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TIS -> This is Stockholm

A phrase, just used in Stockholm, to express Stockholm specific phenomena.
Two guys are standing in a que for 1.5 hours, before getting in the club, which is surprisingly empty.
guy1: dude, why's that shithole so empty?
guy2: man relax!! TIS

They go to the bar, ordering 2 Long Island Icetea.
They cost 50$.
guy1: WTF!?!
guy2: man relax!! TIS

guy1 tries to impress 5 hot blond black panties wearing chicks, which could be world's next topmodel...He's acting like crazy, bringing all of his best dancemoves...No of them even give him a single look. Sweaty and disappointed, he goes to guy2 who just says: I am sorry to tell you bro, TIS -> This is Stockholm
by chrizzzzd December 18, 2008
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Workplace Stockholm Syndrome

Going back to your place of work constantly when you're not working. Typical and most common in supermarket employees. Even though you hate your job, you love your place of work and go there all the time when you're off from work because its so much better, and if its a store you can freely buy things. Relatable to actual Stockholm Syndrome, when someone who is kidnapped gains pitty/respect for their captor.
Though the cashier hates his job at the supermarket, he constantly goes there when he's not working because of his severe case of Workplace Stockholm Syndrome.
by TheFiend138 April 28, 2015
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Band Room Stockholm Syndrome

Band Room Stockholm Syndrome will cause you to become friends with anyone you sit near in an ensemble, no matter how much you loathe them. This may be applicable to other classes.
Man, I used to hate Stacy. Now that we sit next to each other in band, we're great friends! It's a tragic case of Band Room Stockholm Syndrome.
by Trombonerist May 22, 2011
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The 9ja-Stockholm syndrome

A Nigerian variation of the bog-standard Stockholm syndrome. A condition simple to explain but difficult to understand.

Characteristics:
You worship the person who steals from you and berate those who try to expose the robbers.

Further Explanation:
(1) "We would rather kill the mouse in the house, than the cobra lurking in the corner" - Source KO

(2) "Even AFTER the mouse has been chased out of the house, they will continue beating it. Meanwhile the cobra would be making a comfortable nest in their house and inviting its friends over" - Source VA
Usage/practice of The 9ja-Stockholm syndrome:
A hungry man steals a politician's mobile phone and he is sentenced to 45 years hard labour; a crooked politician steal billions and he is let off with a slap on the wrist, given national honours and invited back into the corridors of power.

Politicians who steal billions are lauded by crowds lining the street while young men who steal a few pennies to feed their hungry families are lynched and/or burnt alive.
by easyware March 18, 2014
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Parasocial Stockholm Syndrome

When someone is in a parasocial/one-sided relationship with a famous person (typically a celebrity or online personality).. and this famous person happens to exhibit toxic, abusive, or inappropriate behavior. The fan ignores their distasteful behavior and continues to support them.

Alternatively, maybe the fan is aware of what they're doing.. but they feel stuck in this one-sided relationship and it's hard for them to escape because of how attached they are.
I'm really into this guy.. but he also creeps me out sometimes. I feel like.. if I ever found out that he's actually a bad person that has done bad things, it would be really hard for me to detach myself from him.

The weirdest part? I don't even know him personally! He's a YouTuber. So why do I feel this way? It's like some form of.. parasocial stockholm syndrome that I'm experiencing or something. That's the only way I can describe it.
by mynameisnotrelevantlol August 15, 2023
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Civic Stockholm Syndrome

When citizens will watch their cities, local businesses and entire neighborhoods be overtaken, looted and/or destroyed by protesters, looters and rioters but turn a blind eye and remain silent. BUT THEN, when their overlords workplace is breeched by protests they’re outraged.
Hey remember when several square blocks of Seattle was overtaken by protesters, looters and rioters for WEEKS?! But all these people with Civic Stockholm Syndrome didn’t say anything?

Yeah, congress was breeched and everyone with Civic Stockholm Syndrome all of a sudden cares about “non-peaceful” protesters.
by The_fiscal_patriot January 7, 2021
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Down Stockholm Syndrome

Down Stockholm Syndrome is a term of definition used to define societal dysfunction, The term "Down Stockholm Syndrome" is commonly found in causal reform advisory glossaries that are politically incorrect and unfair to nice people in that way.

A term that could be unfair to nice people who suffer enough categorisation already.
Post industrial society got a bad case of "Down Stockholm Syndrome" efforts to form a penal civilisation failed miserably.

"Why are they headless hen pecker dancing?" Asked Pip "oh they are just trying to form a little penal hierarchy" Said a passing Cyclist.
by Causal Reformative January 11, 2025
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