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Post by ✖ Ꮮꭼꭺꮲꮶꮖꭲ ✖ on Feb 13, 2024 14:47:26 GMT -5
tbf the actual saying is “the customer is always right in matters of taste”, i.e. never tell a customer that their taste in clothing/decor/etc is outdated or something. unfortunately the latter part often gets dropped so it becomes an insufferable saying. Wait fr? That makes so much more sense and id agree with it. I remember furniture shopping and the salesperson wasnt leaving us alone and made a face at me when i pointed out an ugly chair that looked like it time travelled from the 70s I loved. Like excuse me, I love the ugly furniture. Let me live in horrid maxamalism in peace.
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Post by Dark Sun on Feb 13, 2024 21:26:15 GMT -5
tbf the actual saying is “the customer is always right in matters of taste”, i.e. never tell a customer that their taste in clothing/decor/etc is outdated or something. unfortunately the latter part often gets dropped so it becomes an insufferable saying. Wait fr? That makes so much more sense and id agree with it. I remember furniture shopping and the salesperson wasnt leaving us alone and made a face at me when i pointed out an ugly chair that looked like it time travelled from the 70s I loved. Like excuse me, I love the ugly furniture. Let me live in horrid maxamalism in peace. Yep, can confirm. Of course, judging by the quote itself, it was probably always inevitable. Some self-absorbed people were always going to snip off the end, twist the saying, and it became mainstream, to the point where most people don't know the original saying anymore.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Feb 13, 2024 22:25:42 GMT -5
I mean tbf many common sayings get twisted up over time, and it's not always a purposeful or malicious thing. Usually it's just from people misremembering. E.g., "Blood is thicker than water" is actually "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb". Or how "dog-eat-dog world" somehow became "doggie-dog world"
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Post by ✖ Ꮮꭼꭺꮲꮶꮖꭲ ✖ on Feb 13, 2024 23:03:16 GMT -5
I mean tbf many common sayings get twisted up over time, and it's not always a purposeful or malicious thing. Usually it's just from people misremembering. E.g., "Blood is thicker than water" is actually "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb". Or how "dog-eat-dog world" somehow became "doggie-dog world" i have never heard someone say doggie-dog world before
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Feb 13, 2024 23:18:42 GMT -5
I mean tbf many common sayings get twisted up over time, and it's not always a purposeful or malicious thing. Usually it's just from people misremembering. E.g., "Blood is thicker than water" is actually "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb". Or how "dog-eat-dog world" somehow became "doggie-dog world" i have never heard someone say doggie-dog world before GOOD because it drives me bananas!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2024 5:43:16 GMT -5
I hate it when my parents ask me why I'm still awake when yet they're also awake and talking to each other about drama. parents are like this all the time?? Like they will say “ok, time to go to sleep now,” and I stay up reading. In the morning I was like “oh btw you were up talking about something pretty late” and they were like “YOU WERE AWAKE?!” I also just have trouble falling asleep, lol.
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Post by dal on Feb 14, 2024 9:36:34 GMT -5
tbf the actual saying is “the customer is always right in matters of taste”, i.e. never tell a customer that their taste in clothing/decor/etc is outdated or something. unfortunately the latter part often gets dropped so it becomes an insufferable saying. yeah, i've heard about that!! and luckily i've never heard a customer recite the phrase "the customer is always right" to my face, usually they go with something that i can't really dispute like "your sales and prices are lying, y'all should be ashamed" which like. Yeah that's why i quit LMAO
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Post by Card against Humanity on Feb 14, 2024 13:44:39 GMT -5
I mean tbf many common sayings get twisted up over time, and it's not always a purposeful or malicious thing. Usually it's just from people misremembering. E.g., "Blood is thicker than water" is actually "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb". Or how "dog-eat-dog world" somehow became "doggie-dog world" not to be confrontational but that's not actually true; the longer version of the phrase was made up a few decades ago and it's hard to pin down where "blood is thicker than water" came from because proverbs generally weren't written down. the reason it got picked up as a common factoid though is because the original phrase is really dumb lol. I'm pretty sure the same thing goes for "the customer is always right" as well. EDIT: I've never used this website but I looked for a decent source breaking this all down, and the first answer to the question asked here explains it pretty well: english.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/is-the-alleged-original-meaning-of-the-phrase-blood-is-thicker-than-water-realwhile we're on this subject a lot of commonly cited longer versions of proverbs were made up after the original proverb because most proverbs/common sayings are not actually true. family is not always better than friends, lots of customers are jerks, people don't always want to be friends with people who think just like them, sometimes you can determine whether or not you'll like a book by looking at the cover, et cetera. i try to avoid using proverbs for that reason.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Feb 14, 2024 14:37:07 GMT -5
