As They Say… Or Not

This is the thing….

Well it was, until it stopped working for some yet undiscovered reason. Still, as they say….

Er….

Well, they would say, if folk wisdom and its pithy apothegms had kept up with the modern world.

Really, when you look at it though, folk wisdom is not keeping its end up. Where are all the modern saying akin to ‘going off half-cocked’, ‘a flash in the pan’ don’t count your chickens’? Where is the modern equivalent ‘don’t count your digits before a stack overflow error’, ‘An app needing an upgrade’, ‘Going off half-recharged?’

It makes you wonder where all the folk who come up with the folk wisdom are…? On ArseFaceTwatBook+ probably, swapping pictures of cute cats doing cute things with cute captions… possibly, instead of getting their collective fingers out and providing us with some sayings we can use to describe the modern technological world and its failings.

Instead, we have these eggs, baskets, haystack, misfiring muskets, brass monkeys, – whatever they are/were - and a multitude of other sayings from a bygone age which none of us connect with any more.

You would think that by now there would be something at least about life being somewhat akin to an Austin Allegro in its multiplicity of disappointments. Or, there only ever being one piece of paper left on the toilet roll holder each time you enter the pondering room. Or, the fallibility of operating systems and everything wanting to upgrade itself every time you try to use it.

Still, as they say….

Or… maybe they don’t.

 

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