When you do something or buy something you normally wouldn't just because your current friends own or enjoy doing it.
Ever since I moved here I can't stop buying guns. Billy Bob takes me hunting every week, so I end up going to gun shows and the like.
Sounds like you've picked up a second hand interest.
Sounds like you've picked up a second hand interest.
by Jordan P March 8, 2008
Get the Second Hand Interest mug.A cheeky reference to heroines of Victorian operas and novels, who frequently became ill -- but not so ill they can't remain both romantically tragic and, above all, beautiful. Usually they have tuberculosis (TB), which allows for dramatic coughing up of blood, tender goodbyes with devastated lovers, and a ROBUST aria right before she perishes. Somehow the fact that she's dying of an airborne disease never deters anyone from seeking out her intimate company. She's got this charming pink glow to her fevered cheeks that no gentleman can resist...
Authors of these stories love to wax rhapsodic about the heroine's "milky" or "alabaster" skin, and the sicker she gets the more exquisitely white she becomes! While modern readers may wonder why anyone would want to make love to a woman the same color as chalk, bleach, or the cliffs of Dover, the Victorians were very turned on by these connotations of racial purity. Nowadays such descriptions are considered purple prose, and if not outright racist then certainly in very poor taste.
The phrase "pale and interesting" is an oxymoron that mocks both the silliness and melodrama of this trope. You may feel sick as a dog, but hey, some uptight people with weird hang-ups around sex find that attractive! Lucky you!
See TVTropes.com's "Victorian Novel Disease" for a detailed description of the source material.
Authors of these stories love to wax rhapsodic about the heroine's "milky" or "alabaster" skin, and the sicker she gets the more exquisitely white she becomes! While modern readers may wonder why anyone would want to make love to a woman the same color as chalk, bleach, or the cliffs of Dover, the Victorians were very turned on by these connotations of racial purity. Nowadays such descriptions are considered purple prose, and if not outright racist then certainly in very poor taste.
The phrase "pale and interesting" is an oxymoron that mocks both the silliness and melodrama of this trope. You may feel sick as a dog, but hey, some uptight people with weird hang-ups around sex find that attractive! Lucky you!
See TVTropes.com's "Victorian Novel Disease" for a detailed description of the source material.
"I'm still nauseas, I'm just going to lie on this couch looking pale and interesting and hope hot person comes to talk to me."
"You definitely have a fever, but on the bright side you're looking very pale and interesting draped across that bed."
"This isn't a swoon, my arms and legs feel like wet noodles."
"Sexy."
"You definitely have a fever, but on the bright side you're looking very pale and interesting draped across that bed."
"This isn't a swoon, my arms and legs feel like wet noodles."
"Sexy."
by Cynicisms July 15, 2023
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A financial, emotional, reputational, or other personal interest in any matter held by a person having authority over the same matter. Tking advantage of authority over such a self-serving personal interest may be considered criminal. At the very least, it is usually harmful to others.
Most legislators either already have been, or eventually become lawyers, so they abuse their conflict of interest over legislation to make sure that laws are conducive to the job security of lawyers and legislators.
by Downstrike May 21, 2004
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Get the INTERERECTIONAL mug.Intersexuality occurs whenever a human being has both male and female physical characteristics. Contrary to myth, intersexuals do not have two sets of genitals; they often have ambiguous genital structures not readily identifiable as clitoris/penis or labia/scrotum, but this is not necessarily true, and intersex people have sometimes gone for long periods of their lives without knowing that they were intersex. They may have gonads of mixed ovarian tissue, testicular and ovarian. They may have unusual chromosomes, for example a mosaic of XX and XY cells throughout the body.
A: Hey, I been meaning to ask you this: Are you a man or a woman?
B: No, I'm not.
A: Huh?
B: I'm intersexual, not a man or a woman.
A: You mean, like a chick with a dick?
B: That's a nice idea, but no.
A: So what have you got?
B: If it's ever your business to know, I'll let you know.
A: Hey, c'mon, I'm serious.
B: So am I.
B: No, I'm not.
A: Huh?
B: I'm intersexual, not a man or a woman.
A: You mean, like a chick with a dick?
B: That's a nice idea, but no.
A: So what have you got?
B: If it's ever your business to know, I'll let you know.
A: Hey, c'mon, I'm serious.
B: So am I.
by 7Kim January 20, 2009
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by SkidMarkyMark February 1, 2007
Get the low interest light mug.1. the most interesting man in the world once punched a magician... yes, you heard me
2. the most interesting man in the world once travelled to and explored the Virgin Islands, when he left they were just "The Islands."
3. the most interesting man in the world has found Waldo several times, but has released him because he enjoys the hunt.
4. the most interesting man in the world's definition could not be complete, because no-one wanted it to end...
2. the most interesting man in the world once travelled to and explored the Virgin Islands, when he left they were just "The Islands."
3. the most interesting man in the world has found Waldo several times, but has released him because he enjoys the hunt.
4. the most interesting man in the world's definition could not be complete, because no-one wanted it to end...
by presidentChuckNorris January 2, 2012
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