family with selective affordability

That one family who can afford eating out, vacations, purchasing a new car, buying LEGO sets, action figures, textbooks, and DVDs, yet somehow still too broke to afford buying any new gaming console beyond PS1.

The Sherbrooke family is such family with selective affordability — they've got all the LEGO sets, action figures, textbooks, and DVDs but still rock a broken PS1 with no replacement like it's the latest console!

by Emotional Cruiser September 20, 2025

Selective altruism

Selective altruism is essentially when someone imprints on one to very few people, and ends up being aggressive to anyone else.

Person 1 “would you stop being such a selective altruist?” Selective altruism at work
Person 2, actively ready to swing at person 1 for making a crude joke about person 2’s chosen human being. “I’ll make your insides your outsides.”

by Lexithetransfem October 14, 2025

Selective Freakiness

A rare ability (very common in the female gender) of being able to control oneselfs sexual urges.

He controls his urges through Selective Freakiness

by roofyyy February 22, 2024

Dessert Selectivity

Noun: The culinary problem of having unlimited wants and needs for after dinner sweets but only a finite number of choices.

Don't get mad at me for eating the last piece of homemade apple pie, you had plenty of time to eat it but instead you used poor dessert selectivity and chose to eat a handful of tootsie rolls.

by JEB_EDC January 10, 2014

Selective Ass Beating

When someone is being jumped (using someone stronger than the each group member individually) the person would choose one person through hating them the most or just at chance and give selectively kick his ass.

"Jason was jumped by 4 people but gave Micheal a selective ass beating"

by Dewayne?NoItsNot! December 3, 2023

Selective hearing

This can be defined as when a person only responds to specific instructions, words or sentences.

This mostly applies to toddlers and young children. Some children would ignore a call from an adult but would immediately respond when the adult offered them a treat

E.g selective hearing :
The boy only responds to"come and eat".

by Reuby24 August 24, 2019

Blank Selection

Blank Selection is a term instituted by Wendy Beach (Editor-in-Chief, Wild Whispers Poetry Magazine) to replace the common ableist “blind selection” label still in use (referring to anonymous editorial processes), and is retained as no alternative terminology currently exists. Blank Selection as a new term replaces the ableist “blind selection” practice, where judges assess poems without knowing poets’ names. The name consciously parallels blank verse’s liberation from formalist restrictions, extending this ethos to combat restrictive language in editorial processes.

The poetry competition had a blank selection process to keep it fair.

by Windy Beach April 16, 2025