Solid Mantis's definitions

Marginalize

If you're a black guy, a Jew, or a Mexican/Latin American, the police are going to act a little different when they get a call about you versus one about other groups. It's really a matter of what somebody looks like and not where the call was made.

Really the rest of us are together in this to marginalize Black people, Jews, and Mexicans/Latin Americans is what it seems like. The rest of us almost made the Indians disappear already, and don't treat Black people, Jews, or Mexicans/Latin Americans much better most of the time, day to day.

by Solid Mantis April 28, 2021

Pussy

Calling somebody a wuss is going halfway to calling somebody a pussy, but stopping before you get there.

Don't be a pussy about calling somebody a pussy if you're going to call them something at all. What the fuck is a wuss or a wussy?

by Solid Mantis April 9, 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

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

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

Food giveaway

Though it's called a food giveaway on the news, they had to take money from somebody (through donations or somewhere else) before they gave anything back to somebody else.

There is no such thing as a food giveaway. The money to get the food they give away came from somebody somewhere, it wasn't coming from the people that are on TV taking credit for giving food away.

by Solid Mantis May 17, 2021

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