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Definitions by Uncle Dimma

I wasn't born yesterday 

A phrase meaning (often used sarcastically), i appreciate it, but please stop giving me advice, I know what I am doing.
Mother: Adrian go take a shower, then do your homework, not the other way a round.

Adrian: mom, I wasn't born yesterday, I will take a shower when I feel its appropriate, besides, i have this paper to finish writing for tomorrow.

attach balloons to 

(verb) to turn an legal, but still frowned upon by society, behavior into a trend or fad.
a boy starts attaching helium balloons to his lawn chair in his backyard

his mother comes into the backyard and starts shrieking at him: Adam, what the beep are you doing?

Adam: can i finish what I'm doing without being bloody disturbed? I am trying to attach balloons to amateur flying machine building among modern idiotagers, what in previous generations was called teenagers. If possible, I want modern teenagers to be like Inspector Gadget and maybe, lol, fly away from their computer illiterate.

mother: stop living underwater you stupid devil.

medicine you digest so well lately 

an negative and anti-social habit one has recently acquired.
mother: Joseph, stop interrupting. I don't like that the medicine you digest so well lately. This anti-social habit won't get you anywhere in life. And Joseph, also please improve your vocabulary. I didn't raise you to such a rotten apple

Joseph: go scratch yourself.

reform The Church 

to become a nihilist/anarchist/political shit disturber.
a history professor: students, what's the fastest way to go hell and to be punished by the Unforgivables?

student: to become a sort Jesus Christ the real historical character in the modern world and reform The Church by becoming a Communist?

professor: Correct you are, but this only applies, as you yourself pointed out, to Jesus the historical character, well since the Romans were pantheists and because a lot of people, even historians, would disagree as to who Jesus the religious figure is or should be.
reform The Church by Uncle Dimma January 12, 2013

subjectively meaningless 

something that is objectively meaningless according to the person telling you this phrase but meaningful (and relevant) to everyone else you know (the 'everyone you know' includes most people in your generation/age range/social category)
boy 1) my mother says that smoking Mary Jane is meaningless

boy 2) just ignore your old lady. her opinion is subjectively meaningless but meaningful to idiotager or idiotagers in our class.

I wasn't born yesterday 

A phrase meaning , please stop giving me advice, I know what I am doing.
Mother. Adrian go take a shower, then do your homework, not the other way round.

Adrian. Mother., I wasn't born yesterday, I will take a shower when I feel its appropriate.

damno quod non intelligo 

a) a Latin phrase meaning: I reject anything, everything and anyone I don't (and, in the overwhelming majority of cases, won't even make the effort to) understand.

b) the root of all racism, due to the fact that people refuse to properly communicate and conflict ensues.
teacher : does anyone know what damno quod non intelligo mean?

student: it means, "I reject anything, everything, and everyone I don't understand"

teacher: Bravo Michael, but how did you know? (to himself, at least there are some Latinists in this class).