A Fresher Take on the World's Biggest Lies

Written by Terry Mitchell


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(6) If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward. This is a nice little catch phrase that motivational speakers and spiritual advisors like to use, but it's not true inrepparttar real world. I know people who have been inrepparttar 125312 same job for years, just getting a cost-of-living pay increase every year. They have not improved their skills and it hasn't hurt them, despiterepparttar 125313 fact that they have been told that they would move backward in their career if they didn't. They have not moved forward, nor have they moved backward. They have just maintained their position in their career. Others just maintain their position in life and are happy to do so. We all know people like that and they are not moving backward. (7) It's for your own safety. This is a favorite of people in positions of authority, but it's generally a euphemism for "I'm in control of you." If it is truly for anyone's safety, it's more likely for that ofrepparttar 125314 person makingrepparttar 125315 statement and/or creatingrepparttar 125316 rule. For example, you've heard of people being handcuffed, locked up, or otherwise detained "for their own safety." If their safety was trulyrepparttar 125317 concern, better methods, such as assigning them a bodyguard or allowing them to stay in a highly secure facility, could be used. (8) Wrinkle-free, wrinkle resistant. Don't throw away your iron! Clothing that is supposedly wrinkle-free or wrinkle resistant will still wrinkle, just not as much so as other clothing. This will happen even if you followrepparttar 125318 garment care directions torepparttar 125319 tee. Washers, dryers, and overcrowded closets can wrinkle any material, regardless ofrepparttar 125320 label says. (9) You can cancel at any time. Really? There are always conditions placed on any cancellations. For example, most companies will not allow you to retroactively cancel last month's subscription, even though a month later technically qualifies as "any time." Also, once your subscription and/or obligation begin, don't expect any reminders aboutrepparttar 125321 fact that you can cancel. Companies will play up this "cancel at any time" feature until they've maderepparttar 125322 sale. Then there's dead silence on this issue. (10) Risk-free. So-called risk-free offers are generally made on mail-order items. The risk-free period usually lasts 30-90 days and allows consumers to send a product back for a full refund if not satisfied with it any time during that time frame. However, completely risk-free they aren't. For one thing, we all know there's some risk involved in everything, even getting out ofrepparttar 125323 bed inrepparttar 125324 morning. More specifically, doesn'trepparttar 125325 risk exist that you might accidentally damagerepparttar 125326 item before you can send it back? I doubt that you would get a full refund in that case. What if you misplace it and can't ever find it? What if you lose your receipt? What if you mail it back without insuring it and it gets lost inrepparttar 125327 mail? What if you forget to send it back beforerepparttar 125328 cutoff date? Don't those possibilities constitute risks? My point is that while those full refund offers might represent a reduced-risk method of purchase, they are certainly not risk-free. (11) Less is more. If you're a cereal maker, for example, this would be an ideal lie to propagate. Why, you are constantly decreasingrepparttar 125329 size ofrepparttar 125330 cereal box while increasingrepparttar 125331 price. Naturally, you would want people to believe something like that. Thinking they are getting more when they are actually getting less, consumers would willingly payrepparttar 125332 higher prices. Sadly, this happens every day as consumers fall for this big lie. Now, granted, less could be all you need. It could be all you want. It could even be just as satisfying. But there's no way that less could logically ever be more than or even just as much as more.

Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, freelance writer, and trivia buff from Hopewell, VA. He also serves as a political columnist for American Daily and operates his own website - http://www.commenterry.com - on which he posts commentaries on various subjects such as politics, technology, religion, health and well-being, personal finance, and sports. His commentaries offer a unique point of view that is not often found in mainstream media.




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