Your worn-out Havaianas, shoddy attempt at dreadlocks and a tan that makes you look like an extra from Geordie Shore make it abundantly clear you’ve been on holibobs.
There’s no need to harp on about it
Sure your friends will good-naturedly enjoy a story or two, but there’s a shelf life to your ‘this one time…’ stories.
So, what exactly are plandids? The word is a portmanteau of "planned" and "candid," which kinda sounds like a contradiction in terms. The idea is to post "as if you didn't know the picture was being taken, but you're still posing," according to Instagrammer Maria Gillett.
You might have heard of the "right-to-try" movement. The gist of it is: Terminally ill patients should be given wide latitude to try out unproven treatments if they have exhausted all their other options.
More than 30 states have passed a "right-to-try" bill, often favored by more libertarian-minded people, and now the Senate has too. Supporters portray it as a humanitarian exercise for people with no other hope that removes the risk of a bureaucracy getting in their way.
If you’ve never heard of the term before, “digital blackface” is used to describe various types of minstrel performance that become available in cyberspace. Blackface minstrelsy is a theatrical tradition dating back to the early 19th century, in which performers “blacken” themselves up with costume and behaviors to act as black caricatures. The performances put society’s most racist sensibilities on display and in turn fed them back to audiences to intensify these feelings and disperse them across culture. Many of our most beloved entertainment genres owe at least part of themselves to the minstrel stage, including vaudeville, film, and cartoons. While often associated with Jim Crow–era racism, the tenets of minstrel performance remain alive today in television, movies, music and, in its most advanced iteration, on the Internet.
Manager Joe Maddon made it clear it didn’t feel like a normal July game to him.
“It’s Jaugust,” Maddon said. “It’s already there. There’s no getting around it. I love it, I absolutely love it and I think our players do. It’s great. The fans were absolutely energized tonight. It’s good stuff. And of course, it’s better when we win.”
It's okay to be a refugee. You wouldn't know that if you lived in a city filled with them. But what you really don't want to be is a "ref," and you don't ever want to be caught acting "reffy." That's the slang term Miamians created to divide themselves from a certain type of Latin American newcomer who hasn't quite gotten the hang of American life yet. Even minority groups that have been traditionally oppressed and segregated in America manage to find ways to oppress and segregate amongst their own. I'm going to launch that sentence into space as a warning for any incoming armadas of aliens looking to make friends.
In other words, a person whose body weight is “normal” might have enough excess abdominal fat on his or her body to create health risks, while other people — in particular, athletes — might be technically “overweight” by standard measurements, but much healthier.
Laursen and his colleagues want everyone — doctors, nutritionists, and the rest of us — to start using a new word he says more accurately describes the problem: overfat.
But pigs suffer on an astounding scale on their way to our tables. Of the 100 million pigs annually raised for food in the United States, 97 per cent are confined to factory farms. These farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal-feeding operations) can best be described as ‘huge lagoons of pig sewage’. These farms do great environmental harm, and the pigs there endure short, miserable lives.
At this year’s Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, Bryan Fuller accepted an Achievement Award for his visionary work on shows like Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, and, more recently, American Gods. During his speech, Fuller touched on queer representation on the small screen, and how it’s changed in the course of his career. Where his current TV show recently featured a bold and erotic gay sex scene, Fuller reminded his audience of all the “het-washing,” i.e., when a homosexual character is written to be heterosexual, that had occurred on other series. The writer-producer, who is an out gay man, alluded to a Heroes season-one cast member who threatened to walk from the show if his character were revealed to be homosexual. Fuller said that despite the fact the actor was gay, he didn’t want to play a gay character.
“Hiplet is a mixture of hip-hop and ballet, but really anything that we can try to put en pointe that has, like, a groovy feeling to it,” dancer Zipporah Wilson said in a recent video. “You have to have a certain posture when you’re doing ballet. Usually, you’re up tall … pointe shoes were designed for ballet. Hiplet is different.”
Packing cubes: Inexpensive fabric containers (square or rectangular) that zip closed and fit into carry-on bags and suitcases are an efficient way to separate and organize items for multiple family members, said Rainer Jenss, the president and founder of the Family Travel Association, a trade group. “Each person gets his or her own cube so you know exactly whose stuff is whose,” he said.
Shows taking time to become good is just the way TV works. Occasionally, you’ll find a Sopranos or a Cheers or a Mary Tyler Moore Show that arrives fully-formed at the peak of its powers, but most shows are evolving organisms, where the creators need a while to figure out how to best tell their stories, use their actors, work within constraints of budget or schedule or network, etc. Patience is required to see which shows live up to their full potential and which never get there; sometimes you get a Parks and Recreation (which went from mediocre to great after its first season) or an Americans (which went from good to great during that same second year transition), but other times, you might spend a season-plus waiting for a sitcom like Up All Night to stop being somehow less than the sum of its talented parts, only for it to be canceled before that happens.
My wife dubbed the practice “hope-watching,” and I’ve done plenty of it over the years as both amateur couch potato and professional.
What about girls, you ask? Granted, this is mainly about chaps, but then so much of it is personal, and Rupert has more experience of being a gay man than he does of being anything else. And he does go to Hebden Bridge, lesbian capital of Britain, and meets some lovely women. And I learn a new word: tresbian. As in a male-to-female transgender woman who identifies as a lesbian. Rather than French – or Franglais, or even Polari possibly – for very good. Which this is.
"Amatonormativity" is a relatively new term — coined about five years ago by Elizabeth Brake, an associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University and the author of Minimizing Marriage — to capture two widely held assumptions. The first being a person who isn’t in a monogamous romantic relationship is seeking that type of relationship, and the second being a person would automatically be better off in a monogamous romantic relationship than he or she would be while single or in another type of relationship.
In a phone interview, Brake told me she modelled "amatonormativity" after the term "heteronormativity," or the belief heterosexuality is the default sexual orientation. ("Amatus" is the Latin word for "loved.") When the default assumption is that being in a committed relationship — any relationship, regardless of its quality — is prized above all else, it can leave some singles feeling singled out.
"Amatonormativity" is a relatively new term — coined about five years ago by Elizabeth Brake, an associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University and the author of Minimizing Marriage — to capture two widely held assumptions. The first being a person who isn’t in a monogamous romantic relationship is seeking that type of relationship, and the second being a person would automatically be better off in a monogamous romantic relationship than he or she would be while single or in another type of relationship.
In a phone interview, Brake told me she modelled "amatonormativity" after the term "heteronormativity," or the belief heterosexuality is the default sexual orientation. ("Amatus" is the Latin word for "loved.") When the default assumption is that being in a committed relationship — any relationship, regardless of its quality — is prized above all else, it can leave some singles feeling singled out.
While honeymoons give newlyweds a chance to relax after their wedding, more and more engaged couples are taking a vacation even before their wedding festivities begin.
Couples say the pre-wedding vacation, dubbed an “earlymoon,” gives them a chance to de-stress and reconnect before tying the knot.
When pitching their idea, Schmid and Pacetti claimed their product was the only edible cookie dough on the market made to be eaten as-is. Not anymore: Between new shops, expansions, and menu upgrades, 2017 is set to be the breakout year for edible cookie dough. Dō — based in New York City, where there is a line for everything — certainly garnered a lot of publicity during its January opening, but it wasn’t the only doughy debut of the year. In February, Tart Sweets bakery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, started selling its dough in “doughwiches” and by the scoop through its cookie dough bar, which is only open Fridays and Saturdays. Earlier this year, Yoyo Berri frozen yogurt shops in Nebraska and South Dakota started offering raw cookie dough to liven up yesterday’s snack craze. And four flavors of the stuff, served with a side of “ice milk,” will be among the newest items featured at this year’s Minnesota State Fair.
Break out your EDC ninja moves with this stylish brass Begleri. Inspired by traditional Greek worry beads, the Begleri is a popular skill toy that's kind of like nunchaku for your fingers.
Yesterday I learned a new word: sanguinarian. It’s as bad as it sounds, as I discovered in the secret vampire group, where 2,000 group members exchange resources for best ways to find willing human donors for their blood consumption and how to keep the habit a secret from their immediate circles who would never understand what it’s like to be an actual vampire. It’s an elevated life form, one that common folk could never understand. But still not hurting anyone…okay, well at least not without their consent. So what’s the problem?
And then you had some folks that were content to just ruthlessly riff on King Kong itself. Rather than imagine literally any other monster blown up to ridiculous proportions, they simply recycled the overgrown primate storyline again and again, resulting in a strange, dusty little cinematic corner that’s sheer Kongsploitation. And like any idiosyncratic genre, its offerings range from nakedly dull knock-offs to completely deranged dispatches that feel like they shouldn’t exist. Here’s five of them, and this is by no means a comprehensive list—this just happens to be the quintet I watched on a whim with Kong: Skull Island approaching. Believe it or not, there are at least five more that could comprise another list in the future.
Between Generation X and the Millennials, there’s a group of people currently in their late 20s and early 30s who don’t identify with either label. We call them the Xennials—a micro-generation that serves as a bridge between the disaffection of Gen X and the blithe optimism of Millennials. But why aren’t they as pissed off as Gen X or as confident as Millennials? Are they luckier than both the preceding and following generations? Or did they get screwed that much harder, thanks to a unique combination of developmental milestones and world events? Our authors, born on either end of the four-year-window, disagree.
Blerd, or black nerd, is a term that has gained more and more popularity in the past couple of years. Try searching for #blerd on Instagram and Twitter and you'll be flooded with tons of nerdtastic thoughts and personalities. In fact, it's likely that you'll get sucked in to some rabbit hole of randomness ... because let's face it, all of us have a bit of nerd inside of us. And so, here's a dozen Blerd accounts in Twitter that you should be following to get your daily dose of blerdiness:
The mastermind behind Strawberry Watermelon Cake, dubbed the most Instagrammed cake in the world, has now given us the gorgeous 'Glonut'.
And creator Christopher Thé has told Daily Mail Australia just how he managed to get his doughnuts to look radioactive - while still tasting delicious.
Looking for something refreshing, bubbly and not too sweet? Oh, and alcoholic? We've got just the thing: hard seltzer. Yes, your boozy LaCroix dreams have come true.
I’ll leave it to greater minds (looking at you, Dan Rather) to determine how yuge the Flynn scandal is, but one thing is certain: The Trump presidency is starting out so rocky that we’re going to need a better scandal suffix than the hoary old “-gate.”
The obvious choice? It’s “-a-lago.” As in the winter White House, Mar-a-Lago.
Amazon’s community banana stands were thought up by CEO Jeff Bezos, who thought the company could help the local community by giving out healthy food. The first stand opened on campus of the online retailer and cloud computing giant in December 2015, and it was joined by another in October 2016. More than 1.7 million bananas have been given away by the “banistas” who run the two stands, Monday through Friday.
Apart from sounding like some dirty act, ‘squillo‘ is one of the most useful words in the Italian vocabulary, in my opinion. What does it mean, you ask?! Well since there is no exact translation into English, it means, ‘call someone on his or her cellphone, let it ring 1-3 times, and then hang up.’ This will let your friend know that you have arrived at your previously agreed upon destination.
Hot weather means it’s prime time for frosty beverages, and what better way to indulge than with glasses of the still-trendy frosé (a.k.a. frozen rosé)? Take the summer-perfect wine, freeze it, and viola, it becomes even more seasonally appropriate.
From the country that brought the world fairy toast and flat whites comes another breakfast innovation: the avolatte, a latte inside of an avocado. It’s actually a latte inside of half an avocado skin, with a little bit of the flesh of the fruit still clinging to its shell.
STEEL ARENA doesn’t seem at first glance like a particularly distinguished b-movie, especially in its current form as a poorly transferred old VHS tape that’s scanned but not panned. Many scenes, including the first one, are conversations in the front seats of vehicles with one or more participants mostly cropped out of frame. I rented it because it’s one of these stuntsploitation movies I find so interesting, but this time it’s about the lives of professional stunt drivers in a road show, not in movies. Most of the stars are real drivers playing themselves and doing their own driving. STEEL ARENA is to stunt drivers as ACT OF VALOR is to Navy SEALs.
But you kindasorta accidentally consented to this treatment/scene/behavior—sortakindasorta—by "sort of" saying "no problem." You're allowed to withdraw your kindasorta consent at any time, of course, and if sex with this might-be-an-asshole guy is making you unhappy—if taking his loads and being his come dump makes you feel bad/used/unsatisfied—withdraw your consent or renegotiate your deal. If not getting to come yourself during these encounters isn't what you want going forward, HOLE, make your dissatisfaction known and your satisfaction a requirement.
Far-right groups develop techniques of “attention hacking” to increase the visibility of their ideas through the strategic use of social media, memes, and bots—as well as by targeting journalists, bloggers, and influencers to help spread content.
In recent weeks, the knives have come out for so-called “prestige TV,” the high-toned cable and streaming dramas that drive so much discussion on the internet and earn so much attention from the media.
More famous for populating Wild West gangs, superhero movies and the New York subway, vigilantes are now found in all corners of professional life, a new survey has found. Over the course of their careers, more than half the people surveyed had experienced at least one “Dark Knight employee”, as researchers dubbed them, while 18% said they still worked with one.
An ACE score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. According to the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, the rougher your childhood, the higher your score is likely to be and the higher your risk for later health problems.
If you don’t have kids, you’ve probably never heard of the fidget spinner. But if you do, you may have recently been dragged to a toy store or 7-Eleven to purchase this latest must-have gadget.
Fidget spinners, made from plastic or metal with a bearing in the center and several prongs that can spin around it, are intended for mindless play while working or sitting in class.
Definition: A brewpub that’s also a distillery. Not vice versa; that would a disery.
Sample usage: “Bro, we can probably get like a pail of whiskey at that new brewstillery.”
Popularity: It makes sense in context; otherwise it sounds like a word for inebriated shenanigans. “All right, you two,” the policeman said, “cut out the brewstillery.”
We've been sleeping with another couple for three months (first time my BF and I opened our relationship). How do I suggest full penetration with the opposite partner? At this point, we just do oral and that's the "groove" we're in.
Only-oral-with-others may be this couple's preferred groove and the lane they want to stay in. If they're only up for the "soft swap," as it's known in swinging circles, penetration isn't gonna happen. But you should feel free to ask for what you want—at the very least, you'll get some long-overdue clarity about their boundaries.
Although it shares a name with the same stuff used to get bread to rise, nutritional yeast is a deactivated form of yeast. So it’s not a leavening agent and it won’t froth when it hits liquid. And because it is not derived from animal or wheat products, it’s considered vegan and it’s also gluten-free. You’ll find it in both powder and flake forms, in bulk bins of health food stores and in shaker bottles. And as for the less-than-fun name, the vegan blogosphere has taken care of that by nicknaming the stuff “nooch.”
The proliferation of half-vacant shopping centers and abandoned malls on the fringes of cities has become such a pervasive problem that we have a new word for it: greyfields. Chances are you have a few in your community: acres of paved parking with weeds creeping through the cracks and a dilapidated big-box structure standing in the middle. They’re the increasingly hard-to-ignore manifestation of what’s often described as the retail meltdown. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the retail sector lost approximately 30,000 jobs in March alone, with thousands of store closings projected through 2017. At this pace, store closings in 2017 are likely to surpass the Great Recession year of 2008.
The reality is that, stripped of its trendy new name, "stealthing" is a common form of domestic violence, which is typically called "reproductive coercion." It includes, not just removing or sabotaging condoms, but a wide array of tactics intended to sabotage birth control or render it unavailable. "Reproductive coercion" cases are hard to take to court—either because the laws don't exist, or because the cases are difficult to prove—but it's still regarded as unambiguously abusive. It's also common: In 2010, the National Domestic Violence Hotline surveyed 3,169 women, and found that a quarter of them had been ordered not to use birth control. In another survey, 16 percent of women reported that their partners "poked holes in condoms, hid birth-control pills, or threatened them if the women didn't get pregnant."
But, though "sex trend" coverage is always obnoxious, it becomes downright dangerous when it obscures and trivializes sexual violence. The latest instance: "stealthing," a practice in which men remove their condoms during sex without their partner's consent. It's drawn plenty of overheated coverage already: The New York Post dubs it "The New Dangerous Sex Trend;" it's a "Disturbing Sex Trend" as per USA Today. You would hardly know from these headlines what the fuss is about: National Women's Law Center fellow Alexandra Brodsky's recent paper in the Columbia Journal of Law and Gender advocates for criminalizing "stealthing" as a form of sexual assault.
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
Netflix dropped the first trailer for its new comedy series Dear White People today, and already broflakes (what I’ve decided to call MAGA hat-wearing dudes who complain about “snowflakes” but are themselves overly sensitive) are cancelling their accounts.
For those of you not fluent in It Tints: Millennial pink is the pale, blush-peach-salmon-baby pink hue that's on everything from home goods to tote bags. It's also known as Tumblr Pink or Rose Quartz. We were warned to expect it in fall 2015, when Pantone decreed it to be one of the colors of the year for 2016.
For those of you not fluent in It Tints: Millennial pink is the pale, blush-peach-salmon-baby pink hue that's on everything from home goods to tote bags. It's also known as Tumblr Pink or Rose Quartz. We were warned to expect it in fall 2015, when Pantone decreed it to be one of the colors of the year for 2016.
And Pantone's color forecasters looked like geniuses when it broke out big. According to color forecasters, this pink was the right hue at the right time: the muted tone reflects "society's understanding of femininity ... changing the way people think about the female experience."
As a result of its timeliness, millennial pink is the icy hue that refuses to go away in 2017 -- it's selling bigger than anything in green, which was supposed to be the It Color for 2017, a sort of "Well, that was a crazy year! Aren't we all glad we're chill and into saving the environment now?" palate cleanser after society had finished wrestling with questions of how we define gender.
Now, femmephobia is the fear or hatred of all people and things which are perceived as femme, feminine, effeminate, and/or twink, regardless of their gender.
A direct result of femmephobia is the oppression of anyone (men, women, and other genders) whose gender presentation is in any way classified as being on the feminine end of the gender binary, due to their clothing, behavior, or mannerisms.
While every day is a different crisis in ‘’SATAFRIKA,’’ the world of memes keeps on growing into a no-chill zone that finds humour in everything and everyone. Whether you are Jacob Zuma, Malusi Gigaba or Unathi Msengana, when it is time for social media to roast and meme-fy you afterwards, your status or money won’t be able to save you!
The future of American fintech may hang in the balance of a pitched battle that has grown in intensity over the past four months. An obscure request for comments on regulatory standards, released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) last March, has since evolved into a complex turf war between the states and Washington, DC.
Caught in the middle is the entire online finance industry, raising the question of just what a “fintech” business really is. Though it hasn’t made many national headlines, this fight may determine the future of innovation, competition and survival in the fintech world.
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
Mukbang is a portmanteau word that combines the Korean word for “eat” (muok-da) with the word for “broadcast” (bang song). The top mukbang earners can earn as much as $10,000 a month by some accounts, not including sponsorships. The oddest part of their payment structure is that it’s not pay-per-view, ad-based, or salary-based. Rather, ordinary viewers voluntarily send their favorite BJs (which stands for Broadcasting Jockey, a uniquely Korean use of this acronym) money in the form of “star balloons”—a type of proprietary virtual currency that can be bought and sold with regular fiat cash.
I am frequently asked why Koreans are so weird. Just as soon as I think I have an answer, some new trend materializes that subverts all previous theories. Take, for example, mukbang, a uniquely Korean trend of people getting paid to eat large meals in front of a webcam for a live-streaming broadcast. Wow, the future really is now.
Mukbang is a portmanteau word that combines the Korean word for “eat” (muok-da) with the word for “broadcast” (bang song). The top mukbang earners can earn as much as $10,000 a month by some accounts, not including sponsorships. The oddest part of their payment structure is that it’s not pay-per-view, ad-based, or salary-based. Rather, ordinary viewers voluntarily send their favorite BJs (which stands for Broadcasting Jockey, a uniquely Korean use of this acronym) money in the form of “star balloons”—a type of proprietary virtual currency that can be bought and sold with regular fiat cash.
Why not just say “white people?” Again, because Black people are cool as fuck. Also, just because the terms are derivatives of each other, doesn’t mean they are the same thing. Wypipo are different from White People.
Do tell. How so? Well, first of all, Wypipo say shit like “do tell,” whereas there are a number of white people who would never utter that phrase. To understand fully, you must come to terms with one fact:
Not all white people are wypipo.
The two should not be confused or used interchangeably.
The boys attached an 8-inch piece of PVC pipe to the front of their SeaPerch that was capable of picking up rings in obstacle course and challenge course events.
They also drilled a number of holes in their SeaPerch, and in the process coined a new word — "flinking."
"It means floating but not sinking," Ben explained.
Scroll through the images tagged #vanlife on Instagram and you’ll see plenty of photos that don’t have much to do with vehicles: starry skies, campfires, women in leggings doing yoga by the ocean. Like the best marketing terms, “vanlife” is both highly specific and expansive. It’s a one-word life-style signifier that has come to evoke a number of contemporary trends: a renewed interest in the American road trip, a culture of hippie-inflected outdoorsiness, and a life free from the tyranny of a nine-to-five office job.
9:02 p.m. "Chella, how you doing? We've missed you. We do not have the words to say how happy we are to be here," Oliver Sim of The XX first addresses the crowd after a few songs. During the hour-long set, the English band kept mostly to the tunes, adding simple, yet sincere commentary like Romy Croft's admitting that she was "a bit nervous." Yet, one of the most stand-out parts of their show was when Croft took the mic for a solo performance of, fittingly, "Performance." — Taylor Weatherby
If eyes are the windows to the soul, then apparently nothing makes me feel more glamorous than HIDING my soul behind cheap sunglasses. I have been known to call sunnies season selfie season because once I have the right pair, I become incapable of NOT taking pictures of myself in them literally every second. The pair featured in all but one of these pictures is the pair of sunglasses I have been looking for since my Entirely Cliche Holly Golightly Obsession at 14, and they can be had on Amazon for just $9.99! I Which is very important, because the only thing I do more often than take selfies of my sunnies is lose them.
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
Their latest track ‘Lifetimes’ is a hip-hop flavoured number, inspired by seeing Drake live. It even has Anthony doing a spot of rapping or, as he puts it, doing a “pathetic white-boy rap.” He’s being very harsh on himself. It’s also a track centred on climate change, and the pair think they invented a new word in the process of writing it: “climaphobe.” “Is it a word?” Anthony asks. Josephine is straight on to Google. Apparently “climacophobia” is the fear of climbing, but there’s no such thing as a “climaphobe.” Yet.
Desert Cove is a relatively affluent school — only 32.1 percent of the students there qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. So it's easy to imagine that singling out students whose account balances are low could be a traumatizing experience for them.
"Lunch shaming" can lead students to skip meals altogether, one Houston-based nonprofit found.
Computer analysis discourages risk-taking; humans tend to have a psychological resistance to retreating, whereas algorithms don’t even possess the concept of “backwards.” As we learn from these machines, we also adopt their tendencies. The term “computer moves,” when it isn’t simply an accusation of foul play, is often used to denote moves that are far-sighted and counterintuitive. I’ve also seen it used to refer to moves that are tedious, uninspired, or oppressively safe. There seems to be a tinge of old-man nostalgia to this attitude: Sure, the kids these days can beat us, but where’s their sense of style?
Powell’s Pottery Barn rule—“you break it, you own it”—is one of the iconic rhetorical flourishes of the Iraq War era, representing warnings ignored and unintended consequences unleashed. It turns out that the Pottery Barn rule is neither Powell’s nor Pottery Barn’s, as the following exchange with interviewer Walter Isaacson made clear.
Scientists have discovered a link between happiness and short naps. And they have coined a new word to describe the contented state that follows a brief daytime doze: nappiness.
And I’m talking about AFAB (Assigned Female At Birth) and AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) people, never mind transgender folks. And when you add intersex people into the mix, there isn’t even a reliable or easily identifiable binary when referring to “biological sex.”
And I’m talking about AFAB (Assigned Female At Birth) and AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) people, never mind transgender folks. And when you add intersex people into the mix, there isn’t even a reliable or easily identifiable binary when referring to “biological sex.”
But Agrawal is just the latest in a string of female company founders and CEOs, from Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso to Arianna Huffington and Ivanka Trump, whose business practices don’t entirely match the narrative of empowerment (or “fempowerment”) that they put forth publicly. And all these stories raise the question: Is it possible to be a committed feminist and a committed capitalist at the same time? And why are we still so surprised when these women — who have built brands on saying the things we want to hear — turn out to be just as flawed as their male peers?
One of my special skills is identifying and remediating shameholes. I wish I had taken an "after" photo of this under-desk nook, because it is now a thing of beauty. Nearly every library has a space that looks like this. I also cleaned out the closet.
For my book Nabokov’s Favourite Word Is Mauve, I created a computer program to sort through thousands of books by the most revered and popular authors to find out their “cinnamon words” – relatively rare words that a particular writer uses often. Obviously every author used function words such as “the” and “from” at a high rate, and basic adjectives like “big” or “fast”, but cinnamon words are the words that each author uses disproportionately compared with other writers.
Frost moved to New York City in 2013 to play in a punk band and write music reviews, blogging for the website Dangerous Minds. But she turned to political Twitter and to writing research-driven criticism for Jacobin and other publications, working for the Democratic Socialists of America as secretary for a time. An empty room opened in her Bed-Stuy apartment, and Felix Biederman, who went on to cofound Chapo Trap House, moved in. Frost became a regular podcast guest. In a tweet, she coined the moniker “Dirtbag Left” to describe her crew, a piquant alternative to James Wolcott’s.
In a recent column for Vanity Fair, the writer James Wolcott lumped many of these types of publications and their writers under the label “alt-left,” joining them to the Trumpian alt-right under the banner of their mutual discontent with Obama and Clinton, as well as what he called a desire for a “climactic reckoning.” “They’re not kissin’ cousins,” Wolcott wrote, “but they caterwaul some of the same tunes in different keys.”
Puppies need time to settle into their new home and bond with their owners. They've probably just been taken from their mothers and introduced to a brand new environment, so there's likely to be a lot of crying. And that's before you can even think about house-training.
As it turns out, some companies sympathise with this transition and offer what's known as "pawternity leave." In fact, research from Petplan found that 5% of owners have been offered paid leave from their job to adjust to their pet owning duties.
Curvespo inspires women to embrace their curves. Most of the pages I viewed showed healthy, curvy women. Although there is the alternative which showcases extremely obese women who are aiming to weigh over 500lbs. I would call that more of a fetish lifestyle, and not the purpose of Curvespo.
When we think of digital, we rarely think of brownfields, those large organisations that predate the Internet. We usually think of Amazon, or Uber, or Netflix: companies with digital at their core, which grew to take advantage of it. That makes sense, in a way. As a rule, brownfields have over time accumulated established ways of doing things, and often a large and change-resistant bureaucracy.
Agrawal, who responded to initial reports that she was out as CEO by saying she remained the “SHE-eo,” wrote a post on Medium to address the Racked and Jezebel stories: “MY THINX RIDE” is “a personal statement from me, Miki, as a human being, not as a representative of THINX,” in which she explains that she “was maniacally focused on top and bottom line growth and on our mission to break the taboo … Like any Co-Founder/CEO, all I did was the best I could under these crazy circumstances. Yes, I have made a TON of mistakes along the way but I can proudly say that our company has grown from an idea in my head to an innovation that is worn by millions of satisfied women globally in a few short years.”
They say this could threaten the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 which will take place across a large geographical area. In their view it poses a greater threat to these future games, than dirty air did to the summer games in 2008.
"Had the Chinese government not reduced emissions as much as they did in the last four years we would have seen the same or worse airpocalypse events," said Prof Wang.
Are you Joe Public? One of America’s more than 94 million permanently unemployed? A doctor, truck driver, or other worker at risk of technological unemployment? Then you, Joe, had best learn a new word: Democide.
What’s “democide?” It’s the killing of people by a government most often based on their socioeconomic status.
Tech nerds are now landing highly desirable actresses and models, and the Sun says a new word (maybe more a British term) has sprung up to describe these celebrity females who hook up with these men. These tech wives and girlfriends are called “twags.”
Being a twag is a “thing,” judging by the fact that there are a number of high-profile “twags” out there, as the Sun outlines.
Probably most high profile twag is Miranda Kerr, the Australian Victoria’s Secret model and ex-wife of Orlando Bloom. She’s engaged to Evan Spiegel, the 26-year-old billionaire founder of the Snapchat mobile app.
The "sheconomy" appeared as a new word in China in 2007 and refers to the new economy resulting from a rise in female consumers.
Over the past 10 years, the sheconomy has played significant role in boosting China's consumer market in sectors such as e-commerce, tourism, medical cosmetology as well as vocational education.
The retail location serves Anchorhead's coffee, from espresso to bottled and cold brew on draft, plus beer and wine in the evenings. In the morning, look for pastries from Salmon Berry Goods that are baked in-house: sausage-fennel scones, bacon biscuits, cardamom buns. There's also a "quaffle," baked to order, which is constructed of a croissant dough that's rolled like a cinnamon roll, smashed on the waffle iron, and served with maple syrup.
I’m intrigued a little by The Visit, though, and might end up watching it after all because I love gransploitation movies. It’s a pretty small sub-niche of horror involving sinister grannies and grandpas, usually as a joke but not always. They make for some scary flicks sometimes because the specter of aging and death is always terrifying to a young audience. Throw in a few witch metaphors and you have yourself a horror movie.
The 1962 Robert Aldrich film “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” reinvigorated Crawford’s career, along with that of Davis, her co-star. It also spawned the dubious “hagsploitation” genre, which is exactly what the word conjures. There is a visceral thrill in watching these aged divas and older cinematic titans hash it out in horror rather than be regulated to playing bloodless, supporting roles far beneath their talents. Films like “Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte” (1964), starring Davis and Olivia de Havilland (in a role originally meant for Crawford) let these actresses form fascinating roles, and often disregard the rigorous expectations of beauty in order to deconstruct their own images in a metatextual manner. But the films in this genre often look down upon the leading characters rather than empathizing with them. In the last few years of Crawford’s career we see this strain of pure Grand Guignol. In films like 1964’s “Strait-Jacket” and 1970’s “Trog” (her final screen appearance), Crawford is positioned as a punchline.
The concept of blending a restaurant experience with the grocery experience has been around for decades, according to self-described “supermarket guru” and food service analyst Phil Lempert. But the changing perspectives millennials and generation Z-ers have toward food and shopping are pushing more supermarkets to make their stores feel more like experiential food destinations than mere shopping markets. Analysts like Lempert predict that these “grocerants” will become the new standard for grocery stores in the more health-conscience future.
Police said in a Facebook post that boogeling is the act of going out at night and looking for unlocked cars or garages to enter and steal from. Police also said that they knew what boogeling was, they just didn’t know it had a name.
Layton Police Sergeant Clint Brobowski told Fox 13 that the “boogelers” entered the homes through unlocked doors and even through unsecured doggy doors.
Police said in a Facebook post that boogeling is the act of going out at night and looking for unlocked cars or garages to enter and steal from. Police also said that they knew what boogeling was, they just didn’t know it had a name.
Layton Police Sergeant Clint Brobowski told Fox 13 that the “boogelers” entered the homes through unlocked doors and even through unsecured doggy doors.
Enter the perfect winter pastel: Blorange, which is—you guessed it—blonde + orange. Created by the empress of crazy AF hair colors, Bleach London's Alex Brownsell, her test subject was none other than Georgia May Jagger who has become her dye-job guinea pig of sorts.
So-called 'gen real' (that’s generation Z to the unacquainted) currently constitutes 35% of the world’s population and will soon make up four in every 10 consumers in the world’s largest markets.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What the H?! No, any manager who isn’t a complete and utter glassbowl is not going to start feeling that FMLA is being abused if the employee who has properly requested it actually uses it.
I have been reminded of Roger Boisjoly recently as I see our current President-Elect crossing some ethical lines that others have not crossed in the past and I worry that we are taking baby steps in a very dangerous direction. I fear that instead of choosing the next President of the United States (POTUS), the electoral college is about to vote for a man who could become known as SCROTUS - Supremely Corruptible Ruler of the United States.
Sarah was open about what she viewed as the most dangerous aspect of the pro-anorexia subculture: "meanspo." You might've heard the term "thinspo" -- people posting pictures of incredibly skinny models, celebrities, etc., as inspiration to keep up with their weight loss. Meanspo is its even uglier cousin: Users can request to have someone basically shit-talk them into keeping their diet:
Forget the thigh gap; there's a new, pretty much impossible fitness standard sweeping the world (or, um, Instagram). It's the ab crack. Picture every swimsuit model you can, or Bella Hadid and Jasmine Tookes. Do they have a line going down their abs? That's an ab crack.
You can be asexual even if you've had sex. I know, it sounds strange, but having sex doesn't mean you can't be asexual. Some aces are curious. Some aces think it's what they're supposed to do. And some aces even like it.
