A very obscure part of Urban Dictionary, you click the circle with the two intersecting arrows, and it stashes a bunch of random definitions together on one page, but it only includes the current top definitions for the word being defined. The definitions can be about anything. The Random page also constantly updates with brand new definitions. It’s hard to explain. Once you try it, you’ll get it.
Random is probably the weirdest part of Urban Dictionary, no one really knows why it’s a thing, no one ever talks about it, and yet it’s still there, right on your screen. Some people have never noticed it or used it, but it still lurks at the top.
by nlolhere June 29, 2020
Get the randommug. When you're on a laptop and you try to move the mouse on the pad and it randomly zooms the fucking thing to like 200% zoom.
Trying to read something on your laptop and it does a random mouse zoom and you can't read the fucking thing.
by Carl Junior Burgers January 16, 2014
Get the Random Mouse Zoommug. I'm glad that you brought that up because it takes me to my second problem with determinism. Let's try and visualize your argument.
D
>ID - ID
R > R
ED
So, and action is either Random (R) or Determined. If it's Determined it's either Internally (ID) or Externally (ED) Determined. If it's Externally Determined, then you have no control. If it's Internally Determined, then the internal determination is either Determined or Random. And I'm guessing that by "Determined" you mean "The necessary byproduct of an antecedent chain in which the actor or mechanism could not have done otherwise," Correct? Is that close? Does that make sense? I feel like there are a lot of presuppositions that need to be unpacked.
Hym "So, how is asking whether or not something is determined or random any different than asking whether or not my bedroom is hot or cold? It's both. And neither. It's, like, luke warm. So, you presuppose the absence of a grey area between determined and random. That random and determine don't exist on a spectrum in the same way hot and cold exist on a spectrum. As though thinks can't be more or less determined or more or less random. Is the outcome of a coin to more or less random than the outcome of rolling a 20 sided dice? You could say that the outcome is determined I guess. By the exact about of force used to roll the dice or flip the coin.
D
>ID - ID
R > R
ED
So, and action is either Random (R) or Determined. If it's Determined it's either Internally (ID) or Externally (ED) Determined. If it's Externally Determined, then you have no control. If it's Internally Determined, then the internal determination is either Determined or Random. And I'm guessing that by "Determined" you mean "The necessary byproduct of an antecedent chain in which the actor or mechanism could not have done otherwise," Correct? Is that close? Does that make sense? I feel like there are a lot of presuppositions that need to be unpacked.
Hym "So, how is asking whether or not something is determined or random any different than asking whether or not my bedroom is hot or cold? It's both. And neither. It's, like, luke warm. So, you presuppose the absence of a grey area between determined and random. That random and determine don't exist on a spectrum in the same way hot and cold exist on a spectrum. As though thinks can't be more or less determined or more or less random. Is the outcome of a coin to more or less random than the outcome of rolling a 20 sided dice? You could say that the outcome is determined I guess. By the exact about of force used to roll the dice or flip the coin.
The relationship between the material of the dice and the material of the surface of the table or the conditions of the air in the room you're flipping the coin. Also, if we accept 'determined' as 'the necessary byproduct of an antecedent chain in which the actor or mechanism could not have done otherwise' you presuppose that what happens in response to a given antecedent chain is what OUGHT to happen in response to said chain. So, Antecedent Chain A -> either Outcome A or Outcome B. If ACA -> OA then you have to presuppose that what ought to happen in response to ACA is OA. If ACA -> OB then, again, you're forced to presuppose that what ought a happen in response to ACA is OB. But if the likelihood of ACA leading to OB is 1% and it HAPPENS ANYWAY... What you have is NOT an outcome that 'couldn't have been otherwise' but, rather, SHOULD have been otherwise and wasn't. Ya feel me? So, I know this doesn't demonstrate free will but I don't think you have been able to successfully demonstrate that there isn't a point at which 'the self' is not the fundamental locus of control in any given choice. It's a good argument though. It's tricky. But it's like a weird semantic blackhole. It's like saying 'Well, if you don't actively control the firing of your neurons, you don't actually control yourself.' Just weird. Determined or random."
by Hym Iam December 5, 2023
Get the Determined or Randommug. A person who shares the inherent interior essence of a locomotive engine and has a propensity for sporadic social tea drinking rituals, often leading to unforseen adventures with a stranger. Can be dangerous.
by RTG July 28, 2003
Get the Random Train Boymug. When you gargle semen in your throat, switching around the sperm cells and spitting it in your vagina, thus randomizing your baby's overall personality.
by Sauce professional November 20, 2017
Get the baby randomizermug. by random business October 23, 2025
Get the random businessmug. A bu**s**t roadmap-producing company dat merely prints meaningless squiggly-line patterns on its driving-guide pages.
In da "Bill Nye The Science Guy" episode "Measurement", lady-detective Citronella Jones busts a whiny criminal named "Sniffley" for creating "merely eyeballed" markings on long narrow strips of wood and then trying to pawn them off as legitimate measuring-sticks; I wonder if he works for "Random McNally"?
by QuacksO October 22, 2025
Get the Random McNallymug.