fearman's definitions

incest

Fun for all the family. After all, the family that lays together, stays together.

Incest. Because sometimes narcissistic manipulation of your rugrats just ain't enough.

by Fearman March 25, 2008

Karl Marx

Chap who lived back in the nineteenth century. Grew a big beard, in which he invested quite a lot. Had a good head for mathematics and wrote a lot about property and political evolution. A bit boring, not always on the money, and misunderstood by airheads and meatheads, as dead white males usually are. He overestimated both human generosity and the idea of membership of the working class as a badge of pride. Someone recently posted that he taught that the lazy should be allowed leech off the hard-working. This actually is a pretty good picture of present-day America, where the lazy keep getting away with it because the hard-working keep voting for them.

Karl Marx. A bit esoteric, but a middling good read if you like to stretch yourself.

by Fearman November 18, 2007

cold read

The act of fishing for information, either from a gullible paying customer or from an audience who have just been told to be "open-minded", in which any positive feedback is followed deftly as though coming in "on the astral".

Cold reading:

Hello, I'm getting something ... there is someone who has recently died ... yes, someone has, hasn't they? ... a man, no I didn't think so, either, a woman then, an old woman ... no, dreadful isn't it? ... I'm thinking cancer, no?... a car crash ... yes, and it was tragic, and she was before her time too, would I be correct in saying this? ...

by Fearman March 11, 2008

psychic-recursive gene

The gene responsible for making some people believe that anything from homosexuality to kleptomania can be tied to a single gene.

He says he's found a gay gene, an anti-social gene, a literary gene and a deep-sea exploration-promoting gene. I guess his psychic-recursive gene is working overtime.

by Fearman January 6, 2008

unseptpentanovodiniloctonilunophobia

Morbid and irrational fear of the number 175,920,801.

Unseptpentanovodiniloctonilunophobia. The one fear nobody dares talk about.

by Fearman November 22, 2007

jigsaw morality

"Moral" argument against gay or lesbian sex on the grounds that "the parts don't fit", as though bodies were supposed to be parts of a jigsaw.

Rome and Topeka have chimed in again with their discussion on how the seam line doesn't match up. More jigsaw morality.

Oops ... I just realised, our parts don't fit, umm, let's call it off. Hey, hold on, I know ... wanna go bowling?

by Fearman January 15, 2008

Outside it's America

Reference to the ubiquity of things American in the world of the late twentieth/early twenty-first century CE: in the pre-Chinese era. From the U2 song Bullet the Blue Sky, about US military domination of Central America.

We take the staircase to the first floor
We turn the key and slowly unlock the door
A man breathes into a saxophone
And through the walls we hear the city groan
Outside it's America
Outside it's America

by Fearman August 10, 2007