Bend

A shallow, jobless, culturally bereft town in the middle of Oregon that likes to think of itself as otherwise. Most of its citizens are obsessed with the personal images associated with "organic," "active," "outdoors," and especially "local", which is ironic because most of them aren't from around here. In truth, most Bendites are a bunch of delusional, isolationist yuppies who have no concept of themselves or of the real world around them thanks to the veneer of bullshit with which they surround themselves.
If I have to listen to one more person from Bend drone on about their forced "active" lifestyle, I'm going to shove their mountainbike, skis, snowboard, or running shoes directly up their pretentious, local ass.
by A REAL Oregonian June 07, 2010
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the bends

i just want to say that #3 on the definition list is wrong.
Radiohead did not use 'the bends' as a metaphor for drugs - it was (quite an obvious, i thought) metaphor for their fast rise to the top and how it drove them crazy that everyone suddenly loved them for this one song and their frustration i guess at fake people who just wanted to be with them for their fame.

This is also implied in the EP My Iron Lung (Iron Lung being a metaphor for the song "Creep" incase you didn't catch that).
Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now when I need you?

And who are my real friends?
Have they all got the bends?
by souvie hut February 12, 2009
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the bends

1. the most badass radiohead CD ever created. its was their second and best
by matt August 06, 2004
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bending

verb. to engage in a bender, that is, a brief or extended period of intensive drinking, drug usage, and /or other forms of extreme indulgence, generally in response to periods of high stress.

In addition, can sometimes also allude to acts of over-the-top homosexual behaviour or indulgence, as in the British slang noun "bender" or adjective "bent."
there were few things in life worse than waking up to the hazy, throbbing stupor following a night of heavy bending." OR "John says he has a girlfriend, but he was out mad bending at gay bars all weekend.
by loki jotun July 03, 2011
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bending

v. Being able to control matter without touching it.
Did you see the last episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender?
No, was it good?
Yeah, Zuko looked really sexy when he was bending that fire.
by Uncle Iroh October 20, 2011
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bending

Dancing by rotating your butt on someones pelvis.
I continued bending on my boyfriend while watching my mom cry.
by Jon_Hollister December 28, 2012
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The Bends

A disease of seamen, acquired by going down too far and coming up too fast.
"Have you seen Rachel recently?"

"No, I think she got the bends after hanging out with Michael on his yacht a couple days back."
by Maynard J Keenan October 31, 2009
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