Solid Mantis's definitions

Kips bay

Neighborhood just below Murray Hill in the lower 30s on the east side of Manhattan. Murray Hill is well known as a reference, Kips Bay was home to Irish Catholic families and businesses in the 50s and 60s and earlier, being gentrified into newer high rise condo buildings through the 70s to today. Below 30 th street on the East side in the 20s was mostly Italians, above 30th was Irish. There was once an el train running down 2nd avenue through the neighborhood.

People in Kips Bay would fall asleep to the sound of an el train each night.

by Solid Mantis March 28, 2018

Office

For the most part, theres two kinds of people that get elected. Theres the kind that would allow people to shame or disrespect them out of an office and resign (no matter the reason given), and theres the kind you'd have to kill (the worst kind). If you're the first kind of person by nature, Trump wants you to vote, since you think you can change things. Back in the Middle ages, if the king wasnt dead, he was still the king, there were no elections. Besides the facade of free elections and newer technology, has anything really changed?

What would you do if you had an office? Would you let a bunch of people you didnt know, didnt know you, and who you didnt give a fuck about take it from you? Or, would you guard it with every weapon available to you? Especially if you knew you were for the most part able to disappear and reappear when and where you wanted to.

by Solid Mantis September 25, 2020

Extreme ass whooping

Something you didn't get as a kid, it's not like a slap.

Soldier boy thought he was gonna get slapped over a bike, instead turkey didn't hold back on an extreme ass whooping. Enjoy soldier boy.

by Solid Mantis October 6, 2017

Double standards

Asking other people an endless amount of questions to keep them from questioning you is trying to set expectations of them higher than you want them to set theirs for you (a double standard).

The girl could see and pick at everyone's double standards but her own.

by Solid Mantis November 6, 2020

George Floyd trial

Something quickly being turned into bullshit.

Now they're pretending to feel sorry for and care about the witness that was in a relationship with George Floyd, so that people (the public) will see them as compassionate, since they had already tried the nobody cares about why the guy got addicted routine in court countless times. You don't care about a guy you never met, any more than the protestors who never met him before do. It's a good way to sabotage the George Floyd trial and turn it to bullshit, the same way George Floyd's killing turned relationships between two different groups across the world to bullshit.

by Solid Mantis April 10, 2021

Allergy season

The time of year it's not cold or getting cold that the grief tragedy/sympathy inudustry/media/scientists/government/ healthcare officials warn people about another wave of disease.

The grief/tragedy/sympathy tries to get people to panic the most when the weather gets cooler, cold, or when there are lots of allergens in the air, since people tend to be less certain of their health during these times. People spend money differently when they panic, and the same people in the grief/tragedy/sympathy industry know that and capitalize off it. Allergy season helps them out, though it doesn't do everyone else much good.

by Solid Mantis March 11, 2021

Bouncing

Playing around with something, like a ball. People who think everything is a sport or a game usually like to try and bounce things.

The girl knew that she wasnt going to be bouncing anybody's cats while they were around.

by Solid Mantis May 3, 2020