Solid Mantis's definitions

Defense

If you know your offense is struggling, and you feel like mice, there's the story about the two mice in the cream. The first one drowned, but the second one kept struggling until itchurned the creme into butter and crawled out until it could walk again. Really though, when you decide what you will allow to happen (on defense), and whether you will let somebody else determine the pace or the fate of what happens, is what makes the difference between whether it is hard enough to seem impossible not to lose, or whether it is actually impossible to lose. If you're going to fight, fight as you and not to be like somebody else, that way they don't determine your fate.

Defense is what makes the difference between whether it's hard enough to seem impossible to win with 93 points, and ehether it is impossible. If you give up before the end, it really will be impossible.

by Solid Mantis April 16, 2021

Dork

Someone who sees themself as a shark, and thinks that everyone else has to.

Nobody thought he/she was a shark, no matter how many times he/she tried to insist that he/she was a shark, they saw a dork when they looked at him/her. They saw the same kid that watched Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Barney the Purple Dinosaur and shit like that (Pokemon too) thinking that he/she had now turned the tables on the world and all the kids that once bullied him/her that he/she whined about.

by Solid Mantis October 26, 2020

High school

Most likely to rape, most likely to be on drugs, most likely to deal drugs, biggest bum in school are few realistic things a high school leaves out of its best/most likely awards.

The guy was voted most likely to rape, but he wasn't one of the guys from his high school class arrested for rape or statutory rape.

by Solid Mantis August 24, 2019

Pete Townshend

Besides an unlikable guy with lots of money and a talent for playing guitar (and not beating someone with one as a weapon, since that allegedly got him knocked out) who would Pete Townshend be without the Who? Is it somehow unfair to Pete Townshend to think or say any of that? It's possible to respect somebody's ability/talent (not underestimate their capability) while having no respect for who and what they are as a human being.

Roger Daltry makes it sound like he wouldn't be anybody in particular without the Who, but really the Who was still a likeable band with him as the face of the band (before the 80s). It hasn't been the same since Pete Townshend started convincing everyone else in the band that he was the best thing to ever happen to the Who, and that nobody else was good enough to question him. At least Roger Daltry seems like a guy who had some heart.

Example of respecting an ability but not the person with the ability- The subject knew the king/queen was capable of executing him or worse, and though he was cautious about what he said and did, he still knew he didnt owe the king/queen or anybody else any respect.

by Solid Mantis October 6, 2020

Home

Home isnt somewhere you have to establish, re-establish, prove, or justify anything. When you're home, you know where home is, and where home is not, the same thing goes for when you're away from home. You also notice where the true home of others is, and where it is not.

Home is home no matter how far you go or where you move to. There is no welcoming somebody to their own neighborhood, for the ones trying to be as inflammatory as possible. They are already where they've always belonged.

by Solid Mantis August 18, 2020

Fire

What good is fighting fires if you never fight the arsonist?

As long as you're not fighting the arsonist, there will just be more and more fires to fight. It's a lot like disarming bomb after bomb without knowing who's behind the bomb, who the bomber really is.

by Solid Mantis September 1, 2020

The Climax

An action movie. The plot revolves around the end of the movie, but I'm not gonna give away any more information about it than that.

You seen that movie The Climax from the 90's? It didn't really get good until the end, lots of action at the end. The rest of the movie was lame as hell, it was a stupid movie.

by Solid Mantis October 26, 2016