Blue jack 's definitions

Big Fat Quiz of the Year

Quiz show broadcast around New Year, hosted by Jimmy Carr. 3 teams of celebrities answer questions about things which happened over the previous year. 12 rounds, one for each month. Regular celebrity contestants include Noel Fielding, Russell Brand and David Mitchell.

Lol, Noel and Russell just built battlements out of a banana on Big Fat Quiz of the Year.

by Blue Jack July 5, 2008

shipping

In fanfic, putting characters into a romantic relationship, such as writing Ash + Misty from Pokemon as a couple. Often plays on perceived chemistry between characters in the original series. Abbreviated form of the word relationshipping.

These fanfics are just a load of shipping. There's no plot...

by Blue Jack August 4, 2008

manual memory

Writing stuff on your hands so you remember it.

Meeting at seven? Just let me put that into manual memory... *writes on hand*

I learned to write with my left hand so I could double my manual memory.

by Blue Jack June 30, 2008

philosophysics

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 October 9, 2008

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