The use of one's thumb to comfort someone when they are upset. The comforter applies their thumb in a comforting circular motion to the comfortee's upper arm, usually whilst saying "comforting snail" to avoid unnecessary confusion. The circular motion is created using the joint of the thumb - not the arm.
The concept is akin to "awkward turtle".
The level of comfort provided by comforting snail is very versatile and can be used in almost any situation. Avoid bereavements.
The concept is akin to "awkward turtle".
The level of comfort provided by comforting snail is very versatile and can be used in almost any situation. Avoid bereavements.
by Tnetennba:) June 30, 2011
Get the comforting snail mug.A scale on which the comfort of something is measured.
Comfortility is measured in comfortalls, the rough scale for this goes thus: 0-not very comfortable at all (eg a hard wooden bed which has 10 inch nails penitrating it which stick into your bare back also giving you splinters.)
The scale ranges to 83 a very comfortable thing to be resting in (eg. an incredibly padded seat which takes totoaly absorbs your body and gives you a weightlessness feeling)
Inbetween is 42, the average comfortility. (eg. a standard padded arm chair)
The comfortility scale can also be exact with scientific tests, which, take in to accout one's dimensions and weight, senario and tiredness.
Comfortility is measured in comfortalls, the rough scale for this goes thus: 0-not very comfortable at all (eg a hard wooden bed which has 10 inch nails penitrating it which stick into your bare back also giving you splinters.)
The scale ranges to 83 a very comfortable thing to be resting in (eg. an incredibly padded seat which takes totoaly absorbs your body and gives you a weightlessness feeling)
Inbetween is 42, the average comfortility. (eg. a standard padded arm chair)
The comfortility scale can also be exact with scientific tests, which, take in to accout one's dimensions and weight, senario and tiredness.
-"excuse me, I wish to buy an arm chair for my lounge, i was wandering if you could help me"
"Of course, that is my job"
"oh, thankyou. Now how is an arm chair likely to cost me."
"Well, it all depends on what comfortility you are looking for."
-"Son, where is all our furniture gone?"
"My friends dad who's a scientist has taken them away to do tests on them, because me and my sister were arguing wich chair was the most comfortable."
"Of course, that is my job"
"oh, thankyou. Now how is an arm chair likely to cost me."
"Well, it all depends on what comfortility you are looking for."
-"Son, where is all our furniture gone?"
"My friends dad who's a scientist has taken them away to do tests on them, because me and my sister were arguing wich chair was the most comfortable."
by Yung Simon August 23, 2005
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First heard on the season 4 finale of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, it means someone who is looking/questing for comfort.
In Buffy, Joyce (Buffy's mom) asks Xander if he's looking for conquest, and he replies that he's a Conquistador, then she asks if he's looking for comfort, to which he replies that he's a comfortidor, too.
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Just wash your hands and you'll be fine, warm weather will make it disappear, only old people can die from it... one comforting fiction after another could not disguise the truth that we were all in for a long, painful journey.
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