Solid Mantis's definitions

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.

by Solid Mantis October 6, 2020

Party facade

A party facade is what some guys/girls wear to a party to convert themselves from introverts to extroverts to other people at the party. Usually people wearing a party facade are thought by some to be quirky, feisty, or something similar since its what they consider their alter ego, everything they think is a good quality they try to show others at a party. The qualities considered most likeable would show at parties or public events, and never when no cameras are rolling, or fun parties or gatherings going on.

Yea, you think he/she is fun to take to a party, but have you ever felt like you could really trust him/her with your life at all times? What good will the party facade do you when instead of them needing you to do something else for them, and everything being about them, you actually need something or someone dependable or reliable from someone else?

by Solid Mantis January 13, 2020

Image

Something that doesn't have to be the reality of who you are.

The guy invited his brother in law to a pig pickin where he shot him dead and made it look like they had an argument over a garden hose to improve his tough guy image. The garden hose was the surface matter, but since he had already known the argument would take place while his brother in law was there, which made his actions premeditated.

by Solid Mantis March 29, 2021

Late bloomer

Someone who is not in the in crowd.

I was always the 4'11 kid in my school, I even made a few appearances on the TV show Are you taller than a 5th grader my senior year of high school, just before graduation. After losing to about half the 5th graders that showed up and getting called the midget, I decided I would get even by outsmarting all these other kids. I felt so small at that point in my life. By the age of 25 I had reached my true stature (one that would not get me laughed at) of almost 6 foot, but I realized nobody wanted to fuck me because they thought I was a loser. I always had a lot of catching up to do in life for being the late bloomer that I am. Females never took me seriously because I thought I looked like Kevin Costner though in reality they would make rivet sounds when I was in the same room with them, and they thought I was ugly and stupid and made them sick.

by Solid Mantis November 3, 2020

Defense

What you allow to happen will. Your opponent won't pass up an oppurtunity, so usually it's defense faaling asleep instead up waking up and fighting to the end that makes the difference in what will happen. When you let an opponent control your fate, they always will, every time.

Defense waking up can keep even an unlikely thing possible, even if offense has been struggling.

by Solid Mantis April 27, 2021

Barney the purple dinosaur

Once you're seen hanging out with Barney the purple dinosaur, you might as well start going to school at home.

That was so courageous of the girl to lay low until graduation after the other kids at school talked shit about her best friend Barney the purple dinosaur. What kind of friend was she to Barney when he needed her to have his back, was he on his own after that?

by Solid Mantis October 8, 2020

Pacifist

What a rich kid calls a peasant to motivate him to go fight the war he wants to win for him so he won't break a single fingernail or get his hands dirty. A way to talk shit without seeming to be a troublemaker.

What are you doing laying around peasant boy, I said go fight! You're nothing but a pacifist.

by Solid Mantis February 27, 2017