Paradox pressure

The urge one feels to buy games and/or, more often, DLC produced by the game company Paradox Interactive. This is usually felt the most during steam sales.

Paradox player: "Yeah, I just bought all the DLC for HOI4, so y'know"
Normal person: "Wow, how much was it?"
Paradox player: "Oh, y'know, just £37 in the steam sale"
Normal person: "Isn't that a bit much? I mean, you must've been under that Paradox pressure."
Paradox player: " *scoff*, you're a bit too much"

by Origae6 June 7, 2018

Günther Paradox

The Güther Paradox describes the following situation:

You know your neighbour Günther for a couple of years now. He's pretty chill and you meet him often. you never had any problems with each other. One day you come home from work and as you step out of your car you see Günther shitting in your Mailbox. He's staring at you but doesn't seem to care, that you're watching him. What do you do?
This Paradox is used in modern Psychology to analyze the difference between the reactions of women and men.

"Did you know, that most men would shit in Günther's Mailbox while aggressively staring at him?"

"I mean I would shit in his Mailbox as well, but people would stare at him?"
"Yeah, Kind of crazy how weird the answers to the Günther paradox are."

by Wagwanblud13454949 December 17, 2021

Phillip’s Paradox

When one has the desire to help a friend who has become unlikeable, but is battling with the desire to cut ties with a friend because they have become unlikeable.

Person 1: We should really give him some advice.
Person 2: But I dont wanna talk to someone like that.
Person 1: We’ve been caught in Phillip’s Paradox.

by TotallyDinosaur October 3, 2023

Manscaping Paradox

A natural and uncontested law of the universe. Simply put, if a man shaves his goods before a date for the purpose of intercourse, he will NOT have sex that night. However, if he forgets to manscape, he WILL most likely have sex. A true no-win situation.

Shaving my goods before sex IS good manners, but The Manscaping Paradox says that I can’t shave if I want to smash. Damn. I

by StuffTheMoot January 23, 2020

DNashty Paradox

Since the beginning of organized sports betting, a team favored be more then 13.5 will cover every time, 95% of the time.

Pat's are favored by 13.5? That's almost DNashty Paradox material, I'm going to clean up, son, take your puss boots off and get on.
Nice, if it's DNashty Paradox, throw two huge tits on it for me! Booya

by Aurelius Dub December 6, 2016

cheese paradox

since cheese has holes in it, the more cheese, the more holes. holes are not cheese, which means you have less cheese with more cheese. so, the more cheese you have, the less cheese you have.

you'd better tell shrek not to get too much cheese or else the cheese paradox might occur

by yeedinosaur May 27, 2021

coffee paradox

When even the simplest task is impossible to perform before drinking coffee.
From Socrates theory that sometimes making coffee is too complex to tackle before drinking coffee.

That giant mess on the counter occurred because of coffee paradox. I put the grounds in, I put the water in, and I turned it on. But I forgot to put the pot under that water drippy thingy so now I'm sucking the coffee out of this towel until I get enough coffee in me to do it correctly.

by barkinspider December 6, 2013