arises when one realises they are fucked in a situation and they have no way to get out
- the said vice is unbreakable by any attempts to wile out of said situation
- the said vice is unbreakable by any attempts to wile out of said situation
by pax cicero March 24, 2005
A guy who is a best friend to a girl with a boyfriend. Usually single, the guy uses this time to show what a good person he is in case the girl becomes single again.
"Spencer is a great vice boyfriend. When Mike isn't around to take me out, Spence is always free to keep me company until Mike gets free." said Jess.
by Dark_Link August 17, 2007
Miami Vice starred Don Johnson
by can you open my milk mommy March 27, 2005
The Vice-Chancellor argued to the government that students should be charged tuition fees in order to pay academic staff an appropriate salary, but then, when the fees arrived and the academic staff asked for a pay rise, he discovered that academic staff were actually very well paid indeed and in any case all the new money had already been spent, so academic staff could just go fuck themselves, while he awarded himself a 25% pay rise in recognition of his own outstanding talents.
by Happy lemming June 18, 2006
by YAWA March 08, 2020
by Spaghetti.P May 21, 2022
The other side of the coin to virtue signalling; rather than angling for praise by performatively proclaiming their support for certain causes, vice signalling involves attempting to show off their good person credentials by performatively approving of harm or other bad things that have befallen others.
Like virtue signalling, vice signalling is a largely tribal act; a way for the speaker to associate themselves with certain other groups, causes or ideals. Also like virtue signalling, vice signalling is a means of doing this without actually showing any follow-through or doing anything tangible for the cause it apparently supports; much like adding a filter to your Facebook profile to support Group X doesn't actually accomplish anything, tweeting your support for violence against Group Y serves to gain edgy clout without actually taking any meaningful action. Finally and also like virtue signalling, it is not so much the morals behind it as the smug and performative nature of vice signalling that make it irritating: a reasonable person might for instance agree that at times, the use of force has been necessary to stop people from committing terrible acts, but when someone makes a great deal of effort to be seen revelling in physical harm done to someone else however necessary it may have been, it ceases to be about the morals and becomes instead an exercise of preachy autofellatio.
Like virtue signalling, vice signalling is a largely tribal act; a way for the speaker to associate themselves with certain other groups, causes or ideals. Also like virtue signalling, vice signalling is a means of doing this without actually showing any follow-through or doing anything tangible for the cause it apparently supports; much like adding a filter to your Facebook profile to support Group X doesn't actually accomplish anything, tweeting your support for violence against Group Y serves to gain edgy clout without actually taking any meaningful action. Finally and also like virtue signalling, it is not so much the morals behind it as the smug and performative nature of vice signalling that make it irritating: a reasonable person might for instance agree that at times, the use of force has been necessary to stop people from committing terrible acts, but when someone makes a great deal of effort to be seen revelling in physical harm done to someone else however necessary it may have been, it ceases to be about the morals and becomes instead an exercise of preachy autofellatio.
Steve never fails to post on Reddit about how great it is every time some celebrity he doesn't like dies. A classic case of vice signalling.