AKACroatalin's definitions
This phrase is derived from the English slang word buggerance meaning something annoying, an untimely interruption or anything else that interferes with the smooth progress of work. It is used a lot in project management where it became necessary to allow additional time for these unforeseen and unforeseeable events. Where it was not possible to allow this time against a particular element of the project, a non-specific increase in time was allowed to cover these eventualities, this became known as the Buggerance Factor.
The Buggerance Factor is there to cover the extra time needed to rectify those things, which never ever go wrong, but invariably do if you fail to allow for them. It is usually added because of a sixth sense on the part of the project manager that something unexpected is going to happen and is the factor that allows for the law of project management that states Parkinson, Murphy and Sod are alive and well and working on your project. See also Malcolm’s Law.
The Buggerance Factor is there to cover the extra time needed to rectify those things, which never ever go wrong, but invariably do if you fail to allow for them. It is usually added because of a sixth sense on the part of the project manager that something unexpected is going to happen and is the factor that allows for the law of project management that states Parkinson, Murphy and Sod are alive and well and working on your project. See also Malcolm’s Law.
That Heale Malcolm has managed to wangle his way on to the next project!
That fuckwit! We'd better increase the buggerance factor in that case.
That fuckwit! We'd better increase the buggerance factor in that case.
by AKACroatalin February 28, 2019
Get the Buggerance Factormug. An English slang expression meaning that something will be useful at some time in the future. It is an expression used by hoarders to justify the retention of all sorts of useless junk.
by AKACroatalin October 9, 2016
Get the Come in Handymug. British Army acronym describing urban warfare, it stands for Fighting In Someone's House & Causing Havoc In People's Streets. It probably comes from some squaddie saying that urban warfare was fighting in someone’s house, another realised that it spelled “FISH”. The logical thing, given the British soldiers’ sense of humour would be to add “& CHIPS” and find something appropriate to match the letters. Strictly speaking that makes it a bacronym, but a remarkably appropriate one for all that.
by AKACroatalin April 18, 2015
Get the FISH & CHIPSmug. A fuckwit who sends a stupid picture of themselves naked or in a compromising position to someone on Snapchat. The person who received the picture, makes a copy and posts it on YouTube where it goes viral. For the idiot who sent the picture in the first place there are two possible options suicide or emigration to somewhere where there is no internet connection.
“Malcolm sent a picture of his dick to Mary, her bloke saw it, copied it and posted it on YouTube, over 4 million hits so far.”
“I always new Malcolm was a twat, but now he’s a snap twat as well.”
“I always new Malcolm was a twat, but now he’s a snap twat as well.”
by AKACroatalin December 3, 2015
Get the Snap Twatmug. Uncomplimentary nickname for Camilla Batmanghelidgh (pronounced bætmængelɪdʒ), people in the USA probably won’t gave heard of her, but she’s the weirdo hamplanet who set up a charity called Kids Company in the UK which closed amid allegations of misuse of funds and child abuse in 2015. Investigations showed that despite having had over £46 million of taxpayers’ money the charity’s financial arrangements were chaotic and considerable sums had been used for purposes outside the remit of the charity. When this came to light, Bat-faced Jelly went into damage limitation overdrive (she made Donald Trump look like an amateur). Unfortunately her idea of damage limitation seemed to be more along the lines of avoiding personal blame, apparently never having heard of the buck stops here. While the closure of the “charity” may have been regretted by some, the reaction of the vast majority was relief that the government wouldn’t hand over any more of their taxes to a bunch of wasters.
“Did you hear old Bat-faced Jelly in that radio interview?”
“Yeah, no wonder she got so much money out of the Government, she can beat politicians at bullshitting!”
“Yeah, no wonder she got so much money out of the Government, she can beat politicians at bullshitting!”
by AKACroatalin November 20, 2016
Get the Bat-faced Jellymug. An expression used to describe a person with halitosis or bad breath. This can range from someone with mildly unpleasant bad breath because they’ve been up all night and haven’t had a chance to brush their teeth to someone with a real problem. You know the sort of person I mean, their teeth look like the bones of animal carcases or the weathered moss covered tombstones in a neglected graveyard; and their breath, oh lord their breath, it smells like a cross between rotting fish and the decomposing faecal emissions of a diseased pig and should be declared a biohazard.
by AKACroatalin August 1, 2015
Get the Farty-breathmug. Most people think of mistletoe as being romantic, but it isn’t, not really. The name derives from mistletan, which means a twig of mistle; the seeds of the plant are propagated through the excrement of birds, notably the mistle thrush. If you now take account that the old Germanic word ‘mist’ means shit or dung, mistletoe’s name translates as ‘shit plant’.
by AKACroatalin January 8, 2017
Get the Mistletoemug.