by QuacksO October 16, 2023
Uncomplimentary term that is muttered by resentful residents/visitors of nursing homes where they feel that the establishment’s “rules ‘n’ regulations” are so overzealously enforced/adhered to, unnecessarily dictatorial, etc., that it makes everyone feel as if they are actually being poisoned by the rules. The expression derives from the “top nine” most notorious rules that --- due to the rules’ restricting/forbidding “totally harmless” actions that really would not bother anything if all parties involved practice moderation and maintain appropriate/responsible behavior --- cause needless difficulties and stifled feelings among the residents and their friends/family members who come to see them.
The “strict-9” at many of the snooty “big-city” nursing homes:
(1) No visitors before 9 A.M. or after 10 P.M.
(2) No visitor is permitted to stay overnight with a resident, even if said visitor is a quiet responsible adult family member or trusted friend with a 100% clean criminal record.
(3) No visitors may use the facility’s parking lots to sleep in their cars overnight, even if it’s just for one night, if said visitors are totally quiet and responsible, and if the parking lot is otherwise empty/unused all night.
(4) No visitors are permitted to take showers, brush teeth, or otherwise make use of a resident’s washroom except to merely “answer a call of nature”, even if the resident does not mind, and if the visitor would be neat and expedient about using said washroom.
(5) No resident may leave the facility grounds unless accompanied by a staffperson, even if said resident is in the company of an immediate family member or trusted friend.
(6) No resident may be left unattended outside of the facility building, even if it’s just for a moment to allow a visitor to go use the restroom or retrieve something from his car.
(7) No resident is permitted pets of any kind, even “quiet” and “tidy” creatures such as tropical fish or small birds.
(8) All residents must have their meals in the cafeteria; eating meals in rooms is forbidden.
(9) Sharing/exchanging food with your “cafeteria neighbors” is prohibited, even if said food would otherwise just be thrown away and wasted.
(1) No visitors before 9 A.M. or after 10 P.M.
(2) No visitor is permitted to stay overnight with a resident, even if said visitor is a quiet responsible adult family member or trusted friend with a 100% clean criminal record.
(3) No visitors may use the facility’s parking lots to sleep in their cars overnight, even if it’s just for one night, if said visitors are totally quiet and responsible, and if the parking lot is otherwise empty/unused all night.
(4) No visitors are permitted to take showers, brush teeth, or otherwise make use of a resident’s washroom except to merely “answer a call of nature”, even if the resident does not mind, and if the visitor would be neat and expedient about using said washroom.
(5) No resident may leave the facility grounds unless accompanied by a staffperson, even if said resident is in the company of an immediate family member or trusted friend.
(6) No resident may be left unattended outside of the facility building, even if it’s just for a moment to allow a visitor to go use the restroom or retrieve something from his car.
(7) No resident is permitted pets of any kind, even “quiet” and “tidy” creatures such as tropical fish or small birds.
(8) All residents must have their meals in the cafeteria; eating meals in rooms is forbidden.
(9) Sharing/exchanging food with your “cafeteria neighbors” is prohibited, even if said food would otherwise just be thrown away and wasted.
by QuacksO August 30, 2013
Puking your guts out on a regular basis in an effort to purge your system of all the b**ls**t that others are always trying to shove down your throat.
Practicing bullimia on a regular basis is hard on one's stomach and throat; perhaps I should just wear earplugs in public, except when conversing with people who only say valid/truthful things.
by QuacksO February 12, 2019
I'd thought I needed to answer just a call on Line 1 from Mother Nature, but it turned out that both of my "lines" were "ringing"... I hadda take a call on Line 2, as well.
by QuacksO October 12, 2018
A short musical composition that denotes the cranky demeanor that one or more people were in at the time when the work was written.
I guess that the musical pieces by Chopin and Liszt are palatable to some people, but I find a lot of them to just be crash-bash attétudes with little melodious appeal.
by QuacksO April 09, 2019
Da deafening clamor of excited voices and pattering feet dat you always hear when announcing dat da hot chocolate is ready.
In da "Polar Express" movie, there was quite a cocaophony from both da children AND da servers when da steaming kettles of traditional Christmas liquid-refreshments were being wheeled out.
by QuacksO June 20, 2021
Refers to either (1) steps dat you take to conceal your shutter-box from being observed by da subject of yer photos, or (2) steps dat da would-be subject of yer photo-snapping endeavors takes to conceal himself from da prying-probing "eye" of yer lens.
Celebrities, politicians, suspected/convicted felons, etc. are often da subject of assorted stealthy high-tech attempts by reporters at getting candid snapshots, and so they hafta employ pretty advanced cameraflage techniques of their own in order to be left alone.
by QuacksO July 23, 2021