“Everything happens for a reason” no it doesn’t lol. Sometimes shit really just happens for no reason. Like what, my coworkers infant son got terminal cancer for a reason? No, life just isn’t fair sometimes.
Never judge a book by its cover. If a cover is really cool it often means the book is cool. I pick up picture books for my kids all the time with cool covers.
The application of the axiom (about people and not judging them) is actually more true than the statement itself.
“the customer is always right” I’ve worked retail, and currently work food service, a much more accurate saying is “the customer is always an idiot” and yet, without them, the business would fail.
Nice guys finish last. You can be nice and win. Just don’t be a bitch and let people take advantage of you. But most nice guys I know are doing just fine.
Sometimes shit just happens. I’ve never seen a good reason for children to be killed or women to be raped. I’ve never seen a good reason for someone to get cancer.
The saying was originally coined as the opposite of “dirty” in a moral sense, like dirty talk, dirty mind. They thought skinning his dick would make it harder to masturbate so he wouldn’t be sexually motivated. They often did it with no pain relief as a punishment for masturbating.
“Quitters never win,” ”bullies peak in high school/only bully bc they’re hurt,” “the weird kids are accepting,” “trauma = virtue,” “turn the other cheek,” so much bs from media/religion that doesn’t accurately reflect reality.
Often times the quitters win a lot! Bullies tend to bully from a place of play and will likely live happy, fulfilling lives while their victims peak early and are complete wrecks for the rest of their lives. The outcasts tend to be outcasts not because they’re different or alternative, they’re outcasts because they’re repellent people. Trauma doesn’t build character or virtue; it does the exact opposite the vast majority of the time. Choosing not to retaliate and choosing forgiveness/peace rather than confronting and leveling a problem just allows the problematic behavior to go unchecked, perpetuated, and even encouraged!
It’s about time we realize we’re nothing but relatives of chimps. We’re smart, but not cosmically special. We’re animals. Intelligent ones who developed codes of life, but not some divine intervention. It’s all just chimps fucking and fucking with each other.
“…one nation under god (30% of Americans are atheist or non-religious), indivisible (we are more divided over MANY more things than we ever were during, and because of, the Civil War), with liberty and justice for all (interesting 🤔).”
America does NOT live up to its declared “greatness”. Not by a long shot.
We are the embarrassment of the planet now, all over again, and WAY worse, since Cheney/Bush.
Yes the fuck it does. Now if you’re already a obscenely rich more money probably doesn’t buy happiness, which is probably why rich people like to say this. But for the rest of us it absolutely does.
I have lost count of the number of ‘once in a lifetime’ financial crashes/recessions/events I’ve lived through, not to mention ‘one in a lifetime’ floods, fires, heatwaves, and other weather events.
“People don’t change.”
Obviously nonsense, because change is all anyone does. It’s inevitable. None of us is the same person across ten or twenty years.
Everything happens for a reason. I know it’s potentially controversial, but i usually counter with maybe, but i just think there’s a reason everything happens.
Just about ANYTHING said at a funeral/viewing/wake: “They’re in a better place”, “They’re at peace now”, “They’re with god-angels-loved ones”, “Everything happens for a reason”, “Let us know if there’s anything we can do”, “They look so lifelike”, “Everyone loved him”, “Time heals all wounds”, “You’re holding up so well”, “Think of everything else you have to be thankful for” and similar shit.
The funniest thing to say at a programmer’s funeral? “Did he say anything about source code?”
People have made up entire worlds and languages just to tell a fictional story, yes, you can make up a slightly altered chain of events to tell some story.
That and “reality is stranger than fiction.”
No, it really isnt. Some fiction is fucking nuts.
If you believe either of these sayings, you’re either inexperienced with literature or you lack imagination.
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Its all gonna work out in the end.
“Everything happens for a reason” no it doesn’t lol. Sometimes shit really just happens for no reason. Like what, my coworkers infant son got terminal cancer for a reason? No, life just isn’t fair sometimes.
Cheaters never win.
They actually do win most of the time until they’re caught and even then they rarely lose it all.
allahu akbar
The benefits of doubt
There’s always next year
“There’s no such thing as bad publicity”
Tell that to Jollibee after the fried dish towel incident 💀
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Tell that to chlamydia! Not speaking from personal experience I swear!
I before E except after C.
