I do not like to overuse the phrase "dumbest thing ever", but...

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I do not like to overuse the phrase "dumbest thing ever", but... seriously. It seems what happened is something like this:

Robber: Hi, this is a robbery. We'll be there in about ten minutes.
Bank: ...
Robber: We'll have weapons. Just leave all the money out in the middle of the floor and don't cause any trouble, and we'll come by to pick it up.
Bank: ...
Robber: Now, don't you be calling the police or locking the doors or anything, ok?
Bank: No, sir. Honest.

Bank: Hi, is that the police? We just had a tip off there'll be an armed robbery here in about 10 minutes, could you send some people round to arrest them?
Police: Is the tip-off reliable?
Bank: I don't like to overuse the phrase "straight from the horse's mouth", but...
Police: LOL. OK, leave the money out, hide behind the counter, and keep someone on the line to us.
Police: We'll send someone over to take care of it. Don't get into trouble.
Bank: OK.
Police: You might want to put up a notice. "Closed for armed robbery. 3.15-3.30pm Weds." Just so no-one worries.
Bank: We'll do that.

Robbers; Yee-ha! We're gonna be RICH!

ETA: When committing a robbery, plan well, be decisive, get in and out quickly, avoid loss of life, take the money and run, and never, ever, seven times never give the police a warning in advance. Cryptic warnings are traditionally bad, but honestly, not-cryptic warnings are even worse!

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Things I discovered today: you can occasionally grill halloumi yourself and it's really nice.

When you work something out that some people knew all along and some people never knew

I was just in the process of writing a philosophy-heavy post, and realised one of the problems I had is that given the number of people in the world at all, and the number of comparatively educated ones on the internet, anything you say is extremely likely to have been said before, most probably somewhere a simple google search could turn it up, and things relating to popular or long-studied topics ten times more so.

With some topics, like "wow, scene X in that film was awesome" or "wow, love really DOES feel wonderful/hurt" we accept that many people probably have similar ideas, but that's ok.

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So, when an interesting idea occurs to me, I don't know whether to muse about it publicly (which is interesting to some people and tedious to others) or commit either to studying philosophy seriously, or to not bothering.

ETA: Do you feel like that?

PS: jokes

An example I forgot to include in the previous post is jokes. If someone cracks a joke in conversation, they generally feel fine if broadly similar ones have happened before. But if you have a pun, sitcom sketch or other specifically crafted joke, you generally feel like you ought to have found a completely new one, even though having been done before doesn't make it any less funny for most people. You hoped it would be *so* ingenious it would be genuinely new, and are afraid you'll look silly if you present it as new and it isn't.