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And you CAN. You are being told you can't do something by someone.
Hym "And that is the thing you need to do. There are the people who want to deliberately misrepresent what is happening here and those people are telling you that you can't do something very specific. That is the thing that needs to happen. You need to do the thing you're being told you can't. Take me, for example. I'm being told I can't threaten kids (or something I don't really know what point they are trying to make) and succeed. So I'm doing that repeatedly. And now they are trying to tell me I can't murder kids if they steal from me. So, one of 2 things need to happen. I either need to not be stole from or kids need to die. They are telling me I can't but I clearly can. They aren't there when within arms reach of a child with a knife I my pocket... And I alway have a knife in my pocket. But they don't what to have to accept that. So, they are doing this. It's all symbolic. It's all meaningless. They are just trying to force me to accept something I don't have to accept and they are making you complicit in that act by telling you that you can't tell me what I want to know."
by Hym Iam January 28, 2025
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A computer can't function without an operating system

A total lie usually mentioned in computer textbooks when talking about operating systems. Older computers sometimes do not have an operating system, so this is totally a lie because these computers can still function. Also, even modern computers can make use of the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) to do some basic tasks such as viewing and changing the date.
School textbooks: "A computer can't function without an operating system!"
1930s computer operator: "wtf is that"
by 48GI5N32D3D November 26, 2023
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monkeys can't sell bananas

the ideology that a drug dealer can't be using his own supply, or else he will go out of business
Gabin started dealing but he started smoking all of his product and is now flat broke. Monkeys can't sell bananas.
by ryanbernsdisciple June 4, 2024
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Can't light a birthday candle with a blowtorch

Idiom. Used to describe a person's lack of intelligence or inability to perform/achieve a simple task.
Is it any surprise how badly he did? That idiot can't light a birthday candle with a blowtorch.
by Catfish Baruni June 16, 2016
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can't gonna do that

A phrase uttered when someone is not going to do something that will only have horrible consequences.
Barbie:"I heard Danny wants to take you out. You gonna say yes?"
Stacey:"Can't gonna do that. He's got multiple STI's and he smells like moldy onions and rancid garlic. He's all yours!"
by von groovy July 19, 2024
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Thieves' Can't

A cryptolect, an argot, and/or a set of secretive low-key code word terminologies (also known as thieves' argot, rogues' cant, or peddler's French) used by thieves, beggars, vagabonds, criminals and hustlers in primarily of Great Britain in the early 16th century onwards until falling completely out of use in all language and literature by the late Victorian Era.

Simply put, it was the speakeasy, lowkey language and/or code word in itself, at the time used to avoid tipping off less knowledgeable agents of law enforcement.

The term was likely devised by the self declared "King of the Gypsies of Derbyshire's Devil's Arse", now known Peak Cavern, by either at the time Richard Skelton and/or/both his soon to be successor Cock Lorel (his real name a mystery, lost to time, but his pseudonym meaning rascal leader) and their band of misfits who either preyed upon the rich or all folk of the Shires of Britain at the time.

The term became extremely popular after literature of the 16 and mostly 17th centuries would depict the lives, both fictional and real, of these rogues, both recent and historic at the time, by modernfolk who could read to those who could not, usually at less reputable pubs or "public houses"at the time.

In modern times, it's used primarily by geeks who play tabletop RPGs or those who have a keen interest in histoical literature. Some secretive clever groups of our society today might adopt the code for their own use in secretive deeds.
Thief A: "oi good fortune, brethren. Spot a pint for a recount of my most recent misfor-?"

Thief B: "nay, AN' HUSH! ...now see gent yonder table there in the nook? Dressed fine, he is, aye? Alone? Surly well endowed in coin an no match us? Thieves' can't."

Thief A: "Behind the pub when he goes to take the piss? We can purloin the loot and disperse, if you can muster up that pint fo'a fellow roué?"
by NegativeZEN February 24, 2021
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