It just so happens, NOHUMP, that plenty of asexuals (aka "aces"), identified as L, G, or B before realizing they were more of an A. Julia Sondra Decker, asexuality activist and author of The Invisible Orientation, gives some context:
The timing is right to drop the name Washington. Washington, D.C. has plans to steal it. Plus, we couldn’t very well be named after an American president if we become Canadians. What about the name that was almost ours, Columbia? British Columbia might have something to say about that name — as they might South British Columbia. We could become the province of Cascadia or Calicadia.
As a middlescent you are living through a time of growth and change—you may complain to one another that your body is morphing -it takes more time, energy and attention to cultivate your vitality. You know you aren’t young anymore and you also aren’t old in any way shape or form. Your relationships will certainly be shifting...sound anything like the life stage of your daughters—adolescence?
No surprise. The stage you are in, Middlescence, may be best understood as something akin to a second adolescence, but with wisdom. Between the ages of about 45-65, middlescence is marked by an increased ambition to find or create meaning in your life. Often accompanied by physical, social and economic changes, it is a turning point from which you continue to develop and grow—yes there is so much life to be had and learning to come!
As a middlescent you are living through a time of growth and change—you may complain to one another that your body is morphing -it takes more time, energy and attention to cultivate your vitality. You know you aren’t young anymore and you also aren’t old in any way shape or form. Your relationships will certainly be shifting...sound anything like the life stage of your daughters—adolescence?
No surprise. The stage you are in, Middlescence, may be best understood as something akin to a second adolescence, but with wisdom. Between the ages of about 45-65, middlescence is marked by an increased ambition to find or create meaning in your life. Often accompanied by physical, social and economic changes, it is a turning point from which you continue to develop and grow—yes there is so much life to be had and learning to come!
You may be wondering, what the heck is a “finsta”? No, it’s not the latest new app. Finsta refers to a fake Instagram account. Just add “F” to “Instagram” for “Finstagram” and shorten that to “Finsta”.
A finsta is a second Instagram account used for sharing with a smaller circle of followers. A finsta is usually a private Instagram account. While a teen’s primary account might also be private, a finsta is for close friends only. Only your BFF’s, your baes. (I can imagine my teen daughter cringing as she reads this – if she reads this!)
Appearing at the TCAs, Witherspoon got candid about Hollywood's so-called "Smurfette Syndrome," wherein she was frequently the sole woman in the room. "For 25 years, I've been the only woman on set, so I had no other women to talk to ... They call it 'Smurfette Syndrome.' Because she's got a hundred Smurfs around her and she's the only girl," she explained.
That’s how I’d describe 2016’s purest film heroes. This year, we cemented a new genre: the docbuster, which regales audiences with brave tales of real-life modern men. Docbusters first bleeped on the radar when Lone Survivor and American Sniper were shock hits. This year, we had four: Sully, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day, two of which reteamed Lone Survivor star Mark Wahlberg with Lone Survivor director Peter Berg, and all of which took recent-ish headlines and simplified them, and their idealized saviors, into a satisfying adventure where the good guys win—or, at least, make it clear who’s to blame. Docbusters are strangely soothing bedtime stories that whisper yes, the world is cruel and dangerous, but everything’s going to be OK if a competent white man is in charge.
Honestly, though, the specifics of Flaked are less curious to me than the larger trend of which Flaked is a part. These shows—which the Transparent writers have dubbed “traumedies”—are, as Rosenberg says, what pass for prestige in the world of comedy these days. Why then are they so sporadically comedic? I do not mean these shows aren’t sometimes funny, though they are more often “funny.” But they are distinct from sitcoms in that their relationship to humor is at will. Sometimes they will try to be funny, and more often they will not. (This is why I have not lumped You’re the Worst or Master of None in with this trend, though they abut it. Both of those shows contain jokes.)
That addiction lasted a long time too. When I worked on Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor album at Warner Bros. Records in 2005, I obsessed over her song “Hung Up,” which I recognized contained a sample of ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” I risked mesothelioma in some dank basement in Brooklyn to find their single “The King Has Lost His Crown” because “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” was the B-side. Keep in mind I didn’t own a turntable until five years after I started cratedigging because I wanted a “collection” first. I was constantly on the chase to acquire; lifting the needle to hear my discoveries was ancillary. That’s my story, and every cratedigger has one.
That addiction lasted a long time too. When I worked on Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor album at Warner Bros. Records in 2005, I obsessed over her song “Hung Up,” which I recognized contained a sample of ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” I risked mesothelioma in some dank basement in Brooklyn to find their single “The King Has Lost His Crown” because “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” was the B-side. Keep in mind I didn’t own a turntable until five years after I started cratedigging because I wanted a “collection” first. I was constantly on the chase to acquire; lifting the needle to hear my discoveries was ancillary. That’s my story, and every cratedigger has one.
Digging crates is an art. It demands practice, knowledge and commitment. You need patience and the eye of a hawk to spot the good stuff. Fear not, grasshopper, I’m here to guide you on your crate digging adventures so you can find all the treasures you desire for your record collection.
To aid with the anthropological project, The New York Times recently was kind enough to provide befuddled liberals with a reading list to explain the trumpenproletariat.
Many people have referred to a recently coined term “thanksliving” in both secular and sacred ways. With the Thanksgiving holiday recently passed, now would be a good time to examine our everyday lives to see if they reflect an attitude of gratefulness to our Creator. Second Timothy 3:2-5 recites a lengthy list of common sins that will characterize mankind in the end times. We find “ungrateful” (unthankful) in the list.
What you want is a way to eat leftovers that gives you all the flavor of Thanksgiving with a minimum of muss and fuss. Reader, I have the solution: the Thanksgiving leftovurrito.
The Smithsonian’s brand-new, long-gestating National Museum of African American History and Culture opened two weekends ago to enormous lines, a swell of starry, prominent Americans and a poignant speech by the president. We both visited in the first weeks and were overwhelmed by the magnitude of the space itself and the story that the museum — the Blacksonian, if you will (and, boy, will we!) — tells about the founding and development of this country.
So I’d like to also propose the idea of an impending new epoch – the Trumpocene – that in the spirit of the era itself is based solely on a few thoughts held loosely together with hyperlinks and a general feeling of malaise.
In the Trumpocene, the epoch-defining impacts of climate change are nothing more than a conspiracy. Even if these impacts are real, then they’re probably good for us.
Across the Western world, the traditional left is in crisis. In Germany, support for the Social Democratic Party, once a cornerstone of mainstream politics that led six postwar governments, has fallen below 20 percent. In France, François Hollande’s approval ratings recently reached a mind-boggling low of 4 percent, while the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party has seen its support drop by almost half in less than a decade. The decline of Pasok, Greece’s main social-democratic party, which fell from winning elections to ratings of under 5 percent in less than a decade, was so rapid that it spawned a new word, “Pasokification,” for the collapse of traditional center-left parties. Even in Scandinavia, once-invincible parties of social democracy have been hit by increasingly disaffected voters, as right-wing populists stoke anxiety about immigration and its impact on the welfare state.
Acknowledging many voters were rebelling against a system they felt had failed them, Jones said there were ugly racial sentiments at work as well.
"This was a whitelash against a changing country," Jones said. "It was whitelash against a black president in part. And that's the part where the pain comes."
Paul's been posting freakomendations, which are "unusual recommendations" (that's a bit of an understatement given your examples, Paul!)
John Scalzi posted that Amazon's recommender suggested that he might like The Last Colony, a book he wrote!
This is not necessarily a freakomendation, because it seems pretty likely that John would read books that the people who read The Last Colony had read, and by that measure the Amazon recommender worked pretty well. But, as you can see from the comments for that postings, doing things like this calls the quality of all of the recommendations into question. This is probably unfair to Amazon's recommender, but that's what you're (which is to say "we're") up against when building recommender systems.
The "chef kiss" is the standard online reaction to any #content with such strong pleasing or horrifying characteristics that it is delicious. It could be a legitimately funny news headline, or it could be the absolute mess of bad politics, internet harassment, racism, and dead celebrities that is the year two-thousand-sixteen.
The list of demands ends with a lengthy denunciation of WWU’s marginalization of “hxstorically oppressed students.” The misspelling is intentional: “hxstory,” I presume, was judged to be more PC than “history,” which is gendered, triggering, and perhaps violent. It’s easy for me to laugh at these clumsy attempts to make language obey the dictates of political correctness—but I laugh from a position of relative safety, since I am not a WWU professor.
An investigation by The Atlantic has revealed that this is an exceedingly normal behavior. A 2013 study by the American Psychological Association found that more than half of all workers surveyed checked their work messages, including texts, emails, and voicemails, from smartphones or other home devices. A 2014 survey by Gallup found that nearly 80 percent of respondents view the ability to continue working from home in a “strongly positive” or “somewhat positive” light. In fact, this tendency has become so widespread that, by 2014, researchers had coined a new word to describe the stress it causes: telepressure. Whether employees check their email from home is likely to vary depending on the nature of their job. Abedin’s work—that of an elite political professional—is certainly the kind that typically necessitates lots of emailing, at any time, from anywhere.
South Dakota's general election next week marks a turning point in the state's history. The term "inpa" becomes a must-know expression in our political language.
Inpa is short for Independent/No Party Affiliation. South Dakota heads into the Nov. 8 election with record numbers of inpa and Republican registered voters.
While plastic surgeons and oncologists aggressively promote breast reconstruction as a way for women to “feel whole again,” some doctors say they are beginning to see resistance to the surgery. Patients like Ms. Bowers are choosing to defy medical advice and social convention and remain breastless after breast cancer. They even have a name for the decision to skip reconstruction: They call it “going flat.”
Entrepreneurship, a.k.a. quitting our perfectly stable traditional jobs with a steady paycheck and benefits to be our own boss, is rampant in the millennial generation. There’s even a new word for us: millennipreneurs.
The chasm that opened first was intellectual: The neocon movement, which was, in essence, the brain trust of the latter Bush, “has broken off,” Berkowitz said. The next fissure appears to be generational: The so-called reformicons—a priesthood of intellectual Gen X-ers who have been trying to recalibrate Reagan’s vision for the conditions of the 21st century—are at the very heart of the agonized intraparty conflict. On one hand, they’ve often been seen as the potential ideological future of the party. On the other, a resoundingly loud majority of their electorate, the very people for whom they were tending the flame, have roundly rejected their vision.
I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.
I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.
When the UK voted to leave the European Union, and the luminaries of the Leave campaign abandoned their responsibilities like rats from a tired metaphor, the people who voted Remain began to experience a curious emotion. An emotion which had until then been nameless.
The word that has been coined to describe this feeling is:
“The Dutch Reach is a practice where instead of using your near hand — usually the driver’s left hand — to open your car door, you use your far hand. Your right hand,” Charney told The World. “In doing that, you automatically swivel your body. And you position your head and shoulders so you are looking directly out. First, past the rearview mirror. And then, you are very easily able to look back and see if there are oncoming bicycles or cars or whatever.”
But as studios attempted to rework the romantic comedy, a new genre emerged. Call it the Comedy of Unplanned Pregnancy. The Oops, I had a baby! movie. The momcom. Classic romcoms, and the screwball comedies that came before them, presented love as a battle of the sexes that was also a battle of wits. Men and women sparred verbally until they negotiated a kind of marriage contract they both could agree upon. The audience, meanwhile, got to participate vicariously in this public debate about how a relationship should be. In contemporary momcoms, though, love can only happen by chance. An independent career woman accidentally gets pregnant, which leads to the formation of a couple that would never have formed otherwise.
While it doesn't quite roll off the tongue the way "cronut" does, and isn't as photogenic as the rainbow bagel, the mufgel is the new hybrid pastry on the block. The mufgel is part bagel, part muffin and is the Franken-carb du jour at Williamsburg's The Bagel Store, the world's most viral bagel purveyor.
Well folks, there’s a new sheriff in town, and its name is “chork.” This Frankenstein’s monster of hybrid cutlery features a fork on one end and chopsticks on the other. It’s a perfect solution for the many Americans who start their meal with chopsticks, get frustrated halfway through, and ditch them for a fork.
So what's so good about a Sonoran dog? Mesquite-smoked bacon elevates a humble hot dog from ho hum to mouth watering. The smoky southwest flavor is nestled in a fresh bolillo roll that creates a soft little boat for the dog. Then you load that sucker up with all sorts of toppings to taste, as each hot dog cart has its own special flair. Or stick with the original when the hotdoguero asks, "Con todo?" Pinto beans, tomatoes, onions, and mayo. Why mess with perfection?
The vendor, referred to as the hotdoguero loads the hot dog onto a bun and passes it to the customer to garnish with a wide variety of sauces. Ketchup, mustard and mayo are standard, along with salsa verde and aji, an Ecuadorian hot sauce that's made with red chiles, onion, lime, cilantro and tamarillo (a slightly sweet, tangy fruit native to South America).
Not so for many young women. Some end up with what SA brands a “Splenda daddy” (a well-meaning man lacking the means to be a real daddy) or a “salt daddy” (a manipulative fuck, or worse), like the man my friend Laura met.
Not so for many young women. Some end up with what SA brands a “Splenda daddy” (a well-meaning man lacking the means to be a real daddy) or a “salt daddy” (a manipulative fuck, or worse), like the man my friend Laura met.
Greg Algie, co-owner of the Fainting Goat, a popular Washington first-date destination, has witnessed more than one Tinderella arrive, get a glimpse of the person they’re supposed to meet — and head right back out the door.
In the 1980s, researchers discovered a whale skull in West Greenland that looked suspiciously like a beluga-narwhal mashup. Since then, hunters have spotted the hybrid creatures in chilly Arctic waters. Apparently, beluga whales and narwhals produce offspring with big, burly heads — but, sadly, no tusks. (We drew one in anyway.)
While belwhal is a worthwhile contender, narluga is hard to beat. It captures the distinctive sounds of both animals’ names — the nar- of narwhal and the -luga of beluga — and sounds pretty mellifluous to boot. Try it yourself: Narluuuuuuuuga!
In the 1980s, researchers discovered a whale skull in West Greenland that looked suspiciously like a beluga-narwhal mashup. Since then, hunters have spotted the hybrid creatures in chilly Arctic waters. Apparently, beluga whales and narwhals produce offspring with big, burly heads — but, sadly, no tusks. (We drew one in anyway.)
While belwhal is a worthwhile contender, narluga is hard to beat. It captures the distinctive sounds of both animals’ names — the nar- of narwhal and the -luga of beluga — and sounds pretty mellifluous to boot. Try it yourself: Narluuuuuuuuga!
Many names have cropped up over the years: pizzly-grizzly, polargrizz, and nanulak (a combination of the Inuit nanuk, polar bear, and aklak, grizzly bear). But recent headlines show pizzly vs. grolar is where the debate lies today. Though pizzly is pretty fun, Google Trends shows grolar is currently winning the popularity prize.
Many names have cropped up over the years: pizzly-grizzly, polargrizz, and nanulak (a combination of the Inuit nanuk, polar bear, and aklak, grizzly bear). But recent headlines show pizzly vs. grolar is where the debate lies today. Though pizzly is pretty fun, Google Trends shows grolar is currently winning the popularity prize.
Many names have cropped up over the years: pizzly-grizzly, polargrizz, and nanulak (a combination of the Inuit nanuk, polar bear, and aklak, grizzly bear). But recent headlines show pizzly vs. grolar is where the debate lies today. Though pizzly is pretty fun, Google Trends shows grolar is currently winning the popularity prize.
Climate change is one strange matchmaker. Warmer temperatures have led to shifting habitats and shifting mating habits. And occasionally, when two bears collide, the result is neither grizzly nor polar, but pizzly.
Climate change is one strange matchmaker. Warmer temperatures have led to shifting habitats and shifting mating habits. And occasionally, when two bears collide, the result is neither grizzly nor polar, but pizzly.
Mathwashing can be thought of using math terms (algorithm, model, etc.) to paper over a more subjective reality. For example, a lot of people believed Facebook was using an unbiased algorithm to determine its trending topics, even if Facebook had previously admitted that humans were involved in the process.
Boudewijn Chabot (de Einder) disclosed the name of the patient whose death 25 years ago brought him into conflict with the Dutch Supreme Court and opened the way for help for psychiatric patients. He is now using the term ”dignicide” (which my spell checker is rejecting) as the word promoted by some to describe a self-selected rational and dignified death.
The simplistic option was to classify myself as a vegetarian. But this really wasn’t accurate – or satisfying. It didn’t truly capture my beliefs or actual stance. I did some thinking on it – for a good while. Finally, a word popped into my head. I tried the word in a search engine and, to my delight, I got results! It was a real word. A real thing.
It’s a challenge for such habitual meat-eaters to drop their burgers cold in favor of broccoli, but the good news is that reducetarians don’t have to. While the ideal is to eat as little meat as possible, even cutting back by a limited amount confers health and environmental benefits. In other words, reducetarians (Kateman and Alterman invented the word) attempt to reduce the overall amount of meat in their diets, but don’t beat themselves up over the occasional T-bone steak or chicken salad sandwich.
Last year, the hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow, debated whether white people can use darker skin tones when sending emoji, or if that amounts to cultural appropriation. At the time, the new racemoji had just launched on the iPhone.
We're all familiar with the Breathalyzer, the brand name for a roadside device that measures a suspected drunken driver's blood-alcohol level. It has been in use for decades. Now there's a so-called "textalyzer" device to help the authorities determine whether someone involved in a motor vehicle accident was unlawfully driving while distracted.
True to its name, it’s a cake that you poke holes in after baking. The holes are then filled with a liquid or filling — like condensed milk, pureed fruit, chocolate cream, or pudding — to infuse extra flavor into every bite. Here are 15 ways to make one.
Yes, at this point I found myself in an odd place, one that I never guessed I might visit: a fairly crowded Twitter canoe with a bunch of pissed-off Michael Rapaport fans. In situations like this, I've found the best way to de-escalate the situation is to act like a friendly tourist lost in an unfamiliar country. So, I asked them what "talking greasy" meant. The response: "Talking sh*t. It's Rapaspeak." The ice was broken.
Though it looks more like a paperweight or a shiny marble than a sweet treat, a new Japanese dessert is going viral. Touted as the "Raindrop Cake," the confection is basically glorified Jell-O, but that's not stopping the social media masses from freaking out about it. The glass-like dessert has become so popular in Japan that some are saying it has reached Cronut status. And now it's coming to the U.S. by way of New York.
But if you’re not Steven Levy, why are you recommending that ad? Did you not know it was sponsored content? Are you somehow benefiting from that recommendation financially? You are stretching the consumer/advertiser relationship by injecting that sponcon into your followers’ reading list.
Anything associated as closely with racism and bigotry as the alternative right will inevitably attract real racists and bigots. Calmer members of the alternative right refer darkly to these people as the “1488ers,” and for all their talk of there being “no enemies to the right,” it’s clear from the many conversations we’ve had with alt-righters that many would rather the 1488ers didn’t exist.
The likes of Thomas and other antique collectors have even developed a new word to describe the old technology such as VHS tapes now becoming collectables - antech.
Thomas added: "We feel that these antech items – or antechs – will only become more valuable investments to collectors as time goes on.
"It might sound strange that something like the VHS is defined as an antech, but when they can command thousands of pounds on account of their rarity, that's exactly what they are."
We should stop using Muslims’ self-chosen word — “Islamophobia” — by which they paint themselves into a corner of being feared: it destroys communication. Instead of such a divisive term, we should insert a more approachable and factual word that preserves opportunities for bridge-building and learning: “Islamonausea.” This does not render communication impossible, but enables visitors to our Western cultures to notice aspects of their behavior that make us sick.
I’d like to introduce a new word into the American conversation—”Ameriphobe”
I would define “Ameriphobe” as a person who would act in the best interests of foreigners at the expense of his fellow Americans. Ameriphobes can be conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat.
It's hard to describe Dorilocos using words. The recipe starts with Nacho Cheese Doritos, which are then topped with a variety of ingredients: cueritos (pickled pork rinds), small batons of jicama, cubed cucumber, grated carrots, peanuts (most often described by the vendors as japonés, the ones with the crunchy, soy sauce-flavored shell), gummy bears, lime juice, chili powder, salsa Valentina or another hot sauce, and chamoy, an addictive sweet-salty-sour sauce made from pickled fruit. It's outrageous.
It's hard to describe Dorilocos using words. The recipe starts with Nacho Cheese Doritos, which are then topped with a variety of ingredients: cueritos (pickled pork rinds), small batons of jicama, cubed cucumber, grated carrots, peanuts (most often described by the vendors as japonés, the ones with the crunchy, soy sauce-flavored shell), gummy bears, lime juice, chili powder, salsa Valentina or another hot sauce, and chamoy, an addictive sweet-salty-sour sauce made from pickled fruit. It's outrageous.
Very recently I was introduced to a church-word I had never heard before. The new word, now part of my professional lexicon, is “Creasters.” Like a celebrity mash-up, it is a morphing of two words: “Christmas,” and “Easter.”
This word refers to people who attend church on those two annual high holy days, but otherwise stay away. The word may be new, but the concept is not. The previous phrase of choice was “C-&-E Christians.” Creasters (unlike their C-&-E predecessors) are young adults, primarily Gen Xers and younger. So, why is it that people are staying away from institutionalized religion except for twice annually? And, is there anything the traditional Church can do to entice them to return?
Much of this has to do with the fact that biracial identity in the United States has often been understood in terms of black and white. And to the extent that labels are helpful for quickly self-identifying, they don't always exist for the diversity of racial possibilities that mixed Americans increasingly want to see recognized. When it comes to mixed-race in America, Mexican-American author Richard Rodriguez has written, we rely on an "old vocabulary — black, white," but, "we are no longer a black-white nation."
This may be why in LA, many young people who are both black and Mexican are turning to a handy word to describe themselves: "Blaxican."
The young, diverse staff, heavy on neon-tinted hair and nose rings, cheers when Tony Hsieh, the company’s longtime CEO, announces that everyone will get a paid vacation day on Feb. 29 in honor of leap year. They give a standing ovation to a worker in shipping who raps passionately about the company, offer a rousing send-off to a longtime “Zapponian” who’s leaving the company, and take in a surprise Cirque du Soleil performance, complete with a cameo appearance by Zappos’s signature box.
Shredlage is technically a trademarked product consisting of corn silage which has been cut at 26 to 30 mm with the stalks “shredded” by a shredlage processor. It’s believed that by processing the stalk in such a way, rumen fermentation is enhanced, thus optimizing feed efficiency.
I just posted a new word on the Physician Moms Facebook group and was told that I should send it to you. I got tired of hearing “She’s got balls,” so I made up a new word, clitzpah (klit-spe) noun: a woman with guts!
Origin of clitzpah: clitoris (kli-te-res) noun: an organ of the female genitalia, the purpose of which is purely to bring women pleasure, and chutzpah (hu̇t-spe) noun: a Yiddish term for courage bordering on arrogance.
Allow us to expand your financial lexicon with a new word: "hopium." This is a drug favored by permabulls who ignore fundamental data in favor of illusory hope. Hopium seems to be fueling the rises lately in the energy sector and broader markets.
Allow us to expand your financial lexicon with a new word: "hopium." This is a drug favored by permabulls who ignore fundamental data in favor of illusory hope. Hopium seems to be fueling the rises lately in the energy sector and broader markets.
Consider the swanky Cirque Lodge in Sundance, Utah, rehab of choice for celebrities such as Demi Moore and Lindsay Lohan. For a reported $1,000 per day, patients heal through heli-hiking (“Alcohol and drug rehab takes on a different perspective at 10,000 feet!”) and can take on the largest indoor ropes course “anywhere in the alcohol and drug rehab industry.” As far as I can tell, there have been few randomized trials on the efficacy of heli-hiking for alcoholism. And if you’re choosing an addiction treatment program based on the size of its ropes course, you probably haven’t hit rock bottom.
Sterling was spotting Disneybounders, people who dress to evoke a particular Disney character without crossing the line into costume territory. The lady in the cool coat was channeling Peter Pan’s nemesis Captain Hook. The girl in the turquoise jumpsuit was Princess Jasmine, the royal love interest in the film Aladdin.
Sterling, a 24-year-old southern California native, and her boyfriend Leo Camacho are popular bloggers in Disneybounding’s enthusiastic online community. They were Disneybounding that day as Aladdin characters—Sterling was the titular hero, Camacho, the evil Jafar. They are like the Brangelina of a very specific world, one in which a dress that echoes Minnie Mouse is a better get than a designer handbag.
But further investigation showed that the video was nothing more than a beautiful piece of “innoganda” — innovation propaganda describing an effort that had little hope of driving any material impact.
The Sanders campaign’s critics had plenty of material to work with beyond those blithely condescending columns. They could throw in a bunch of bottom-feeding social media sexists, like the poster in a pro-Sanders Facebook group who called Hillary “clitrash.” The campaign also made its own gendered gaffes, including the smug statement that Bernie was “willing to consider” Hillary for veep. Finally, there’s the tendency of online Sanders supporters to call Clinton fans corporate-shilling “Hillary bots” and to argue that journalists are “auditioning for jobs with the Clinton White House.” Put it all together, and you have a perfectly reasonable (though not unimpeachable, and certainly not universal) argument that Bernie has a little bit of a Bro problem.
The subtle genius of HGTV’s empire is its mastery of “endemic advertising”: Building an alluring habitat for an advertiser’s most-sought market, and letting that audience come to them. In other words, “House Hunters” succeeds not just in winning TV-watching homeowners — but also winning homeowner-targeting advertisers, like Home Depot, who know they’re more likely to reach who they need.
Despite the empty rhetoric about hope and change that surrounded his 2008 campaign, after all, Obama continued the policies of his predecessor George W. Bush so unswervingly that we may as well call those policies—the conventional wisdom or, rather, the conventional folly of early 21st-century American politics—the Dubyobama consensus. Trump’s candidacy, and in some ways that of his Democratic rival Bernard Sanders as well, marks the point at which the blowback from those policies has become a massive political fact. That this blowback isn’t taking the form desired by many people on the leftward end of things is hardly surprising; it was never going to do so, because the things about the Dubyobama consensus that made blowback inevitable are not the things to which the left objects.
Okay, I didn’t even know that these existed until now. I guess they stand for “Daily Defense”. They’re supposedly like a BB cream and CC cream all in one? But that doesn’t even make sense, because a CC cream was just supposed to be like a heavier-coverage BB cream. Does that mean DD is somewhere in-bewteen? Sigh, marketing.
CC creams came after BB creams, as a lot of women like the idea of an all-in-one solution, but want higher coverage. Hence, CC = coverage, correct. The idea is the same as a BB cream, but they are a heavier formulation.
BB creams, like more and more of our makeup trends, started in Asia as “blemish balm”. The idea was that they’re like a lightweight foundation with skin-improving qualities (AKA, a tinted moisturizer). Asia is real, real big on skincare. Korea and Japan are known for their 10-step skincare routines (that is, all the face stuff that comes BEFORE even putting makeup on); this 10-step thing has been slightly debunked as most women there don’t actually follow a 10-step routine, but there are a lot more “essential” skin care steps they have outside of our basic cleanse, tone, moisturize process. Since BB creams were so popular, a buncha US lines started marketing them as “beauty balm”.
The milkshakes pictured above can be found at Black Tap, in Manhattan; a previous wave of try-hard Willy Wonka ass milkshakes made the rounds last summer, sold by an Australian bakery called Patissez. In September, on FABlife, Chrissy Teigen called the “monstershake” the “hot new trend in town.”
CBS reporter Lara Logan, photographed in Cairo's Tahrir Square moments before she was assaulted in 2011. Her attack was one of the first known instances of 'taharrush' to be reported in Western media.
While reading up on Kacy Hill, we stumbled across our favourite new word: “blubstep”. Sure, it’s one of those awful portmanteaus used by marketing types to shift records, but it perfectly describes Hill’s bass heavy, James Blake-esque tunes. She’s signed to Kanye West’s label after serving as a backing dancer for his Yeezus tour, so no pressure.
But it’s not trivial. Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered. Narcisstocracy? Jerkigarchy? Anyway, it’s an ugly spectacle, and it’s probably going to get even uglier over the course of the year ahead.
But it’s not trivial. Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered. Narcisstocracy? Jerkigarchy? Anyway, it’s an ugly spectacle, and it’s probably going to get even uglier over the course of the year ahead.
Sex With Your Pants On (SWYPO) is a term used to describe the idea of recreating treats such as pancakes, brownies, or pizza with Whole30 ingredients, and is strongly cautioned against. The Hartwigs feel that if you’re trying to recreate a pizza made out of cauliflower crust in order to scratch a craving itch, then you’re kind of missing the point. To quote the Whole30 website, “You can tell yourself it’s okay, it’s still pretty good, you’re totally satisfied … but that’s kind of a lie. Because you know exactly how good pants-less sex feels.”
Of course there are biologically sensible reasons for this, but unless you’re careful this set-up can cement the assumption that childcare is the woman’s responsibility, long after she goes back to work too. It was my experience of maternity leave that was a big factor in our decision to 'sharent’.
When Tom returned to work after paternity leave I was left tethered to the domestic realm, feeling panic-stricken that my life as I knew it was over. And that was when we started talking about how things could be more equal.
As more and more people started to yeet, the name for the dance move slowly worked its way into casual conversation, as a new way to express excitement over something. For example, let's say you and your friends are dancing and one lands a flawless back flip. ('Cause you know; that could totally happen.) That would be your cue to yell out "yeet!" and let them know just how awesome they are.
The "Vampire Facelift" is a procedure that involves withdrawing a patient's own blood, processing it to create "platelet-rich plasma (PRP)," then re-injecting it to erase wrinkles and create a more youthful look. Selphyl is another type of PRP facelift procedure that uses a similar technique.
But while customers can’t get enough of the company’s bearded, Brooklyn hipster founders, and their brilliantly marketed, $10 “bean to bar” chocolates, a term reserved for chocolate that has been produced entirely under the maker’s control, from the cocoa bean to the wrapped bar, chocolate experts have shunned them. Earlier this year, Slate published a story on Rick and Michael Mast, detailing complaints by the craft chocolate community about their undeserved media attention and unparalleled hubris. (“I can affirm that we make the best chocolate in the world,” Rick told Vanity Fair in February.)
http://waxy.org/2015/12/the_first_round_capital_holiday_train_wreck/ Your annual reminder of the hidden costs of taking venture capital is here — it's the First Round Capital Holiday Video, a yearly cringe-fest of startups parodying the year's biggest pop hits, with lyrics tweaked to reflect the worst of startup culture. (Full lyrics at the end of the post.)
That’s something that’s happening a lot these days. Though there are still occasional reboots or prequels, this very specific kind of sequel — in which beloved aging stars reprise classic roles and pass the torch to younger successors — is becoming increasingly common in the American film industry. These movies are all about revitalizing old franchises through the notion of legacy, leading to this current wave of what we could call “legacyquels.”
For simplicity’s sake, let’s call these novelty shirts “D-shirts”—a retroactive shorthand for “dick shirts” or “douchebag shirts,” whichever you prefer. While it’s shooting fish in a barrel to mock the simpler times when D-ness was clearly telegraphed via branding, I believe that it’s preferable to the current dilemma of actual douchebags trying to camouflage as nondouchebags. Thanks to irony (and e-commerce!), these days it’s way harder to spot a douchebag.
The outcry from the neighbors over Cubberley was so fierce that it reshaped Palo Alto’s city government. The city council is nonpartisan, but a faction emerged that revived an old, slow-growth movement in town, known as the “residentialists.” Their concerns are varied (among them, the perennial suburban concerns of property values and traffic), but their influence has been to block any new development of affordable housing and shoo people like Suzan and James away from Palo Alto.
Still other YouTubers make money by relying on “rage clicks”—saying something inflammatory for the purposes of press and views. Take “Dear Fat People,” a fat-shaming tirade by YouTuber Nicole Arbour. “Dear Fat People” made so much money that Arbour posted a Snapchat counting 50 dollar bills…but she also lost some of her branded deals and got blacklisted by the tight-knit YouTube community.
I think it would make for an encouraging change, for a few reasons. Firstly, I’m an up-winger, so of course I’m in favor of this ideological revolution. Second, it wouldn’t really be a revolution, but more a reversion to the mean: the up-down distinction has historically been more practically relevant than the left-right distinction. Third, an up-down distinction would redound to the benefit of upwingers. Downwingers are present on both the left and the right, but are more sound than fury—refocusing the debate toward upwinger varieties on the right and the left would further marginalize the opponents of progress.
I think it would make for an encouraging change, for a few reasons. Firstly, I’m an up-winger, so of course I’m in favor of this ideological revolution. Second, it wouldn’t really be a revolution, but more a reversion to the mean: the up-down distinction has historically been more practically relevant than the left-right distinction. Third, an up-down distinction would redound to the benefit of upwingers. Downwingers are present on both the left and the right, but are more sound than fury—refocusing the debate toward upwinger varieties on the right and the left would further marginalize the opponents of progress.
I'd been a part-time delivery driver — a "Dasher" — for three weeks by that point, driving around San Francisco on a scooter, delivering everything from burgers to pad thai to frozen yogurt.
