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Plain Absurding 

1. The time you waste on the website www.plainabsurd.com

2. When you are taking pictures of absurd things to submit to www.plainabsurd.com

3. Doing anything that someone will think is absurd just to have fun
1. Wife "Take out the trash and clean up your mess"

Husband "No"
Wife "What the hell are you doing"
Husband "Plain Absurding that pic of you crapping yourself"
Wife "I never know what you are talking about"
Plain Absurding by Plainabsurd August 29, 2012

absurdism 

Albert Camus, one of the pioneers of absurdism, once said, "Should I kill myself or, have a cup of coffee?"
absurdism by darthvishous November 13, 2017

paradox-absorbing crumple zones 

What Robot Santa's head was built with in Futurama
Leela: Consider this. You destroy those you deem to be naughty, but many of those you destroy are, in fact, nice. Therefore, you are naughty and must destroy yourself.

Robot Santa: Nice try, but my head was built with paradox-absorbing crumple zones.

Absurdistan 

Your current locale/country when something completely ridiculous happens.
Here in Asburdistan, the State-boys pull over those who "speed" while ignoring those who hog the passing-lane, exhibiting their longest fingers.

absurdium 

A chemical element theorized to be produced by the human body in a certain percentage of the population. The element is suspected to have a clear irreversible degenerative effect on the intellect. It is also a suspected contributor to the 'Bozone Layer' effect (please see Bozone Layer and bozone)

This element is not listed in the Periodic Table. It is illusive and has not yet been synthesized in the lab, and scientists suspect that they will never be able to. Naturally, there will never be a cure that reverses absurdium's effects.
Your idea has the trademark of absurdium.

This is the most banal thing I've heard. You must be on absurdium or something.

Did someone accidentally add few absurdium drops to your kool-aid this morning?

Man, I can smell the absurdium in your breath. It should be illegal for you to think.
absurdium by Kurchatovium January 7, 2010

absurdist 

Absurdist theater is a phrase coined by Martin Esslin, a theather critic who grouped together several playwrights who wrote in a similar fashion. Absurdist drama is a direct result of World War 2, and is about the way people felt after it. There are three types of Absurdism: Fatalism, Existentialism, and Hilarious. Fatalism is the type of theater Beckett wrote (Waiting for Godot, End Game), where man is trapped in life, even basic communication is cut off. Existentialism is that if there is no point, at least you can rationalize an existance, No Exit is an example of this. Hilarious is the type Ionesco wrote (The Lesson), based off the Neitzsche prinicpal that man invented laughter to keep sanity. The entire point of Absurdism is that there is no point to life on the surface, so there has to be some reason to live. It's an attempt to answer to the fundemental questions, why are we here? etc.
One might argue that Samuel Beckett, the author of Waiting fo Godot, is the best absurdist playwright, even though crictics hated it until a group of prison inmates did a production of it.
absurdist by josh howard December 14, 2008