Grobanite 

A Grobanite can be characterized as a rapid woman or man who enjoys the auricle ecstacy of Josh Groban's harmonious voice. Many of them rampage through the streets in the pursuit of being 'Joshed'

See Joshed Grobanitis and/or obsessed

Josh Groban's fans are known as Grobanites.

I think the Grobanites are beginning to scare Josh.

Grobanite by Jel-kaj January 22, 2004

grobanite 

someone who thinks Josh Groban is the greatest person on the face of the planet. when someone ask who their celebrity crush is, they respond Josh Groban with out a pause. They listen to every album, and watch every horrible tv special featuring Josh Groban. If you say anything negative towards Josh Groban, they will never speak to you again. they are usually overly nice people, and sheltered kids.

steve: omg i checked her cd case and all she had was Josh Groban.

jim: what a grobanite

grobanite by rocketman1776 February 5, 2010

The Granite Counter Fallacy 

The granite counter fallacy argues that the monetary value of an object is directly proportional to the amount of money that is spent on it. The fallacy lies in the essence that previous monies spent are subject to highly subjective rationale which may not add any practical value to the object. The fallacy is typically deployed with an appeal to novelty (newer is better) fallacy in order to manipulate the audience using current “trends” or “fads” in popular culture where the subject is likely to accept the argument based upon what they believe is “popular” and implies a “higher demand (value)”.

The Granite Counter Fallacy is as follows:

Example 1:
Person A purchases a house and spends x amount of dollars replacing the tile kitchen countertops with granite countertops.

Person A states that the value of the house has now increased because x dollars were spent replacing the tile counters with granite counters.

Person B states that they do not really mind tile countertops and to them, a countertop is a countertop - whether it is made of granite or tile does not change its practical use and therefore adds no real value.

Example 2:
Person A purchases a small house with large backyard for x dollars.

Person A demolishes the house and builds a much larger house with no backyard for y dollars.

Person A claims that the value of the new house is x + y because x dollars were spent on the previous house and y dollars were spent on the new house.

Person B says they prefer a house with a backyard and the lower electrical bills for cooling and heating, thus, the larger house’s added rooms add no real value from their point of view.

The fallacy is in Person A’s assumption that people will assume that a house is worth more than another house because it is larger while failing to understand the practical value that people may see in a smaller home. Such an argument can only work in an environment where the majority of people participate in a trend that unquestionably accepts the notion that a bigger house is better than a smaller house.

Example 3:
Person A purchases a white table for x dollars and a can of black paint for y dollars.

Person A uses all of the black paint to paint the entire table black.

Person A claims that the value of the table has increased to A + B.

The fallacy is in Person A’s failure to acknowledge that the table’s practical value remains unchanged. The reason for any increase in value is based upon the belief that black tables are more popular than white tables which is subject to change as fads come and go.

The Granite Counter Fallacy by AZDavidPhx February 11, 2009

Granite Falls 

A town located in Washington state, where there are meth tweakers who steal shit from everyone and rednecks with their crappy Toyota pickups who go up Green mountain to get drunk, shoot guns and play beer pong.

Kam: hey wanna go to a party in Granite Falls?
Rick: let's drive up green and get shitbag wasted

Granite Falls by TheWiseSageBush June 26, 2016

Granite City 

One of the only remaining factory towns on the east side of the Mississippi from St. Louis. Polluted, check. Significant amount of dumbasses, check. Some racist bastards, check. Some awesome human beings, check. My hometown, CHECKMATE!!!

I read the other entries and felt compelled to hold up Granite City as an example of decline in the USA. The town is stratified big time. The haves and the have nots are segregated physically. If you have a good job you're fine, and if you don't you're screwed. There is also a major disparity in levels of education, and a hell of a lot of people that seem to always want to fight.

My family is from Lincoln Place, a declining part of the western edge of the city. It was home to a diverse immigrant community of Armenians, Hungarians, Macedonians, Croatians, and Mexicans, clustered around American Steel. The hood was always hardscrabble, but the old timers had a lot of pride. The ethnic folks' kids improved their station and mainly moved out. The neighborhood is still home to the Mexican Honarary Commission, and several of my family members.

The town used to have three mills going gangbusters, now there's one big one and a much smaller one. The decline in the steel industry led to a population crash from 40K in the late seventies to 31K now. Much of the population is of advanced age.

If the GC Steel ever closes, the town will simply fall into the toilet.

Granite City is on the brink.

Granite City by mexikraut August 27, 2008

granitehead

a resident of the State of New Hampshire (the Granite State); a person with an attitude of persistence related to the idea of "Live Free or Die" (the New Hampshire state motto) or valuing independence/autonomy to the extent that common sense is secondary to the achievement of complete personal freedom

The passing of a law that would require the use of helmets by motorcycle riders, even though it is considered by many to be for the common good, would be rejected as an infringement of personal freedom by a granitehead.

granitehead by gavacho27 September 18, 2013

Granite City 

Granite City is a steel mill town about 6 miles east of St.Louis, Missouri. It's polluted for sure, just try driving past the steel mill on Edwardsville Road at night, and see and smell it. It also has a housing project that is being rebuilt, who knows why it's being rebuilt, it's been a headache to the town and the police department for years. Most people are blue-collar workers, average people, but rather tough, "suburban rednecks" you could say. Many people work at US steel/formerly Granite City steel, or drive to St.Louis to work. The west side and downtown has it's problems with drugs, and crime.

John:"You know Mike from Granite City?" Paul: "Yeah, he's a good guy, steel mill worker, kind of a blue-collar man"

Granite City by steelmillcowboy November 28, 2007