mikroth's definitions

co-promo

media term for those current TV shows where wannabees or one-star celebs hoping to raise their public profile are encouraged to compete, be humiliated, bullied, or patronised on camera...

Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...

'Jeez ! Yet another co-promo on TV... this time it's the Whiplash School of Cookery comp...but dammit, I love them all...it's so addictive...'

by mikroth February 6, 2009

SAYCRAP

Acronym for

Stupid Acronyms You Can't Remember Anyway -- Pissoff...'

'Urban Dictionary.. great ! Read it ?'

'Nah -- full of SAYCRAP -- acronyms no-one remembers anyway...'

by mikroth October 10, 2009

nooyer

Sums up everything you hate about New Year's Eve celebrations -- 'nooyer' signifies the meaningless behaviour of louts at that time,'Nooyer' signifies celebs having the time of their lives on camera (and often pre-recorded in late summer...)

'We went down to the pub for a celebratory drink -- but it was full of nooyer shouting and binge and vomit...'

'Nothing on TV tonite but Nooyer plastic jollity and second-rank celeb media exposure...'

by mikroth January 11, 2008

hyposhit

The public outrage manufactured by those who want to cover their own dirty tracks by accusing others.

" 'Stop hounding politicians for cheating public funds -- they're only human; respect their privacy' -- What hyposhit !"

"Journalists, of all people, accusing politicians of fiddling their expenses ! How's that for hyposhit ?!"

by mikroth May 24, 2009

googletrawl

That rapid internet search you do to avoid exposing your ignorance..

Prof called my work 'desultory'... I had to do a quick googletrawl to find out whether that was a compliment or not ! Not !

by mikroth March 22, 2009

notwith

to notwith is to stand obviously at a distance from someone at a party or business gathering : a colleague who was sent with you to the meeting, but whom you despise; or an ex you were together with for a fair time but now parted from... it's a kinda public statement.

They sent that moron from Publicity with me on the freebie -- so I made a point to notwith him at all the meetings and parties just to let them know...

She was there at the party, so I had to notwith her, otherwise people would be going on about 'you two...'

The bastard chose to notwith me all evening... ambitious crawler, we're supposed to have represented the firm as a pair...

by mikroth October 31, 2007

heartsploitation

used of films, memoirs, poetry, distorting or falsifying the truth to grab your emotions -- successfully !

'You read that Frey 'memoir' that Oprah was plugging, yet ?'

'Memoir shit ! Great story, blame his publisher for marketing a novel as a memoir -- sheer heartsploitation ! My girl wept buckets, then blamed me for spilling the beans...'

by mikroth August 20, 2008