what if i told you / that picking something you want, and calling it a "right", doesn't make it a right
A What if I told you / Matrix Morpheus post.
Your colleague has been scrolling a 200-page document for twenty minutes, looking for one word. You lean over, very slowly: "What if I told you about Control F." He has to go for a walk. Your flatmate has thrown away half a loaf every week for three years. You open the freezer and show her that bread goes in it. She stares as if you've handed her a red pill. Your mum asks why her phone dies by lunchtime. You show her the 37 apps she has open. She closes them one by one, like someone seeing the code behind the world. Everyone at the gym believes legs can only be trained on a Monday. What if I told you the gym is also open on Thursday. On Thursday the squat rack is empty. It always has been. **Why it caught on:** Laurence Fishburne's Morpheus in The Matrix (1999), though he never actually says "What if I told you" in the films; the image macro started on Reddit in February 2012. Everyone knows someone who needs the obvious explained slowly, in sunglasses.