Solid mantis's definitions

Stimulus check

A way to pacify a group of people you've just deployed the national guard and police against after stealing from millions of people they tell that they're concerned about for years.

Here's your stimulus check, you won't mind if the national guard tells you where you can go and what you can do from now on will you? They're concerned about you, don't be concerned about them, be a good puppet and comply with everything they say, it's in your best interest.

by Solid Mantis March 27, 2020

Poser

An intravert seen as an extrovert is posing as an extrovert. Allowing people to see you as or representing yourself as an extrovert when you're not an extrovert is posing rather than being yourself.

There are a lot of characters on tv shows people think of as extroverted people in real life. The same goes for the news and different forms of media, the internet, music. A poser is somebody you think is a certain way naturally based on what you'be seen and heard through a media source.

by Solid Mantis June 17, 2018

Impossible expectations

Expecting a team that doesn't have all their players to make the playoffs.

Nobody thought the Hornets would make the playoffs after halfway through the season, because nobody had impossible expectations (except one of their opponents, who always has great expectations of everyone about everything, because everything has to be uber competitive enough for her).

by Solid Mantis May 18, 2021

Heart eyes

You don't tend to look at people you've rejected fondly.

Those weren't heart eyes he was looking at her with.

by Solid Mantis October 2, 2019

Charleston

Cities like Charleston, Savannah, and New Orleans (and even Norfolk/Hampton Roads) being port cities tend to have larger intact historic areas and older intact buildings than a lot of the inland cities in the South. A lot of the large commercial areas in the South were built up inland instead of near ports and waterways, though New Orleans and Norfolk have high rise office buildings.

People sometimes try and compare a port city like Charleston to an inland city like Nashville or Atlanta, and tell you one is more like the true South than the other, since some cities have newer buildings, which is bullshit.

by Solid Mantis November 8, 2019

Kobe bryant

The guy on the news says Kobe was a great guy, then corrects himself and says a great basketball player. If Kobe really raped anybody, he wouldn't be missed the way he is, his family wouldn't miss that kind of guy. Like Mike Tyson, Kobe Bryant is crazy enough to do something that wasn't a good idea, (for Kobe having sex with someone other than his wife wasn't a good idea) but that doesn't make the guy a rapist. No matter who wants to make them look like one, Kobe and Mike Tyson are not rapists, and Michael Jackson is not really a pedophile, they're crazy, weird people, so people offer a lot of misinformation about them, but don't remember them for what they did in life, instead they want people to remember them the way they want them to be remembered, and its bullshit. Everybody seems to think something bad would happen if they said anything different than what the media says about it, so they seem scared to say any of their thoughts about it to anybody, unless their thoughts are the same as what the media says happened.

Kobe Bryant was a great guy, and some people won't apologize to his accusers or to feminists for saying it.

by Solid Mantis January 27, 2020

Agnostic

The kind of person who's an agnostic is usually the same kind of person to claim to be a person of science when that's convenient, in case anybody questions their religious views. The kind of person to think science answers and satisfies a broad range of questions if god or religion does not, that way they're always a step ahead of anybody who doesn't think science, and claiming to be a person of science makes them look serious at times that being a person of god would not (hence the changing from person of god to agnostic, since no belief was held sacred in the first place).

An agnostic thinks their scientific views and scientist friends make them more credible and qualified to make rules or laws for other people and give them orders or restrictions in daily life than people are to make their own rules and determine their own limits and moderations to live by.

by Solid Mantis February 10, 2021