A process or organization with little value or function other than to support its own existence. Similar to a self licking ice-creamcone (see spinnish )
The Orlando Expressway Authority's advertising budgetjust goes to prove what a self eating watermelon it's become
Indicates that someone is observing but not getting involved.
Originates from an interview in China where reporters asked a man if he saw the incident and he responded 'I have no idea. I'm just eating watermelon'.
I don't know what the couple is fighting about next door. I'm just eating my watermelon.
A: Did you hear about what's going in (place?)
B: I heard but I've been eating watermelon all day!
Chinese net-slang.
The act of consuming a dramatic story typically involving celebrities as it develops WITHOUT GETTING INVOLVED IN THE CONVERSATION, usually via social media posts. These stories are juicy, sweet, and lacking substance, much like a watermelon.
Synonym: buying soya sauce - to indicate one is not involved in the drama currently unfolding.
eg. The crowds of watermelon eaters eagerly wait for more details to be dug up as the story develops.
A: Did you see that post too lol, man I really wanna say something.
B: Don't engage if you don't wanna get trolled, just eat your watermelon and enjoy.
So many stories this year had us eating watermelon non-stop!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)