minnieo@kbin.social to Today I Learned@kbin.social · 2 years agoTIL “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically, or to suggest an impossible accomplishment, because it is impossible for someone to pull themselves up by their bootstrapsmedia.kbin.socialimagemessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
arrow-up126arrow-down1imageTIL “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” was originally meant sarcastically, or to suggest an impossible accomplishment, because it is impossible for someone to pull themselves up by their bootstrapsmedia.kbin.socialminnieo@kbin.social to Today I Learned@kbin.social · 2 years agomessage-square9linkfedilink
minus-squareminnieo@kbin.socialOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agonowadays i hear it exclusively used to tell someone to ‘toughen up’
minus-squareMummifiedClient5000@feddit.dklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoSure you’re not thinking of “pull yourself together”?
minus-squareArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoI figured that the people saying it meant “you need to find the strength to do this yourself since no one is going to help you”.
minus-squaresnooggums@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years ago“You need to find the strength to do the impossible because we won’t spend money on minorities and poor people” is how it is used today.
nowadays i hear it exclusively used to tell someone to ‘toughen up’
Sure you’re not thinking of “pull yourself together”?
I figured that the people saying it meant “you need to find the strength to do this yourself since no one is going to help you”.
“You need to find the strength to do the impossible because we won’t spend money on minorities and poor people” is how it is used today.