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rainrain@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago

"A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled.

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"A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled.

rainrain@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago
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    It’s one of those memes that got ironically reversed. And then the ironic version got remembered by everybody and the original got forgotten.

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      Irony is eating the world.

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      What is it supposed to say?

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        A potted boil is never watched.

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          I choose to believe it’s this one.

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        A watched pot always boils?

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