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Overjoyed at the mind-blowing or wallet-friendly deals and promotions that are on offer at supermarkets or shopping malls.
Mrs. Jones has ever been so dealighted before that she’s so far sent no fewer than 500 SMSes to relatives and friends informing them about the sexy offers.
by MathPlus April 14, 2021
Get the Dealightedmug. When some corrupt countries boast about their homegrown oft-half-baked coronavirus vaccines, which even the locals are reluctant or refuse to take, because they were approved while they were still being trialed among a questionable number of human guinea pigs.
Even as China, India, and Russia are keen to offer their vaccines free of charge, or sell them at a lower price, to a number of developing countries, millions of their citizens whose leaders bragged about their “cheap-and-cheat” vaccines are guilty of corona pride and prejudice.
by MathPlus January 6, 2021
Get the Corona Pride and Prejudicemug. A term used by oft-racist Asians to label a black person who is notorious to curry favor with the bosses, to backstab others, or to play office politics to get ahead of their peers.
Just as some racists angrily call contemptible or dishonest members of the black community snakes and ghosts, others call them bats and skunks.
by MathPlus April 16, 2021
Get the Batmug. When someone ignores or rejects anything associated with the number π because the sight or sound of it reminds them of their negative experiences of school math.
For millions of folks worldwide, lousy math teachers and boring math textbooks only hardens their pi prejudice as far as their distorted view of mathematics is concerned.
by MathPlus February 24, 2021
Get the Pi Prejudicemug. FOMO 2.0, which is about unhealthy or selfish fear and insufficiency. A Hokkien word for the oft-irrational fear of not getting enough or of losing out to others.
Members of the public in Singapore had to wait until February to get hold of the 2021 primary one math textbooks and workbooks, which is based on the new MOE syllabus, because a number of kiasu tuition center owners had called the bookstores in December to reserve dozens of these new titles, leaving zero copies for those who couldn’t buy them from school bookshops.
by MathPlus February 28, 2021
Get the Kiasumug. When rogue politicians or unethical drug manufacturers are continually exaggerating the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic to hang on to power, or to profit from the oft-irrational fear of semi-informed citizens.
How many millions of people worldwide are subconsciously suffering from corona-fetishism, when power politics or profiteering has held them captive?
by MathPlus December 25, 2021
Get the Corona-fetishismmug. The spiritual equivalent of mathematical problem solving. How to pray when you don’t know what to pray.
Just as problem solving is about what to do when you don’t know what to do, speaking in tongues is allowing the Holy Spirit (the third Person in the Trinity) to pray to God on your behalf in a supernatural language that you yourself don’t understand.
by MathPlus April 4, 2021
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