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Pareto's Iron Law

The Italian sociologist living in the early 20th Century observed that the distribution of wealth and income remains roughly the same in modern industrialized societies no matter what governmental policies are pursued. A corollary of the Iron Law is the "circulation of elites" where groups vie to be the dominant group under various guises including equality and social justice, but there is always an elite no matter what.
Liberal elitist humanitarian: Let's pass legislation to make a more equal, fairer society.

Conservative realist: That will get us no where except you leftists will be in power rather than us. There is the brutal fact of Pareto's Iron Law. We cannot escape inequality of result.

Liberal elitist humanitarian: Well, I know, but at least we will be ahead of you conservatives. We hate you because you do not love everyone as we leftists do.
by Tex in Tex February 25, 2008
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Italian Parkjob

When a man and woman are having sex, the man takes a dump on his partner's chest. With the shit in place, the man turns around and parks it between her tits like a bulldozer for poo.
"I tried to surprise her with an Italian Parkjob, but she knew something was up when I tried to take a dump."
by Professor Honeytoast October 30, 2008
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parkjob

When you park your car then get a blowjob.
"Kevin got a hell of a parkjob last night."

"Sorry I'm late. I ran to WaWa and got a parkjob."
by rickdick December 18, 2008
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pareto-

Roughly but not exactly.

Like, when you say pareto-80 you don't exactly mean 80 percent, you really mean, roughly four out of five. Pareto-20 means one out of five, and saying that a scheme will likely fail at pareto-5 means it'll go okay so long as we don't roll a natural 1.
So, like, 20 percent of respondents say that—

That's bullshit, you pulled that number out of your ass.

Pareto-20, man. You're right, it's... (checks notes) closer to 18 percent, but that's not much of a difference, is it?
by tariqk July 13, 2022
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parejon

big guy that likes to play football soccer often in the company of a "PRIMO" weights aroudn 96-107 kg's

aka. vaca
1. Damn, that parejon sure plays real nice along with his PRIMO
by Crossfox October 19, 2008
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Pareto optimal

A sophisticated way to say, "Life is not always fair"
Person A: How come Hillary Clinton didn't win the 2008 primaries?

Person B: Well...life in many ways is Pareto optimal. Besides I heard from someone that her campaign slogan was, "Anarchy is my policy for men."
by paisleynotes November 2, 2009
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Parajoking

Parajoking - when you paraphrase a stand up comedian, spin the joke up and claim it as your own.
John: I owe you this time dawg, lemme get you a 2 piece fish meal at The Manchester(Windsor, ON). Steve: Thanks man yoyo, don't worry about the tarter sauce, my tooth tarter build up will take it's place.

Background Ambience For A While Girl: Aww, thats just gross! And STOP THE PARAJOKING! Ruining the rep of olelate Mitch Hedberg!? Its "I got so much tarter, I don't have to dip my fishsticks in shit!"
by tjfoz6 April 2, 2011
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