Definitions by jetpants
elephant trap
A trap in reasoning or an argument, which a sensible person wouldn't fall into. There are a lot of interview questions like this that you might need to cunningly sidestep. Keep your wits about you!
Manager: I asked the usual interview questions with the standard elephant traps but they fell into each of them.
Colleague: Oh, no. Sigh.
Colleague: Oh, no. Sigh.
elephant trap by jetpants October 13, 2022
Flaffing about
Doing a thing that should in principle be simple and straightforward but is needlessly a pain in the ass.
Undertaking activity to achieve a goal that is needlessly finicky, tedious, or pernickety.
Undertaking activity to achieve a goal that is needlessly finicky, tedious, or pernickety.
Flaffing about by jetpants August 11, 2022
Steepling
A hand gesture where the fingers of one hand touch the other and the palms are pressed inwards arching the fingers.
This was once a gesture of confidence, but now it solely connotes condescension and is only seen in action by the #bellends in Apple's virtual events.
This was once a gesture of confidence, but now it solely connotes condescension and is only seen in action by the #bellends in Apple's virtual events.
five-twoing
Practicing the mushroom microdosing protocol suggested by mycologist, Paul Stamets, of five days on, two off.
five-twoing by jetpants April 30, 2020
pfeffel
bike shedding
Another name for Parkinson's Law of Triviality. It's when an individual or group fixates on discussing trivial issues or ones way outside their area of expertise because the pressing issues they actually need to resolve are too hard for them to constructively engage with.
You know you're the victim of bike shedding when a colleague wants to call a meeting to discuss his face-palmingly idiotic suggestions for your project while deliberately ignoring critical problems of their own that they don't know how to fix or get started with.
You know you're the victim of bike shedding when a colleague wants to call a meeting to discuss his face-palmingly idiotic suggestions for your project while deliberately ignoring critical problems of their own that they don't know how to fix or get started with.
Developer: The CEO wants to be involved in the website redesign
Marketing: And the COO too. Pure bike shedding.
Marketing: And the COO too. Pure bike shedding.
bike shedding by jetpants May 1, 2019
Rainbow
An alternative to the ever-expanding LGBTQIA+.
Twenty years ago, LGBT was commonly used for non-heterosexual or non-cis-gendered people. Some peeps prefer queer to describe themselves because it's not as pigeon-holey as some of the other categories, and there's the intersex and asexual communities too. That brings the acronym string to LGBTQIA. There're also those questioning their orientation or gender identity, allies and pansexuals in the rainbow family, so you might even see LGBTQQIA+ or LGBTQQIAAP.
One response to this Alphabet Soup of Queerness is to use Rainbow (or Queer) instead.
Twenty years ago, LGBT was commonly used for non-heterosexual or non-cis-gendered people. Some peeps prefer queer to describe themselves because it's not as pigeon-holey as some of the other categories, and there's the intersex and asexual communities too. That brings the acronym string to LGBTQIA. There're also those questioning their orientation or gender identity, allies and pansexuals in the rainbow family, so you might even see LGBTQQIA+ or LGBTQQIAAP.
One response to this Alphabet Soup of Queerness is to use Rainbow (or Queer) instead.
Our school had a Rainbow Students group to support LGBTQIA+ students.
The Rainbow community is getting larger all the time
The Rainbow community is getting larger all the time