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48 Hour Rule

The rule for the amount of time sperm can stay alive in a person's mouth after oral sex.
Dana: Hi, Katherine, mind if I take a sip of your coke?
Katherine: Are you 48 hour rule safe?
Dana: Yep!
by futureactiveparticiple July 4, 2017
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Granville Rule

Speak now or forever hold your peace. If you don't speak up, you don't get fed. Everything moves on pass you if you stay quiet. Used to make decisions faster and more efficiently.
Nancy always tells us which restaurants she wants to go to after the reservation's already booked and then complain about the food. Granville Rule next time we hang out so it's on her.
by birkin356 July 15, 2025
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The Golden Rule

Your willingness to forgo this for the purpose of hoisting me by my own petard demonstrates that hoisting people with there own petard is higher on your conceptual value hierarchy than The Golden Rule.
Hym "This is (once again) does little more than prove me right. See, look:

You are here

👇

What you're doing

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Golden rule
See how that works? That☝️ is what you're doing right now. Why? Because you know that The Golden Rule leads almost exclusively to being exploited by people who aren't willing to reciprocate. Which is the entire impetus behind the creation of The Platinum Rule. And you're doing it. See? This 👇

Petard hoisting

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Golden rule
That's how you 'Act' in spite of your ethical propositional framework. Do you believe in the Golden rule? 'Well, I act like I believe in the golden rule (and then I do this 👉 Petard hoistery

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Not petard hoistery)'
That's you. That's a diagram of you and how you 'act.' "
by Hym Iam August 9, 2022
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lead rule

The negative outcome of the Golden Rule.

You treat me like shit and I will do the same, no questions asked.
Karen decided to take her Kareness out on me, so I gave her a taste of the Lead Rule.
by slangctionary November 8, 2021
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Rule 181

It makes rule 171 do nothing and can never be countered by anything else
by Trashcan 6 May 5, 2022
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Rule 010

If there is an academic subject that has a utilitarian use in Computer Science, the corresponding free online bootcamp must exist.
Computer Scientist: I would be paid double if I knew Statistics! I wish I had learned about it in College
Other Computer Scientist: Try Rule 010.
by goodgamemydudes May 18, 2022
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Three screenshot rule

If a woman has screenshot a guy’s message and sent it to:

1 ) Her best friend
2) The group chat
3) The emotionally intelligent online friends who don't judge.

She is officially into him. He is now a discussion topic, strategic plan, and public case study.
“When he sent that ‘get home safe’ text, she applied the Three Screenshot Rule within 8 seconds.”
by thevellikudi November 7, 2025
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