esmith512's definitions

you can't polish a turd

unconvincingly attempt to make an irreconcilably bad situation look good.

They're trying to portray the poor financial reports as positive, but you can't polish a turd.

by esmith512 April 21, 2007

island mentality

A psychological state more than a geographic state of a person: a belief in a community's or culture's superiority, correctness, or specialness compared to other communities or cultures. Inspired by positive-minded well-meaning groupthink, increasing homogeniety over time, isolation-induced ignorance of other cultures or communities, fear of the unknown or being outnumbered (and a desire to compensate for their smallness amid the world), and lack of conflict with/lack of destruction by other communities (improving relative progress and social harmony and giving some creedence to their feelings of superiority).

Progressive and possessive attributes of English and Japanese histories show an island mentality.

by esmith512 June 26, 2007

post 9/11 world

A baseless and insulting pseudo-justification for an unqualifiable, destructively irrational, frequently stupid, and nearly psychotically paranoid assumption of the mass culpability and inheirently evil, antisocial character of an entire community, group, society, or world.

Everyone everywhere is assumed to be crazy and evil and must be inspected and watched at all times, with any suspicions real or imagined reported immediately because we live in a post 9/11 world!

by Esmith512 September 24, 2007

piss bug

A decal or other marker on a urinal indicating the best place to aim your urine stream.

I went to use a few bathrooms where they have these happy, funny little piss bugs in the urinals.

by esmith512 January 30, 2008

Bushzarro

A word widely coined in journalistic circles to describe the mutually opposite words and actions over time, redefinition of various terms into their opposites, and generally confusingly self-contradictory behavior of the Bush Administration. Derived from Bizarro and Bizarroworld.

In Bushzarro world, up is down, white is black, mass murder is democracy, truthiness is lies, left is right, and right is wrong.

by esmith512 January 17, 2008