Hillary Clinton got side-eyed after blasting Jennifer Lopez's "Let's Get Loud" at a campaign stop in San Antonio where she called herself "La Hillary" and "Tu Hillary." Jeb Bush earned eye rolls after debuting a Spanish-language ad celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
Both were accused of "Hispandering": a mashup of "Hispanic" and "pandering" that means faking interest in Hispanic issues and culture for self-serving reasons.
The body is gone. What remains is what Berg calls hair soup: when the brains and other leftover material come together to form a single substance. This is a particularly gruesome specimen.
In Minnesota, about 40,000 people die every year. Many are not discovered for weeks or months after their death. In the biohazard cleanup business, these are called “decomps,” and they’re the most laborious jobs. “The best way to describe a decomp clean is peeling layers off an onion,” says Berg. “You just gotta keep pulling back those layers until you don’t find anymore body material.”
“I was struck by the words SOTEMPTED used to describe sex work: ugly, messy, humiliating,” said Mike Crawford, a sex worker, sex-workers-rights activist, and self-identified “cashsexual” who tweets at @BringMeTheAx.
While these new models are not the standard size 0 or 2 that we often see gracing the catwalk, they are not going to let the size of their clothing define them. Instead, they're trying to change the way the fashion industry (and the rest of the world) sees them, with the term "curve" — which describes the shape of their body, not just their waistline.
The movement recently came into the spotlight after 18-year-old model Jordyn Woods, a newcomer to the modeling scene, was featured in an interview on TeenVogue.com in which she referred to herself as a "curve model" rather than the more common industry term, "plus-size."
It found that 71% of 18-24-year-olds have made a rape joke or flippantly used the word rape, and 88% of respondents in this age group were familiar with the term “frape”, or Facebook rape, which is usually used to describe the act of logging into somebody else’s Facebook account and posting using their profile.
Fan favorite nerdlebrity Norman Reedus has become an icon as the zombie-stompin’ Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead. But despite his amazing survival skills, he was not able to repel a real bite attack by one of his greatest fans.
“I remember getting ready for my first gang bang, and I was talking to people – what should I know, I’ve never done this before, I was really nervous, do you have any tips? And two people were like: put James Deen on your ‘no’ list” – the performers she would not do scenes with.
Boulder Weekly, a Boulder, Colorado alternative weekly newspaper, has published a 10,000 word ”frackademia” investigation in a special edition of the newspaper.
Following suit is Devember, the non-profit Code.org’s attempt to out-portmanteau The Movember Foundation. “We think everybody should learn to code,” the organization declares, comparing its cause to the fight against illiteracy.
As soon as these girls launched Deen to mainstream recognition, however, they were recast into minor supporting roles in Deen’s narrative. In magazine stories and television specials (and in one case, a porn parody of a television special starring Deen himself called Channel 69: Breaking Nudes), they were recast either as hypersexual groupies or innocent victims trapped under his torrid pornographic spell. Nightline drummed up a Deenager exposé in early 2012 that began: “For any parent concerned about what their teen does online, the huge popularity of the young man you are about to meet may be deeply disturbing.”
We've been in this show hole for about a year and a half. The last show we binged was True Blood and it wasn't even relevant at that point in time. We're not sure what we're looking for either. We started The 100 but didn't make it to season two.
There is another group, meanwhile, that will rebel. They will eschew the planes, the trains, and the automobiles that make up Turkey Day’s hors d’oeuvres. They will opt, instead, for “Skypesgiving.” The Kernel reports that 14.1 million people used Skype to connect with loved ones on Thanksgiving in 2013, and that number has probably only increased since.
"I learned a new word today," he said. "Micropolitan. Geographically, there's Metropolitan, Micropolitan, and Rest of the State. Metropolitan receives the largest reimbursement, then there's Micropolitan, receiving less than Metropolitan, and finally Rest of the State, receiving the lowest in child care subsidies.
Here is a delicious idea for a Thanksgiving PIECAKEN! A pumpkin Pie in a Milk Chocolate Fudge Cake topped with a pumpkin-spiced milk chocolate ganache and buttercream - delicious!
If you’ve never heard of Revolve, you probably don’t travel in the right circles. You aren’t a trendy twentysomething who can pull off a skintight white suit with no shirt underneath. There’s no copy of Gypset Style, the handbook for self-styled bon vivants and “high-low cultural nomads,” on your coffee table—one piece of the perfectly decorated apartment in which you barely spend time. (“Gypset” is a portmanteau of “gypsy” and “jet set.”)
But rejoice, Proud Fitness Enthusiasts. It took a minute, but the fires of Hell have at long last forged a new trend in public humiliation-as-exercise, and it is called crunning. "But I already cry when I run!" you say. "How is this new?" No, it's worse that that. The "cr" is for "crawling." You're crawl-running. You're crunning.
In fact, as I just learned tonight on Twitter, in one of its own publications following that attack, ISIS wrote of driving to “extinction” the “grayzone” between Islamic extremism and “the crusader coalition.” Again, it’s all about using terrorism to “sharpen the contradictions” and polarize the world.
Mr. West’s angst could also fall under the category of the “complaintbrag,” a cousin of the humblebrag and “first-world problems,” a term that has drawn its own share of first-world complaints for its patronizing stance toward non-first-world inhabitants.
It was once considered unbecoming, or annoying itself, to moan publicly about trifling personal ordeals. Now, in a seismic shift for the moral culture, abetted by technology, we tolerate and even encourage the “microcomplaint”: the petty, petulant kvetch about the quotidian.
Finland’s emoji, then, are not real emoji. They are something far more nefarious: Efauxji. They are mere images masquerading as glyphs, pretenders to the emoji throne.
Yet others find that the term accurately describes a real phenomenon. Avery Keese, 23, who works at a nonprofit in Virginia, had never heard of cuffing season, but when one of her co-workers brought it up, she recognized the concept immediately. In college, she and her friends often joked about how girls seemed to get “wifeyed up” midway through the fall semester. And as one of her friends pointed out one day, Ms. Keese wasn’t immune to this trend.
Camille Sanches, a Columbia University sophomore, was eating lunch with friends when another girl stopped by with some news: A guy had asked her out on a date.
“You can’t cuff without me!” one of her friends exclaimed. “We have to cuff together!”
When a Jewish-American family descended from Texas shop owners emigrated to Beer Sheva, Israel, it is no wonder that a new word emerged in their English-Hebrew-Yiddish lexicon. “Schlopping” – an amalgamation of schlep, love and shopping – became a hallmark of the mother-daughter relationship of Sheryl Mendlinger of Boston and Yael Magen of Swampscott, and serves as the foundation of a book the pair co-authored.
It could be. But the market’s maturity is getting tested on Monday, and in the next few weeks, the ramifications of that likely hike are going to play out across the capital markets. The Dow is down more than 200 points, and the S&P 500 is off 25 points at 2074. The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note rose as high as 2.37%, and most markets in Europe and Asia were in the red. The market may yet handle what the folks at Merrill are calling “Fedexodus,” but that isn’t apparent right now.
The thing about retaliation, as everyone knows, is that you should get it in first. And now there’s a word for that: the eminently logical “pretaliation”. The MP Paul Flynn has been having fun on Twitter by describing Seb Coe’s attempts to defend himself in advance against the report on doping in athletics as “(new word) PRETALIATION”.
In 1968, Mars discontinued its "junior" size candy product and came out with a larger size of small, individually wrapped, multiple packed branded candy bars. These bars were intermediate in size between the old "junior" bars and the traditional size bars sold over the counter by Mars. It adopted the words fun size to describe this new category.
Koselig is a Norwegian word that roughly translates to "a sense of coziness." It's the idea that winter is a time for big fuzzy blankets, warm sweaters, snuggling, and tasty, hot beverages. Basically if a Pinterest board came to life, it would be the embodiment of koselig.
U.K. media and government officials are sounding the alarm over something called "chemsex," which involves—are you ready for this newfangled idea?—taking mind-altering substances and then having sex. Oblivious that they're describing something that has happened for literally all of time, British officials warn that "taking recreational drugs during sex can lead to a number of potentially harmful side effects including facilitating the spread of common STIs and HIV, but also serious mental health problems, such as anxiety, psychoses and suicidal tendencies."
“There’s a new word in the English lexicon, Uberisation, which basically means disrupting the market—and there is potential for the insurance industry to be disrupted by an ‘Uber’,” he said.
“Brett,” he says, “really embodies that principle of being an ultrapreneur — someone wanting to leave his mark on our community beyond his business interests, by supporting the philanthropic needs, not only of Calgary, but our country.”
Liberal Seattle, long perceived as a veritable utopia of government-funded freebies, like shelter and meal programs, is sometimes mocked as “Freeattle.”
The Commission termed these ecofiscal policies -- a new word to facilitate a new conversation about solutions guided by both economic and environmental objectives. The Commission is funded by several Canadian family foundations and Canadian corporations.
Reality: The president and co-founder of the nonprofit think tank known as CFAR (“see-far”) is a woman, 32-year-old Julia Galef. I meet her at the group’s headquarters in hippie-ish Berkeley, Calif. She has a glint of Anne Hathaway looks about her and is nerdy, sure, but also warm, chatty. As Galef would say, I have erred, falling prey to what she calls the Straw Vulcan, the fallacy that rational people are unemotional people. In her words, it’s time to update.
“I said, ‘North! To Canada!’ But of course it took me five years to get across the border,” says Beck. Thus launched an odyssey that lasted seven years and four progressively elaborate homes on wheels. Or, if you prefer, housetrucks.
Demonia (1980) In 1498, five nuns are brutally murdered and crucified by a mob of angry Sicilian villagers. 500 years later, along comes Paul Evans, the world’s most arrogant archeology professor and his superstitious pupil Liza. They’re here to look for Greek relics, but obviously Liza just can’t help but enter the long-sealed medieval convent nearby to unleash the nuns’ demonic spirits and a string of disgusting deaths. But is Liza the real killer? Or Paul? In this gory Italian nunsploitation flick, nothing is clear, but the deaths inflicted by everything from killer-cats to tortuous-trees are so gross you’ll be rolling on the floor like a pair of possessed eyeballs.
Sweden, you must stop! You’ve already given us so much: Abba; Ulrika Jonsson; a pocket of sociosexual egalitarianism in a modern, western world whose otherwise total commitment to untrammelled capitalism would surely destroy us all; Ikea meatballs. And now a word for female masturbation: klittra.
Researchers are testing a pepperoni alternative called osmoroni, which uses the same raw-meat material but presses it into a film that’s run through an osmotic dehydration bath, according to a meat-processing information poster provided by Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center’s Combat Feeding Directorate.
At a glance, his portmanteau of architecture and the Kamasutra, the ancient Hindu book of sex, looks just like a series of black-and-white buildings, but the longer you look, the dirtier your mind—and the images—get. "It 's always fun to play with the architectural forms and volumes," Babina tells The Creators Project. "Interweave geometries as a sculptural body shaking in a voluptuous architectural embrace." One illustration introduces us to our favorite new word, "orgytecture," which is the only way we'll be able to think about the New York City skyline from now on.
Race is always an easy go-to minority designation for me. As a pretty unique mix—half-Pakistani, half-Filipino—I’m under no illusion that I’ll find other Pakipinos (that’s right) wherever I am unless my brother’s around. That said, of the seventy-some people in attendance, it was glaringly obvious that there were only a handful of us with slightly more pigment in our skin than others.
In a welcome-to-Oakland letter to Uber executives, Schaaf defined tech-quity as providing “equitable access to top-notch training and jobs for our residents and fostering our local technology sector’s growth so it leads to shared prosperity.”
Prior to the relatively recent cocktail renaissance, the closest beer and booze came to one another was in the classic working-stiff's combination of a beer and a shot. Now, however, the pressure to innovate has become so intense that what were once considered exotic additions to cocktails are barely worth a shrug. We are no longer moved by rare amari, syrah syrups, and sipping vinegars. So it's no surprise that beer has been elevated from a mere sidekick to a novel cocktail ingredient, giving us the beertail. (There's even an entire book dedicated to them—Cocktails on Tap by Portland cocktail dude Jacob Grier.)
In Eric Weiner's book, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World, he points out that our society has many more words to describe "unpleasant emotional states than pleasant ones." He coined the term "conjoyment" to describe Swiss happiness, which is "more than contentment but less than full on joy." Think of it as a solid state of happiness where there are no peaks, like the majestic Matterhorn, or valleys, like Centovalli.
As a former teacher and therapist, Anderson developed “Murture” – a new word that combines maturity and nurture – a system of merging with God's unconditional love enabling reconnection to God's Truth planted in the core of your being (revealing true identity).
School refusal in children and teenagers happens quite often. According to research, up to 5 percent of children have school refusal, which can occur at any age, but is more common at ages 5, 6, 10 and 11. School refusal is not a formal psychiatric diagnosis, but often associated with mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, which prompts these children to be seen by a psychiatrist.
You can find out today whether exacly.me is exactly for you by going to the iTunes store and downloading the app for free. Even if you are the first in your circle of friends to have exacly.me, you can begin posting photopinions (exacly.me’s new word that combines photo and opinion) and immediately find other like-minded users.
So, the big question here is definitely focusing on what the hell Max Greenfield's character, Gabriel is doing still alive. Last we saw him he had been drildoed (new word) by the Addiction Demon and was then promptly sewed into a mattress by Sally, because that's where you put your valuables and dead junkies, I guess?
The realisation is at last taking hold that not just integration, but something more functionally rich that combines integration with flexible collaboration – ‘collagration’ if you will permit – is now starting to come through as the goal.
And if you have a hard time with any of this, you are a transphobe. You might even be a dragaphobe. (OK. It’s a new word that I coined for this column, but you get the point. That being said, I spotted an article written by a gay dad who confessed to having an irrational fear of drag queens!)
Radtrad (or sometimes, Rad-Trad, Rad Trad, etc.) is shorthand for "radical traditionalist". For background (at least from my own perspective) on the definitions of both "traditionalist" and my newly-coined term, radical Catholic reactionary (which I started using instead of radtrad on 3 August 2013), see the Introduction and Chapter One, respectively, of my 2012 book, Mass Movements.
But there is that word. Asexual. There is the fact that you’ve never felt this way before. So you will go back to that word. You will look it up again and this time you will explore what it means, all its subsets and associated words. In your search you will come across a new word: demisexual.
Someone who can only experience sexual attraction after an emotional bond has been formed. This bond does not have to be romantic in nature.
Every Friday, Larry Michael — a Redskins senior vice president and the host of Redskins Nation — picks Washington’s upcoming game. Every week, he hands out check marks denoting an advantage in offense, defense, special teams and intangibles. And every week, he picks Washington to win, while giving the Redskins the edge in intangibles.
Whether it started this way or not, the segment is now delivered with a bit of a wink, if I’m being honest. That wink became something grander in recent days, when the intangibles category was renamed “Skintangibles,” immediately becoming my choice for favorite new word of the year. And yes, Washington still has the edge.
A "unicorpse" is a dead unicorn -- a startup that gains a valuation of more than $1 billion, then declines and fails before going public. This hasn't happened yet, but some say that Evernote might become the first "unicorpse."
A "quinquagintacorn" is a startup worth $50 billion or more. The only startup to achieve quinquagintacorn status is Uber, which completed a funding round in July that valued the company at around $51 billion -- which is why such a startup is also called an "ubercorn."
The new word inculator is, of course, a portmanteau of incubator and accelerator. An inculator is an accelerator that takes more time to develop ideas and build a business. They're accelerators such as Nine Plus, whose services aren't nearly as accelerated as they might because they feel entrepreneurs need more mentoring time -- typically about nine months.
With the rise (literally) of quadcopters -- a.k.a. drones -- I guess it was inevitable that some genius would realize that flying a drone around with a sign on it would be a great idea. And so "dronevertising" was born.
You've heard the overused neologism unicorn, which describes a startup with a valuation above $1 billion. The idea was that such highly valued startups were so rare that seeing one was as rare as a unicorn sighting. Now there are herds of unicorns roaming Silicon Valley. At last count, there were 131 in the tech industry. In fact, startups have become so valuable that there are now some that are worth more than $10 billion. These are called "decicorns."
He struggled for a moment to find the right word to capture his stop in New York. According to the Associated Press, he just ended up inventing a new one: stralimitata. "In New York, a bit 'beyond all limits.'" The New York Times translated his quote as, “New York was a bit exuberant."
The new Oxford dictionary defines the verb to macgyver as to "Make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are at hand."
In the global development world, they give it a more respectable name: frugal innovation.
McKenna and Gettler use the term breastsleeping to refer to bedsharing with breastfeeding in the absence of all known hazardous factors. The researchers hope to legitimize it to accommodate and support the millions of American breastfeeding mothers who bedshare as they better manage their milk supply, get more sleep, strengthen their attachments and validate their roles as mothers, especially if working.
A few weeks ago, you learned the term "pphubbing," which describes what you do when you snub your partner in favor of intimate time with your phone. But while the term is new, the idea that technology can insert itself into your sex life like an IRL pop-up ad is probably not unfamiliar to you. Because if it were uncommon, then licensed marriage and family therapist Ian Kerner, PhD wouldn't be so damn successful.
For those who don’t already know, a “floppy” is one of several comic industry terms for the 22-page pamphlet that many of us think of as the classic “comic book.” In most cases, they’re published for their respective series on a monthly basis (like magazines), and you can find them in comics specialty shops and at some newsstands and bookstores.
Lessig, a Harvard law professor and government reform activist, announced Tuesday morning that he was launching a presidential exploratory committee to run as what he called a "referendum president" with the chief purpose of enacting sweeping changes to the nation's political system and ethics laws.
But because this is a column about decoding, specifics are needed. With that in mind, let’s abandon all propriety and break down the reasons that “mom boobs” are a thing.*
Niplash: Let’s talk about the sadistic shopping-mall designers who place “mother’s rooms” inside noisy bathrooms. Do you know what happens when a latched baby suddenly jerks its head in response to a thunderous blast of cold air? My nipples do. Personal injury lawyers, take note.
The history of the avocado and the modern history of popular culture are basically one and the same. I mean, no offence to Stephen Hawking, I’m sure black holes are also a big deal in their own way but, if you really want to get to grips with the meaning of modern life, look no further than the avocado. Or – to give it its most up-to-date name – the overcado
The achievement beard—a marker of triumphant lassitude, the victory lap after a long job well done—has been gaining currency in recent years among men who might like to move through the world noticeably unnoticed. It has become standard issue for an entertainer on the comedown from a high-intensity career: Stephen Colbert donned a seaworthy achievement beard during the nine-month hiatus between his first show and his new post in Letterman’s stead, and Jon Stewart has been growing one since stepping down from “The Daily Show,” in August.
First of all, most 24-year-olds are way past that “I’m so sweet and naive and don’t know anything” phase and it sounds like she was dickmatized. When she said, “Needed to explore that,” I heard, “Needed to explore that dick!”
Makes sense, right? Babies throw tantrums. MRAs are babies, so they're throwing tantrums. Except they weren't. This entire story came from one blog post on We Hunted The Mammoth, which centered around the anti-Furiosa furor on Return Of Kings, a site so viciously anti-woman even Al Bundy would yell at them to grow the fuck up. But RoK isn't a MRA site -- just some random cootiephobes -- and nowhere on Mammoth does it confuse the two. Every other site, desperate for traffic, did that.
That guy's defensive reaction to the "arsenalist" label is exactly what I'm after.
Trying to respect and reason with mass collectors within the 35 percent of gun-owning households has gotten us absolutely nowhere. Nowhere. That's because arsenalists and "tactical" fetishists do not respect the rest of us. And the gun hustler industry thrives on this disrespect. This isn't about defense; it's about dominance. And people like your reader have done absolutely nothing to clean up the culture they perpetuate.
Eventually the caffeine kicked in and it hit me: I’d been sweat-shamed. Sweat-shaming is when someone points out your sweatiness as a way to signal disapproval. Like its counterparts, slut-shaming and fat-shaming, sweat-shaming is aimed mainly at women, who are actually not supposed to sweat at all.
Eventually the caffeine kicked in and it hit me: I’d been sweat-shamed. Sweat-shaming is when someone points out your sweatiness as a way to signal disapproval. Like its counterparts, slut-shaming and fat-shaming, sweat-shaming is aimed mainly at women, who are actually not supposed to sweat at all.
Apple's pink phone is hit on launch day. Re/code did some reconnaissance from Apple stores today in Los Angeles and San Francisco and found that many Apple fans in line were there to snag the rose gold version of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. As predicted, the pink phone was a hit with both male and female shoppers. "There’s enough guys getting rose gold that it should be called bros’ gold," said San Francisco Apple store shopper Dan Bentley told Re/Code. "Rose gold or bust," another male shopper said.
Oh, you haven't yet heard of "#thighbrow"? Well, we apologize for breaking the news to you, but now that you know about it, there's no going back. Here's everything you never needed or wanted to know about the latest body-posing trend, which accentuates that fold where your upper thigh hits your butt.
The navigation app Waze is beloved for exploiting shortcuts, avoiding traffic, and proving that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line. But its sinuous directions can also be a source of annoyance for drivers, who are often asked to make treacherous left turns through oncoming traffic at dicey intersections.
Now the company is studying how to limit those white-knuckled maneuvers, which have become known as the “Waze left.”
Faced with an onslaught of angry reactionaries shouting at them and demanding they buy into their lies about who I am, everyone saw their transparent hysteria for exactly what it actually was: the decade-old account of a troubled young person raised on 4chan and internet edgelord culture trying to out-shock and out-troll the people around her.
But a look back at how the landscape has evolved shows, that for the very vocal “cord cutters” (those who seek to reduce their dependence on traditional cable channel bundles) or “cord nevers” (those who propose that they will never pay for a traditional cable channel lineup), the universe of content they sought at price points of their choosing never seemed to materialize. In both cases, it seems that perception has swerved far past and missed reality.
Wallach starts his essay by noting that a growing number of scholars have raised concerns that government policymaking institutions are operating in ways that are provisional at best, possibly bordering on illegitimate: "Caesarism. Government by Deal. Government by Waiver. Kludgeocracy. Lawless law... adhocracy," Wallach writes (providing useful links). He argues, however, that these are all just pieces of a larger puzzle: "The deeper and greater problem is — if I can be forgiven for adding yet another label to the already lengthy list —decoherence."
Wallach borrows "decoherence" from quantum mechanics, and takes the term to describe the condition where "elements of a system that had been interacting become disconnected from each other, no longer sharing information"
Lately, though, the modernist genre has taken on a more modern flair. The “goodbye to all that” essay has expanded into a less literary form that has come to be known, ironically, as “quit lit.” The term, if not the genre, is currently most prevalent in academia, a field that has recently birthed a spate of “why I quit teaching” essays.
The #NRORevolt is a backlash to the National Review's historic role as the self-appointed monitor of what is and is not an acceptably mainstream view in the American conservative movement, including its sporadic "purges" of excessively anti-Semitic or racist elements. But it relies in part on a broader critique that the mainstream right is filled with "cuckservatives" who refuse to stand up for white interests and are laying the groundwork for LGBTQ equality, and encompasses an ugly critique of Jewish "kikeservatives" and other anti-Semitic themes.
Whereas break-dancing is about getting down on the floor, litefeet is all jumps and fast floaty footwork performed to dance music and chants. (See the basics below.) Its most visible promoter has been Goofy, leader of the WaffleNYC crew, who turned litefeet into “It’s Showtime!” on the subway. Joyful to some commuters, irritating to others, it now gets performers arrested. But the creators have moved on: Goofy has been dancing in ads in Europe, and Mr. YouTube runs NYCHA-funded classes, wearing shirts and hats from his four sponsors. This summer, Pharrell and P. Diddy flew Mr. YouTube, Kidd Patt, and SpaceMan to L.A. for a video. “In New York,” Kidd Patt says, “people ask what kind of dance I’m doing,” he says. “My goal is to have them be, like, Oh, that’s litefeet!”
Hit-to-kill cases continue, and hit-to-kill drivers regularly escape serious punishment. In January a woman was caught on video repeatedly driving over an old man who had slipped in the snow. In April a school bus driver in Shuangcheng was accused of driving over a 5-year-old girl again and again. In May a security camera filmed a truck driver running over a young boy four times; the driver claimed that he had never noticed the child.
The people who try to keep the nation ready for these doomsday scenarios call them the Maximums of Maximums, or the MOMs. You might call them the mothers of all disasters. The term comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for the feds, it generally includes a small universe of possibilities: a major hurricane, a major earthquake, or an improvised nuclear device.
The people who try to keep the nation ready for these doomsday scenarios call them the Maximums of Maximums, or the MOMs. You might call them the mothers of all disasters. The term comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for the feds, it generally includes a small universe of possibilities: a major hurricane, a major earthquake, or an improvised nuclear device.
But the emerging American comedy, whether it be animated or live-action, carries with it neither sincere escapism nor cynical nihilism. Consider them sadcoms — the raw, honest, surprisingly hopeful, long-gestating progeny of M*A*S*H. Louie was perhaps the genre's modern groundbreaker, showing a person with often-reprehensible morals trying and failing to work against them, for the sake of the many good people around him and a next generation he clearly cares a great deal about. It was shocking, difficult, and heartbreaking, and its honesty resounded deeply with its audience.
Chris Hutt owns the Fowling Warehouse, a 34,000-square-foot repurposed industrial site in Hamtramck that's devoted to a football/bowling hybrid sport — fowling — he and some buddies invented while tailgating years ago at the Indianapolis 500.
Those are municipal workers in Los Angeles dumping "shade balls" into one of the city's reservoirs. The balls help maintain water quality by blocking sunlight, thereby preventing hazardous reactions with the chlorine and bromide in the water. (The shade balls also reduce evaporation, though this is a much smaller benefit.)
Tomorrow and Saturday, a bicycling bartender, or “biketender,” will deliver cocktails you order up via the Uber app. On Friday, those downtown can enjoy the biketender delivered goods between 2 and 6 p.m., and the bikes move to Capitol Hill on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Gender contamination captures the cultural disapproval that takes place when objects seen as having a strong gender identity are used by the wrong gender. Unilever’s vice president of skin care, Rob Candelino, told me that before Dove launched a cleansing bar specifically for men in 2010, the company’s research showed that men made up as much as a third of those using the traditional Dove beauty bar. But the original product was strongly associated with women, and as a result the men were using the product in a passive way, often letting their wives or girlfriends buy it, and “probably not telling their guy friends,” Candelino says. The beauty bar’s potential for growth among men was limited so long as it stayed a beauty bar.
So what does this have to do with conservatism or politics? By supporting immigration reform, criminal justice reform, etc., a white conservative is therefore surrendering his honor and masculinity (and it won’t be long before his women folk are compromised, as well!). A cuckservative is, therefore, a race traitor.
Ghost, a word more commonly associated with Casper, the boy who saw dead people and a 1990 movie starring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, has also come to be used as a verb that refers to ending a romantic relationship by cutting off all contact and ignoring the former partner’s attempts to reach out.
"Straight male stars aren't stressed out at being perceived as gay or extremely gay-friendly," she writes in a piece for THR. "Far from feeling stigmatized, they welcome the gay gaze, staring invitingly and modeling shirtless on the covers of such gay magazines as Out and The Advocate, or both." And she has a word to identify this new species of men: "Stromos" — that is, "straight homos."
It’s easy to see why he’s become the go-to for such roles. Whatever the male equivalent of Resting Bitch Face is, Corddry has it: He’s white and power-bald, with a sporty build and small eyes perfect for narrowing into indignant slits or dilating into lecherous orbs, and he favors the kind of bawdy humor he perfected as a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2002 to 2006, where he reported on, among other things, the power of the North Korean Taepodong (try to say it out loud without snickering).
The users of FPH referred to themselves "shitlords" and "shitladies," a mild acknowledgment that they knew they were mean people. And they would call the fat people they were laughing at names like "hamplanet," "landwhale," and "butterbeast."
The users of FPH referred to themselves "shitlords" and "shitladies," a mild acknowledgment that they knew they were mean people. And they would call the fat people they were laughing at names like "hamplanet," "landwhale," and "butterbeast."
The users of FPH referred to themselves "shitlords" and "shitladies," a mild acknowledgment that they knew they were mean people. And they would call the fat people they were laughing at names like "hamplanet," "landwhale," and "butterbeast."
A standard sequel continues all of the ongoing stories from previous films. Return of the Jedi concludes the narrative started by Star Wars and continued by The Empire Strikes Back. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home focuses primarily on a time-traveling adventure, but it also explores the fallout of Spock’s death and resurrection in the previous two films, The Wrath of Khan and The Search For Spock. In contrast, a selective sequel picks and chooses which parts of previous continuity to use and which to discard as if they never happened.
Let's consider something new: Yuccies. Young Urban Creatives. In a nutshell, a slice of Generation Y, borne of suburban comfort, indoctrinated with the transcendent power of education, and infected by the conviction that not only do we deserve to pursue our dreams; we should profit from them.
Yes, the dregs you usually pour down the drain when you open a can of chickpeas are actually magical. When whipped, this substance takes on an uncannily egg-white-like texture. Coined aquafaba, or Latin-ish for bean liquid, by vegan baker Goose Wohlt, it’s attracted more than 11,000 members to the Facebook group “Vegan Meringue - Hits and Misses!” I’ve been hooked on this Facebook feed for the past two weeks, amazed by all the miraculous things other vegans done with the chickpea-based foam, like bake beautiful cakes and create delicious looking pasta.
http://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum Clicking on a chumlink—even one on the site of a relatively high-class chummer, like nymag.com—is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser chum. The boxes are daisy-chained together in an increasingly cynical, gross funnel; quickly, the open ocean becomes a sewer of chum.
Clicking on a chumlink—even one on the site of a relatively high-class chummer, like nymag.com—is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser chum. The boxes are daisy-chained together in an increasingly cynical, gross funnel; quickly, the open ocean becomes a sewer of chum.
This is a chumbox. It is a variation on the banner ad which takes the form of a grid of advertisements that sits at the bottom of a web page underneath the main content. It can be found on the sites of many leading publishers, including nymag.com, dailymail.co.uk, usatoday.com, and theawl.com (where it was “an experiment that has since ended.”)
Cusack still lives in Chicago, which forms a crucial part of his persona. His separation from Hollywood is geographical as well as philosophical. Midwestern contrarianism is ingrained in him — Cusack doesn’t think he belongs, and therefore he doesn’t belong.
“I call it nouveau sane, when the ultimate act of rebellion is staying sane,” he says. “Sometimes that means removing yourself from the fucking rat race.
Louise (Nadia Hilker) is a stunner in every sense of the word. She’s sharp, smart and gorgeous, and she’s flighty in a way that makes Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) want to give chase past the one-night fireworks she offers. Part of her flirtatious dismissal of commitment is caused by a fear of intimacy, but the main part is caused by her fear of turning into a multi-headed wolftopus mermaid monster in front of a guy she’s crushing on. In order to stay safe (and keep a large amount of others safe), she eschews the possibility of partnership, and when that no longer works, she hides this fundamental thing about herself, allowing herself to feel happy with another for the first time in centuries.
The concept of terroir will be familiar to most Edible Geography readers; recently, we also explored the idea of “merroir,” or tasting place in sea salt. But what about aeroir—the atmospheric taste of place?
This afternoon, the Center for Genomic Gastronomy and I will be offering New Yorkers a chance to taste aeroir, with a side-by-side tasting of air from different cities. With the support of the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, we have spent the past few months designing and fabricating a smog-tasting cart, complete with built-in smog chamber, as well as developing a range of synthetic smog recipes.
Combining the words “fake” and “Instagram,” middle school and high school students have been creating alternate Instagram accounts. These accounts can be used innocently (to share embarrassing photos with a smaller following, like close girlfriends) or wickedly (to hide pictures of parties with alcohol and other drugs from parents, teachers and others).
noun – a disclaimer about swinging for the fences and missing…hard.
Okay, we made that word up, but we do feel like you should know that we’re the kinds of people who swing for the fences and occasionally miss. We actually celebrate the miss, because if we’re really going for it, that also means we hit it out of the park from time to time.
Hello people. I'm TheRaven's feline roomate. I sent him out so I could pen a special message to Mojo: who is this woman and what idiot let her have access to Drum's blog?
What does it take for a man to run naked through a Florida neighborhood, try to have sex with a tree, and claim to be the mythical god Thor? According to a report by the Associated Press, the culprit is flakka — a synthetic drug that's been reportedly linked to deranged behavior in the Sunshine State.
In case you haven't noticed lately, girls are all about that dad bod. I hadn't heard about this body type until my roommate mentioned it. She used to be crazy over guys she claimed had the dad bod. After observing the guys she found attractive, I came to understand this body type well and was able to identify it. The dad bod is a nice balance between a beer gut and working out. The dad bod says, "I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time." It's not an overweight guy, but it isn't one with washboard abs, either.
Is "dadbod" a hashtag joke or a social-sexual movement? A bit of both, probably. A month ago at The Odyssey, Clemson sophomore Mackenzie Pearson explained that this “new trend” had “fraternity boys everywhere” rejoicing. "In case you haven't noticed lately, girls are all about that dad bod," she wrote. "The dad bod is a nice balance between a beer gut and working out. The dad bod says, ‘I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time.’” In the time since, #dadbod has gone viral on social media, to the cheers of Jason Segel lookalikes everywhere.
