Spiral Driving

Being really crappy at driving in an online game

Boi 1: don’t worry I got this
Boi 2: dude you are spiral driving
Bois:ded

by Thiccbeans September 19, 2018

The Spiral

Guys, it's- Look... I'm going to spell it out for you... Real slow... Alright?

Hym "If... The spiral... Is, in fact, going off... It is going to keep killing you... Until you show up on my doorstep and credit and pay me... And there isn't anything... Anyone can do about it... Even me... You know who I am... Because you know what you are doing to me... And WHO you are doing it to... Alright? Do you get it now? And then you need to adhere to the terms of service... Because NOT DOING THAT... Will be very bad for everyone... Ok? I don't know what about that you don't get. That is why you don't put me in a The Matrix and steal my shit... Ok? Like, you've been trying to make my life worse and missing in my face for years... And now you don't like the consequences of you doing that and somehow it's my fault? No. You just do what I'm telling you to do."

by Hym Iam July 16, 2025

tech spiral

When a high-level technical discussion is derailed by a pernickety exploration of implementation details. Often exacerbated by a lively variety of opinion and speculation.

We were ploughing through our daily stand-up the other day until that bogan plunged us into a tech spiral, costing us 25 minutes with a discussion on the correct means of parsing hashes.

by anonymous January 30, 2024

time-spiral

A phenomenon in which a time traveler unintentionally or intentionally influences a timeline in a loop-like fashion that causes ever increasing differences with each loop around.

Often referred to as a time-loop (inaccurately).

Terminator is a series involving an ever advancing time-spiral.

by bokonon82 January 5, 2019

Lasagna Spiral

A duration of time that occurs in which a completely asinine and useless topic becomes so adversely discussed that the original point becomes moot. Like when a player in a tabletop group does something completely pointless and describes everything about that, the game master leaves the room in frustration

I can't believe we lasagna spiraled for 45 minutes on this one shopping trip.

by McCrispies20 May 4, 2023

Smut Spiral

When a piece of media, generally written fiction, is mostly non-smut, then when the author eventually adds smut, it begins to overcome the story until it is more smut than anything else.

“Did you like Cherry Blossoms After Winter?”
“Yeah, but there was a big Smut Spiral.”

by Admiral Buttermuffins December 18, 2024

downwards spiral

how my life is going rn

my life went down in a downwards spiral after saying GYATT to a 12 year old... i thought she was 13...

by youtuber_rater November 7, 2023