God doesn`t give you more than you can handle. If this was true there wouldn`t be any suicides.
Never judge a book by its cover. If a cover is really cool it often means the book is cool. I pick up picture books for my kids all the time with cool covers.
The application of the axiom (about people and not judging them) is actually more true than the statement itself.
size doesn’t matter
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Yeah, right.
“Women have it easy in dating”
Sir women are KILLED in dating. You can handle being ghosted.
Hard work always pays off
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It’s better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all.
If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.
Customer’s always right 🙄🤣
“It’s rAiNinG CaTs aNd DogGs.” Stfu Gretchen it’s a light drizzle.
time heals all wounds
“They’re putting cat litter in the school bathrooms”
Practice Makes Perfect.
No, no it doesn’t. If you practice poor form/technique, etc… all you do is make them habit and almost permanent.
“No one is above the law. “
I can literally name hundreds of people that’s above the law.
Blood is thicker than water.
At least in the case of my family- not true.
Good comes out of everything!
Practice makes perfect.
No, no it doesn’t. Practice makes permanent.
Perfect practice makes perfect. You need to practice correctly and consistently, but you can practice something wrong and learn it wrong.
“He/she is in a better place.” You don’t know that.
Still waters run deep. No, sometimes they are just stupid. Still give them the benefit of the doubt but don’t give them any more than that.
“the customer is always right” I’ve worked retail, and currently work food service, a much more accurate saying is “the customer is always an idiot” and yet, without them, the business would fail.
Nice guys finish last. You can be nice and win. Just don’t be a bitch and let people take advantage of you. But most nice guys I know are doing just fine.
Everything happens for a reason..
Sometimes shit just happens. I’ve never seen a good reason for children to be killed or women to be raped. I’ve never seen a good reason for someone to get cancer.
Violence doesn’t solve anything.
If that were true armies wouldn’t exist.
Time heals all wounds.
Time heals small wounds.
“hard times make strong men, strong men make easy times, easy times make soft men, and soft men make hard times”
People use it like it is some profound thing.
Except it isn’t. It’s from a second rate science fiction author. It has no backing whatsoever.
It’s just made up bull.
A watched pot never boils. It does, eventually
Where’s there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Opposites attract.
Birds of a feather flock together.
One has to be wrong.
Lightning never strikes twice
Blood is thicker than water 🙄
Me: “I’m good. My eyes aren’t that red. I don’t look high.”
Probably 1000’s of times ^
Cleanliness is next to Godliness
As a terrible fisherman. “There are plenty of fish in the sea”
Follow your dreams
I before E except after C…
Disproved by Science!
“circumcised is cleaner”
Physically, no.
The saying was originally coined as the opposite of “dirty” in a moral sense, like dirty talk, dirty mind. They thought skinning his dick would make it harder to masturbate so he wouldn’t be sexually motivated. They often did it with no pain relief as a punishment for masturbating.
Practice makes perfect.
You’ll go blind!!
“It’s all good.”
No. No, it’s not.
Time heals all wounds
High school is the best time of your life
“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”
It seems to imply there is truth in every rumor. There isn’t.
Money can’t buy happiness.
Happy wife, happy life
It’s always darkest just before dawn.
“Quitters never win,” ”bullies peak in high school/only bully bc they’re hurt,” “the weird kids are accepting,” “trauma = virtue,” “turn the other cheek,” so much bs from media/religion that doesn’t accurately reflect reality.
Often times the quitters win a lot! Bullies tend to bully from a place of play and will likely live happy, fulfilling lives while their victims peak early and are complete wrecks for the rest of their lives. The outcasts tend to be outcasts not because they’re different or alternative, they’re outcasts because they’re repellent people. Trauma doesn’t build character or virtue; it does the exact opposite the vast majority of the time. Choosing not to retaliate and choosing forgiveness/peace rather than confronting and leveling a problem just allows the problematic behavior to go unchecked, perpetuated, and even encouraged!
It’s about time we realize we’re nothing but relatives of chimps. We’re smart, but not cosmically special. We’re animals. Intelligent ones who developed codes of life, but not some divine intervention. It’s all just chimps fucking and fucking with each other.
The customer is always right
Sticks and stones may break your bones but names will never hurt.
I heard it numerous times while a kid
All things said and written are esoteric… There are profound truths in everything.
