n. Females with mediocre attractiveness often have a friend they always keep by their side that is much less attractive than themselves thus making them hotter by comparison. This always causes a problem when a guy and his buddy and looking to pick up chicks. Even though the one girl is rather cute, nobody wants to jump on the grenade.
Billy: "Hey Tony, check out those chicks over there. The one on the left is pretty cute but sadly her friend is less than satisfactory."
Tony: "Isn't that what they call the Comparative Property?"
Billy: "Yeah, I think so. So... what should we do?"
Tony: "Rock, Paper, Scissors?"
Something so smart, only an idiot would say it. Particulary used when comparing two things which seem to be of importance, but have no relative meaning in the grand scale life.
"Use the comparative method to analyze and assess the diversity of political life, institutional alternatives, differences in processes and policy outcomes, and the impact of global political and economic changes." -From the college Board
To imagine language as a thick head of human hair, as found on Michael Landon, Carrot Top, or Cher, and exhaustively split and redefine each strand and follicle for the sole purpose of making something that is hard even harder.
Hym “I’m not going to play comparative suffering with you, bitch, if it was the other way around and I was parading myself around on YouTube regurgitating Dr. Jeepjorp’s diary entries and you found out about it you wouldn’t fucking defend me for doing it. So, you can eat a dick.”