wankery

I figure the best way to realize the absurdity of wankery is to take part in it, and now that I’ve taken part in it, I can see how absurd it is and will continue to be.

So… 2004

I figure the best way to realize the absurdity of wankery is to take part in it, and now that I’ve taken part in it, I can see how absurd it is and will continue to be.

But… 2004

I had to look up the word 'wankery' because it sounded as though it might be rude and that would be so unlike you.

Where is Nick Clogg?: He Has 2008

Regrettably, the otherwise terrific banjo-rocker "Anywhere" and another track or two are marred by guitar wankery and bombast on the bridges.

Album review: Sara Evans, "Stronger" 2011

Regrettably, the otherwise terrific banjo-rocker "Anywhere" and another track or two are marred by guitar wankery and bombast on the bridges.

Album review: Sara Evans's 'Stronger' 2011

Enough with all this self-aggrandizement wankery bullshit.

Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

I think it's a wankery term invented by literati types who are too embarrassed to admit they're reading and/or writing fantasy.

Of work and epihpanies karenmiller 2009

If women are targets or "pie" or "gullet" -- this writer is a wad of wankery, tacky ejaculate, unwittingly revealing what makes him screech and wee wee.

Carol Muske-Dukes: The Rules According to a Fraternity "Cocksman" Carol Muske-Dukes 2011

Pretensions to classical education turn wonkery into wankery.

Matthew Yglesias » By Request: An Egyptian Gaza? 2009

And of course, the reality is that even granting your Luntzian/Gingrichian wankery, even focusing obsessively on the worst (genuine) abuses of the past combined with modern fantasies peopled with ‘Sopranos’ actors or whatever, unionization is giving “people the chance to opt out of the working class altogether”; indeed, it was one of the major factors in creating widespread postWWII prosperity and a burgeoning middle class.

Matthew Yglesias » McConnell’s Middle Class 2009