Solid mantis's definitions

Chicago Bears

The Bears were the closest thing to the Yankees of the NFL until last year, winning more than any other team, so this loses identity they've developed lately isn't like them.

The Chicago Bears let a team like the Green Bay Packers overtake them as the winningest NFL franchise. Where has their fighting spirit been? They should've gone out and mauled the Packers.

by Solid Mantis September 17, 2023

Hard

Something you're trying too hard to do.

Building a fire was hard to the girl, she had always had to try hard at life and common sense, she said. She always felt like she had to give over one hundred percent at everything (and that everyone else did also), especially sports (but none of this came from any authority figure or family member actually instilling this idea in her at a young age). She also thought she had to make everyone else's life difficult in the process. She always made it look like she didn't know what the fuck she was doing, and expected everyone else to be the same way, thinking of it as honesty (and expecting credit for honesty). How can anybody like someone who doesn't know what the fuck they are doing?

by Solid Mantis October 21, 2020

Gift card

An attempt to buy somebody into a line, kind of like a stimulus check.

Someone wanted more people to get in a line, this time a vaccine line, so they started offering everybody a gift card and a donut out of desperation.

by Solid Mantis May 11, 2021

Underconfidence

Underconfidence can cost you a game just like overconfidence can. If you have a 4-8 record, you're not usually going into games with too much confidence, the way a team with a 12-0 or a 10-2 record might do. Instead, you are almost to the point where you think losing the next game is the most likely thing to happen, so the little bit of extra confidence you would get from winning more games isn't there. A lot of people think it's ego that cost you a game where you were up in double digits, but if you didn't think you could get up by double digits in the first place, it's not ego or confidence that cost you the game, it was not allowing yourself to continue to believe in yourself when adversity came back. The familiar mindset of failure comes back, the hard part when you're underconfident is not letting it scare you to fail. You want for the game to be a good time for all, but a losing streak isn't a good time.

It was underconfidence that cost them the game. No matter what the coach said, or how much experience he had, they knew it wasn't their egos that cost them the game. A 4-8 record doesnt come with an oversized ego, it comes with a lack of confidence in your ability. Where a little bit of added confidence at times there was a lot of pressure could be the difference at the end of the game. Nobody naturally performs well under pressure. Nobody naturally handles a setback or a loss well. Nobody naturally deals with another person's desperation (to win at any cost) well. It's just as irrational to be underconfident as it is to be any other way, and that's why it's just as human.

by Solid Mantis November 29, 2020

Transplant

Someone not originally from an area.

Transplant is a broader term to describe anyone who's not originally from an area, since not all transplants are newcomers. Some have been in area for many years.

by Solid Mantis January 29, 2021

Crewbanger

A member of a crew, not a gang.

The crewbangers were more organized than street people, they were professionals.

by Solid Mantis February 19, 2017

Musical poser

Someone who tries to make fun of all the people that made fun of them in songs.

The musical poser made songs about people who made fun of him/her growing up so that nobody would mess with the musical poser.

by Solid Mantis May 7, 2020