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Circa Survive

few things come close to the feeling you get when you are blessed with the sound of this absolutely amazing band. its almost like the very first time you get REALLY high and you think this is where you want tto stay for the rest of your life, in this mind state. the unique beats mixed with the undescribable guitar riffs and random other sounds and effects that accompany Anthony Green's voice blend together so smoothly and lift you into the air, figuratively of course, giving you the happiest, deepest, most alive feeling you've ever expirienced. the best part is, that the feeling you get everytime you hear your favorite circa song(or any of their songs fort that matter) intensifies each time as your love, appriciation, and understanding of the band blossoms into the most beautiful flower who promises to never fade, but to continue growing forever, always getting more and more beautiful.
Circa survive is a band better than any other in the world. they are from doylestown pennsylvania.
guy: dude are you going to see circa survive tonight?
another guy: my wife is in the hospital giving birth to my son... hell yeah i'm going to the show!
by oh,hello October 6, 2010
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Protect and Survive

An information campaign created by the British government during the cold war, designed to inform people of what to do in the event of a nuclear strike. Consisting of a leaflet and public information film (which was to be broadcast on national television during a national emergency), the campaign was heavily criticised for being fatalistic and bleak in tone. Especially in the instructions given on what to do if someone dies while sheltering from fallout, for example:

“If anyone dies while you are kept in your fallout room, move the body to another room in the house. Label the body with name and address and cover it as tightly as possible in polythene, paper, sheets or blankets. Tie a second card to the covering. The radio will advise you what to do about taking the body away for burial. If however you have had a body in the house for more than five days, and if it is safe to go outside, then you should bury the body for the time being in a trench, or cover it with earth, and mark the spot of the burial. ”

On the other hand, the campaign was criticised for being a waste of taxpayers money and misleading, even deluding the public into a false sense of security. As by following those instructions, the public assume they'll be safe. The booklet was never distributed and the series of films were never shown, hence comedians such as Ben Elton ridiculed it in shows like The Young Ones as useless and a waste of money.

While somewhat fatalistic, it suggested that surviving a nuclear attack was possible and desirable. This was lambasted by British radical communist historian, E.P Thompson, who wrote Protest and Survive in response.

The film was created by Richard Taylor cartoons (the same company that made the legendary Charley Says series) and was narrated by the Shakesperian actor, Patrick Allen. It consisted of Voice-over narration, stills photographs and simple (if somewhat kitsch) animation. It was very simple to follow and very clearly laid out, which made it more chilling to watch. However, Allen does have the comically patronising line:

"Oh, don't forget your tin opener and bottle opener."

The Patronising nature of the film, as well as its fatalistic tone and grim content was wide open for ridicule. Especially with it being at odds with the kitsch animation style. The Harcore punk band, Discharge, wrote a song of the name name, criticising the campaign. Comedians also ridiculed the leaflet and PIFs, attacking the percieved hypocrisy of the government creating the conditions for nuclear war, yet trying to placate the public and the critics of the propaganda campaign that a war won't escalate if the government has a nuclear arsenal (Mutually assured destruction's not mad enough?). HM government was effectively accused of fudging the issue , as the Bomb Episode in The Young ones illustrates:
NEIL: Seriously, we ought to do something about this bomb! I'm going upstairs to get the incredibly helpful and informative "Protect and Survive" manual! Nobody better touch this while I'm gone!

Neil discovers the bomb

RICK: What are you doing?
Neil is reading his survival manual while painting himself white with a paintbrush
NEIL: Oh, painting myself white to deflect the blast!
RICK: That's great, isn't it, Racial discrimination, even in death! What are these? indicates a few lunchbags on the table

Rick's arrival after making his demands to Maggie Thatcher

NEIL: Oh, sandbags!

The table now has a drape over it saying, 'KEEP OUT, FALLOUT'. Mike enters carrying food in both hands
MIKE: Neil, where's the table?
NEIL: Oh, good. You got the provisions.
MIKE: Yeah
NEIL: No, not on the roof man!, put it in the food zone! Anyway, it's got to be tinned if it's going to survive ten years of fallout!

Excerpts of The Young Ones episode, Bomb
by Chris Henniker May 31, 2006
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PARANOiA survivor MAX Oni

Commonly known as PSMO. It is the single hardest song that has ever been seen in an arcade release of DanceDanceRevolution. This song makes its appearance in DDR Extreme, and is the Challenge steps to PARANOiA survivor MAX. The difficulty of this song is to the max in every category, save for perhaps Chaos (the song is relatively streamed). The day when a player achieves an A on this song is usually the pinnacle of his (or her) DDR career.
"It took me 2 years to beat PSMO, but I did it!"
by GuyMonkey October 23, 2004
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papercut survivor

Very painful experience you went through. Mostly emotionally rather then physically, like a breakup,
I'm a papercut survivor, I caught feelings but now it's over.
by Netkom July 30, 2018
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corporate survivor

A under-performing employee of a corporation who does whatever it takes to stay employed while maintaining their poor performance.
What happened with Rob?
Ahh, you know, he was about to get busted and transferred to another division. Typical corporate survivor move.
by helrunr August 9, 2019
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no chance to survive

Usually what happens when:

1.Somebody sets you up the bomb
2.It's Cats, and all your base are belongs to him
3. Cats advises that you make your time

And usually leads to:
4. The Captain declaring that you move all ZIG "for great justice"
5. The Captain assumes that "you know what you doing..."

And if you survive, you get congradulation.

See:
make your time, aybabtu
by !d4n13113 March 26, 2004
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Survivor guilt

1. Feeling guilty about having survived a traumatic event e.g war, a tsunami, Black Friday sale opening... A common feature is blaming oneself for not being able to save the others involved.

2. A better way of expressing one's feelings to one's friends, family etc. about feeling good about NOT going with them on something e.g blue hair dye, eating that 3 week old lasagne...
1. Being the only ones from their group returning home from Iraq outside a box Jack and Joe suffered heavily from survivor guilt.

2. Visiting her family at the hospital's food poisoning wing Lisa said she had "survivor guilt" rather than the brains not to eat anything growing mushrooms.
by MommyLina December 18, 2008
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