Solid Mantis's definitions
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.
by Solid Mantis March 28, 2018
Get the Kips baymug. A movie that was not about a group of people trying to blow away some brown-skinned people. Yea, the main character was a guy named Big Daddy Jake Sully or something like that, and the other characters he met that weren't from earth had dreadlocks and lived in the jungle, but you knew they weren't brown-skinned humans (or Indians) because they were dark blue skinned (think of them as being closer to blue hedgehogs) aliens from the planet Pandora. Unobtanium wasn't like silver, gold, or oil, it was something so valuable EarthLink went to war with natives of another planet to get it, but it was unontanium, even if they got a little bit of it, they'd never really get the kind of uranium they went to war over. In the end Big Daddy Jake Sully goes to prcotcect his new friends on his new planet, nothing like that has ever happened before, since brown-skinned people don't fly on the backs of pterodactyls on real life, you can tell the avatars are dark blue skinned aliens, not humans.
Avatar wasn't a movie about human greed, it was a movie about being comfortable with 9 foot tall dark blue skinned aliens that were not anything like the biblical description of goliath, they were decent aliens.
by Solid Mantis January 2, 2020
Get the Avatarmug. A guy who beats the shit out of his wife and wins a baseball game in the same day has accomplished 2 things that day, one considered (agreed to be) by most people to be negative, the other positive. You could ask OJ about what that's like, nobody thinks of OJ without thinking of a criminal, people hardly remember he played football too. If you're gonna judge one book by its cover, shouldn't you judge all books by their covers? The same people who don't think each person is different are usually the ones telling people not to judge books by their covers, and that there's more than meets the eye in the first place (except with guys like OJ or wife beating baseball players, for some reason they think you should judge certain people if they tell you to do so). They tell you don't underestimate them, but its fine if you ridicule others.
Judging one kind of book by its cover and not another is hypocrisy. Since everyone's a hypocrite, everyone would have a cause to investigate hypocrisy in others.
by Solid Mantis January 13, 2020
Get the Hypocrisymug. The girl would shoot first, then run second, or would cut first, then run second. She always acted tough, and preached a tough walk, but really she was a sprinter by nature.
by Solid Mantis November 17, 2020
Get the Sprintermug. First the media said a second wave was coming in the fall. Then they said the United States had already begun a third wave. At some point, they just start saying another wave. They must think it's hilarious.
by Solid Mantis November 10, 2020
Get the Wavemug. When you think you're about to get hit harder than you are, usually by a 98 pound gangster who hits like a vegan.
The guy saw it coming and braced for it, then he realized his overestimation of the 98 pound vegan wasn't necessary after getting hit.
by Solid Mantis November 16, 2019
Get the Overestimationmug. Someone who has an authority figure make a rule against something he/she doesn't like somebody else doing. Has a goal of being in charge, but will just put a bunch of rules in type against what he/she doesn't like if he/she does end up in charge of something, and will have the police or another authority figure handle getting their hands dirty with something or someone.
by Solid Mantis September 30, 2019
Get the Office snitchmug.