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.
All this was very comforting, but I really perked up and started paying careful attention when DuBrul introduced me to the concept of mad maps. Like advanced directives for the dying, DuBrul explained, mad maps allow psychiatric patients to outline what they’d like their care to look like in future mental health crises.
“A Most Violent Year,” was a movie that unfortunately fulfilled my expectations, based on the writer and director J. C. Chandor’s previous films, as a clatterfest of screenwriting.
FILDI stands for F*@% It, Let’s Do It. It’s that moment in the creative process where you realize that the only way something is going to get done is to buckle down and actually do it, the realization that you are the creator for your own little world and that nothing is going to come of it except by your own hands and the sweat of your own brow. It means that it’s time to stop playing around, looking at the project from every different angle, and doing everything except working on it…and actually work on it.
"The quenelle is a rude gesture Dieudonné invented in 2005. The right hand is held straight out, pointing downward, with the palm open; the left arm folds across the chest, with the hand touching the right arm."
Have we found a name for this genre yet, this revival of movies where aging badasses with very particular sets of skills go on kill-fests to protect their loved ones? “Dadsploitation”? “Father Kills Best”? I think I like my friend Matt Prigge’s description: “Peppy Fogey Fighting Romp.”
If you can’t stomach the green juices in most cleanses, there’s a new way to detox: teatox. These plans take tea—one of the world’s most popular beverages—and spruce it up with a variety of ingredients, promising results such as weight loss, detoxification, and increased energy, just as other detoxes claim.
"The attack on Paris newspaper Charlie Hebdo may have offered the world a glimpse of a scary new frontier in terrorism. It’s called “wolf pack” terrorism, in which a small group of people, often connected by family ties, stage an attack in their home country without getting direct orders or training from a larger organization."
"Eight years later, we are on our ninth consecutive Drynuary: our name for the practice of kicking off the New Year by abstaining from booze for a month." -- John Ore
"This is a joke in an animated movie, usually input at the behest of marketing forces, that is used to sell the movie. It’s usually inserted late into production and test screened to within an inch of its life. Some are used repeatedly, some are one-offs that do well with trailers."
I had to google this when I came across it in one of Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins books. (Henry's disgusted to see one up for sale at a bicycle auction.)
I guessed it was a kind of tricycle, but it's actually a brand of stroller. And it doesn't, as of yet, have a Wikipedia article.
Warhol and Geldzahler almost immediately became what Warhol described as "five-hours-a-day-on-the-phone-see-you-for-lunch-quick-turn-on-the-Tonight-Show-friends," telephoning each other at the start of every day, and again before going to bed.
This is the generic term for those artificial logs that Duraflame is famous for. "I lit a firelog in our fireplace and enjoyed the flames for the next three hours."
The magic word that turns Billy Batson into Captain Marvel. It's an acronym based on the names of the figures that give him his power: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury.
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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
scarequotes commented on the word mad map
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/lovely-wife-psych-ward-95567/
All this was very comforting, but I really perked up and started paying careful attention when DuBrul introduced me to the concept of mad maps. Like advanced directives for the dying, DuBrul explained, mad maps allow psychiatric patients to outline what they’d like their care to look like in future mental health crises.
January 16, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word clatterfest
“A Most Violent Year,” was a movie that unfortunately fulfilled my expectations, based on the writer and director J. C. Chandor’s previous films, as a clatterfest of screenwriting.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/2015-oscar-nominations-selma-snubbed-wes-anderson-triumphant
January 15, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word FILDI
"Fuck it, let's do it."
FILDI stands for F*@% It, Let’s Do It. It’s that moment in the creative process where you realize that the only way something is going to get done is to buckle down and actually do it, the realization that you are the creator for your own little world and that nothing is going to come of it except by your own hands and the sweat of your own brow. It means that it’s time to stop playing around, looking at the project from every different angle, and doing everything except working on it…and actually work on it.
http://unleadedwriting.com/2012/05/16/www-fildi/#sthash.eO9IJh7W.dpuf
January 15, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word quenelle
http://www.vox.com/2015/1/14/7548289/quenelle-dieudonne-antisemitism-france
"The quenelle is a rude gesture Dieudonné invented in 2005. The right hand is held straight out, pointing downward, with the palm open; the left arm folds across the chest, with the hand touching the right arm."
January 15, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word dadsploitation
http://www.vulture.com/2015/01/movie-review-taken-3.html
Have we found a name for this genre yet, this revival of movies where aging badasses with very particular sets of skills go on kill-fests to protect their loved ones? “Dadsploitation”? “Father Kills Best”? I think I like my friend Matt Prigge’s description: “Peppy Fogey Fighting Romp.”
