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Tune Fishing

Tune Fishing: A modern day hobbies trend where you use your smartphone as a fishing rod to discover the best music. Instead of catching fish, you catch tunes that come to mind, get inspired by, or find while scrolling through YouTube or your feed. Instead of a fishing net, you share these tunes with friends on WhatsApp or social media, making them easily accessible so you can listen to them later. With your friends, it can be a really fun activity and a competition for who can find the best tunes, a bit like Pokémon but with music.
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Frank: "What you doing this weekend, Lee?"
Lee: "I'm gonna spend all day tune fishing, mate."
Frank: "Yeah, good idea! We definitely need some new sick tunes bruv.
Tune Fishing by Jamie Cheese November 18, 2025

ICE fishing

Driving around with Mexican flags or other Mexican things on your car, in hopes of being pulled over by ICE and wasting their time (usually done by white people).
"My Mexican flag just came in; wanna go ICE fishing?"
ICE fishing by teacupgoldfish February 8, 2026
A threesome spit-roast, or Eiffel Tower, on your back that only incudes men.
Did you hear John and Bob turned Gus into a T-Fitting last night.
T-Fitting by ModernEinstein420 February 14, 2026

Fridge Fishing

The act of standing on top of the fridge butt naked while your significant other tries to bite your ‘fishing pole’
“Bro my girl was giving me some wild fridge fishing last night”
Fridge Fishing by Greasycameltoes February 25, 2026

Fallacy Fishing

A specific form of Logical Fishing where the participant focuses entirely on identifying fallacies in the opponent’s argument, often incorrectly or with minimal justification. The fisher may even create a “fallacy bingo card” and try to check off boxes instead of engaging the content. The implicit claim is that naming a fallacy (even wrongly) is sufficient to dismiss the argument. Fallacy Fishing reduces debate to a game of “gotcha,” where the winner is the one who can attach the most fallacy labels. It is a classic example of the fallacy fallacy—assuming that because an argument contains a fallacy, its conclusion is false.
Example: “He ignored her evidence and instead posted a ‘logical fallacy bingo card’ with squares like ‘straw man’ and ‘ad hominem.’ Fallacy Fishing: hunting for labels instead of engaging ideas.”
Fallacy Fishing by Abzugal April 3, 2026

Logical Fishing

A tactic where one participant deliberately moves the debate into a meta‑debate about logic, definitions, or fallacies, “fishing” for a procedural error they can exploit. Instead of engaging the content, they ask meta‑questions: “Is that a logical leap?” “Are you sure that’s not a hasty generalization?” “What’s your definition of X?” The goal is to hook the opponent into defending their reasoning rather than advancing their argument. Logical Fishing is often used by bad‑faith debaters to derail discussions and exhaust opponents.
Example: “Every time she made a point, he asked ‘but is that logically valid?’ Logical Fishing, trying to pull the debate away from substance and into meta‑analysis.”
Logical Fishing by Abzugal April 3, 2026