AnDY's definitions
An attachment of strong, intense emotional energies to an issue, person, concept, etc., in such a way that one pays special attention to issues surrounding it and one reacts strongly to discussions and changes affecting it. Includes, but is not limited to, sexual and sublimated sexual attachments.
The term is psychoanalytic in origin and is widely used in cultural studies.
The term is psychoanalytic in origin and is widely used in cultural studies.
Right-wingers often have a strong libidinal investment in the idea of authority, so that they experience threats to authority almost as if they are threatened personally. This may be due to an Oedipal fixation in which their sense of personal identity fuses with that of the father, as threatening authority-figure, so as to enable the repression of castration-threat anxiety.
by Andy May 9, 2004
Get the libidinal investmentmug. A swear-word/euphemism used on the TV show Red Dwarf, as an alternative to smeghead. Only used occasionally, and more aggressively than "smeghead", its range of use seems to be equivalent to fucker.
by Andy April 19, 2004
Get the smeggermug. A hardline Stalinist. A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions. For instance, such a person favours overseas interventions by Soviet-style states, defends these regimes when they engage in human rights violations, and wishes to establish a similar system in other countries such as Britain and America.
The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing "socialist" states is somewhat weaker.
It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn't have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot).
The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in".
The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism).
The term is used to distinguish the rare individuals with these kinds of beliefs from communists more broadly (including Communist Party members), whose adherence to Soviet doctrine and attachment to existing "socialist" states is somewhat weaker.
It is always more-or-less abusive in the sense that those termed tankies do not use the term themselves, but it doesn't have any particular bite (unlike, say, Trot).
The term derives from the fact that the divisions within the communist movement first arose when the Soviet Union sent tanks into communist Hungary in 1956, to crush an attempt to establish an alternative version of communism which was not embraced by the Russians. Most communists outside the eastern bloc opposed this action and criticised the Soviet Union. The "tankies" were those who said "send the tanks in".
The epithet has stuck because tankies also supported "sending the tanks in" in cases such as Czechoslovakia 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Bosnia and Kosovo/a (in the case of the Serbian state), and so on (whereas the rest of the communist movement has gravitated towards anti-militarism).
I wouldn't be surprised if the tankies even defend Saddam Hussein.
Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven't really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies.
Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven't really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies.
by Andy April 20, 2004
Get the tankiemug. A woman who is appreciated by men for her extensive knowledge of the male anatomy and how to use it in new ways.
Hey man you should have seen what me and my girl did last nite. She was actin so gilland my leg started twitching.
by andy April 20, 2005
Get the gillandmug. andy m couldn't fit his chode up my arse or in my mouth and when i tried to toss him off i couldn't get a grip. So basicly he carn't get any pleasure
by Andy June 25, 2004
Get the Chodemug. by andy October 24, 2003
Get the Fudge Packermug. Top class. Can not be bettered.
Derives from the fact that there is nothing a dog likes to do more than to lick his own bollocks.
Can also be shortened to simply "The Bollocks", but beware, as without the definite article bollocks means pretty much the opposite.
Derives from the fact that there is nothing a dog likes to do more than to lick his own bollocks.
Can also be shortened to simply "The Bollocks", but beware, as without the definite article bollocks means pretty much the opposite.
That Tony Blair is the Dog's Bollocks!
by Andy March 15, 2004
Get the dog's bollocks (the)mug.