Never judge a book by its cover and never fight fire with fire
“…one nation under god (30% of Americans are atheist or non-religious), indivisible (we are more divided over MANY more things than we ever were during, and because of, the Civil War), with liberty and justice for all (interesting 🤔).”
America does NOT live up to its declared “greatness”. Not by a long shot.
We are the embarrassment of the planet now, all over again, and WAY worse, since Cheney/Bush.
“Money doesn’t buy happiness.”
Yes the fuck it does. Now if you’re already a obscenely rich more money probably doesn’t buy happiness, which is probably why rich people like to say this. But for the rest of us it absolutely does.
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
“it’s a once in a lifetime <event>”
I have lost count of the number of ‘once in a lifetime’ financial crashes/recessions/events I’ve lived through, not to mention ‘one in a lifetime’ floods, fires, heatwaves, and other weather events.
Everything happens for a reason.
No it doesn’t. Oftentimes stuff just happens. No rhyme or reason.
Anything about not quitting or never giving up.
Sometimes you should quit! Sometimes you should give up!
“It’ll trickle down!”
Both “blood is thicker than water” and “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” really depend on the people involved.
Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.
“People don’t change.”
Obviously nonsense, because change is all anyone does. It’s inevitable. None of us is the same person across ten or twenty years.
Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Bullshit on that one!
“Hard work pays off”
You can do anything you put your mind to. Uhm. Absolutely no, that’s not right.
You can pick your friends
You can pick your nose
But you can’t pick your friend’s nose
Did it, was fine
You get what you pay for.
Crime doesn’t pay.
My uncle died a multi-millionaire, a friend is doing very well for himself and I could go on. They were all up to no good.
Meanwhile I’m doing a dull uninteresting job, all legal and scrape by.
Crime does indeed pay well.
Don’t ask for permission ask for forgiveness.
I call that the rapist’s motto.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
FWIW ignorance of the law is the ONLY excuse.
“It is what it is.” Sometimes it isn’t.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Money doesn’t buy happiness xDDD
Have your cake and eat it too.
What else would you do with a cake in your possession? Display it on the mantelpiece?
The eating of the cake is a given lol
“what’s for you won’t pass you by”
Yes it will. Sometimes multiple times in a day..
The customer is always right. Fuck that, the customer is usually an asshole
“We only use 10% of our brains”
Maybe you do, repeating that completely bogus statistic.
Never sleep on an argument. Often, it’s best to just let things cool down.
You’re going to get sick going out with a wet head.
“Finders, keepers”
More often than not, the things I find get taken from me.
Practice makes perfect.
Practice in fact makes it easier to perform the same action, right or wrong. So if you practice it wrong, it is in fact not ‘perfect’.
Money doesn’t buy happiness.
Money sure makes everyday living much more pleasant.
Good things happen to those who wait.
More often than not, NOTHING in life changes if you wait around. If you want something good in life you HAVE to go and get it!
When someone asks how you’re doing, and you say “fine.”
“Lightning never strikes the same place twice.”
Sure it does. All the fucking time. We literally invented lightning rods to exploit this.
Everything happens for a reason. I know it’s potentially controversial, but i usually counter with maybe, but i just think there’s a reason everything happens.
Into every life 500 dead rabbits must fall.
…i never really got this one
Common sense
“The customer is always right.”
The customer is never, in fact, right.
“Money can’t buy happiness. That is a big fat fucking lie. Money absolutely can buy happiness, in so many ways.
Money can’t buy happiness.
“The customer is always right!”
Just about ANYTHING said at a funeral/viewing/wake: “They’re in a better place”, “They’re at peace now”, “They’re with god-angels-loved ones”, “Everything happens for a reason”, “Let us know if there’s anything we can do”, “They look so lifelike”, “Everyone loved him”, “Time heals all wounds”, “You’re holding up so well”, “Think of everything else you have to be thankful for” and similar shit.
The funniest thing to say at a programmer’s funeral? “Did he say anything about source code?”
“You cant make this up!”
Yeah, you fuckin can…
People have made up entire worlds and languages just to tell a fictional story, yes, you can make up a slightly altered chain of events to tell some story.
That and “reality is stranger than fiction.”
No, it really isnt. Some fiction is fucking nuts.
If you believe either of these sayings, you’re either inexperienced with literature or you lack imagination.
Time heals all wounds