You can't logic a person out of a position that they didn't logic themselves in to
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Relatedly, you can lead your boss to the facts but you still can't make him think.
Definitely. But unions are the cure for that one
You can’t out-reason an idiot.
never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience
Nah this one isn't true. I logiced myself out of religion.
"someone" doesn't include yourself. the more general version is that you can't change other people's opinions, only give them information that makes them think about them.
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Good one
as someone who economizeds and belt tightens like no ones business you also can't out austere lack of income.
It’s possible to be penny smart yet dollar stupid
There's actually a saying about that: "penny-wise and pound-foolish."
Some people have more dollars than sense.
I absolutely used to run enough to out run my bad diet!
It only became a problem when I got injured and couldn't run for several months :P
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 :-/
Had a friend training for Iron Man. He'd do like 15 mile bike in to work (and back), 5 mile run at lunch, and swim in the evening. Dude would eat sticks of butter straight out of the refrigerator for lunch. I couldn't watch.
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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.
It's still possible to build up endurance even while fat, if you never got completely sedentary or if you take the time to build it back up. But if you're too fat there comes a point where physical activity starts becoming dangerous without proper guidance - and if you have that then you're probably looking into your diet too.
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"The market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent!"
You can't outrun a radio.
If the police are chasing you for whatever reason, raw speed is not enough to make a getaway. They'll just call for reinforcements to block the road ahead of you, or try to funnel you towards a spike strip/dead-end/etc.
Or if they're smart, they let you think you've gotten away, tail you from afar, then swoop in to make their arrest once it's safe.
At the very least, they radio your description to dispatch, so now every cop in the area is on the lookout for you.
You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped
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.
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You cant polish a turd.
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
In the literal sense it can become shiny but you still dealing with shit.
You can unscrew a light bulb, but not a pregnant woman
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
Technically you can unscrew a screw twice in a row by covering it in something that can harden but won't grip it too hard. Once the material has hardened, the screw can be unscrewed without having been screwed in.
If only I could achieve your screwing prowess my gf would finally cum
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If they can't change themselves, you can't change them either.
It's extremely difficult for those with no self-discipline.
A self-help book can't help you if you don't read it.
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You can out train a bad diet, though. It's called body recomp.
I've traded 30lb of fat for muscle without touching my diet. It really wasn't difficult.
The catch is that it's not a quick method
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You can’t overpower bad technique.
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.
That’s not the same thing, though.
You didn’t overpower your own bad technique.
You overpowered her good technique, and presumably did so using good technique of your own.
You're correct, I misread as "you can't overpower technique" to mean good technique triumphs over brute strength. Yeah, her technique was good, I just stood up, she weighs less than half my body weight so no technique needed.
So many exceptions to that one that it's useless. You absolutely can overpower bad technique in a lot of situations.
Go watch idiots break car windows in rescues. If you smash it hard enough, it will eventually break. Whereas a small tap with a sharp object in a corner can crack it with almost no force at all.
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