Then just walk in, demand to see the Big Boss, say Good Morning Sir, and ask for the job!
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ignotum@lemmy.world 1 week agoInstead of buying that latte, why don’t you instead buy some bootstraps and pull on them
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
That phrase is just something the rich tell the poor to get them to bend over.
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They could’ve just bought me dinner and then asked nicely
Chivalry is dead
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Everything is about power to them…
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.
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.
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?
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Performance enhancing drugs? 🤷♂️
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Sadist laguage.
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.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s literally a joke rich people use to show how stupid poor people are.
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Horse and sparrow theory?