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This is exactly correct, and honestly it galls me every time I read it because it's like the entire society has somehow forgotten not only this saying in its en
by magduf 7y ago
This is exactly correct, and honestly it galls me every time I read it because it's like the entire society has somehow forgotten not only this saying in its entirety, but this very simple fact about apples. Do people not eat apples any more? Judging by how many big packs of them I see at Costco, or the huge piles of them at every other grocery store I've been to, I find it really hard to believe that much of the American population somehow doesn't know what happens when apples go bad in proximity to other apples, because they keep trotting out the phrase "a few bad apples" as if it's no big deal or something you just have to expect with any group of people.
- Clubber 7y ago>I find it really hard to believe that much of the American population somehow doesn't know what happens when apples go bad in proximity to other apples ... It's because the grocery store removes the bad apples.
- logfromblammo 7y agoThe grocery removes the old, unsold apples, which includes both bad apples and good apples. They--or at least the grocery businesses around here--do not take proactive measures to remove bad fruit of any kind. That is why I frequently see mold on fruits that have been purchased earlier in the same day. I have seen enough of this to know not only that one bad apple will [eventually] spoil the whole bag, but also that one bad orange will ruin its bag, and one bad strawberry will embadden all the strawberries touching it, but that melons, potatoes, and pomegranates are still mostly good after you remove and throw out all the moldy parts. Cops are more like oranges than apples. They go bad a lot faster in the presence of corruption.
- magduf 7y agoI'm wondering if I should start talking about bad cops and calling them "bad oranges". But I don't think people will get it.
- logfromblammo 7y agoPeople already don't get it when you say "bad apple", so it couldn't hurt to throw the old metaphor down to the ground, handcuff it, and then beat on it for a little while afterward for "resisting".
- magduf 7y agoWell, it would open the door for explaining the analogy, since no one gets the "bad apple" thing any more.