Definitions by Astor G.
SLAPP
Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation
A corporate bullying lawsuit filed against a person or a group with the express purpose of silencing their protests. Usually under the pretext of "slander" or "libel" and the targets are often whistle-blowers.
A corporate bullying lawsuit filed against a person or a group with the express purpose of silencing their protests. Usually under the pretext of "slander" or "libel" and the targets are often whistle-blowers.
A scrap metal company filed a 5 million dollar SLAPP in 2005 against an environmental non-profit after it blew the whistle on chemical runoff seeping into a sensitive salmon spawning river, claiming they were slandered. It's just another example of corporate bully-suing.
greedhooks
1. What a credit company or subprime mortgage agent has in you when you are maxed out, can't pay and they've tripled the interest rate they charge.
2. A lending company that deliberately suckers in distressed lenders knowing they'll pay the minimum while they can raise their interest rates upteen million times. The act of making them pay through the nose is having their greedhooks in their "customers."
greed + meathooks
2. A lending company that deliberately suckers in distressed lenders knowing they'll pay the minimum while they can raise their interest rates upteen million times. The act of making them pay through the nose is having their greedhooks in their "customers."
greed + meathooks
ABC credit lending gave me a preapproved $5000.00 loan, so I took it because I had bills piling up. Now I got in an accident and lost my job. Now the company has their greedhooks in me.
greedhooks by Astor G. March 20, 2008
instant expert
Someone who looks up a word or a fact on a search engine, such as {Google}, looks at a few articles or definitions, mostly on {Wikipedia}, and decides they now know everything about it.
Person one: "Whoa. So now Jason started an argument with me about which of the American Presidents are the best and worst. Yesterday, he didn't know anything about them."
Person two: "He {Googled} them, obviously."
Person one: "you're right. He's become an instant expert."
Person two: "He {Googled} them, obviously."
Person one: "you're right. He's become an instant expert."
instant expert by Astor G. February 28, 2008
instant expert
Somebody who does an internet search on a word, a religion, a person, etc., on Wikipedia and a few other sites at the top of the Google list and decides they know everything the need to in order to win their argument.
Person one: "Who, Jason just blistered me with his list of who are the best and worst American Presidents."
Person two: "Yesterday, he didn't know anything about them."
Person one: "Yeah, well, today, he's become an instant expert.
Person two: "Yesterday, he didn't know anything about them."
Person one: "Yeah, well, today, he's become an instant expert.
instant expert by Astor G. February 20, 2008
perma-offended
A person who is in a permanent state of being offended because of {political correctness.} No matter what others say or do, they will find a reason to pounce on them for use of a word they don't like. The other party finds they have to walk on eggshells around them.
The guy who used the word niggardly to describe someone who is miserly and he was asked to leave his job by pressure from the perma-offended.
perma-offended by Astor G. January 2, 2008
infil-traitor
1. A person who poses as a member of a group but are doing so just to mess with their heads for the fun of it.
2. A person who poses as a member of a group in order to prey on them, argue, preach, or cause discord.
2. A person who poses as a member of a group in order to prey on them, argue, preach, or cause discord.
That guy I thought was someone in my class ended up being a 45 year old creep from another state. He mede me think all my friends were gossiping behind my back. He was an infil-traitor!
I found out that the guy who joined our pagan group was really a Christian fundamentalist arguing for Jesus's love. Right like I need to hear that. What an infil-traitor
I found out that the guy who joined our pagan group was really a Christian fundamentalist arguing for Jesus's love. Right like I need to hear that. What an infil-traitor
infil-traitor by Astor G. November 26, 2007
fundamentalcase
A hard-core member of the Religious Right. generally obsessively preaching the Word, telling you you're going to hell and has no tolerance for difference.
Pat Robertson is a fundamentalcase, plain and simple. Don't you get tired of hearing that every natural disaster is caused by gays, feminists, pagans and liberals?
fundamentalcase by Astor G. November 26, 2007