When someone claims to be the best at something but is completely unable to back it up. When tested, they fail incredibly.
by Squoogies32 September 16, 2025
Get the Pulling a Sherman mug.A social phenomenon in which individuals or groups who have successfully advanced in status, wealth, or opportunity then act to block others from accessing the same path upward.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
Key Features:
Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.
Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).
Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.
1. After becoming wealthy through public education, the politician now opposes funding for schools, effectively pulling up the ladder behind him.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.
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Digging through the attic boxes and uncovering my old favorite jacket was like pulling chocolate from a nest.
by Cal the Panda September 23, 2025
Get the Like pulling chocolate from a nest mug.When someone is braindead, talks a lot of smack. Doesn't know how milk works, if you play games with him he does absolutely nothing for the team. Works as a school janitor, he'll suspect anyone to be an alt when in a discord server or anywhere for that matter and say how much sand they have in their vagina. Goes on discord with his mic on, just breathing heavy when it's unnecessary which adds nothing of good conversation.
Guy: I have no idea with what you just said.
Other person: Haven't you heard? Apparently that's called pulling a morty.
Guy: Well I suppose that clears it up, what he just said literally made not a lick of inane thought. He's trying so hard trying to appear tough when he has nothing to show for it.
Other person: Haven't you heard? Apparently that's called pulling a morty.
Guy: Well I suppose that clears it up, what he just said literally made not a lick of inane thought. He's trying so hard trying to appear tough when he has nothing to show for it.
by Cemorolen September 26, 2025
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