I mean tbf many common sayings get twisted up over time, and it's not always a purposeful or malicious thing. Usually it's just from people misremembering. E.g., "Blood is thicker than water" is actually "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb". Or how "dog-eat-dog world" somehow became "doggie-dog world" not to be confrontational but that's not actually true; the longer version of the phrase was made up a few decades ago and it's hard to pin down where "blood is thicker than water" came from because proverbs generally weren't written down. the reason it got picked up as a common factoid though is because the original phrase is really dumb lol. I'm pretty sure the same thing goes for "the customer is always right" as well. EDIT: I've never used this website but I looked for a decent source breaking this all down, and the first answer to the question asked here explains it pretty well: english.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/is-the-alleged-original-meaning-of-the-phrase-blood-is-thicker-than-water-realwhile we're on this subject a lot of commonly cited longer versions of proverbs were made up after the original proverb because most proverbs/common sayings are not actually true. family is not always better than friends, lots of customers are jerks, people don't always want to be friends with people who think just like them, sometimes you can determine whether or not you'll like a book by looking at the cover, et cetera. i try to avoid using proverbs for that reason. The addition to the "customer is always right" is a matter of adding clarification that would have been understood in the historical contexts of the time. No one knows exactly who coined it, although Cesar Ritz, Harry Selfridge, and Marshall Fields are all credited with popularizing it. Up through the early years of the 20th century, caveat emptor ("Let the buyer beware") was the mindset that ruled the shopping experience; it primarily put the burden on consumers to haggle and obtain a transaction they were satisfied with, and many stores operated with an imperious attitude toward customers - if you walked away unhappy, it was your fault. It was therefore a novel attitude in the 1910's for stores to offer a more deferential experience to customers that was popularized by business leaders like Selfridge and Ritz. The goal was for customers to actually enjoy the shopping experience and never walk away feeling slighted. E.g., if a woman wanted to purchase a particular dress but found that it was a bit above her price range, instead of telling her "too bad", attendants would work to find her something similar within her budget so she would still walk away happy. This is the original context for "The customer is always right" that had been lost over time, and why the addition of "in matters of taste" is necessary. I did not know about the blood and water one though, thank you for the correction! Just goes to show that proverbs really do get mixed up all the time lol.
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Post by Card against Humanity on Feb 14, 2024 14:43:34 GMT -5
not to be confrontational but that's not actually true; the longer version of the phrase was made up a few decades ago and it's hard to pin down where "blood is thicker than water" came from because proverbs generally weren't written down. the reason it got picked up as a common factoid though is because the original phrase is really dumb lol. I'm pretty sure the same thing goes for "the customer is always right" as well. EDIT: I've never used this website but I looked for a decent source breaking this all down, and the first answer to the question asked here explains it pretty well: english.stackexchange.com/questions/147902/is-the-alleged-original-meaning-of-the-phrase-blood-is-thicker-than-water-realwhile we're on this subject a lot of commonly cited longer versions of proverbs were made up after the original proverb because most proverbs/common sayings are not actually true. family is not always better than friends, lots of customers are jerks, people don't always want to be friends with people who think just like them, sometimes you can determine whether or not you'll like a book by looking at the cover, et cetera. i try to avoid using proverbs for that reason. The addition to the "customer is always right" is a matter of adding clarification that would have been understood in the historical contexts of the time. No one knows exactly who coined it, although Cesar Ritz, Harry Selfridge, and Marshall Fields are all credited with popularizing it. Up through the early years of the 20th century, caveat emptor ("Let the buyer beware") was the mindset that ruled the shopping experience; it primarily put the burden on consumers to haggle and obtain a transaction they were satisfied with, and many stores operated with an imperious attitude toward customers - if you walked away unhappy, it was your fault. It was therefore a novel attitude in the 1910's for stores to offer a more deferential experience to customers that was popularized by business leaders like Selfridge and Ritz. The goal was for customers to actually enjoy the shopping experience and never walk away feeling slighted. E.g., if a woman wanted to purchase a particular dress but found that it was a bit above her price range, instead of telling her "too bad", attendants would work to find her something similar within her budget so she would still walk away happy. This is the original context for "The customer is always right" that had been lost over time, and why the addition of "in matters of taste" is necessary. I did not know about the blood and water one though, thank you for the correction! Just goes to show that proverbs really do get mixed up all the time lol. Yeah I knew that "the customer is always right" originated as a way of opposing the then-norm of "let the buyer beware", but I didn't know the exact context which is why I didn't go into that one. It's a shame how the phrase has gotten twisted over time though
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Post by {Azure} on Feb 14, 2024 14:51:51 GMT -5
too many big words for my smooth brain to handle
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Post by Dark Sun on Feb 14, 2024 20:47:30 GMT -5
I hate birthdays, or any social event where I have to pretend to be enthusiastic.
