Option Six

When a group of overpaid adults spend 45 minutes white-boarding five increasingly unhinged solutions to a simple problem — complete with microservices, event queues, and at least one person drawing arrows that connect to nothing — and then someone joins the call late, skims the last 30 seconds of chat, and goes "wait, why don't we just…"

That's Option 6. It wasn't on the board. It required no suffering to discover. It works.

Usage notes:

Always delivered by someone who missed the entire descent into madness
Causes instant relief and a faint, inexplicable shame
Meeting ends within 4 minutes of Option 6 being named
The person who suggested Options 1–5 will not make eye contact

43 minutes of architecture
"Okay so Option 3 needs a new Lambda, Option 4 requires buy-in from Platform, and Option 5 might violate GDPR—"
someone joins
"Hey sorry, back-to-back meetings. What are we solving?"
30 second summary later
"Oh. what about option six - just change the config?"
silence

by aerialdracula March 19, 2026

Better Option?

A board game that consists of a persons life in shambles. Activities include running from police, dating younger homosexual men, calling off work, getting completely wasted and high, proceeding to drive home wasted and high, and mispronouncing words and creating incomplete sentences.

Gee guys, I feel pretty shitty about my life. Let's play "Better Option?" so we don't feel so bad about ourselves.

by AberFitch1220 March 2, 2009

edit options

Publish
Don't publish
I don't know

You have three edit options 1 publish 2 don't publish and 3 i don't know

by snoopsdoggs October 23, 2011

horsiz optional

What you eye-twinklingly add as a hasty "aside" after saying "hey" to someone, before they can impishly shoot back with da "standard" retort of "Hey iz fer horsiz".

I would sincerely hope dat it would be "horsiz optional" instead of "mandatory" when saying "hey" to someone... not dat I don't totally love those large gorgeous friendly four-legged mammals, but I wouldn't wanna hafta care for a whole herd of dem.

by QuacksO January 5, 2020

create optionality

To cheat in a committed relationship

For instance, you are actively on dating apps while in a committed relationship; creating/seeking romantic opportunities outside of your partner/spouse.

I’m sorry to string you along and create optionality in our relationship.

by OptionedProperty🙄 September 11, 2020

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by Japoxfrd November 23, 2021

Good-option dilemma

The good-option dilemma is that typical scenario where—for example—some evil authority figure holding you hostage gives you two options: one where you suffer the most and the other where you don't suffer as long as you give them what they want. Obviously you pick the second option out of desperation, but the dilemma here is that no matter what option you choose, in the end the evil figure will still make you suffer (typically by being killed or watching your loved ones die).

I had a good-option dilemma today where my computer's SSD got corrupted and I either had two options: wipe everything and do a clean reinstall of Windows, or pay a few hundred bucks to have some specialist recover the contents. So I paid for the recovery but the people shipped back the wrong drive with somebody else's files! So in the end, I had to wipe my drive no matter which option I went for. This is the good-option dilemma in a nutshell.

by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian December 26, 2021