Fearman's definitions

neo-nazi

Someone who is remarkably in love with the idea of Social Darwinist survival of the Fittest, given that their idol LOST the 1939-45 war. Someone who given half a chance would wipe out all the blacks, Jews, gays, Slavs, left-wingers and other obvious non-Nazis in the world but isn't brave enough to declare their allegiance openly, instead using coy group names like Combat-18 (the number being code for Hitler's initials), or some such. A coward.

Let's be neo-Nazis. Hey, wouldn't it be great if we started another war, and, like, lost it again?

by Fearman August 3, 2007

honey runner

Someone (typically otherwise single) having extramarital sex with an (often older) partner. Honey is a euphemism for sex and the honey runner often has to run out the back door to escape the spouse. Also using "runner" in the sense of trafficking in something illegal or illicit.

Young Joe is seeing Yolanda behind the back of her husband Terry. I could have told you Joe has always been Yolanda's honey runner.

by Fearman August 4, 2007

environmentalist

Someone who says we should stop watching so much TV and get out into the wilds, and talks of wind farms as the next big thing in Green, Earth-friendly energy generation, until those techie eggheads actually build wind farms, at which point the environmentalist starts talking about how all those whirling blades pose a threat to bird life and interfere with the energies in a little old lady's television. They used to do everyone a favour trying to save whales and reminding the public of the evils of pollution and tropical deforestation. Now they prefer to chow down on maize that has been so mutated it needs human farmers to help it reproduce, and milk from cows with huge swaying udders who wouldn't last a tap on the savannahs of Africa, often themselves dressed in wool stolen from similarly unnatural sheep, while getting everyone riled up about the alleged satanic evil of genetic engineering. Gimme the old days when Greenpeace were risking their lives before the harpoons of Russian and Japanese whalers, rather than risking the sanity of Western civilisation.

Let's do the environmentalist two-step, honey.

by Fearman August 4, 2007

school

Place young people are confined for much of their childhood and adolescence to have any subversive interest in intellectual pursuits or sport ruthlessly beaten out of them. If they pull through with their sanity halfway intact, they are ready for university ... or anything else that could happen.

You're still in school? My sympathies.

by Fearman August 4, 2007

university

Institution which, with a bit of luck, can just about manage to undo half of a percent of the damage wrought by school.

She's made it to university. There's hope for her yet.

by Fearman August 4, 2007

his therapy was going nowhere

Expression used of someone who has met a sad end in fact or fiction. After a line from Hannibal Lecter in Thomas Harris's "The Silence of the Lambs", on the subject of Benjamin Raspail. Lecter had Raspail over for dinner and later commented, "Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere."

He jumped off a cliff and blew himself up with a bellyful of dynamite halfway down. Best thing for him, really. His therapy was going nowhere.

by Fearman August 4, 2007

ophthalmophobia

Fear of going to see an eye specialist.

He's got a bad case of ophthalmophobia. He's not going to have his eyes checked. He'd rather have cataracts.

by Fearman August 4, 2007