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MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This version was coined in the 1990s

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  • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Seems maybe to come originally fromsome guy’s interpretation of an Arab interpretation of the passage:

    H.C. Trumbull contrasts the expression with a comparison of blood and milk in the Arab world:

    We, in the West, are accustomed to say that “blood is thicker than water”; but the Arabs have the idea that blood is thicker than milk, than a mother’s milk. With them, any two children nourished at the same breast are called “milk-brothers,” or “sucking brothers”; and the tie between such is very strong. […] But the Arabs hold that brothers in the covenant of blood are closer than brothers at a common breast; that those who have tasted each other’s blood are in a surer covenant than those who have tasted the same milk together; that “blood-lickers,” as the blood-brothers are sometimes called, are more truly one than “milk-brothers,” or “sucking brothers”; that, indeed, blood is thicker than milk, as well as thicker than water.[16]

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• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure everyone just makes this shit up

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  • forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s every quote.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes.

    That… that is what creativity is.

    Its not always… sensible, or … broadly liked… but yeah, people things up… is creativity.

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    • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think you’re missing my point. People love to give random “corrections” of things that may or may not be correct themselves. It seems like people just love to mindlessly parrot things.

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  • cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes that’s most of why people say shit. Then you make up something badass and some other asshole steals it and suddenly its a cultural thing.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And is still thinner than taco balls’ new volcano cheese sauce! Great for eating while being snackrificed to a volcano!

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