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media term for those current TV shows where wannabees or one-star celebs hoping to raise their public profile are encouraged to compete, be humiliated, bullied, or patronised on camera...
Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...
Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...
'Jeez ! Yet another co-promo on TV... this time it's the Whiplash School of Cookery comp...but dammit, I love them all...it's so addictive...'
by mikroth February 6, 2009
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by mikroth December 12, 2009
Get the Juno Watt mug.opposite of sourpuss. When someone asks you what -- say -- your fierce new grade teacher is like, and neither 'sweetie' nor 'pussy-cat' quite fit the bill..
'My new grade teacher ? She comes across all disciplinarian -- but one-to-one she's a real sweetypuss..'
by mikroth December 30, 2008
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'You read that Frey 'memoir' that Oprah was plugging, yet ?'
'Memoir shit ! Great story, blame his publisher for marketing a novel as a memoir -- sheer heartsploitation ! My girl wept buckets, then blamed me for spilling the beans...'
'Memoir shit ! Great story, blame his publisher for marketing a novel as a memoir -- sheer heartsploitation ! My girl wept buckets, then blamed me for spilling the beans...'
by mikroth August 20, 2008
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can be exes you've mutually accepted as good pals, or some gay guy who's savvy and amusing, or anyone else in your close posse...
can be exes you've mutually accepted as good pals, or some gay guy who's savvy and amusing, or anyone else in your close posse...
'Hey, didn't I see you with your ex again the other day ?'
'Oh, we're noffies now, it's great and we've moved on...'
'Oooh, who's that cutebum you're running, along with your steady ?'
'Oh, isn't he sweet ? He's gay, so we're just noffies... though I wouldn't mind giving him a test run...'
'Oh, we're noffies now, it's great and we've moved on...'
'Oooh, who's that cutebum you're running, along with your steady ?'
'Oh, isn't he sweet ? He's gay, so we're just noffies... though I wouldn't mind giving him a test run...'
by mikroth January 6, 2008
Get the noffie mug.Now most common in chatgroups -- previously observed at the village well, later the parish pump : a group enjoying a good old communal moan about anything and everything.
'I've given up that chatline -- it's now just a whingefest about everything that's wrong with urban life...'
'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...'
'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans...
'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...'
'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans...
by mikroth December 16, 2007
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'I tried to revise for the exam last night... but it was just eye-skating -- nothing stuck in the mind..'
by mikroth December 22, 2008
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