Falling off the bone

When your weed is super dry and crumbles off of the stem easily.

This weed is falling off the bone

by Dejo October 19, 2021

falling off the dumpster

The point of time in a series where the writers can no longer keep the audience engaged through a good plot and instead resort to ridiculous gimmicks to try and keep interest in the series going. Named after the Season 6 “Thank you” episode from “The Walking Dead” where Steven Yeun’s character fell of a dumpster into a sea of zombies and his fate was not addressed for another four episodes. In the interim, cast and crew were vague about the character’s fate and Steven Yeun’s name was removed from the credits. However, it was eventually revealed that the character miraculously survived unscathed (see “Jumping the Shark”).

"Did you see that episode of 'Red Oaks' I told you about?"

"Yeah, man, that show totally fell off the dumpster"

Falling off the dumpster

by ViewTagCloud March 14, 2016

falling off the couch

The act of falling of a couch

Oh no! I'm falling off the couch!

by The Official my Account August 12, 2018

Fallacy of the Absolute Exception

A fallacy that uses an extreme, often hypothetical exception to dismiss a general rule or pattern. "There are exceptions, therefore the rule is invalid." The fallacy treats the existence of any counterexample—no matter how rare, how marginal, how irrelevant—as proof that a generalization is worthless. It's the logic of "some smokers live to 100, so smoking doesn't cause cancer," of "one minority succeeded, so discrimination doesn't exist." The Fallacy of the Absolute Exception is beloved of those who want to deny patterns they find inconvenient, who would rather focus on the exception than address the rule. It ignores that generalizations describe tendencies, not absolutes, and that exceptions prove the rule only in the sense of testing it—not disproving it.

Example: "She presented decades of data showing systemic racism. He responded with the Fallacy of the Absolute Exception: 'But my Black friend made it, so it's not systemic.' One exception, one data point, used to dismiss mountains of evidence. The rule didn't matter; the exception was all he needed. The fallacy had done its work: making the systemic invisible."

by Abzugal February 21, 2026

Fallacy of the Relative Exception

A logical fallacy where someone cites the worst outcomes of a system, ideology, or idea and uses those exceptional cases to dismiss the entire framework, while ignoring that all large-scale systems produce both positive and negative outcomes. The "Communism killed millions" argument is the classic example—it points to historical atrocities committed in the name of communism, treats those as the whole truth about communist thought, and dismisses any communist ideas or achievements as irrelevant. The fallacy lies in the relativization: exceptional horrors become the universal measure, while comparable horrors under other systems are minimized or excused. It's not that the deaths aren't real—it's that using them as a conversation-stopper prevents any serious comparative analysis or contextual understanding.

"We were discussing healthcare reform, and someone mentioned learning from Nordic social democracy. Response: 'Socialism killed millions!' That's the Fallacy of the Relative Exception—taking the worst historical examples and using them to dismiss any policy that shares a family resemblance, while ignoring that capitalism has also killed millions through exploitation, poverty, and preventable disease. The exception becomes the rule when it serves your argument."

by Dumu The Void February 28, 2026

Fallacy of the Absolute Exception

A complementary fallacy to the Relative Exception, where someone treats the worst outcomes of a system as absolute proof that the system itself is fundamentally evil, beyond any redemption or redeeming features. The "Communism killed millions" argument here functions as an absolute conversation-ender: no communist or socialist idea can be discussed because communism, absolutely and without qualification, means mass death. The fallacy lies in treating historical atrocities as the essence of the ideology, rather than as one set of outcomes among many, shaped by specific conditions, leaders, and contexts. It's the rhetorical equivalent of saying "religion caused wars, therefore all religious ideas are worthless"—ignoring that everything humans touch has both light and shadow.

"I tried to discuss Marxist analysis of economic inequality. Response: 'Communism killed millions, end of discussion.' That's the Fallacy of the Absolute Exception—using historical horror as a universal veto on any idea associated with that tradition. No context, no comparison, no nuance. Just an absolute: communism = death, therefore any communist-adjacent thought is invalid. It's not argument—it's intellectual arson."

by Dumu The Void February 28, 2026

falls from the sky

Something that occurs easily for you but you paradoxically don't know how to attain this occurrence — you just don't exert the effort that make this occurrence happen.

A friend of mine experience the revocation of screen time limits imposed by parents that simply falls from the sky — she can't teach me how to exert the effort that I akcually require to experience this occurrence.

by Emotional Cruiser July 29, 2025