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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 85 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If life gives you lemons, make a scaleable operation.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Funnily enough life didn’t give us lemons. we made them

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Well that was epic for no reason

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Alright I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade- make life take the lemons back. Get mad. I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons, do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to burn your house down...with the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

[–] Meowie_Gamer@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Bubs@lemmings.world 8 points 7 months ago

He says what everyone's thinking!

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

CAN IT! When God gives you lemons you FIND A NEW GOD!

[–] Apollo42@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

BEAR BLASTING! Similar to hump-catting.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 41 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

Better safe than sorry.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Somebody needs to make life take those lemons back!

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I propose some variety of arson… with the lemons.

[–] elvith@feddit.de 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

Cave Johnson

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Burning people! He says what we're all thinking!

[–] elvith@feddit.de 11 points 7 months ago

Dad, are we really trying to create combustible lemons?

Yes, we arson!

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

As if life would just give you lemons.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Sometimes it does. Problem is, no one wants to buy lemonade.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

We have lemon trees for that

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But who wants to be a lemon-stealing whore?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not stealing them, if I don't pick them, they fall off and rot doing no good for the tree, thereby completely wasting all the energy the tree spent on making the things. There aren't a lot of marsupials or rodents that have the right type of hands/paws for meaningfully harvesting and spreading of the seeds in my neck of the desert to take care of seed distribution for the tree naturally.

Yes, I am growing lemons, avocados, limes, peaches, bananas, and figs currently in a desert with only collected rainwater, and grey water from my washing machine. There's no city water involved. It doesn't rain very often outside of the "cool autumn" season for about four months of the year, the other 8 months are "warm spring" we don't really get rain then, which is why I have 3400 gallons of rainwater storage that gets refilled in the first or second rain of the season.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Ahh, I've not run into that one before

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Best I can do is turnip juice.

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Me after working every day for four months straight. 😑

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I work four part time jobs. I'm working every single day. It is a real bummer.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry to hear that. I hope it gets better for you soon ❤️

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just a few more months and I'll only have one and all my debt will be paid off. There's light at the end of the tunnel!

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

That's amazing! I'm glad for you

[–] Syd@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lol you've got a job with weekends.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Well, not so much a job as an apprenticeship that I'm payed for. But yea, I've only had to work Saturdays when I worked in retail.

[–] Okokimup@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] aulin@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's good that this came along, since the Cave Johnson monologue just reads like a Karen nowadays.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

When life gives you Karens, you just make karenade!

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

This is terrible business advice.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

"Unless life is also giving you sugar, your lemonade is going to taste like shit."

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

... is he making lemon-shaped piss bombs from those piss jars which are then vacuumed away for safe storage & times of need?

There might have been a mixup & life keeps accidentally giving me those lemons.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Battles have literally been won on avoiding scurvy. Can’t remember which side but Spainish armada vs England naval battles. Had spies report back they were eating sauerkraut and thus didn’t get scurvy. Hard to fight a war while sick

[–] DjMeas@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

When life gives you lemons, urine trouble.

[–] daveywaveyboy@feddit.nl 5 points 7 months ago
[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Is that how it’s told now?
Is it all so old?
Is it made of lemon juice?
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