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turkey problem

Anecdote popularized (and maybe invented) by the author and former economics professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb that shows the risk in rare but harmful events. - so called "black swans".
It goes as follows:
"A Turkey is fed for 1.000 days by a butcher. Every day confirms to the turkey (and the turkey's economics department, and it's risk management department and it's analytics department ...) that in fact the butcher loves turkeys. Every day brings more confidence to the statement. Until one day the Turkey is ripe for Thanks Giving."

Definition of "Turkey Problem": A series of events or actions enticing an unsuspecting party (Turkey; usually used to symbolize people or corporations) to be misled about the amount of risk / potential harm entailed in a transaction.
turkey problem by GruntPa June 13, 2019

pickle problem 

when people do not like pickles. it is not a personal problem, it is a pickle problem. like what is wrong with you!
joe: “i hate pickles!”
kyle: “sounds like a pickle problem to me tbh joe
joe: “well kyle, fuck you”

kyle: “again a pickle problem.”
pickle problem by 🍆🤮🤤 April 23, 2021

Lelo-Problem 

It’s the problem you have when everything you think is linked to something fucked up.
He likes kids a little too much. He has such a Lelo-Problem

nothing problem 

A nothing problem is an issue that is in fact, not an issue.
Person 1: YO I just got 3k downvotes on reddit, I'm so angry, I'm gonna cry!
Person 2: Bro that's a nothing problem, you haven't paid your rent in a month, better worry about that dumbass!
nothing problem by drahnoel May 17, 2023

BPB (Back Problem Boobs) 

Boobs that are so large that they cause back problems.
Yo man, that girl is stacked. She's got a mad case of BPB (Back Problem Boobs).

two-body problem 

a situation in which an academic must choose between giving priority to his/her career or his/her significant other, especially with regard to his/her location of residence;

relocating to an institution based on proximity to one's significant other at the cost of prestige, or relocating for a prestigious position at the expense of one's relationship with his/her significant other;

a system whose solution gives the equations of geographic motion of an academic and his/her significant other, often solvable by separation into center of mass motion and displacement vector motion
-"She chose UC-Irvine over MIT?"
-"Yeah, it's a two-body problem. Her boyfriend works at UCLA."