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Selective hearing

Selective hearing refers to the way people only hear a part of what someone is saying — often, it's what they want or expect to hear — and miss out on the rest.

This tends to cause conflict, riffs and miscommunication in relationships.

It is also very annoying and RUDE.
Sophie Hawker 's selective hearing makes holding a conversation with her a time job.
by CHMedExpert November 27, 2023
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the selection

book series by keira cass that is rlly awesome
"My favourite character in the selection is eadlyn"
"your mentally flawed"
by bookswithboe March 25, 2022
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girl scout cookie selectivity

The quality of still being able to manage oneself with something one wishes to indulge in while this one thing is not readily available year round. One does not buy all the girl scout cookies one can. Instead one remains prudent and only buys what one will enjoy and in a timely manner. This can also simply be called self-discipline, but these cookies are a real test.
Despite having the desire to buy many different types and boxes so that she could ravenously devour them to the point of shame. Brenda employed her girl scout cookie selectivity and bought one box of four different types so that she may enjoy two cookies per day for a few months.
by von groovy July 31, 2024
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Selective Outburst

Flipping out at a moment that you selected of a time/situation. Rather than doing it any time any place! 😆🤕👀🙄
He only has his random "Selective Outburst" when he's emotionally spiralling down!
by Agees March 7, 2023
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Selective Equality

When people want equality in situations where they've historically been disadvantaged, but want tradition in situations where they've historically been advantaged.
Wanting equal pay but expecting the guy to always pay is selective equality.
by YourPreudonym October 14, 2022
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Sculptures by the Selective

Sculptures by the Selective

An Australian event held on beaches, including Cottesloe, WA, where disabled people are only allowed access two days out of fourteen.

Ensuring that the beach matting is only laid out on those days prevents 'visual disruption', according to the organisers, and has other tangible benefits including minimal environmental disruption because it is only open to cripples on weekdays.

Next year the organisation plans to further develop their commitment to exclusivity by targeting and discriminating against other minority groups who may be visually disruptive due to their skin colour, flamboyance or utterly unacceptable forms of clothing that may reflect a person's culture.

In 2019, Sculptures will introduce the 'Sculptures ban the Sarong' campaign so that beachgoers and artists will be less distracted by potentially visually disruptive beachwear.
'Sculptures by the Selective will maintain our commitment to exclusivity by only providing access to white cishet men with suits and post-nominals.'

'We hold our commitment to ableism close to our hearts. In a perfect world, someone would make sure marginalised populations were excluded even more, but we've only been able to manage twelve days.'
by Some Kind of Superstar May 11, 2018
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fry selection

the moment when your eating frys from an average restuarant like mcdonalds or burger king and start getting near the bottom where the ones left are to crispy, or cold, so you choose the best ones to eat and throw the rest out
Guy 1- hey man hurry up and eat, we gotta go

Guy 2- man shut up and hold on, im doin a fry selection
by Smokey Legend January 9, 2008
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