Definitions by Solid Mantis
Decline
Decline is what happens in a mudslide, the land goes down the hill. A neighborhood sitting at the same elevation it was 50 years ago hasn't declined.
The houses began to decline in the mudslide, killing an old lady who lived at the bottom of the hill.
Decline by Solid Mantis October 10, 2020
Decline
Another word for gentrification, where they get enough people living somewhere to stab or shoot one another to move everybody out and buy (really take) the land cheap when it becomes a ghost town.
A lot of neighborhoods in Detroit and places like Detroit would have once been considered by some to be like what suburban areas are now, nice neighborhoods that had houses with lawns, outside of downtown and the business/commercial/industrial areas. The neighborhoods didnt really decline, they did get rid of a lot of people the same way they got rid of a lot of white people after World War 2 in the larger cities, and nothing and nobody replaced many of the people that left Detroit recently. A neighborhood that once was filled with Italians or Jews or another group might become a black neighborhood, but gentrification is the same no matter what the shade of skin of the people that live there, it is a human neighborhood.
Decline by Solid Mantis October 10, 2020
Decline
Another word for gentrification, where they get enough people living somewhere to stab or shoot one another to move everybody out and buy the land cheap when it becomes a ghost town.
A lot of neighborhoods in Detroit and places like Detroit would have once been considered by some to be like what suburban areas are now, nice neighborhoods that had houses with lawns, outside of downtown and the business/commercial/industrial areas. The neighborhoods didnt really decline, they did get rid of a lot of people the same way they got rid of a lot of white people after World War 2 in the larger cities, and nothing and nobody replaced many of the people that left Detroit recently. A neighborhood that once was filled with Italians or Jews or another group might become a black neighborhood, but gentrification is the same no matter what the shade of skin of the people that live there, it is a human neighborhood.
Decline by Solid Mantis October 10, 2020
Bad sex
You hear a lot of people talking about making sex good, even addictive, but you dont hear many people say if the sex isnt bad sex, I will make it bad, I will make it horrible. You won't want to fuck anything again after you fuck me. It's a lot like the way you hear a lot of people claim (brag about) they make everyone they meet laugh except you, you're the first one that didnt laugh at what they said or found them funny at all. You hardly ever hear people say I never really had a good sense of humor, it was always lacking, even as a kid I took everything seriously.
Bad sex by Solid Mantis October 10, 2020
Chess
The person who made the first chess board and pieces made the queen the most powerful piece on the board to make the game difficult, since people would lose interest in it quickly if anybody could do well at it the first time they played without trying.
The queen is the most powerful piece in chess because the queen can do things no other piece can do, the queen has always had more freedom than any any other chess piece. Think of what you could get done in chess if more pieces had the freedom to make as many different moves as the queen makes. Theres too many people that think life is exactly like chess or monopoly, that it's all a game for everybody.
Chess by Solid Mantis October 10, 2020
Push ups
You do 15 push ups in a nor'Easter, people are still going to fuck with you when they see you, so you do at least 17 push ups in a hurricane and you keep trying to improve and do more, and work on your upper body strength.
Push ups by Solid Mantis October 9, 2020
Grief/tragedy/sympathy industry
An industry that pretends to be on your side, rooting for you instead of the events that make the industry possible (storms, crime, death, accidents, bad news).
Grief/tragedy/sympathy industry by Solid Mantis October 9, 2020