Solid Mantis's definitions

Coronavirus

Sonething that has gotten everything and everyone off track/off course.

Not everyone likes being off course for a long time, there are people who will be saying thank god when they're no longer looking st Anthony Fauci's face, along with some of these scientists that get on TV and make people want to beat the shit out of somebody every time they open their mouth. People will one day forget the coronavirus, and the effect and changes some people had hoped to achieve by trying to scare everybody won't be realized. There never was a new normal, because there never was an original normal. Life is dysfunctional, then people die, it's simple enough.

by Solid Mantis March 25, 2021

Hope

Something that people sell.

You wonder if there was no pandemic, and no money to be made off it, would the medical offices and food bank companies still really care as much as they claim to when they try to sell people hope, or would they be just as negative and self serving, and ugly inside as the rest of us, though their God they claim to believe in might not like us for it.

by Solid Mantis February 11, 2021

Rose colored glasses

Not wanting to talk about something because it might upset you or somebody else.

If you always have on rose colored glasses, the other person isn't going to know what you really think about something, because it always sounds positive, and nobody always has positive thoughts in their head.

by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021

Plain

Something that makes even the most traditional things seem exciting.

The kids were glad they didnt get plain old tin pails full of hand sanitizer for Christmas, even if Christmas was traditional, and seemed like the same thing every year, they wouldn't miss the tin pails.

by Solid Mantis August 19, 2020

Made whole

If somebody that was part of a community dies, the community doesn't get made whole again, and actions don't get undone. It's now what was the whole community minus one.

What the police don't tell people is if they take a life, it doesn't get replaced. To be made whole, the guy would have to come back from the dead, and that is something you don't see.

by Solid Mantis April 15, 2021

Decent people

Even if there's just a few in your area, there's never just one.

Even if you're the kind of asshole who is content to play nothing but solitaire his whole life, you know there's some other decent asshole somewhere you've been, it was never just you. There were more decent people, if you really were all decent.

by Solid Mantis April 21, 2020

Ballstrike

In baseball, when the pitcher hits the batter in the nuts with a curveball, it's always called a ballstrike.

Umpire-Ballsteeerike! (Ballstrike in umpirish)
Batter- F$%K I can't feel my legs, ahh!

by Solid Mantis October 10, 2016