Solid Mantis's definitions

Poser

Something you could pose as if you run out of other images.

Trent isn't a Robocop anymore, he started posing as a poser since it took less physical and mental effort.

by Solid Mantis March 24, 2018

Watchdog

A guy/girl posted up in a watchtower, telling other people how to live life, how to do things, what politicians/cops/government officials/agencies are on their side, what to buy when they go to the store, and so on.

There's not a whole lot you get done without a watchdog having an answer for a better way/expectation of a better job for doing it.

by Solid Mantis May 26, 2019

Respect

This is one definition that doesn't speak for everybody, but is a universal common sense definition. Knowing that everybody is not the same, doesn't think the same, doesn't do things the same way without trying to convert the other person to your way of doing things is respect. Once you try and convert other people to your way of doing things, you don't respect them. This applies to people who wear masks, it also applies to people who dont wear masks, and try to run off the people who do wear masks. It also applies to race and statues. Thinking someone should respect your race and your martin luther king statues while trying to get Confederate statues removed is not true respect. Expecting someone to compromise before you can respect them is not respect, it's the opposite. Compromise or expecting others to compromise is also not a sign of growing up.

Elementary school kids learn how to call people sir, ma'am, mr., and mrs., and doing so is not a sign or a symbol of true respect for somebody else, which is why false respect or pretending to respect someone is not better than no respect or disrespect, and is sometimes the exact same thing.

by Solid Mantis June 27, 2020

The Man vs. Billie Holliday

A show about a girl who has more hurdles to jump than everybody else in life.

Billie Holliday played herself in The Man vs. Billie Holliday. She outdid herself on this one.

by Solid Mantis February 26, 2021

Confederate statues

Confederate statues are as much a part of American history, and what some would call culture, as Martin Luther King statues, whether people love them or hate them. Removal of one kind of statue and not the other isn't multiculturalism, it's one group claiming the park the statue sat on as their own, and it will never unify everybody.

As long as a country says one kind of history is okay as long as everybody likes it, but the other is not, the country will remain divided, since one group, or culture, as some would call it, doesn't really respect the other. That isn't multiculturalism, though America has always been a melting pot, and is made of many different groups of the same (human) race. If people have to remove, forget, or pretend something never existed (including Confederate statues) to validate themselves, they don't really respect it, they only respect their own group (or most likely self).

by Solid Mantis January 21, 2021

Result

Immediate results don't usually work out as well as some tell you they do.

She says she can get you results, but will you really want the results she's going to get you?

by Solid Mantis July 17, 2018

Time clock

A time clock can't read 4:33 one second before reading 4:22. 11 seconds don't pass in one.

Something about the time clock on the college game was off, since the time was moving a little quick for reality.

by Solid Mantis February 27, 2021