OffBeatDrummer's definitions
A prepared option that is available "just in case" the main option fails.
Other terms that describe a just-in-caser:
- Plan B
- Contingency Plan
- Alternative Measure
- Emergency Option
Other terms that describe a just-in-caser:
- Plan B
- Contingency Plan
- Alternative Measure
- Emergency Option
Jarvis: Why on earth would you buy airplane tickets when we've got cheap train tickets booked and ready to go see the Super Bowl?
Daniel: Relax dude! Airplane tickets are just-in-casers. Remember what happened last year? I don't want train delays causing us to miss half the Super Bowl game ever again.
Nora: You brought both your laptop and the iPad to the business meeting!?! You're not gonna need both!
Bethany: I only brought the iPad as a just-in-caser. I'll be taking notes on the laptop.
Daniel: Relax dude! Airplane tickets are just-in-casers. Remember what happened last year? I don't want train delays causing us to miss half the Super Bowl game ever again.
Nora: You brought both your laptop and the iPad to the business meeting!?! You're not gonna need both!
Bethany: I only brought the iPad as a just-in-caser. I'll be taking notes on the laptop.
by OffBeatDrummer January 5, 2021
Get the Just-In-Casermug. Aaron: "Sell! Sell! Sell!" says the Mad Money dude. Do you buy that!? Everyone is listening to him blindly. I don't get it.
Oliver: People bought his line about the market bubble. Idiots Unite!
Jared: Well, if it isn't the smart and talented Charlotte?!?!
Charlotte: What's up Jared?!
Jared: I saw a whole bunch of people following you after class yesterday. What happened!?
Charlotte: I told the instructor I missed the exam because I found out I was pregnant. People kept bugging me afterwards about who the father was. Idiots Unite! Hello!!! It's my new husband Baldwin, who else might it be!?!!
Sophia: Skiing in the summer?! Who does that!!!?
Scarlett: Apparently, Lisa and company. They haven't had enough skiing in the winter it seems.
Sophia: Oh wow! Didn't they go every weekend!!? I mean, I go three times a year and that's more than enough. In the summer, it's beach time baby!
Scarlett: I'm with you, summer means sunbathing on the beach every single day! Let's just leave it at Idiots Unite! Lisa and her friends seem to really dig summer skiing instead. Their loss.
Oliver: People bought his line about the market bubble. Idiots Unite!
Jared: Well, if it isn't the smart and talented Charlotte?!?!
Charlotte: What's up Jared?!
Jared: I saw a whole bunch of people following you after class yesterday. What happened!?
Charlotte: I told the instructor I missed the exam because I found out I was pregnant. People kept bugging me afterwards about who the father was. Idiots Unite! Hello!!! It's my new husband Baldwin, who else might it be!?!!
Sophia: Skiing in the summer?! Who does that!!!?
Scarlett: Apparently, Lisa and company. They haven't had enough skiing in the winter it seems.
Sophia: Oh wow! Didn't they go every weekend!!? I mean, I go three times a year and that's more than enough. In the summer, it's beach time baby!
Scarlett: I'm with you, summer means sunbathing on the beach every single day! Let's just leave it at Idiots Unite! Lisa and her friends seem to really dig summer skiing instead. Their loss.
by OffBeatDrummer November 25, 2020
Get the Idiots Unitemug. Tom: Gee, how do you pronounce this word? (pointing at "faggotry")
Caleb: Just think of the two words: Faggot Tree
Caleb: Just think of the two words: Faggot Tree
by OffBeatDrummer December 11, 2020
Get the Faggot Treemug. A cooler more dismissive way of saying mediocre, which rhymes with meteorite.
It is also a variation of inferiorite.
It is also a variation of inferiorite.
Tom: IT folks saved some dough by installing laptop memory not made in the USA. We had nothing but crashes and trouble as a result.
Kenny: Yeah, management oughta fire them. They're nothing but a bunch of mediocrites.
