Comment on Boomer comics

• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Performance enhancing drugs? 🤷‍♂️

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sadist laguage.

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  • quarkquasar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Horse and sparrow theory?

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    Chivalry is dead

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everything is about power to them…

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