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Joey: Guess what happened today at the grocery shop where I work! I caught someone stealing!!
Xavier: Did he go to jail?
Joey: No, he got the baseball bat treatment!
Xavier: Did he go to jail?
Joey: No, he got the baseball bat treatment!
by OffBeatDrummer September 26, 2023
Get the Baseball Bat Treatment mug.Just another word for clickety clackety; that is making noise through typing on a computer keyboard.
Darren: Two tickets to Denver, Colorado please!
Norah (Flight Agent): *clickety-clack*. No problem sir. I found a flight. You're all booked!
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Kelly: Could you please find out how many PTOs I have left this year?
Katherine (H.R. Agent): Sure thing! *clickety-clack* It says here you got one week left.
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Jason: *clickety-clack* The Sword of Shannara! That's the first book in the Shannara series.
Laura: What about the author's other series about the lawyer who becomes a king?
Jason: *clickety-clack* The Magic Kingdom of Landover. Here, take the keyboard. The library search engine is quite easy to use. What is yet another series by that same author?
Laura: *clickety-clack* The Word and the Void.
Norah (Flight Agent): *clickety-clack*. No problem sir. I found a flight. You're all booked!
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Kelly: Could you please find out how many PTOs I have left this year?
Katherine (H.R. Agent): Sure thing! *clickety-clack* It says here you got one week left.
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Jason: *clickety-clack* The Sword of Shannara! That's the first book in the Shannara series.
Laura: What about the author's other series about the lawyer who becomes a king?
Jason: *clickety-clack* The Magic Kingdom of Landover. Here, take the keyboard. The library search engine is quite easy to use. What is yet another series by that same author?
Laura: *clickety-clack* The Word and the Void.
by OffBeatDrummer November 23, 2020
Get the Clickety-clack mug.BIFI: By Idiots For Idiots
Pronounced "beefy"
It is a variation on saying: the blind leading the blind.
Pronounced "beefy"
It is a variation on saying: the blind leading the blind.
Humphry: Heard of this new website, Quora?
Benjamin: Sounds like the name of a terrorist.
Humphry: No, it's a website where you ask other people questions, and they answer them.
Benjamin: Ahh, so a clone of Yahoo! Answers!?!
Humphry: Pretty much, but they try to provide a nicer user interface.
A few moments of clickety clackety and the conversation continues...
Humphry: So, what do you think?
Benjamin: BIFI
Humphry: Is that a compliment? Do you mean beefy as in filled with features to the brim?
Benjamin: No, BIFI as in By Idiots For Idiots. Have you taken a closer look at any of the questions or answers? The answers are all wrong and written by idiots. The questions are all dumb and written by even bigger idiots. Thus, BIFI, By Idiots For Idiots!
Benjamin: Sounds like the name of a terrorist.
Humphry: No, it's a website where you ask other people questions, and they answer them.
Benjamin: Ahh, so a clone of Yahoo! Answers!?!
Humphry: Pretty much, but they try to provide a nicer user interface.
A few moments of clickety clackety and the conversation continues...
Humphry: So, what do you think?
Benjamin: BIFI
Humphry: Is that a compliment? Do you mean beefy as in filled with features to the brim?
Benjamin: No, BIFI as in By Idiots For Idiots. Have you taken a closer look at any of the questions or answers? The answers are all wrong and written by idiots. The questions are all dumb and written by even bigger idiots. Thus, BIFI, By Idiots For Idiots!
by OffBeatDrummer December 22, 2021
Get the BIFI mug.Josh: This barista messed up my coffee again... I told him many times, no whipped cream, but he won't listen. The coffee is disgusting. I'm done with Starfucks.
Dave: Must be one of them fagidiots who add whipped cream to hint to customers they'd like their whipped cream in their mouth
Dave: Must be one of them fagidiots who add whipped cream to hint to customers they'd like their whipped cream in their mouth
by OffBeatDrummer October 25, 2020
Get the Fagidiot mug.An unvacation is a nice trip that you take to pamper yourself or to enjoy some activity while still working full time or part time.
It is especially applicable to people who have the job flexibility of remote work.
For example, a person taking an unvacation to Cancun might decide to work full time during the day and party every evening, or otherwise work evenings and go to the beach during the day.
It is especially applicable to people who have the job flexibility of remote work.
For example, a person taking an unvacation to Cancun might decide to work full time during the day and party every evening, or otherwise work evenings and go to the beach during the day.
Samantha: Guess where I’m heading next week?
Majorie: Hawaii?
Samantha: Yes, I’ll be there all of next week.
Majorie: Wait! Don’t you have work to do?
Samantha: I do, and I will be getting it all done from Hawaii. This will be an awesome unvacation!!!
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Steven: I’m flying to Boston next week to see the Red Sox play 3 nights in a row.
Gregory: Aren’t you out of vacation days this year… how are you gonna pull that off?
Steven: I’ll work remotely every day during the day, and then attend baseball games in the evening. This will be an epic unvacation!