Lisa: Those reports are bugging me. Every time I finish one, my boss asks me for two more. It's been driving me insane all week long.
Mary: Have you been using a reporting tool?
Lisa: Spreadsheets... nothing more! Management isn't willing to shell out any money for a reporting package.
Mary: How about you purchase one with money from your own salary? It would save you quite some time and trouble at work after all.
Lisa: I thought about it. I could barely keep up with my rent and kids. You want me to pay for professional reporting software with my own money too? Forget about it.
Mary: That's what you get for working for a bunch of mediocrites. It's time to step up and quit to join a better company that actually deserves you.
Kenny: Yeah, management oughta fire them. They're nothing but a bunch of mediocrites.
Lisa: Those reports are bugging me. Every time I finish one, my boss asks me for two more. It's been driving me insane all week long.
Mary: Have you been using a reporting tool?
Lisa: Spreadsheets... nothing more! Management isn't willing to shell out any money for a reporting package.
Mary: How about you purchase one with money from your own salary? It would save you quite some time and trouble at work after all.
Lisa: I thought about it. I could barely keep up with my rent and kids. You want me to pay for professional reporting software with my own money too? Forget about it.
Mary: That's what you get for working for a bunch of mediocrites. It's time to step up and quit to join a better company that actually deserves you.
by OffBeatDrummer October 30, 2020
Get the Mediocritemug. Dave: So, what do you think of React?
Tim: BIFI
Dave: OK, Golang?
Tim: BIFI
Dave: What about Node?
Tim: BIFI
Dave: Wow! Are there any technologies that are not BIFI by the estimation of software architects?!!
Tim: All technologies that fit a pro & con trade-off analysis! Unfortunately, none of the technologies you mentioned make the cut if a software architect were to put two and two together. Many wannabes these days don't even think about why they are applying a technology. They just monkey see monkey do!
Matthew: Tim, the software architect, told me that React is BIFI, but I don’t understand why?!!
Joe: React assumes a dumb audience to start, among many other reasons.
Matthew: Are you suggesting they assume I am dumb if I were to use React?
Joe: Exactly! For example, bidirectional (two-way) data-binding has been a staple in desktop application GUI development for decades, but React refuses to support it because they say most developers are too dumb to reason about it successfully.
Matthew: What’s wrong with that!? They’re making things more easy for us, no!?
Joe: I doubt any beginner would call React’s style of code easy, so I’m not sure they are anywhere near the target they claimed they were aiming at if that’s what you’re asking.
Matthew: Are you suggesting the makers of React themselves are dumb too?!!
Joe: Now, you’re truly getting to the bottom of why Tim used the term BIFI about them. React is literally By Idiots For Idiots!
Tim: BIFI
Dave: OK, Golang?
Tim: BIFI
Dave: What about Node?
Tim: BIFI
Dave: Wow! Are there any technologies that are not BIFI by the estimation of software architects?!!
Tim: All technologies that fit a pro & con trade-off analysis! Unfortunately, none of the technologies you mentioned make the cut if a software architect were to put two and two together. Many wannabes these days don't even think about why they are applying a technology. They just monkey see monkey do!
Matthew: Tim, the software architect, told me that React is BIFI, but I don’t understand why?!!
Joe: React assumes a dumb audience to start, among many other reasons.
Matthew: Are you suggesting they assume I am dumb if I were to use React?
Joe: Exactly! For example, bidirectional (two-way) data-binding has been a staple in desktop application GUI development for decades, but React refuses to support it because they say most developers are too dumb to reason about it successfully.
Matthew: What’s wrong with that!? They’re making things more easy for us, no!?
Joe: I doubt any beginner would call React’s style of code easy, so I’m not sure they are anywhere near the target they claimed they were aiming at if that’s what you’re asking.
Matthew: Are you suggesting the makers of React themselves are dumb too?!!
