BS: stupid sayings

Subject: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 10:06 AM

WW1 was the war to end all wars.
(It was a hopeful sentiment but wars only breed more wars)

All's fair in love and war
(purified nonsense)

Money can't buy happiness
(it can buy more options)

Don't cry over spilled milk
(?)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 10:52 AM

Have you seen the back of your neck?

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: meself
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 11:05 AM

What's stupid about the saying, Don't cry over spilt (as some of us would have it) milk?

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 11:46 AM

Some of these are probably the moral (or punch line) from things like Aesop's Fables.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 01:10 PM

I'll knock you into the middle of next week!

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 01:12 PM

I love you to the moon and back.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 01:26 PM

WW1 was the war to end all wars.
(It was a hopeful sentiment but wars only breed more wars
quote
incorrect
it is people and governments the armaments industry and profit, it has also been the desire to grab other countries natural fuel resources., that has stared wars your comment is too simplistic
wars do not breed wars, they do however boost economies afterwards ,that is the nature of capitalism., they boost the aramaments industry they also boost economies by employing people on public works rebuilding the destruction of war.
JESUS WAS RIGHT OVERTURNING THE MONEYLENDERS TABLES AND THE ESTABLISHMENT CRUCIFIED HIM

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 01:33 PM

The war to end all wars was a phrase that was used as propaganda, it was a lot of things   including cunning scheming unscrupulous and Machiavellian, but not stupid

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 01:36 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 01:56 PM

wars do not breed wars,

It has been argued that the legacy of the Treaty of Versaille and WW1 reparations were a major factor in the rise of the Nazi Party, and thus a cause of WW2.

Getting back to the thread:-

"Nothing is impossible".

DC

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 02:12 PM

If I've said it once I've said it ten billion times: always avoid exaggeration.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: robomatic
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 02:46 PM

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: robomatic
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 02:47 PM

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: meself
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 03:24 PM

"All you need is love."

"You can achieve anything!"/"You can be whatever you want to be!"

"Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid lyrics
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 08:25 PM

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 09:59 PM

If I can do it, you can do it.

Bullshit.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 04:17 AM

Either you like bacon or you're wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 05:20 AM

Either you like bacon or you're wrong.

I thought we were looking for stupid sayings!

DC

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 05:25 AM

Yes, Doug, I did almost have second thoughts about that...

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 05:28 AM

You're a better man than I am, Donald Trump (I just made that one up...)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 07:38 AM

Well, I’m glad I’m not wrong for once…

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings never said
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 08:06 AM

no thanks I'm not Magyarország

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 12:50 PM

I suspect "Don't cry over spilt milk" might be only part of the original aphorism. Possible roundings-off include "Crying won't put it back in the bottle/churn", and "The cat won't lick it up for you --- he doesn't like salt".

Much depends on where the milk was spilt from. In the immortal words of Willy Rushton: "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings .... and straight down the back of your suit."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: meself
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 01:18 PM

Does the saying, "Don't cry over spilt milk" really require more? I would have thought its meaning, implications, and ramifications are pretty straightforward.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 01:57 PM

Does it require more? Well there's no specification as to whether it's soya, oat, goat, skimmed, semi-skimmed or full-cream organic unhomogenised Jersey (they're in my order of increasing desirability, which indicates increasing potential for lachrymatory output), so yes, it isn't that simple! And don't get me started on spilt beer (unless it's American beer, in which case the crying will be of tears of joy).

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 02:34 PM

Fraud And Research Technology Sciences has a shorter name and is in charge of beer authenticity.

There are always exceptions to sayings. I suppose one might cry over spilled colostrum.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 07:56 PM

God created the world. Everything else was made in China.


Alcohol never solved anything, but neither did milk.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Lighter
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 07:59 PM

"Money changers" not, as some would have it,"money lenders."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 08:04 PM

Seen on a sign behind the bar in a pub on the Isle of Skye in 1974:

"Credit is available to customers over the age of 90 provided they are accompanied by both parents."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Lighter
Date: 20 Feb 23 - 09:00 PM

"In God We Trust. All Others Pay Cash."

From the 1870s. At least.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 12:07 AM

Not stupid at all!

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 03:55 AM

You must have been to the same pub as me, Lighter. That sign was also on the wall behind the bar, a large circle in the form of a US coin, with "In God we trust. The rest pay cash" round the margin. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 04:49 AM

Reasons for buying a lottery ticket:-

"... but it's a rollover!"


DC

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: leeneia
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 01:08 PM

Where there's smoke there's fire.

Not necessarily. There might be volcanic ash, a power plant blowing off steam, or wet leaves merely smouldering. Of course, this is merely a metaphor, and in human affairs the "smoke" might be a bunch of lies.

False allegations of child abuse come to mind.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 02:02 PM

Leeneia, isn’t it ‘There’s no smoke without fire’?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/there%27s%20no%20smoke%20without%20fire

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 03:20 PM

Different version of the saying.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 07:20 PM

Well I'll go to the foot of our stair...

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Feb 23 - 07:34 PM

You're as daft as a brush.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: leeneia
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 12:10 AM

Backwoodsman, all my life I've heard "Where there's smoke there's fire."
But of course there can be many variations as long as the sense is preserved.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 01:20 AM

Leeneia, it’s funny, innit? I’ve always heard “There’s no smoke without fire”! Two nations divided…yadda yadda! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Senoufou
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 02:39 AM

When a bit annoyed or disappointed, my mother used to say, "Ho hum, pig's bum!" Unfortunately, I accidentally blurted this out one morning while among my 8yr old pupils. They roared with laughter and kept saying it themselves. I then invented a less rude version, "Oh dear, pig's ear!" in the hope they'd use that. But the 'pig's bum' one lived on in my classroom! (Mother was Irish, so it may have been an Irish expression)

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 03:14 AM

My Irish granny, when in front of the kids, would euphemise "bloody 'ell!" Into "blood and stomach pills!"

Come to think of it, who was "bloody Nora!"...?

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 08:37 AM

She wouldn't say shit if she had a mouthful.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 11:23 AM

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
—Benjamin Franklin

Three things happen as you get older: your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...
—Norman Wisdom

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 11:45 AM

Seems to me that 'stupid' is getting confused with 'amusing'.

Back to the thread:-

"It's more than my job's worth"

DC

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 12:00 PM

I don't agree, Doug. If you could ask Mrs Steve, she will tell you (eyes a-rolling) that my very favourite jokes are the most stupid and childish ones. I think that a saying, or a joke, can be both stupid and amusing at the same time. Things like "Jimmy Edwards and Lulu both have moustaches, except Lulu..."

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Feb 23 - 02:19 PM

Sign in a diner.

"Pie like Mother used to make. $1.00."

under that:

"Pie like he says she made, $1.50"

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 23 - 04:07 PM

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law H.R. 619, a bill that required that the inscription “In God We Trust” appear on all paper and coin currency. It is less truthful than, In Trump, wee trust.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 23 Feb 23 - 04:58 PM

Just been irritated by this yet again, and on the Beeb at that: "rising to a crescendo". Note to self: buy a telly brick.

Subject: RE: BS: stupid sayings
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Feb 23 - 05:13 PM

Ping-pong balls, not a telly brick, unless you're a wealthy man!

Yes, the use of English on the telly has definitely deteriated... (see what I did there?)