) 63•1 year ago
The worst part of this quote is that, in the original, she (Marilyn Monroe) actually framed her “worst”:
>I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
So in the context it sounds more like “here are my flaws - take me or leave me, but you won’t change me”. Which sounds reasonable. But without that context it sounds more like “I’m entitled because I like to pretend that I’m above other people”.
- SapphicFemme ( @SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt ) English1•1 year ago
It depends, at their worst are they abusive to their friends, family etc for no good reason? If so, then I’d agree it is nonsense used by abusers. If it’s said by someone who gets treated awfully for having a rough day, week etc and gets treated badly, well then this quote is true.
- CoderKat ( @CoderKat@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
I feel like I’ve never seen or heard of anyone good using that quote. I’m sure it makes some sense if used in genuine good faith. The quote would make sense applied to someone with a disability, for example, by interpreting it more along the lines of having to deal with the person not always being outgoing and maybe even sometimes needing extra help.
But no, I’ve only ever seen shitty (or at least allegedly shitty) people use that quote, to justify their shittiness. The “worst” they refer to is usually bouts of anger or abuse.
- arcrust ( @arcrust@lemmy.ml ) 65•1 year ago
Not see it. But I hear this one.
“it’s always in the last place you look”
No shit Sherlock. Why would I keep looking after I found it?
- derivator ( @derivator@feddit.de ) 63•1 year ago
I always thought that was the joke?
I must say, in retrospect it kind of seems obvious, but this has somehow blown my mind
- philluminati ( @philluminati@lemmy.ml ) 14•1 year ago
What people really mean when they say this is
it’s in the last place you think to look
This again is a misnomer because, not just because you stop looking… but because people find it hard to admit things are lost. All part of the half serious, half ridiculous psuedo science of Findology (disclaimer: my own blog)
- gezepi ( @gezepi@lemmyunchained.net ) 8•1 year ago
Embarrassingly it took me years to realize what that quote meant. I had always interpreted it to mean that the item is found in an unexpected place. But of course what it really means is that you stop looking once the item is found, therefore that’s the last place you looked 🤦
- ELI70 ( @ELI70@lemmy.run ) 4•1 year ago
And it is a false statement:
sometimes you stop looking without finding anything so in those cases it isn’t in the last place you look
so the clam “It’s always in the last place you look” is obviously false.
otherwise you could say up front “I’m only gonna look in one place!” and then you would HAVE to find it in this last place you look!
- Freeman ( @Freeman@feddit.de ) 44•1 year ago
“We only use x% of our brain.”
Simply not true as shown since years by neurology
- Waker ( @Waker@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year ago
This reminds me of the “you eat X amount of spiders in your sleep every year”. It’s also been debunked so many times and I see it popping up from time to time.
Even more ironic, this was created by some professor (?) to prove that starting fake viral facts was easy or something…
- miss_brainfart ( @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml ) 13•1 year ago
If you just add the words on average, suddenly it sounds more realistic, because who knows if there’s a guy somewhere sleepwalking in a spider infested place
- genuineparts ( @genuineparts@feddit.de ) 15•1 year ago
Good old Spiders George
- Freeman ( @Freeman@feddit.de ) 5•1 year ago
Oh, and X% of dust is dead skincells. There is a good Veritasium video on this clai.
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
Man, I always thought that one was suspect. If I eat 10 per year and have been alive 40+ years, then surely one of those times I would have woken up.
- Sproux ( @Sproux@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•1 year ago
If i recall that explanation for the spider fact is itself just made up with no source.
- Waker ( @Waker@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
God no… Please… :(
- dQw4w9WgXcQ ( @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
I’ve almost never heard anyone quote that, but I’ve heard numerous people arguing against that statement. So much that I’m wondering it it has mandela-affected people to think it’s a more common misconception than it really is.
I do remember it being more common back when I was in high school, and also there was a movie which mentioned that which could have helped with that
I also havent heard it being said seriously for years though
- dQw4w9WgXcQ ( @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
Right, it was the plot for the movie Lucy, where the protagonist increased the brain capacity beyond 10% and upon reaching 100%, she turned into an USB drive. I remember that now.
- Freeman ( @Freeman@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
Such a good movie with such bad writing…
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) 43•1 year ago
“Life’s not fair.” It seems that more often than not the person saying it is in a position to make the situation fair. Usually it is people in positions of power saying it and it feels more like an excuse for their inaction.
- SapphicFemme ( @SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt ) English2•1 year ago
This is true. My mum used it a bit.
- smellythief ( @smellythief@beehaw.org ) 41•1 year ago
Everything happens for a reason.
