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CartmansEvilTwin t1_japyw1j wrote

Reply to comment by Fake_William_Shatner in TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots. by meat-juice

And Münchhausen Syndrome is an actual mental illness. It's basically people compulsively lying about almost anything.

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Provokateur t1_jaqbc1e wrote

Specifically it's lying about having an illness in order to get attention.

Almost no compulsive lying qualifies.

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