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.
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)
"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 October 12, 2008
7:07 AM (upside down, says LOL). When the alarm goes off again after you snooze it at 7:00. See also leg o'clock.
by Blue Jack July 12, 2008
Also known as a t9onym. When you type one word into predictive text, and another comes up because the letters are on the same keys. Popular examples include book/cool and Smirnoff/Poisoned.
by Blue Jack August 11, 2008
The crossover between physics and philosophy, like around the origins of the universe. Closer to mathematics than either of these disciplines.
Stephen Hawking is a philosophysicist - he is involved with philosophysics.
by Blue Jack August 13, 2008
"To bulk up a television news report with needless vox-pop soundbites from ill-informed members of the public." (Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker)
To pebbledash the broadcast with the opinions of plebs.
To pebbledash the broadcast with the opinions of plebs.
The breakfast news is heavily plebbledashed. They seem to care more about the opinions of people texting in than they do about standards of reporting.
by Blue Jack May 04, 2009
Any eating utensils (cutlery) that aren't knives, sporks or chopsticks, and are therefore superfluous.
You can eat anything if you've got a knife, spork and chopsticks. You don't need four different spoons. Said spoons are untensils.
You can eat anything if you've got a knife, spork and chopsticks. You don't need four different spoons. Said spoons are untensils.
I'm never comfortable having dinner with Mark - he sets the table with loads of untensils I never end up using.
by Blue Jack October 18, 2009