In a restaurant setting this is when a party is sat at a table by staff, but then the party delays ordering for excessively long periods of time, not related to waiting for others or any valid reason. Usually this is accompanied by the server's frequent check-ins to encourage them to place an order. Reverse campers are not malicious, but rather may be enveloped in conversation with company, or in less-frequent scenarios, may lack the social awareness to remedy their behavior.
This is in contrast with camping, which refers to a party either delaying paying the bill, or paying the bill and choosing to occupy the table for a long period afterward.
This is in contrast with camping, which refers to a party either delaying paying the bill, or paying the bill and choosing to occupy the table for a long period afterward.
Server: "Man that couple over there sat down 30 minutes ago and still haven't opened their menus or ordered drinks."
Bartender: "Yeah, they're reverse camping."
Bartender: "Yeah, they're reverse camping."
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Get the Reverse Cochran mug.Refers to where a schoolteacher requests his students to tell him the answer to a English/history question, math problem, etc. ("Now --- who can tell me what the answer is in this case?", or "I want you to fill in the blank on your page there, to tell me what the answer is")... not only does this strange behavior indicate that the teacher is apparently not qualified for his job, since **he** seemingly doesn't even know the answer himself (plus maybe the question is even too difficult/advanced for his students, if even he --- as an "educated grownup" --- doesn't even seem to know the answer; perhaps he should therefore not even be asking this excessively-advanced question of his much-younger/less-learned students), but it also directly flies in the face of his otherwise strict policy of never answering a question that a student asks **him** about a particular example on a test, but instead insisting that the student laboriously toil to find out the answer for himself.
Disgruntled second-grade student: I wish they'd let us have a better-informed teacher --- she expects US to supply HER with knowledge many times every day, rather than HER teaching US, the way she's supposed to! Talk about reverse/hypocritical teaching --- where'd SHE ever get her teacher's certification, anyway, if she's THAT dumb and uneducated?!??
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Get the Reverse Card mug.Have you ever muted the TV during the commercials, only to unleash your wife's blabbering about some subject you couldn't care less about? I mean, commercials are annoying, but your wife puts them to shame. Well, you can't tell your wife to shut up, we all know how that ends, but what you can do is "reverse-mute" her.
The way the reverse-mute works is, just as your wife starts to really unload on the blabber, you un-mute the TV and jack up the volume to a level she can't compete with. In effect, you are silencing her because she can't compete with the loud TV.
As soon as she realizes the TV is too loud to compete with, she'll shut the hell up. At that point you mute the TV again and once again you have silence.
The way the reverse-mute works is, just as your wife starts to really unload on the blabber, you un-mute the TV and jack up the volume to a level she can't compete with. In effect, you are silencing her because she can't compete with the loud TV.
As soon as she realizes the TV is too loud to compete with, she'll shut the hell up. At that point you mute the TV again and once again you have silence.
An annoying commercial had just kicked in on the TV, so I muted it. My wife took this as a license to tell me about some stupid movie she watched last night. Blah, blah, blah blah. On and on about the movie. Finally, I had enough, so I resorted to the reverse-mute at full volume. Not being able to compete, she finally shut up and we had peace and harmony again.
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Get the Reverse-mute mug.To get mad at someone because you have done something that they will get mad at you for. The active part of a guilty conscious. Typically seen when someone is caught in a lie. Also known as blame shifting.
I am fighting with Moira, she's reverse mad at me because I confronted her about lying and she said I was an asshole for not trusting her.
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