Raaka-Kake
Raaka-Kake t1_j181kbc wrote
Reply to comment by Motobugs in Court ruling: High earners can't prevent media accessing their tax data. by FINCoffeeDaddy
You lose some privacy in tax info, you win some in GDPR where some petulant millionaire can’t build a private ID database to stop you from attending events with bullshit excuses.
Raaka-Kake t1_jao12dk wrote
Reply to 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
Rudolf Erich Raspe wrote Baron Munchausen in 1785, which includes the said act.