• umbraklat@lemmy.sdf.org
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    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.”

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      Anybody on the autism spectrum just laughs sadly, shakes head quietly, when told ‘just be your self’

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      1 year ago

      ask yourself: is it possible to be anybody else? no? then this saying is non-nonsensical!

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    “The customer is always right” conveniently missing the second part: “…in matters of taste and style”.

    Also misinterpreting “customer” as an individual rather than as the aggregate of customer demand.

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    1 year ago

    “We only use x% of our brain.”

    Simply not true as shown since years by neurology

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    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.

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    “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”. What is the flaming point of having cake if you can’t eat it?

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      I wondered about this for years and years, never understanding, especially, since “having cake” and “eating cake” are used interchangeably. But, I finally figured it out! In this sense, the “having” is equivalent to “keeping” or “being in possession of.”

      Examples:

      • “What’s it like having a Mercedes Benz?”
      • “The Smiths have a very nice home.”

      No eating implied!

      Therefore, the saying is more inline with “You can’t keep (to show off or admire) your cake, and eat it, too.”

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      One time I baked a whole entire cake for myself. There was no occasion or anything I just wanted to have a cake and eat it too. It turns out cakes are really big and it’s really hard for a single person to eat a cake faster than it turns all spongy and icky.

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    Oh sweet summer child

    Yeah we get it, we’ve all seen Game of Thrones, too. If you have to be a condescending dick, at least be original.