Dodo Effect

i) failing to change behaviours, thus repeatedly falling off the same cliff into the same doom

ii) doing the same stupid things that everybody around you does, never learning your lesson, thus everybody including you falls off the cliff into certain doom

"I'm going to keep treating my boyfriend like crap, but blame him for it and not listen to him when he explains why he's dumping me for the 30th time."

"I'm going to have drunk teenage sex at a party but then totally regret it and go berserk on the people who gossip about me doing it."

"I'm going to continue cheating on my boyfriend and doing drugs and complain about it to people for sympathy, but when they stop me and point out that I'm doing it again, I'll disregard it."

"I clearly witness too many people guilty of the Dodo Effect."

by renapple January 7, 2010

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The Dodo Is Alive!

When some Trumpists-turned-QAnonists still stranded on the volcanic island of Mauritius—who needed to concoct a half-believe story to gain public attention so that they could fly back home—told the locals that they spotted a big bird that resembled the flightless dodo in the middle of the night, when the country was still on lockdown, thus raising the infinitesimal hope that the Mauritian bird, thought extinct, is far from dead.

That “the dodo is alive!” sounds like a modern version of the biblical story of Jesus’ raising Lazarus, who had already been in the tomb for four days, from the dead—even if the big bird is long dead, who says that it can’t miraculously be resurrected?

by MathPlus December 12, 2020

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dodo girl

Chick that wanders aimlessly fluttering about trying to look important. Often time she will meander into existing conversations and inject completely non-relevant bullshit. The individual can also resemble the shape and waddle of a duck as they move.

The dodo girl came up to us again and derailed everything that we were working on.

by Streakster September 20, 2018

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