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by mikecane 4861 days ago
>>>Roses literally grow in shit ... but only if they eat it.

That is the best thing I have ever read.

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Mushrooms do too.

Being told by your manager, more than once, you are one just sucks when he's dead-on right and enjoying the metaphor.

Imagine that rose having its petals plucked every time it started blooming, used for compost applied years later to cultivate something which looks better than a stripped rose but much worse than a nurtured one.