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[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago (3 children)

One more child falls for the Apple Industry propaganda once more!

[–] W_itjust_works@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago

Rotten to it's core.

[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

I blame Apple's data harvesting and ads division.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

DAMN YOU TIM APPLE!!!

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kid puts away the apple and then whips out a budgeting calendar for med school.

Nurse runs away screaming.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

More like an NCLEX study book.

[–] flicker@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not, "an apple a day keeps the doctorr away."

It's supposed to be, "an apple a day keeps the doctorr at bay."

Doctorrs are actually a type of fae creature. They hunger for your bones. But if you offer them an apple, they'll be obliged to accept, and now that they've accepted your hospitality, it would be positively gauche to eat you. And since they feast on bones, they're actually excellent at diagnosing and treating many types of ailments!

It's such a shame how much we've forgotten.

[–] halvar@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought the the Doctor was the guy with the funny telephone box. I mean I thought that he was the original one.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

.........why are you adding an extra "r" to "doctor"? Is this a British thing, where you guys just suck at English?

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The other day Duolingo told me しゃ is 'sha like in "shop"'. I don't think it's the English who suck at English.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, shap

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It's about the onion router medical professional.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

It’s their made up creature

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lifehack: An apple a day keeps anyone away if you throw it hard enough

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

God dammit. I was going to make a similar joke! But yours is better...

[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

As a nurse I thoroughly enjoyed this comic. I've already shown it to an anesthesiologist at work, and I'll make sure to pester every following MD I meet today.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Yet the nurse has tilted backward.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Apple a day keeps the doctor away. Kid tries to keep the "doctor" away so as to avoid the shot. "Doctor" is actually a nurse and would be unaffected by the apple even if the supposed saying were true

TL;DR kid tries metaphor logic on wrong entity

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 9 points 1 month ago

Aah, thanks!

[–] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Weird. It's dentist, in the UK. It didn't click that's what they were alluding to until I read your comment

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What? That doesn't make any sense! Apples are FULL of sugar!!! Oh you Brits. Always doing things backwards. I remember when I visited London, and there I am, driving like normal on the correct side of the road......and there were issues.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I suppose like all metaphors it's not a 1-1 in literal verbiage but more about the meaning it's supposed to represent.

The meaning it's supposed to represent is: Eating healthy food will keep you healthier, and help you get ill less often. You won't need medical treatment as much if you keep yourself healthy.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I wonder why they drive backwards. Is it because they had cars before standardization?

[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm in the UK, it's definitely "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" here. Maybe you just misheard as a kid?

When I was in primary school someone in my class had to get all their teeth pulled, I have no idea how someone manages to rot their teeth so badly at around 5 years old. I don't really have a point with that story, it just popped into my head and I had to share

[–] stom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Huh. I seeresults for both versions when googling, but it appears it was indeed originally doctor.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Originally it was

Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread

And apparently came from this https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/s3-IX/217/153/4476237

Lo others have cited this however it’s decades later

https://archive.org/details/rusticspeechfolk00wriguoft/page/n3/mode/2up

Both of which are UK writers, so Americans 🤢got it right

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

an apple a day keeps the pesticides in your body