Absurdity in the US yet used all the time as something to do to help oneself...
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Aug 13, 2021 14:03:01 #
Just try pulling yourself off the floor to float in the air by grabbing your shoe tops and pulling up. It is a complete denial of Newtonian gravity. But then, maybe it can happen in weightless outer space. There os no such thing as a completely "self made man."
Aug 14, 2021 08:22:44 #
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StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
revhen wrote:
. . . . . There os no such thing as a completely "self made man."
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Stan
Aug 14, 2021 16:00:37 #
Aug 15, 2021 02:29:00 #
The origins of "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps."
https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps/
https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps/
Aug 15, 2021 04:30:58 #
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petrochemist
Loc: UK
Despite it's original use bootlaces have been used by climbers for ascending vertical ropes :)
Aug 15, 2021 13:56:28 #
SteveR wrote:
The origins of "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps."
https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps/
https://uselessetymology.com/2019/11/07/the-origins-of-the-phrase-pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps/
From your link:
"So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment."
Aug 15, 2021 15:00:43 #
Rongnongno wrote:
From your link:
"So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment."
"So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment."
Correct, but as the article stated, "eventually, however, the phrase’s commonly-accepted meaning evolved, and now when we tell people to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” it’s implying that socioeconomic advancement is something that everyone should be able to do—albeit something difficult."
Aug 15, 2021 15:18:09 #
Rongnongno wrote:
From your link:
"So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment."
"So when it became a colloquial phrase referring to socioeconomic advancement shortly thereafter, it was meant to be sarcastic, or to suggest that it was an impossible accomplishment."
"Operation Bootstrap" was an economic development program to transform Puerto Rico from an agricultural to an industrial economy. More recently the name has also been applied to other economic development programs. Nothing sarcastic about that.
Aug 15, 2021 16:35:24 #
AND ITS RHETORICAL TWIN SISTER SLUR IS: 'GO PUT YOU RE HEAD UP YOUR ...!!!' YES, ANOTHER IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
Aug 15, 2021 19:25:09 #
blackhorse 1-7 wrote:
Is there a point your post is trying to make?
Note who sent it and then ask if you really want to ask that question.
Aug 15, 2021 23:53:11 #
Chembro2 wrote:
AND ITS RHETORICAL TWIN SISTER SLUR IS: 'GO PUT YOU RE HEAD UP YOUR ...!!!' YES, ANOTHER IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
In this case, a task which many have accomplished. Neville Chamberlain a clear example.
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