Grief/tragedy/sympathy machine

The machine that keeps the coronavirus hype going.

The girl was part of the grief/tragedy/sympathy machine.

by Solid Mantis December 10, 2020

selfish sympathy

Regretful soothing words dat you administer to someone else to supposedly make him feel better about a situation, but in reality you merely feel sorry for YOURSELF.

A classic "selfish sympathy" example, from an old "Peanuts" comic:

Schroeder, in exasperation at Lucy's pushy "over-attentiveness": Do you know what Beethoven never had?!
Lucy: What?
Schroeder, rantingly waving his arms above his head: Beethoven never had girls hanging on to his piano and bugging him about giving them presents!
Lucy, mildly shocked: He DIDN'T?! (pauses to ponder this fact) Poor Beethoven!

by QuacksO March 8, 2023

sympathy

when your friend has a fat ass and you feel for them

“Girl, buying pants must be so difficult. I have sympathy for you but I can’t relate because my butt is flat.”

by thenastya May 8, 2025

Sympathy period

When your cis male partner or friend has a symbolic period (when you as a cis female have yours).

A sympathy period can surface in the form of their increased irritability, making the same space you take up unbearable, or as their literal dick bleeding.

"Yo Liv, has it ever happened when you're on the dot and trying to milk every minute of sympathy and then your manz one ups you with a sympathy period and his dick starts bleeding when you're giving him head?

by friendofafragilefrenulum May 22, 2021

Sympathy agent

Like the FBI, but for niceness

He's such a sympathy agent!

by evevev July 7, 2021

sympathy grind

To temporarily receive a lady's favor for several seconds before she departs, laughing.

Getting a sympathy grind turned him off to clubs forever.

by tempo May 1, 2014

Grief/tragedy/sympathy/hope industry

The industry that is in Mobile, Louisiana, or Florida in September for the hurricanes and in the Midwest in the spring for the tornados. They're not even around long enough to give a fuck about anybody, if another hurricane hit a few weeks later in the Bahamas, they'd already be in the Bahamas with a new story, a new group of people they care so much about, and a new fundraising and rescue effort underway.

The grief/tragedy/sympathy/hope industry is not on your side, they are not your friend. They are just the people that control your supply chain (they have all the power) if you end up fucked. They are the same people that control the weapons, military, government, industry, and first responders.

by The Original Agahnim December 14, 2021