r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bendubberley_ • 1d ago

A police officer in Mexico prevents someone's suicide attempt, on a bridge, with no safety equipment.

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u/EveningOperation1648 1d ago

Everyone likes to say it’s just a ‘few bad apples’ but fail to realize the actual quote they are referring to: ‘one bad apple spoils the bunch’.

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u/AffectionateCrazy156 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's amazing how often quotes get bastardized. I think the most common is "Money is the root of all evil," instead of "The love of money is the root of all evil."

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u/InnocentPossum 1d ago

"Blood is thicker than Water." Family ties are more important than anything...

Except, it's "Blood of the Covenant is thicker than Water of the Womb" which is the exact opposite. Those bonds you goose to form are stronger because you chose them.

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u/AffectionateCrazy156 1d ago

I forgot about that one. It's definitely more common than the money one.

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u/Lemonface 1d ago

It's also wrong

"Blood is thicker than water" came first by hundreds of years

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u/AffectionateCrazy156 1d ago

Well, nobody was talking about which came first.

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u/Lemonface 1d ago

It's amazing how often quotes get bastardized.

That was the context in which it was brought up... Idk, at least to me, the implication of the word "bastardized" is that it got degraded and changed over time. Which is not true in this case. "Blood is thicker than water" was not bastardized from anything, it's always meant exactly what it still means