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You cant polish a turd.
If they can't change themselves, you can't change them either.
It’s possible to be penny smart yet dollar stupid
Some people have more dollars than sense.
You can't outrun a radio.
If the police are chasing you for whatever reason, raw speed is not enough to make a getaway. They'll just call for reinforcements to block the road ahead of you, or try to funnel you towards a spike strip/dead-end/etc.
Or if they're smart, they let you think you've gotten away, tail you from afar, then swoop in to make their arrest once it's safe.
At the very least, they radio your description to dispatch, so now every cop in the area is on the lookout for you.
"The market can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent!"
You can't logic a person out of a position that they didn't logic themselves in to
You can’t out-reason an idiot.
never argue with an idiot, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience
Relatedly, you can lead your boss to the facts but you still can't make him think.
Definitely. But unions are the cure for that one
Nah this one isn't true. I logiced myself out of religion.
"someone" doesn't include yourself. the more general version is that you can't change other people's opinions, only give them information that makes them think about them.
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I absolutely used to run enough to out run my bad diet!
It only became a problem when I got injured and couldn't run for several months :P
Yeah. After I sobered up I went through about 3 years of intense training (may have had a hyperfixation) ... I was down to an A-cup, just lean muscle and bone. After a normal training session I'd get the greasiest half-pound double cheeseburger with bacon money could buy.
These days I look at a stick of celery wrong and put on weight :-/
Yeah, I looked like a piece of leather wrapped around a stick when I was training that hard. And I pretty much just lived on takeout
And yeah, 10 years later, older, no longer anywhere near that fit, and even as I train for a half marathon, it's hard to shift my weight to where I want it to be for my race
Well done for taking on a half marathon!
I'm just trying to keep my old baby bulge in check, lol
Had a friend training for Iron Man. He'd do like 15 mile bike in to work (and back), 5 mile run at lunch, and swim in the evening. Dude would eat sticks of butter straight out of the refrigerator for lunch. I couldn't watch.
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Yeah, but the saying is usually told to fat people. It is very unlikely that a fat person has enough endurance to burn 4,000+ calories a day via physical activity.
It's still possible to build up endurance even while fat, if you never got completely sedentary or if you take the time to build it back up. But if you're too fat there comes a point where physical activity starts becoming dangerous without proper guidance - and if you have that then you're probably looking into your diet too.
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It's extremely difficult for those with no self-discipline.
A self-help book can't help you if you don't read it.
My mother had stacks of these that she never read. Like the act of buying the book would somehow make everything better.
You can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped
I heard this as: "You can't wake someone who's pretending to be asleep."
Found this the hard way multiple times. Some people just want to feel bad about themselves and want others to pity them. They'll listen to advice, but they won't take it. If you stop they'll manipulate and make you feel guilty, but you have to know when to walk away.
You can bring the horse to water but you can't make him drink.
I sometimes use that as a metaphor.
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You can unscrew a light bulb, but not a pregnant woman
you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish!
Fantastic
You can also unscrew a screw but not twice in a row unless you have two
What the fuck, it rhymes
Technically you can unscrew a screw twice in a row by covering it in something that can harden but won't grip it too hard. Once the material has hardened, the screw can be unscrewed without having been screwed in.
If only I could achieve your screwing prowess my gf would finally cum
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