Comment on "A watched pot never boils" is actually advice for keeping your pot from boiling. Because a soup boiled is a soup spoiled.

rainrain@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

It’s one of those memes that got ironically reversed. And then the ironic version got remembered by everybody and the original got forgotten.

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