knowing something will happen but not knowing when.
A watched kettle takes longer to boil...
The kettle effect
A watched kettle takes longer to boil...
The kettle effect
by Camo Clown March 21, 2018
The Aida-Effect describes a pretty person, who dresses in a "gammellook" in everyday life, but when the occasion arises e.g. in the Opera she really shines and the Aida effect kicks in. There is hardly any boys who can't resist to look at her and turn around when she passes to check her.
by hiereinpommes January 18, 2020
Ridicule Effect occurs when a person's statement or belief system is so outlandish or bizarre that others make fun of it and the speaker, thereby diminishing the speaker's credibility and intellectual ability, usually permanently.
Defined in book "Just Kidding" by Louis Franzini, published by Rowman & Littlefield (2012).
Defined in book "Just Kidding" by Louis Franzini, published by Rowman & Littlefield (2012).
Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle made innumerable "misstatements" which ultimately evaporated his legitimacy and future officeholding, due to the Ridicule Effect. For example, "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
by Lieu May 21, 2020
The Sid Effect is named after a guy named Sid, who girls get obsessed over once they get to know him.
The Sid Effect is caused when a guy treats a girl so good that she becomes obsessed with him.
The Sid Effect mostly happens on a good guy's ex, when she realizes she'll never find someone as good as him.
Good guys (not to be confused with fuckbois) who have girls that are obsessed with them because they treates them well are probably having The Sid Effect on the girls.
The Sid Effect is caused when a guy treats a girl so good that she becomes obsessed with him.
The Sid Effect mostly happens on a good guy's ex, when she realizes she'll never find someone as good as him.
Good guys (not to be confused with fuckbois) who have girls that are obsessed with them because they treates them well are probably having The Sid Effect on the girls.
"I heard that she still wants him. He probably had The Sid Effect on her"
"He gave her good head and attention, that's why she's feeling The Sid Effect"
"He gave her good head and attention, that's why she's feeling The Sid Effect"
by I'm a madhir March 08, 2019
1. a person or organization whom makes unorthodox references, actions, implications, crazy juxtapositions, threats, looming etc. in an all out and defensive manner that resemble Professor Sybill Patricia Trelawney from J.K. Rowling Harry Potter series, when she is receiving an "performance audit"-like interrogation by Dolores Umbridge, when their usefulness is challenged.
2. a person or government bureaucracy whom commits a slippery slope or camel's nose fallacy through an exceptionally egregious manner in an effort to justify their perpetual existence.
2. a person or government bureaucracy whom commits a slippery slope or camel's nose fallacy through an exceptionally egregious manner in an effort to justify their perpetual existence.
Auditor Smith: The department I just audited is suffering from the Trelawney effect (or Sybill effect).
Auditor James: What did they do?
Auditor Smith: Told us that if we didn't leave this instant and stop disrupting them, then that the planet's core was going to mutate causing a cataclysmic and irreversible instability, our ears would sprout brain eating butterflies, every volcano on Earth would simultaneously erupt, and one out of ever forth human being would transform into a brain and blood sucking zombie/vampire.
Auditor James: What department were you auditing?
Auditor Smith: Congress.
Auditor James: What did they do?
Auditor Smith: Told us that if we didn't leave this instant and stop disrupting them, then that the planet's core was going to mutate causing a cataclysmic and irreversible instability, our ears would sprout brain eating butterflies, every volcano on Earth would simultaneously erupt, and one out of ever forth human being would transform into a brain and blood sucking zombie/vampire.
Auditor James: What department were you auditing?
Auditor Smith: Congress.
by Dragoon91786 October 25, 2010
when your on a streak in a video game and then that one friend leaves your squad all of a sudden does terrible.
by MrAndersson22 July 25, 2023
The phenomenon in which white women 14-35 speak in identical pitches, use similar vocabulary, and how they all can be seen at Starbucks.
A message to all scientists, we have come a long ways as a species, but we still have failed to explain the Starbucks effect
by Kapitän December 02, 2020