The Logical Fallacy's definitions

Goldilocks Zone of Acceptable Asshold'em

A state of personality where one is paradoxically considered an asshole, but is still considered endearing and likable.

"It's great to be an asshole, but you don't want to be a total asshole. There's a balance that must be struck. Assholes who are total assholes suffer too much backlash for their nature and are generally considered insufferable by all. Thus, you must learn to follow proper asshole decorum and fall under the Goldilocks Zone of Acceptable Asshold'em. You have accomplished this when people say things about you like 'he's funny, but he's an asshole', or 'I like Dave, but he's kind of an asshole.' That's the Goldilocks zone. You want people to compliment you, or express fondness for you, but then immediately feel the need to point out that you're an asshole."
-- TJ "The Amazing Atheist" Kirk, "10 Rules Of Asshole Decorum"

by The Logical Fallacy February 27, 2019

Kind

A term used by believers of Creationism to separate and categorize various animals (both by species and breeds) in Baraminology, but dismissed by virtually every other field of science.

"The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a third day... Then God said, 'Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.' God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.' There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. Then God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind'; and it was so."
-- Genesis 1:12-24

by The Logical Fallacy January 13, 2017

Fluxus

An early '60s to late '70s art movement that focused on experimentally mixing various artistic medias and disciplines.

Much like Dadaism and Futurism, Fluxus used Anti-Art to challenge the establishment of the time, change culture as a whole and make fine art more accessible to the masses. Yoko Ono for example was one of many fluxus artists at the time that made performance art an actual thing in modern art.

by The Logical Fallacy May 13, 2017

Tinny

An adjective meant to describe a word unpleasant to the sound or pronunciation. Opposite of Woody.

"'Sausage'! There's a good woody sort of word, 'sausage'. 'Gorn.'"
"'Antelope!'"
"Where? On the lawn?"
"No, no, Daddy. Just the word."
"Don't want antelope nibbling the hoops."
"No, no -- 'ant-e-lope'. Sort of nice and woody type of thing."
"Don't think so, Becky old chap."
"No, no -- 'antelope' - 'antelope', 'tinny' sort of word."
-- "The Woody Sketch" from Monty Python's Flying Circus

by The Logical Fallacy May 12, 2017

Arkham's razor

The weirdest explanation is the correct one. Opposite of Occam's razor.

Occam's razor says that people used primitive tech and slave labor build the pyramids. Arkham's razor says that Satan called in a favor from space aliens to build them in order to make people disbelieve in Jesus hundreds of years before he was born.

by The Logical Fallacy June 5, 2017

Shenmue Gambit

When a certain media property that, while unsuccessful when it first comes out, can manage to become a successful franchise overtime using nostalgia.

"Fortunately, Double Fine have managed to cling to driftwood long enough to wait for the inevitable twenty-year nostalgia wave to come around and can now surf that driftwood all the way to sex island with Psychonauts 2. Yes, they've pulled what's now technically known as the Shenmue gambit."
-- Psychonauts 2 (Zero Punctuation)

by The Logical Fallacy September 15, 2021

The Trend

A trend in the '60s and '70s where various rock bands would title themselves "The" followed by a random noun. Usually done to capitalize on the success of The Beatles.

The Animals, The Association, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Castaways, The Crusaders, The Doors, The Gentrys, The Keys, The Kinks, The Marbles, The Monkees, The Temptations, The Turtles, The Troggs, The Who, The Zombies, The Trend

by The Logical Fallacy May 24, 2017