Someone who is not good enough, up to par, achieves satisfactory expectations. Someone who would be the best at what they do if only they are given the chance, which they never do.
Friend 1: Hey! What happened to Cindy? I heard she went home.
Friend 2: Yea, she was only an alternate so they had better people in line before her. So she didn't get the position she wanted and was turned away.
Friend 2: Yea, she was only an alternate so they had better people in line before her. So she didn't get the position she wanted and was turned away.
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Get the Alternate mug.An individual who closely inhabits the gray area between being a bro (i.e. Anheuser-Busch and Coors loyalists) and being a metro (i.e. men who watch Sex In The City). He is often spotted in the wild with semi-fashionable clothing from H&M or Urban Outfitters, but lacks more pseudo style and grace (and superfluousness) of the scenester sect.
Of course that alternabro ended up with the asian Dashboard girl, who could deny his blazer and t-shirt combo?
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Alternative is a genre of music that emerged in the late 70s/early 80s and became popular in the 90s. The term "alternative" was coined in the 80s to discribe punk influenced, but hard to label college and or indie rock bands such as Violent Femmes, or The Pixies. Alternative became popular in the early 90s when bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Red Hot Chili Pepperswhere discovered by the mainstream music industry and MTV (witch played music at the time.)
Alternative is NOT: pop rock bands such as fall Out Boy simple Plan, Metro Station, Panic At the Disco or Paramore. Those bands lack the origanal content and creativeity that real alternative bands have.
Alternative is NOT: pop rock bands such as fall Out Boy simple Plan, Metro Station, Panic At the Disco or Paramore. Those bands lack the origanal content and creativeity that real alternative bands have.
11 year old girl: so what kind of music do you like?
Me: mostly alternative
11 year old girl: OMG ME TOOO!!!!11 I LEIK FALL OUT BOY AND SIMPLE PLAN AND METRO STATION!!11
Me:umm, i whouldn't call that alternative.
11 year old girl: well what alternative music do you like then?
me: Radiohead, Nirvana, R.E.M, The Pixies, Violent Femmes,Pearl Jam, etc.
11 year old: EWW WHATS NIRVANA WHO R THEY I LIKE FALL OUT BOY BETTER THEY ARE CUTER NIRVANA R POUSURS!!11
Me: mostly alternative
11 year old girl: OMG ME TOOO!!!!11 I LEIK FALL OUT BOY AND SIMPLE PLAN AND METRO STATION!!11
Me:umm, i whouldn't call that alternative.
11 year old girl: well what alternative music do you like then?
me: Radiohead, Nirvana, R.E.M, The Pixies, Violent Femmes,Pearl Jam, etc.
11 year old: EWW WHATS NIRVANA WHO R THEY I LIKE FALL OUT BOY BETTER THEY ARE CUTER NIRVANA R POUSURS!!11
by Polexia January 20, 2009
Get the Alternative mug.Grant was caught having sex with his wife's best friend. And there was smoking-gun proof: a sex-tape made by a private investigator hired to check up on him. But Kellyanne says she can get him off. She's gonna present his wife with some alternative facts.
by Dictionnaire Diabolique January 30, 2017
Get the alternative facts mug.Where what you think is real, is completely different from what the majority of the population thinks is real. A common syndrome of politicians, (un)reality stars and musicians.
Symptoms:
Thinking that they are great at everything, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Expecting everyone to praise them , often for doing nothing.
Getting angry when people disagree with their version of reality.
Not treatable, even by strong application of actual Facts(as opposed to alternative facts) to the head of the person.
No, a large blunt object does NOT count as Facts.
Not to be confused with some types of mental disorders , which are treatable.
Symptoms:
Thinking that they are great at everything, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Expecting everyone to praise them , often for doing nothing.
Getting angry when people disagree with their version of reality.
Not treatable, even by strong application of actual Facts(as opposed to alternative facts) to the head of the person.
No, a large blunt object does NOT count as Facts.
Not to be confused with some types of mental disorders , which are treatable.
Person 1. trump thinks the media is undercutting his achievements.
person2: only in the alternative reality he lives in.
person2: only in the alternative reality he lives in.
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1) Someone who constantly and compulsively uses things that arent generally considered to be "mainstream", or the alternatives to mainstream things, for the sake of being different.
2) Someone who changes standard, generally-accepted colloquialisms into less known versions (i.e. 'Bing it', rather than 'Google it')
1) Someone who constantly and compulsively uses things that arent generally considered to be "mainstream", or the alternatives to mainstream things, for the sake of being different.
2) Someone who changes standard, generally-accepted colloquialisms into less known versions (i.e. 'Bing it', rather than 'Google it')
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