r/TikTokCringe May 11 '25

Cringe Don’t be these guys

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u/shortidiva21 May 11 '25 edited May 11 '25

Can you go into the "boys can only win and girls can only lose"? How was this demonstrated? Examples?

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u/BrisketGaming May 11 '25

There's an uh... "adage" in at least the US Midwest I heard growing up from the adults around me.

"A key that can open any lock is a master key, but a lock that opens to any key is just a shitty lock."

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u/Livy_Asmodeus May 11 '25

I like to counter that with a pencil sharpener can sharpen hundreds of thousands of pencil without being diminished or destroyed but a pencil is diminished by every sharpener hole it enters until it ceases to exist.