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The worst part of this quote is that, in the original, she (Marilyn Monroe) actually framed her "worst":

>I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

So in the context it sounds more like "here are my flaws - take me or leave me, but you won't change me". Which sounds reasonable. But without that context it sounds more like "I'm entitled because I like to pretend that I'm above other people".

As a nonnative speaker, the first time I heard the expression was on Bojack Horseman and it confused the hell out of me.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.

I feel like that quote is better interpreted as "you haven't failed until/unless you give up." There is also value to "don't go into something without committing to it," but damn not everything has to be a fucking job.

ask yourself: is it possible to be anybody else? no? then this saying is non-nonsensical!

I haven't seen "fuck around and find out" since the old Reddit days, either.

I mean I get that if used in a context where a person does something with great risk attached and with few and rare good possible outcomes (stupid games). And then they get a bad outcome (stupid prize).

For example Jackass-like stunts.

Agreed. This sounds good but immediately falls apart at the first scrutiny. It's the same with "Don't be a dick." Everyone nods their heads and thinks, "Oh, that's so obvious!" Of course, everyone agrees because they're imagining what they believe is 'evil' or 'being a dick' and just assume everyone else agrees. Imagine their surprised-Pikachu face when they learn that other humans use different criteria.

But, if you think you can sum up thousands of years of ethics and legal theories with one pithy sentence, then go for it.

I always thought that was the point of the phrase.

I always thought that was the joke?

And it is a false statement:

sometimes you stop looking without finding anything so in those cases it isn't in the last place you look

so the clam "It's always in the last place you look" is obviously false.

otherwise you could say up front "I'm only gonna look in one place!" and then you would HAVE to find it in this last place you look!

There are moments where people use more of their bran at once than they usually do.
We call these moments "seizures".

…often said with the unspoken implication that it’s a good reason, planned by a higher power, and that you should just meekly accept things and shut up.

I wondered about this for years and years, never understanding, especially, since "having cake" and "eating cake" are used interchangeably. But, I finally figured it out! In this sense, the "having" is equivalent to "keeping" or "being in possession of."

Examples:

• "What's it like having a Mercedes Benz?"
• "The Smiths have a very nice home."

No eating implied!

Therefore, the saying is more inline with "You can't keep (to show off or admire) your cake, and eat it, too."

One time I baked a whole entire cake for myself. There was no occasion or anything I just wanted to have a cake and eat it too. It turns out cakes are really big and it's really hard for a single person to eat a cake faster than it turns all spongy and icky.

Man creates dinosaurs

Dinosaurs eat man

Woman inherits the earth

Which is ironically said the most by soft men who grew up in easy times.

More cheese => more holes.

More holes => less cheese.

Therefore: More cheese => Less cheese