Majorie: Hawaii?
Samantha: Yes, I’ll be there all of next week.
Majorie: Wait! Don’t you have work to do?
Samantha: I do, and I will be getting it all done from Hawaii. This will be an awesome unvacation!!!
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Steven: I’m flying to Boston next week to see the Red Sox play 3 nights in a row.
Gregory: Aren’t you out of vacation days this year… how are you gonna pull that off?
Steven: I’ll work remotely every day during the day, and then attend baseball games in the evening. This will be an epic unvacation!
by OffBeatDrummer June 24, 2022
Get the Unvacation mug.The Cult of Niceness is a recent phenomenon mentioned in a write-up by Bruce Frohnen about how some people prioritize "niceness" over doing what is right, masking a very deceptive act of discrimination that pretends to care about everyone equally while in fact favoring certain people who are unethical to help them get away with murder over others who are ethical and deserving of good treatment.
The phenomenon does not take into account that if you are "nice" to the wrong person (e.g. a thief, a corrupt officer, or a bad manager) or at the wrong time (like after someone caused harm to others or damaged people's properties), you are actually not being nice to the good people who would negatively get impacted by being nice to a bad person at the wrong time. In other words, the "niceness" that the Cult of Niceness promotes is not even real niceness at all. It is only a corrupt shallow naive version of niceness that is not good at all and is only meant to excuse the evil actions of evil people.
Usually, there are benefactors indirectly benefiting from the Cult of Niceness, whether financially when people are not reprimanded for falling for certain addictions (e.g. porn) or immorally when normalizing and excusing certain immoral behaviors.
Members of the Cult of Niceness hypocritically do what they decry by yelling rudely and angrily at the person they perceive as "not nice" without being nice themselves, negating their credibility and becoming easily ignorable by everyone.
The phenomenon does not take into account that if you are "nice" to the wrong person (e.g. a thief, a corrupt officer, or a bad manager) or at the wrong time (like after someone caused harm to others or damaged people's properties), you are actually not being nice to the good people who would negatively get impacted by being nice to a bad person at the wrong time. In other words, the "niceness" that the Cult of Niceness promotes is not even real niceness at all. It is only a corrupt shallow naive version of niceness that is not good at all and is only meant to excuse the evil actions of evil people.
Usually, there are benefactors indirectly benefiting from the Cult of Niceness, whether financially when people are not reprimanded for falling for certain addictions (e.g. porn) or immorally when normalizing and excusing certain immoral behaviors.
Members of the Cult of Niceness hypocritically do what they decry by yelling rudely and angrily at the person they perceive as "not nice" without being nice themselves, negating their credibility and becoming easily ignorable by everyone.
In the 2010s, the Cult of Niceness became popular in online social media networks as mobs of unethical people would harass certain ethical people they deemed weak, unconnected-to-high-level-people, and worthy of being hated (while hypocritically claiming they were against hate). And, if the harassed people tried to defend themselves against the rude comments of the unethical people, they'd get suddenly called out for not being "nice" while the unethical rude harassers are let off the hook as "simply expressing themselves" and "not being hateful" despite their obvious hating on the ethical people they harassed.
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A home owner got robbed through breaking and entering, and when they found the thief leaving with their belongings, they yelled at the thief to drop everything they took, but then immediately, the Cult of Niceness police cut the home owner off and asked them to be "nice" by not yelling at the thief rudely, thus allowing the thief to escape.
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Someone on a mountain was running towards a cliff that they were not aware of, so another person loudly yelled at the runner to warn them they were going to fall off a cliff, but members of the Cult of Niceness immediately cut that person off before they finished their warning to inform them they were not being "nice" to the runner due to yelling rudely, which prevented the runner from hearing the warning that was about to save their life, and ended up falling off the cliff, benefiting benefactors of the Cult of Niceness.
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A home owner got robbed through breaking and entering, and when they found the thief leaving with their belongings, they yelled at the thief to drop everything they took, but then immediately, the Cult of Niceness police cut the home owner off and asked them to be "nice" by not yelling at the thief rudely, thus allowing the thief to escape.
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Someone on a mountain was running towards a cliff that they were not aware of, so another person loudly yelled at the runner to warn them they were going to fall off a cliff, but members of the Cult of Niceness immediately cut that person off before they finished their warning to inform them they were not being "nice" to the runner due to yelling rudely, which prevented the runner from hearing the warning that was about to save their life, and ended up falling off the cliff, benefiting benefactors of the Cult of Niceness.
by OffBeatDrummer May 15, 2023
Get the Cult of Niceness mug.An expression commonly used in softball as a complement for a batter who correctly avoids batting when the pitcher throws a “ball” instead of a potential “strike”.
Rob: **avoids hitting a “ball” in a softball game**
Mary: **yelling from the stands** GOOD EYE ROBBY! GOOD EYE!!!
Mary: **yelling from the stands** GOOD EYE ROBBY! GOOD EYE!!!
by OffBeatDrummer May 7, 2022
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