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 16•1 year ago
…often said with the unspoken implication that it’s a good reason, planned by a higher power, and that you should just meekly accept things and shut up.
Everything happens as the result of an infinite number of things that happened beforehand and led inevitably to this thing happening now. Free will is a lie.
… Sorry, that took a turn.
- CoderKat ( @CoderKat@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
Super closely related is the “god works in mysterious ways” apology often used as the response if you ask what that reason was. It’s bizarre that the people saying that quote are so insistent that everything happens for a reason even though they cannot answer what that reason might be (and usually get really uncomfortable if you press for an answer).
- irmoz ( @irmoz@reddthat.com ) 39•1 year ago
Hard men create easy times.
Easy times create soft men.
Soft men create hard times.
Hard times create hard men.
- pickelsurprise ( @pickelsurprise@lemmy.loungerat.io ) 26•1 year ago
Man creates dinosaurs
Dinosaurs eat man
Woman inherits the earth
- Duamerthrax ( @Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml ) 11•1 year ago
Which is ironically said the most by soft men who grew up in easy times.
- Freeman ( @Freeman@feddit.de ) 5•1 year ago
More cheese => more holes.
More holes => less cheese.
Therefore: More cheese => Less cheese
- ELI70 ( @ELI70@lemmy.run ) 2•1 year ago
actually it ought to be:
More holes => more cheese
and subsequently:
More cheese => more cheese.
Tautology at it’s best
- CoderKat ( @CoderKat@lemm.ee ) English2•1 year ago
One thing I never understood about that nonsense quote is why it would be a bad thing even if it were true. Like, who the heck wants people to be “hard” or have hard times? What’s so awful about people having easy times and getting to relax and enjoy life?
It’s also usually used by “back in my day” bigots who are usually using it to complain about people they don’t like and quite frequently LGBT people, because they think that their generation pushing people into the closet was somehow a good thing (or that it meant LGBT people didn’t exist).
- claycle ( @claycle@lemm.ee ) 39•1 year ago
I am surprised no one yet has posted the infuriatingly worthless expression of affectless sympathy:
thoughts and prayers
- ElTacoEsMiPastor ( @toototabon@lemmy.ml ) 11•1 year ago
As a nonnative speaker, the first time I heard the expression was on Bojack Horseman and it confused the hell out of me.
- SapphicFemme ( @SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt ) English2•1 year ago
Thing is if prayers did anything, life would be way better (utopia)
- Isoprenoid ( @Isoprenoid@programming.dev ) English1•1 year ago
If prayers were always effective, life would be both better and far worse. You’d be surprised at the horrific things people pray for.
And some of the “good” things we pray for go against what we desperately need.
So you think you can tell heaven from hell?
- Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
- SapphicFemme ( @SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt ) English1•1 year ago
Very true. It’d be so bad
- limeaide ( @limeaide@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
I agree most of the time, but when I have to sign a sympathy card at work for someone i barely know, what the hell am i supposed to say?
I can’t change the work culture so i just say something generic like that most of the time lol
Btw I’m not even religious
- Freeman ( @Freeman@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
Religious bs
- angstylittlecatboy ( @angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ) 32•1 year ago
“Do or do not, there is no try”
The rallying cry of the kind of person who thinks every hobby has to become a side hustle.
- Admetus ( @Admetus@sopuli.xyz ) 20•1 year ago
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
This is what I wanted to say but didn’t have the words for. Thanks.
- pickelsurprise ( @pickelsurprise@lemmy.loungerat.io ) 10•1 year ago
I feel like that quote is better interpreted as “you haven’t failed until/unless you give up.” There is also value to “don’t go into something without committing to it,” but damn not everything has to be a fucking job.
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 year ago
Let’s not let those people “have” Star Wars quotes. Same thing when Nazi trash in America tried to co-opt the “Ok” hand sign, Hawaiian shirts, etc. I was a bit dismayed by how fast people were willing to cede those things away. My take is: They can’t have them, don’t give up so easily.
- SapphicFemme ( @SapphicFemme@lib.lgbt ) English2•1 year ago
Capitalists in a nutshell
- Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 27•1 year ago
I don’t see it anymore after leaving the hell that is Reddit, but I saw “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” multiple times in every thread.
- Freeman ( @Freeman@feddit.de ) 5•1 year ago
I mean I get that if used in a context where a person does something with great risk attached and with few and rare good possible outcomes (stupid games). And then they get a bad outcome (stupid prize).
For example Jackass-like stunts.
- Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•1 year ago
It’s just a stupid phrase that I hate, parroted to death multiple times in every Reddit thread ever.
- PorkRollWobbly ( @ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
Usually as a way of being racist, too.
