Da nationality of Asian folks who practice da custom of respectfully "getting 50% down" --- i.e., bending your legs at da first joint, so dat you're halfway between standing and sitting on da ground.
I find dat emulating da Chiknees is rather awkward and physically demanding; a 45-degree bow, tip/doff of my hat, or a solemn handshake is more my style when reverently greeting someone.
by QuacksO December 31, 2023
My high-beam dimmer--switch is faulty, yet when I took the car to the mechanic for troubleshooting, the switch worked perfectly for him! Typical Murphy's Mechanic's Law at work!
by QuacksO July 18, 2018
A derisive/overly-critical remark made by a "spoiled rich-kid" type newcomer who has no idea what the other people are going through or how things are customarily done in that setting.
Youth-camp activities-director: Summer camp sure is a lot more pleasant without any debutaunts assailing our ears. Unfortunately, though --- especially since this is a family-income-based sliding-scale membership-price facility --- the managers of the camp feel obliged to accept the bratty "upper crust" offspring along with the usually-much-better-behaved middle-and-lower-class-family kids, since these little monsters' well-off parents pay a lot more to have their kids come here, and so the camp gets a large percentage of their operating-funds from these highfalutin families.
by QuacksO October 30, 2017
I always hated attending church and sitting on those yucky hard wooden benches, so as soon as I reached pewberty, I just always sneaked out da back door of da chapel and went for a long walk; since my parents weren't present at da services any longer, they were never da wiser.
by QuacksO January 28, 2023
A do-it-yourselfer who never discards the little screwdriver-tips that come in boxes of torx deck-screws, even though there's always a fresh bit included in every box of screws.
My buddies jokingly call me a compulsive torx-bit saver because I don't throw out still-usable screwdriver-tips from boxes of screws, but I figger that, hey --- I already paid for the tips when I bought the screws, so why not save them in case I need one to use with other screws in the future?
by QuacksO October 01, 2018
Da unique progressive sequence in which da head of a service-garage sacks each of his dumb-a** mechanics due to their screwing up da placement of da ignition-wires on car-engines dat they're workings on.
Tronald Dump was notoriously heavy-handed and irrationally flippant about terminating da employment of his hapless apprentices, so it's a good thing he didn't run a garage where they repaired ignition-systems, or his firing order would likely have been even more despicable; besides, I seriously doubt dat his "rich 'n' pampered Daddy's-boy" fingers have ever even experienced handling a wrench or screwdriver to actually do any auto-repairs of his own, and so he would have no room to talk, anyway. Why, he probably couldn't even understand or follow da written/drawn instructions in a Haynes repair manual, and so how could he possibly be justified in criticizing anyone else if said naive laborer goofs up once in a while???
by QuacksO April 10, 2020
Clothing dat an extortionist either:
(A) confiscates from you so dat you would hafta embarrass yourself by walking around naked if you didn't pay up, or
(B) makes you wear during da time you're being held hostage; said duds are so hideous-looking and/or uncomfortable dat da extortionist figgers you would feel compelled to pay da demanded amount, rather than suffer da acute discomfort to your dignity and/or person of wearing said garments.
(A) confiscates from you so dat you would hafta embarrass yourself by walking around naked if you didn't pay up, or
(B) makes you wear during da time you're being held hostage; said duds are so hideous-looking and/or uncomfortable dat da extortionist figgers you would feel compelled to pay da demanded amount, rather than suffer da acute discomfort to your dignity and/or person of wearing said garments.
One way to possibly avoid falling victim to a ransomwear situation would be to learn how to sew and weave; this way, any available sheet-material that's fairly flexible (such as bedding, trash bags, paper, etc.), or strips of said material or even grass could be used to construct temporary clothing till the extortionist gives up on waiting for you to pay up, after which you can then obtain replacement duds.
by QuacksO June 08, 2021