Greeting shouted at a majestically overweight individual who somehow has more friends on his barstool than you do in your entire life. Usually lives at undisclosed part of Boston in a bar that may or may not exist outside of reruns often filmed in front of a live audience, during the eighties/early nineties until the ratings could no longer justify carrying what had clearly run its course for quite sometime prior to having gone the way of old yeller.
by Burdensomeknowing December 20, 2025
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Norming or to Norm is the action of assassinating a person or people with a gun, specifically a pistol.
This term refers to the Bad Ending in Dialtown Ch.3, where Norm Allen shoots Mayor Mingus with a pistol.
Norming or to Norm is the action of assassinating a person or people with a gun, specifically a pistol.
This term refers to the Bad Ending in Dialtown Ch.3, where Norm Allen shoots Mayor Mingus with a pistol.
by maowzart January 2, 2023
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Hym "Norm enforcement is largely performative. You, on some level, have to admit that norm enforcement ISN'T ACTUALLY FOR THE PERSON BEING SHAMED. You don't care whether or not they change or 'improve,' You want the people who SEE THE ACT OF SHAMING to think twice about mirroring or imitating or repeating the behavior being shamed. That's who it's for. It's for the viewer and not the person being shamed.
Hym "Norm enforcement is largely performative. You, on some level, have to admit that norm enforcement ISN'T ACTUALLY FOR THE PERSON BEING SHAMED. You don't care whether or not they change or 'improve,' You want the people who SEE THE ACT OF SHAMING to think twice about mirroring or imitating or repeating the behavior being shamed. That's who it's for. It's for the viewer and not the person being shamed.
And, again, it stems (I think) from this type of intellectual elitism where individuals are expected to cede their capacity for thought to... Not even intellectuals. Just random fucking YouTuber's REGARDLESS of their capacity for thought. It's like 'You don't have life X, therefore, the content or function of your mind is somehow de-legitimized regardless of HOW PERSON WITH LIFE X AQUIRED LIFE X (For example, entertaining children by being a loud obnoxious retard while playing video games). It's not different than that scene (And I'm repeating myself) from Bob's Burgers where Louise is heckling those baseball players. She attempts (and fails) to distract the batters (repeated) and the one time one of the batters fails; she takes full credit for his failure shouting 'See!? I did that! That was me!' That's all you're doing when you enforce norms. You're making YOURSELF FEEL BETTER about the existence of people who violate the norms of your adopted propositional ethic. It's superstition. It's not different than throwing salt over your shoulder when you spill the pepper. You're making an example of someone to intimidate the bystanders. And by 'Norm enforcement' I mean 'Social norm enforcement' and NOT 'Do what the Quran says or we're going to throw you off a building' MANUAL NORM ENFORCEMENT."
by Hym Iam August 5, 2023
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Friend 2: "You should watch Norm of the north!"
Friend 2: "You should watch Norm of the north!"
by demonic-ducks March 10, 2024
Get the Norm of the north mug.The sociological concept that what a society considers standard, acceptable behavior is not a natural or inevitable discovery, but is actively built, maintained, and enforced by that society's institutions, power structures, and cultural narratives. Norms are not found; they are made. This theory examines the process of norm entrepreneurship—how media, laws, education, and peer pressure collaborate to design a blueprint for "how to be," punishing deviation and rewarding conformity until the constructed feels innate.
Theory of Constructed Norm *Example: The mid-20th century Constructed Norm of the heterosexual, male-breadwinner nuclear family as the only "healthy" model was built through tax policy, Hollywood films, suburban design, and psychology textbooks pathologizing other arrangements. This wasn't human nature; it was a post-war social project that became so powerful it felt like gravity.*
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026
Get the Theory of Constructed Norm mug.The cognitive tendency to unconsciously favor, trust, and perceive as correct those ideas, behaviors, and people that align with the dominant social norms of one's group or culture. It creates a mental shortcut where "normal = good/safe/true." This bias makes it difficult to even see alternative ways of thinking as legitimate, framing them automatically as threats, errors, or absurdities before they are evaluated on their own merits.
Example: In a corporate culture that values aggressive confidence, a quiet, reflective contributor's ideas are consistently overlooked in meetings due to Norm Bias. Their style doesn't match the "norm" of how good ideas are presented, so the ideas themselves are filtered out as weak, regardless of their actual quality.
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 4, 2026
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