- abir_vandergriff ( @abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org ) 24•1 year ago
The friggin “definition of insanity” quote that is usually misattributed to Einstein. From some cursory research, a lot of first appearances of the quote come from the 80s, though I saw a few different sources from Narcotics Anonymous pamphlets to mystery novels.
- miss_brainfart ( @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml ) 8•1 year ago
We all know it’s Vaas who said it first.
Jokes aside though, misattributed quotes are quite the phenomenon. Is it deliberate? Is it some sort of mandela effect? It’s really weird sometimes, but like Gandhi said, don’t believe anything that comes without a verifiable source.
- Rikudou_Sage ( @rikudou@lemmings.world ) 5•1 year ago
I thought it was Lincoln who said you can’t trust everything on the Internet? Sounds like Gandhi kinda stoled it, but changed it a little.
- 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
> but like Gandhi said, don’t believe anything that comes without a verifiable source.
He totally said that! It’s written down in the Internet so it is true!
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
Back in Gandhi’s time, you had to do the CSS formatting by hand as well.
- 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬 ( @Dirk@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
But then Gandhi invented the first autolinter.
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Man, I totally forgot that part. Dude was way before his time.
- irmoz ( @irmoz@reddthat.com ) 8•1 year ago
Plus, it’s complete bullshit. Trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results, could describe practise, or experimentation.
- cnschn ( @cnschn@lemmy.cnschn.com ) 6•1 year ago
And even if it were a sign of insanity, it would most certainly not be its definition.
- irmoz ( @irmoz@reddthat.com ) 1•1 year ago
Damn right, yet another hole
- pruwyben ( @pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 year ago
Or rolling a die.
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
Ehhhh, I want to agree but practice is expecting the same result, minor incremental improvement. In scientific experimentation, one should not be expecting anything, that’s researcher bias.
- irmoz ( @irmoz@reddthat.com ) English2•1 year ago
Nah, you’re pedantic but you’re right tbh.
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
That’s a fair assessment honestly lol.
- magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 22•1 year ago
Anything on a decorative sign meant to hang in a house. Examples include “Live, Laugh, Love” (which has already been mentioned) or something about wine.
- limeaide ( @limeaide@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
This is a me problem, but it makes me cringe when someone has to explicitly write out who they are onto a sign.
I feel like that should be shown and not said. To me, it feel ingenuous when it’s written onto a sign
- Fleppensteyn ( @Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl ) 19•1 year ago
I don’t know who has to hear this but
- paol ( @Paol@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
I don’t know who has to hear this but
that’s a phrase, not a quote.
- Fleppensteyn ( @Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl ) 1•1 year ago
Who says you can’t quote a phrase?
- umbraklat ( @dark776174657273@lemmy.sdf.org ) 16•1 year ago
My least favorite is
Just be yourself!
Even in grade school I knew this was hogwash. I didn’t act the same in class as during recess, or in church as when at the dinner table. Exactly which me was I supposed to be? When someone asks, “What am I supposed to do?” They are really asking, “How should I behave?” And if you’ve never been on a date before, or this is your first job interview, then it’s not obvious.
A: “So, how did the interview go?”
B: “Not so well, he threw my resume away, in front of me, and ordered me to leave.”
A: “What? Why?”
B: “Well, I did just as your said, I was being myself. I walked in, gave him the ol’ finger guns, then started with my best fart joke.”
A: “Why the hell would you do that at an interview?”
B: “Because that routine always slays in the dorms and I was trying to be myself.”
- ELI70 ( @ELI70@lemmy.run ) 7•1 year ago
ask yourself: is it possible to be anybody else? no? then this saying is non-nonsensical!
- umbraklat ( @dark776174657273@lemmy.sdf.org ) 4•1 year ago
I don’t know, as a ttrpg’er, I’m being someone else every two weeks for three hours are a time. ;)
- 31415926535 ( @31415926535@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
Anybody on the autism spectrum just laughs sadly, shakes head quietly, when told ‘just be your self’
For me its the one that promoted me to write this, the futurama quote “you’re are technically correct, the best kind of correct”
I hate how people use it over at forums, it is repeated ad nauseam, even if it doesn’t make much sense. It’s probably from people using it constantly that I hate the quote, and not something that has to do with the meaning.
- zerodawn ( @zerodawn@leaf.dance ) 1•1 year ago
I could be wrong but i think it’s originally from Futurama
I think I said that lol
- Papercrane ( @Papercrane@feddit.de ) 14•1 year ago
Live love laugh
- CoachDom ( @CoachDom@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•1 year ago
Was gonna say that 🤣
- Papercrane ( @Papercrane@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
It is the first quote that came to my mind, I don’t even know if I see it often in real life but I do see it on the internet