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Sharing an article from the Internet while bypassing a paywall.
If you are a member and receive an interesting article, but your friend cannot read it because they are not a member, what do you do? You copy the article “by hand”, put it back together nicely and send it to the friend. This is a lateral copy.
If you are a member and receive an interesting article, but your friend cannot read it because they are not a member, what do you do? You copy the article “by hand”, put it back together nicely and send it to the friend. This is a lateral copy.
Another great article that J. will be interested in. But the link is useless to him: he's not a member. I'll have to make him a lateral copy again.
by ThePhysopher September 25, 2025
Get the Lateral Copy mug.This is a derogatory word for books, especially novels. The paper of books is made of wood and can burn like wood.
I always tell my wife that the books she reads are just woodware. Reading them is wasted time.
Ian McEwan said that many novels are just housewife gossip. I would say these books are woodware.
Ian McEwan said that many novels are just housewife gossip. I would say these books are woodware.
by ThePhysopher July 24, 2024
Get the Woodware mug.Hypercapitalism is the brusque and blunt way in which today's super billionaires exercise their power. Examples include Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
The purchase of Twitter through Elon Musk was a typical act of hypercapitalism. This is power through a gigantic amount of money.
by ThePhysopher November 21, 2022
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Cp. to a Zero Penis Relationship (ZPR) and a Single Penis Relationship (SPR)
Cp. to a Zero Penis Relationship (ZPR) and a Single Penis Relationship (SPR)
by ThePhysopher October 2, 2016
Get the Double Penis Relationship (DPR) mug.In the novel of Simone de Beauvoir, Fosca is a man who is the only one who cannot die. However, he becomes unhappy because all his friends die and leave him. The Fosca effect is therefore the feeling of an old person when he or she outlives their friends and the other people around them also disappear. It is a mixture of melancholy, pride and the guilt of still being alive.
Why is your father so sad? It's the Fosca effect, another one of his school friends has died.
I really must write my memoirs. It's probably the Fosca effect: if I don't do it, who else will?
The Fosca effect is quite natural when you get very old.
I really must write my memoirs. It's probably the Fosca effect: if I don't do it, who else will?
The Fosca effect is quite natural when you get very old.
by ThePhysopher June 16, 2025
Get the Fosca effect mug.An image or a video of adult content. You can only dare to send it to your male friends.
Be careful not to forward it to the family.
The adjective is „adultgrammable“, i.e. stuff worth to be sent to (male) friends.
Formed after Instagram and instagrammable
Be careful not to forward it to the family.
The adjective is „adultgrammable“, i.e. stuff worth to be sent to (male) friends.
Formed after Instagram and instagrammable
Oh, this is a great adultgram to be sent to the friends! But of course not to their wives ...
This soft porno video is a really nice adultgram.
It is very adultgrammable - thanks!
This soft porno video is a really nice adultgram.
It is very adultgrammable - thanks!
by ThePhysopher October 22, 2020
Get the adultgram mug.The fear of having to make a choice, for example from a menu in a restaurant or different items to choose from in a shop.
Origin: Phobia from ancient Greek phóbos, “fear”
Origin: Phobia from ancient Greek phóbos, “fear”
I prefer a single dish of the day in a restaurant or a fixed menu suggestion to a large menu. The choice makes me uncomfortable or even anxious. I know, that's menuphobia .
I often come back from shopping empty-handed. It was my menuphobia again. I couldn't make up my mind.
The more similar the alternatives are, the harder it is to make a decision. This is one reason for menuphobia.
I often come back from shopping empty-handed. It was my menuphobia again. I couldn't make up my mind.
The more similar the alternatives are, the harder it is to make a decision. This is one reason for menuphobia.
by ThePhysopher April 22, 2024
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