Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
That is not the definition of insanity
Yeah, isn’t it like practicing? You’re not very good at something so you practice over and over and over and hopefully when you’re done you do it better… You know different than when you started.
You know different than when you started.
Try again
Try again
Are you expecting a different result?
OH! I forgot about that one. I have hated it since I was a kid.
“Blood is thicker than water” followed by the equally erroneous “covenant” explanation.
Well, maple syrup is thicker than blood, so should I move to Canada?
It’s sad that such an answer isn’t possible in my language, our version goes “blood is not water”.
“think of how stupid the average person is, and then think half of them are dumber than that”
So heavily overused.
This was actually the quote that inspired this thread. I love George Carlin but I hear this all the time online and I hate it
The people saying it aren’t usually in the half they think they are, either.
95% of people think they belong to the top 5%.
“We only use ten percent of our brains.”
People genuinely believe this and never learned where it came from.
Where did the myth come from?
It came from early on in studying the brain. A scientist said that we only understand what 10 percent of the brain does, and everyone ran with a misunderstanding of that idea.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains here. https://youtube.com/shorts/E4EjYfUBEvw?si=LO3GIURgZesHjo85
Sidenote, why does everyone hate Neil these days?
He thinks he’s so smart about everything and there’s always this condescending tone.
Like no shit Neil?
Oh god I forgot about that one lol.
That and the “Alpha Male” garbage. Even the author of the study on wolves has said repeatedly that his study was totally wrong. And yet some people continue to reference it and apply it to humans when even the original study wasn’t about people.
People love excuses for bad behavior, no need to verify them. Sigh.
Limitless was fun though.
Ooh! Isn’t that the one where the guy becomes limitless?
I liked the part where he said “It’s limitless time” and totally limited those other guys
Deunlimited them since some were also on the limitless vibe
“if you can’t handle me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best”.
You’re basically excusing bad behavior. And never taking accountability. People are wrong. Mostly when they are so blindly following some perception of greatness rather than caring for those around you.
“Customer is always right” isn’t a trump card for customers to win disputes with the staff. When it comes to matters of preference, yes, the customer is always right. Ketchup on ice cream? Great. Down jacket and shorts? Sure thing! If it makes you happy and you’re paying for it then you’re always right.
In most other matters though, customers are usually wrong. The idea that random people off the street know more about the products and the way a business should be run than the actual people selling said products and running said business is absolutely ridiculous.
I think the original quote was something along the lines of, “the customer is always right, in mattera of taste”. Meaning to accommodate the customers wishes, even if it’s ugly or a bad idea or whatever. Like if they want to paint their house pink with green trim, let them
I think it’s even broader than that.
If customers want green socks, sell green socks.
It would be have been better said as demand is always right (not supply).
“Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
An individual, uneducated observer might not be able to tell them apart, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a distinction.
One of the avengers movies dropped that line, and I feel like it’s spread like wild fire since then, and it’s just objectively not correct.
I understand much of the technology we use today isn’t magic, but it may as well be with how much I understand about how it works.
I don’t think you quite grasp what Arthur C Clarke was going for with this one.
I get what he was going for, I just think it was poorly executed.
“Literally 1984”… unless I’m asking you what year the Macintosh 128k came out I don’t wanna hear it.
“They’re just one bad apple” in reference to (more often than not) shitty cops, but also for most malcontents in a position of public trust. This a misappropriation of the aphorism “one bad apple spoils the bunch” which is literally saying that if there’s one bad actor in a group, the entire group is comprised.
I think autocorrect got your “compromised”.
Anything described as “just common sense.” No, it’s knowledge/awareness that you picked up from your particular environment. Not everyone has had the same exposure as you.
I’ve found that “common sense” just means “things that I believe, but I can’t explain why”.
“Common sense is just the set of prejudices acquired by the age of eighteen.”
~Albert Einstein
I find the best retort to be: “Common sense ain’t all that common.”
That trickle-down economics quote. There’s studies about it [not working] published but it’s just studies.
The original quote is “If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows” from Galbraith.
I imagine people are not yet ready to learn this “promise” ain’t holding water.
The original quote is “If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows” from Galbraith.
If my goal is to feed sparrows that’s a very costly and inefficient method. I also end up with an overweight horse.
… and a lot of horse shit.
Checks out with economics results
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”
You do realise that people who are awake during the night are of equal importance, who’s gonna run those power plants and radio stations and petrol service stations and police forces and whatever else? If they shut off during the night, there’d be chaos. At least a chaos that most folks won’t see because they’re asleep or something.
To be fair: The people messing up their bio rhythms doing night shift after night shift might not necessarily be considered ‘healthy’.
Fair point
You realize that “important” is a different word not appearing in the set of “healthy, wealthy, and wise” right?
“The cloud is just someone else’s computers.”
If that’s what you really think the cloud is, still, then you are a dinosaur who is not evolving with the times.
It’s reductive but not untrue.
Wait what do you think the cloud is then? A bunch of computers owned by no one?
Do u think it’s actually being stored in water vapor in the sky
“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.
No it doesn’t. At most the world no longer has depth perception.
Isn’t the idea that you’ll keep taking more eyes until there are none left? No mentions that it’s limited to one eye per person.
