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Normalcore Absurdism

The type of humor that I Think You Should Leave and Portlandia are
I just learned that I really like normalcore absurdism, y'know, the type of humor that I Think You Should Leave and Portlandia are.
by cArgon July 16, 2025
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empty-boxcars train of assurers

Derisive term for a sizable number of acquaintances of someone with a dubious reputation who make praising statements about the individual's character/morals, offer to co-sign a loan he's requesting, etc., but who are of comparably-questionable integrity themselves, are also broke, etc., and so their own word and/or reliability is viewed as not being much more of a legitimate guarantee than the promises of the person they're vouching for. In other words, "quantito, but not qualito"... lots of impressive-looking "containers", but with no actual/tangible/legitimate "goods" inside of said containers.
Loan officer: I always feel really wary/suspicious whenever someone of unknown/questionable reputation asks for a loan and offers to bring in a number of other folks to vouch for his character, reliability, and financial responsibility --- "methinks he doth protest too much", plus usually his so-called "witnesses" appear to merely be an "empty-boxcars train of assurers"... they seem no more trustworthy than I would view the loan-requester himself as being, and so their voluminous praise/recommendations hold little significance and inspire little confidence in me regarding whether the loan-requester would actually possess adequate means/motivation/dedication to repay the money. I feel something like how the lady-attorney in "Losing Isaiah" did when she pointed out that the members of the "support group" whom ex-druggie/shoplifter Khaila had named as the people who were assisting her in her efforts to "go straight" and "live clean" had themselves all been former drug-users and/or criminals, and so she felt that they should not be considered to be viable/reliable helpers to prevent Khaila from relapsing.
by QuacksO September 21, 2018
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redactio ad absurdum

When evidence is censored (colloquially, "redacted") by obscuration thereby reducing the quality and quantity of that evidence.

* First coined by YouTuber Viva Frei on 10/31/21
The FOIA is effectively undermined when government branches are permitted to release purely redactio ad absurdum documents.
by MartinNotBoris October 31, 2020
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reductape add absurdium

The repeated patching up of a flimsy argument for a ridiculous proposition made by someone you’d think would be smarter.

Reductape is Latin for the process of repeatedly patching something until all you see is the patch and you can no longer see the thing being patched.

Absurdium is an isotope of Einsteinium (Es, atomic number 99) which when present in the brain of even the hugest genius renders them stupid.
Did you hear Trump’s latest claims that the election was rigged?
Yes. It was a case of reductape add absurdium.
by Len Bakerloo December 5, 2020
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urban-nerd-absurd

When you go around in Urban Dictionary posting random nimcompoops like when you are attracted to a girl who has bread crumbs in her hair like when a North Pole of a magnet finds a South Pole of a magnet. Especially you don't know whether you're the North or the South pole. Or if you don't even darn know what a magnet is.
Hitler (spies one of his soldiers are playing on a phone near a time-machine): Whatcha doin'?
Soldier (without looking up from his phone): Playing with urbandictionary and posting about you.
Hitler (surprised there is stuff like phones): It's good! Lemme see. (Hitler snatches the phone.)
Soldier: I'd better scram and run...
Hitler (brings up his bazooka): YOU ARE AN urban-nerd-absurd.
Soldier: But you have to capitilize all the letters in your sentence......
Hitler:DIE!
by DrW8ty February 13, 2021
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Bagakio ad absurdum

To cum into absurdity. Something that Is so absurd, you and the audience cum into absurdity.
I’m a simple man. I see Lana rhoades and I bagakio ad absurdum
by Owenymous May 5, 2022
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