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Non-binary
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Sage of the Stars
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Post by Dark Sun on Feb 15, 2024 1:22:16 GMT -5
Funko-pops.
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Post by Brownie on Feb 15, 2024 2:35:18 GMT -5
waking up early
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Post by Sand on Feb 15, 2024 10:38:52 GMT -5
Breakfast.
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Post by lazzylake on Feb 15, 2024 11:02:44 GMT -5
Public bathrooms. Especially when there's other people in there. Adding onto this: changing pads/tampons in public bathrooms. It makes me so inherently uncomfortable and icky and at school I need to walk around to find a restroom that is empty or at least has the fewest amount of people possible. I hate hate hate public restrooms so much. Everytime I go to a restaurant I always think *please have one stall*
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Post by {Azure} on Feb 15, 2024 11:17:40 GMT -5
most sports
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Asexual
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If you need me, I'll be cocooned in my blankets while I cry
Pronouns: She/her, they/them, it/its
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Post by 《 ★ Copper ★ 》 on Feb 15, 2024 16:10:49 GMT -5
Valentine's day. I was seriously expecting this one guy to ask me out, and he didn't so I got my hopes up for nothing. I hate it
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Post by Tealraven on Feb 16, 2024 11:56:01 GMT -5
makeup. skincare. “kawaii” things. tea. pink and purple.
my penpals keep sending me facial masks and teabags and sparkly sanrio stickers and pink/purple stationery and I don’t have the heart to tell them to stop 🥲
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The Shiny User
🎵Guess that's just the way it goes, easy come, easy go🎵
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Post by Ṣanɗypaw™ on Feb 16, 2024 12:52:40 GMT -5
makeup. skincare. “kawaii” things. tea. pink and purple. my penpals keep sending me facial masks and teabags and sparkly sanrio stickers and pink/purple stationery and I don’t have the heart to tell them to stop 🥲 Send them to me /j I desperately want cute stationary 😭
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Post by Tealraven on Feb 16, 2024 13:32:55 GMT -5
i actually do like stationery! there's just a very specific style that's extremely popular that i don't like that usually looks like this
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Post by Lizard 🦎 on Feb 17, 2024 15:39:09 GMT -5
being hungry but too lazy to cook anything
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Post by Lizard 🦎 on Feb 17, 2024 15:39:31 GMT -5
or being hungry at a friend's house but being too nervous to ask for something to eat
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Post by Lizard 🦎 on Feb 17, 2024 15:39:44 GMT -5
or having to ask anyone for anything actually
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foible: a small flaw, defect, or fault
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Post by dal on Feb 17, 2024 16:35:13 GMT -5
makeup. skincare. “kawaii” things. tea. pink and purple. my penpals keep sending me facial masks and teabags and sparkly sanrio stickers and pink/purple stationery and I don’t have the heart to tell them to stop 🥲 question, how do you get into pen palling?
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Worker in the Salt Mines
《 ★ Copper ★ 》
If you need me, I'll be cocooned in my blankets while I cry
Pronouns: She/her, they/them, it/its
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Post by 《 ★ Copper ★ 》 on Feb 17, 2024 16:35:56 GMT -5
I'll tell you what I hate. Pistol Squats
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Post by Brownie on Feb 17, 2024 16:56:14 GMT -5
people that go to friend gatherings while sick I don't care that you got tested and it's not covid or the flu, I don't want to get your cold either!!
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Post by {Azure} on Feb 17, 2024 17:55:32 GMT -5
being hungry but too lazy to cook anything preach!
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Post by {Azure} on Feb 17, 2024 17:56:21 GMT -5
my normal hair without a white streak on the front
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