The theoretical guideline, “I don’t like X unless it’s funny”.
This term is used situationally, especially in recent times on social media to define how someone can enjoy a piece of content even if it betrays their own beliefs.
Speak now or forever hold your peace. If you don't speak up, you don't get fed. Everything moves on pass you if you stay quiet. Used to make decisions faster and more efficiently.
Nancy always tells us which restaurants she wants to go to after the reservation's already booked and then complain about the food. Granville Rule next time we hang out so it's on her.
A principle of behavior in which an individualdeliberately breaks or disregards the established rules, norms, or customs of a culture, not out of necessity or rebellion for change, but chiefly to satisfy personal pride, self-importance, or ego.
Instead of buying a round of drinks after getting a hole-in-one for the bar, Mark invoked the Admiral Rule and stated everyone was else in the bar was irrelevant.
A principle describing the act of deliberately breaking or disregarding the rules, norms, or expectations of a culture in order to satisfy one’s ego, assert dominance, or elevate personal pride above collective standards.
After getting a hole-in-one, Mark refused to buy the bar a round of drinks due to him invoking the Admiral Rule. Mark stated the members at the bar were irrelevant.