A rough ride. Bringing them up front. A screen test. A cowboy ride. A nickel ride.
Police say that intentionally banging a suspect around in the back of a van isn't common practice. But the range of slang terms to describe the practice suggests it's more common that anyone would hope—and a roster of cases show that Freddie Gray is hardly the first person whose serious injuries allegedly occurred while in police transit. Citizens have accused police of using aggressive driving to rough suspects up for decades in jurisdictions across the country. Though experts don't think it's a widespread practice, rough rides have injured many people, frayed relationships, and cost taxpayers, including Baltimore's, millions of dollars in damages.
A rough ride. Bringing them up front. A screen test. A cowboy ride. A nickel ride.
Police say that intentionally banging a suspect around in the back of a van isn't common practice. But the range of slang terms to describe the practice suggests it's more common that anyone would hope—and a roster of cases show that Freddie Gray is hardly the first person whose serious injuries allegedly occurred while in police transit. Citizens have accused police of using aggressive driving to rough suspects up for decades in jurisdictions across the country. Though experts don't think it's a widespread practice, rough rides have injured many people, frayed relationships, and cost taxpayers, including Baltimore's, millions of dollars in damages.
What these Danes did with a deck of 52 made those in attendance do double takes. They manipulated cards into impossible 3-D configurations at speeds that even to the naked eye resembled camera tricks. They cut, flung, flipped, rotated, juggled, and shuffled playing cards in the middle of the street, along train tracks, their faces emotionless, their hands a blur. It’s yo-yo tricks performed by cardsharps with the street cred of a Parkour video. There’s a name for it: cardistry.
During a pause in Daredevil (actually, it was during another endless conversation between Wilson Fisk and Madame Gao in Chinese), I asked Twitter whether there’s a term for what feels like the opposite of binge-watching: that modern sensation of feeling compelled to finish a show that you don’t really like. A few people wondered if this wasn’t simply hate-watching, though hate-watching to me seems both more active and more actively enjoyable. A few of the answers hinted at specific shows other people have felt this way about: “Broadchurch-ing,” “Card-housing,” and “Friday Night Lights–ing.” My favorite suggestion was “purge-watching,” since it gets at that feeling of dreary obligation, of the chorelike effort to clear away televisual clutter, as though you’re finally eating that can of lentil soup that’s been sitting in the cupboard, just to get rid of it.
Tank cars containing volatile mixtures of crude and fuel gases are derailing—potentially creating fireballs that can shoot the length of a football field into the sky—and they'll continue to derail at an average rate of 10 a year, according to one US Department of Transportation report. Hence the phrase "bomb trains," which was slapped on them by opponents. When these trains move through cities, the risk of potential fatalities increases dramatically.
The KonMari method, as Kondo has coined her system, is simple: keep the belongings that “spark joy,” and get rid of those that don’t. That overpriced cocktail dress you always feel guilty for never wearing? Gone. Those sad laundry-day tights with the holey toes and stretched-out waistband? Sayonara. The system leaves precious little room for excuses: no maybe-I’ll-wear-it-somedays or but-I-got-it-as-a-gifts or I’ll-just-wear-it-to-beds.
The Modern Language Association says there was a 45 percent increase in university-level enrollment in Korean language classes between 2009 and 2013, from 8,449 students to 12,229. Though the raw numbers are still quite small, a look at why any sort of jump might be happening is interesting. Larry Gordon, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, thinks the wave of international fascination with Korean pop culture — hallyu — is partially responsible.
You could be excused for thinking so. Efforts to preserve local “character” while accommodating massive development have seen a revival of what’s called “façadism” where old building exteriors are used as a kind of ground-level wrapping on new structures. Facadism is not a new phenomenon, but it’s booming in Seattle these days.
There’s an idea called “gray man”, in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure. I don’t have that as a concern, but there’s something appealingly “low-drag” about gray man theory: reduced friction with one’s environment. Arc’teryx Veilance had a lot of that in its original DNA, and I also find it, though probably for different reasons, in Outlier. Nothing worse than clothing that gets in its wearer’s way.
Expect staple items like Coyle’s cult-favorite cretzel (a glorious union between a croissant and pretzel), meringues, croissants, signature four-layer chocolate cake and the beloved passion fruit tart. The rotating menu line-up will also include fruit pastries—seasonal rhubarb, strawberries and raspberries are the likeliest early contenders.
Twitter is a breeding ground for trolls, and when your name is J.K. Rowling, your mentions probably get bombarded with them daily. But Rowling, ever the sophisticated writer, had a clapback for the ages when one fan tweeted her about Dumbledore's sexuality, saying he or she just couldn't "see him in that way." ("In that way" meaning gay.)
If you've heard of totchos, it was probably only in the past few months. If you haven't yet run across this modification of the classic nachos, using middle-school favorite tater tots in place of tortilla chips, you likely will soon. In the last six months, they've gone from slipping in at the occasional dive bar to showing up at every trendy spot in town.
Paquin’s company is still small—she skins the animals, makes everything herself, and likes to connect personally with each customer—but her ambition is huge. She wants to revolutionize the fur trade by making roadkill (which she calls “accidental fur”) a viable sector of the market.
Like truthers (9/11 was an inside job), birthers (Barack Obama was born in Kenya), and deathers (Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living in West Hollywood), choicers are another group deranged conspiracy theorists who can't be dissuaded by science or evidence or facts. They insist that being gay is a conscious choice that a person makes. I've challenged choicers in the past to prove it—to put up or shut up—and I'm going to issue that challenge again.
Fifteen years later, the critical language used to carve up the phonies, saints and sad-sack wannabes of reality shows has migrated, and the loser edit has become a limber metaphor for exploring our own real-world failures. Fate doles out ideas for subplots — fire her, dump him, all species of mortification — and we eagerly run with them, cutting loser narratives for friends and enemies, the people we have demoted to the status of mere character. Everybody’s setbacks or degradations have been foreshadowed if we look hard enough at the old tape. We arrange the sequences, borrowing from cultural narratives of disgrace, sifting through the available footage with a bit of hindsight — and in turn, we endure our own loser edits when we stumble.
Leaving the unfortunate coinage of “choreplay”, do we really want to live in a world where men are only cleaning up around the house to get some? In a New York Times op-ed touting the new campaign, Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant tell the story of a woman who asked her husband to do the laundry. They write, “He picked up the basket and asked hopefully, ‘Is this Lean In laundry?’” I understand that the anecdote is meant to be charming, but in a culture where men are already taught to feel entitled to women sexually, I don’t find it cute in the least.
The accusation is rooted in what some in the LGBT community refer to as "transface" — a term that conjures the culturally taboo practice of "blackface" — in which a cisgender actor will "take" a role from a transgender actor.
"Duang" seems to be an example of onomatopoeia, a word that phonetically imitates a sound. It all seems to have started with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan, who in 2004 was featured in a shampoo commercial where he said famously defended his sleek, black hair using the rhythmical-sounding "duang". The word resurfaced again recently after Chan posted it on his Weibo page. Thousands of users then began to flood Chan's Weibo page with comments, coining the word in reference to his infamous shampoo appearance.
The City of Seattle is launching a new pilot program to create more sidewalk seating for restaurants and bars. “Streateries” will allow food and drink establishments to take existing parking spaces and turn them into sidewalk cafes.
There’s a healthier way of thinking about creativity that the musician Brian Eno refers to as “scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make up an “ecology of talent.”
I spelled out my grievances. “Academics,” I began, “don’t swoop into a person’s life uninvited and use him for some kind of academic exercise, and when I ask you to take it down you’re, ‘Oh, it’s not a spambot, it’s an infomorph.’”
Social cues exist on Twitter, too, mostly in the form of faving or replying. If you're making a lot of little jokes in her mentions and she's not even pity-faving them, I'm so sorry, but you're probably being a mentions pest. Maybe chill a little.
More common than outright vaccine deniers might be parents like Paul, who would be better described as delayers. They generally agree that vaccination is a public-health benefit, and they hate "anti-vaxxers." They're just hesitant and skeptical about some areas of vaccine science. As we've gone from one dose to more than 20 over the last 100 years, some parents have grown wary about inoculating their kids.
In fact, it is the opposite behavior—the belief that you can do anything, including things you are blatantly not qualified for or straight up lying about—should be pathologized. It has many names (Dunning-Krueger, illusory superiority), but I suggest we call it blowhard syndrome as a neat parallel.
In more recent years, when not busy working as a spokeswoman for the Spain launch of adultery-facilitating website Ashley Madison in 2011 (the company tells THR that "subsequently she did not honor the full terms of that contract"), she came to reposition herself as a self-styled "philanthropreneur," as she puts it on GGF's website.
Hold up, what's a dick tie? "I can't believe I'm describing this. But it's this elastic thing on this sock where you make it as tight as you can so that you get no blood flow or anything going on, and it kind of holds on to your man parts so the sock isn't, you know, pulled off during the scene."
Burlesque is not what was seen in that awful Cher/Christina Aguilera movie. It is performance art wherein the performer has complete control over the number: costume, song, and choreography. It also involves nudity (though this post does not). Nerdlesque is an offshoot of the burlesque scene, combining burlesque with all things nerdy and geeky.
To address this, artist Matt Starr came up with what he believes is the "next step in our generation’s obsession with nostalgia:" babycore. "The same way normcore stresses the normal, babycore stresses childishness; this sort of bright, primary-colored, carefree sense of style," he says.
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scarequotes commented on the word holibobs
http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/03/5-ways-to-be-a-backpacker-and-not-be-a-total-dick-6780232/
Your worn-out Havaianas, shoddy attempt at dreadlocks and a tan that makes you look like an extra from Geordie Shore make it abundantly clear you’ve been on holibobs.
There’s no need to harp on about it
Sure your friends will good-naturedly enjoy a story or two, but there’s a shelf life to your ‘this one time…’ stories.
August 4, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word plandid
http://mashable.com/2017/08/01/plandid-instagram-trend/#.wMIJZNFdmqM
So, what exactly are plandids? The word is a portmanteau of "planned" and "candid," which kinda sounds like a contradiction in terms. The idea is to post "as if you didn't know the picture was being taken, but you're still posing," according to Instagrammer Maria Gillett.
August 4, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word right-to-try
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/3/16091744/voxcare-senate-right-to-try-bill
You might have heard of the "right-to-try" movement. The gist of it is: Terminally ill patients should be given wide latitude to try out unproven treatments if they have exhausted all their other options.
More than 30 states have passed a "right-to-try" bill, often favored by more libertarian-minded people, and now the Senate has too. Supporters portray it as a humanitarian exercise for people with no other hope that removes the risk of a bureaucracy getting in their way.
August 3, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word digital blackface
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs
If you’ve never heard of the term before, “digital blackface” is used to describe various types of minstrel performance that become available in cyberspace. Blackface minstrelsy is a theatrical tradition dating back to the early 19th century, in which performers “blacken” themselves up with costume and behaviors to act as black caricatures. The performances put society’s most racist sensibilities on display and in turn fed them back to audiences to intensify these feelings and disperse them across culture. Many of our most beloved entertainment genres owe at least part of themselves to the minstrel stage, including vaudeville, film, and cartoons. While often associated with Jim Crow–era racism, the tenets of minstrel performance remain alive today in television, movies, music and, in its most advanced iteration, on the Internet.
August 2, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Jaugust
https://theathletic.com/79875/2017/07/30/by-the-numbers-jason-heywards-homer-powers-cubs-to-jaugust-win/
Manager Joe Maddon made it clear it didn’t feel like a normal July game to him.
“It’s Jaugust,” Maddon said. “It’s already there. There’s no getting around it. I love it, I absolutely love it and I think our players do. It’s great. The fans were absolutely energized tonight. It’s good stuff. And of course, it’s better when we win.”
July 31, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word reffy
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-weird-things-you-learn-growing-up-in-melting-pot-city/
It's okay to be a refugee. You wouldn't know that if you lived in a city filled with them. But what you really don't want to be is a "ref," and you don't ever want to be caught acting "reffy." That's the slang term Miamians created to divide themselves from a certain type of Latin American newcomer who hasn't quite gotten the hang of American life yet. Even minority groups that have been traditionally oppressed and segregated in America manage to find ways to oppress and segregate amongst their own. I'm going to launch that sentence into space as a warning for any incoming armadas of aliens looking to make friends.
July 29, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word overfat
https://www.seeker.com/health/90-percent-of-american-men-may-be-overfat
In other words, a person whose body weight is “normal” might have enough excess abdominal fat on his or her body to create health risks, while other people — in particular, athletes — might be technically “overweight” by standard measurements, but much healthier.
Laursen and his colleagues want everyone — doctors, nutritionists, and the rest of us — to start using a new word he says more accurately describes the problem: overfat.
July 26, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word CAFO
https://aeon.co/essays/what-more-evidence-do-we-need-to-stop-killing-pigs-for-food
But pigs suffer on an astounding scale on their way to our tables. Of the 100 million pigs annually raised for food in the United States, 97 per cent are confined to factory farms. These farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal-feeding operations) can best be described as ‘huge lagoons of pig sewage’. These farms do great environmental harm, and the pigs there endure short, miserable lives.
July 20, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word het-washing
http://www.avclub.com/article/heroes-actor-comes-out-after-bryan-fuller-outs-him-258084
At this year’s Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, Bryan Fuller accepted an Achievement Award for his visionary work on shows like Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, and, more recently, American Gods. During his speech, Fuller touched on queer representation on the small screen, and how it’s changed in the course of his career. Where his current TV show recently featured a bold and erotic gay sex scene, Fuller reminded his audience of all the “het-washing,” i.e., when a homosexual character is written to be heterosexual, that had occurred on other series. The writer-producer, who is an out gay man, alluded to a Heroes season-one cast member who threatened to walk from the show if his character were revealed to be homosexual. Fuller said that despite the fact the actor was gay, he didn’t want to play a gay character.
July 15, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word hiplet
http://people.com/bodies/hiplet-dancer-ballet-hip-hop-pointe/
“Hiplet is a mixture of hip-hop and ballet, but really anything that we can try to put en pointe that has, like, a groovy feeling to it,” dancer Zipporah Wilson said in a recent video. “You have to have a certain posture when you’re doing ballet. Usually, you’re up tall … pointe shoes were designed for ballet. Hiplet is different.”
July 14, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word packing cube
https://www.nytimes.com/guides/travel/how-to-pack-a-suitcase
Packing cubes: Inexpensive fabric containers (square or rectangular) that zip closed and fit into carry-on bags and suitcases are an efficient way to separate and organize items for multiple family members, said Rainer Jenss, the president and founder of the Family Travel Association, a trade group. “Each person gets his or her own cube so you know exactly whose stuff is whose,” he said.
July 12, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word hope-watch
http://uproxx.com/sepinwall/it-gets-better-after-six-episodes/
Shows taking time to become good is just the way TV works. Occasionally, you’ll find a Sopranos or a Cheers or a Mary Tyler Moore Show that arrives fully-formed at the peak of its powers, but most shows are evolving organisms, where the creators need a while to figure out how to best tell their stories, use their actors, work within constraints of budget or schedule or network, etc. Patience is required to see which shows live up to their full potential and which never get there; sometimes you get a Parks and Recreation (which went from mediocre to great after its first season) or an Americans (which went from good to great during that same second year transition), but other times, you might spend a season-plus waiting for a sitcom like Up All Night to stop being somehow less than the sum of its talented parts, only for it to be canceled before that happens.
My wife dubbed the practice “hope-watching,” and I’ve done plenty of it over the years as both amateur couch potato and professional.
July 10, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word tresbian
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jul/04/50-shades-of-gay-review-rupert-everett
What about girls, you ask? Granted, this is mainly about chaps, but then so much of it is personal, and Rupert has more experience of being a gay man than he does of being anything else. And he does go to Hebden Bridge, lesbian capital of Britain, and meets some lovely women. And I learn a new word: tresbian. As in a male-to-female transgender woman who identifies as a lesbian. Rather than French – or Franglais, or even Polari possibly – for very good. Which this is.
July 9, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word amatonormativity
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/stop-being-so-amatonormative----i-like-being-single-just-fine-433188233.html
"Amatonormativity" is a relatively new term — coined about five years ago by Elizabeth Brake, an associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University and the author of Minimizing Marriage — to capture two widely held assumptions. The first being a person who isn’t in a monogamous romantic relationship is seeking that type of relationship, and the second being a person would automatically be better off in a monogamous romantic relationship than he or she would be while single or in another type of relationship.
In a phone interview, Brake told me she modelled "amatonormativity" after the term "heteronormativity," or the belief heterosexuality is the default sexual orientation. ("Amatus" is the Latin word for "loved.") When the default assumption is that being in a committed relationship — any relationship, regardless of its quality — is prized above all else, it can leave some singles feeling singled out.
July 9, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word amatonormative
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/stop-being-so-amatonormative----i-like-being-single-just-fine-433188233.html
"Amatonormativity" is a relatively new term — coined about five years ago by Elizabeth Brake, an associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University and the author of Minimizing Marriage — to capture two widely held assumptions. The first being a person who isn’t in a monogamous romantic relationship is seeking that type of relationship, and the second being a person would automatically be better off in a monogamous romantic relationship than he or she would be while single or in another type of relationship.
In a phone interview, Brake told me she modelled "amatonormativity" after the term "heteronormativity," or the belief heterosexuality is the default sexual orientation. ("Amatus" is the Latin word for "loved.") When the default assumption is that being in a committed relationship — any relationship, regardless of its quality — is prized above all else, it can leave some singles feeling singled out.
July 9, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word earlymoon
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/earlymoons-latest-wedding-trend/story?id=48438576
While honeymoons give newlyweds a chance to relax after their wedding, more and more engaged couples are taking a vacation even before their wedding festivities begin.
Couples say the pre-wedding vacation, dubbed an “earlymoon,” gives them a chance to de-stress and reconnect before tying the knot.
July 9, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word doughwich
https://www.eater.com/2017/6/26/15858180/raw-cookie-dough-trend
When pitching their idea, Schmid and Pacetti claimed their product was the only edible cookie dough on the market made to be eaten as-is. Not anymore: Between new shops, expansions, and menu upgrades, 2017 is set to be the breakout year for edible cookie dough. Dō — based in New York City, where there is a line for everything — certainly garnered a lot of publicity during its January opening, but it wasn’t the only doughy debut of the year. In February, Tart Sweets bakery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, started selling its dough in “doughwiches” and by the scoop through its cookie dough bar, which is only open Fridays and Saturdays. Earlier this year, Yoyo Berri frozen yogurt shops in Nebraska and South Dakota started offering raw cookie dough to liven up yesterday’s snack craze. And four flavors of the stuff, served with a side of “ice milk,” will be among the newest items featured at this year’s Minnesota State Fair.
June 26, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word enby
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/877637588529561600
(And that's for cis women--for society that has trouble remembering trans women, enbys, etc. exist, the HORROR that they would take the mic)
June 21, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word begleri
https://www.artofplay.com/collections/amusements/products/copper-begleri
Break out your EDC ninja moves with this stylish brass Begleri. Inspired by traditional Greek worry beads, the Begleri is a popular skill toy that's kind of like nunchaku for your fingers.
June 17, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word sanguinarian
https://thefederalist.com/2017/06/16/trans-mainstreaming-blood-drinking-twerking-second-graders-will-ever-say-enough/
Yesterday I learned a new word: sanguinarian. It’s as bad as it sounds, as I discovered in the secret vampire group, where 2,000 group members exchange resources for best ways to find willing human donors for their blood consumption and how to keep the habit a secret from their immediate circles who would never understand what it’s like to be an actual vampire. It’s an elevated life form, one that common folk could never understand. But still not hurting anyone…okay, well at least not without their consent. So what’s the problem?
June 17, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Kongsploitation
http://oh-the-horror.com/page.php?id=2006
And then you had some folks that were content to just ruthlessly riff on King Kong itself. Rather than imagine literally any other monster blown up to ridiculous proportions, they simply recycled the overgrown primate storyline again and again, resulting in a strange, dusty little cinematic corner that’s sheer Kongsploitation. And like any idiosyncratic genre, its offerings range from nakedly dull knock-offs to completely deranged dispatches that feel like they shouldn’t exist. Here’s five of them, and this is by no means a comprehensive list—this just happens to be the quintet I watched on a whim with Kong: Skull Island approaching. Believe it or not, there are at least five more that could comprise another list in the future.
June 17, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Xennial
https://www.good.is/articles/generation-xennials
Between Generation X and the Millennials, there’s a group of people currently in their late 20s and early 30s who don’t identify with either label. We call them the Xennials—a micro-generation that serves as a bridge between the disaffection of Gen X and the blithe optimism of Millennials. But why aren’t they as pissed off as Gen X or as confident as Millennials? Are they luckier than both the preceding and following generations? Or did they get screwed that much harder, thanks to a unique combination of developmental milestones and world events? Our authors, born on either end of the four-year-window, disagree.
June 11, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word blerd
https://blavity.com/12-awesome-blerd-accounts-you-should-follow-on-twitter/
Blerd, or black nerd, is a term that has gained more and more popularity in the past couple of years. Try searching for #blerd on Instagram and Twitter and you'll be flooded with tons of nerdtastic thoughts and personalities. In fact, it's likely that you'll get sucked in to some rabbit hole of randomness ... because let's face it, all of us have a bit of nerd inside of us. And so, here's a dozen Blerd accounts in Twitter that you should be following to get your daily dose of blerdiness:
June 10, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Glonut
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4575646/Glow-dark-doughnut-created-Black-Star-Pastry.html
The mastermind behind Strawberry Watermelon Cake, dubbed the most Instagrammed cake in the world, has now given us the gorgeous 'Glonut'.
And creator Christopher Thé has told Daily Mail Australia just how he managed to get his doughnuts to look radioactive - while still tasting delicious.
June 9, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word hard seltzer
https://www.tastingtable.com/drinks/national/hard-seltzer-taste-test
Looking for something refreshing, bubbly and not too sweet? Oh, and alcoholic? We've got just the thing: hard seltzer. Yes, your boozy LaCroix dreams have come true.
June 2, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word a-Lago
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/a-lago-gate-trump-scandal-article-1.2973421
I’ll leave it to greater minds (looking at you, Dan Rather) to determine how yuge the Flynn scandal is, but one thing is certain: The Trump presidency is starting out so rocky that we’re going to need a better scandal suffix than the hoary old “-gate.”
The obvious choice? It’s “-a-lago.” As in the winter White House, Mar-a-Lago.
May 27, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word banista
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/amazon-banana-stand-seattle-market
Amazon’s community banana stands were thought up by CEO Jeff Bezos, who thought the company could help the local community by giving out healthy food. The first stand opened on campus of the online retailer and cloud computing giant in December 2015, and it was joined by another in October 2016. More than 1.7 million bananas have been given away by the “banistas” who run the two stands, Monday through Friday.
May 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word squillo
https://younginrome.com/2012/01/19/word-of-the-day-squillo/
Apart from sounding like some dirty act, ‘squillo‘ is one of the most useful words in the Italian vocabulary, in my opinion. What does it mean, you ask?! Well since there is no exact translation into English, it means, ‘call someone on his or her cellphone, let it ring 1-3 times, and then hang up.’ This will let your friend know that you have arrived at your previously agreed upon destination.
May 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word frosé
https://austin.eater.com/maps/best-frose-frozen-rose-wine-austin-bars
Hot weather means it’s prime time for frosty beverages, and what better way to indulge than with glasses of the still-trendy frosé (a.k.a. frozen rosé)? Take the summer-perfect wine, freeze it, and viola, it becomes even more seasonally appropriate.
May 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word avolatte
https://www.eater.com/2017/5/22/15674630/avolatte-australia-avocado-latte
From the country that brought the world fairy toast and flat whites comes another breakfast innovation: the avolatte, a latte inside of an avocado. It’s actually a latte inside of half an avocado skin, with a little bit of the flesh of the fruit still clinging to its shell.
May 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word stuntsploitation
http://outlawvern.com/2017/05/19/steel-arena/
STEEL ARENA doesn’t seem at first glance like a particularly distinguished b-movie, especially in its current form as a poorly transferred old VHS tape that’s scanned but not panned. Many scenes, including the first one, are conversations in the front seats of vehicles with one or more participants mostly cropped out of frame. I rented it because it’s one of these stuntsploitation movies I find so interesting, but this time it’s about the lives of professional stunt drivers in a road show, not in movies. Most of the stars are real drivers playing themselves and doing their own driving. STEEL ARENA is to stunt drivers as ACT OF VALOR is to Navy SEALs.
May 19, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word witchsploitation
http://disinfo.com/2013/07/witchsploitation-witchcraft-documentaries-from-the-golden-age-of-groovy/
Witchsploitation! Witchcraft “Documentaries” From the Golden Age of Groovy
May 18, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word kindasorta
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/05/16/25145430/savage-love-letter-of-the-day-getting-off-with-a-selfish-top
But you kindasorta accidentally consented to this treatment/scene/behavior—sortakindasorta—by "sort of" saying "no problem." You're allowed to withdraw your kindasorta consent at any time, of course, and if sex with this might-be-an-asshole guy is making you unhappy—if taking his loads and being his come dump makes you feel bad/used/unsatisfied—withdraw your consent or renegotiate your deal. If not getting to come yourself during these encounters isn't what you want going forward, HOLE, make your dissatisfaction known and your satisfaction a requirement.
May 16, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word attention hacking
https://datasociety.net/output/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/
Far-right groups develop techniques of “attention hacking” to increase the visibility of their ideas through the strategic use of social media, memes, and bots—as well as by targeting journalists, bloggers, and influencers to help spread content.
May 15, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word prestige TV
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/5/11/15587088/prestige-tv
In recent weeks, the knives have come out for so-called “prestige TV,” the high-toned cable and streaming dramas that drive so much discussion on the internet and earn so much attention from the media.
May 14, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Dark Knight employee
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/04/who-left-food-in-the-fridge-the-rise-of-the-dark-knight-workplace-vigilante
More famous for populating Wild West gangs, superhero movies and the New York subway, vigilantes are now found in all corners of professional life, a new survey has found. Over the course of their careers, more than half the people surveyed had experienced at least one “Dark Knight employee”, as researchers dubbed them, while 18% said they still worked with one.
May 5, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word ACE
Short for Adverse Childhood Experiences.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean
An ACE score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. According to the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, the rougher your childhood, the higher your score is likely to be and the higher your risk for later health problems.
May 5, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word MerMay
http://www.animatorisland.com/what-is-mermay/
The legendary animator Tom Bancroft has a challenge for you this month! Come check it out and join in.
Over on his Instagram account, Tom has created #MerMay, a drawing challenge that invites you to “post a new mermaid drawing every day in May.”
May 4, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word fidget spinner
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/3/15529506/fidget-spinners-trend-science
If you don’t have kids, you’ve probably never heard of the fidget spinner. But if you do, you may have recently been dragged to a toy store or 7-Eleven to purchase this latest must-have gadget.
Fidget spinners, made from plastic or metal with a bearing in the center and several prongs that can spin around it, are intended for mindless play while working or sitting in class.
May 3, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word brewstillery
http://www.startribune.com/word-of-the-week-let-s-drink-a-toast-to-brewstilleries/421009663/
Definition: A brewpub that’s also a distillery. Not vice versa; that would a disery.
Sample usage: “Bro, we can probably get like a pail of whiskey at that new brewstillery.”
Popularity: It makes sense in context; otherwise it sounds like a word for inebriated shenanigans. “All right, you two,” the policeman said, “cut out the brewstillery.”
May 3, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word soft swap
http://www.thestranger.com/savage-love/2017/05/03/25119439/savage-love
We've been sleeping with another couple for three months (first time my BF and I opened our relationship). How do I suggest full penetration with the opposite partner? At this point, we just do oral and that's the "groove" we're in.
Only-oral-with-others may be this couple's preferred groove and the lane they want to stay in. If they're only up for the "soft swap," as it's known in swinging circles, penetration isn't gonna happen. But you should feel free to ask for what you want—at the very least, you'll get some long-overdue clarity about their boundaries.
May 3, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word nooch
http://blog.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/2014/09/13/meet-nutritional-yeast-thats-nooch-for-short/
Although it shares a name with the same stuff used to get bread to rise, nutritional yeast is a deactivated form of yeast. So it’s not a leavening agent and it won’t froth when it hits liquid. And because it is not derived from animal or wheat products, it’s considered vegan and it’s also gluten-free. You’ll find it in both powder and flake forms, in bulk bins of health food stores and in shaker bottles. And as for the less-than-fun name, the vegan blogosphere has taken care of that by nicknaming the stuff “nooch.”
May 2, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word greyfield
https://www.citylab.com/work/2017/04/how-to-survive-a-retail-meltdown/524868/
The proliferation of half-vacant shopping centers and abandoned malls on the fringes of cities has become such a pervasive problem that we have a new word for it: greyfields. Chances are you have a few in your community: acres of paved parking with weeds creeping through the cracks and a dilapidated big-box structure standing in the middle. They’re the increasingly hard-to-ignore manifestation of what’s often described as the retail meltdown. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the retail sector lost approximately 30,000 jobs in March alone, with thousands of store closings projected through 2017. At this pace, store closings in 2017 are likely to surpass the Great Recession year of 2008.
May 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word reproductive coercion
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44886/stealthing-is-not-a-trend-its-sexual-assault/
The reality is that, stripped of its trendy new name, "stealthing" is a common form of domestic violence, which is typically called "reproductive coercion." It includes, not just removing or sabotaging condoms, but a wide array of tactics intended to sabotage birth control or render it unavailable. "Reproductive coercion" cases are hard to take to court—either because the laws don't exist, or because the cases are difficult to prove—but it's still regarded as unambiguously abusive. It's also common: In 2010, the National Domestic Violence Hotline surveyed 3,169 women, and found that a quarter of them had been ordered not to use birth control. In another survey, 16 percent of women reported that their partners "poked holes in condoms, hid birth-control pills, or threatened them if the women didn't get pregnant."
May 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word stealthing
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44886/stealthing-is-not-a-trend-its-sexual-assault/
But, though "sex trend" coverage is always obnoxious, it becomes downright dangerous when it obscures and trivializes sexual violence. The latest instance: "stealthing," a practice in which men remove their condoms during sex without their partner's consent. It's drawn plenty of overheated coverage already: The New York Post dubs it "The New Dangerous Sex Trend;" it's a "Disturbing Sex Trend" as per USA Today. You would hardly know from these headlines what the fuss is about: National Women's Law Center fellow Alexandra Brodsky's recent paper in the Columbia Journal of Law and Gender advocates for criminalizing "stealthing" as a form of sexual assault.
May 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word declineshaming
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/shaming-users/
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
May 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word confirmshaming
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/shaming-users/
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
May 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word manipulink
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/shaming-users/
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
May 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word broflake
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/netflix-dear-white-people-show-series-2017-twitter-reaction-a7571606.html
Netflix dropped the first trailer for its new comedy series Dear White People today, and already broflakes (what I’ve decided to call MAGA hat-wearing dudes who complain about “snowflakes” but are themselves overly sensitive) are cancelling their accounts.
April 30, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word planesona
https://twitter.com/ratbingo/status/856307536282124288/photo/1
April 28, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Tumblr pink
http://tinyletter.com/lschmeiser/letters/so-what-who-cares-vol-3-issue-25-what-we-think-when-we-think-pink
For those of you not fluent in It Tints: Millennial pink is the pale, blush-peach-salmon-baby pink hue that's on everything from home goods to tote bags. It's also known as Tumblr Pink or Rose Quartz. We were warned to expect it in fall 2015, when Pantone decreed it to be one of the colors of the year for 2016.
April 26, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word millennial pink
http://tinyletter.com/lschmeiser/letters/so-what-who-cares-vol-3-issue-25-what-we-think-when-we-think-pink
For those of you not fluent in It Tints: Millennial pink is the pale, blush-peach-salmon-baby pink hue that's on everything from home goods to tote bags. It's also known as Tumblr Pink or Rose Quartz. We were warned to expect it in fall 2015, when Pantone decreed it to be one of the colors of the year for 2016.
And Pantone's color forecasters looked like geniuses when it broke out big. According to color forecasters, this pink was the right hue at the right time: the muted tone reflects "society's understanding of femininity ... changing the way people think about the female experience."
As a result of its timeliness, millennial pink is the icy hue that refuses to go away in 2017 -- it's selling bigger than anything in green, which was supposed to be the It Color for 2017, a sort of "Well, that was a crazy year! Aren't we all glad we're chill and into saving the environment now?" palate cleanser after society had finished wrestling with questions of how we define gender.
April 26, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word femmephobia
http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/femmephobia-queer-community/
Now, femmephobia is the fear or hatred of all people and things which are perceived as femme, feminine, effeminate, and/or twink, regardless of their gender.
