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Relatedly, you can lead your boss to the facts but you still can't make him think.

You can’t out-reason an idiot.

Nah this one isn't true. I logiced myself out of religion.

Good one

Yeah. After I sobered up I went through about 3 years of intense training (may have had a hyperfixation) ... I was down to an A-cup, just lean muscle and bone. After a normal training session I'd get the greasiest half-pound double cheeseburger with bacon money could buy.

These days I look at a stick of celery wrong and put on weight :-/

Yeah, but the saying is usually told to fat people. It is very unlikely that a fat person has enough endurance to burn 4,000+ calories a day via physical activity.

Found this the hard way multiple times. Some people just want to feel bad about themselves and want others to pity them. They'll listen to advice, but they won't take it. If you stop they'll manipulate and make you feel guilty, but you have to know when to walk away.

You can bring the horse to water but you can't make him drink.

I sometimes use that as a metaphor.

you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish!

You can also unscrew a screw but not twice in a row unless you have two

What the fuck, it rhymes

Fantastic

There's actually a saying about that: "penny-wise and pound-foolish."

Some people have more dollars than sense.

Except this one is actually false, you can in fact polish a turd. Here's the Mythbusters clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI

I've trained in lots of martial arts, this is one of those catch phrases people like to throw around a lot there, but it's only true if you normalize for strength.

I remember a long while back my SiL went to some BJJ classes, and she was going on and on about how it was great because with those techniques strength didn't mattered and she was learning how to defend herself against much more strong opponents. I told her something among the lines of "that's great and all, but don't get overconfident, BJJ only works if the opponent is in a similar weight category, a kick to the nuts is a lot more effective in real life", she didn't believe me, so I asked her to get me in something she had learned, she went for an arm lock, I ensured she had grabbed me correctly and then I stood up carrying her up with me. Yeah, BJJ is great and everyone should learn a little bit, but technique doesn't matter for shit if your opponent can lift you with one arm. Also no, I'm not superman, my SiL is very petite.