What quote or saying do people spout but is complete BS?

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NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

" I before E except after C "

I before E except after C… and 66 other exceptions (BY ALBERT FREEMAN)

" A few years ago I looked up all the words that don’t conform to the I before E except after C rule of English spelling. I found more words than I had expected. I ended up writing a short tale containing 66 unique exceptions to the rule:

Feisty old Keith lives in the sovereign state of Brunei and is heir to the reign of the sheik. He’s a foreign species in a society of nescient financiers. With sleight of hand, in a heinous heist at the hacienda of the Reich, Keith seized a freight of eight buddleias. His forfeit was to either guess the height of a gneiss statue of a deity or to whistle a leitmotiv; he deigned to do neither, feigning injury to be pardoned.

Keith deifies heifers and feeds them seitan when they are deficient in protein. This he does conscientiously, reining in the dose if he suspects a surfeit may induce seizure. In such a case he would inject codeine into their veins.

After noticing seiches on the lake, Keith was prescient enough to efficiently conduct a scientific seismic survey of the weir before fishing with his seine net.

In his leisure time Keith relaxes among teil trees, veiled in his beige eider-down peignoir while proficiently spinning a dreidel, sipping from a seidel of beer.

Heigh-ho, that’s sufficient weight to the tale of weird Keith’s conscience. Don’t even start me on his neighbour Deirdre, an expert on ancient glaciers!

The end.

I found even more exceptions to the rule, but I couldn’t figure out how to fit them into my (otherwise perfectly plausible and coherent) story. The words I left out are: cepheid, deicide, deictic, teiidae, cleidoic, gleization, greige and greisen.

Apparently, since I wrote my daft little tale, the I before E rule has been dropped from the national curriculum.

So, what can we learn from Keith’s story? Sometimes rules can be pretty misleading, counterproductive or redundant. Don’t simply accept every rule you are told. I’m not suggesting complete anarchy, but ask a few questions such as:

Why is this a rule?
How long has this rule been in place?
Is this rule still relevant?
What happens if I break the rule?
Could we actually do something amazing by breaking the rule?
Remember, if the Ghostbusters hadn’t broken their rules, they wouldn’t have defeated the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man. "

MCheetah · Accepted Answer

"Be yourself (everyone else is already taken)."
(I agree with this; but most people don't like genuine people because genuine people will offend more than one person; most people like agreeable attractive people, like celebrities.)

"Women don't care about how much money a man makes or his looks."
(Obviously written before OnlyFans was a thing, but long after prostitution was a thing...)

"There's something interesting about anyone and everyone; you just have to figure out what that something is."
(Nah... Like 95% of people are boring, predictable, and easily replaceable in my opinion.)

"Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."
(Like cancer! Or the COVID vaccine!)

"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
(You mean like people going to work everyday and having the same home habits, yet expecting life to get better? I could've sworn the definition of insanity was "mental illness of such a severe nature that a person cannot distinguish fantasy from reality, cannot conduct daily affairs due to psychosis, or is subject to uncontrollable impulsive behavior." Besides, Albert Einstein never said that anyway; a fictional novelist created by Rita Mae Brown in 1983 did.)

What quote or saying do people spout but is complete BS?

RedFever · Accepted Answer

"Survival of the fittest" - It isn't the fit that survive, but those who are most able to adapt to changing circumstances as the need arises. The flexible survive, not the fit.

TrueConfection · Accepted Answer

"Feminism is for everyone"

Anonymous · Answer

This might be a little off topic but the thing that really grinds my gears is the inappropriate and over use of 'efficiency' as though that is always the most desirable thing and the only measure.

Efficiency is about not wasting resources, about spending as little as possible but very often what we want is not efficiency at all, it is effectiveness.

For example: In a motor race, you dont particularly give a rats ass about efficiency what you want is performance, you want the maximum possible speeds.

Ok, efficiency is going to be in the mix there somewhere, you dont want to be needlessly wasteful, because that is suboptimal but its not the prime concern.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

"People everywhere are the same"

Having been fortunate enough to do some traveling in my life, I assure you, they're NOT

"Diversity is strength" is another one.

If you study world history you will see that the countries that have too much diversity always have conflict and wars, because people from different backgrounds simply can't live together.

Celtero · Answer

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

As if there isn't a certain level of probability that determines the outcome of many of our actions. I could go fishing, and during fishing I could cast my line 19 times without so much as a nibble, but on the 20th cast I could catch a whopper.

JBlade · Answer

"You'll find someone" or "You just haven't met the right person"  Both complete hogwash lol.

JustinTimberlegs · Answer

Life is not a highway
I don't want to ride it all night long

My anaconda still wants some if you got no buns hun

You don't say it best when you say nothing at all

Black Betty didn't have a child

I want to be a macho man

007kingifrit · Answer

"follow your passions" is terrible advice. you should follow your abilities and turn them into your passions

if you follow your passions guess what? you're probably going into a field where everyone likes the same things you do... and that's a lot of people because everyone likes the same things really

joeldalton · Answer

“Just be yourself” That’s not good advice if yourself sucks.

loveslongnails · Answer

I can't think of a quote at the moment, but most times when I hear someone talk about being "disrespected", it's usually bullshit. It's usually them overreacting to hearing some "truth" that they didn't want to hear.

artsygirl457 · Answer

you reap what you sow. so many get away with so much its laughable

RealMarek · Answer

“If you cannot handle me at my worst you don’t deserve me at my best.”

Feelicks · Answer

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger... Is that so? Sweetheart pass me a wrench please... The big one.

spartan55 · Answer

Incorrectly applying the terms: toxic, narcissist, and my new favorite, INTROVERT.

rcljr · Answer

Black lives matter, they don’t, black on black homicide is the number 1 cause of homicide in America alone, I bet Africa is the same.

GermanGuy87 · Answer

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Make love not war. Hell no love solves nothing, war by contrast gets shit done

Open2It · Answer

People use the phrase 'anal retentive', or 'anal' for short, in the wrong context mostly...

exitseven · Answer

There are so many, How about- It is better to give than to receive.

dolemite89 · Answer

“live every day like your last” what does this even mean? u can’t always just live in the moment

Michael49 · Answer

What comes around goes around

iBeowulf · Answer

"Men and women are equal."

apimpnamedslickback · Answer

Fake it till you make it.

JosyJosy · Answer

The customer is always right!

dray995 · Answer

If you work hard enough, you can do anything.

Protein_mate · Answer

Slow and steady wins the race

jshm2 · Answer

All of them. Wise men quote, fools follow blindly.

Medhat-M · Answer

Hard work ALWAYS pays off... No.. Not just because

andreasderjuengere · Answer

''Say, can you see by the dawn's early light'' :D

karaspara · Answer

I before C except after E w

S3ntn0 · Answer

"time heals everything"

nickstaa · Answer

Everyone is born equal

REDHOTLINE · Answer

Dont give up go on and make your jop perfect.

K-I-S-S · Answer

Amen

NightHawk99 · Answer

Be yourself.

Babygirl_S · Answer

Always be yourself.

Hulk30 · Answer

that 1

ItsMeItsMe1989 · Answer

Not sure

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