Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it
“We only use ten percent of our brains.”
People genuinely believe this and never learned where it came from.
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.
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.
“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”.
“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.
“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%.
“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”.
“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).
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.
“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.
“You must be funny at parties”
Specially if you’re not around, bitch
“Survival of the fittest” when used to indicate the stongest should survive. Instead of the one best suited for (fitting) the situation.
Both wrong. Survival of the barely adequate.
We are all minimal viable products on this blessed day
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
do or do not, there is no try
Fuck you. That was meant for a Jedi master not your fucking IT systems admin
I think you’re misunderstanding it. Do what you do, you’re going to break something anyways just don’t half-ass it. Just like there’s a graveyard behind every doctor, there’s a pile of mistakes behind every sysadmin.
“ One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Now that’s interesting. Always thought it didn’t make a whole lot of sense strictly speaking. Never realized he intended the “a”.
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.”
