Comment on Boomer comics

• 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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      • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yeah, it’s like when people say they just gave 110%. Cool, very quippy, but really, what did you do?

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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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      • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Horse and sparrow theory?

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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

        Everything is about power to them…

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  And the rotisserie chickens!

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