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Noëlle the 8-Bit🏳️🌈🎄
@noelle
Don’t let people tell you “there are always a few bad apples”. That’s not how the saying goes. It’s actually “a few bad apples spoil the bushel” - in other words, if there are a few bad apples, that’s cause to believe the rot has spread and it’s time to throw the whole thing out.
@noelle also, I thought it was barrel, not bushel?
@a_breakin_glass could be, I always see apples in bushels
Like, if someone said "you should drop everything to go after <opportunity>, all you have is a bird in the hand" you'd know they were mangling that metaphor.
@noelle unless they finished it with "and there's four in the bush"
@noelle I've seen this repeated so often I think it might be deliberate. Trying to get you to ignore what you know about apples so that you don't think too hard about cops
@noelle Granted, defining a "bushel" when talking about sentient beings can be a difficult matter, aye?
@ElectricKeet Well, sure. But if you want to imply "the bad ones are few and far between and can be easily segregated from the good ones", maybe don't use a metaphor that means "the bad ones inherently and inevitably corrupt the good ones and you can't always tell whether they have yet, so better safe than sorry". :)
@noelle counterpoint with dancing and horns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wunv9U4IWk
@noelle cops are a rotten orchard then