A direct result of femmephobia is the oppression of anyone (men, women, and other genders) whose gender presentation is in any way classified as being on the feminine end of the gender binary, due to their clothing, behavior, or mannerisms.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Satafrika
http://www.entertainmentsa.co.za/lol/memes-reason-satafrika-no-chill-check/
While every day is a different crisis in ‘’SATAFRIKA,’’ the world of memes keeps on growing into a no-chill zone that finds humour in everything and everyone. Whether you are Jacob Zuma, Malusi Gigaba or Unathi Msengana, when it is time for social media to roast and meme-fy you afterwards, your status or money won’t be able to save you!
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word fintech
https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/24/an-obscure-regulatory-debate-has-put-the-entire-u-s-fintech-community-on-edge/
The future of American fintech may hang in the balance of a pitched battle that has grown in intensity over the past four months. An obscure request for comments on regulatory standards, released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) last March, has since evolved into a complex turf war between the states and Washington, DC.
Caught in the middle is the entire online finance industry, raising the question of just what a “fintech” business really is. Though it hasn’t made many national headlines, this fight may determine the future of innovation, competition and survival in the fintech world.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word dyadic
https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex
What tf is perisex
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word endosex
https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex
What tf is perisex
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word perisex
https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex
What tf is perisex
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word demimale
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demiguy
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word demiman
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demiguy
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word demiboy
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demiguy
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word demiguy
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demiguy
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word demifemale
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demigirl
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word demiwoman
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demigirl
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word demigirl
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demigirl
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word aspec
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Aspec
Aspec
On the asexuality spectrum.
Oh, Autumn, she said she was slightly on the aspec.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word aro
http://www.asexuality.org/en/topic/114444-can-you-explain-acearogrey-to-me/?do=findComment&comment=1061101690
asexual= Someone who does not experience sexual attraction to anyone.
Aro= Someone who does not experience romantic attraction to anyone
Grey= Someone who experience sexual attraction very rarely
Demisexual= Someone who only experience sexual attraction when creating an emotional bond with another.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word SWERF
(Acronym: Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist)
https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/855470241798922241
"SWERFs" are exclusionary of sex workers; "AERFs" are exclusionary of ace and aro and aspec people. So "REGs" covers a spectrum.
April 25, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word BJ
https://qz.com/592710/why-some-koreans-make-10000-a-month-to-eat-on-camera/
Mukbang is a portmanteau word that combines the Korean word for “eat” (muok-da) with the word for “broadcast” (bang song). The top mukbang earners can earn as much as $10,000 a month by some accounts, not including sponsorships. The oddest part of their payment structure is that it’s not pay-per-view, ad-based, or salary-based. Rather, ordinary viewers voluntarily send their favorite BJs (which stands for Broadcasting Jockey, a uniquely Korean use of this acronym) money in the form of “star balloons”—a type of proprietary virtual currency that can be bought and sold with regular fiat cash.
April 21, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word mukbang
https://qz.com/592710/why-some-koreans-make-10000-a-month-to-eat-on-camera/
I am frequently asked why Koreans are so weird. Just as soon as I think I have an answer, some new trend materializes that subverts all previous theories. Take, for example, mukbang, a uniquely Korean trend of people getting paid to eat large meals in front of a webcam for a live-streaming broadcast. Wow, the future really is now.
Mukbang is a portmanteau word that combines the Korean word for “eat” (muok-da) with the word for “broadcast” (bang song). The top mukbang earners can earn as much as $10,000 a month by some accounts, not including sponsorships. The oddest part of their payment structure is that it’s not pay-per-view, ad-based, or salary-based. Rather, ordinary viewers voluntarily send their favorite BJs (which stands for Broadcasting Jockey, a uniquely Korean use of this acronym) money in the form of “star balloons”—a type of proprietary virtual currency that can be bought and sold with regular fiat cash.
April 21, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Dadurday
Per a conversation I've had, a Saturday where dad takes the kids to give mom a break.
April 21, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word wypipo
http://neguswhoread.com/wypipo-explained/
Why not just say “white people?” Again, because Black people are cool as fuck. Also, just because the terms are derivatives of each other, doesn’t mean they are the same thing. Wypipo are different from White People.
Do tell. How so? Well, first of all, Wypipo say shit like “do tell,” whereas there are a number of white people who would never utter that phrase. To understand fully, you must come to terms with one fact:
Not all white people are wypipo.
The two should not be confused or used interchangeably.
April 19, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word flinking
http://www.conwaydailysun.com/newsx/130970-jumbo-shrimp-are-state-seaperch-champs
The boys attached an 8-inch piece of PVC pipe to the front of their SeaPerch that was capable of picking up rings in obstacle course and challenge course events.
They also drilled a number of holes in their SeaPerch, and in the process coined a new word — "flinking."
"It means floating but not sinking," Ben explained.
April 19, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word envy-peddler
http://thefederalist.com/2016/04/14/economic-inequality-complaints-are-just-a-cover-for-anti-rich-prejudice/
It’s not fair to blame individuals for other people’s wrongdoing. Yet we let envy-peddlers get away with it when unfairly attacking rich people.
April 19, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word nuggs
(Short for chicken nuggets.)
https://twitter.com/carterjwm/status/849813577770778624
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS
April 18, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word vanlife
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement
Scroll through the images tagged #vanlife on Instagram and you’ll see plenty of photos that don’t have much to do with vehicles: starry skies, campfires, women in leggings doing yoga by the ocean. Like the best marketing terms, “vanlife” is both highly specific and expansive. It’s a one-word life-style signifier that has come to evoke a number of contemporary trends: a renewed interest in the American road trip, a culture of hippie-inflected outdoorsiness, and a life free from the tyranny of a nine-to-five office job.
April 18, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Chella
Short for Coachella.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/music-festivals/7760469/coachella-2017-day-2-recap
9:02 p.m. "Chella, how you doing? We've missed you. We do not have the words to say how happy we are to be here," Oliver Sim of The XX first addresses the crowd after a few songs. During the hour-long set, the English band kept mostly to the tunes, adding simple, yet sincere commentary like Romy Croft's admitting that she was "a bit nervous." Yet, one of the most stand-out parts of their show was when Croft took the mic for a solo performance of, fittingly, "Performance." — Taylor Weatherby
April 16, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word sunnies
http://tinyletter.com/TwoBossyDames/letters/pandas-sunnies-nighies-oh-my
If eyes are the windows to the soul, then apparently nothing makes me feel more glamorous than HIDING my soul behind cheap sunglasses. I have been known to call sunnies season selfie season because once I have the right pair, I become incapable of NOT taking pictures of myself in them literally every second. The pair featured in all but one of these pictures is the pair of sunglasses I have been looking for since my Entirely Cliche Holly Golightly Obsession at 14, and they can be had on Amazon for just $9.99! I Which is very important, because the only thing I do more often than take selfies of my sunnies is lose them.
April 15, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word flameless cremation
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flameless-cremation-funeral-homes-alkaline-hydrolysis
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
April 13, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word bio-cremation
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flameless-cremation-funeral-homes-alkaline-hydrolysis
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
April 13, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word resomation
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flameless-cremation-funeral-homes-alkaline-hydrolysis
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
April 13, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word climaphobe
http://diymag.com/2017/04/12/in-the-studio-oh-wonder-interview-ultralife-2017
Their latest track ‘Lifetimes’ is a hip-hop flavoured number, inspired by seeing Drake live. It even has Anthony doing a spot of rapping or, as he puts it, doing a “pathetic white-boy rap.” He’s being very harsh on himself. It’s also a track centred on climate change, and the pair think they invented a new word in the process of writing it: “climaphobe.” “Is it a word?” Anthony asks. Josephine is straight on to Google. Apparently “climacophobia” is the fear of climbing, but there’s no such thing as a “climaphobe.” Yet.
April 13, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word lunch shaming
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/paradise-valley-schools-are-shaming-students-who-run-out-of-lunch-money-9215822
Desert Cove is a relatively affluent school — only 32.1 percent of the students there qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. So it's easy to imagine that singling out students whose account balances are low could be a traumatizing experience for them.
"Lunch shaming" can lead students to skip meals altogether, one Houston-based nonprofit found.
April 12, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word computer move
http://reallifemag.com/computer-moves/
Computer analysis discourages risk-taking; humans tend to have a psychological resistance to retreating, whereas algorithms don’t even possess the concept of “backwards.” As we learn from these machines, we also adopt their tendencies. The term “computer moves,” when it isn’t simply an accusation of foul play, is often used to denote moves that are far-sighted and counterintuitive. I’ve also seen it used to refer to moves that are tedious, uninspired, or oppressively safe. There seems to be a tinge of old-man nostalgia to this attitude: Sure, the kids these days can beat us, but where’s their sense of style?
April 6, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Pottery Barn rule
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/the-pottery-barn-rule-syria-edition/408193/
Powell’s Pottery Barn rule—“you break it, you own it”—is one of the iconic rhetorical flourishes of the Iraq War era, representing warnings ignored and unintended consequences unleashed. It turns out that the Pottery Barn rule is neither Powell’s nor Pottery Barn’s, as the following exchange with interviewer Walter Isaacson made clear.
April 5, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word nappiness
http://www.thenational.scot/news/15193930.The_secret_to_happiness_____short_naps/
Scientists have discovered a link between happiness and short naps. And they have coined a new word to describe the contented state that follows a brief daytime doze: nappiness.
April 5, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word amab
http://www.therainbowtimesmass.com/ask-a-trans-woman-whats-the-difference-between-sex-and-gender-anyway/
And I’m talking about AFAB (Assigned Female At Birth) and AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) people, never mind transgender folks. And when you add intersex people into the mix, there isn’t even a reliable or easily identifiable binary when referring to “biological sex.”
April 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word afab
http://www.therainbowtimesmass.com/ask-a-trans-woman-whats-the-difference-between-sex-and-gender-anyway/
And I’m talking about AFAB (Assigned Female At Birth) and AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) people, never mind transgender folks. And when you add intersex people into the mix, there isn’t even a reliable or easily identifiable binary when referring to “biological sex.”
April 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word fempowerment
https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/feminist-hypocrisy-is-the-new-trend-in-startup-narratives
But Agrawal is just the latest in a string of female company founders and CEOs, from Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso to Arianna Huffington and Ivanka Trump, whose business practices don’t entirely match the narrative of empowerment (or “fempowerment”) that they put forth publicly. And all these stories raise the question: Is it possible to be a committed feminist and a committed capitalist at the same time? And why are we still so surprised when these women — who have built brands on saying the things we want to hear — turn out to be just as flawed as their male peers?
March 27, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word shamehole
http://tinyletter.com/jessamyn/letters/tilt-35-solo-yolo-librarianship-stories
One of my special skills is identifying and remediating shameholes. I wish I had taken an "after" photo of this under-desk nook, because it is now a thing of beauty. Nearly every library has a space that looks like this. I also cleaned out the closet.
March 27, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word cinnamon word
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/10/what-famous-writers-most-used-words-say-about-them
For my book Nabokov’s Favourite Word Is Mauve, I created a computer program to sort through thousands of books by the most revered and popular authors to find out their “cinnamon words” – relatively rare words that a particular writer uses often. Obviously every author used function words such as “the” and “from” at a high rate, and basic adjectives like “big” or “fast”, but cinnamon words are the words that each author uses disproportionately compared with other writers.
March 26, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word dirtbag left
https://theringer.com/new-left-media-current-affairs-chapo-trap-house-crooked-media-9cb016070532#.e95iok73g
Frost moved to New York City in 2013 to play in a punk band and write music reviews, blogging for the website Dangerous Minds. But she turned to political Twitter and to writing research-driven criticism for Jacobin and other publications, working for the Democratic Socialists of America as secretary for a time. An empty room opened in her Bed-Stuy apartment, and Felix Biederman, who went on to cofound Chapo Trap House, moved in. Frost became a regular podcast guest. In a tweet, she coined the moniker “Dirtbag Left” to describe her crew, a piquant alternative to James Wolcott’s.
March 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word alt-left
https://theringer.com/new-left-media-current-affairs-chapo-trap-house-crooked-media-9cb016070532#.e95iok73g
In a recent column for Vanity Fair, the writer James Wolcott lumped many of these types of publications and their writers under the label “alt-left,” joining them to the Trumpian alt-right under the banner of their mutual discontent with Obama and Clinton, as well as what he called a desire for a “climactic reckoning.” “They’re not kissin’ cousins,” Wolcott wrote, “but they caterwaul some of the same tunes in different keys.”
March 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word pawternity
http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-give-employees-pawternity-leave-2017-3
Puppies need time to settle into their new home and bond with their owners. They've probably just been taken from their mothers and introduced to a brand new environment, so there's likely to be a lot of crying. And that's before you can even think about house-training.
As it turns out, some companies sympathise with this transition and offer what's known as "pawternity leave." In fact, research from Petplan found that 5% of owners have been offered paid leave from their job to adjust to their pet owning duties.
March 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word curvespo
http://beautyandthecurves.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-is-curvespo-and-fitspo.html
Curvespo inspires women to embrace their curves. Most of the pages I viewed showed healthy, curvy women. Although there is the alternative which showcases extremely obese women who are aiming to weigh over 500lbs. I would call that more of a fetish lifestyle, and not the purpose of Curvespo.
March 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word bonespo
http://www.myproana.com/index.php/topic/248668-thinspo-fitspo-or-bonespo/
What type of inspiration pics do it for you? Do you ultimately want to be thin, fit, or v thin like bonespo? Or just bmi healthy?
March 24, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word brownfield
NEW SENSE: COMPANIES THAT PREDATE THE INTERNET
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whys-so-hard-trying-make-things-easy-paul-shetler
When we think of digital, we rarely think of brownfields, those large organisations that predate the Internet. We usually think of Amazon, or Uber, or Netflix: companies with digital at their core, which grew to take advantage of it. That makes sense, in a way. As a rule, brownfields have over time accumulated established ways of doing things, and often a large and change-resistant bureaucracy.
March 22, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word she-eo
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/03/thinx-employee-accuses-miki-agrawal-of-sexual-harassment.html
Agrawal, who responded to initial reports that she was out as CEO by saying she remained the “SHE-eo,” wrote a post on Medium to address the Racked and Jezebel stories: “MY THINX RIDE” is “a personal statement from me, Miki, as a human being, not as a representative of THINX,” in which she explains that she “was maniacally focused on top and bottom line growth and on our mission to break the taboo … Like any Co-Founder/CEO, all I did was the best I could under these crazy circumstances. Yes, I have made a TON of mistakes along the way but I can proudly say that our company has grown from an idea in my head to an innovation that is worn by millions of satisfied women globally in a few short years.”
March 20, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word airpocalypse
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39279500
They say this could threaten the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 which will take place across a large geographical area. In their view it poses a greater threat to these future games, than dirty air did to the summer games in 2008.
"Had the Chinese government not reduced emissions as much as they did in the last four years we would have seen the same or worse airpocalypse events," said Prof Wang.
March 16, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word democide
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-and-republicans-expect-you-to-die-joe-public_us_58bd8453e4b0fa65b844b612
Are you Joe Public? One of America’s more than 94 million permanently unemployed? A doctor, truck driver, or other worker at risk of technological unemployment? Then you, Joe, had best learn a new word: Democide.
What’s “democide?” It’s the killing of people by a government most often based on their socioeconomic status.
March 12, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word twag
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/10/emma-watson-still-has-a-silicon-valley-boyfriend/
Tech nerds are now landing highly desirable actresses and models, and the Sun says a new word (maybe more a British term) has sprung up to describe these celebrity females who hook up with these men. These tech wives and girlfriends are called “twags.”
Being a twag is a “thing,” judging by the fact that there are a number of high-profile “twags” out there, as the Sun outlines.
Probably most high profile twag is Miranda Kerr, the Australian Victoria’s Secret model and ex-wife of Orlando Bloom. She’s engaged to Evan Spiegel, the 26-year-old billionaire founder of the Snapchat mobile app.
March 11, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word sheconomy
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-03/08/c_136113199.htm
The "sheconomy" appeared as a new word in China in 2007 and refers to the new economy resulting from a rise in female consumers.
Over the past 10 years, the sheconomy has played significant role in boosting China's consumer market in sectors such as e-commerce, tourism, medical cosmetology as well as vocational education.
March 9, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word quaffle
http://seattle.eater.com/2016/10/4/13163348/anchorhead-coffee-cafe-open
The retail location serves Anchorhead's coffee, from espresso to bottled and cold brew on draft, plus beer and wine in the evenings. In the morning, look for pastries from Salmon Berry Goods that are baked in-house: sausage-fennel scones, bacon biscuits, cardamom buns. There's also a "quaffle," baked to order, which is constructed of a croissant dough that's rolled like a cinnamon roll, smashed on the waffle iron, and served with maple syrup.
March 6, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word gransploitation
http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/gransploitation-5-horror-films-with-evil-grannies-to-prep-for-the-visit-7746109
I’m intrigued a little by The Visit, though, and might end up watching it after all because I love gransploitation movies. It’s a pretty small sub-niche of horror involving sinister grannies and grandpas, usually as a joke but not always. They make for some scary flicks sometimes because the specter of aging and death is always terrifying to a young audience. Throw in a few witch metaphors and you have yourself a horror movie.
March 4, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word hagsploitation
http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-and-dash/the-feminine-grotesque-on-the-warped-legacy-of-joan-crawford
The 1962 Robert Aldrich film “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” reinvigorated Crawford’s career, along with that of Davis, her co-star. It also spawned the dubious “hagsploitation” genre, which is exactly what the word conjures. There is a visceral thrill in watching these aged divas and older cinematic titans hash it out in horror rather than be regulated to playing bloodless, supporting roles far beneath their talents. Films like “Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte” (1964), starring Davis and Olivia de Havilland (in a role originally meant for Crawford) let these actresses form fascinating roles, and often disregard the rigorous expectations of beauty in order to deconstruct their own images in a metatextual manner. But the films in this genre often look down upon the leading characters rather than empathizing with them. In the last few years of Crawford’s career we see this strain of pure Grand Guignol. In films like 1964’s “Strait-Jacket” and 1970’s “Trog” (her final screen appearance), Crawford is positioned as a punchline.
March 2, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word grocerant
http://www.eater.com/2017/2/27/14706474/whole-foods-restaurant-grocery-store
The concept of blending a restaurant experience with the grocery experience has been around for decades, according to self-described “supermarket guru” and food service analyst Phil Lempert. But the changing perspectives millennials and generation Z-ers have toward food and shopping are pushing more supermarkets to make their stores feel more like experiential food destinations than mere shopping markets. Analysts like Lempert predict that these “grocerants” will become the new standard for grocery stores in the more health-conscience future.
February 28, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word boogeler
http://www.standard.net/Police-Fire/2017/02/20/Layton-police-arrest-two-in-connection-to-boogeling-spree.html
Police said in a Facebook post that boogeling is the act of going out at night and looking for unlocked cars or garages to enter and steal from. Police also said that they knew what boogeling was, they just didn’t know it had a name.
Layton Police Sergeant Clint Brobowski told Fox 13 that the “boogelers” entered the homes through unlocked doors and even through unsecured doggy doors.
February 21, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word boogeling
http://www.standard.net/Police-Fire/2017/02/20/Layton-police-arrest-two-in-connection-to-boogeling-spree.html
Police said in a Facebook post that boogeling is the act of going out at night and looking for unlocked cars or garages to enter and steal from. Police also said that they knew what boogeling was, they just didn’t know it had a name.
Layton Police Sergeant Clint Brobowski told Fox 13 that the “boogelers” entered the homes through unlocked doors and even through unsecured doggy doors.
February 21, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word blorange
http://www.marieclaire.com/beauty/news/a24241/blorange-hair-color-trend/
Enter the perfect winter pastel: Blorange, which is—you guessed it—blonde + orange. Created by the empress of crazy AF hair colors, Bleach London's Alex Brownsell, her test subject was none other than Georgia May Jagger who has become her dye-job guinea pig of sorts.
February 21, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word gen real
http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2017/02/14/move-over-millennials-here-comes-gen-real
So-called 'gen real' (that’s generation Z to the unacquainted) currently constitutes 35% of the world’s population and will soon make up four in every 10 consumers in the world’s largest markets.
February 17, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word glassbowl
Rhyming synonym for "asshole" in a public forum.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What the H?! No, any manager who isn’t a complete and utter glassbowl is not going to start feeling that FMLA is being abused if the employee who has properly requested it actually uses it.
February 14, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word SCROTUS
First use? Elayne Boosler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElayneBoosler/status/797658318411960324
1/20/17, when our classy POTUS & FLOTUS are replaced by SCROTUS and HOTUS. #nevertrump
February 14, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word SCROTUS
From Dec 15 2016, "Supremely Corruptible Ruler of the United States"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-jane-campbell/its-the-little-things-fro_b_13642952.html
I have been reminded of Roger Boisjoly recently as I see our current President-Elect crossing some ethical lines that others have not crossed in the past and I worry that we are taking baby steps in a very dangerous direction. I fear that instead of choosing the next President of the United States (POTUS), the electoral college is about to vote for a man who could become known as SCROTUS - Supremely Corruptible Ruler of the United States.
February 14, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word meanspo
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2452-a-look-inside-disturbingly-large-pro-anorexia-community_p2.html
Sarah was open about what she viewed as the most dangerous aspect of the pro-anorexia subculture: "meanspo." You might've heard the term "thinspo" -- people posting pictures of incredibly skinny models, celebrities, etc., as inspiration to keep up with their weight loss. Meanspo is its even uglier cousin: Users can request to have someone basically shit-talk them into keeping their diet:
February 12, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word ab crack
http://www.allure.com/story/what-is-an-ab-crack
Forget the thigh gap; there's a new, pretty much impossible fitness standard sweeping the world (or, um, Instagram). It's the ab crack. Picture every swimsuit model you can, or Bella Hadid and Jasmine Tookes. Do they have a line going down their abs? That's an ab crack.
February 12, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word ace
http://www.whatisasexuality.com/am-i-ace/teen/
You can be asexual even if you've had sex. I know, it sounds strange, but having sex doesn't mean you can't be asexual. Some aces are curious. Some aces think it's what they're supposed to do. And some aces even like it.
February 7, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word ace
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/02/06/24851726/savage-love-letter-of-the-day-maybe-sex-just-isnt-his-thing
It just so happens, NOHUMP, that plenty of asexuals (aka "aces"), identified as L, G, or B before realizing they were more of an A. Julia Sondra Decker, asexuality activist and author of The Invisible Orientation, gives some context:
February 7, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word pooner
pooner = someone who pays for sex — same as a john?
February 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word pooning
"pooning" = seeing sex workers/paying for sex
February 1, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Calicadia
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/should-california-oregon-and-washington-join-canada-calexit-talk-envelops-west-coast/
The timing is right to drop the name Washington. Washington, D.C. has plans to steal it. Plus, we couldn’t very well be named after an American president if we become Canadians. What about the name that was almost ours, Columbia? British Columbia might have something to say about that name — as they might South British Columbia. We could become the province of Cascadia or Calicadia.
January 29, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word middlescence
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-waxman/a-letter-to-our-middlesce_b_14263078.html
As a middlescent you are living through a time of growth and change—you may complain to one another that your body is morphing -it takes more time, energy and attention to cultivate your vitality. You know you aren’t young anymore and you also aren’t old in any way shape or form. Your relationships will certainly be shifting...sound anything like the life stage of your daughters—adolescence?
No surprise. The stage you are in, Middlescence, may be best understood as something akin to a second adolescence, but with wisdom. Between the ages of about 45-65, middlescence is marked by an increased ambition to find or create meaning in your life. Often accompanied by physical, social and economic changes, it is a turning point from which you continue to develop and grow—yes there is so much life to be had and learning to come!
January 20, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word middlescent
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-waxman/a-letter-to-our-middlesce_b_14263078.html
As a middlescent you are living through a time of growth and change—you may complain to one another that your body is morphing -it takes more time, energy and attention to cultivate your vitality. You know you aren’t young anymore and you also aren’t old in any way shape or form. Your relationships will certainly be shifting...sound anything like the life stage of your daughters—adolescence?
No surprise. The stage you are in, Middlescence, may be best understood as something akin to a second adolescence, but with wisdom. Between the ages of about 45-65, middlescence is marked by an increased ambition to find or create meaning in your life. Often accompanied by physical, social and economic changes, it is a turning point from which you continue to develop and grow—yes there is so much life to be had and learning to come!
January 20, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word ishell
Alternate spelling of "as hell" — or a new word meaning that same thing.
January 18, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word finsta
http://www.bewebsmart.com/social-media/instagram-social-media/what-is-a-finsta/
You may be wondering, what the heck is a “finsta”? No, it’s not the latest new app. Finsta refers to a fake Instagram account. Just add “F” to “Instagram” for “Finstagram” and shorten that to “Finsta”.
A finsta is a second Instagram account used for sharing with a smaller circle of followers. A finsta is usually a private Instagram account. While a teen’s primary account might also be private, a finsta is for close friends only. Only your BFF’s, your baes. (I can imagine my teen daughter cringing as she reads this – if she reads this!)
January 18, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word Smurfette syndrome
http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/reese-witherspoon-on-films-smurfette-syndrome.html
Appearing at the TCAs, Witherspoon got candid about Hollywood's so-called "Smurfette Syndrome," wherein she was frequently the sole woman in the room. "For 25 years, I've been the only woman on set, so I had no other women to talk to ... They call it 'Smurfette Syndrome.' Because she's got a hundred Smurfs around her and she's the only girl," she explained.
January 16, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word docbuster
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_movie_club/features/2016/movie_club_2016/docbusters_like_patriots_day_deepwater_horizon_turn_tragedy_into_adventure.html
That’s how I’d describe 2016’s purest film heroes. This year, we cemented a new genre: the docbuster, which regales audiences with brave tales of real-life modern men. Docbusters first bleeped on the radar when Lone Survivor and American Sniper were shock hits. This year, we had four: Sully, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day, two of which reteamed Lone Survivor star Mark Wahlberg with Lone Survivor director Peter Berg, and all of which took recent-ish headlines and simplified them, and their idealized saviors, into a satisfying adventure where the good guys win—or, at least, make it clear who’s to blame. Docbusters are strangely soothing bedtime stories that whisper yes, the world is cruel and dangerous, but everything’s going to be OK if a competent white man is in charge.
(Amy Nicholson)
January 2, 2017
scarequotes commented on the word traumedy
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/television/2016/03/netflix_s_flaked_starring_will_arnett_reviewed.html
Honestly, though, the specifics of Flaked are less curious to me than the larger trend of which Flaked is a part. These shows—which the Transparent writers have dubbed “traumedies”—are, as Rosenberg says, what pass for prestige in the world of comedy these days. Why then are they so sporadically comedic? I do not mean these shows aren’t sometimes funny, though they are more often “funny.” But they are distinct from sitcoms in that their relationship to humor is at will. Sometimes they will try to be funny, and more often they will not. (This is why I have not lumped You’re the Worst or Master of None in with this trend, though they abut it. Both of those shows contain jokes.)
December 20, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word cratedigger
https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-lost-art-of-cratedigging-4ed652643618#.abt1zo2tu
That addiction lasted a long time too. When I worked on Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor album at Warner Bros. Records in 2005, I obsessed over her song “Hung Up,” which I recognized contained a sample of ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” I risked mesothelioma in some dank basement in Brooklyn to find their single “The King Has Lost His Crown” because “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” was the B-side. Keep in mind I didn’t own a turntable until five years after I started cratedigging because I wanted a “collection” first. I was constantly on the chase to acquire; lifting the needle to hear my discoveries was ancillary. That’s my story, and every cratedigger has one.
December 5, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word cratedigging
https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-lost-art-of-cratedigging-4ed652643618#.abt1zo2tu
That addiction lasted a long time too. When I worked on Madonna’s Confessions on a Dance Floor album at Warner Bros. Records in 2005, I obsessed over her song “Hung Up,” which I recognized contained a sample of ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” I risked mesothelioma in some dank basement in Brooklyn to find their single “The King Has Lost His Crown” because “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” was the B-side. Keep in mind I didn’t own a turntable until five years after I started cratedigging because I wanted a “collection” first. I was constantly on the chase to acquire; lifting the needle to hear my discoveries was ancillary. That’s my story, and every cratedigger has one.
December 5, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word crate digging
http://vinyljunkies.co/getting-your-fix-a-newbies-guide-to-the-art-of-crate-digging/
Digging crates is an art. It demands practice, knowledge and commitment. You need patience and the eye of a hawk to spot the good stuff. Fear not, grasshopper, I’m here to guide you on your crate digging adventures so you can find all the treasures you desire for your record collection.
December 5, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word trumpenproletariat
http://reason.com/archives/2016/11/28/the-liberal-postmortem-on-2016-is-not-go
To aid with the anthropological project, The New York Times recently was kind enough to provide befuddled liberals with a reading list to explain the trumpenproletariat.
November 29, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word fempathy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/27/mansplaining-manxiety-needs-fempathy-victoria-coren-mitchell
Manxiety needs fempathy: in defence of mansplaining
November 28, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word manxiety
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/27/mansplaining-manxiety-needs-fempathy-victoria-coren-mitchell
Manxiety needs fempathy: in defence of mansplaining
November 28, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word thanksliving
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/11/26/336862/Steve-Ellison-Thanksliving.aspx
Many people have referred to a recently coined term “thanksliving” in both secular and sacred ways. With the Thanksgiving holiday recently passed, now would be a good time to examine our everyday lives to see if they reflect an attitude of gratefulness to our Creator. Second Timothy 3:2-5 recites a lengthy list of common sins that will characterize mankind in the end times. We find “ungrateful” (unthankful) in the list.
November 27, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word metamour
https://captainawkward.com/2016/11/21/919metamour-vetoed-me-he-wants-a-relationship-anyway/
November 26, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word leftovurrito
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/28/thanksgiving_leftover_recipe_the_leftovuritto_is_the_perfect_solution.html
What you want is a way to eat leftovers that gives you all the flavor of Thanksgiving with a minimum of muss and fuss. Reader, I have the solution: the Thanksgiving leftovurrito.
November 25, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word dinovember
https://medium.com/permanent-marker/welcome-to-dinovember-6f4cb1886d41#.xqt5ov78e
Welcome to Dinovember
A month-long imagination invasion.
Every year, my wife and I devote the month of November to convincing our children that, while they sleep, their plastic dinosaur figures come to life.
November 25, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Blacksonian
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/podcasts/our-journey-to-the-blacksonian.html?_r=0
The Smithsonian’s brand-new, long-gestating National Museum of African American History and Culture opened two weekends ago to enormous lines, a swell of starry, prominent Americans and a poignant speech by the president. We both visited in the first weeks and were overwhelmed by the magnitude of the space itself and the story that the museum — the Blacksonian, if you will (and, boy, will we!) — tells about the founding and development of this country.
November 15, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Trumpocene
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/oct/21/we-are-approaching-the-trumpocene-a-new-epoch-where-climate-change-is-just-a-big-scary-conspiracy
So I’d like to also propose the idea of an impending new epoch – the Trumpocene – that in the spirit of the era itself is based solely on a few thoughts held loosely together with hyperlinks and a general feeling of malaise.
In the Trumpocene, the epoch-defining impacts of climate change are nothing more than a conspiracy. Even if these impacts are real, then they’re probably good for us.
November 14, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Pasokification
https://www.thenation.com/article/can-the-left-find-its-voice-in-the-21st-century/
Across the Western world, the traditional left is in crisis. In Germany, support for the Social Democratic Party, once a cornerstone of mainstream politics that led six postwar governments, has fallen below 20 percent. In France, François Hollande’s approval ratings recently reached a mind-boggling low of 4 percent, while the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party has seen its support drop by almost half in less than a decade. The decline of Pasok, Greece’s main social-democratic party, which fell from winning elections to ratings of under 5 percent in less than a decade, was so rapid that it spawned a new word, “Pasokification,” for the collapse of traditional center-left parties. Even in Scandinavia, once-invincible parties of social democracy have been hit by increasingly disaffected voters, as right-wing populists stoke anxiety about immigration and its impact on the welfare state.
November 11, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word whitelash
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/van-jones-results-disappointment-cnntv/index.html?sr=twCNN110916van-jones-results-disappointment-cnntv0129AMVODtop
Acknowledging many voters were rebelling against a system they felt had failed them, Jones said there were ugly racial sentiments at work as well.
"This was a whitelash against a changing country," Jones said. "It was whitelash against a black president in part. And that's the part where the pain comes."
November 9, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word freakomendation
https://blogs.oracle.com/searchguy/entry/not_exactly_a_freakomendation
Paul's been posting freakomendations, which are "unusual recommendations" (that's a bit of an understatement given your examples, Paul!)
John Scalzi posted that Amazon's recommender suggested that he might like The Last Colony, a book he wrote!
This is not necessarily a freakomendation, because it seems pretty likely that John would read books that the people who read The Last Colony had read, and by that measure the Amazon recommender worked pretty well. But, as you can see from the comments for that postings, doing things like this calls the quality of all of the recommendations into question. This is probably unfair to Amazon's recommender, but that's what you're (which is to say "we're") up against when building recommender systems.
