Blue Jack's definitions

issuetainment

TV show that attempts to tackle an issue, but is geared up more to entertain than to make a difference.
Originally coined by Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker.

Did you see that issuetainment last night, where they made those fat kids do sports? They weren't trying to help them, just make them look silly on TV.

"The only solution is to find a new threat, which brings us to 'Ian Wright's Unfit Kids' (C4), a weekly 'issuetainment' programme in which the former footballer and renowned enemy of grammar forces a bunch of overweight youngsters to take part in some extracurricular PE." - Charlie Brooker, Screen Burn (9/16/2006)

by Blue Jack January 22, 2009

tinternet

'The Internet', in a stereotypical Northern English accent in which the word 'the' is shortened to 't'. Used normally in a tongue-in-cheek or self-parodying fashion. The word 'tinterweb' also exists, but is rarely used.

Research? Log onto tinternet and let's see what we can find.

by Blue Jack January 20, 2009

NJTs

Non-Jeans Trousers. More formal than jeans (not usually used about tracksuit pants, for example).

This place has a dress code, so wear your NJTs.

by Blue Jack January 20, 2009

nap year

Taking a gap year between high school and university, and spending all year being a couch potato.

Towards the end of my nap year, I realised it might have been better to get a job.

by Blue Jack January 3, 2009

haiku

Haikus have three lines.
The first has five syllables,
Then seven, then five.

Proper haikus are about nature, especially the seasons; the structure tends to be more important than the words.

A haiku:
Underneath a tree
Summer air is so easy.
So is yo mama.

by Blue Jack January 3, 2009

not chocolate

A hot chocolate-flavoured drink containing little or no actual chocolate.

What can I get you to drink? Tea? Coffee? Not chocolate?
I'll have a not chocolate, please.

by Blue Jack January 2, 2009

credit brunch

Combining breakfast and lunch into one meal when you can't afford to eat three times a day.
Also, what happens when you type credit crunch on predictive text.

Two weeks 'til I get paid still... think I'll have to have Facon sandwiches for credit brunch...

by Blue Jack January 2, 2009