More specific than just an asshole, douchebag, dickhead, etc., a shitbird is someone who is extremely selfish, entitled, and narcissistic, and does ONLY what is most convenient for THEM, with absolutely no regard for how it makes other people's lives worse and fucks up the social order. They believe that ALL rules, laws, and social conventions are inherently oppressive, and rebel against all authority simply for the sake of rebelling against authority, even when said authority is 100% reasonable. The shitbird's life philosophy is "My enjoyment above all", and frequently say "You're not the boss of me/You can't tell me what to do!". They do things like drive recklessly, cut in lines, throw trash wherever they want, and whatever else they feel like, with no guilt whatsoever. They think "freedom" means "complete anarchy". Other words for shitbird are "libertine" and "sociopath". Like pigeons who shit all over a statue, the shitbird just likes to shit all over everything, and leave other, decent people to clean up their messes.
People who didn't follow mask and vaccine mandates during the COVID pandemic, because their own personal comfort took priority over not killing people in their vicinity with a deadly virus, are shitbirds.
by q359 July 24, 2023
Horseshit is a form of nonsense that is subtly different from bullshit, in that bullshit is something that the person preaching KNOWS is nonsense, but preaches anyway (disingenuously), whereas horseshit is nonsense that the person actually fully believes, because they are stupid.
When Joe Biden says that he cares about migrants, that is bullshit. When Trumpers believe that Biden stole the election, that is horseshit.
by q359 July 25, 2023
A bogus concept that claims to be a measure of intelligence, but in reality, is as problematic as using BMI as a measure of healthy weight. IQ tests have been demonstrated to be culturally biased (that is, they rely heavily on questions that presuppose knowledge of white, Western culture). In reality, intelligence isn't something people are born with varying amounts of, it's a muscle that people choose to exercise or not, and just about anyone (save for the PROFOUNDLY cognitively disabled) can be smart or stupid, depending on whether they choose to be observant of what's really going on around them, pay attention to detail, and learn from experiences both positive and negative, or just walk around the world like a dumbass with their head in the sand. There are many more stupid people in the world, because stupidity is the path of least resistance, being smart takes effort. Some people are better with numbers, memorizing patterns, spatial orientation, sure, but that isn't intelligence, those are just specific skills that people will naturally have varying degrees of. True intelligence or stupidity isn't something that's inborn, it's a choice to pay attention, make good decisions, and seek out helpful information, or not. The fact that so many high-IQ people are good at taking tests, but are complete and utter dumbasses in every other facet of life, should put to rest the idea that IQ means anything at all, but unfortunately, this very stupid myth still persists.
The fact that there are high-IQ people who advocate fascism, but my ex-girlfriend who is technically learning-disabled, and so bad with directions that she could get lost in a NYC street grid, volunteers her time passionately to help immigrants and low-income people, and taught herself Spanish, proves that IQ has jack-all to do with actual intelligence.
by q359 July 24, 2023
A term that means absolutely nothing at all, but that people claim to practice when they want to sound deep, and mystically wise, but it's not RELIGION, they would never practice anything so crass and gauche as RELIGION, of course, they want to let you know that they're not like those silly God-botherers, no, THEY just engage in the exact type of magical thinking as religious followers, but don't even have the "God" excuse to fall back on.
Dumbass: Ever since I fucked up my life, I've decided to begin practicing spirituality. I'm not religious, I'm spiritual.
Rational Person: What the fuck does that even mean?
Rational Person: What the fuck does that even mean?
by q359 July 25, 2023
(Sometimes shortened to just "woo") A catch-all term for all the non-scientific, magical-thinking, mystical bullshit that human beings the world over believe in, that should have been dispensed with a LONG time ago by anyone with half a brain, but annoyingly still persists into the 21st century. Includes tarot, astrology, crystal vibrations, fortune telling, reiki, alternative medicine, ghosts, Ouija boards, palm-reading, seances, homeopathy, and all other similar flavors of total horseshit. Importantly, does NOT include religion, because religion is a whole other, higher echelon of irrational thinking that is its own separate category.
Dumbass: I aligned my third, fourth and seventh chakras on the cusp of Taurus and communed with my dead ancestors, who told me that you will have good fortune in the coming year. Now give me your money, please.
Rational Person: Get out of here with that woo-woo shit.
Rational Person: Get out of here with that woo-woo shit.
by q359 July 25, 2023
by q359 June 27, 2023
The granddaddy of all swear words, in America we're weirdly offended by this word for some reason, whereas the Brits and Aussies know that it's no more offensive than any other vulgar word. Some people say it's inherently a slur against women, which is just silly, it CAN be a slur against women if you're a misogynist shitbird who just uses it that way, otherwise it's just another swear word and we Americans need to get over it.
Literally it's a perfectly good slang word for the female genitals, figuratively it refers to a person (of any gender) who is SO unpleasant and awful, that lesser swear words just won't do, and thus it serves a legitimate linguistic need and we should all stop being such cunts about the word cunt.
Literally it's a perfectly good slang word for the female genitals, figuratively it refers to a person (of any gender) who is SO unpleasant and awful, that lesser swear words just won't do, and thus it serves a legitimate linguistic need and we should all stop being such cunts about the word cunt.
In Scotland they practically greet each other by calling each other cunts, why are we so uptight about the word cunt in this stupid cunt-ry?
by q359 July 25, 2023