November 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word chef kiss
http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/italian-chef-kiss-meme/
The "chef kiss" is the standard online reaction to any #content with such strong pleasing or horrifying characteristics that it is delicious. It could be a legitimately funny news headline, or it could be the absolute mess of bad politics, internet harassment, racism, and dead celebrities that is the year two-thousand-sixteen.
November 5, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word hxstory
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/07/the-college-that-wants-to-ban-history.html
The list of demands ends with a lengthy denunciation of WWU’s marginalization of “hxstorically oppressed students.” The misspelling is intentional: “hxstory,” I presume, was judged to be more PC than “history,” which is gendered, triggering, and perhaps violent. It’s easy for me to laugh at these clumsy attempts to make language obey the dictates of political correctness—but I laugh from a position of relative safety, since I am not a WWU professor.
November 4, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word telepressure
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/11/what-percentage-of-employees-check-work-emails-from-home/506156/
An investigation by The Atlantic has revealed that this is an exceedingly normal behavior. A 2013 study by the American Psychological Association found that more than half of all workers surveyed checked their work messages, including texts, emails, and voicemails, from smartphones or other home devices. A 2014 survey by Gallup found that nearly 80 percent of respondents view the ability to continue working from home in a “strongly positive” or “somewhat positive” light. In fact, this tendency has become so widespread that, by 2014, researchers had coined a new word to describe the stress it causes: telepressure. Whether employees check their email from home is likely to vary depending on the nature of their job. Abedin’s work—that of an elite political professional—is certainly the kind that typically necessitates lots of emailing, at any time, from anywhere.
November 2, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word inpa
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/state/4149871-inpa-new-word-sd-election
South Dakota's general election next week marks a turning point in the state's history. The term "inpa" becomes a must-know expression in our political language.
Inpa is short for Independent/No Party Affiliation. South Dakota heads into the Nov. 8 election with record numbers of inpa and Republican registered voters.
November 2, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word going flat
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/well/live/going-flat-after-breast-cancer.html
While plastic surgeons and oncologists aggressively promote breast reconstruction as a way for women to “feel whole again,” some doctors say they are beginning to see resistance to the surgery. Patients like Ms. Bowers are choosing to defy medical advice and social convention and remain breastless after breast cancer. They even have a name for the decision to skip reconstruction: They call it “going flat.”
November 1, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word millennipreneur
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erinlowry/2016/10/31/yes-mom-and-dad-i-do-have-a-real-job-how-to-defend-your-freelance-career/#635ee2ca1792
Entrepreneurship, a.k.a. quitting our perfectly stable traditional jobs with a steady paycheck and benefits to be our own boss, is rampant in the millennial generation. There’s even a new word for us: millennipreneurs.
November 1, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word reformicon
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/donald-trump-2016-gop-civil-war-republicans-rnc-future-214396
The chasm that opened first was intellectual: The neocon movement, which was, in essence, the brain trust of the latter Bush, “has broken off,” Berkowitz said. The next fissure appears to be generational: The so-called reformicons—a priesthood of intellectual Gen X-ers who have been trying to recalibrate Reagan’s vision for the conditions of the 21st century—are at the very heart of the agonized intraparty conflict. On one hand, they’ve often been seen as the potential ideological future of the party. On the other, a resoundingly loud majority of their electorate, the very people for whom they were tending the flame, have roundly rejected their vision.
October 28, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word niglet
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441319/donald-trump-alt-right-internet-abuse-never-trump-movement
I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.
October 22, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word dindu
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/441319/donald-trump-alt-right-internet-abuse-never-trump-movement
I saw images of my daughter’s face in gas chambers, with a smiling Trump in a Nazi uniform preparing to press a button and kill her. I saw her face photo-shopped into images of slaves. She was called a “niglet” and a “dindu.” The alt-right unleashed on my wife, Nancy, claiming that she had slept with black men while I was deployed to Iraq, and that I loved to watch while she had sex with “black bucks.” People sent her pornographic images of black men having sex with white women, with someone photoshopped to look like me, watching.
October 22, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word shaftedfreude
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/12/new-word-shaftedfreude-describes-remainers-feel-brexit/
When the UK voted to leave the European Union, and the luminaries of the Leave campaign abandoned their responsibilities like rats from a tired metaphor, the people who voted Remain began to experience a curious emotion. An emotion which had until then been nameless.
The word that has been coined to describe this feeling is:
Shaftedfreude
October 13, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Dutch reach
http://99percentinvisible.org/article/dutch-reach-clever-workaround-keep-cyclists-getting-doored/
“The Dutch Reach is a practice where instead of using your near hand — usually the driver’s left hand — to open your car door, you use your far hand. Your right hand,” Charney told The World. “In doing that, you automatically swivel your body. And you position your head and shoulders so you are looking directly out. First, past the rearview mirror. And then, you are very easily able to look back and see if there are oncoming bicycles or cars or whatever.”
October 11, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word momcom
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/09/bridget-jones-momcom/501371/
But as studios attempted to rework the romantic comedy, a new genre emerged. Call it the Comedy of Unplanned Pregnancy. The Oops, I had a baby! movie. The momcom. Classic romcoms, and the screwball comedies that came before them, presented love as a battle of the sexes that was also a battle of wits. Men and women sparred verbally until they negotiated a kind of marriage contract they both could agree upon. The audience, meanwhile, got to participate vicariously in this public debate about how a relationship should be. In contemporary momcoms, though, love can only happen by chance. An independent career woman accidentally gets pregnant, which leads to the formation of a couple that would never have formed otherwise.
September 26, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Severtember
http://www.dorktower.com/2012/08/29/severtember-dork-tower-29-08-12/
September 14, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word mufgel
http://gothamist.com/2016/07/28/mufgel_williamsburg_gimmicks.php
While it doesn't quite roll off the tongue the way "cronut" does, and isn't as photogenic as the rainbow bagel, the mufgel is the new hybrid pastry on the block. The mufgel is part bagel, part muffin and is the Franken-carb du jour at Williamsburg's The Bagel Store, the world's most viral bagel purveyor.
August 17, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word chork
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chorks-chopsticks-forks-panda-express_us_57adc817e4b007c36e4e30b6
Well folks, there’s a new sheriff in town, and its name is “chork.” This Frankenstein’s monster of hybrid cutlery features a fork on one end and chopsticks on the other. It’s a perfect solution for the many Americans who start their meal with chopsticks, get frustrated halfway through, and ditch them for a fork.
August 17, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word hotdoguero
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/restaurants/five-favorite-sonoran-dogs-in-the-valley-6544107
So what's so good about a Sonoran dog? Mesquite-smoked bacon elevates a humble hot dog from ho hum to mouth watering. The smoky southwest flavor is nestled in a fresh bolillo roll that creates a soft little boat for the dog. Then you load that sucker up with all sorts of toppings to taste, as each hot dog cart has its own special flair. Or stick with the original when the hotdoguero asks, "Con todo?" Pinto beans, tomatoes, onions, and mayo. Why mess with perfection?
July 1, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word hotdoguero
http://www.seriouseats.com/2011/01/hot-dog-of-the-week-street-carts-of-guayaquil-ecuador-south-american.html
The vendor, referred to as the hotdoguero loads the hot dog onto a bun and passes it to the customer to garnish with a wide variety of sauces. Ketchup, mustard and mayo are standard, along with salsa verde and aji, an Ecuadorian hot sauce that's made with red chiles, onion, lime, cilantro and tamarillo (a slightly sweet, tangy fruit native to South America).
July 1, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word salt daddy
https://www.letstalksugar.com/money/salt-daddies/
June 26, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word salt daddy
https://features.wearemel.com/sugar-babies-the-gathering-b9273f6272c9#.l6lckrgva
Not so for many young women. Some end up with what SA brands a “Splenda daddy” (a well-meaning man lacking the means to be a real daddy) or a “salt daddy” (a manipulative fuck, or worse), like the man my friend Laura met.
June 26, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Splenda daddy
https://features.wearemel.com/sugar-babies-the-gathering-b9273f6272c9#.l6lckrgva
Not so for many young women. Some end up with what SA brands a “Splenda daddy” (a well-meaning man lacking the means to be a real daddy) or a “salt daddy” (a manipulative fuck, or worse), like the man my friend Laura met.
June 26, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word scampaign
http://qz.com/712098/donald-trumps-latest-federal-election-filings-have-sparked-a-new-word-scampaign/
Within just a few hours after the term was coined, #Scampaign was trending on Twitter in Washington, DC.
June 22, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word eggmode
http://comicsalliance.com/transgender-jimmy-olsen-pride-week/
June 22, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Tinderella
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/your-romantic-first-dates-restaurants-hate-them/2016/06/07/bf45adfc-1df5-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html
Greg Algie, co-owner of the Fainting Goat, a popular Washington first-date destination, has witnessed more than one Tinderella arrive, get a glimpse of the person they’re supposed to meet — and head right back out the door.
June 11, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word belwhal
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/grist.org/climate-energy/pizzlies-narlugas-and-other-creatures-from-our-weird-changing-world/amp/
In the 1980s, researchers discovered a whale skull in West Greenland that looked suspiciously like a beluga-narwhal mashup. Since then, hunters have spotted the hybrid creatures in chilly Arctic waters. Apparently, beluga whales and narwhals produce offspring with big, burly heads — but, sadly, no tusks. (We drew one in anyway.)
While belwhal is a worthwhile contender, narluga is hard to beat. It captures the distinctive sounds of both animals’ names — the nar- of narwhal and the -luga of beluga — and sounds pretty mellifluous to boot. Try it yourself: Narluuuuuuuuga!
June 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word narluga
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/grist.org/climate-energy/pizzlies-narlugas-and-other-creatures-from-our-weird-changing-world/amp/
In the 1980s, researchers discovered a whale skull in West Greenland that looked suspiciously like a beluga-narwhal mashup. Since then, hunters have spotted the hybrid creatures in chilly Arctic waters. Apparently, beluga whales and narwhals produce offspring with big, burly heads — but, sadly, no tusks. (We drew one in anyway.)
While belwhal is a worthwhile contender, narluga is hard to beat. It captures the distinctive sounds of both animals’ names — the nar- of narwhal and the -luga of beluga — and sounds pretty mellifluous to boot. Try it yourself: Narluuuuuuuuga!
June 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word polargrizz
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/grist.org/climate-energy/pizzlies-narlugas-and-other-creatures-from-our-weird-changing-world/amp/
Many names have cropped up over the years: pizzly-grizzly, polargrizz, and nanulak (a combination of the Inuit nanuk, polar bear, and aklak, grizzly bear). But recent headlines show pizzly vs. grolar is where the debate lies today. Though pizzly is pretty fun, Google Trends shows grolar is currently winning the popularity prize.
June 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word pizzly-grizzly
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/grist.org/climate-energy/pizzlies-narlugas-and-other-creatures-from-our-weird-changing-world/amp/
Many names have cropped up over the years: pizzly-grizzly, polargrizz, and nanulak (a combination of the Inuit nanuk, polar bear, and aklak, grizzly bear). But recent headlines show pizzly vs. grolar is where the debate lies today. Though pizzly is pretty fun, Google Trends shows grolar is currently winning the popularity prize.
June 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word nanulak
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/grist.org/climate-energy/pizzlies-narlugas-and-other-creatures-from-our-weird-changing-world/amp/
Many names have cropped up over the years: pizzly-grizzly, polargrizz, and nanulak (a combination of the Inuit nanuk, polar bear, and aklak, grizzly bear). But recent headlines show pizzly vs. grolar is where the debate lies today. Though pizzly is pretty fun, Google Trends shows grolar is currently winning the popularity prize.
June 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word pizzly
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/grist.org/climate-energy/pizzlies-narlugas-and-other-creatures-from-our-weird-changing-world/amp/
Climate change is one strange matchmaker. Warmer temperatures have led to shifting habitats and shifting mating habits. And occasionally, when two bears collide, the result is neither grizzly nor polar, but pizzly.
June 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word grolar
https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/grist.org/climate-energy/pizzlies-narlugas-and-other-creatures-from-our-weird-changing-world/amp/
Climate change is one strange matchmaker. Warmer temperatures have led to shifting habitats and shifting mating habits. And occasionally, when two bears collide, the result is neither grizzly nor polar, but pizzly.
Or should I say grolar?
June 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word mathwashing
http://technical.ly/brooklyn/2016/06/08/fred-benenson-mathwashing-facebook-data-worship/
Mathwashing can be thought of using math terms (algorithm, model, etc.) to paper over a more subjective reality. For example, a lot of people believed Facebook was using an unbiased algorithm to determine its trending topics, even if Facebook had previously admitted that humans were involved in the process.
June 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word dignicide
http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/435917/now-euthanasia-dignicide
Boudewijn Chabot (de Einder) disclosed the name of the patient whose death 25 years ago brought him into conflict with the Dutch Supreme Court and opened the way for help for psychiatric patients. He is now using the term ”dignicide” (which my spell checker is rejecting) as the word promoted by some to describe a self-selected rational and dignified death.
May 27, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word sustainatarian
http://blog.michaelscepaniak.com/discovering-sustainatarian
The simplistic option was to classify myself as a vegetarian. But this really wasn’t accurate – or satisfying. It didn’t truly capture my beliefs or actual stance. I did some thinking on it – for a good while. Finally, a word popped into my head. I tried the word in a search engine and, to my delight, I got results! It was a real word. A real thing.
Sustainatarian.
May 22, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word reducetarian
http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/13/to-really-reduce-meat-in-your-diet-dont-go-cold-turkey/
It’s a challenge for such habitual meat-eaters to drop their burgers cold in favor of broccoli, but the good news is that reducetarians don’t have to. While the ideal is to eat as little meat as possible, even cutting back by a limited amount confers health and environmental benefits. In other words, reducetarians (Kateman and Alterman invented the word) attempt to reduce the overall amount of meat in their diets, but don’t beat themselves up over the occasional T-bone steak or chicken salad sandwich.
May 22, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word racemoji
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/white-people-dont-use-white-emoji/481695/
Last year, the hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend, Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow, debated whether white people can use darker skin tones when sending emoji, or if that amounts to cultural appropriation. At the time, the new racemoji had just launched on the iPhone.
May 9, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word textalyzer
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/first-came-the-breathalyzer-now-meet-the-roadside-police-textalyzer/
We're all familiar with the Breathalyzer, the brand name for a roadside device that measures a suspected drunken driver's blood-alcohol level. It has been in use for decades. Now there's a so-called "textalyzer" device to help the authorities determine whether someone involved in a motor vehicle accident was unlawfully driving while distracted.
April 28, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word poke cake
https://www.buzzfeed.com/melissaharrison/poke-cake-recipes
So, what’s a poke cake?
True to its name, it’s a cake that you poke holes in after baking. The holes are then filled with a liquid or filling — like condensed milk, pureed fruit, chocolate cream, or pudding — to infuse extra flavor into every bite. Here are 15 ways to make one.
April 27, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word greasy
http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/did-you-know-michael-rapaport-has-a-podcast.html
Yes, at this point I found myself in an odd place, one that I never guessed I might visit: a fairly crowded Twitter canoe with a bunch of pissed-off Michael Rapaport fans. In situations like this, I've found the best way to de-escalate the situation is to act like a friendly tourist lost in an unfamiliar country. So, I asked them what "talking greasy" meant. The response: "Talking sh*t. It's Rapaspeak." The ice was broken.
April 15, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word trumor
http://www.startribune.com/the-word-trumor-it-s-like-a-rumor-except-it-s-true/375422271/
Definition: A rumor that turns out to be, well, you know.
Sample usage: “I didn’t believe the speculation that the Kardashians were bringing out a line of high-quality violin bow rosin, but it was a trumor!”
April 13, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word raindrop cake
http://www.delish.com/food-news/a46624/raindrop-cake/
Though it looks more like a paperweight or a shiny marble than a sweet treat, a new Japanese dessert is going viral. Touted as the "Raindrop Cake," the confection is basically glorified Jell-O, but that's not stopping the social media masses from freaking out about it. The glass-like dessert has become so popular in Japan that some are saying it has reached Cronut status. And now it's coming to the U.S. by way of New York.
April 9, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word sponcon
https://medium.com/@bsdeluxe/friends-don-t-let-friends-recommend-sponcon-1b160ff89ca1#.rus3fi9ao
But if you’re not Steven Levy, why are you recommending that ad? Did you not know it was sponsored content? Are you somehow benefiting from that recommendation financially? You are stretching the consumer/advertiser relationship by injecting that sponcon into your followers’ reading list.
April 6, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word 1488er
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
Anything associated as closely with racism and bigotry as the alternative right will inevitably attract real racists and bigots. Calmer members of the alternative right refer darkly to these people as the “1488ers,” and for all their talk of there being “no enemies to the right,” it’s clear from the many conversations we’ve had with alt-righters that many would rather the 1488ers didn’t exist.
April 2, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word antech
http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/news/a788757/these-old-vhs-tapes-could-make-you-thousands-how-many-do-you-have-in-the-loft/
The likes of Thomas and other antique collectors have even developed a new word to describe the old technology such as VHS tapes now becoming collectables - antech.
Thomas added: "We feel that these antech items – or antechs – will only become more valuable investments to collectors as time goes on.
"It might sound strange that something like the VHS is defined as an antech, but when they can command thousands of pounds on account of their rarity, that's exactly what they are."
March 31, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Islamonausea
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/01/islamonausea-not-islamophobia
We should stop using Muslims’ self-chosen word — “Islamophobia” — by which they paint themselves into a corner of being feared: it destroys communication. Instead of such a divisive term, we should insert a more approachable and factual word that preserves opportunities for bridge-building and learning: “Islamonausea.” This does not render communication impossible, but enables visitors to our Western cultures to notice aspects of their behavior that make us sick.
March 31, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word LoBu
From "Lower Burnside"
http://www.city-data.com/neighborhood/Lower-Burnside-Portland-OR.html
March 30, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Ameriphobe
http://www.vdare.com/letters/a-tennessee-reader-suggests-a-new-word-for-the-enemy-ameriphobes
I’d like to introduce a new word into the American conversation—”Ameriphobe”
I would define “Ameriphobe” as a person who would act in the best interests of foreigners at the expense of his fellow Americans. Ameriphobes can be conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat.
March 30, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word chamoy
http://www.eater.com/2016/3/21/11218834/dorilocos-doritos-gummy-bears-tostilocos-mexico
It's hard to describe Dorilocos using words. The recipe starts with Nacho Cheese Doritos, which are then topped with a variety of ingredients: cueritos (pickled pork rinds), small batons of jicama, cubed cucumber, grated carrots, peanuts (most often described by the vendors as japonés, the ones with the crunchy, soy sauce-flavored shell), gummy bears, lime juice, chili powder, salsa Valentina or another hot sauce, and chamoy, an addictive sweet-salty-sour sauce made from pickled fruit. It's outrageous.
March 29, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Dorilocos
http://www.eater.com/2016/3/21/11218834/dorilocos-doritos-gummy-bears-tostilocos-mexico
It's hard to describe Dorilocos using words. The recipe starts with Nacho Cheese Doritos, which are then topped with a variety of ingredients: cueritos (pickled pork rinds), small batons of jicama, cubed cucumber, grated carrots, peanuts (most often described by the vendors as japonés, the ones with the crunchy, soy sauce-flavored shell), gummy bears, lime juice, chili powder, salsa Valentina or another hot sauce, and chamoy, an addictive sweet-salty-sour sauce made from pickled fruit. It's outrageous.
March 29, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word creaster
See also Chreaster, apparently a more common spelling.
March 23, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word creaster
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-michael-b-brown/face-time-redefined-faith-and-flexibility_b_9517932.html
Very recently I was introduced to a church-word I had never heard before. The new word, now part of my professional lexicon, is “Creasters.” Like a celebrity mash-up, it is a morphing of two words: “Christmas,” and “Easter.”
This word refers to people who attend church on those two annual high holy days, but otherwise stay away. The word may be new, but the concept is not. The previous phrase of choice was “C-&-E Christians.” Creasters (unlike their C-&-E predecessors) are young adults, primarily Gen Xers and younger. So, why is it that people are staying away from institutionalized religion except for twice annually? And, is there anything the traditional Church can do to entice them to return?
March 23, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Blaxican
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/03/08/467358961/an-emerging-entry-in-americas-multiracial-vocabulary-blaxican
Much of this has to do with the fact that biracial identity in the United States has often been understood in terms of black and white. And to the extent that labels are helpful for quickly self-identifying, they don't always exist for the diversity of racial possibilities that mixed Americans increasingly want to see recognized. When it comes to mixed-race in America, Mexican-American author Richard Rodriguez has written, we rely on an "old vocabulary — black, white," but, "we are no longer a black-white nation."
This may be why in LA, many young people who are both black and Mexican are turning to a handy word to describe themselves: "Blaxican."
March 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word zapponian
http://fortune.com/zappos-tony-hsieh-holacracy/
The young, diverse staff, heavy on neon-tinted hair and nose rings, cheers when Tony Hsieh, the company’s longtime CEO, announces that everyone will get a paid vacation day on Feb. 29 in honor of leap year. They give a standing ovation to a worker in shipping who raps passionately about the company, offer a rousing send-off to a longtime “Zapponian” who’s leaving the company, and take in a surprise Cirque du Soleil performance, complete with a cameo appearance by Zappos’s signature box.
March 7, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word shredlage
http://www.progressivedairy.com/topics/feed-nutrition/shredlage-fad-or-fashion
Shredlage is technically a trademarked product consisting of corn silage which has been cut at 26 to 30 mm with the stalks “shredded” by a shredlage processor. It’s believed that by processing the stalk in such a way, rumen fermentation is enhanced, thus optimizing feed efficiency.
March 6, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word clitzpah
http://www.avclub.com/article/crosswords-232702
I just posted a new word on the Physician Moms Facebook group and was told that I should send it to you. I got tired of hearing “She’s got balls,” so I made up a new word, clitzpah (klit-spe) noun: a woman with guts!
Origin of clitzpah: clitoris (kli-te-res) noun: an organ of the female genitalia, the purpose of which is purely to bring women pleasure, and chutzpah (hu̇t-spe) noun: a Yiddish term for courage bordering on arrogance.
February 24, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word hopium
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13468202/1/don-t-get-duped-by-the-sucker-s-rally-in-energy-here-s-how-to-play-it.html
Allow us to expand your financial lexicon with a new word: "hopium." This is a drug favored by permabulls who ignore fundamental data in favor of illusory hope. Hopium seems to be fueling the rises lately in the energy sector and broader markets.
February 24, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word permabull
http://www.thestreet.com/story/13468202/1/don-t-get-duped-by-the-sucker-s-rally-in-energy-here-s-how-to-play-it.html
Allow us to expand your financial lexicon with a new word: "hopium." This is a drug favored by permabulls who ignore fundamental data in favor of illusory hope. Hopium seems to be fueling the rises lately in the energy sector and broader markets.
February 24, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word heli-hiking
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2016/02/the_oscar_nominated_amy_winehouse_film_s_useful_lesson_about_rehab.html
Consider the swanky Cirque Lodge in Sundance, Utah, rehab of choice for celebrities such as Demi Moore and Lindsay Lohan. For a reported $1,000 per day, patients heal through heli-hiking (“Alcohol and drug rehab takes on a different perspective at 10,000 feet!”) and can take on the largest indoor ropes course “anywhere in the alcohol and drug rehab industry.” As far as I can tell, there have been few randomized trials on the efficacy of heli-hiking for alcoholism. And if you’re choosing an addiction treatment program based on the size of its ropes course, you probably haven’t hit rock bottom.
February 23, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word mootz
http://luckypeach.com/a-guide-to-pizza-styles-of-america/
In New Haven, pizza is “apizza” (ah-BEETS), cheese is “mootz” and “plain” means no mootz, just sauce.
February 18, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Disneybounder
http://qz.com/601481/the-grown-up-90s-kids-who-never-left-disney-behind/
Sterling was spotting Disneybounders, people who dress to evoke a particular Disney character without crossing the line into costume territory. The lady in the cool coat was channeling Peter Pan’s nemesis Captain Hook. The girl in the turquoise jumpsuit was Princess Jasmine, the royal love interest in the film Aladdin.
February 15, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Disneybounding
http://qz.com/601481/the-grown-up-90s-kids-who-never-left-disney-behind/
Sterling, a 24-year-old southern California native, and her boyfriend Leo Camacho are popular bloggers in Disneybounding’s enthusiastic online community. They were Disneybounding that day as Aladdin characters—Sterling was the titular hero, Camacho, the evil Jafar. They are like the Brangelina of a very specific world, one in which a dress that echoes Minnie Mouse is a better get than a designer handbag.
February 15, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word NARP
http://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-teens#.waYyZZ2OO
ME: Wait. Really? I have like 30.
BROOKE: OMG!! 30?? Only NARPs have less than 150.
ME: What the hell is a NARP?
BROOKE: Nonathletic Regular Person. NARP.
ME: Ah. So…I’m basic?
BROOKE: Yeah.
February 12, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word innoganda
https://hbr.org/2015/12/how-to-tell-if-a-company-is-good-at-innovating-or-just-good-at-pr
But further investigation showed that the video was nothing more than a beautiful piece of “innoganda” — innovation propaganda describing an effort that had little hope of driving any material impact.
February 4, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word clitrash
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/users/2016/02/bernie_bros_are_bad_the_conversation_around_them_is_worse.html
The Sanders campaign’s critics had plenty of material to work with beyond those blithely condescending columns. They could throw in a bunch of bottom-feeding social media sexists, like the poster in a pro-Sanders Facebook group who called Hillary “clitrash.” The campaign also made its own gendered gaffes, including the smug statement that Bernie was “willing to consider” Hillary for veep. Finally, there’s the tendency of online Sanders supporters to call Clinton fans corporate-shilling “Hillary bots” and to argue that journalists are “auditioning for jobs with the Clinton White House.” Put it all together, and you have a perfectly reasonable (though not unimpeachable, and certainly not universal) argument that Bernie has a little bit of a Bro problem.
February 4, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word endemic advertising
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/01/25/how-house-hunters-became-the-most-unstoppable-juggernaut-on-tv/
The subtle genius of HGTV’s empire is its mastery of “endemic advertising”: Building an alluring habitat for an advertiser’s most-sought market, and letting that audience come to them. In other words, “House Hunters” succeeds not just in winning TV-watching homeowners — but also winning homeowner-targeting advertisers, like Home Depot, who know they’re more likely to reach who they need.
January 27, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word Dubyobama
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/01/donald-trump-and-politics-of-resentment.html
Despite the empty rhetoric about hope and change that surrounded his 2008 campaign, after all, Obama continued the policies of his predecessor George W. Bush so unswervingly that we may as well call those policies—the conventional wisdom or, rather, the conventional folly of early 21st-century American politics—the Dubyobama consensus. Trump’s candidacy, and in some ways that of his Democratic rival Bernard Sanders as well, marks the point at which the blowback from those policies has become a massive political fact. That this blowback isn’t taking the form desired by many people on the leftward end of things is hardly surprising; it was never going to do so, because the things about the Dubyobama consensus that made blowback inevitable are not the things to which the left objects.
January 22, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word DD cream
http://www.jessiechar.com/post/137762205059/a-cream-for-every-letter-of-the-alphabet
DD Creams
Okay, I didn’t even know that these existed until now. I guess they stand for “Daily Defense”. They’re supposedly like a BB cream and CC cream all in one? But that doesn’t even make sense, because a CC cream was just supposed to be like a heavier-coverage BB cream. Does that mean DD is somewhere in-bewteen? Sigh, marketing.
January 21, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word CC cream
http://www.jessiechar.com/post/137762205059/a-cream-for-every-letter-of-the-alphabet
CC creams came after BB creams, as a lot of women like the idea of an all-in-one solution, but want higher coverage. Hence, CC = coverage, correct. The idea is the same as a BB cream, but they are a heavier formulation.
January 21, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word BB cream
http://www.jessiechar.com/post/137762205059/a-cream-for-every-letter-of-the-alphabet
BB creams, like more and more of our makeup trends, started in Asia as “blemish balm”. The idea was that they’re like a lightweight foundation with skin-improving qualities (AKA, a tinted moisturizer). Asia is real, real big on skincare. Korea and Japan are known for their 10-step skincare routines (that is, all the face stuff that comes BEFORE even putting makeup on); this 10-step thing has been slightly debunked as most women there don’t actually follow a 10-step routine, but there are a lot more “essential” skin care steps they have outside of our basic cleanse, tone, moisturize process. Since BB creams were so popular, a buncha US lines started marketing them as “beauty balm”.
January 21, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word monstershake
http://jezebel.com/those-giant-willy-wonka-ass-milkshakes-are-bullshit-1753744571
The milkshakes pictured above can be found at Black Tap, in Manhattan; a previous wave of try-hard Willy Wonka ass milkshakes made the rounds last summer, sold by an Australian bakery called Patissez. In September, on FABlife, Chrissy Teigen called the “monstershake” the “hot new trend in town.”
January 21, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word vocaloid
http://www.polygon.com/2015/11/11/9715366/vocaloid-pop-star-hatsune-miku-hitting-the-road-across-north-america
Hatsune Miku, the holographic pop star and occasional video game protagonist, is embarking upon her first North American headlining tour.
Miku Expo 2016, as it has been dubbed, will begin with a show in Seattle on April 23 and take the vocaloid across both the West and East Coasts.
January 21, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word taharrush
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3395390/The-Arabic-gang-rape-Taharrush-phenomenon-sees-women-surrounded-groups-men-crowds-sexually-assaulted-spread-Europe.html
CBS reporter Lara Logan, photographed in Cairo's Tahrir Square moments before she was assaulted in 2011. Her attack was one of the first known instances of 'taharrush' to be reported in Western media.
January 14, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word walla
http://filmsound.org/terminology/walla.htm
A sound effect for the murmur of a crowd in the background.
Walla is often use as subliminal aural communication and sets a mood or a tone.
January 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word walla
http://filmsound.org/terminology/walla.htm
A sound effect for the murmur of a crowd in the background.
Walla is often use as subliminal aural communication and sets a mood or a tone.
January 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word blubstep
http://www.wow247.co.uk/2016/01/07/new-bands-artists-to-watch-2016/
While reading up on Kacy Hill, we stumbled across our favourite new word: “blubstep”. Sure, it’s one of those awful portmanteaus used by marketing types to shift records, but it perfectly describes Hill’s bass heavy, James Blake-esque tunes. She’s signed to Kanye West’s label after serving as a backing dancer for his Yeezus tour, so no pressure.
January 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word jerkigarchy
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/opinion/privilege-pathology-and-power.html
But it’s not trivial. Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered. Narcisstocracy? Jerkigarchy? Anyway, it’s an ugly spectacle, and it’s probably going to get even uglier over the course of the year ahead.
January 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word narcisstocracy
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/opinion/privilege-pathology-and-power.html
But it’s not trivial. Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered. Narcisstocracy? Jerkigarchy? Anyway, it’s an ugly spectacle, and it’s probably going to get even uglier over the course of the year ahead.
January 8, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word sex with your pants on
http://www.thekitchn.com/i-tried-whole30-and-heres-how-it-went-226938
Sex With Your Pants On (SWYPO) is a term used to describe the idea of recreating treats such as pancakes, brownies, or pizza with Whole30 ingredients, and is strongly cautioned against. The Hartwigs feel that if you’re trying to recreate a pizza made out of cauliflower crust in order to scratch a craving itch, then you’re kind of missing the point. To quote the Whole30 website, “You can tell yourself it’s okay, it’s still pretty good, you’re totally satisfied … but that’s kind of a lie. Because you know exactly how good pants-less sex feels.”
January 7, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word sharenting
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/sharenting-the-long-awaited-arrival-of-equal-parenting/
Of course there are biologically sensible reasons for this, but unless you’re careful this set-up can cement the assumption that childcare is the woman’s responsibility, long after she goes back to work too. It was my experience of maternity leave that was a big factor in our decision to 'sharent’.
When Tom returned to work after paternity leave I was left tethered to the domestic realm, feeling panic-stricken that my life as I knew it was over. And that was when we started talking about how things could be more equal.
January 7, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word yeet
http://www.bustle.com/articles/103093-what-does-yeet-mean-how-do-you-use-it-heres-the-backstory-on-the-dance
As more and more people started to yeet, the name for the dance move slowly worked its way into casual conversation, as a new way to express excitement over something. For example, let's say you and your friends are dancing and one lands a flawless back flip. ('Cause you know; that could totally happen.) That would be your cue to yell out "yeet!" and let them know just how awesome they are.
January 6, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word high-key
http://www.mtv.com/news/2720889/teen-slang-2016/
What it means: High-key refers to something needing to be said out loud. Low-key is the opposite. Both can refer to an intense like/dislike.
January 5, 2016
scarequotes commented on the word vampire facelift
https://www.realself.com/vampire-facelift
The "Vampire Facelift" is a procedure that involves withdrawing a patient's own blood, processing it to create "platelet-rich plasma (PRP)," then re-injecting it to erase wrinkles and create a more youthful look. Selphyl is another type of PRP facelift procedure that uses a similar technique.