January 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word teatox
http://www.shape.com/healthy-eating/diet-tips/teatox-newest-way-detox
If you can’t stomach the green juices in most cleanses, there’s a new way to detox: teatox. These plans take tea—one of the world’s most popular beverages—and spruce it up with a variety of ingredients, promising results such as weight loss, detoxification, and increased energy, just as other detoxes claim.
January 9, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word wolfpack
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-08/were-charlie-hebdo-killers-in-a-wolf-pack-the-new-way-of-terrorism
"The attack on Paris newspaper Charlie Hebdo may have offered the world a glimpse of a scary new frontier in terrorism. It’s called “wolf pack” terrorism, in which a small group of people, often connected by family ties, stage an attack in their home country without getting direct orders or training from a larger organization."
January 8, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word Drynuary
http://drynuary_the_origins_of_the_name_for_not_drinking_alcohol_in_january
"Eight years later, we are on our ninth consecutive Drynuary: our name for the practice of kicking off the New Year by abstaining from booze for a month." -- John Ore
January 6, 2015
scarequotes commented on the word hashgag
http://www.jasonporath.com/2014/12/the-rise-of-the-hashgag/
"This is a joke in an animated movie, usually input at the behest of marketing forces, that is used to sell the movie. It’s usually inserted late into production and test screened to within an inch of its life. Some are used repeatedly, some are one-offs that do well with trailers."
January 5, 2015
scarequotes commented on the list metaphorical-locations
Sweet. Thanks.
January 8, 2010
scarequotes commented on the word Taylor Tot
I had to google this when I came across it in one of Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins books. (Henry's disgusted to see one up for sale at a bicycle auction.)
I guessed it was a kind of tricycle, but it's actually a brand of stroller. And it doesn't, as of yet, have a Wikipedia article.
January 2, 2010
scarequotes commented on the word Commonism
Early name for the art movement that became known as Pop.
December 30, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word Common Object Art
Early name for the art movement that became known as Pop.
December 30, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word Factualism
Early name for the art movement that became known as Pop.
December 30, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word the New Sign Painting
Early name for the art movement that became known as Pop.
December 30, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word Neo-Dada
Early name for the art movement that became known as Pop.
December 30, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word Popular Realism
Early name for the art movement that became known as Pop.
December 30, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word five-hours-a-day-on-the-phone-see-you-for-lunch-quick-turn-on-the-Tonight-Show-friends
From Pop: The Genius of Andy Warhol:
Warhol and Geldzahler almost immediately became what Warhol described as "five-hours-a-day-on-the-phone-see-you-for-lunch-quick-turn-on-the-Tonight-Show-friends," telephoning each other at the start of every day, and again before going to bed.
(Tony Scherman and David Dalton, 2009, p. 85)
December 30, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word Drella
A nickname for Andy Warhol, a portmanteau of Dracula and Cinderella.
December 29, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word firelog
This is the generic term for those artificial logs that Duraflame is famous for. "I lit a firelog in our fireplace and enjoyed the flames for the next three hours."
August 4, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word va va voom
Sexy with an Italian flair.
August 2, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word padawan
An apprentice Jedi, introduced in the prequel Star Wars trilogy.
August 2, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word life-of
Pig Latin for "scram."
July 23, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word pro-Palestinian
A word used in BDSM to mean "stop." People don't use "stop" because they'd like to be able to say "stop" in the scene without ending the scene.
July 12, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word air-balled
From the Eloise books by Kay Thomas. It seems to mean spread or sidle or sneak or sprawl, depending on context. You'd have to ask Eloise to be sure.
July 12, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word stripparaoke
You sing karaoke, a stripper pole dances onstage with you. Ah, Portland.
June 10, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word poutine
French fries, cheese curds, and gravy. Popular in Canada and among people who hate their arteries.
June 10, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word va-va-voom
Sexy in a voluptuous '60s Italian movie siren kind of way. Retro hot.
June 10, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word shazam
The magic word that turns Billy Batson into Captain Marvel. It's an acronym based on the names of the figures that give him his power: Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles, and Mercury.
June 9, 2009
scarequotes commented on the word squirty
From Lauren Child's What Planet Are You From, Clarice Bean?:
"So after school on Wednesday me and Noah make some posters. Of course Minal, my squirty younger brother wants to join in."
"Squirty": Established put-down? Or nonce insult?
December 24, 2008
scarequotes commented on the word mammaw
My wife's mom's family uses this word for "grandmother," which makes things easy with our toddler -- she's got a grandma, a nana, and a mammaw.
April 24, 2007