Solid Mantis's definitions

Charity

Being told where your money is going, or even being shown paperwork isnt the same as knowing where your money is going, or being in control of where your money is going, or what it's being spent on. If it seems to make sense to be suspicious of where your money is really going, that's because it does make sense to be suspicious of where your money is going.

The people collecting money from people like dishonest tax collectors claimed to be a charity, and many charities that stole from people did have official names and were official organizations. That didnt make the people running them trustworthy people.

by Solid Mantis October 27, 2020

Dropped

An overutitlized word, a lot of journalists write things like dropped to make their writing sound tougher. If a guy hasn't landed on his head, or fell 2 or more storeys against his will, he wasn't really dropped, he was just knocked down (if he went all the way down).

Quarterbacks who got sacked didn't get dropped (no matter how many yards they lost in the process), they got knocked down. The same applies to a guy getting knocked down in any other sport.

by Solid Mantis December 15, 2020

Happy ending

An audience wants to hear about something too good to be true, they don't want to hear about how the good guy doesn't always make things right, have a bigger penis than the bad guy, or get a girl.

The guy that would be been considered the hero was a virgin until his twenties, never drove an expensive car, and didn't have an interesting life. A movie/story about bad guys was more interesting than the good guy's real life, even if it didn't have a happy ending.

by Solid Mantis May 17, 2019

Protesting

What's the point of going out and protesting, when you end up on your knees at the end of it, when all is said and done?

Protesting is a waste of time that could be spent waking up and fighting, or at least going to work.

by Solid Mantis April 12, 2021

Broke

Somebody who's accumulated broke shit instead of wealth

The broke guy has enough m's missing from his bank account that he could donate them to alphabets in quite a few languages.

by Solid Mantis August 15, 2018

Superhuman

Expecting somebody to be superhuman or make superhuman plays is unrealistic. If they're already special to many, why do they have to be superhuman to anyone?

Nobody has to try to be superhuman, life is not a comic book.

by Solid Mantis February 8, 2021

Respect

Its a given that nobody has to respect anybody, this is something you knew as a little kid.

You don't have to respect me any more than I have to respect you.

by Solid Mantis June 17, 2018