• dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    I replaced oil with applesauce…

    …I don’t know what went wrong as I followed the recipe exactly.

    Oh god. Please tell me that the word ”exactly” is not going to have the same fate as the word “literally”:

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I don’t believe people are using it figuratively. In my experience they’re lying to themselves about having followed instructions in order to shift blame away from themselves.

      • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 months ago

        bingo.

        i got rear ended at a stop light once and the other driver got in my face and was like ‘why where you stopped in the middle fo the road like that, you are dangerous and stupid’. i dunno, because it was STOP SIGN.

        then tried to argue with me to not call my insurance, even though my car was fucked and undrivable. turns out they had multiple accidents and they were gonna get fucked for getting into yet another one. i just stonewalled them and they went back to their car and then theri friend came over and tried to intimidate me.

        then the cops showed up and their tune changed real quick.

        most people can’t admit fault, so they warp reality so the blame is always someone else’s, and even go so far as to harass intimdate others into their false reality.