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Finish the turn of phrase
Finish the fucking turn of phrase, I beg of you, this is not the defense you think it is
seriously wtf how do they not get that
How do people still use that phrase unironically?
We managed to infect them with ebil tankie propaganda but they didn’t get the message
If you don’t already have the capstone on your bad apples dunk:
A few bad apples don’t ruin the whole bunch, they ruin the barrel.
Apples release a gas as they ripen and eventually spoil that makes all the other apples ripen and spoil faster. So obviously a bad apple will make all the apples you put in a barrel with it spoil too.
But the barrel is made of porous wood, so the apple spoiling gas gets in the barrel and even after you empty the old spoiled apples, hose it out and fill it back up it’s gonna spoil the good apples you put in there.
A few bad apple don’t just spoil the ones they’re packed in with, they spoil the whole barrel.
A few bad apples don’t just ruin the police department, they ruin the institution!
A few Nazis don’t ruin the soldiers they’re stationed with, they ruin the army!
“Don’t let a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch” means get the fuck rid of those bad apples asap.
E: the apple spoiling gas is called ethylene.