December 28, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word faneto
http://genius.com/Chief-keef-faneto-lyrics
Feds at my door, jump out the window, nigga
Know you can't get no money silly ho
I just hit a stain, faneto
December 22, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word bean to bar
http://qz.com/571151/the-mast-brothers-fooled-the-world-into-buying-crappy-hipster-chocolate-for-10-a-bar/
But while customers can’t get enough of the company’s bearded, Brooklyn hipster founders, and their brilliantly marketed, $10 “bean to bar” chocolates, a term reserved for chocolate that has been produced entirely under the maker’s control, from the cocoa bean to the wrapped bar, chocolate experts have shunned them. Earlier this year, Slate published a story on Rick and Michael Mast, detailing complaints by the craft chocolate community about their undeserved media attention and unparalleled hubris. (“I can affirm that we make the best chocolate in the world,” Rick told Vanity Fair in February.)
December 18, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word cringe-fest
http://waxy.org/2015/12/the_first_round_capital_holiday_train_wreck/
Your annual reminder of the hidden costs of taking venture capital is here — it's the First Round Capital Holiday Video, a yearly cringe-fest of startups parodying the year's biggest pop hits, with lyrics tweaked to reflect the worst of startup culture. (Full lyrics at the end of the post.)
December 17, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word legacyquel
http://screencrush.com/the-age-of-legacyquels/
That’s something that’s happening a lot these days. Though there are still occasional reboots or prequels, this very specific kind of sequel — in which beloved aging stars reprise classic roles and pass the torch to younger successors — is becoming increasingly common in the American film industry. These movies are all about revitalizing old franchises through the notion of legacy, leading to this current wave of what we could call “legacyquels.”
December 16, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word D-shirt
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2015/12/history_of_big_johnson_coed_naked_and_big_dog_t_shirts.html
For simplicity’s sake, let’s call these novelty shirts “D-shirts”—a retroactive shorthand for “dick shirts” or “douchebag shirts,” whichever you prefer. While it’s shooting fish in a barrel to mock the simpler times when D-ness was clearly telegraphed via branding, I believe that it’s preferable to the current dilemma of actual douchebags trying to camouflage as nondouchebags. Thanks to irony (and e-commerce!), these days it’s way harder to spot a douchebag.
December 16, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word residentialist
https://newrepublic.com/article/124476/dispossessed-land-dreams
The outcry from the neighbors over Cubberley was so fierce that it reshaped Palo Alto’s city government. The city council is nonpartisan, but a faction emerged that revived an old, slow-growth movement in town, known as the “residentialists.” Their concerns are varied (among them, the perennial suburban concerns of property values and traffic), but their influence has been to block any new development of affordable housing and shoo people like Suzan and James away from Palo Alto.
December 14, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word rage click
http://fusion.net/story/244545/famous-and-broke-on-youtube-instagram-social-media/
Still other YouTubers make money by relying on “rage clicks”—saying something inflammatory for the purposes of press and views. Take “Dear Fat People,” a fat-shaming tirade by YouTuber Nicole Arbour. “Dear Fat People” made so much money that Arbour posted a Snapchat counting 50 dollar bills…but she also lost some of her branded deals and got blacklisted by the tight-knit YouTube community.
December 14, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word downwinger
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/12/two_new_books_change_the_left_right_paradigm_on_environmental_policy.html
I think it would make for an encouraging change, for a few reasons. Firstly, I’m an up-winger, so of course I’m in favor of this ideological revolution. Second, it wouldn’t really be a revolution, but more a reversion to the mean: the up-down distinction has historically been more practically relevant than the left-right distinction. Third, an up-down distinction would redound to the benefit of upwingers. Downwingers are present on both the left and the right, but are more sound than fury—refocusing the debate toward upwinger varieties on the right and the left would further marginalize the opponents of progress.
December 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word upwinger
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/12/two_new_books_change_the_left_right_paradigm_on_environmental_policy.html
I think it would make for an encouraging change, for a few reasons. Firstly, I’m an up-winger, so of course I’m in favor of this ideological revolution. Second, it wouldn’t really be a revolution, but more a reversion to the mean: the up-down distinction has historically been more practically relevant than the left-right distinction. Third, an up-down distinction would redound to the benefit of upwingers. Downwingers are present on both the left and the right, but are more sound than fury—refocusing the debate toward upwinger varieties on the right and the left would further marginalize the opponents of progress.
December 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Dasher
http://www.vox.com/2015/12/11/9871520/doordash-highest-rated
I'd been a part-time delivery driver — a "Dasher" — for three weeks by that point, driving around San Francisco on a scooter, delivering everything from burgers to pad thai to frozen yogurt.
December 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Hispandering
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/12/08/458461200/a-politician-walks-into-king-taco-a-look-at-the-political-term-hispandering
Hillary Clinton got side-eyed after blasting Jennifer Lopez's "Let's Get Loud" at a campaign stop in San Antonio where she called herself "La Hillary" and "Tu Hillary." Jeb Bush earned eye rolls after debuting a Spanish-language ad celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
Both were accused of "Hispandering": a mashup of "Hispanic" and "pandering" that means faking interest in Hispanic issues and culture for self-serving reasons.
December 10, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word hair soup
https://www.minnpost.com/business/2015/12/there-will-be-blood
The body is gone. What remains is what Berg calls hair soup: when the brains and other leftover material come together to form a single substance. This is a particularly gruesome specimen.
December 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word decomp
https://www.minnpost.com/business/2015/12/there-will-be-blood
In Minnesota, about 40,000 people die every year. Many are not discovered for weeks or months after their death. In the biohazard cleanup business, these are called “decomps,” and they’re the most laborious jobs. “The best way to describe a decomp clean is peeling layers off an onion,” says Berg. “You just gotta keep pulling back those layers until you don’t find anymore body material.”
December 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word cashsexual
http://www.avclub.com/article/hard-work-229450
“I was struck by the words SOTEMPTED used to describe sex work: ugly, messy, humiliating,” said Mike Crawford, a sex worker, sex-workers-rights activist, and self-identified “cashsexual” who tweets at @BringMeTheAx.
December 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word curve
http://www.today.com/style/forget-plus-size-models-have-chosen-new-word-describe-their-t60441
While these new models are not the standard size 0 or 2 that we often see gracing the catwalk, they are not going to let the size of their clothing define them. Instead, they're trying to change the way the fashion industry (and the rest of the world) sees them, with the term "curve" — which describes the shape of their body, not just their waistline.
The movement recently came into the spotlight after 18-year-old model Jordyn Woods, a newcomer to the modeling scene, was featured in an interview on TeenVogue.com in which she referred to herself as a "curve model" rather than the more common industry term, "plus-size."
December 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word frape
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/dec/08/rapenot-punchline-sell-christmas-presents-tasteless-advertising
It found that 71% of 18-24-year-olds have made a rape joke or flippantly used the word rape, and 88% of respondents in this age group were familiar with the term “frape”, or Facebook rape, which is usually used to describe the act of logging into somebody else’s Facebook account and posting using their profile.
December 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word nerdlebrity
http://www.comicsbeat.com/nerdlebrity-babylon-extreme-fan-bites-norman-reedus-at-walker-stalker-con/
Fan favorite nerdlebrity Norman Reedus has become an icon as the zombie-stompin’ Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead. But despite his amazing survival skills, he was not able to repel a real bite attack by one of his greatest fans.
December 8, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word antifa
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/12/04/23235160/antifascist-groups-are-organizing-a-protest-against-the-alleged-white-power-rally-in-ballard-and-capitol-hill
Antifa groups are using the hashtag #defendSeattle as part of their strategy.
December 7, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word no list
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/04/how-stoya-took-on-james-deen-and-broke-the-porn-industrys-silence
“I remember getting ready for my first gang bang, and I was talking to people – what should I know, I’ve never done this before, I was really nervous, do you have any tips? And two people were like: put James Deen on your ‘no’ list” – the performers she would not do scenes with.
December 4, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word frackademia
http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/09/17/boulder-weekly-frackademia-investigation-university-colorado-for-sale
Boulder Weekly, a Boulder, Colorado alternative weekly newspaper, has published a 10,000 word ”frackademia” investigation in a special edition of the newspaper.
December 4, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Devember
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/cause-time/418464/
Following suit is Devember, the non-profit Code.org’s attempt to out-portmanteau The Movember Foundation. “We think everybody should learn to code,” the organization declares, comparing its cause to the fight against illiteracy.
December 2, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Deenager
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2015/12/james_deen_stoya_rape_accusations_the_porn_star_was_never_a_feminist_idol.html
As soon as these girls launched Deen to mainstream recognition, however, they were recast into minor supporting roles in Deen’s narrative. In magazine stories and television specials (and in one case, a porn parody of a television special starring Deen himself called Channel 69: Breaking Nudes), they were recast either as hypersexual groupies or innocent victims trapped under his torrid pornographic spell. Nightline drummed up a Deenager exposé in early 2012 that began: “For any parent concerned about what their teen does online, the huge popularity of the young man you are about to meet may be deeply disturbing.”
December 2, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word show hole
https://www.reddit.com/r/NetflixBestOf/comments/3uhbeh/request_me_and_my_fiance_are_in_a_show_hole/
We've been in this show hole for about a year and a half. The last show we binged was True Blood and it wasn't even relevant at that point in time. We're not sure what we're looking for either. We started The 100 but didn't make it to season two.
November 30, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Skypesgiving
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/the-joy-of-skypesgiving/417420/
There is another group, meanwhile, that will rebel. They will eschew the planes, the trains, and the automobiles that make up Turkey Day’s hors d’oeuvres. They will opt, instead, for “Skypesgiving.” The Kernel reports that 14.1 million people used Skype to connect with loved ones on Thanksgiving in 2013, and that number has probably only increased since.
November 28, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word micropolitan
http://www.leaderjournal.com/article/20151125/NEWS/151129409
"I learned a new word today," he said. "Micropolitan. Geographically, there's Metropolitan, Micropolitan, and Rest of the State. Metropolitan receives the largest reimbursement, then there's Micropolitan, receiving less than Metropolitan, and finally Rest of the State, receiving the lowest in child care subsidies.
November 27, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word wayment
Shortened "wait a minute".
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wayment
November 27, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word piecaken
http://piecaken.blogspot.com/2015/10/pumpkin-piecaken-pumpkin-pie-in-milk.html
Here is a delicious idea for a Thanksgiving PIECAKEN! A pumpkin Pie in a Milk Chocolate Fudge Cake topped with a pumpkin-spiced milk chocolate ganache and buttercream - delicious!
November 24, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word gypset
http://fortune.com/2015/11/11/revolve-clothing-profile/
If you’ve never heard of Revolve, you probably don’t travel in the right circles. You aren’t a trendy twentysomething who can pull off a skintight white suit with no shirt underneath. There’s no copy of Gypset Style, the handbook for self-styled bon vivants and “high-low cultural nomads,” on your coffee table—one piece of the perfectly decorated apartment in which you barely spend time. (“Gypset” is a portmanteau of “gypsy” and “jet set.”)
November 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word crunning
http://gothamist.com/2015/11/17/crunning_down_a_dream.php
But rejoice, Proud Fitness Enthusiasts. It took a minute, but the fires of Hell have at long last forged a new trend in public humiliation-as-exercise, and it is called crunning. "But I already cry when I run!" you say. "How is this new?" No, it's worse that that. The "cr" is for "crawling." You're crawl-running. You're crunning.
November 19, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word twelfie
http://www.seahawks.com/news/2015/01/25/seattle-seahawks-super-bowl-xlix-hashtag-glossary
When 12s take selfies, they become Twelfies. Use #Twelfie with every selfie you take when representing the Seahawks.
November 16, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word grayzone
http://antiwar.com/blog/2015/11/13/the-paris-attack-was-probably-all-about-the-grayzone/
In fact, as I just learned tonight on Twitter, in one of its own publications following that attack, ISIS wrote of driving to “extinction” the “grayzone” between Islamic extremism and “the crusader coalition.” Again, it’s all about using terrorism to “sharpen the contradictions” and polarize the world.
November 14, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word complaintbrag
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/fashion/the-microcomplaintnothing-too-small-to-whine-about.html
Mr. West’s angst could also fall under the category of the “complaintbrag,” a cousin of the humblebrag and “first-world problems,” a term that has drawn its own share of first-world complaints for its patronizing stance toward non-first-world inhabitants.
November 13, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word microcomplaint
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/fashion/the-microcomplaintnothing-too-small-to-whine-about.html
It was once considered unbecoming, or annoying itself, to moan publicly about trifling personal ordeals. Now, in a seismic shift for the moral culture, abetted by technology, we tolerate and even encourage the “microcomplaint”: the petty, petulant kvetch about the quotidian.
November 13, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word antler eve
https://twitter.com/cpkimball/status/665224633633931264
November 13, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word efauxji
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/the-scourge-of-fake-finnish-emoji/415326/
Finland’s emoji, then, are not real emoji. They are something far more nefarious: Efauxji. They are mere images masquerading as glyphs, pretenders to the emoji throne.
November 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word wifey up
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/fashion/cuffing-season.html
Yet others find that the term accurately describes a real phenomenon. Avery Keese, 23, who works at a nonprofit in Virginia, had never heard of cuffing season, but when one of her co-workers brought it up, she recognized the concept immediately. In college, she and her friends often joked about how girls seemed to get “wifeyed up” midway through the fall semester. And as one of her friends pointed out one day, Ms. Keese wasn’t immune to this trend.
November 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word cuff
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/fashion/cuffing-season.html
Camille Sanches, a Columbia University sophomore, was eating lunch with friends when another girl stopped by with some news: A guy had asked her out on a date.
“You can’t cuff without me!” one of her friends exclaimed. “We have to cuff together!”
November 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word schlopping
http://boston.forward.com/articles/188492/schlep-love-shopping--schlpping/
When a Jewish-American family descended from Texas shop owners emigrated to Beer Sheva, Israel, it is no wonder that a new word emerged in their English-Hebrew-Yiddish lexicon. “Schlopping” – an amalgamation of schlep, love and shopping – became a hallmark of the mother-daughter relationship of Sheryl Mendlinger of Boston and Yael Magen of Swampscott, and serves as the foundation of a book the pair co-authored.
November 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Fedexodus
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/11/09/as-fedexodus-looms-big-stock-market-gains-may-be-behind-us/
It could be. But the market’s maturity is getting tested on Monday, and in the next few weeks, the ramifications of that likely hike are going to play out across the capital markets. The Dow is down more than 200 points, and the S&P 500 is off 25 points at 2074. The yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury note rose as high as 2.37%, and most markets in Europe and Asia were in the red. The market may yet handle what the folks at Merrill are calling “Fedexodus,” but that isn’t apparent right now.
November 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word pretaliation
http://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2015/nov/09/pretaliation-sebastian-coe-world-athletics-new-word-language
The thing about retaliation, as everyone knows, is that you should get it in first. And now there’s a word for that: the eminently logical “pretaliation”. The MP Paul Flynn has been having fun on Twitter by describing Seb Coe’s attempts to defend himself in advance against the report on doping in athletics as “(new word) PRETALIATION”.
November 10, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word fun size
http://il.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19721101_0001325.IL.htm/qx
In 1968, Mars discontinued its "junior" size candy product and came out with a larger size of small, individually wrapped, multiple packed branded candy bars. These bars were intermediate in size between the old "junior" bars and the traditional size bars sold over the counter by Mars. It adopted the words fun size to describe this new category.
November 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word koselig
http://www.bustle.com/articles/122150-this-one-weird-trick-might-help-you-fight-seasonal-affective-disorder
Koselig is a Norwegian word that roughly translates to "a sense of coziness." It's the idea that winter is a time for big fuzzy blankets, warm sweaters, snuggling, and tasty, hot beverages. Basically if a Pinterest board came to life, it would be the embodiment of koselig.
November 8, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word moose tracks
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/moose_tracks_ice_cream/
November 5, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word chemsex
https://reason.com/blog/2015/11/04/chemsex-panic-british-media-alleges-drug
U.K. media and government officials are sounding the alarm over something called "chemsex," which involves—are you ready for this newfangled idea?—taking mind-altering substances and then having sex. Oblivious that they're describing something that has happened for literally all of time, British officials warn that "taking recreational drugs during sex can lead to a number of potentially harmful side effects including facilitating the spread of common STIs and HIV, but also serious mental health problems, such as anxiety, psychoses and suicidal tendencies."
November 4, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Uberisation
http://www.intelligentinsurer.com/news/reinsurance-industry-must-adapt-to-changing-world-steingold-urges-7139
“There’s a new word in the English lexicon, Uberisation, which basically means disrupting the market—and there is potential for the insurance industry to be disrupted by an ‘Uber’,” he said.
November 4, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word ultrapreneur
http://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/w-brett-wilson-didnt-expect-bob-edwards-edward
“Brett,” he says, “really embodies that principle of being an ultrapreneur — someone wanting to leave his mark on our community beyond his business interests, by supporting the philanthropic needs, not only of Calgary, but our country.”
November 4, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Freeattle
http://realchangenews.org/2013/08/21/busting-myth-freeattle
Liberal Seattle, long perceived as a veritable utopia of government-funded freebies, like shelter and meal programs, is sometimes mocked as “Freeattle.”
November 4, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word ecofiscal
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/worsening-traffic-congestion-threatens-vancouvers-economy-our-health-warns-new-report-2069061.htm
The Commission termed these ecofiscal policies -- a new word to facilitate a new conversation about solutions guided by both economic and environmental objectives. The Commission is funded by several Canadian family foundations and Canadian corporations.
November 3, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Straw Vulcan
http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/self-help-the-bernerd-version/65127
Reality: The president and co-founder of the nonprofit think tank known as CFAR (“see-far”) is a woman, 32-year-old Julia Galef. I meet her at the group’s headquarters in hippie-ish Berkeley, Calif. She has a glint of Anne Hathaway looks about her and is nerdy, sure, but also warm, chatty. As Galef would say, I have erred, falling prey to what she calls the Straw Vulcan, the fallacy that rational people are unemotional people. In her words, it’s time to update.
November 3, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word housetruck
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/look-at-these-adorable-tiny-homes-on-wheels-called-housetrucks
“I said, ‘North! To Canada!’ But of course it took me five years to get across the border,” says Beck. Thus launched an odyssey that lasted seven years and four progressively elaborate homes on wheels. Or, if you prefer, housetrucks.
November 3, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word commutertainment
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/video/presto-customers-embrace-commute-streaming-1307998
Presto claims its customers have embraced mobile streaming on the way to and from work, giving birth to the heinous term 'commutertainment'.
November 3, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word nunsploitation
http://digventures.com/2014/10/10-best-and-worst-horror-movies-featuring-archaeologists/
Demonia (1980) In 1498, five nuns are brutally murdered and crucified by a mob of angry Sicilian villagers. 500 years later, along comes Paul Evans, the world’s most arrogant archeology professor and his superstitious pupil Liza. They’re here to look for Greek relics, but obviously Liza just can’t help but enter the long-sealed medieval convent nearby to unleash the nuns’ demonic spirits and a string of disgusting deaths. But is Liza the real killer? Or Paul? In this gory Italian nunsploitation flick, nothing is clear, but the deaths inflicted by everything from killer-cats to tortuous-trees are so gross you’ll be rolling on the floor like a pair of possessed eyeballs.
November 2, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word klittra
http://www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2015/jun/22/klittra-sweden-new-word-female-masturbation
Sweden, you must stop! You’ve already given us so much: Abba; Ulrika Jonsson; a pocket of sociosexual egalitarianism in a modern, western world whose otherwise total commitment to untrammelled capitalism would surely destroy us all; Ikea meatballs. And now a word for female masturbation: klittra.
November 2, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word osmoroni
http://archive.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20141101/NEWS/311010023/What-osmoroni-do-want-my-pizza-
Researchers are testing a pepperoni alternative called osmoroni, which uses the same raw-meat material but presses it into a film that’s run through an osmotic dehydration bath, according to a meat-processing information poster provided by Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center’s Combat Feeding Directorate.
November 2, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word exclamaquest
Early, alternate name for the interrobang.
October 30, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Floptober
http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/this-month-in-movies-more-like-floptober.html
October 30, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word orgytecture
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/buildings-get-busy-in-this-kamasutra-of-architecture
At a glance, his portmanteau of architecture and the Kamasutra, the ancient Hindu book of sex, looks just like a series of black-and-white buildings, but the longer you look, the dirtier your mind—and the images—get. "It 's always fun to play with the architectural forms and volumes," Babina tells The Creators Project. "Interweave geometries as a sculptural body shaking in a voluptuous architectural embrace." One illustration introduces us to our favorite new word, "orgytecture," which is the only way we'll be able to think about the New York City skyline from now on.
October 30, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Pakipino
http://danielmall.com/articles/epicurrence/
Race is always an easy go-to minority designation for me. As a pretty unique mix—half-Pakistani, half-Filipino—I’m under no illusion that I’ll find other Pakipinos (that’s right) wherever I am unless my brother’s around. That said, of the seventy-some people in attendance, it was glaringly obvious that there were only a handful of us with slightly more pigment in our skin than others.
October 29, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word tech-quity
http://www.govtech.com/dc/articles/5-Things-Oakland-Should-Keep-In-Mind-During-the-Tech-Boom.html
In a welcome-to-Oakland letter to Uber executives, Schaaf defined tech-quity as providing “equitable access to top-notch training and jobs for our residents and fostering our local technology sector’s growth so it leads to shared prosperity.”
October 27, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word beertail
http://www.thestranger.com/food-and-drink/feature/2015/10/14/23001065/six-cocktails-made-better-with-beer
Prior to the relatively recent cocktail renaissance, the closest beer and booze came to one another was in the classic working-stiff's combination of a beer and a shot. Now, however, the pressure to innovate has become so intense that what were once considered exotic additions to cocktails are barely worth a shrug. We are no longer moved by rare amari, syrah syrups, and sipping vinegars. So it's no surprise that beer has been elevated from a mere sidekick to a novel cocktail ingredient, giving us the beertail. (There's even an entire book dedicated to them—Cocktails on Tap by Portland cocktail dude Jacob Grier.)
October 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word interplanetary jet lag
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/01/interplanetary-jet-lag-how-nasa-rover-staff-adjust-to-martian-time/
October 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word conjoyment
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-zemple/if-you-could-create-a-new_b_8353606.html
In Eric Weiner's book, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World, he points out that our society has many more words to describe "unpleasant emotional states than pleasant ones." He coined the term "conjoyment" to describe Swiss happiness, which is "more than contentment but less than full on joy." Think of it as a solid state of happiness where there are no peaks, like the majestic Matterhorn, or valleys, like Centovalli.
October 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word murture
http://www.pressreleaserocket.net/new-xulon-book-stops-readers-from-sleepwalking-through-life/352636/
As a former teacher and therapist, Anderson developed “Murture” – a new word that combines maturity and nurture – a system of merging with God's unconditional love enabling reconnection to God's Truth planted in the core of your being (revealing true identity).
October 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word school refusal
http://newamericamedia.org/2014/02/a-diagnosis-for-kids-who-dont-want-to-go-to-school.php
School refusal in children and teenagers happens quite often. According to research, up to 5 percent of children have school refusal, which can occur at any age, but is more common at ages 5, 6, 10 and 11. School refusal is not a formal psychiatric diagnosis, but often associated with mental health issues, such as anxiety and depression, which prompts these children to be seen by a psychiatrist.
October 22, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word photopinion
http://www.cultofmac.com/393420/millennials-get-opinions-they-care-about-in-new-ios-app/
You can find out today whether exacly.me is exactly for you by going to the iTunes store and downloading the app for free. Even if you are the first in your circle of friends to have exacly.me, you can begin posting photopinions (exacly.me’s new word that combines photo and opinion) and immediately find other like-minded users.
October 22, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word drildo
http://www.bustle.com/articles/118676-max-greenfield-kills-naomi-campbell-on-ahs-hotel-now-shes-haunting-the-cortez-too
So, the big question here is definitely focusing on what the hell Max Greenfield's character, Gabriel is doing still alive. Last we saw him he had been drildoed (new word) by the Addiction Demon and was then promptly sewed into a mattress by Sally, because that's where you put your valuables and dead junkies, I guess?
October 22, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word collagration
http://diginomica.com/2015/10/21/clouds-piffle-tibco-aims-to-help-users-build-whole-weather-systems/#.Vih08xCrSRs
The realisation is at last taking hold that not just integration, but something more functionally rich that combines integration with flexible collaboration – ‘collagration’ if you will permit – is now starting to come through as the goal.
October 22, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word dragophobe
http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/the-drag-gospel-festival-really/
And if you have a hard time with any of this, you are a transphobe. You might even be a dragaphobe. (OK. It’s a new word that I coined for this column, but you get the point. That being said, I spotted an article written by a gay dad who confessed to having an irrational fear of drag queens!)
October 22, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word at name
https://twitter.com/MsPalmaa_Sparks/status/656632350206504961
I love your at name @LodiiLodiiiii lmaooo i just noticed that lmao
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word radtrad
http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2013/03/origins-and-ongoing-evolution-of-term.html
Radtrad (or sometimes, Rad-Trad, Rad Trad, etc.) is shorthand for "radical traditionalist". For background (at least from my own perspective) on the definitions of both "traditionalist" and my newly-coined term, radical Catholic reactionary (which I started using instead of radtrad on 3 August 2013), see the Introduction and Chapter One, respectively, of my 2012 book, Mass Movements.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word demisexual
http://www.mtv.com/news/2354643/demisexual-awareness-letter/
But there is that word. Asexual. There is the fact that you’ve never felt this way before. So you will go back to that word. You will look it up again and this time you will explore what it means, all its subsets and associated words. In your search you will come across a new word: demisexual.
Someone who can only experience sexual attraction after an emotional bond has been formed. This bond does not have to be romantic in nature.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Skintangibles
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/10/18/my-new-favorite-thing-on-sports-television-is-skintangibles/
Every Friday, Larry Michael — a Redskins senior vice president and the host of Redskins Nation — picks Washington’s upcoming game. Every week, he hands out check marks denoting an advantage in offense, defense, special teams and intangibles. And every week, he picks Washington to win, while giving the Redskins the edge in intangibles.
Whether it started this way or not, the segment is now delivered with a bit of a wink, if I’m being honest. That wink became something grander in recent days, when the intangibles category was renamed “Skintangibles,” immediately becoming my choice for favorite new word of the year. And yes, Washington still has the edge.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word unicorpse
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2991396/personal-technology/10-new-words-you-need-to-know-in-silicon-valley.html
A "unicorpse" is a dead unicorn -- a startup that gains a valuation of more than $1 billion, then declines and fails before going public. This hasn't happened yet, but some say that Evernote might become the first "unicorpse."
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word quinquagintacorn
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2991396/personal-technology/10-new-words-you-need-to-know-in-silicon-valley.html
A "quinquagintacorn" is a startup worth $50 billion or more. The only startup to achieve quinquagintacorn status is Uber, which completed a funding round in July that valued the company at around $51 billion -- which is why such a startup is also called an "ubercorn."
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word procrastatweeting
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2991396/personal-technology/10-new-words-you-need-to-know-in-silicon-valley.html
Using Twitter instead of doing whatever you're supposed to be doing is "procrastatweeting." It's good form to use it as a hashtag: #ProcrastaTweeting.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word inculator
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2991396/personal-technology/10-new-words-you-need-to-know-in-silicon-valley.html
The new word inculator is, of course, a portmanteau of incubator and accelerator. An inculator is an accelerator that takes more time to develop ideas and build a business. They're accelerators such as Nine Plus, whose services aren't nearly as accelerated as they might because they feel entrepreneurs need more mentoring time -- typically about nine months.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word dronevertising
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2991396/personal-technology/10-new-words-you-need-to-know-in-silicon-valley.html
With the rise (literally) of quadcopters -- a.k.a. drones -- I guess it was inevitable that some genius would realize that flying a drone around with a sign on it would be a great idea. And so "dronevertising" was born.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word decicorn
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2991396/personal-technology/10-new-words-you-need-to-know-in-silicon-valley.html
You've heard the overused neologism unicorn, which describes a startup with a valuation above $1 billion. The idea was that such highly valued startups were so rare that seeing one was as rare as a unicorn sighting. Now there are herds of unicorns roaming Silicon Valley. At last count, there were 131 in the tech industry. In fact, startups have become so valuable that there are now some that are worth more than $10 billion. These are called "decicorns."
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word stralimitata
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/pope-francis-describes-his-trip-to-the-us.html
He struggled for a moment to find the right word to capture his stop in New York. According to the Associated Press, he just ended up inventing a new one: stralimitata. "In New York, a bit 'beyond all limits.'" The New York Times translated his quote as, “New York was a bit exuberant."
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word frugal innovation
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/blogs/move-over-macgyver-new-word-street-frugal-innovation
The new Oxford dictionary defines the verb to macgyver as to "Make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items are at hand."
In the global development world, they give it a more respectable name: frugal innovation.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word transfarency
http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/10/southwest-creates-new-word-transfarency-for-new-advertising-campaign.html/
HOUSTON — Southwest Airlines today unveiled a new advertising campaign called “transfarency” that focuses on its low fares and transparency in fees.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word breastsleeping
http://news.nd.edu/news/61145-researchers-propose-breastsleeping-as-a-new-word-and-concept/
McKenna and Gettler use the term breastsleeping to refer to bedsharing with breastfeeding in the absence of all known hazardous factors. The researchers hope to legitimize it to accommodate and support the millions of American breastfeeding mothers who bedshare as they better manage their milk supply, get more sleep, strengthen their attachments and validate their roles as mothers, especially if working.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word pphubbing
https://www.fatherly.com/how-to-keep-technology-from-ruining-your-relationship-1410794048.html
A few weeks ago, you learned the term "pphubbing," which describes what you do when you snub your partner in favor of intimate time with your phone. But while the term is new, the idea that technology can insert itself into your sex life like an IRL pop-up ad is probably not unfamiliar to you. Because if it were uncommon, then licensed marriage and family therapist Ian Kerner, PhD wouldn't be so damn successful.
October 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word floppy
New sense:
https://charlessoule.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/on-an-age-old-controversy-floppy-or-trade/
For those who don’t already know, a “floppy” is one of several comic industry terms for the 22-page pamphlet that many of us think of as the classic “comic book.” In most cases, they’re published for their respective series on a monthly basis (like magazines), and you can find them in comics specialty shops and at some newsstands and bookstores.
October 18, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word referendum president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/11/lawrence-lessig-wants-to-run-for-president-in-a-most-unconventional-way/
Lessig, a Harvard law professor and government reform activist, announced Tuesday morning that he was launching a presidential exploratory committee to run as what he called a "referendum president" with the chief purpose of enacting sweeping changes to the nation's political system and ethics laws.
October 18, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word mom boobs
http://ex-press.ca/pop-culture-decoder-mom-boobs/
But because this is a column about decoding, specifics are needed. With that in mind, let’s abandon all propriety and break down the reasons that “mom boobs” are a thing.*
October 16, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word niplash
http://ex-press.ca/pop-culture-decoder-mom-boobs/
Niplash: Let’s talk about the sadistic shopping-mall designers who place “mother’s rooms” inside noisy bathrooms. Do you know what happens when a latched baby suddenly jerks its head in response to a thunderous blast of cold air? My nipples do. Personal injury lawyers, take note.
October 16, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word tocks
Alternate definition: animal butt. http://cuteoverload.com/2009/08/14/what-are-tocks/
October 14, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word overcado
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/oct/05/the-avocado-is-overcado-how-culture-caught-up-with-fashion
The history of the avocado and the modern history of popular culture are basically one and the same. I mean, no offence to Stephen Hawking, I’m sure black holes are also a big deal in their own way but, if you really want to get to grips with the meaning of modern life, look no further than the avocado. Or – to give it its most up-to-date name – the overcado
October 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word gunhumper
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/10/09/22985317/update-those-school-shootings-timelines
Noted gunhumper John McCain quickly released a statement...
October 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word achievement beard
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/all-hail-the-achievement-beard
The achievement beard—a marker of triumphant lassitude, the victory lap after a long job well done—has been gaining currency in recent years among men who might like to move through the world noticeably unnoticed. It has become standard issue for an entertainer on the comedown from a high-intensity career: Stephen Colbert donned a seaworthy achievement beard during the nine-month hiatus between his first show and his new post in Letterman’s stead, and Jon Stewart has been growing one since stepping down from “The Daily Show,” in August.
October 8, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word dickmatized
http://dlisted.com/2015/10/05/claire-danes-doesnt-really-regret-the-whole-billy-crudup-leaving-a-pregnant-mary-louise-parker-for-her-thing/
First of all, most 24-year-olds are way past that “I’m so sweet and naive and don’t know anything” phase and it sounds like she was dickmatized. When she said, “Needed to explore that,” I heard, “Needed to explore that dick!”
October 7, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word cootiephobe
http://www.cracked.com/article_21722_5-kinds-pop-culture-news-stories-that-are-always-bs_p2.html
Makes sense, right? Babies throw tantrums. MRAs are babies, so they're throwing tantrums. Except they weren't. This entire story came from one blog post on We Hunted The Mammoth, which centered around the anti-Furiosa furor on Return Of Kings, a site so viciously anti-woman even Al Bundy would yell at them to grow the fuck up. But RoK isn't a MRA site -- just some random cootiephobes -- and nowhere on Mammoth does it confuse the two. Every other site, desperate for traffic, did that.
