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A mechanism which structurally, physically, or electronically blocks human beings from committing an error.
Walls, locks, and barbed-wire are examples of a structural error-impossibilitator. And the way Web pages are programmed to not allow a user to proceed to the next step until the user types their password, for example, is an example of an electronic error-impossibilitator. Condoms and other pregnancy-prevention devices are also error-impossibilitators. However, some error-impossibilitators are not fool-proof. Parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, personal trainers, security guards or bouncers are not error-impossibilitators because—unless they stand in someone's way—they can only help others prevent errors. Error-impossibilitators are of two types, those that can be circumvented, such as by cutting a barbed wire, and those which cannot be circumvented, such as the wall President Trump offered to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. Note that very few error-impossibilitators are 100% reliable because if someone wants to, they can, for example, dig a tunnel under a wall, as people have done to get to the other side.
by but for November 29, 2017
Get the error-impossibilitatormug. The way a person feels when they see and/or hear and/or touch someone who they realize they feel 100% attracted to.
Though I even felt sexually attracted to a woman I met at work last Friday, it was not a 100% attraction. That type makes one feel as if a magnet is pulling you.
by but for June 2, 2018
Get the 100% attractionmug. Confronting a recalcitrant student who when I told her she misspelled the word "concision" by writing "consition", I unintentionally took myself to and beyond the EMOWINPOINT, the point when emotion overrides reason. That common human error contributed to my being fired about one hour later from my job as a university instructor.
by but for September 13, 2018
Get the emowinpointmug. The ability to feel what or how something would, might, could, or will feel like before one comes in contact with a thing—keeping in mind that because individuals often get what they expect, what they perceive could be biased or distorted.
Yesterday, he put his hand out to shake mine, forefeeling a sweaty hand of a sick man I didn't shake his hand. Who knows where someone's hands have been and what they were doing before that individual sticks it out for you to shake. Though sometimes it is great to shake someone's hand, in general, handshaking is a drain—a waste of time, energy, and emotion. It can also be a type of invasion of space and privacy. The ability to feel how something may feel like is also called pre-feel, or fore-feel. In the preceding sentence, I spelled the latter without a hyphen.
by but for September 27, 2018
Get the pre-feelmug. A reality one can choose to live in in which one expects to and does experience a lot of pleasure continually or continuously.
There are basically two worlds people live in or choose to live in, the world of pleasure and the world of pain. The first is the pleasurable reality.
by but for December 24, 2017
Get the pleasurable realitymug. Treating someone in certain ways to give them an identity that is better or worse than the one they have.
After people's appearance, the next thing that comes into play when they interact is the identity each person has of themselves. As they interact, people project their identity and in subtle ways, verbally or nonverbally, others accept or reject it, and sometimes they attempt to give the other person the identity they think they should have of themselves, and that identity can be better or worse than the one the person has of themselves. An example of identity-giving is when one day, someone treats someone else as if they were a genius.
by but for January 17, 2021
Get the Identity-givingmug. A marketing method that shifts the consumer's identity from the consumer to a product to get the consumer to buy it and love it.
Identity transference is a way that marketers distort reality by getting potential car buyers to come to feel that they can become the car they want to buy. After they buy it, they feel they are one with it, and happily spend money to maintain it in the best condition (sometimes better than themselves).
by but for January 17, 2021
Get the identity transferencemug.