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What Say You (22)
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Cast iron pots and kettles are black
You are a pot
try putting one over a fire
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When you put a shiny pot over a fire the soot almost immediately turns it black. If you scrub the pot after each and every use you can remove the soot and make the pot shiny again, but if you don't the pot builds up a layer of soot thick enough where it is all but impossible to get off.
So a pot that isn't well maintained would become black.
Yeah the saying came from when most pots and kettles were made of cast iron. Not the copper and alluminium stuff we use today.
Oh wait... was it a reference to being black or the fact that they were no longer using saucepans/pots to heat up their water but kettles instead?
It almost looks like the kettle's the stuck-up one. Look at his turned-up spout!
Also, wow, those windows are high!
Haha! Gazared, your window comment made me laugh the most!
Haha, any surface level light coming in heats him up too much.
That... actually makes sense...
Must. Not. Make. Lame. Joke. I wonder what gets the kettle boiling.
Damn.
Where's the kettle's shiny pot wife?
Nice work, Mike!
Haha!
Yeah.. What I imagine was funny to the person who drew this was lost on me. The only way this would make sense was if the pot were black as the point of the idiom was to address the hypocrisy of condemning someone for a quality one possesses. Fail joke is fail.
The perspective is way off.
i wonder why the kettle is walking on the grass (instead of the neat path directly connecting the rear of the truck and the front door)...
Cast Iron pots or kettles are as black as cast iron skillets.
Kettle originally referred to a large 'pig/cast' iron cooking vessel meant to serve a 'host/army' (Host of biblical notion is a fighting brigade). Kettles are dark gray to black from the start. Pot is a modern cooking vessel for a household. Pots as gopher65 mentioned were made usually of shiny steel. Bad maintenance of a pot leads to near permanent blackening that can only be repaired by corroding or scouring past the original surface. What is desirable in a Kettle is unwanted in a Pot. Thus the meaning is an a example of hypocrisy. The Kettle was dark to begin with, while the pot darken with age.
who gives a shit you wikipedia retards
the pots calling the kettle black
Brilliant. I'm trawling through your archives btw
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