An "elite speak" bastardization of the phrase "no, you." Coined by "Audio_Drivel" of unofficial #arstechnica infamy
by Dolphin_X April 03, 2003
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Airy, easy-reading printed material such as Time and Wired magazine, etc., ostensibly written to inform and educate but in actuality designed to inculcate rapacious consumer desire (buy an H2; you need a new laptop, etc.) and reinforce prevailing socio-governmental and economic beliefs (diversity is our strength, housing is a “smart” investment, etc.).
Close scrutiny reveals that Paper Television’s content is little more than ill-conceived “bait” thrown out in hopes of courting the eyeballs that advertisers want desperately and will pay handsome sums of money to target. Making money is Paper TV’s primary goal. Secondarily it aims to advance liberal, egalitarian, and hypercapitalist worldviews inasmuch as doing so helps foster linear values sets in which money is the chief determinant of individual worth and merit (e.g. Sony doesn’t care what sort of person you are so long as you have the money and the will to purchase their advertised products).
The net effect of exposure to Paper Television upon those still gullible enough to read it is wholly negative, and may include such side effects as the belief that all humans are fungible, coupled with an insatiable desire to purchase goods (usually on credit) that are neither needed nor affordable to the readers of such textual dreck.
Close scrutiny reveals that Paper Television’s content is little more than ill-conceived “bait” thrown out in hopes of courting the eyeballs that advertisers want desperately and will pay handsome sums of money to target. Making money is Paper TV’s primary goal. Secondarily it aims to advance liberal, egalitarian, and hypercapitalist worldviews inasmuch as doing so helps foster linear values sets in which money is the chief determinant of individual worth and merit (e.g. Sony doesn’t care what sort of person you are so long as you have the money and the will to purchase their advertised products).
The net effect of exposure to Paper Television upon those still gullible enough to read it is wholly negative, and may include such side effects as the belief that all humans are fungible, coupled with an insatiable desire to purchase goods (usually on credit) that are neither needed nor affordable to the readers of such textual dreck.
“Wired magazine? That’s just Paper TV for yupscaled dorks! You might as well watch MTV as read that crap…”
by Dolphin_X November 12, 2005
by Dolphin_X April 04, 2003
A 1930s (Great Depression era) slang term for a old, dilapidated, and/or otherwise ragged-out automobiles; appears commony in 1930s literature like Jack Conroy's "The Disinherited."
City dwelling victims of the Great Depression piled all their posessions into their flivvers and set out west in search of work.
by Dolphin_X April 24, 2003
1. Insipidly saccharine and intellectually insulting animation shows (also referred to as anime by the nerd elite) originally tailored for young Japanese children that are now worshipped by a disquietingly large number of primarily white American basement dwelling geeks (see wordWapanese/word)
2. The primary form of visual entertainment for the wordWapanese/word; these repressed and socially stunted individuals vent their sexual frustrations by furiously masturbating to the images of cat and elfgirl titty shots that are all to common in today’s most popular Anime series.
2. The primary form of visual entertainment for the wordWapanese/word; these repressed and socially stunted individuals vent their sexual frustrations by furiously masturbating to the images of cat and elfgirl titty shots that are all to common in today’s most popular Anime series.
Wapanese losers piddle away their minimum wage earnings on copious amounts of Anime DVDs at the expense of decent clothing and basic hygiene products.
by Dolphin_X April 05, 2003
“Wapanese” are decidedly wordcaucasian/word individuals who, by means of thoroughly warped postmodern acculturation processes, have come to the decision that it is in their best interest to act as if they were denizens of the nation of wordJapan/word. The term “wapanese” can be accurately though of as an analog to wordwigger/word. A wordwhitey/word can be classified as a “Wapanese” if they are in possession of two or more of the following defining traits:
1. Has an unhealthy obsession with shallow, saccharine and intellectually insulting animation shows (also refered to as wordanime/word by the wordnerd/word elite) originally tailored for young Japanese children
2. Operates under the erroneous belief that every aspect of wordAmerican/word culture is vastly inferior to that of Japan’s – even though 99.9% of Wapanese have never had firsthand experience of any sort with their preferred culture (in other words, they’ve never set so much as one foot upon the island(s) of Japan)
3. Halfheartedly studies Japanese language and/or is a part-time practitioner of martial arts
4. Has a sword (samurai swords only, of course) collection
5. Is a Virgin
6. May be afflicted with a terminal case of wordyellow fever/word; however, they constantly fail in their quest for Japanese pootytang
7. Extreme cases may traipse around whilst wearing a “costume” that makes them resemble their favorite wordanime/word characters (this practice is reffered to as wordcosplay/word; cross-dressing and raging homosexuality is not an uncommon component of cosplay.
Interestingly, Wapanese are generally though of as “failures” and rejects within their own culture. Social scientists such as myself speculate that it was their failure to gain acceptance within their own culture than has lead many a white wordgeek/word to seek out Japan’s culture as a surrogate; however, they’d be shattered to know that the insular and somewhat wordracist/word Japanese society would be even less accepting of them than the people of their true and native culture.
1. Has an unhealthy obsession with shallow, saccharine and intellectually insulting animation shows (also refered to as wordanime/word by the wordnerd/word elite) originally tailored for young Japanese children
2. Operates under the erroneous belief that every aspect of wordAmerican/word culture is vastly inferior to that of Japan’s – even though 99.9% of Wapanese have never had firsthand experience of any sort with their preferred culture (in other words, they’ve never set so much as one foot upon the island(s) of Japan)
3. Halfheartedly studies Japanese language and/or is a part-time practitioner of martial arts
4. Has a sword (samurai swords only, of course) collection
5. Is a Virgin
6. May be afflicted with a terminal case of wordyellow fever/word; however, they constantly fail in their quest for Japanese pootytang
7. Extreme cases may traipse around whilst wearing a “costume” that makes them resemble their favorite wordanime/word characters (this practice is reffered to as wordcosplay/word; cross-dressing and raging homosexuality is not an uncommon component of cosplay.
Interestingly, Wapanese are generally though of as “failures” and rejects within their own culture. Social scientists such as myself speculate that it was their failure to gain acceptance within their own culture than has lead many a white wordgeek/word to seek out Japan’s culture as a surrogate; however, they’d be shattered to know that the insular and somewhat wordracist/word Japanese society would be even less accepting of them than the people of their true and native culture.
by Dolphin_X April 05, 2003