Comment on Boomer comics

• meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Don’t forget all the Starbucks coffee!

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  • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Instead of buying that latte, why don’t you instead buy some bootstraps and pull on them

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For those who don’t know, this phrase has come full circle.

      Image of literal bootstraps

      It started as something literally impossible. Then people started using it to say they did it anyway. Expecting what is supposed to be impossible out of people is insane.

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      • whalebiologist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        in a way we can view at a term to mean “LYING” about how you succeeded. How did you get so in shape for your role? Clean diet and exercise. How did you make your first million? Pulling myself into the air by my bootstraps.

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      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Sadist laguage.

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      • quarkquasar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m sure it wasn’t only a few bad apples that started that.

        Disregardless, I could care less.

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      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s literally a joke rich people use to show how stupid poor people are.

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    • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then just walk in, demand to see the Big Boss, say Good Morning Sir, and ask for the job!

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That phrase is just something the rich tell the poor to get them to bend over.

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      • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They could’ve just bought me dinner and then asked nicely

        Chivalry is dead

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And the rotisserie chickens!

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• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The media really gave me unrealistic expectations about how much money my dislike of avocado was going to save me.

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