One that comes to mind for me: “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is not always true. Maybe even only half the time! Are there any phrases you tend to hear and shake your head at?
It’s been a millenium since I’ve heard it, as I no longer qualify as young.
But
“You’ll understand when you’re older”
I’m older.
I’m thirty.
The only thing I “understand” is that all the rules are arbitrary as all fuck, society was made up by idiots with giant sticks up their arses, and everyone should go fuck themselves.
The only “progress” I made is that I stopped hating myself for “failing at society” and started hating society for failing so many people.
The only thing I “understand” is that all the rules are arbitrary as all fuck, society was made up by idiots with giant sticks up their arses, and everyone should go fuck themselves.
See? They were right, you do understand now. 😜
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
No. What doesn’t kill you creates trauma.
Science has proven that what doesn’t kill you (like a virus) actually weakens you. But, conversely, you become more efficient at responding to that specific thing so it only appears like it made you stronger.
What doesn’t kill you evolves and tries again
I’m a fan of “what doesn’t kill you only serves to postpone the inevitable.” But maybe that’s a bit fatalistic.
In the same vein (and at least as dangerous): “Pain is just weakness leaving the body.” No, you testosterone poisoned numb-nuts - it is your body’s way of telling you that something is not right. Stop and listen!
Yeah what didn’t kill me gave me a chronic disease. I’m weak as hell compared to 3 years ago.
For me it turned me into a depressed person who no longer feels emotion the way I did before. I’m 99% numb. The other 1% is manic attacks.
Well, no, the trauma is the event itself. The reaction to it is post-traumatic stress. If that stress gets in the way of your day-to-day functioning, then it could be called PTSD (but there’s like pages and pages of diagnostic criteria too).
“All’s fair in love and war”
No it isn’t you fucking sociopath
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.”
This is literally not the definition of insanity.
As far as I could tell, it was never intended to be a serious quote, especially because the person saying this was the literal villain that was being portrayed as not sane
“Religion is a personal choice.”
Rarely is that true.
“Whatever is worth doing, is worth doing well.”
Most things I do, most of what we all do, we do *well enough *. Ain’t nobody got time for doing every bloody thing to perfection.
I generally advocate for the complete opposite, as a person with AuDHD and a lot of executive dysfunction:
If an activity has value, then it is worth half-assing.
If you can go whole hog on it and do it with full effort, great! – But you are often better off doing it kinda half-assed, knowing full well you didn’t put your all into it, then you’d be if you just didn’t do it because you can’t do it “properly” and felt bad about it.
Be it work, schoolwork, cooking and eating, cleaning, self-care things. Whatever.
If it is an activity that has any value, it will still have more value when half-assed then it would have if you felt guilty for your inability to do it whole-ass and then just didn’t do it.
“History repeats itself” or “history doesn’t repeat itself, but rhymes”. If that were the case then it would be pretty easy to predict the future.
The reality is humans have evolved to try to find patterns in a given system. It’s what made us really good hunters and excellent tool builders.
I was told ”a samurai can’t chop down a tree unless he uses the right tool for the right job” because I was seeking help from outside a transitional program (LifeWorks at WKU) because I didn’t trust my staff there and they were making me work a job I didn’t want at the time.
I think the person who told me that was geeking out because he read too much Bruce Lee.
More importantly, I was seeking help because I wanted to get out of LifeWorks because I didn’t like it and everyone was convincing me to stay.
“AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past”
It can’t even do simple sql stuff correct. Uses functions in the query that have not been created. Even though I specify by version of sql.
“Boys will be boys”
How about you teach your kid how to behave and respect others so they don’t grow up to be an entitled asshole.
I think this one just morphed over time to be misused to excuse poor behavior. I always took as like boys rough housing each other and mucking about or eating dirt etc.
Rough housing/mucking are container words. Blanket terms that can contain anything including dismissed sexual assault and other poor behaviour that influence children. This is the whole point of why umbrella terms like ‘boys will be boys’ is bad. It helps brush over the plethora of problems inside of these containers instead of address them directly.
You’re a fucking idiot
-Said the abuser. When Grabbing towels and pinching penises in the boys locker room shit gets defended as ‘rough housing’ you sick fuck.
Especially considering the era in which ‘rough housing’ was coined. Layers of old, stale toxicity there, gramps.
You’ve proven my initial comment. The term is misused and then people like yourself come along and perpetuate it’s misuse.
Going from mucking around to abuse like there’s not a hundred other perspectives and factors at play.
Right because misusing a fucking pathetic phrase that seems to be your hill to die on is the real take away here. Not the rampant toxic masculinity getting slipped under the radar.
You. You and your fucked up syntax fucking thinking like this are the problem with everything that’s gone wrong with the big picture items. You don’t give a shit about anyone but your little pet peeves. You just proved that you bring nothing to any table ever and do not ever intend to you impotent little narcissist.
I was taught about respect and consent, but I was also taught that women largely will not give me the same respect and there’s no convincing the world to fix that.
“Make America Great Again” 😂🤣
“Everything happens for a reason .”
No. Fuck no, and fuck you. I DARE you to say that to the faces of the endless innocent people—many of whom are CHILDREN—who have been murdered, tortured, abused, enslaved, raped, ect.
The only democracy in the region
Hey, what happened when the wrong people started winning elections in Iraq when we set up democracy there?
“That’s TOTALLY DIFFERENT”
“Cheer up, it may never happen”
I’m sorry but if I’m not in a good mood or I’m sad it’s because something has happened to make me feel like it.
“It’s all good”
Who you kidding, chief?
