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You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

• ibuildbots 9mo ago
  why would I want to attract bugs? Vinegar keeps them away from me
  • card_zero 9mo ago
    It isn't even true. https://xkcd.com/357/ https://xkcd.com/357/ "Head over heels" is another weird idiom. I'm so in love, I'm standing in a normal orientation.
    • atombender 9mo ago
      "Head over heels" is actually a corruption of "heels over head". It's one of those corruptions which flips the meaning (ironically, in this case!) on its head, or just becomes meaningless over time as it's reinterpreted (like "the exception that proves the rule" or "begs the question").
• timeon 9mo ago
  But then you are left with less honey.