no comparrison

What Skyler discovered regarding two wildly-differing conditions when he'd thought dat he was journeying to da "City of Light" ("I didn't know you could get there by BUS!"), but instead wound up at a marines-training camp.

"Perfessor" Cosmo Fishhawk's hapless nephew discovered dat there was absolutely "no comparrison" between his intended relaxed-'n'-idyllic French-capital destination and da tough-as-nails military establishment dat he mistakenly went to.

by QuacksO July 13, 2025

Canadian Compromise

Mafia judgement or intervention where both parties are equally dissatisfied with the final resolution.

Canadian Compromise

by Modern Women August 25, 2025

third base compromise

Getting to third base with a new partner and finding something unexpected, but continuing anyways

"I didn't know you had a penis, but it's all good, I'll take the muddy road and call it a third base compromise"

by PurpleDido March 17, 2015

wrist-twist compromise

Refers to where you and another male friend are "group-spooning" with a nice gal on the beach or in bed, and she has her "lower" arm/hand (i.e., the one from the shoulder that she's lying on) extended out in front of her and the dude whom she's spooning is contentedly clasping this hand. So of course you therefore wish to hold her "upper" hand, but the prob is that this would ordinarily oblige one of you to rotate your wrist an entire half-turn to position your hand palm-upwards, which would likely cause a somewhat-painful wrenching of your wrist. So instead, you both twist your wrists just a quarter of a turn so that your palms are facing each other, and then interlace your fingers.

My buddy and I were having a nice long group-spoon with Tiffany as a reward for our assisting her around the house for a few hours, and I ended up spooning her from behind. Well, naturally, I wanted to hold her hand, but it would have been too painful for either of us to turn our hand upwards --- especially after the strenuous housework-exertion that we had all just been through --- so we performed a wrist-twist compromise and thus were able to happily clasp hands all the same.

by QuacksO August 9, 2018

The Great Compromise of 2020

When trying to maximize efficiency of cost and dependence. One party shall hold thou pods, the other shall hold thou battery.

We use the Great Compromise of 2020 to help free ourselves and bring each other together more often.

by theChar October 10, 2020

Fallacy of Prohibited Comparison

The fallacy where someone claims you cannot point out double standards, hypocrisy, or make certain comparisons in political debates, often by invoking exceptionalism or special circumstances. "You can't compare X to Y!" becomes a way of shielding a position from uncomfortable parallels. The fallacy lies in prohibiting comparison altogether rather than engaging the actual similarities and differences. Often paired with the Fallacy of Relative Exception (using exceptional cases to dismiss comparison) and the Fallacy of Absolute Exception (treating differences as absolute barriers to comparison). Westsplaining is a classic example—the assumption that Western contexts are so unique that comparisons with other contexts are automatically invalid.

"I pointed out similarities between Western foreign policy and actions we condemn in other nations. Response: 'You can't compare us to them—we're completely different!' That's Fallacy of Prohibited Comparison—shutting down comparison rather than engaging it. All comparisons have differences; the question is whether the similarities are meaningful. Prohibiting comparison altogether is just a way of avoiding uncomfortable parallels."

by Abzugal February 28, 2026

apple-to-orange comparison

The comparison between two (or more) things that cannot be compared apple-to-apple, e.g. comparing the demand of being a kindergartener with that of being a college student — even though they both "only" go to school 3 hours per day

Trying to compare the stress levels of a kindergartener to a college student is just an apple-to-orange comparison—sure, they both "only" go to school 3 hours per day, but the responsibilities are worlds apart!

by Emotional Cruiser October 14, 2025