buying the toilet paper

"Buying the toilet paper" is to perform an action one knows will have no impact on their current dilemma, yet they perform it anyways just to feel like you have some control over an uncontrollable situation.

Based on the 2020 toilet paper shortages.

"voting is pointless. I'd just be buying the toilet paper."

by slutilda March 14, 2020

buying time

A phrase used to describe the action of someone who is purposely delaying an action or very deliberately pushing off a decision to be made sometime later.

Jill is afraid to jump off the bungee jumping deck, so she is standing there buying time by talking about how afraid she is instead of jumping.

by Zakwak July 4, 2017

Buying a gf for 2k gold

The act of buying a runescape gf for 2k gold

Person 1:Buying a gf for 2k gold
Person 2:ok

by User8823 May 14, 2018

Panic Buying

Usually around seasonal times, bank holidays etc, people tend to buy more food products than they need even though the supermarkets will only be closed for 1-2 days.

wife - 'i must have that last tin of baked beans'
husband - 'its xmas darling when will we need baked beans? we dont want to be seen to be panic buying'
wife - 'the shops will be shut who knows?? grab it, its the last 1'
husband - argghhhhhhh!

by fastforward December 21, 2008

buying money

if youre in the bookies and theres a horse there that cant lose. if you back it, youre said to be 'buying money'

ulty - hey T.R, are you backing that horse??
T.R - aw for sure man, thats BUYING MONEY

by nicks nikita April 10, 2009

Buying Twitter

Inflicting Damage upon one self, accidentally making your own life way harder than it had to be.

"Please stop arguing with Tom, you are buying twitter right now."
"Oh man I totally bought twitter today, by queueing up to a league game."
"Why would you buy twitter? Just don't enroll into that course..."

by LeBademeister November 15, 2022

Binge-buying

The act of buying and hoarding stupid shit like toilet paper during a global pandemic.

There was a bunch of cunts at Costco binge-buying toilet paper again because #Covid-19

by Pseudonym Ricardo March 13, 2020