Joe: Now, you’re truly getting to the bottom of why Tim used the term BIFI about them. React is literally By Idiots For Idiots!
by OffBeatDrummer December 27, 2021
Get the BIFImug. 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 BIFImug. A votidiot is someone who thinks that voting changes reality, and that if the majority votes for something that is not true or is wrong, it somehow becomes real or correct.
Votidiots tend to rely on voting out of laziness in using their brains; in other words due to being idiots. That is the source of the term "votidiot", made up from the two words: "vote" and "idiot".
Votidiots forget that many scientists voted for Newtonian physics being true in the past, and yet they all ended up proven wrong eventually. Their votes meant absolutely nothing in that regard. So, any new scientific ideas voted by votidiots today could get equally proven wrong tomorrow.
It is lost on votidiots that voting does not really apply to everything in life as it only facilitates choosing subjective things that do not affect reality or morals one way or another, and for which all choices are acceptable to everyone. Morals are no voting matter for example.
Votidiots tend to think they can settle everything with democracy, and it is lost on them that this simply results in the majority forcing their opinion on the minority, which is yet another form of dictatorship that is worse than blatant dictatorships since it is hard to pin down and argue against in a votidiot society, resulting in worse oppression to the minorities who lose the votes.
Anyone who votes down this definition is a votidiot.
Votidiots tend to rely on voting out of laziness in using their brains; in other words due to being idiots. That is the source of the term "votidiot", made up from the two words: "vote" and "idiot".
Votidiots forget that many scientists voted for Newtonian physics being true in the past, and yet they all ended up proven wrong eventually. Their votes meant absolutely nothing in that regard. So, any new scientific ideas voted by votidiots today could get equally proven wrong tomorrow.
It is lost on votidiots that voting does not really apply to everything in life as it only facilitates choosing subjective things that do not affect reality or morals one way or another, and for which all choices are acceptable to everyone. Morals are no voting matter for example.
Votidiots tend to think they can settle everything with democracy, and it is lost on them that this simply results in the majority forcing their opinion on the minority, which is yet another form of dictatorship that is worse than blatant dictatorships since it is hard to pin down and argue against in a votidiot society, resulting in worse oppression to the minorities who lose the votes.
Anyone who votes down this definition is a votidiot.
Peter: Real numbers tell us that people have a 99%+ recovery rate from Covid, so it is not really a dangerous disease.
Todd: Politicians already voted on the matter, declaring Covid an emergency, so it is now considered a dangerous disease regardless of reality.
Peter: They are Covidiots for believing Covid is a real threat. And, they are votidiots for thinking voting changes that reality!
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Ken: I heard that marijuana causes long-term laziness in a lot of people!
Lisa: It doesn't matter. They voted to legalize it, so it is 100% OK now.
Ken: Votidiots!
Lisa: True that! Marijuana is still terrible for you! Voting doesn't change that fact one bit.
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Suzan: Did you hear about this town's vote about allowing the robbing of the richest guy in town?
Doris: Yes, apparently this town's people are all poor except this one guy who recently moved there, and they are all so envious, so they are trying to legalize robbing him. Votidiots! Voting doesn't work that way! They will all end up in prison in no time over this.
Todd: Politicians already voted on the matter, declaring Covid an emergency, so it is now considered a dangerous disease regardless of reality.
Peter: They are Covidiots for believing Covid is a real threat. And, they are votidiots for thinking voting changes that reality!
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Ken: I heard that marijuana causes long-term laziness in a lot of people!
Lisa: It doesn't matter. They voted to legalize it, so it is 100% OK now.
Ken: Votidiots!
Lisa: True that! Marijuana is still terrible for you! Voting doesn't change that fact one bit.
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Suzan: Did you hear about this town's vote about allowing the robbing of the richest guy in town?
Doris: Yes, apparently this town's people are all poor except this one guy who recently moved there, and they are all so envious, so they are trying to legalize robbing him. Votidiots! Voting doesn't work that way! They will all end up in prison in no time over this.
by OffBeatDrummer April 20, 2023
Get the Votidiotmug.