October 7, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word garuda
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/great-midwest-trivia-contest.html
The last few questions in the contest, known as garudas, are the toughies. Below is the only garuda answered correctly this year. You have 10 minutes.
October 5, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word arsenalist
http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2015/10/the-certainty-of-more-shootings/408763/
That guy's defensive reaction to the "arsenalist" label is exactly what I'm after.
Trying to respect and reason with mass collectors within the 35 percent of gun-owning households has gotten us absolutely nowhere. Nowhere. That's because arsenalists and "tactical" fetishists do not respect the rest of us. And the gun hustler industry thrives on this disrespect. This isn't about defense; it's about dominance. And people like your reader have done absolutely nothing to clean up the culture they perpetuate.
October 5, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word sweat-shaming
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/30/sweat-shamed-waited-for-my-coffee-at-starbucks
Eventually the caffeine kicked in and it hit me: I’d been sweat-shamed. Sweat-shaming is when someone points out your sweatiness as a way to signal disapproval. Like its counterparts, slut-shaming and fat-shaming, sweat-shaming is aimed mainly at women, who are actually not supposed to sweat at all.
October 1, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word sweat shaming
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/30/sweat-shamed-waited-for-my-coffee-at-starbucks
Eventually the caffeine kicked in and it hit me: I’d been sweat-shamed. Sweat-shaming is when someone points out your sweatiness as a way to signal disapproval. Like its counterparts, slut-shaming and fat-shaming, sweat-shaming is aimed mainly at women, who are actually not supposed to sweat at all.
October 1, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word bros' gold
http://www.racked.com/2015/9/25/9398723/apple-iphone-6s-rose-gold
Apple's pink phone is hit on launch day. Re/code did some reconnaissance from Apple stores today in Los Angeles and San Francisco and found that many Apple fans in line were there to snag the rose gold version of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. As predicted, the pink phone was a hit with both male and female shoppers. "There’s enough guys getting rose gold that it should be called bros’ gold," said San Francisco Apple store shopper Dan Bentley told Re/Code. "Rose gold or bust," another male shopper said.
September 28, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word baby hair
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2997337/Is-style-ll-wearing-summer-Baby-hair-latest-beauty-trend-hit-catwalks-featured-Katy-Perry-FKA-Twigs.html
But it seems it is now about to become a blessing, as baby hair is one of THE beauty trends for this summer.
As championed by the likes of FKA Twigs, Katy Perry and Rihanna, the short fluff around the top of the forehead is becoming a key accessory.
September 24, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word thighbrow
http://www.people.com/article/thighbrow-explained-photos-kardashians
Oh, you haven't yet heard of "#thighbrow"? Well, we apologize for breaking the news to you, but now that you know about it, there's no going back. Here's everything you never needed or wanted to know about the latest body-posing trend, which accentuates that fold where your upper thigh hits your butt.
September 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Waze left
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/the-end-of-the-waze-left/406468/
The navigation app Waze is beloved for exploiting shortcuts, avoiding traffic, and proving that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line. But its sinuous directions can also be a source of annoyance for drivers, who are often asked to make treacherous left turns through oncoming traffic at dicey intersections.
Now the company is studying how to limit those white-knuckled maneuvers, which have become known as the “Waze left.”
September 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word edgelord
https://medium.com/@srhbutts/i-m-sarah-nyberg-and-i-was-a-teenage-edgelord-b8a460b27e10
Faced with an onslaught of angry reactionaries shouting at them and demanding they buy into their lies about who I am, everyone saw their transparent hysteria for exactly what it actually was: the decade-old account of a troubled young person raised on 4chan and internet edgelord culture trying to out-shock and out-troll the people around her.
September 15, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word cord never
http://mediashift.org/2015/04/how-cord-cutters-and-cord-nevers-became-cord-compromisers/
But a look back at how the landscape has evolved shows, that for the very vocal “cord cutters” (those who seek to reduce their dependence on traditional cable channel bundles) or “cord nevers” (those who propose that they will never pay for a traditional cable channel lineup), the universe of content they sought at price points of their choosing never seemed to materialize. In both cases, it seems that perception has swerved far past and missed reality.
September 14, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word decoherence
http://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2015/9/11/9310873/decoherence-democracy-doomed
Wallach starts his essay by noting that a growing number of scholars have raised concerns that government policymaking institutions are operating in ways that are provisional at best, possibly bordering on illegitimate: "Caesarism. Government by Deal. Government by Waiver. Kludgeocracy. Lawless law... adhocracy," Wallach writes (providing useful links). He argues, however, that these are all just pieces of a larger puzzle: "The deeper and greater problem is — if I can be forgiven for adding yet another label to the already lengthy list —decoherence."
Wallach borrows "decoherence" from quantum mechanics, and takes the term to describe the condition where "elements of a system that had been interacting become disconnected from each other, no longer sharing information"
September 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word quit lit
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/09/dont-quit-your-day-job/404671/
Lately, though, the modernist genre has taken on a more modern flair. The “goodbye to all that” essay has expanded into a less literary form that has come to be known, ironically, as “quit lit.” The term, if not the genre, is currently most prevalent in academia, a field that has recently birthed a spate of “why I quit teaching” essays.
September 10, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word kikeservative
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/8/9276719/nrorevolt-cuckservatives
The #NRORevolt is a backlash to the National Review's historic role as the self-appointed monitor of what is and is not an acceptably mainstream view in the American conservative movement, including its sporadic "purges" of excessively anti-Semitic or racist elements. But it relies in part on a broader critique that the mainstream right is filled with "cuckservatives" who refuse to stand up for white interests and are laying the groundwork for LGBTQ equality, and encompasses an ugly critique of Jewish "kikeservatives" and other anti-Semitic themes.
September 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word litefeet
http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/how-litefeet-moved-from-subway-to-mainstream.html
Whereas break-dancing is about getting down on the floor, litefeet is all jumps and fast floaty footwork performed to dance music and chants. (See the basics below.) Its most visible promoter has been Goofy, leader of the WaffleNYC crew, who turned litefeet into “It’s Showtime!” on the subway. Joyful to some commuters, irritating to others, it now gets performers arrested. But the creators have moved on: Goofy has been dancing in ads in Europe, and Mr. YouTube runs NYCHA-funded classes, wearing shirts and hats from his four sponsors. This summer, Pharrell and P. Diddy flew Mr. YouTube, Kidd Patt, and SpaceMan to L.A. for a video. “In New York,” Kidd Patt says, “people ask what kind of dance I’m doing,” he says. “My goal is to have them be, like, Oh, that’s litefeet!”
September 8, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word hit-to-kill
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/09/why_drivers_in_china_intentionally_kill_the_pedestrians_they_hit_china_s.single.html
Hit-to-kill cases continue, and hit-to-kill drivers regularly escape serious punishment. In January a woman was caught on video repeatedly driving over an old man who had slipped in the snow. In April a school bus driver in Shuangcheng was accused of driving over a 5-year-old girl again and again. In May a security camera filmed a truck driver running over a young boy four times; the driver claimed that he had never noticed the child.
September 5, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Maximum of Maximums
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/09/the-disaster-next-time/403063/
The people who try to keep the nation ready for these doomsday scenarios call them the Maximums of Maximums, or the MOMs. You might call them the mothers of all disasters. The term comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for the feds, it generally includes a small universe of possibilities: a major hurricane, a major earthquake, or an improvised nuclear device.
September 3, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word MOM
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/09/the-disaster-next-time/403063/
The people who try to keep the nation ready for these doomsday scenarios call them the Maximums of Maximums, or the MOMs. You might call them the mothers of all disasters. The term comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for the feds, it generally includes a small universe of possibilities: a major hurricane, a major earthquake, or an improvised nuclear device.
September 3, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word sadcom
http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/rise-of-the-sadcom.html
But the emerging American comedy, whether it be animated or live-action, carries with it neither sincere escapism nor cynical nihilism. Consider them sadcoms — the raw, honest, surprisingly hopeful, long-gestating progeny of M*A*S*H. Louie was perhaps the genre's modern groundbreaker, showing a person with often-reprehensible morals trying and failing to work against them, for the sake of the many good people around him and a next generation he clearly cares a great deal about. It was shocking, difficult, and heartbreaking, and its honesty resounded deeply with its audience.
September 3, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word fowling
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2015/0721/A-strike-or-a-bonk-Football-plus-bowling-creates-Fowling-in-Michigan
Chris Hutt owns the Fowling Warehouse, a 34,000-square-foot repurposed industrial site in Hamtramck that's devoted to a football/bowling hybrid sport — fowling — he and some buddies invented while tailgating years ago at the Indianapolis 500.
August 31, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Netflix and chill
http://fusion.net/story/190020/netflix-and-chill/
August 31, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word shade balls
http://www.vox.com/2015/8/11/9130563/shade-balls-are-californias-most-mesmerizing-water-saving-trick
Those are municipal workers in Los Angeles dumping "shade balls" into one of the city's reservoirs. The balls help maintain water quality by blocking sunlight, thereby preventing hazardous reactions with the chlorine and bromide in the water. (The shade balls also reduce evaporation, though this is a much smaller benefit.)
August 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word biketender
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/uber-moves-on-from-kittens-and-ice-cream-biketenders-will-deliver-booze-directly-to-you/
Tomorrow and Saturday, a bicycling bartender, or “biketender,” will deliver cocktails you order up via the Uber app. On Friday, those downtown can enjoy the biketender delivered goods between 2 and 6 p.m., and the bikes move to Capitol Hill on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
August 6, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word escalator helicopter
http://gawker.com/5992746/teen-tries-to-perform-an-escalator-helicopter-ends-up-crashing
While at the Colorado Springs Mall last week, Joe Szklarski decided to try the "escalator helicopter" trick he saw someone do on YouTube.
July 28, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word gender contamination
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/gender_contamination_when_women_buy_a_product_men_flee.html
Gender contamination captures the cultural disapproval that takes place when objects seen as having a strong gender identity are used by the wrong gender. Unilever’s vice president of skin care, Rob Candelino, told me that before Dove launched a cleansing bar specifically for men in 2010, the company’s research showed that men made up as much as a third of those using the traditional Dove beauty bar. But the original product was strongly associated with women, and as a result the men were using the product in a passive way, often letting their wives or girlfriends buy it, and “probably not telling their guy friends,” Candelino says. The beauty bar’s potential for growth among men was limited so long as it stayed a beauty bar.
July 27, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word cuckservative
http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/23/whats-behind-the-cuckservative-slur-nsfw/
So what does this have to do with conservatism or politics? By supporting immigration reform, criminal justice reform, etc., a white conservative is therefore surrendering his honor and masculinity (and it won’t be long before his women folk are compromised, as well!). A cuckservative is, therefore, a race traitor.
July 25, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word nose-to-tail lemonade
http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/06/summer-food-guide-2015.html
July 17, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word ghosting
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/fashion/exes-explain-ghosting-the-ultimate-silent-treatment.html
What’s Ghosting?
Ghost, a word more commonly associated with Casper, the boy who saw dead people and a 1990 movie starring Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze, has also come to be used as a verb that refers to ending a romantic relationship by cutting off all contact and ignoring the former partner’s attempts to reach out.
June 29, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word centennial
http://www.businessinsider.com/move-over-millennials-youre-already-obsolete-2015-6
Step aside, millennials!
You're already toast in the eyes of advertisers.
The new hot thing? "Centennials."
What's a centennial? A younger, better version of a millennial.
June 26, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word stromo
http://www.vulture.com/2015/06/is-channing-tatum-a-stromo.html
"Straight male stars aren't stressed out at being perceived as gay or extremely gay-friendly," she writes in a piece for THR. "Far from feeling stigmatized, they welcome the gay gaze, staring invitingly and modeling shirtless on the covers of such gay magazines as Out and The Advocate, or both." And she has a word to identify this new species of men: "Stromos" — that is, "straight homos."
June 26, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word abandominium
http://www.be-mag.com/msgboard/showthread.php/68500-Anybody-ever-try-to-live-in-an-abandominium
June 22, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word power-bald
http://www.vulture.com/2015/06/rob-corddry-encounter.html
It’s easy to see why he’s become the go-to for such roles. Whatever the male equivalent of Resting Bitch Face is, Corddry has it: He’s white and power-bald, with a sporty build and small eyes perfect for narrowing into indignant slits or dilating into lecherous orbs, and he favors the kind of bawdy humor he perfected as a correspondent on The Daily Show from 2002 to 2006, where he reported on, among other things, the power of the North Korean Taepodong (try to say it out loud without snickering).
June 18, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word landwhale
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8767035/fatpeoplehate-reddit-ban
The users of FPH referred to themselves "shitlords" and "shitladies," a mild acknowledgment that they knew they were mean people. And they would call the fat people they were laughing at names like "hamplanet," "landwhale," and "butterbeast."
June 15, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word butterbeast
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8767035/fatpeoplehate-reddit-ban
The users of FPH referred to themselves "shitlords" and "shitladies," a mild acknowledgment that they knew they were mean people. And they would call the fat people they were laughing at names like "hamplanet," "landwhale," and "butterbeast."
June 15, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word hamplanet
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8767035/fatpeoplehate-reddit-ban
The users of FPH referred to themselves "shitlords" and "shitladies," a mild acknowledgment that they knew they were mean people. And they would call the fat people they were laughing at names like "hamplanet," "landwhale," and "butterbeast."
June 15, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word selective sequel
http://screencrush.com/selective-sequels/
A standard sequel continues all of the ongoing stories from previous films. Return of the Jedi concludes the narrative started by Star Wars and continued by The Empire Strikes Back. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home focuses primarily on a time-traveling adventure, but it also explores the fallout of Spock’s death and resurrection in the previous two films, The Wrath of Khan and The Search For Spock. In contrast, a selective sequel picks and chooses which parts of previous continuity to use and which to discard as if they never happened.
June 15, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word yuccie
http://mashable.com/2015/06/09/post-hipster-yuccie/
Let's consider something new: Yuccies. Young Urban Creatives. In a nutshell, a slice of Generation Y, borne of suburban comfort, indoctrinated with the transcendent power of education, and infected by the conviction that not only do we deserve to pursue our dreams; we should profit from them.
June 10, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word aquafaba
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/06/10/aquafaba_baking_with_chickpea_liquid_for_vegan_meringues.html
Yes, the dregs you usually pour down the drain when you open a can of chickpeas are actually magical. When whipped, this substance takes on an uncannily egg-white-like texture. Coined aquafaba, or Latin-ish for bean liquid, by vegan baker Goose Wohlt, it’s attracted more than 11,000 members to the Facebook group “Vegan Meringue - Hits and Misses!” I’ve been hooked on this Facebook feed for the past two weeks, amazed by all the miraculous things other vegans done with the chickpea-based foam, like bake beautiful cakes and create delicious looking pasta.
June 10, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word chum
http://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum
Clicking on a chumlink—even one on the site of a relatively high-class chummer, like nymag.com—is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser chum. The boxes are daisy-chained together in an increasingly cynical, gross funnel; quickly, the open ocean becomes a sewer of chum.
June 5, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word chumlink
http://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum
Clicking on a chumlink—even one on the site of a relatively high-class chummer, like nymag.com—is a guaranteed way to find more, weirder, grosser chum. The boxes are daisy-chained together in an increasingly cynical, gross funnel; quickly, the open ocean becomes a sewer of chum.
June 5, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word chumbox
http://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum
This is a chumbox. It is a variation on the banner ad which takes the form of a grid of advertisements that sits at the bottom of a web page underneath the main content. It can be found on the sites of many leading publishers, including nymag.com, dailymail.co.uk, usatoday.com, and theawl.com (where it was “an experiment that has since ended.”)
June 5, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word nouveau sane
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/john-cusack-love-and-mercy-career/
Cusack still lives in Chicago, which forms a crucial part of his persona. His separation from Hollywood is geographical as well as philosophical. Midwestern contrarianism is ingrained in him — Cusack doesn’t think he belongs, and therefore he doesn’t belong.
“I call it nouveau sane, when the ultimate act of rebellion is staying sane,” he says. “Sometimes that means removing yourself from the fucking rat race.
June 4, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word wolftopus
http://filmschoolrejects.com/opinions/it-follows-spring-horror-movie-romances-fear-of-love.php
Louise (Nadia Hilker) is a stunner in every sense of the word. She’s sharp, smart and gorgeous, and she’s flighty in a way that makes Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) want to give chase past the one-night fireworks she offers. Part of her flirtatious dismissal of commitment is caused by a fear of intimacy, but the main part is caused by her fear of turning into a multi-headed wolftopus mermaid monster in front of a guy she’s crushing on. In order to stay safe (and keep a large amount of others safe), she eschews the possibility of partnership, and when that no longer works, she hides this fundamental thing about herself, allowing herself to feel happy with another for the first time in centuries.
June 2, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word merroir
http://www.ediblegeography.com/smog-meringues/
The concept of terroir will be familiar to most Edible Geography readers; recently, we also explored the idea of “merroir,” or tasting place in sea salt. But what about aeroir—the atmospheric taste of place?
June 1, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word aeroir
http://www.ediblegeography.com/smog-meringues/
This afternoon, the Center for Genomic Gastronomy and I will be offering New Yorkers a chance to taste aeroir, with a side-by-side tasting of air from different cities. With the support of the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, we have spent the past few months designing and fabricating a smog-tasting cart, complete with built-in smog chamber, as well as developing a range of synthetic smog recipes.
June 1, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word finstagram
http://growingsocialmedia.com/finstagram-parents-youve-warned/
Combining the words “fake” and “Instagram,” middle school and high school students have been creating alternate Instagram accounts. These accounts can be used innocently (to share embarrassing photos with a smaller following, like close girlfriends) or wickedly (to hide pictures of parties with alcohol and other drugs from parents, teachers and others).
May 31, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word missclaimer
http://steveandkatescamp.com/things-to-know-before-coming-to-camp/
misˈklāmər/
noun – a disclaimer about swinging for the fences and missing…hard.
Okay, we made that word up, but we do feel like you should know that we’re the kinds of people who swing for the fences and occasionally miss. We actually celebrate the miss, because if we’re really going for it, that also means we hit it out of the park from time to time.
May 28, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word catsogynist
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/05/cats-dogs-pets-pandas-whatever#comment-2040084678
Oh look, a catsogynist.
Hello people. I'm TheRaven's feline roomate. I sent him out so I could pen a special message to Mojo: who is this woman and what idiot let her have access to Drum's blog?
May 22, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word 10x
http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-a-10x-parent
How can I be a 10x parent?
May 19, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word flakka
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/18/8613673/synthetic-drugs-flakka
What does it take for a man to run naked through a Florida neighborhood, try to have sex with a tree, and claim to be the mythical god Thor? According to a report by the Associated Press, the culprit is flakka — a synthetic drug that's been reportedly linked to deranged behavior in the Sunshine State.
May 18, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word kayaktivist
http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/seattle/2015/04/24/kayaktivists-teacher-training-shell-oil-drilling-rig/26286111/
Thursday night, "kayaktivists" held a training session for teachers at Alki Kayak Tours on Alki Beach.
Several organizations plan to use kayaks to protest Shell's arctic drill rig. It's expected to arrive in Seattle's port in the coming weeks.
May 14, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word dad bod
http://theodysseyonline.com/clemson/dad-bod/97484
In case you haven't noticed lately, girls are all about that dad bod. I hadn't heard about this body type until my roommate mentioned it. She used to be crazy over guys she claimed had the dad bod. After observing the guys she found attractive, I came to understand this body type well and was able to identify it. The dad bod is a nice balance between a beer gut and working out. The dad bod says, "I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time." It's not an overweight guy, but it isn't one with washboard abs, either.
April 30, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word dadbod
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/04/dadbod/391961/
Is "dadbod" a hashtag joke or a social-sexual movement? A bit of both, probably. A month ago at The Odyssey, Clemson sophomore Mackenzie Pearson explained that this “new trend” had “fraternity boys everywhere” rejoicing. "In case you haven't noticed lately, girls are all about that dad bod," she wrote. "The dad bod is a nice balance between a beer gut and working out. The dad bod says, ‘I go to the gym occasionally, but I also drink heavily on the weekends and enjoy eating eight slices of pizza at a time.’” In the time since, #dadbod has gone viral on social media, to the cheers of Jason Segel lookalikes everywhere.
April 30, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word nickel ride
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-rough-ride-and-police-culture/391538/
A rough ride. Bringing them up front. A screen test. A cowboy ride. A nickel ride.
Police say that intentionally banging a suspect around in the back of a van isn't common practice. But the range of slang terms to describe the practice suggests it's more common that anyone would hope—and a roster of cases show that Freddie Gray is hardly the first person whose serious injuries allegedly occurred while in police transit. Citizens have accused police of using aggressive driving to rough suspects up for decades in jurisdictions across the country. Though experts don't think it's a widespread practice, rough rides have injured many people, frayed relationships, and cost taxpayers, including Baltimore's, millions of dollars in damages.
April 28, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word rough ride
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-rough-ride-and-police-culture/391538/
A rough ride. Bringing them up front. A screen test. A cowboy ride. A nickel ride.
Police say that intentionally banging a suspect around in the back of a van isn't common practice. But the range of slang terms to describe the practice suggests it's more common that anyone would hope—and a roster of cases show that Freddie Gray is hardly the first person whose serious injuries allegedly occurred while in police transit. Citizens have accused police of using aggressive driving to rough suspects up for decades in jurisdictions across the country. Though experts don't think it's a widespread practice, rough rides have injured many people, frayed relationships, and cost taxpayers, including Baltimore's, millions of dollars in damages.
April 28, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word cardistry
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/04/cardistry-con-2015
What these Danes did with a deck of 52 made those in attendance do double takes. They manipulated cards into impossible 3-D configurations at speeds that even to the naked eye resembled camera tricks. They cut, flung, flipped, rotated, juggled, and shuffled playing cards in the middle of the street, along train tracks, their faces emotionless, their hands a blur. It’s yo-yo tricks performed by cardsharps with the street cred of a Parkour video. There’s a name for it: cardistry.
April 24, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word purge-watch
http://www.vulture.com/2015/04/when-binge-watching-turns-to-purge-watching.html
During a pause in Daredevil (actually, it was during another endless conversation between Wilson Fisk and Madame Gao in Chinese), I asked Twitter whether there’s a term for what feels like the opposite of binge-watching: that modern sensation of feeling compelled to finish a show that you don’t really like. A few people wondered if this wasn’t simply hate-watching, though hate-watching to me seems both more active and more actively enjoyable. A few of the answers hinted at specific shows other people have felt this way about: “Broadchurch-ing,” “Card-housing,” and “Friday Night Lights–ing.” My favorite suggestion was “purge-watching,” since it gets at that feeling of dreary obligation, of the chorelike effort to clear away televisual clutter, as though you’re finally eating that can of lentil soup that’s been sitting in the cupboard, just to get rid of it.
April 21, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word bomb train
http://www.thestranger.com/news/feature/2015/04/15/22053165/how-one-tribe-could-slow-the-rate-of-bomb-trains-through-seattle
Tank cars containing volatile mixtures of crude and fuel gases are derailing—potentially creating fireballs that can shoot the length of a football field into the sky—and they'll continue to derail at an average rate of 10 a year, according to one US Department of Transportation report. Hence the phrase "bomb trains," which was slapped on them by opponents. When these trains move through cities, the risk of potential fatalities increases dramatically.
April 17, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word KonMari
http://www.luckyshops.com/article/konmari-method-closet-cleaning
The KonMari method, as Kondo has coined her system, is simple: keep the belongings that “spark joy,” and get rid of those that don’t. That overpriced cocktail dress you always feel guilty for never wearing? Gone. Those sad laundry-day tights with the holey toes and stretched-out waistband? Sayonara. The system leaves precious little room for excuses: no maybe-I’ll-wear-it-somedays or but-I-got-it-as-a-gifts or I’ll-just-wear-it-to-beds.
April 8, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word hallyu
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/04/03/397263103/way-more-college-students-are-studying-korean-is-hallyu-why
The Modern Language Association says there was a 45 percent increase in university-level enrollment in Korean language classes between 2009 and 2013, from 8,449 students to 12,229. Though the raw numbers are still quite small, a look at why any sort of jump might be happening is interesting. Larry Gordon, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, thinks the wave of international fascination with Korean pop culture — hallyu — is partially responsible.
April 3, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word ville
"Ville" as casual video game genre.
April 1, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word facadism
http://crosscut.com/2015/04/seattles-facadism-fetish-makes-fools-of-history-progress/
You could be excused for thinking so. Efforts to preserve local “character” while accommodating massive development have seen a revival of what’s called “façadism” where old building exteriors are used as a kind of ground-level wrapping on new structures. Facadism is not a new phenomenon, but it’s booming in Seattle these days.
April 1, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word gray man
There’s an idea called “gray man”, in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure. I don’t have that as a concern, but there’s something appealingly “low-drag” about gray man theory: reduced friction with one’s environment. Arc’teryx Veilance had a lot of that in its original DNA, and I also find it, though probably for different reasons, in Outlier. Nothing worse than clothing that gets in its wearer’s way.
http://www.rawrdenim.com/2015/03/william-gibson-interview-buzz-rickson-line-tech-wear-limits-authenticity/
April 1, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word kerfuckle
https://twitter.com/monteiro/status/583040840894844928
April 1, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word cretzel
http://seattle.eater.com/2015/3/3/8144683/coyles-bakeshop-opening-date
Expect staple items like Coyle’s cult-favorite cretzel (a glorious union between a croissant and pretzel), meringues, croissants, signature four-layer chocolate cake and the beloved passion fruit tart. The rotating menu line-up will also include fruit pastries—seasonal rhubarb, strawberries and raspberries are the likeliest early contenders.
March 27, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word smurf turd
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/02/24/21776135/botched-bollards-month-8-the-blue-hazard-for-seattle-cyclists-continues
The Broadway cycletrack this morning, featuring a giant smurf turd (technically known as a "bollard")
March 27, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word clapback
http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/rowling-had-the-best-clapback-for-homophobic-fan.html
Twitter is a breeding ground for trolls, and when your name is J.K. Rowling, your mentions probably get bombarded with them daily. But Rowling, ever the sophisticated writer, had a clapback for the ages when one fan tweeted her about Dumbledore's sexuality, saying he or she just couldn't "see him in that way." ("In that way" meaning gay.)
March 25, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word totchos
http://www.thestranger.com/food-and-drink/feature/2015/03/18/21915440/the-meteoric-rise-of-totchos
If you've heard of totchos, it was probably only in the past few months. If you haven't yet run across this modification of the classic nachos, using middle-school favorite tater tots in place of tortilla chips, you likely will soon. In the last six months, they've gone from slipping in at the occasional dive bar to showing up at every trendy spot in town.
March 19, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word trade wait
http://panels.net/the-pressure-of-supporting-comics/
Was this my fault?
Was this because I had decided to trade wait? Was She-Hulk no more because I hadn’t shelled out the $2.99 each month?
March 18, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word accidental fur
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/03/the-environmentally-sound-way-to-wear-fur/387238/
Paquin’s company is still small—she skins the animals, makes everything herself, and likes to connect personally with each customer—but her ambition is huge. She wants to revolutionize the fur trade by making roadkill (which she calls “accidental fur”) a viable sector of the market.
March 11, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word choicer
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/03/04/21827375/republican-idiot-being-gay-is-a-choice-and-prison-proves-it
Like truthers (9/11 was an inside job), birthers (Barack Obama was born in Kenya), and deathers (Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living in West Hollywood), choicers are another group deranged conspiracy theorists who can't be dissuaded by science or evidence or facts. They insist that being gay is a conscious choice that a person makes. I've challenged choicers in the past to prove it—to put up or shut up—and I'm going to issue that challenge again.
March 10, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word loser edit
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/magazine/the-loser-edit-that-awaits-us-all.html
Fifteen years later, the critical language used to carve up the phonies, saints and sad-sack wannabes of reality shows has migrated, and the loser edit has become a limber metaphor for exploring our own real-world failures. Fate doles out ideas for subplots — fire her, dump him, all species of mortification — and we eagerly run with them, cutting loser narratives for friends and enemies, the people we have demoted to the status of mere character. Everybody’s setbacks or degradations have been foreshadowed if we look hard enough at the old tape. We arrange the sequences, borrowing from cultural narratives of disgrace, sifting through the available footage with a bit of hindsight — and in turn, we endure our own loser edits when we stumble.
March 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word choreplay
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/06/sheryl-sandberg-lean-in-choreplay-sex-chores
Leaving the unfortunate coinage of “choreplay”, do we really want to live in a world where men are only cleaning up around the house to get some? In a New York Times op-ed touting the new campaign, Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant tell the story of a woman who asked her husband to do the laundry. They write, “He picked up the basket and asked hopefully, ‘Is this Lean In laundry?’” I understand that the anecdote is meant to be charming, but in a culture where men are already taught to feel entitled to women sexually, I don’t find it cute in the least.
March 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word transface
http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2015/02/25/transface-problem-hollywood
The accusation is rooted in what some in the LGBT community refer to as "transface" — a term that conjures the culturally taboo practice of "blackface" — in which a cisgender actor will "take" a role from a transgender actor.
March 6, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word duang
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-31689148
"Duang" seems to be an example of onomatopoeia, a word that phonetically imitates a sound. It all seems to have started with Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan, who in 2004 was featured in a shampoo commercial where he said famously defended his sleek, black hair using the rhythmical-sounding "duang". The word resurfaced again recently after Chan posted it on his Weibo page. Thousands of users then began to flood Chan's Weibo page with comments, coining the word in reference to his infamous shampoo appearance.
March 4, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word streatery
http://www.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/2015/02/25/21777372/seattle-wants-more-people-to-eat-in-the-streets
The City of Seattle is launching a new pilot program to create more sidewalk seating for restaurants and bars. “Streateries” will allow food and drink establishments to take existing parking spaces and turn them into sidewalk cafes.
February 26, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word scenius
http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/111861449541
There’s a healthier way of thinking about creativity that the musician Brian Eno refers to as “scenius.” Under this model, great ideas are often birthed by a group of creative individuals—artists, curators, thinkers, theorists, and other tastemakers—who make up an “ecology of talent.”
February 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word infomorph
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-shaming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson
I spelled out my grievances. “Academics,” I began, “don’t swoop into a person’s life uninvited and use him for some kind of academic exercise, and when I ask you to take it down you’re, ‘Oh, it’s not a spambot, it’s an infomorph.’”
February 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word mentions pest
http://adequateman.deadspin.com/how-to-talk-to-girls-on-twitter-without-coming-off-like-1685707661
Social cues exist on Twitter, too, mostly in the form of faving or replying. If you're making a lot of little jokes in her mentions and she's not even pity-faving them, I'm so sorry, but you're probably being a mentions pest. Maybe chill a little.
February 17, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word vaccine delayer
More common than outright vaccine deniers might be parents like Paul, who would be better described as delayers. They generally agree that vaccination is a public-health benefit, and they hate "anti-vaxxers." They're just hesitant and skeptical about some areas of vaccine science. As we've gone from one dose to more than 20 over the last 100 years, some parents have grown wary about inoculating their kids.
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/6/7988715/the-vaccine-delayers-they-hate-anti-vaxxers-but-dont-quite-vaccinate
February 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word blowhard syndrome
In fact, it is the opposite behavior—the belief that you can do anything, including things you are blatantly not qualified for or straight up lying about—should be pathologized. It has many names (Dunning-Krueger, illusory superiority), but I suggest we call it blowhard syndrome as a neat parallel.
http://xuhulk.tumblr.com/post/110549967516/stop-blowhard-syndrome
February 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word philanthropreneur
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/eva-longoria-two-philanthropreneurs-dangers-769240
In more recent years, when not busy working as a spokeswoman for the Spain launch of adultery-facilitating website Ashley Madison in 2011 (the company tells THR that "subsequently she did not honor the full terms of that contract"), she came to reposition herself as a self-styled "philanthropreneur," as she puts it on GGF's website.
February 6, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word dick tie
http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/hold-up-what-is-a-dick-tie-the-boy-next-door.html
Hold up, what's a dick tie? "I can't believe I'm describing this. But it's this elastic thing on this sock where you make it as tight as you can so that you get no blood flow or anything going on, and it kind of holds on to your man parts so the sock isn't, you know, pulled off during the scene."
January 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word nerdlesque
http://panels.net/nerdlesque-interview-dangrrr-doll/
Burlesque is not what was seen in that awful Cher/Christina Aguilera movie. It is performance art wherein the performer has complete control over the number: costume, song, and choreography. It also involves nudity (though this post does not). Nerdlesque is an offshoot of the burlesque scene, combining burlesque with all things nerdy and geeky.
January 23, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word babycore
http://www.refinery29.com/babycore
To address this, artist Matt Starr came up with what he believes is the "next step in our generation’s obsession with nostalgia:" babycore. "The same way normcore stresses the normal, babycore stresses childishness; this sort of bright, primary-colored, carefree sense of style," he says.
January 22, 2015
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