Obviously you can kind of but its extremely difficult (for those pedantic commentators I foresee)
You can’t logic a person out of a position that they didn’t logic themselves in to
Relatedly, you can lead your boss to the facts but you still can’t make him think.
Definitely. But unions are the cure for that one
Good one
You can explain it for them but you can’t understand it for them.
You can’t help someone who doesn’t want to be helped
I heard this as: “You can’t wake someone who’s pretending to be asleep.”
You can bring the horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
I sometimes use that as a metaphor.
Far enough
You can unscrew a light bulb, but not a pregnant woman
Fantastic
You can’t outrun a radio.
If the police are chasing you for whatever reason, raw speed is not enough to make a getaway. They’ll just call for reinforcements to block the road ahead of you, or try to funnel you towards a spike strip/dead-end/etc.
Or if they’re smart, they let you think you’ve gotten away, tail you from afar, then swoop in to make their arrest once it’s safe.
At the very least, they radio your description to dispatch, so now every cop in the area is on the lookout for you.
You cant polish a turd.
Except this one is actually false, you can in fact polish a turd. Here’s the Mythbusters clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiJ9fy1qSFI
In the literal sense it can become shiny but you still dealing with shit.
You can’t overpower bad technique.
I’ve trained in lots of martial arts, this is one of those catch phrases people like to throw around a lot there, but it’s only true if you normalize for strength.
I remember a long while back my SiL went to some BJJ classes, and she was going on and on about how it was great because with those techniques strength didn’t mattered and she was learning how to defend herself against much more strong opponents. I told her something among the lines of “that’s great and all, but don’t get overconfident, BJJ only works if the opponent is in a similar weight category, a kick to the nuts is a lot more effective in real life”, she didn’t believe me, so I asked her to get me in something she had learned, she went for an arm lock, I ensured she had grabbed me correctly and then I stood up carrying her up with me. Yeah, BJJ is great and everyone should learn a little bit, but technique doesn’t matter for shit if your opponent can lift you with one arm. Also no, I’m not superman, my SiL is very petite.
That’s not the same thing, though.
You didn’t overpower your own bad technique.
You overpowered her good technique, and presumably did so using good technique of your own.
You’re correct, I misread as “you can’t overpower technique” to mean good technique triumphs over brute strength. Yeah, her technique was good, I just stood up, she weighs less than half my body weight so no technique needed.
So many exceptions to that one that it’s useless. You absolutely can overpower bad technique in a lot of situations.
Go watch idiots break car windows in rescues. If you smash it hard enough, it will eventually break. Whereas a small tap with a sharp object in a corner can crack it with almost no force at all.
You either budget your time reasonably, or let the exhaustion do it for you.
It sometimes feels like you can do 200% of what you can normally on your “prime”, but the reality is closer to 120% + exhausted enough to make the original task smaller. And often the way you shrink/drop original tasks isn’t as good as if you do it beforehand.
You’re safe from my pedantry for now OP.
