Solid mantis's definitions

Base jumping

An activity for the kind of moron who doesnt have the self control to wait for the next plane or helicopter to parachute.

Guy getting out of jail- They got me for trespassing at the TV station. They had to come get me down off the guy wires, I was lucky, I could be dead right now.

Guy who knows him- Why dont you just go skydiving if you want to parachute that bad, that way theres no guy wires to get caught on?

Guy getting out of jail- I have to jump off everything I see, theres not really a good reason why.

Guy who knows him- I didnt think there would be, it's getting expensive to bail you out of jail for base jumping.

by Solid Mantis August 23, 2020

Humor

Humor is thought to be anger masked by jokes to some folks.

So if a stand up comedian is telling that many jokes, he must be angry about something. Why do so many people laugh when an angry asshole gets on a stage? Somebody with a sense of humor would have to explain how that's about more than making some money for most of the people that do it for a living.

by Solid Mantis February 13, 2018

Bedrock

Some call a gathering place a bedrock of a community.

A lot of things called the bedrock of a community, or a gathering place, have either shut down, or burned to the ground in the past year. The good news, if there is any, is that no fire, whether small, or vast like a wildfire, lasts forever. A fire always runs out of fuel once there's nothing left for it to spread to, or burn.

by Solid Mantis February 13, 2021

Playboy

A magazine that calls itself something like adult entertaijment even though it's made for children by children with more money than the ones who buy it.

He/she calls himself/herself a playboy bunny. Is that the standard for grown up behavior?

by Solid Mantis April 27, 2021

Kennedy

A way of saying somebody is presidential material in the worst sense.

She thought the guy was a Kennedy, but wasn't going to tell him that.

by Solid Mantis March 1, 2021

American civil war

To those who think the civil war was over slavery, there were slaves in the united states nearly a hundred years before the civil war (and long before the US was a country on American land), yet no president lifted a finger to help them (many of the earliest presidents were slaveowners, of course they weren't lifting fingers to help). Lincoln issued the emancipation of slaves entirely for political/PR reasons, to gain public support for his cause (reunification of the country) from as many people as he could in the North and South. The North wanted to regain control of resources south of the Mason Dixon, which proved problematic with the Southern States seceded. A lot led up to the Civil War.

The American Civil War wasn't fought over slaves, as good as it would sound to hear about the North saving the slaves from Southern tyranny. A kid's history book nearly makes Lincoln a saint.

by Solid Mantis July 26, 2019

Invincible

Knowing from wxperience that you're not easy to hurt or kill isn't the same thing as claiming that it's impossibe for you to die. Just about every kid knew as a kid that they would die, and that along the way to death they would get hurt plenty of times, and that healing back to one hundred percent of who you are never really happens, though it sounds good. Just about every kid knew they bled just like any other kid, no matter their blood type. Some of the bravest souls might have been the kids that died before their 18th birthdays, but really you know this stuff as a kid.

Claiming to be invincible and knowing that you won't get hurt or killed easily is two different things. There is nobody alive that can't be hurt or killed, and there is nobody alive that can't hurt or kill (is incapable of) someone else.

by Solid Mantis May 12, 2021