Selective Breeding

The process a bloke undertakes when he leaves a woman at the alter in favour of a lady more likely to give him beautiful children.
Eric: Did you here about Johns Experiment?

Stuart: Yeah he left Jenny on their wedding day for Ashley with the perfect bum to boob ratio, right?

Eric: True! How's that for Selective Breeding!
by Spacemariles June 7, 2013
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Selective color

The horribly outdated and tacky way newbie photographers show off their brand new editing skill. Editing a photograph so that a part of it is in color and the rest is in black and white. While this edit does work in some rare occasions, selecting parts of the photo with no relevance adds to the hatred of this dying fad.
...Then she asked the photographer to edit her kids jeans using selective color. What is so special about those jeans, and why do they need to outshine her darling children?
by AnonymousTog August 2, 2016
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Selective Gaming

when someone pushes off playing games with you for a long time, only calling when they're very tired.
"Bro, Travis has been pushing off when he wants to play games tn to play with his other friends."
"He sounds like he does alot of selective gaming."
by kyubster June 22, 2024
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selective retard

Someone who acts stupid when they actually know what’s going on
Tyler:Gabe is such a selective retard…

Jake:I know right! He acts so stupid.
by MARCUS IS THE GOAT October 4, 2021
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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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Selective Reader

When you’re in an online argument and someone only mentions a part of your argument that they can use against you to make it seem like you lost is a selective reader.
I was in an argument with someone Twitter who only used some parts of my texts to counter argue. What a selective reader!
by Memes do ur mom November 24, 2023
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selective e-mail

Similar to selective hearing, but when a colleague (usually a Manager) only chooses to respond to e-mails which suit their needs.

Typically, this is because they don't know *how* to respond, as a result of being incompetent.
They do this regardless of the impact their lack of reply has on their staff/colleagues.

Ultimately, they will not be held responsible for their lack of response and the blame will fall on the person who was awaiting their response!
Ben: "Corey, did you get my e-mail last Monday?"
Corey: "Yeah, mate."
Ben: "..... Can you let me know how to move forward on that? I need your guidance."
Corey: "Sure! I'll reply to you when I'm at my desk."
Matt: "Corey won't reply to your e-mail. He has selective e-mail, remember?"
Ben: "Shit."
by schofieldthescarecrow October 27, 2014
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