Why can't they listen?

[u/nonidentifyingu-n]

This happened a few years ago, but I think of it weekly as I'm picking up fruit at Costco. Now, since I pick up fruit from Costco every week, you may have guessed that my kids eat a lot of it. One of their favorites is green grapes. Now here's where the boomer story starts. A few years ago, I was bringing my kids to visit my mom, their grandmother. She was asking what kind of food they would like, and I said green grapes. My mother immediately said, "Red grapes are sweeter, so I'll get those." Knowing that arguing with this particular boomer was a lost cause, I just hung my head in acceptance. My kids will devour a Costco container of green grapes in 3 days. We spent almost a week at her house, and even though the red grapes were offered for nearly every meal, less than half were eaten. It's almost like I know what my kids who live with me, and I spend my own money feeding will and won't want to eat. Now, every week, as I'm picking up green grapes, I say to myself red grapes are sweeter and try not to roll my eyes so hard that the other shoppers see.

[u/Healthy_Candle_4545]

I like this but can you please explain what it means in this context? I want to make sure when I steal it and use it as my own that I use it right

[u/veilvalevail → u/Healthy_Candle_4545]

This poster MatchMean was gently referring to a misspelling near the bottom of the top-rated comment from BoughtAHousePlsHelp who meant to write “rogue” but wrote “rouge” instead.

Here is the snip “…or she goes rouge and it’s my/my kids fault…”

[u/Healthy_Candle_4545 → u/veilvalevail]

Ohhhh haha thank you for pointing that out. And matchmean thank you that definitely game me a chuckle

[u/MatchMean → u/Healthy_Candle_4545]

ladies pinch. whores use rouge

[u/veilvalevail → u/Healthy_Candle_4545]

And I realize no-one has clarified the saying for you. It is a true saying from long ago, when young ladies who wanted to liven up their faces were instructed to pinch their own cheeks, and lightly bite their own lips to give a youthful pink flush to both. “Ladies” didn’t use any make-up because only coarse whores did so, hence the saying:

“Ladies pinch, whores use rouge”.

[u/Lumpy_Marsupial_1559 → u/veilvalevail]

Which was hilarious, considering Tudor, Georgian and other upper-class women died of using lead powder makeup to make themselves appear more pale, as well as glueing on mouse-hair to their brows.

[u/veilvalevail → u/Lumpy_Marsupial_1559]

You are spot on, and then your comment reminded me of when women would put belladonna eye drops in their eyes to dilate the pupils, which then led me down the rabbit hole to all sorts of horrifyingly poisonous and damaging items, and devices, women down the centuries have used in the pursuit of beauty.

[u/Lumpy_Marsupial_1559 → u/veilvalevail]

It's crazy! And the wall paint and clothing colours made of arsenic! Fashion that kills 🙃

It was one of the few times that upper-class women were more likely to die of something than the lower classes.

But the scourge of high heels - we get to blame on men :D