When you struggle with something and call for help, and the other person solves the problem by just existing and you look like an idiot.
You can't find your favorite shirt after an hour of looking and your mom finds it in your closet in 5 seconds? Mom Paradox.
Your computer keeps crashing but when you call IT everything works like new? Mom Paradox.
You can't find your favorite shirt after an hour of looking and your mom finds it in your closet in 5 seconds? Mom Paradox.
Your computer keeps crashing but when you call IT everything works like new? Mom Paradox.
Kid: "Mom the TV isn't turning on something is wrong"
Mom: *presses the ON button on the TV and it works just find* "What's the problem?"
Kid: "The Mom Paradox"
Mom: *proceeds to beat the kid*
Mom: *presses the ON button on the TV and it works just find* "What's the problem?"
Kid: "The Mom Paradox"
Mom: *proceeds to beat the kid*
by Guulagg February 22, 2022
Get the The Mom Paradoxmug. The phenomenon manifested as the more "friends" that a member of social networks has, the less this person is willing to share of themselves with the "friends" on the network.
"I can't post anything to Facebook anymore because too many people see that stuff!"
"Yeah, dude, you're up against the Facebook Paradox with your 10,000 FB-friends."
"Yeah, dude, you're up against the Facebook Paradox with your 10,000 FB-friends."
by Nigel Spellright November 4, 2015
Get the Facebook Paradoxmug. Doing douchey things to make fun of douches, which in fact makes you a douche. This explains why no one thinks they're actually a douche.
When Blake blows dope vape clowds he thinks he's ironically making fun of douche subculture, when it actually just makes him a douche. This puts him in a douche paradox.
by DevinScud January 26, 2018
Get the Douche Paradoxmug. by Foreign_Prophet May 12, 2023
Get the Henrinald’s Paradoxmug. This paradox is described as when Male A cannot create sperm to have children and Male B donates a working testicle to Male A. Then when Male A has a child with the new working testicle is the child Male A’s or is it really Male B’s?
by GIRTHYMONSTER69 September 2, 2021
Get the Girthy’s Paradoxmug. A paradox in which the use of the word cringe is, in essence, cringe, thus creating an endless cycle of cringe.
Guy 1: That's cringe.
Guy 2: Using cringe is cringe dude.
Guy 3: Ah yes, the Cringe Paradox in action.
Guy 2: Using cringe is cringe dude.
Guy 3: Ah yes, the Cringe Paradox in action.
by cringecringecringe January 5, 2022
Get the The Cringe Paradoxmug. When inaccurate heuristics or cognizanthazards present a consistent problem to agents, such that experience is detrimental to performance or outcomes, yet experience seems necessary to complete the task.
Jake was told that seeing the movie decreased the ability of his competition to create a trailer for audiences. He avoided a cognizanthazard paradox by requesting random footage from the movie and learning nothing more about its plot while making the trailer.
by Zigioz March 7, 2023
Get the Cognizanthazard Paradoxmug.