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A very poor cockle. It was created during the 1950s as a satire on pennyloafers--people who were very lazy but only had pennies to their name. However, due to the rise of inflation and a penny being completely worthless now, a pennycockle is a much worse insult. Look how poor that person is! They must not have a penny to their name! They must be a pennycockle!
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| 2. | Encyclopedia Dramatica | ||
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A failed attempt at a Wikipedia parody that is actually a cover for a non-stop bitching and whining fest, in which it's users insult things for simply being popular to give off the illusion of being iconoclastic or edgy.
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For every entry that may actually be funny, there are at least five that are simply a twenty year old loser coming up with sentences to fit the word faggotry into while "sticking it" to some sub-culture of people no one in their right minds gives two shits about. Tips for the budding ED writer: Believe that the word "lulz" is some magical incantation that successfully shields you from potential scrutiny. Apparently when you do everything that your site condemns, you are no longer a neckbeard basement dweller, obsessed loser if you write for ED and use "I did it for teh lulz" as an opening disclaimer. Each entry should read like the World's Angriest Mad Lib. Take X (the subject that will garner the most "look at me, I need attention because no one loves me" points) then start with a stupid origin ripped from the previous 500 entries. Swear a lot. Link to no less than 400 other entries, 200 of which should be their lame inside jokes/memes that are somehow less retarded than everyone else's. Annie may! Betty Sue! 100 years ago! *wipes tear* Pure comedy gold. Basically just copy and past a previous entry, take out the subject key words, add a few "faggotry's" and cock/gay/nigger/Jew/Nazi/... |
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| 3. | Emo David | ||
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The stereotypical emo boy, can be used to describe any over the top emo male. (Think Mary-Sue in a badly written fan fic)
Emo David is bi and proud. Emo David has black hair that he dyed himself, with bangs over his eyes. He even highlights his bangs sometimes. Emo David's eyes are framed in black eyeliner that look like they've been painted on by a 4 yr old who isn't particularly talented at art. Emo David writes poor poetry, a lot. Emo David loves Fall Out Boy and Panic *insert superfluous punctuation mark here* at the Disco. Emo David thinks Trivium is hardcore metal. Emo David wears bottle-thick glasses. Emo David wears aforementioned glasses even though his eyesight is fine and doesn't actually need them. Emo David loves to take photographs of himself at weird angles. Emo David cries in the corner of his room when he isn't in his friends' myspace top 8. Emo David wears his sister's trousers. Emo David goes to concerts and plays the air guitar whilst attempting to mosh. Emo David slits his wrists and wears short sleeved shirts so everyone can know that he's a 'true' emo. Emo David's acoustic guitar is his best friend. Ever. Emo David loves to insert lots of "X"s into his screenames. Eg: xXHeartsXofXbleedingXpainXx Person 1: Steve is such an Emo David.
Person 2: Yeah, totally. |
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| 4. | theodicy | ||
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*noun*; from Greek, θεός {god} + δίκαιον (justice). Literally, "the justice of God." Specifically, the attempt to explain God's ways to mortals.
The term was used by Gottfried Leibniz for his book {Théodicée} explaining how an omnipotent and benevolent God could allow suffering in the universe. Leibniz took the approach that this was the "best of all possible worlds," meaning that God could not have made this world better in any one respect, without making it worse in others. In 1759, Voltaire published the novel *Candide* which was essentially a very long satire of Leibniz' views. The character of Dr. Pangloss is based on Leibniz, although it has been argued that Voltaire misrepresented Leibniz' views. In common usage, the term *theodicy* refers to any defense of a thing based on the claim that whatever that thing does is the best possible. The obvious example is neoclassical economics, which insists that whatever outcome achieved by "the market," it is the best one that could possibly exist. It's a fallacy because it uses circular reasoning, and it is unfalsifiable. Privileged and successful groups need religion for a very different purpose, namely legitimation. Their members are convinced that they deserve their good fortune and that the poor deserve their misfortune. {Max} Weber calls this the "theodicy of good fortune"...
Anthony Waterman in 2002 put forward the suggestion that Smith could be read as offering a kind of Augustinian theodicy of the market. According to him, Smith's idea could be interpreted as thus: just like God put governments in place to restrain sin, the institution of the market also restrains sin. Nimi Wariboko, *God and Money: A Theology of Money in a Globalizing World* (2008) |
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| 5. | irony bombing | ||
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Web reviews on sites like Amazon or Tripadvisor that heap ridiculous praise on a poor product or service. Notable examples included mischievous Amazon.co.uk reviews for Peter Andre and Katie Price's album 'A whole new world' when it was first released. Just checked out that DVD you recommended on Amazon, the reviewers totally irony bombing it. I won't even borrow your copy.
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| 6. | Unicorn Approach | ||
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The Unicorn Approach is a business phrase for handling those times when your boss is asking for the impossible and/or making completely unrealistic demands. Often, when they are demanding this, they resent any "negative" feedback. You can smile and say "Sure boss, we'll apply the Unicorn Approach to that and get right on it." Strictly defined, the Unicorn Approach is pretending that all will be well in fantasy land, where it's rainbows and sunshine all the time. And Unicorns frolic. It allows the poor shmuck being asked to deal with the ridiculous, ludicrous demands of egotistical bosses with a bit of humor. Sure, it doesn't fix the problem but honestly - you can't fix it anyway so at least you can smile a bit! Boss: You need to triple your sales this month. It doesn't matter that there are multiple blizzards, there are no sales people and your facility is under renovation. NO EXCUSES! Manager: Sure boss, we'll apply the Unicorn Approach and get right on it.
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| 7. | Olympia, Washington | ||
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There is hardly anything complimentary to say about this town. There are rarely any fun events to attend. It is very uncultured, poor, dirty, and is definitely not showing any signs of improvement. The air stinks with pollution from the high traffic, an open slew of stagnant water and sewage winds throughout all of Olympia, most of the neighborhoods are rundown, and there is a high rate of drugs, crime, assault, STDs, and sex offenders/child molesters. The majority of people that live in Olympia are very trashy. Most people start out in life with a teenage pregnancy or two, drop out of highschool, maybe get into drugs, catch an STD, and learn to scam the system and live off SSI, foodstamps, HUD, and etc. since they have no education or job and no ambition to get one. In general, an Olympia person loves drama and has a pack mentality; a very bad combination that causes them to keep that highschool drama queen/king personality through adulthood of judging others, always believing they're right, and hating anyone who's different or seemingly better than they are........all with the support of their pack of friends. However, there are some respectable people in Olympia of course; even if they're living situations make them appear like the rest. Something that happened to me before I left Olympia:
Olympia chick: Hey b*tch! I don't like you! Don't look at me like that! I'll kick you're ass! Me: Errr.....what? Who are you? I don't think I remember you. Olympia chick: Shut up! You stay away from my man! He and my friends say you've been flirting with him and a bunch of other guys. He doesn't want your herpes you nasty ho! So back off! Me: Ha Ha! What are you talking about? I only chatted with him for a couple minutes at the party and I am not a prostitute with herpes. You and your friends need to get your facts straight. *I walk away shaking my head* Olympia chick: Blah blah.....that's right you better run away!.....blah blah......I'll kick your ass........blah blah. *I continue walking* Damn....I'm leaving Olympia, Washington and going back to Longview, Washington. |
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